Comment just my opinion (Score 1) 590
It would make more sense to me to build tehse large solar panels to the airports themselves, since they use up quite a lot of surface area already.
Produce H2 from the electricity and use it as a fuel to power the planes. Burning it will produce only water.
"it seems to me that if I were running an airline the size of United or American, eliminating the need for jet fuel as a cost would be highly appealing. " it is the opposite, without the need for fuel there would be no war, no profit to military corporations and oil companies...