Re: Batteries != energy
"I thought I escaped this kind of pedantic behaviour when I left Twitter."
TehIntraWebTubes were built on pedantry, alas. Makes a certain class of commentard feel important. Welcome to ElReg.
"Does it have any bearing on my initial argument that batteries for airliners cannot be charged effectively in an airport?"
No. At least not until each airport has a multi-tens-of-megawatts nuke plant devoted solely to charging aircraft. Which ain't going to happen, ever.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
