{"id":21727,"date":"2018-06-28T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/The-most-frequent-believability-issue-I-see-in-solarpunk-SF-is-the-lack-of-awareness-of-how-much-power-you-can"},"modified":"2018-06-28T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:38:49","slug":"the-most-frequent-believability-issue-i-see-in-solarpunk-sf-is-the-lack-of-awareness-of-how-much-power-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/06\/28\/the-most-frequent-believability-issue-i-see-in-solarpunk-sf-is-the-lack-of-awareness-of-how-much-power-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"The most frequent believability issue I see in &#8220;solarpunk&#8221; SF is the lack of awareness of how much power you can&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-t0PWJod0Lbg\/WzUEnhSEpJI\/AAAAAAAAGHY\/NEKs5c7_G18ymltN8RadkgQMkJr9rtn0gCJoC\/s0\/29fcbf48-a34c-4509-b545-5112808a9efa.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most frequent believability issue I see in &#8220;solarpunk&#8221; SF is the lack of awareness of how much power you can realistically get from a solar panel or store in a battery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of power-per-weight issues, we would need to improve the energy density of batteries about six times from current levels to make electric aviation feasible on a large scale. But a 6x improvement is not out of the question; we&#8217;ve seen much bigger improvements than that in various technologies over the past few years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Singularity Hub<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are Electric Planes the Future of Aviation? <a href=\"https:\/\/suhub.co\/2Na6j1U\">https:\/\/suhub.co\/2Na6j1U<\/a><\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The most frequent believability issue I see in &#8220;solarpunk&#8221; SF is the lack of awareness of how much power you can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-21727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff-thought-starters","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}