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FlyMoreRocketson How to Make an Aluminum Air Battery

"They have one of the highest energy densities of all batteries...an electric vehicle with aluminium batteries has the potential for up to eight times the range of a lithium-ion battery with a significantly lower total weight." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium–air_battery

FlyMoreRocketson New Glenn’s Progress Towards Maiden Flight

Considering how US space program funding is subject to the whims of presidential administrations and congressional funding, New Origin may actually come out on top of this comparison.

FlyMoreRocketson A battery invented 120 years before its time

It's not just farmers and miners, but the extensive support system that grows up around these activities. People living in mining and farming towns have to regularly drive longer distances than battery technology will support.

For example, I am taking classes 5 days a week, but live 100 miles away in a farming community. Due to the nature of the course work, a significant portion is hands-on and cannot be done online. The campus has no charging stations and only relatively recently have electric cars had sufficient range.

FlyMoreRocketson US Covid-19 Cases Caused by Variants