sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•CATL battery successfully powers electric plane with 1,800-mile civil aircraft expected
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3 months agoWhat’s the efficiency for turning jet fuel into mechanical work? I’d suspect the efficiency is somewhere around 45% for liquid fuel where it’s nearly 100% for electric. So you’re really trying to reach the equivalent of 5500 Wh/kg.
From other discussions I’ve seen, the guy stepping down was frustrated by having C code rejected that made lifetime guarantees more explicit. No rust involved. The patch was in service of rust bindings, but there was 0 rust code being reviewed by maintainers.