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icebraining on April 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’...

These batteries don't get lighter as they fly though do they?

Technically they do - the battery of a Chevy Volt loses half a microgram from full to empty :)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/34424/6210

chrisseaton on April 20, 2018 [–]

That’s obviously not going to be significant at all and clearly not what I meant.

icebraining on April 20, 2018 | | [–]

Hence the "technically" and the smiley :)

ksrm on April 20, 2018 | | [–]

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