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Better yet, design the battery so that air forms one side of the chemical reaction, with waste products that can be dumped overboard. Oh, wait!

(I'm making a dumb reference to ICE engines here, but actual batteries where air participates in the reaction are a promising area of research that could greatly improve battery energy density.)



Yes, lithium-air batteries have some promise. They approach gasoline energy/weight by better than half as good. So that's a possibility.


> batteries where air participates in the reaction

Wouldn't that just be a fuel cell?


Or a combustion engine, yes. That's the joke.




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