[Wavytone]

Peter it won’t be long before planes are powered electrically.

Battery technology is within a factor of 3 in terms of energy density of making electric commercial aircraft viable. It will happen.

The UK shut down all it’s coal-fired power stations last year - between renewables and storage systems it has already achieved what our pollies keep promising but not delivering.

In addition we have created a legalised monster in the form of AEMO that has a vested interest in keeping things the way they were for the past 30 years and not making any progress.

The technical challenge is not the domestic car - that’s relatively easy - as Tesla have demonstrated. The big challenges are heavy long-haul transport for freight, long range locomotives for freight trains, and farm machinery - where the energy density of the fuel is paramount and there is still no rival that comes close to diesel.

And yes, aircraft.

Though we could return to large sailing vessels - a boat the size of a 12-metre could make the run to Europe quite quickly and frankly I wouldn’t mind travelling way, either.