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mscasts on Oct 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Guilty Should You Feel About Flying?

Why though? Let's imagine we could create an electric plane for example and produce the electricity it uses completely carbon free.

Why would that be an issue? I think this is totally doable, if we desire.

claudius on Oct 18, 2019 [–]

Sure. Do it.

Given that this is apparently possible, there should be no problems with a 1000% carbon tax on non-electric planes starting tomorrow, right?

mscasts on Oct 18, 2019 | [–]

The only issue I have with that is there may be other engines which are not electric but could still provide the same benefits.

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