Yeah, they’ll be charged electricity from generators spun by Stirling engines, supplied with billions of kilowatt hours worth of hot air emitted by professors at MIT.
Folly aside, the very thought of realigning the components within a battery strikes me as good thinkin’. Maybe that’s why I didn’t go to MIT.
Thank you. It’s amazing how oblivious people are to the fact that electricity has to be generated. Sure some of it can come from clean sources like dams, but most of it comes from burning fuels. A battery powered airplane is probably less efficient in many ways since there is a cost and waste involved in producing electricity to store in the batteries. And the batteries lose their capacity to recharge, they have to be replaced and dumped in toxic landfills at best.
Personally I wouldn’t be afraid of electric planes - many drones are electric and fly fine. But as to the issue of being cleaner and more efficient - doubtful. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.