Why aren’t there solar panels on airplanes? Can we do that? If not why?
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It takes a lot of potential energy to get from 0 to flying. The amount of energy you would get from a solar panel would not be enough to get you off the ground. You would need a lot of stored energy which we get from the fuel. Now whether solar panels will become way more efficient and electric planes will become a thing. Sure. But with the current technology it makes a lot more sense to use chemical fuel to get a plane in the air.
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