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Donald Trump said electric planes would be a bad idea because you couldn't fly if it was cloudy.
Rhett Allain : It's very unlikely that you will ever be a passenger on a solar-powered plane that is delayed by clouds.
He says there must be a force ( F ) in the direction of the acceleration of a plane like the Boeing 737 .
A solar panel converts light energy into electrical energy.
The intensity of sunlight at the location of the Earth is about 1,361 watts per square meter.
With this, we'd need 29,000 square meters of panels to generate 10 million watts .
Just for comparison, the 737 has a wing area of 125 square meters .
That's nice, but not nearly nice enough for a passenger airliner.
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