Electric aviation fulfills two futuristic promises: flying cars and zero-emissions air travel. This week, meet the teacher who is working to make it happen.
For episode 35 of the Zero Podcast, Akshat Rathi interviews Venkat Viswanathan, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is working to create batteries that can power electric planes and help reduce aviation emissions. Venkat talks to Akshat about the network of people involved in electric aviation, why creating a battery that’s light and powerful enough to lift an airplane is so fiendishly difficult, and why aviation is the biggest problem for batteries to solve.
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