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First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

For extra fun, you could have landing planes snag a wire and use their momentum to accelerate a plane taking off.

What about Flintstones style breaks, where everyone's legs stick out under the plane and they need to use them to stop?

Sure, it wouldn't be effective, but one or two of these new flights being on the news and global emissions would be down even farther than with your plan.