Governments that rely on fossil fuel financing are preponderantly corrupt-especially in Africa. Regarding jet aircraft-the electric jet is on the way-people realize putting exhaust high in the sky is a bad idea. Europeans are working on it.
Until recently some people could remember when only birds could fly, yet technology has continued to advance. Better batteries with more storage, room temperature super conductors etc will create better range than that anticipated for the first generation of commercial aircraft in the 60-70 passenger jets of 3 hours and maybe 1500 miles. Maybe drones can transfer power mid-air plugging in to the passenger jets easily creating unlimited flight range. Its difficult to anticipate what tech will follow along on the new way of things. Of course Musk and Tesla Motors have a concept for high speed ground transport in a tube that would make much trans-ocean flight superfluous, yet electric aircraft seems to be the way of things on Earth and probably on planets with atmospheres-I believe N.A.S.A. is working on it too.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/Features/leaptech.html 'the future of flight is electric'
https://www.nasa.gov/langley/ten-engine-electric-plane-completes-successful-flight-test/
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