Could a Plane Still Fly if Every Seat Had a Power Socket? [Airplanes]

To you and me, it’s probably more painful settling down for an extended flight and realizing there’s no AC socket to your laptop, than hearing there’s a crying baby behind you. It’s not stinginess that’s withholding the juice, it’s physics.

Simply put, the plane can be too heavy to take off. So claims various readers of The Atlantic, who wrote in after adding up the maths and coming to the belief that to supply 120V AC sockets to every body you’d need ” the equivalent of ten or so Chevy Volt batteries, and an inverter the dimensions of a giant refrigerator.” It really is if every one was using 2 amps of power over an eight hour flight, so it’d obviously vary.

Even a spokesperson for Virgin Atlantic got in contact, who said that for every three-person row of seats, two outlets are on offer for a maximum of 225 watts-though some have complained in regards to the power cutting out. The discussion is a truly interesting read for anyone who’s ever fumed over not being given a power socket, so I’d definitely recommend looking at the (often conflicting) arguments. [ The Atlantic ]

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