Lastly on the topic of hypothetical powerplants, there is generally no return in investments for companies to produce powerplants with greater effieciency then what its currently at, thus we may not see these vast improvements unless there is a major shift in chemical design in the coming years with similar pricing and implementation.
For the longest time companies would never have considered electric motors given the trade off of increased weight for typical batteries and extreme cost if Lithium. Now that Lithium production has increased tenfold compared to a decade ago, the cost has come into a reasonable window for it to be used mainstream. I'm still curious too what exactly allowed this boom in production, but we can thank whatever it was for the growing use of electric technology.
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