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  • Another One Bites The Dust

    From kinsell@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 16 07:43:54 2023
    The innovative P-Volt electro-plane has been shelved by Tecnam and
    Rolls-Royce, as the electrons have come home to roost:

    https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/advanced-air-mobility/2023-06-14/tecnam-and-rolls-royce-scrap-p-volt-electric-aircraft

    “The proliferation of aircraft with 'new' batteries would lead to
    unrealistic mission profiles that would quickly degrade after a few
    weeks of operation, making the all-electric passenger aircraft a mere
    'green transition flagship’ rather than a real player in the
    decarbonization of aviation,” Tecnam said.

    Apparently you can't make an airplane fly based on greenwashing alone.

    However, they may have pulled the plug on this venture a bit too soon,
    as word leaks out of an amazing new battery able to pull unlimited power
    out of thin air, on humidity alone!

    https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/technology-humidity-in-air-electricity-8638669/

    Someday they'll combine the nanopores and the nanowires, and they'll
    really have something!

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  • From Mark Mocho@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 16 07:03:25 2023
    https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/technology-humidity-in-air-electricity-8638669/

    Someday they'll combine the nanopores and the nanowires, and they'll
    really have something!

    In the meantime, they have discovered yet another way to pull funding from thin air.

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  • From Dan Marotta@21:1/5 to Mark Mocho on Fri Jun 16 09:46:14 2023
    I guess any aircraft powered by one of these batteries would fall out of
    the sky the instant it crossed the state line of New Mexico.

    Dan
    5J

    On 6/16/23 08:03, Mark Mocho wrote:
    https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/technology-humidity-in-air-electricity-8638669/

    Someday they'll combine the nanopores and the nanowires, and they'll
    really have something!

    In the meantime, they have discovered yet another way to pull funding from thin air.

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  • From kinsell@21:1/5 to Dan Marotta on Fri Jun 16 10:24:54 2023
    They'd do great in Colorado and Utah, at least this spring. Damn it's
    been wet. Climate change strikes again! Sometimes it's dry, sometimes
    it's wet.

    But today you could even fly a 737:

    https://www.avweb.com/recent-updates/business-military/sas-wright-plans-for-electric-737/


    On 6/16/23 9:46 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
    I guess any aircraft powered by one of these batteries would fall out of
    the sky the instant it crossed the state line of New Mexico.

    Dan
    5J

    On 6/16/23 08:03, Mark Mocho wrote:
    https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/technology-humidity-in-air-electricity-8638669/

    Someday they'll combine the nanopores and the nanowires, and they'll
    really have something!

    In the meantime, they have discovered yet another way to pull funding
    from thin air.

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  • From s.bralla.ret@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 16 14:23:41 2023
    Aviation seems to prove Clarke's 3 laws:
    1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    2)The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
    3)Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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  • From jfitch@21:1/5 to Mark Mocho on Sat Jun 17 19:23:16 2023
    On Friday, June 16, 2023 at 7:03:28 AM UTC-7, Mark Mocho wrote:
    https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/technology-humidity-in-air-electricity-8638669/

    So, Ayn Rand turns out to be prescient when she predicted this (back in 1957) in "Atlas Shrugged"? Only it was to drive trains, not airplanes.

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  • From kinsell@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 24 13:02:08 2023
    And NASA decides that electro-airplanes ain't exactly rocket science, as they've grounded their X-57 program, before it even got off the ground. Apparently the potential just wasn't there. This time it wasn't the
    batteries, it wasn't the inverter, it was the motors, of all things.

    https://www.popsci.com/technology/nasa-cancels-x-57-flight/

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  • From kinsell@21:1/5 to s.bral...@gmail.com on Thu Jul 6 08:44:11 2023
    On 6/16/23 3:23 PM, s.bral...@gmail.com wrote:
    Aviation seems to prove Clarke's 3 laws:
    1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    2)The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
    3)Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    You're right. Some people might think taking a car, using the left and
    right doors as wings, and flying it broadside through the air might not
    work. But Lurch has proved them all wrong:

    https://www.newsweek.com/alef-flying-car-vehicle-how-works-faa-1810469

    "We did the impossible, but we did not break the laws of physics—we
    fooled them," Dukhovny said.

    Yet another lithium-fueled miracle coming to us from the land of Fruits
    and Nuts and Fraudsters. And it'll be here in just two years! Already
    FAA certified!

    In the works also is a stretch limousine model, for use as a motorglider.

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  • From kinsell@21:1/5 to kinsell on Thu Jul 6 19:10:31 2023
    On 7/6/23 8:44 AM, kinsell wrote:
    On 6/16/23 3:23 PM, s.bral...@gmail.com wrote:
    Aviation seems to prove Clarke's 3 laws:
    1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
    possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something
    is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
    2)The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture
    a little way past them into the impossible.
    3)Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    You're right.  Some people might think taking a car, using the left and right doors as wings, and flying it broadside through the air might not work.  But Lurch has proved them all wrong:

      https://www.newsweek.com/alef-flying-car-vehicle-how-works-faa-1810469

    "We did the impossible, but we did not break the laws of physics—we
    fooled them," Dukhovny said.

    Yet another lithium-fueled miracle coming to us from the land of Fruits
    and Nuts and Fraudsters.  And it'll be here in just two years!  Already
    FAA certified!

    In the works also is a stretch limousine model, for use as a motorglider.


    Presentation gets off to a slow start, the great unveiling starts about
    10 minutes in. Audio is a bit dodgy, sounds like a Dave Nadler
    presentation at an SSA Convention :-)

    You can preorder these today, a $150 deposit saves your place in line,
    PayPal accepted. Or, for $1500, you can jump the line and get priority handling.

    Top speed on the ground is claimed to be a whopping 35 mph, which is
    fine for driving on L.A. freeways.

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