General / Off-Topic Imagine a plane with no moving parts

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181123135137.htm

Now MIT engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an "ionic wind" -- a silent but mighty flow of ions that is produced aboard the plane, and that generates enough thrust to propel the plane over a sustained, steady flight.
Unlike turbine-powered planes, the aircraft does not depend on fossil fuels to fly. And unlike propeller-driven drones, the new design is completely silent.
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See it fly at 2.45

[video=youtube_share;boB6qu5dcCw]https://youtu.be/boB6qu5dcCw[/video]
 
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knowles2

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All they have done is scale up lifters and made them look like a plane, these have been available to buy on the internet for years, nothing revolutionary at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bicra-36fBo

When ever NASA was ask to comment, there statements was that such engines were inefficient and practically unusable. Through it was rumour that the B2 bomber use such engines to improve its efficiency.
 
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Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
Certainly the well read spaceship flying forum members might be familiar with previous research on the Biefield Brown levitation effect, produced by high voltage and tinfoil as seen here
[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V2eKwDz_-64[/video]

If the future drones already have a hi voltage source, it would cost nearly nothing to add a lifter module for VTOL capacity.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Robin of Spiritwood said:
Certainly the well read spaceship flying forum members might be familiar with previous research on the Biefield Brown levitation effect, produced by high voltage and tinfoil as seen here


If the future drones already have a hi voltage source, it would cost nearly nothing to add a lifter module for VTOL capacity.
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I'm really a big fan of these things, but in the end they all run into the same wall - battery energy density.
If we had a battery with the same energy density as the liquid fuels have, We'd have electric vehicles of all amazing kinds, already. :(
 

EUS

EUS
Very cool concept.
I'm not too worried, as soon as big money piles into H (by necessity or regulation), large leaps in fuel cell tech will arrive, and quickly.
For now, the billions in fossil fuel subsidies continue.
 
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