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Ugh, MightyClub
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posted January 22, 2010 10:01
Someday...
Engadget wants to know where the battery packs to power the electric motors are supposed to go, though.
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CommanderShroom
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posted January 22, 2010 11:46
I just don't feel it. Not because of anything inherently wrong with the design or anything even remotely related.
I am thinking instead of the average person in a car, and then think about them whooshing overhead...
/me shudders
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Ashitaka
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posted January 22, 2010 12:24
I think for thse thing to work they would have to be totally autonomous flying vehicles controlled by AI. YOu would need to take the human factor out of the equation before people start comuting to work in these things.
but maybe it will be easier to make flying machines controlled by AI then to make people give up the controll of drving themselves.
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Ashitaka
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posted January 22, 2010 12:25
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Originally posted by Ugh, MightyClub:
Someday...
Engadget wants to know where the battery packs to power the electric motors are supposed to go, though.
I shudder to think how much energy density said batteries would need to be if the thing weighs 300 kgs.
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The Famous Druid
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posted January 22, 2010 13:09
quote:
Originally posted by Ugh, MightyClub:
Engadget wants to know where the battery packs to power the electric motors are supposed to go, though.
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Originally posted by Ashitaka:
I shudder to think how much energy density said batteries would need to be if the thing weighs 300 kgs.
300 pounds.
And the rest of the unit must weigh at least half that.
No way 150 lbs of batteries provides enough energy for useful flight, I'd bet it uses fuel cells.
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TheMoMan
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posted January 22, 2010 17:12
____ I have seen some Radio Controlled model airplanes with electric motors instead of heat engines. The Battery packs were called Lithium-ion polymer batteries, they have very high power densities, they also do have violent results if a cell shorts internally. Not something I would want to be flying if an internal short happens.
____ I was at full lift with the Hovercraft when It holed a piston that was not pretty a splash landing at 90knots. A very "OH POOP" moment.
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