XPost: sci.physics, sci.space.policy, sci.electronics.design   
      
   In sci.physics Robert Clark  wrote:   
   > As mentioned previously, battery-powered airplanes and helicopters do exist.   
      
   As research toys; there are not as yet any electric airplanes or helicopters   
   that could be called practical in any sense of the word.   
      
   > The ionic propulsion will likewise be battery-powered but at a more   
   > efficient power usage, if the ionizing wires are at the nanoscale.   
   >   
   > The greater efficiency for ionic propulsion with nanoscale wires can be   
   > confirmed with any wires at the nanoscale, not just carbon nanotubes. For   
   > example, the intense fields created by nanoscale wires in microcircuitry   
   > boards is well-known to those in the field. So anyone who has familiarity   
   > working with microcircuitry boards with nanoscale wiring could confirm this.   
      
   An intense field does not automatically means motive power.   
      
   Are you saying microcircuitry boards have to be lashed down to keep   
   them from flying away?   
      
   > And that's all that's required. That in itself would be the game changer.   
   > Even if it's only done on a model the size of a model airplane, once it's   
   > shown that nanoscale wiring for ionic propulsion produced better   
   > power-to-thrust ratio than helicopters, that would be sufficient for this to   
   > supplant helicopters as a hovering transport method.   
      
   Yeah, sure.   
      
   You do know the tips of such ion generators burn away and the smaller the   
   tip the faster they burn?   
      
   >  Bob Clark   
      
      
      
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