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|    Sjouke Burry to Yuri Kreaton    |
|    Re: Ion drive for aircraft imminent.    |
|    07 Nov 16 02:28:29    |
      XPost: sci.electronics.design, sci.physics       From: burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll              On 06.11.16 23:37, Yuri Kreaton wrote:       > On 11/3/2016 9:00 AM, Robert Clark wrote:       >> Yes, that's a good example. Electric, battery-powered airplanes and       >> helicopters already exist.       >       > Toys.       >       >       >> However, the key point is according to the       >> mathematics you can get even better power-to-thrust ratio with ionic       >> propulsion using ionizing wires at the nanoscale than helicopters achieve.       >       > what math ? got a url ?       >       >>       >> Bob Clark       >>       >       The silly bugger produces ions with a corona wire,       then he forgets to bring them up to speed with a high voltage.       he thinks the corona wire itself will make a drive..........              Maybe he should go to nasa website to see how they did it.       Or google for ion drive design.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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