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Electric maned airplane
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:01:31 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote in :: Check this news story bout about an airplane powered by household batteries. Interesting. http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...-PLANE-DC.html Official web site (Flight video: top right button): http://oxyride.jp/top.html Photograph he http://storage.engadget.com/2006/05/...er-takes-wing/ http://oxy.at.webry.info/200604/article_7.html http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/s...red-by-aa.html Slide show he http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060716...e_060716195924 This was officially the world's first manned flight powered by dry-cell batteries," Zushi said. Battery information: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119723,00.asp http://piccola.us/serendipity/index....-included.html Panasonic has bumped up the power of its Oxyride batteries, claiming the new version is 120% more efficient than the original model. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-oxyride-battery.htm An oxyride battery is an especially powerful, long lasting battery developed by Matsu****a Electric Industrial of Tokyo for Panasonic. The oxyride battery is 1.5 times as powerful as a regular alkaline battery, allowing extended use of high-drain battery-powered devices such as digital cameras, with the ability to take up to twice as many digital pictures. Flashes also recover quicker and pictures can be taken faster. The extra power of the oxyride battery might also deliver enhanced bass in audio payers, according to some. Oxyride batteries use updated alkaline chemistry that includes a finer grained graphite and manganese dioxide, allowing a denser fill of material. With an advanced substance for the cathode or negative (-) side, called oxy nickel hydroxide the batteries maintain higher voltage. Oxyride batteries also utilize a breakthrough vacuum-pouring technology in the production process, allowing more electrolyte to be packed into each battery for increased durability. Hence, increased power and a longer life! The oxyride battery was first introduced to the Japanese market in 2004 and has boasted an impressive demonstration, powering the 9.5 foot (2.9 meter) 'Oxyride' car. The car, built especially for the demonstration and resembling a torpedo with three bicycle wheels, carried a 110 pound (50 kilogram) female passenger laying luge-style under the drop-top canopy. Powered by two AA oxyride batteries, it traveled 213 feet (65 meters) in 74 seconds, and went a total of three quarters of a mile (1.23 kilometers) before the batteries ran dry. In more practical terms, toy trucks will run faster, PDA's will compute longer, powered toothbrushes will brush longer, and MP3 players will crank out more tunes. In fact, with the advent of more and more digital products that require a battery power source, the oxyride battery promises a brighter and longer-lasting future. The Panasonic brand of oxyride battery is called 'Digital Xtreme Power' and the AA and AAA oxyrides will cost about 10% more than their normal counterpart alkaline batteries. http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_el...e_ms/flash.asp http://www.electronicsweb.com/conten...NETCOOKIE= NO First introduced to U.S. consumers in July 2005, Oxyride Extreme Power batteries represent Panasonic's first major innovation in primary battery technology since the introduction of alkaline batteries in 1965. Based on nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOOH) chemistry, Panasonic's Oxyride battery combines newly developed materials and an advanced manufacturing process to deliver improved power performance. Using American National Standards Institute (ANSI) test protocols, Oxyride Extreme Power batteries have been proven to deliver up to 2X the amount of pictures in digital still cameras as Alkaline Plus(1) batteries, with a new and improved Oxyride battery coming in Spring 2006 to deliver up to 3X as many pictures. Currently available in AA and AAA sizes, Oxyride batteries can be purchased at Target, Walgreens and over 14,000 fine national and regional retailers covering approximately 95 percent of the United States. SOURCE: Panasonic http://www.usatoday.com/tech/product...-battery_x.htm Tadaharu Taguchi, a Matsu****a director, said the battery marks "a major milestone in the battery industry." Oxyride batteries maintain higher voltage and output longer because the material inside that produces electricity is more concentrated. Oxyride uses oxy nickel hydroxide, an advanced battery substance, and finer grain graphite and manganese dioxide, allowing them to be packed more closely inside the cell. Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. also developed a way of blending the powder to stuff more into the battery. A production innovation also pours more electrolyte, a key ingredient that leads to longer battery life, into the cell, Matsu****a said. ... AA and AAA Oxyride batteries cost about 10 percent more than regular batteries. In the United States, they will sell for about $3.99 for a pack of four, although prices will vary, Matsu****a officials said. http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/26/p...-aa-batteries/ Panasonic went to trouble of building an ultralight vehicle called the OxyRide that can transport a single person over a kilometer on just two AA batteries, |
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On 18 Jul 2006 18:43:58 -0700, "steveukman"
wrote in .com:: Hmmmmm ..... If I used half the weight of batteries for large coils and then flew and navigated along the length of power lines, could I induce enough current to keep me aloft? Magnetic flux density diminishes with the square of the distance from its source. You'd probably have to fly pretty close to the transmission wire to obtain any meaningful inductive coupling. |
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Morgans wrote: "steveukman" wrote in message oups.com... Hmmmmm ..... If I used half the weight of batteries for large coils and then flew and navigated along the length of power lines, could I induce enough current to keep me aloft? Is this a new 'free' source of flight power (if the power companies radiate the energy, how can it be theft?) .... a new navigation activity (e.g. coast to coast) and a new definition of low level airlanes? Energy is taken from the power lines that would not disappear otherwise, so it would indeed be theft. The size of the coils would be huge, and heavy. Sorry. What if you made the coils from cryogenically cooled carbon? You could use liquid helium for the coolant, and bag the exhaust for extra lift. -- FF |
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wrote in message ps.com... What if you made the coils from cryogenically cooled carbon? You could use liquid helium for the coolant, and bag the exhaust for extra lift. Yep! Great idea! Do it! Show us! |
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karel wrote: wrote in message ps.com... What if you made the coils from cryogenically cooled carbon? You could use liquid helium for the coolant, and bag the exhaust for extra lift. Yep! Great idea! Do it! Show us! I'll have to get back to you on that... -- FF |
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"Orval Fairbairn" wrote How does an electric mane improve an aircraft? :) Frickin' keyboard! g See other response to the same question! -- Jim in NC |
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