| Ionic wind propulsion on 11:44 - Nov 22 with 1009 views | factual_blue |
Flying cars are another step closer... |  |
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| Ionic wind propulsion on 12:14 - Nov 22 with 977 views | StokieBlue |
Very cool, there have been smaller ionic wind demonstrators for years but they all had to be plugged into a power source to work. It's going to be hard to scale up the design but hopefully it will be possible.
There are certainly a lot of "rumours" that the US military already has this stuff working and has done for quite a time. The science itself is not new so it's possible they have. In the end breakthroughs tend to be determined by how much funding you are willing to chuck at them (not in all cases of course).
It's great news though, hopefully the researchers will get a nice big grant or a private company on-board to continue the development.
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| Ionic wind propulsion on 12:27 - Nov 22 with 951 views | Clapham_Junction |
Interesting that the project lead said that it was inspired by Star Trek. Terry Pratchett remarked in his Science of Discworld books that ideas from science fiction can often be a driver in people developing the things in real life. |  | | |
| Ionic wind propulsion on 13:07 - Nov 22 with 893 views | tazdac |
I can’t see it taking off ;o) |  | | |
| Ionic wind propulsion on 13:09 - Nov 22 with 892 views | factual_blue |
| Ionic wind propulsion on 13:07 - Nov 22 by tazdac |
I can’t see it taking off ;o) |
Presumably that would make it ironic wind propulsion. | |
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| Ionic wind propulsion on 13:10 - Nov 22 with 888 views | Vic |
| Ionic wind propulsion on 12:14 - Nov 22 by StokieBlue |
Very cool, there have been smaller ionic wind demonstrators for years but they all had to be plugged into a power source to work. It's going to be hard to scale up the design but hopefully it will be possible.
There are certainly a lot of "rumours" that the US military already has this stuff working and has done for quite a time. The science itself is not new so it's possible they have. In the end breakthroughs tend to be determined by how much funding you are willing to chuck at them (not in all cases of course).
It's great news though, hopefully the researchers will get a nice big grant or a private company on-board to continue the development.
SB |
sounds like a project for Elon Musk and his crew. |  |
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| Ionic wind propulsion on 13:34 - Nov 22 with 867 views | Pendejo |
that be witchcraft |  |
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