Hello,
Interesting times for Aviation as battery storage density comes to the fore, with the magic threshold of 450Wh/kg for commercial aviation energy storage now in sampling to some OEMs.
Check out last week's blog on what Detroit's "Big Three" are doing for EV battery chemistries, with some of it suited for air transport and general aviation between now and two or three years out. If you don't think it's real, cars are starting to hit the road with advanced chemistries in Murray's article last week.
As a contributing editor/wingnut1, Lee takes to the air this week with his third installment on hybrid electric aircraft. I've included the first two parts in the archives section of this newsletter so you can get the backgrounder before hitting his latest spoiler piece. Will fuels-burning hybrids find a niche, or will they flutter, as battery electrics take to the skies within a decade? Feel free to comment on Lee's writeup.
In looking for those prequels in the archives, I also discovered an article about a spiffy, no-moving-parts, propulsion scheme in an aircraft flown by some boffins at MIT and linked it, below, for you to have a look.
With ion propulsion now behind us, you do realize that it's up to us to come up with a warp drive system; both for aerospace and for achieving 0-60mph (100km/hr) acceleration times of less than zero seconds for the fam SUV?
Are you working on, or have you worked on, warp drives or some other cool tech you'd like to share knowledge/experiences with our readers about, in a contributed article? Hit me up with an emailed paragraph proposing your 1200, or so, word article our tech-savvy readers, worldwide, would find...fascinating.
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-andyT
- For those who have English as an nth language (n>1), "wingnut" or "wing-nut" is synonymous with being an aviation enthusiast.
