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Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine?
An anonymous reader writes "Using the same physics principles as submarines, a new company is planning a fuelless air ship. Recent advances in ultra light and strong materials are making this concept a practical reality." There's no question that changes in buoyancy can be used to propel a vehicle, but "fuelless" is going to be tricky.
This is going to be gayer than the Folsom Street Fair and the Pride Parade COMBINED!
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I don't recall which physics principles make submarines fuelless. Anyone?
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I am an aerospace engineer, and you can rest assured that this problem has been adequately dealt with. There's a material of similar thickness and composition to your common anti-static bag for sensitive electrical components. This material can be "shrink-wrapped" onto the Kevlar/epoxy structure.
In tests, this material has been known to resist electrical charges of over 12,000 volts. Varying the thickness changes the resistance capacity in a geometric fashion.
So feel free to sail safely in your air submarine!
I'll ask around, but for now I'd call this an interesting way to part an investor from his money. Con artistry is the only truly perpetual motion I've ever heard of.
Exactly. Reminds me of Lindows. Started out promising to run Windows applications.
Shame on anyone trying to make money off pipe dreams, and willing to use Debian Linux as a base.
Fuelless... Grand idea with almost daily warnings of higher gas and oil prices. They better fly one around first, and then ask for investors money, after Consumers Reports gets ahold of one of these babies and gives it a test for all of us to read about.
PS: If the lindowsOS folks will send me one of those live cd's to play around with, I'll ask Slashdot to remove this post! (Gee, it takes a 900 mhz processor and 256 mb of ram? forget it.)
This is one of those ideas that looks good on paper, but has a high quotient for disaster. I do not want to fly on an accident-waiting-to-happen. God, this thing is worse than an Airbus!
Who else do you suppose would be flying a commercial liner?