Example Of An Outlandish New Technology
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Am I misreading that or are you openly admiting to crapping your pants?
You know this exists right. Just induced by magnetism.
How about ion propulsion for movement in space.
Qinetiq have developed an Ion Drive and installed them onto spacecrafts. I know for a fact that one was released into space in 2009 and functioned just fine.
http://www.gizmag.com/qinetiq-ion-drive-mercury/14416/
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/markets.../electric_propulsion/electric_propulsion.html
Qinetiq have developed an Ion Drive and installed them onto spacecrafts. I know for a fact that one was released into space in 2009 and functioned just fine.
http://www.gizmag.com/qinetiq-ion-drive-mercury/14416/
http://www.qinetiq.com/home/markets.../electric_propulsion/electric_propulsion.html
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Cool, so TIE fighters are not far off then?
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I like that idea, it's similar to the one where speedbumps go down into the road as you drive over them to generate power for the street lights. Not that you'd ever catch me wearing speed bumps.
Do you think they would improve fitness too - since all the energy comes from body movement, it means that by moving you are doing a bit more work than if you were wearing normal clothes.
Alternatively it could be that walking wearing normal clothes generates friction and heat, whereas the piesoelectric cloth is much more efficient and channels all of that into electricity, meaning you do the same amount of work but generate less heat, so the clothes actually cool you down as well as charge your phone
Do you think they would improve fitness too - since all the energy comes from body movement, it means that by moving you are doing a bit more work than if you were wearing normal clothes.
Alternatively it could be that walking wearing normal clothes generates friction and heat, whereas the piesoelectric cloth is much more efficient and channels all of that into electricity, meaning you do the same amount of work but generate less heat, so the clothes actually cool you down as well as charge your phone
That have any relation to Steorn's Orbo?
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I see penises.
Yep, sounds like it:
"The DePalma generator is essentially a simple magnetized flywheel, ie a magnetized cylindrical conductor rotating at high speed with the help of a motor."
If it actually worked he could just buy electrcity from the national grid, magic up 5x the ammount and sell it back.
Someones just their equations muddled up. Making something more efficient by reducing the drag, would push the efficiency up from whatever a conventional generator is closer to 100% efficient. Instead some fruitloop has, I dunno my math is highly rusty, multiplied instead of divided, came up with an outlandish figure, and no-one has bothered to check their sums since. Eg, if a conventional generatror is 80% efficent normally, and this method of reducing the drag is 80% more efficent, then the efficiency is now 94%.
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