Expanding our purview?! Look the clouds!
Hiya,
I was lucky to have caught a recent episode of Nova - The Great Electric Plane Race. Well worth an hour of your time! Very informative and quite possibly right up our wheel house for two reasons:
- Use of silicon in batteries incresing efficency and possibly greatly reducing weight/ number of cells needed for flight
- Very much a great place for the use of our powders and instant on demand power, especially for peak demand periods including even liftoff with our powders being lighter than current airplane fuels
You learn throughout the doc changes coming so as to make electric flight the dominant method: wing redesign; multiple electric engine configuration all along new wing allowing for enough thrust to lift off; uses for hydrogen tech for flight; the weight advantage powders may bring versus current fuels or heavy batteries; terrible pollution and its specific effects created by contrails and so on. Companies mentioned were Joby Aviation and a German company focused on hydrogen called H2FLY.
If so many heads are in the coulds with this company already, why not look to the clouds for possibly our biggest potential market: airplanes!
Cheers and GLTA