AHA! I thought of this decades ago
Spiders go ballooning on electric fields
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Ok..I admit I didn't consider Spiders.
But that makes it even better. Knowing something is possible is half the work. The rest is just engineering.
Imagine surfing earth's naturally occurring electric fields instead of nasty smelly jet engines? BONUS...it would likely be VTOL and quite. It would look like anti gravity. It'd be the next best thing.
Imagine surfing earth's naturally occurring electric fields into SPACE?
No more rockets stinky breath.
Well that was interesting bro!
WOW! This is a nice photo. Spyder looking great.
Spiders can look good too xD
Very interesting and brilliant video!
The folks who made the video didn't seem to have the first clue about using that knowledge in some other scenario.
I like the video for its science. They were researchers for a university, so I doubt they are even thinking about applications.
That is the failure at universities, somehow they separate the Research from the Development!
>:(I think you're right.
'pure science'..
however it doesn't matter if they're thinking about it or not.
if it CAN be exploited it eventually will be.
perhaps not with todays technology...but perhaps something else that is discovered by 'pure science' research.
A lot of researchers are plodders, and the spark to make this leap is just not there.
>:-(they also serve who stand and wait.
Actually, the plodders at Sandia labs have published research on the perfect cross sectional shape on a Darrieus rotor.
They don't know how to USE it, but they saved me years of testing, and about four million dollars in testing costs! *
:)oh goody
something no one wants...
Most of the time for sure, LOL! That shape, with that rotor, will harvest about four times the power; with the same sized rotor.
:Dso they say.
is it feasible to manufacture it...'with that shape'?