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Is there any chance that this could ever be reliable enough to act as the primary power source for a plane? (In other words, you'd keep just enough fuel/battery
by buu700 4y ago
Is there any chance that this could ever be reliable enough to act as the primary power source for a plane? (In other words, you'd keep just enough fuel/battery onboard for emergency landings, and otherwise rely almost entirely on space microwaves.)
If so, is there any possibility that it could also provide sufficient throughput to handle supersonic flight?
What if we spent most of the journey at a very high altitude, or even in/near LEO?
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoSome day, probably. But right now others have pointed out that this system is actually only 1.8% efficient as the 60% figure was just loss from antenna to antenna, but the initial input was almost 100kW! And I don’t know much about this but it seems shooting high energy beams of radiation everywhere creates other issues.
- s5300 4y agoHi buu700, Weird question - came across an earlier comment of yours. Do you happen to have a spare tube of Biomin F you’d be willing to sell me stateside? Thanks.
- buu700 4y agoWell I do have a bunch of spare tubes, but I'm in the US and I just order them here: https://www.healthpulze.ca/collections/biomin-toothpaste https://www.healthpulze.ca/collections/biomin-toothpaste