Tesla of the skies
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Tesla of the skies
https://zeroavia.com/in-house-tech/
Dornier drivers must be wetting their pants!
Seriously, this looks like a starter and Twiggy looking like he might be on to something.
Dornier drivers must be wetting their pants!
Seriously, this looks like a starter and Twiggy looking like he might be on to something.
I wanted to find out more about "silicon carbide inverters which biodirectionally convert high-voltage DC into three phase AC" (my underlining) but the site failed to produce when I tried to download further information...
IMV pretty much all the tech is mature enough and available for reliable electrically powered aircraft, the only real impediment being the energy source/density. Once that's resolved (and I'm not personally keen on 'fuel cells') things should move apace, but as I see it we're still some distance from that. Certainly don't see biology assisting much with things!
FP.
IMV pretty much all the tech is mature enough and available for reliable electrically powered aircraft, the only real impediment being the energy source/density. Once that's resolved (and I'm not personally keen on 'fuel cells') things should move apace, but as I see it we're still some distance from that. Certainly don't see biology assisting much with things!
FP.
At least they refrained from using the 'game changer' cliche. 'Step change' is accurate.
If only hydrogen was easy to store and transport and didn't embrittle many metals and had decent energy density by volume. Running a B737 or A320 is fine but what about the A380 sized tanker that goes along with it? Maybe a plane shaped like the Super Guppy? Liquefied, it has 1/4th the energy per unit volume of kerosene. Where the difference might be made up is efficiency at conversion, but liquid hydrogen is a huge jump. There is some advantage in energy per unit mass, as long as the weight of the containment system can be ignored.
Best of luck to them but the same factors have been a limitation for a long time. Hydrogen storage has been the difficult part.
Best of luck to them but the same factors have been a limitation for a long time. Hydrogen storage has been the difficult part.
