sendler2112 said:
Fusion. The energy source of the future. And always will be.
Yeah, I don't really have any hope for fusion, this talk from Kirk Sorensen was really convincing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqXWdHyv1ps
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On another subject Doosan has released their
2hour flight fuel-cell for drones, their tank looks a fair bit bigger than the Intelligent Energy fuel-cells.
Apparently its available for purchase now.
http://www.doosanmobility.com/en/products/powerpack/
They have a bunch of videos on their channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPfua9QlhibhQEJkVSivBFg/videos
This company is Korean but they have a USA sales team by the looks of this demo video
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Other recommended videos of theirs that are pretty new.
Every time some goes missing in the bushland areas in the Victorian mountains I wonder if these drones would be helpful. They always send out a bunch of people on dirt motorbikes and at least 1 helicopter but never have that much luck, maybe if this drone has a good heat sensor on it could prove useful, which it claims it can.
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There has been some man-sized "electric flying car" demos lately in the media but they still only fly in their demo for about 2 minutes.
When you watch them you get the feeling the folks behind the lithium battery only "flying car" designs have a mindset that a miracle battery is just around the corner...
Seems like they are of the same mind-set as folks were here 12 years ago in the "battery breakthrough releases thread"
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=57256
^This thread makes me laugh every time I go through it, all the announcements of 10,000 cycle/500c-rate/1400Wh/kg performance was not far away...
But 12 years later we are still all on the same chemistries they thought up literally 40 years ago according to this Wikipedia entry at 1979.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Invention_and_development