.Helicopters spend more than 30 hours in the shop for an hour in the power because of risk of failure of the machinery that sends the power up from the engine so a I'm fan of The Moody Blues. They now have planes powered by a laser from the ground with photovoltaic collectors on the plane. A good method of powering a helicopter some think may via a usual power supply like with a supercharger to a laser. The beam goes up via the tube out through the propellers on both sides. When the laser reaches the outside of the propeller it would reach a module that would heat the air and this would power the helicopter without the machinery that takes so much time to maintain other than the usual. The lenses are moved from the tip to the inside of the prop for optimal leverage which would also reduce wear on the laser, it would have the optimal radiation.
A beam from a distance powers the ship method like this may be used in the Mars Airplane. Solar power or air pumped in a large orbiting lens mirror would power this starship as it would go for indefinite zooms of high resolution. And helicopter balloons (invented in the 70's) could also be combined with this idea for a cheap boost to save heat pumps for heat of the giant room. Popular Science says the main reason machines like this in earth orbit are let down to safely splash in the ocean is about the fuel, it runs out years or months before machinery or computers. So beams may be used, continually charging up collectors to power them. Space collisions would be avoided by use of this for space junk, and just a boost of the whole machine at once would perhaps be feasible so no retrofit of the old satellites if the beam would be of wavelengths comparable to the size of ship.
A use has been devised of this beam method for airliners via supercapacitors that store large amounts of power like a super battery. The plane would store the power from the beam or from the airport beam and then use lasers powered by the charged up capacitors to heat the air around the beam (actually a reradiation module that would then heat the air so no one would be hit by the beam.) powering the plane with reduced weight, and no complex turbines so maintenance would be better. If the plane was in danger, some or all of the power would be zapped out and up into the steam so no unsafe fuel would be in the tanks on the machine if the plane landed in emergency mode. Using small numbers of sealed off capacitors may be safer for insulation of the power since the main risk would be of electric shock.
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If you're an inventor and want to document your invention you can just use notary sites, just a dollar for a hundred, when cash is golden, as they now use MP3, speech is cheap, Madonna's rich! Another good documentation motif is to sing up for two email URL's and send the documents to your other URL! They're permanent, and you always have your proof.
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I saw this leg powered helicopter in the Popular Science fizz, it says it multiplies your leg power 65 times, no fuel consumption and is silent. This might actually be of value via electric motor, since they finally engineered batteries of monomer foam. Just so it wouldn't be strenuous! If I go up I want to return in a month!
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The first landing from a person jumping from a plane without a parachute is about to be this year (2006) they hope. They are going to wear electric suits and booster boots, they said if it's of worth in this event they may go a second go round, if
they land just so, they'll save on the cost of seeing stars!
I was in the memory olympics in college. I may have won the most when I would box and swim and was in the marathon!
What a relief, if they're hosting the Summer Olympics in BC Ontario this Christmas!!
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
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