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I actually hope the turbotech holds up under actual use. I'd love to toss my IO-550Cs for Jet-A.
Ah, a Skywagon enjoyer?
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Maybe you can enlighten me. My question that once you mined the materials for the car + battery, shipped that somewhere to be built, then shipped that to be sold. Then you have the added waste battery once it not longer hold enough charge. Is it actually better for the environment? If we add all this extra pull on the grid we need to generate the power for that too.
Lithium batteries can be recycled really well. That's why there's so much effort going into tracking them. So they don't end up in a landfill.
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Lithium batteries can be recycled really well. That's why there's so much effort going into tracking them. So they don't end up in a landfill.
It can be done, e.g.: https://batterycouncil.org/battery-facts-and-applications/ho...
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Lithium batteries can be recycled really well. That's why there's so much effort going into tracking them. So they don't end up in a landfill.
That’s good to know. This was one of my thoughts. If the evs end up generating a tonne of material that we can’t do anything with that would be a short term gain.
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Ah, a Skywagon enjoyer?
:) Baron. some 300hp effective little turbines with non-ridiculous fuel burn would be a "shut up and take my money" moment for me.
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It's worse now, people are doing "51% Build Assists" (most famously Vans and Sling aircraft) to save money where the factory would give you an IKEA plane kit and you will maybe put in a few screws and decals and install the avionics panel and you will sit in the room and watch them assemble the rest of the plane "under your supervision". Then the whole thing will get penciled whipped as an Experimental Owner-Built ai…
Isn’t it better? Some people dont want to pay the extra overhead and cost burden of the manufacturer taking partial liablity. They’re willing to take a risk.
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I had one purple link on that second Wikipedia page, which (macabre as it sounds) was very interesting to read through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_th... Also leads to another great list-of-lists; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unusual_deaths
Even more macabre (I should not admit to this publically...): I can't help but find this one (from your first link) quite... hilarious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reichelt.ogv Elaborate contraption, jumps, falls like a stone, is dead. The end. Imaginary person: "But he had balls and believed in his own theories." Me: "Ehm but... how difficult would it have been to throw a wooden puppet instead... or run scaled…
> [...] Police and others crowd around the body of Reichelt as it is carried away. They then measure the depth of the hole in the frozen ground made by his fall (15 cm).
At least they got something out of it I suppose :)
There are two major sub-fields in materials science. 1: Making materials with interesting new properties. 2: figuring out how to remove the lead from them.
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Batteries fortunately do not destroy the raw materials they are made from. So eventually we can stop mining new raw materials once we have built enough batteries. In addition, batteries for cars live a surprising long time - and can be used to stabilize the grid once they diminish in oomf (technical term).
The fact that we're throwing them into the garbage in the form of disposable vapes doesn't give me hope for the future tho.