Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2013-01-01 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On 31.12.2012, at 23.27, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Cold fusion will be orders of magnitude cheaper than jet fuel. That is not true. On board cold fusion generator might be slightly cheaper than current heavily taxed fossil jet fuel, but with cold fusion it is cheap to produce synthetic jet fuel. Pr

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-31 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:27 PM 12/31/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Fission reactor airplane engines were developed in the 1950s. See chapter 18 of my book, and also: http://www.aviation-history.com/articles/nuke-american.htm Half a billion dollars. What w

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jouni Valkonen wrote: > > Indeed, lenr is no good for airplanes due to low power density and extreme > cost of onboard power generators. > I do not think so. Cold fusion power density has sometimes been as high as a fission reactor core, which is high enough for an aircraft engine. Fission reac

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-31 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Indeed, lenr is no good for airplanes due to low power density and extreme cost of onboard power generators. Same argument goes also for fission powered airplanes, because high cost of fission reactor cannot compensate extremely cheap jet fuel. All plans for fission/LENR planes rely on assumpti

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-31 Thread Teslaalset
Robin, The required water could be retrieved from the atmosphere during the flight, e.g. by condensation. I guess we need a few figures and statistics whether this is feasible though. On Monday, December 31, 2012, wrote: > In reply to Alain Sepeda's message of Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:54:02 +0100: >

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-30 Thread mixent
In reply to Alain Sepeda's message of Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:54:02 +0100: Hi, [snip] >Their idea is to use hybrid propulsion... > >LENR have huge autonomy, but LENr and worse, turbines, have low power >density >Since peak power is huge with planes, while average is lower, it is >rational to store

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-30 Thread Alain Sepeda
Their idea is to use hybrid propulsion... LENR have huge autonomy, but LENr and worse, turbines, have low power density Since peak power is huge with planes, while average is lower, it is rational to store energy... in the report they propose batteries... you can find the old article about t

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-30 Thread Teslaalset
Propulsion by on the spot generation of hydrogen would make much more sense. (using LENR) On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Ron Kita wrote: > Greetings All, > > Boeing is fully aware of LENR Cold Fusion..and yet they talk about > batteries: > http://phys.org/news/2012-12-sugar-volt-boeing-visio

[Vo]:Boeing Electric Airplane- LENR

2012-12-30 Thread Ron Kita
Greetings All, Boeing is fully aware of LENR Cold Fusion..and yet they talk about batteries: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-sugar-volt-boeing-vision-hybrid.html My bet is that their electric plane never sees batteries-except for a temporary back-up. Respectfully, Ron Kita, Chiralex