Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:22:44 +1100: > Hi, > [snip] >> Harry Veeder wrote: >> We are still a long way away from electric air craft with two >> exceptions. Solar electric drones or airships and hybrid aircraft. If > > There is no need for electric planes at all. Chemists can easily make jet fuel > from Biological energy sources, though perhaps not very efficiently. > Furthermore, using betteries in cars would free up lots of existing > hydrocarbons > for use in jet fuel. Consequently jets will probably be the last remaining > users > of hydrocarbons. At least until we conquer anti-gravity, at which point they > will also be replaced, because AG craft can be powered from an electrical > source, which in turn can be derived from CF. Of course something like a > NERVA/jet engine cross, where the power is supplied by CF might also eliminate > hydrocarbon consumption in jets. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk
There something called magneto-hydrodynamic propulsion for submarines. Is that similiar to this NERVA/jet engine? Harry
