When all grant money is being sent in the field to find evidence of human caused warming, the only surprise is that only 97% of scientist agree.
I think that your field of human behavior refers to this as “confirmation bias”. The great computer named Deep Thought in HHGG called it “the gravey train”.
NASA is already flying electric rockets. Do a search on “ion propulsion”.
Didn’t that flight last longer than Al Bundy in bed? Just a thought…
Uh…no. Electric heat is frequently expensive, but it is also 100% efficient - every watt that you suck out of the wall is converted to usable heat. Your natural gas system has an exhaust pipe that carries calories right on out of your house.
Looks like a seriously misleading headline here - according to their website, Tier 1 has been flying an electric R44 since the end of 2018:
“Santa Ana, CA, December 10, 2018 – Tier 1 Engineering announced today that they have set a Guinness World Record for the farthest distance traveled by an electric helicopter. The battery-powered manned helicopter achieved a record 30 nautical mile flight to 800 feet altitude with an average speed of 80 knots on Friday, December 7th. The helicopter was a modified Robinson R44 test piloted by Captain Ric Webb of OC Helicopters.”
Looks like the news here is that they’re using a certifiable motor.
Using an R-44 to transport a transplant organ makes as much sense as using a battleship to go fishing for (a) sea bass.
A DJI drone can fulfil the organ mission. Today.
Oy.
The R44 is being used as a test bed. The company’s end goal is developing an unmanned organ transport vehicle.
Apparently no one told them that a DJI could already do it. Maybe the mission isn’t quite as simple as you might guess?
Check out Space Lab’s Electron rocket with the electric Rutherford engine:
https://www.popsci.com/rocket-labs-got-3d-printed-battery-powered-rocket-engine/
A huge load of electricity is required to utilize a resistance heater. That means it’s expensive and that makes it inneficient to heat a home. Electric is fine for lights, just not for heating large spaces.
Yes it will, they will use them to kill people so they can harvest the organs!
So what concept is it proving?
As long as it is with other folks money anyway.
My aunt and uncle and near neighbors built the “Medallion” all electric home of the future back in the 1960s and it was a disaster in terms of both cost and performance. In the wintertime I would see my uncle out with a water hose trying to defrost their heat pump so they could warm the house, and this was in a mild CA climate.
Hospital A to hospital B. How difficult is that?
A carrier pigeon would suffice, for eye transplants.
Fro eye transplants, sure, but for a beating human heart, you need a beer cooler with “HUMAN ORGANS” stenciled on the outside.
And then you can rent an ambulance and drive quickly from the Red Ball Garage in New York to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach.