Electric Wheel

[hirley0]

0 11 MANIK 7:07
this morning in the NHK 7-7:30 pbs/opb news cast the Electric Wheel was
reviled? designed for CARs of course | but the transport to skate board
cant be to many year in the distance | No AM not a fan of ground based Xport
- when i was maybe 10 { the ERA of 3D movies) there was a serial called
Rocket man. I was always a Fan / still am / cant wait for the TransportER 2
arrive. Now back to the scheduled 1st Reply | Don't hold you Breath /-/aHa

[My Other Username Is A Pseudonym]

No AM not a fan of ground based Xport

I hear ya man.  Where are our flying cars? 

[hirley0]

No AM not a fan of ground based Xport

I hear ya man.  Where are our flying cars?

OH ok there was a reply || truely AM/pm sirprized
anyway moving on | Not looking for a winged anything
years ago i say A flying platform | Kind of sand on & take off
i don't have a clue as to what ever became of that idea
My take is not the stand on version however . its more like
a mini hot air inflatable {passanger below device above)
/ Um \ thrusters(4) facing away from Me. kind of mini rockets
attached to inflatable ring :O: the jist of this tail is NOT about the device
it is about the rules of the road N at 10 feet over 1 way streets 10 mph
S Same song 20 feet 20 MpH 30 ft 30 etc, there there are rules to signal
a left & right hand turn rules about assending & decending &on @ on
the E-W IS AT 15 25 35 NOT AT 10 20 30 ABOVE 70 FEET
is may well be servival of the fastes forall i know (No RULES?
So both velocity & Acceleration have RULES  related to height
all of which are preprogramed into the nav computer unit
Thus basiclly its jus grab the handle click From To and whisk away ON AUTO
yeah wellexcept of course above 100 | where any fool thing is possible { i guess

[My Other Username Is A Pseudonym]

So kinda like a cross between a blimp and a jetpack, yes?

Interesting idea. 

[hirley0]

So kinda like a cross between a blimp and a jetpack, yes?

Interesting idea.

yeaH beneath NOT above http://www.curtrenz.com/  F_f Astro*

[Telarus]

Adding powered thrust to the "new style blimps" would be really really interesting.

New style blimps: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/24/swiss-researchers-developing-muscular-swimming-blimp/

[Don Coyote]

Adding powered thrust to the "new style blimps" would be really really interesting.

New style blimps: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/24/swiss-researchers-developing-muscular-swimming-blimp/

I've seen those at Steamcon III.

[hirley0]

my guess is the idea is to attach a cable to the noise
spiral the fins around the craft | hook the other end to a ground based
electric generator | get very low cost electricity | no need for the tower
around & around it goes | when its in mass production ? no one knows
SO? its back to the hula hoop & SUM {well never mind

[Elder Iptuous]

Adding powered thrust to the "new style blimps" would be really really interesting.

New style blimps: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/24/swiss-researchers-developing-muscular-swimming-blimp/

I've seen those at Steamcon III.

and at toys'r'us
http://airswimmers.com/

the floating generator?
altaeros just floated their blimp wind turbine....
http://www.altaerosenergies.com/

[Telarus]

Yeah, I'd just seen that on the news. Good idea.

A similar idea out of the Oregon State University Oceanic dept are "power generating buoys": http://phys.org/news4142.html

[M. Nigel Salt]

"Muscular swimming blimps". 

[Placid Dingo]

Hirly0, you're watching a lot of NHK? The Japanese channel?

[hirley0]

"Muscular swimming blimps". 

aye pd i do, REMember i AM O'poised. ACtually more 2 the OREGON
Republicans who maid them all rich, by giving them Timber {never mind
Just last week i went into the bicycle shop diagonally across
the street & ask them if they had 1. they did" the price $2200
then i as where the battery was (um the fender over the rear wheel
Maybe 2ft by 4in by 2in ? then I ask about replacement BAT.
they do NOT have 1. what can i say

Hirly0, you're watching a lot of NHK? The Japanese channel?

My current train of thought is about the Mars
mars curiosity plutonium power
ABout .. MSL will generate 2.5 kilowatt hours per day,
& in Spacificly if it, curiosity, was designed to loose ?/?

PS {never mind bac2tv | Powering The Planet - Earth: The Operators' Manual