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kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:Flying cars won't ever take off (pun intended).  Can't regulate the traffic, deadly if fuel runs out, lack of infrastructure to land the system, etc etc.  

They are sci-fi anti-gravity device transport.   Trying to make them as primitive imitations with regular engines in the real world is idiotic.

miketheterrible wrote:

kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:Flying cars won't ever take off (pun intended).  Can't regulate the traffic, deadly if fuel runs out, lack of infrastructure to land the system, etc etc.  

They are sci-fi anti-gravity device transport.   Trying to make them as primitive imitations with regular engines in the real world is idiotic.

Engines and what not alone isn't even the whole issue.  Issue is as I mentioned, regulations, traffic control, landings and take off, etc.

What if you need to land? How will you know you won't crush someone? Or the engines requires (which would generate so much heat due to power required to even fly) wouldn't cook someone or whatever else? What if there is a traffic jam all around on the ground?  What if there is an air collision?

This is just Hollywood nonsense mixed with companies looking to hype up stocks and generate more investment money to quickly pocket.

A flying laboratory with an electric power plant is being created in Russia


ZAO SuperOx has developed the world's first engine with an efficiency of 99,7 percent, the principle of which is based on superconductivity. Now in Russia they are creating a flying laboratory with an electric power plant, where such an engine will be used.

It is reported by the news agency. Interfax.

Andrei Dutov, Director General of the Zhukovsky Institute, told reporters today that, in his opinion, the serial production of aircraft with fully electric power plants will be launched by 2030.

Now the Siberian Research Institute, which is part of the Zhukovsky Research Center, has created the first flying laboratory on an electric drive, which will make its first flight this year. It is built on the basis of the Yak-40 aircraft, in the nose of which, where the propeller is located, an auxiliary 500 kW electric motor is installed. The standard engine in the tail section was replaced by a turboshaft gas turbine engine with an electric generator.

Today the laboratory in Novosibirsk has successfully passed ground tests. The aircraft was rolled out of the hangar, after checking the compatibility and stability of its systems.

In two years, a similar flying laboratory is planned to be created on the basis of the Il-114. An electric motor with a capacity of 1 MW will be installed there.

https://en.topwar.ru/179720-v-rossii-sozdajut-letajuschuju-laboratoriju-s-jelektricheskoj-silovoj-ustanovkoj.html

Production of Russia's first low-speed steam turbine is gaining momentum

The developer of the Russian "Bulava" created an unmanned Maglev



The Moscow Institute of heat engineering Corporation (MIT), which created the Bulava-30 ballistic missile R-30, has developed a Maglev train that can, in particular, operate in unmanned mode. This was announced to TASS by the General designer of the enterprise Yuri Solomonov.

The academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) noted that the goal of the project is to create a full-size technology demonstrator that would allow us to confirm the correctness of the mit approach to Maglev. The hero of Russia added that the ongoing work is based on the project of a monorail transport system.

"Currently, the production of components and electrical equipment of the EPS layout is underway (electric rolling stock-approx. "Feeds.<url>"). The estimated start date for sea trials is the third quarter of this year, " the General designer said.

The Agency writes that "based on the test results, a decision will be made to deploy full-scale work on mass production of a new type of monorail transport system and their replication for the country's regions."

In December 2020, the K-551 Vladimir Monomakh strategic missile cruiser of project 955 Borey launched four R-30 Bulava-30 ballistic missiles at once for the first time. At the same time, the American magazine Popular Mechanics wrotethat the salvo launch of four Bulava-30 P-30s at once, produced by the K-551 Vladimir Monomakh of the Russian Navy, looks like a " preview of the end of civilization."


Ivan Potapov

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Kiko wrote:In addition, lead has a fairly high melting point, which is approximately 1800 degrees Celsius.

And it turns out that the unique combination of lead coolant and nitride fuel forms almost ideal conditions for the creation of nuclear fuel and almost completely excludes the most severe accidents, which, unfortunately, were in our history. Suffice it to recall Chernobyl and Fukushima.

LMFS wrote:I partially agree, renewables like wind and sun have a big advantage (essentially zero marginal costs of generation) and a big disadvantage, their variability. It would be premature though to dismiss them because of that, in fact as we speak new investments are already including directly coupled battery capacity to shift generation to the more profitable hours of the day, to provide reserve generation capacity and other functions. This is already becoming economically profitable. Another important tool is the improved transmission lines that can shift power from West to East with losses that are not so extreme as one may think, in fact generating H2 and compressing it is way worse. So there are already a set of solutions for those issues and they are being worked out. As it happens so often,  optimizing what already exists is worth more than many revolutionary approaches.