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How high can you fly?
On Sep 18, 6:08*pm, wrote:
Mark wrote: On Sep 18, 5:19*pm, wrote: Mark wrote: On Sep 18, 1:37*pm, wrote: Mark wrote: Ok, it's the year 2016. You are in a little Cessna 150. You're plane isn't pressurized because it will implode, so you're wearing a pressurized body suit. You have an oxygen mask. You plane is powered by a very powerful brushless electric motor supplied by a 20lb carbon nanotube source that is basically limitless. Your powerplant is equivalent to 700hp in an LSA. The electric motor and cabin are heated. How high can you fly? 95,000ft? Gibberish. Eludication: my sentence ends in a question mark. The figure was discriminate and taken from reference to U-2 heights. Airfoils stop working in thin density. I asked when. I wan't talking about the last sentence; your entire post is gibberish.. Little airplanes aren't presurized because the seals to keep things like doors and windows from leaking are heavy. A soda can can hold 100 psi. Little planes aren't pressurized because the ones I'm proposing aren't currently able to reach anywhere near these elevations. Given the heights I'm proposing, the airframe will buckle if the cabin is pressurized. Fact. If the airplane went into space and the interior were pressurized to sea level, the pressure diffential would be about 14 psi. The extremely thin aluminum in a soda can holds a pressure differential of 100 psi. The Apollo craft were pressurized and the skin on them is so thin the average person could punch a hole through it bare handed. You are full of crap. And you bet the electric motor is heated, you will play hell keeping it cool, even at altitude. Brushless DC motors are different from conventional ones. All motors have loss and the loss shows up as heat. Cooling things at altitude is a problem because even though the air is cold, it is very thin and you have to move a lot of it. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I studied the topic of service ceilings as well as ramifications of what can occur at this elevation. Do the same and find out about airframe distortion, pressure loss and break-ups. It's aviation 101, not Coke can 101. You can stand on an upright egg collection. You can stand on a coke can. Your anologys are laughable. Spacecraft are made different than Cessnas. Babbling nonsense. Read for content. Air density and cooling aren't relevant to a sealed unit. Cooling is especially relevant for heat producing sealed units. Are you sure you aren't around 12 years old? -- Jim Pennino Er, I'm trying to go do something else and rushing answers. Clarification: With regard to the cooling of a sealed brushless motor, your concerns and comments about air density are basically irrelevant. They cool differently than open typical electric motors that rely on air circulation. Better? Allrighty then. --- Mark ps. If you think I'm 12 then why are you debating with a child. And why is this child kicking your... forget it. Think about these conversations next May when you look at the car lot. |
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Mark wrote:
Clarification: With regard to the cooling of a sealed brushless motor, your concerns and comments about air density are basically irrelevant. They cool differently than open typical electric motors that rely on air circulation. Yeah, how is that, magic? There are only two ways to cool any motor, and it doesn't matter whether it is an ICE or electric. You either put a bunch of pipes in the motor, run a fluid through them, and dump the heat with a radiator that has air flowing through it or you put cooling fins on the motor and that have air flowing over them. And air at altitude may be cold, but it is also thin which means you have to move a lot more air at altitude than sea level to get the same cooling. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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On Sep 18, 6:55*pm, wrote:
Mark wrote: Clarification: With regard to the cooling of a sealed brushless motor, your concerns and comments about air density are basically irrelevant. They cool differently than open typical electric motors that rely on air circulation. Yeah, how is that, magic? There are only two ways to cool any motor, and it doesn't matter whether it is an ICE or electric. You either put a bunch of pipes in the motor, run a fluid through them, and dump the heat with a radiator that has air flowing through it or you put cooling fins on the motor and that have air flowing over them. And air at altitude may be cold, but it is also thin which means you have to move a lot more air at altitude than sea level to get the same cooling.. -- Jim Pennino Correct. The higher you go, the harder it is to displace the heat. I believe the topic of this post is..."How high *can* you go?" This doesn't mean you cannot have electric airplanes, or that at 20,000 ft. they aren't superior to internal combustion. You say, "You'll play hell keeping it cool". Well, yes and no. At 95,000ft...it very well may be impossible. IMHO, the motor at any elevation needs to be cooled with circulating glycol through a patented design that runs through the center. At what elevation your radiator ceases to displace heat...I don't know. So yes, the elevation is relevant to cooling as you said, but I am asserting that for GA purposes between AGL and 20,000 ft., you won't "play hell keeping it cool". On the other hand, try leaving the troposphere and you might better pack dry ice. --- Mark |
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On Sep 18, 2:40*pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
Mark wrote: Ok, it's the year 2016. You are in a little Cessna 150. You're plane isn't pressurized because it will implode, Explode, not implode. Unless it is an underwater submersible? so you're wearing a pressurized body suit. You have an oxygen mask. You plane is powered by a very powerful brushless electric motor supplied by a 20lb carbon nanotube source that is basically limitless. Your claims are absurd. Ok, yes I'm just conceptualizing to paint my hypothetical picture, and indiscriminately pulled out a number of 20lbs., and posters such as "a" have already explained the parameters that must be analyzed to do the math. But I keep running across new technologies and it takes time to come up with hard data and numbers that would allow me or anyone else to tell you what the new batteries weigh or what their energy density and durations are. I have however had them described to me in general terms and you know what? 1) it's exciting 2) few people have a clue what is on the horizon 3) the impetus has already swung in this direction and lastly 4) we really have no choice afa worldwide auto application goes. 5) I think most pilots would rather fly without vibration. --- Mark |
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Mark wrote:
I keep running across new technologies and it takes time to come up with hard data and numbers that would allow me or anyone else to tell you what the new batteries weigh or what their energy density and durations are. I'm trying to point out that some of us have some of idea of what is possible within the next 10 years and what the ultimate physical limits are of energy density. Wikipedia has a table of energy densities for several battery technologies compared with traditional energy storage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density So far as I can tell it appears roughly correct. Avgas has an energy density of ~44MJ/kg. The best _emerging_ battery technology has an energy density of ~3.6MJ/kg. Ground vehicles can still be useful with low energy densities, but aircraft rapidly decline in utility. Put another way, airlines will be flying jets burning jet fuel for the forseeable future. |
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Mark wrote:
On Sep 18, 6:55Â*pm, wrote: Mark wrote: Clarification: With regard to the cooling of a sealed brushless motor, your concerns and comments about air density are basically irrelevant. They cool differently than open typical electric motors that rely on air circulation. Yeah, how is that, magic? There are only two ways to cool any motor, and it doesn't matter whether it is an ICE or electric. You either put a bunch of pipes in the motor, run a fluid through them, and dump the heat with a radiator that has air flowing through it or you put cooling fins on the motor and that have air flowing over them. And air at altitude may be cold, but it is also thin which means you have to move a lot more air at altitude than sea level to get the same cooling. -- Jim Pennino Correct. The higher you go, the harder it is to displace the heat. I believe the topic of this post is..."How high *can* you go?" So you are finally giving up on your assertion that a sealed brushless motor is magic and won't need cooling? This doesn't mean you cannot have electric airplanes, or that at 20,000 ft. they aren't superior to internal combustion. Electric airplanes are not and will not be superior to ICE airplanes at any altitude any time in the foreseeable future. There are already GA aircraft that regularly fly at flight levels, though most of them that go much over 20,000 feet don't use pistons in the engine. There is no market for small, as in C172 size, airplanes that can get to the flight levels or someone would already be making them powered by small turbines. snip babble -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:28:59 -0700 (PDT), Mark wrote:
Correct. The higher you go, the harder it is to displace the heat. I believe the topic of this post is..."How high *can* you go?" Me? When I take a triple does of my Xanax and follow it with a few Tequilas, I can maintain an altitde of 95.000 AGL. ooooooooooooooK |
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:12:54 -0000, wrote:
So you are finally giving up on your assertion that a sealed brushless motor is magic and won't need cooling? This doesn't mean you cannot have electric airplanes, or that at 20,000 ft. they aren't superior to internal combustion. Electric airplanes are not and will not be superior to ICE airplanes at any altitude any time in the foreseeable future. And that folks, is... eom -- A fireside chat not with Ari! http://tr.im/holj Motto: Live To Spooge It! |
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On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:28:08 -0700 (PDT), Mark wrote:
Ok, yes I'm just conceptualizing to paint my hypothetical picture and you know what? 1) it's exciting 2) few people have a clue what is on the horizon so I should be called the Messiah Of Bull**** 3) I think most pilots would rather fly without vibration. 4) Most women rave about vibration 5) I never get laid so I hate vibration 6) Go **** yourselves. oooooooooooooooK |
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