Comments on: If I can’t have my flying car, can I please have my flying battery? https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/if-i-cant-have-my-flying-car-can-i-please-have-my-flying-battery/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:13:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Douglas C Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/if-i-cant-have-my-flying-car-can-i-please-have-my-flying-battery/#comment-659627 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:13:32 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30732#comment-659627 Mia culpa – just read the article – ignore previous post 🙂

]]> By: Douglas C Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/if-i-cant-have-my-flying-car-can-i-please-have-my-flying-battery/#comment-659625 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:11:50 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30732#comment-659625 ” Have a relatively small battery i an aircraft that does not use the same exact technology as the long distance battery, and is good at ONLY rapid output of a lot of power,”

You appear to be describing a capacitor not a battery – the one stores potential energy as an electric field the other as chemical energy.

]]> By: Ketil Tveiten https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/if-i-cant-have-my-flying-car-can-i-please-have-my-flying-battery/#comment-659473 Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:03:32 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30732#comment-659473 You have the battery bounce wrong: the full battery will thud to the table without much bounce, while the empty one will have a decent bounce.

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