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Old 04-13-2018, 12:27 PM   #18 (permalink)
redpoint5
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If sodium batteries with 10x more energy became reality, and electric motors with more power per Kg also became a reality, we will have future vehicles that will be just a egg shell with wheels. In wheel motors with battery pack in the floor, and all inside space to enjoy.
I'm doubtful of batteries with 10x more energy. There is a limit to chemistry and physics. Batteries currently have about 1% of the energy density of gasoline.

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It remambers Howard Hughes big plane, Hercules.

I wonder if it, despite managed to fly, it could ever fly loaded with troups and equipment, as it was designed for, or if could only fly unloaed. In the movie (The Aviator) if only took off after the engines was in maximum,but we can' trust a movie.
The Spruce Goose is in a museum near where I live. It did fly very briefly in real life.

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