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[ideola]

This new invention could have some really interesting automotive applications:

[morghen]

not only automotive :O that thing looks very interesting...i wonder what pressure can it generate...i mean maby one could fly with it.
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[paulsmaroon924]

no, flying would be impossible as you rely on the airstream for your control, yes i know the harrier jump jet uses vector thrust to achieve VSTOL but it uses a constantly adjusting jet to achieve this.

it would be cool to have something revolutionise aviation again as Concorde did, I was lucky enough to see it daily and mananged to get onto it a few times in the hanger. Its sad to see that performance and an engineering achievement of the century take a step back and be decomissioned because of Pricks like Al Gore and his scare tactics on global warming, yes as a commercial pilot i do add to the number of hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere but .. and this is the big butt, the planet goes thru large scale cooling and heating periods all thru history, and unless the mammoths had huge industrial plants like the Chinese that caused this, it would lead me and many other people of a geological, physical, chemical, scientific, palentoglogical backgrounds who completed the studies and articles for Scientific American, Focus, New World and other respectible mags to agree.... we are not helping the situation, not at all, but this has not come around because we drive porsches, but because Mother nature has decided that its time.

or Tom Cruise and his magic cult have decided.. Ill leave it up to you.

one final note, in an age where we are being treated like LEPERS because we choose to drive a classic car bacuse of its CO2 FOOTPRINT, note this...

ONE toyota prius, ONE. has more of an ecological impact, more of a Co2 imprint JUST BEING MADE than 2 porsche 924's 2.0 na will have in a 30 year span if each covers 130,000 miles on unleaded petrol.

for those of you who think i am spouting off, please please take the time to reasearch the PRIUS articles by GREENPEACE who tried to have it banned for its damage it is causing.

http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/f33/toyota-prius-bad-environment-12657/

and for those of you who are wondering WHY toyota would make this?

they get a 5% discount off the TOTAL tax bill of their company for every year they produce an hybrid energy car.

5% is #### when you are the worlds largest car manufactuor!

[morghen]

no i mean could it lift some weight since it says it accelerates gases 15 times...with a constant flux? maybe one could forcefeed one stream into another and obtain a cascade effect.....maby we'll all just float around in a couple of months.
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[paulsmaroon924]

would be pretty cool if we could, would certainly save on fuel bills lol

[ideola]

I wish the info indicated what percentage of the airflow was increased due to entrainment vs. inducement. If the multiplicative factor is primarily from entrainment, it would be less useful as a retrofit for conventional fans in an automotive application (think climate control or heat exchanger cooling).

Their digital motor looks promising too...
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[Martijnus]

[paulsmaroon924]

i meant if we were all floating about rather than relying on rubber contact with the ground.. and by that logic less contact equals less drag, less drag means less power required to cover the same application so less fuel required.

and i know its PURELY hypothetical so im not starting an arguament thread here based on what if's

[Martijnus]

[paulsmaroon924]

sorry if i sounded a bit narky on the last post there, my back is killing me and im being a right grumpy bum, the missus just shouted at me for being rude..

sorry lads

[alexvex]

Saw Mr. Dyson talking about it on the Today Show this morning...very interesting! Wish it wasn't so expensive...might have to talk to my dad about his Best Buy discount...he's gotten us two Dyson vac's for very cheap I at least want to check one out in person!
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1992 Porsche 968 (VW 2.5L I5 Turbo swap in the works)
1995 Audi 90 Quattro Sport (4.2L V8 Swap)
2010 Touareg TDI
Past Pcars: 80 931, 87 924S, 87 951

[Martijnus]

i've been told those dysons suck bigtime.
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MSII/extra, LPG, ITB's, 5lug.
To be turbo'ed in a while.
Killed her at the Nurburgring, Porscheless at the moment

[ideola]

[Khal]

[Smoothie]

I'd be willing to guess it's HVVVLP (high volume, very very low pressure).
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