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>"We are very excited to bring the marvel of electric flight to a new segment of the market,” Macdonald said. “magniAIR electric engines coupled with our industry-leading Samson batteries can be used for any application currently powered by a 120-175 kW piston engine. Thanks to magniX’s full powertrain, integration is simple and cost effective, bringing electric flight to kit plane builders and enthusiasts.”

Funny how they never mention what the pricing or availability will be, but if all you care about is keeping gullible, low-information investor dollars flowing in, making bullshit appeasing statements like this is all you need to do, facts be damned.

Motor & controller state of the art for practical electric light GA is definately there (has been for a few years), but the batteries that would need to hold the energy required for a 3 hour flight, meet mass, volume and durability requirements are still years, if not decades, away.

Heil Honkler

https://avbrief.com/magnix-targets-light-ga-applications-with-new-electric-motor/
3 hours -> not gonna happen.

Even at 100 kW average power output, 3 hours = 300kw.
Lithium is 300 wh/kg, so 3 hours @ 100kW = 1 ton of batteries.

However, those Chinese "10 minutes from the airport to the office tower" taxi things could make sense...
Like I said, drone taxis for flying people between the airport and city towers, this can work because they're only up for ~10 minutes. But then the challenge is really good autonomous tech because you can't afford a pilot and you're carrying people.

The other stuff... Well, I think scaling Biefeld–Brown thrusters is an easier problem than getting batteries as dense as jet fuel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The actual effect is unexplained. It's not ions, it's been run in a faraday cage in a vacuum and the cage experiences force. Everybody who has studied it seriously knows this, but the Epstein people keep updating wikipedia to say it's ions and it's not reproducible and blah blah blah...

The formula ( 0.00014 * amps * square-meters ) / (meters ** 2)
Tracks experimental results pretty well.

In a 2.5x2.5cm capacitor with a 10 micron capacitor gap, 5kv gives 10 microamps of leakage and 0.006 newtons of thrust.
(0.00014*(10/1000000)*0.025*0.025)/ ((10/1000000)**2) -> 0.00875 it's pretty close.

Obvious strategy would be reduce gap distance (but for whatever reason) the effect seems not to work when you push it down further...

My personal suspicion is that at lower gap distance, you start to get quantum tunneling, and the effect only works when electrons actually move.
BTW this function is very problematic for physicists - which is probably why the people keep writing categorically false information on wiki.

The fact that the function only includes amps, not volts or watts, should already cause one to take notice. But even if it did, thrust without pushing against anything or throwing anything is a problem for physicists.

If we just take the observed numbers: 5kv gives 10 microamps of leakage and 0.006 newtons of thrust.

1000 such thrusters will draw 50 watts of power and make 6 newtons of thrust. If you put them around the perimeter of a wheel of 1 meter circumference, every revolution = 6 newton-meters of work. Every RPM = 0.1 watt, so 1000 RPM => 100 watts output with 50 watts input...