Guys, I figured this out in primary school. Magnets! You make the roads out of magnets, and then place magnets on the underside of a car. Perfect flotation, then all you need is forward thrust. I am an geniouse.
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Clever girl.
I figured out a plan for infinite electrical generation in primary school.
Basically, since the Earth is a magnet, and iron moving relative to a magnet creates an electric current, create a steel wire encircling the earth in orbit around the equator. Is there any reason why this wouldn't induce a current, science dudes?
I figured out a plan for infinite electrical generation in primary school.
Basically, since the Earth is a magnet, and iron moving relative to a magnet creates an electric current, create a steel wire encircling the earth in orbit around the equator. Is there any reason why this wouldn't induce a current, science dudes?
The safety problem is simple: A mechanical failure on a car normally does not cause a serious life threatening incident. The same level of failure on a flying car , however, does.
Comparing them with existing flying vehicles does not work because the standards imposed on those are impossible to maintain on consumer equipment. The scale is too big, there would be people trying to do their own maintenance or make modifications. Unless the hardware is incredibly solid right out the gate I don't see it working without regular major incidents.
And that's not even getting into the potential for people to use those things as weapons. .
I have a failsafe - you terraform the entire planet into rubber fields. WHERE'S THE FLAW IN THAT, NITPICK BOY????!!!!!!!!!111!!!!
Depends. How much do you want to slow down the earth's rotation?
Vertikal wire works better. The problem there though is that it easily generates too much electricity - to the point that you can't put electrically powered trains on a space lift because the electrical wire can't be put on there safely..
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It might very well induce a current, but maintaining a constant relative speed around the earth would probably require constant adjusting, leading to no net gain in power (or even a net loss).
It would burn the space lift to a crisp (never mind the train) .. dunno about you, but that's a tad too much voltage
Anyway: Back on topic. Has everyone voted?
I believe Tonka needs to vote.
Also, with all that power, the trains would be alot faster.
Also, with all that power, the trains would be alot faster.
Could you not put it in such a way that it just stays in orbit, or whatever? I'm not even remotely thinking about this, but anything to stop me from revising.
Yes, tonka's the only one.
Let's hope he's okay, there's a bit of a winter storm about. Turns out that tonka does not live far from me.
Let's hope he's okay, there's a bit of a winter storm about. Turns out that tonka does not live far from me.
Tonka has been very active today in the Werewolf Lite thread, although he hasn't been online in the past hour or two.
That's tamius I believe, although at the moment I think tamius is probably living on the mainland somewhere for university.
No, you're the English guy with a bit of class living in the commonwealth outside The Commonwealth.
There's another Englishman who lives on a French island. I thought it was tonka. If not him, it's definitely someone with a t name. T...Falc? No, he's Dutch (?).
Falc is Dutch? You have a ridiculous number of werewolf compatriots, EURO.
Yes you could keep it in orbit.
However, it would move along with the Earth, therefor 0 relative movement, therefor no current.