Dark Sky Stations, Stratospheric Satellites, and Ultra Low Orbit Infrastructure (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Helicoptors
Helicopters could be ran on electricity, or even a tethered power cord to a groundside nuclear plant. Solar by itself is non optibal in most cases because of night and clouds. Electric quacoptors probably would only be an option for continuous running if they were either inside a wireless power grid, or if we invented batteries that have orders of magnitude better power densing than modern ones. Some more power dense nuclear battery or radioistope thora generators might permit this. Such solor helicoptors would work better on low gravity, thick air, places like saturn's moon, titan,. or even a place like venus where the war turns so slowly you can
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