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The team behind the ADIFO omnidirectional, supersonic flying saucer has designed and prototyped an interesting and unique eVTOL design with an extraordinarily quick and simple method of transitioning between vertical and horizontal flight modes.Continu… Continue reading Innovative “Mad Bat” tail-sitting biplane eVTOL can also use runways
UK company Vertical Aerospace has celebrated the first flight of its spectacular full-scale VX4 eVTOL air taxi prototype, demonstrating its faith in the design by taking the unusual step of putting a pilot on board. It’s due to enter service in 2025.Co… Continue reading Vertical Aerospace begins eVTOL flight tests, with a pilot on board
Regent has released video of its remarkable Seaglider prototype in flight testing. The first machine to combine the efficiency advantages of ground effect and hydrofoiling in a single design, it promises revolutionary speed and range in coastal areas.C… Continue reading Watch the world’s first hydrofoiling ground effect vehicle take off
As the EV revolution speeds up, and big battery projects ramp up to stabilize power grids running on intermittent renewables, global demand for lithium batteries will rise sixfold in the next 10 years. But can the world actually supply the materials?Co… Continue reading Lithium resource squeeze could put the brakes on decarbonization
A new class of elastic energy converters is emerging, with the ability to capture energy from a variety of different motions. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is pushing to deploy them, first in a series of strange, bendy wave energy des… Continue reading Elastic, robotic generators open up strange new energy capture ideas
Florida’s “silent” flying dish-rack, powered by ionic propulsion, is on track for commercial rollout in 2024, according to Undefined Technologies, which has released new outdoor flight test video. We remain curious, but unconvinced it’ll be viable.Cont… Continue reading Undefined claims 4.5-min flight for its “silent” ion-propulsion drone
Australia has a lot of sun and desert space, positioning the country well to continue being an energy exporter in the net zero era. But the renewable assets it’ll need to build to get there are absolutely epic in scale, according to a new report.Contin… Continue reading Five solar farms, each as big as Tasmania: Australia’s path to net zero
New research suggests that cooling the poles by 2 °C (3.6 °F), and re-freezing the Arctic and Antarctic, is “feasible at relatively low cost with conventional technologies,” using Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) of heat-reflective particles focus… Continue reading “Relatively low cost” plan would cool the Earth’s poles by 2 °C
HP has put forward a small robot it says can dramatically speed up construction work, by autonomously printing guidelines straight from the blueprints onto the floor. Rugged, roadworthy and extremely accurate, Siteprint is a super-quick layout tool.Con… Continue reading HP targets construction sites with autonomous floorplan-printing robots
Doroni says it’s just months away from a full-scale, flying prototype of its H1 two-seat personal eVTOL design. Where most in this space build the simplest and cheapest multicopter-style airframes possible, the H1 offers dedicated horizontal thrust, to… Continue reading Doroni opens orders on its H1 personal lift & cruise eVTOL