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Drone-maker Fusionflight has announced an 8-kW microturbine generator that weighs less than one-tenth of what an equivalent petrol generator would, and it’s the size of a toolbox instead of needing its own wheels – if you can handle the epic noise leve… Continue reading World’s smallest 8-kW generator rocks a deafening microturbine
Florida company Apocalypse 6×6 has carved out an interesting niche for itself, taking the most offensively massive Yank tanks on the market, expanding them in all directions, adding more wheels and selling them for insane prices, presumably to the kind… Continue reading The Apocalypse Juggernaut: Your 850-hp 6×6 bro-mobile of the day
Battery-electric VTOL aircraft should do a superb job as short-range cross-town air taxis, but there are a whole lot of other trips they could handle quicker and more conveniently than existing transport options if they could just fly a bit further. Se… Continue reading New Rolls-Royce turbogenerator upgrades any eVTOL’s range and payload
A lot less technologically optimistic than the Hyperloop-TT Hyperport project, Cargo Sous Terrain looks considerably more likely to happen, with its first 10-stop, 70-km (43-mile) series of underground tunnels scheduled to begin taking cargo in 2031.Co… Continue reading Switzerland’s autonomous underground cargo system aims for 2031 debut
Tier-one auto parts supplier Mahle has announced a groundbreaking “superior continuous torque” (SCT) motor for electric vehicles, capable of continuously pounding out more than 90 percent of its peak power without overheating – and it’ll work without m… Continue reading Mahle’s new SCT electric motor runs non-stop at over 90% of peak power
Cleared for airworthiness, Air’s first full-scale eVTOL prototype has started flight testing. The Air One is an attractive two-seat manned multicopter with wings, designed for personal ownership and fun flight dynamics, with a US$150,000 price tag.Cont… Continue reading Israel’s Air One personal eVTOL begins full-scale flight testing
Last April, a hydrogen-powered ZeroAvia test plane lost power and crashed during flight tests. The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has now completed its investigation into the incident, and confirmed that the hydrogen system was not resp… Continue reading ZeroAvia crash investigation complete: It wasn’t the hydrogen
Beautifully designed, energy-generating bio-panels that suck up carbon dioxide and pump out biomass for use as fuel or fertilizer – that’s the idea behind Mexican startup Greenfluidics and its nanotech-enhanced microalgae bioreactor building panels.Con… Continue reading Algae biopanel windows make power, oxygen and biomass, and suck up CO2
The UK’s Reaction Engines has started a new test campaign to greatly expand the envelope on its high-mach propulsion technology, hoping to prove it can upgrade current jet engines to be capable of working from takeoff speeds up to Mach 4 and beyond.Con… Continue reading Reaction begins testing Mach 4 jet engine upgrades for US Air Force
A new Swedish “pre-drinking pill” went on sale in the UK today. Widely referred to as the “hangover pill,” the optimistically-named Myrkl is claimed to break down alcohol before it reaches the liver, preventing the formation of toxic acetaldehyde.Conti… Continue reading “Hangover pill” goes on sale in UK – but here’s the problem with Myrkl