Solar Roadways

[cr0ft]

I think it would be more towards leaning having better battery and power technology. All these things have the ability to generate lift, but not enough to last a while.

A lot of researchers in a lot of places have worked very hard for a long time to come up with better ways to store energy, and they're making progress - but to create the kind of wonder battery replacement personal flight would require we're talking science fiction. Plus, even if we had it we'd still need some sort of propellers and electric engines to use it, which would make it impractical anyway. Flight is just very energy-expensive compared to staying on the ground, and I don't think we'll be doing nearly as much flying into the future - unless we come up with something like those super-batteries and antigravity. Which are both completely fictional at the moment, unfortunately.

You can doubt it all you want. Set the aquarium outside on a snowy day and see what happens to the fish. 15wh is abut 50 btu's. A btu is a unit of heat. For comparison only... A lit wooden match will produce ~1 btu. In perspective, 50 wooden matches (50 btu's) per hour would not keep the water warm. Hope this helps.

Yes, but we're not talking about an aquarium in a snowstorm, we're talking about a fairly small and light pane of glass (comparatively). I still think your calculations for half a kilowatt per pane just to keep them slightly above freezing is ludicrously over the top. If the energy requirements were anything like that then the people suggesting these would never have gotten any funding by anyone.

 

[cr0ft]

Cheaper to move to a country with a proper climate you blokes.....'nuf said.

Naah, we just have to abolish roads and build elevated maglev rail everywhere. That would royally suck for us riders, but logically it's the best way to go.