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Re: Question about power capacity of electrical motors.

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics.electromag, sci.electronics.design, sci.physics
Subject Re: Question about power capacity of electrical motors.
Date 2017-07-21 19:30 +0000
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In sci.physics.electromag rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote on 7/21/2017 2:05 PM:
>> In sci.physics.electromag rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote on 7/21/2017 1:07 PM:
>>>> In sci.physics.electromag rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote on 7/21/2017 11:24 AM:
>>>>>> In sci.physics.electromag rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote on 7/15/2017 3:19 PM:
>>>>>>>> In sci.physics.electromag Piglet <erichpwagner@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 15/07/2017 19:31, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The problem with electric airplanes is the lack of a power source that is
>>>>>>>>>> comparable to gasoline or jet fuel not the weight of electric motors.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Solar cells work so long as you stay above the cloud and keep to the lit
>>>>>>>>> hemisphere!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> piglet
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Only for powered sailplanes otherwise the area available to collect energy
>>>>>>>> is too small to meet power requirements.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So you are saying the only aircraft that can be powered by solar cells are
>>>>>>> the ones that can be powered by solar cells?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What point are you trying to make?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you would read the post for understanding, you would know that I am
>>>>>> saying only sailplanes have enough surface area to collect enough energy
>>>>>> to keep themselves in the air.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For the vast majority of airplanes the available surface area is too small
>>>>>> to provide the energy the airplace requires to remain airborne.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You do know that the amount of solar energy available is limited by the
>>>>>> solar irradiance, which is apporximately 1 kM/m^2 at noon on a clear
>>>>>> day, don't you?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know that a sailplane is a glider which the solar powered planes are *not*.
>>>>
>>>> There are powered sailplanes, also known as motor gliders.
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_glider
>>>>
>>>>> I know that you haven't made a point about the solar powered plane.  It is
>>>>> constructed like a glider, so what?  Have you seen pictures of the Wright
>>>>> brothers plane?
>>>>
>>>> You still don't get it do you, or are you being dense on purpose just to argue?
>>>
>>> Just waiting for you to actually *say* something.
>>
>> Yeah, right.
>>
>>>> There is some minimum amount of power required to keep an airplane flying.
>>>>
>>>> Powered sailplanes require very little power to keep flying and have wings
>>>> with a very large surface area, therefore it is practical to have a solar
>>>> powered sailplane.
>>>>
>>>> A common airplane such as a Cessna 172 does not have enough wing area to
>>>> collect enough energy to fly, therefore it is not practical to have a
>>>> solar powered Cessna 172.
>>>
>>> So???  I'm still waiting for you to say something significant about this.
>>> It's also not practical to launch a Cessna 172 to the moon.  SO WHAT?
>>
>> So solar powered airplanes other than motor gliders are not practical.
>>
>> Attempts to drag in red herrings about the Wright Brothers and the Moon
>> noted.
>>
>>> Solar powered planes exist and have flown around the world.  Unlike gas
>>> powered or jet engines they can stay up for days as they don't need to be
>>> refueled after six hours or so.  They fly well above the weather and collect
>>> sun all day and continue to fly at night using batteries and altitude
>>> accumulated during the day.
>>
>> All of those are motor gliders, thus proving my point.
> 
> I've never disputed these planes are like gliders.  I'm asking why this is 
> significant???

As has been said many times now, because gliders require very little power
to remain airborne.

And that is very little in both relative and absolute terms.

<snip nonsense>

-- 
Jim Pennino

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