Comments by "" (@manofsan) on "Ziroth" channel.

Seems like a very interesting technology -- are there any other videos or articles on it, so that I can read more about it? Does the electric jet care what the air is made of? For instance, would an electric jet work in the CO2 atmosphere of Mars? What about the Ion Wind / Lifters that people used to make? How do they compare against this?
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@avolantyable but the whole point of the device is that it's an electric plasma engine, and doesn't use chemical combustion for power. So that means it could be atmosphere independent, just like a nuclear-electric rover is unaffected by the lack of oxygen atmosphere on the Moon or Mars.
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@adwaitmanjalkar8480 it's easier and cheaper to just burn the hydrogen, rather than convert their energy to electricity through fuel cells.
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@avolantyable sir, lightning doesn't involve combustion. It's a plasma arc effect. There is lightning on other planets having an atmosphere, including Mars, Venus, Jupiter, etc.
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Don Quarnstrom with enough power, you can use your jets to directly fight gravity, without the need for wings. Look at Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket -- it first started out with 4 turbojets. There's a Chinese company called NewSpace which also imitated that same approach.
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@Flyingwigs They say that ion wind lifters could be a future mode of flight. Main problem is the heavy weight of batteries, relative to their low energy. Maybe ion wind propulsion could be useful for long duration drones. Here are a couple of links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9yYu-ZM1S0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IorDYGI1uqc
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Seems like a very interesting technology -- are there any other videos or articles on it, so that I can read more about it? Does the electric jet care what the air is made of? For instance, would an electric jet work in the CO2 atmosphere of Mars? What about the Ion Wind / Lifters that people used to make? How do they compare against this?
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Seems like a very interesting technology -- are there any other videos or articles on it, so that I can read more about it? Does the electric jet care what the air is made of? For instance, would an electric jet work in the CO2 atmosphere of Mars? What about the Ion Wind / Lifters that people used to make? How do they compare against this?
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I've seen that modern laptops have something called "vapor chamber" cooling. How does that compare to the oil cooling for this motor?
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@Ck Tha God are you referring to DuFour Aerospace? There are a couple of vids about them on Youtube, though not from this particular channel.
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@avolantyable but maybe you could use a nuclear reactor to power the electric plasma jet, and then it could run indefinitely (or until the parts wear out). The plasma jet could be used as part of a nuclear-powered aerospace vehicle which could even go to space. The jet would operate during the atmospheric portion of the flight, and then a pure rocket mode during the space portion of the flight.
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@avolantyable it may be hard to do on Earth, but it might be possible to use nuclear power for transportation on Mars. We already have nuclear powered rovers rolling around on the Martian surface, so we might be able to have nuclear-powered hoppers on the Martian surface, which use jet-propulsion for short hops.
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@avolantyable there is nothing in air to combust. There is no fuel put into the electric plasma jet, therefore there is nothing for the air to combust with. There is no combustion reaction going on there.
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@avolantyable combustion requires something for air to combust with. What is that something you're referring to? Because there is nothing else in the air to do this. This is not a combustion reaction.
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@DataDownLynk I'm wondering if some ram-scoop idea would work. Think of scramjets -- they typically operate in the upper atmosphere at high mach numbers, where the air is thin.
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@DataDownLynk you seem to be thinking of a ramjet, which operates on combustion and thus requires sufficient velocity to maintain pressure from the flowstream for proper combustion. This electric plasma jet doesn't operate on combustion and therefore doesn't require any of that. It's similar to an arc-jet.
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