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LTA Battery

Lighter than air electric battery
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positive and negative ion gas kept apart physically distant from each other, connected with conductive wire to propel LTA vehicles with a LTA inflated electric motor (supplied separately)
pashute, Oct 18 2014

https://technologyg...nsulation_08web.pdf [pashute, Oct 19 2014]


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       For your lta motor, Howabout a piece of nitenol wire that springs and flexes back, driving a fishtail?
RayfordSteele, Oct 19 2014
  

       The LTA motor works with ion gas bags as the rotor and stator.
pashute, Oct 19 2014
  

       //positive and negative ion gas kept apart physically //   

       So, this is a capacitor rather than a battery.
MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 19 2014
  

       // ion gas bag //   

       Please do explain the containment system that stops the ions grounding on the container wall ...
8th of 7, Oct 19 2014
  

       explained by NASA [link]
pashute, Oct 19 2014
  


 

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