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ionic turbo
a turbo charger which uses ions to attract air | |
basically build a turbo charger with a set of rings which are ionized and attract air the only problem i think there would be is it might not have enough pressure and would use a lot of electricity cool concept ?
Ion Air Cannon from Exair
http://www.exair.co.../Ion+Air+Cannon.htm
Not close, but they would if they could. [baconbrain, Mar 31 2008]
Ionocraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft
produces thrust in air using electrical energy without moving parts [baconbrain, Mar 31 2008]
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Might wanna change the catagory. A few periods would be nice too. |
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Ahh, Great for when you turbo charge your nano-dragster. I suspect that if this worked, at the scale it would need to work, it would be the means of propulsion rather than an auxiliary. |
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Iconic turbo - a great big turbo mounted above the bonnet/hood, painted red and labelled "TURBO". |
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Welcome to the HB, but [-]: no
punctuation. |
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Also, have you made any estimate of the
flows, pressures, voltages, currents? No? |
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[dexhax] choose your category wisely... |
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Capital grrrr exclamation mark, Po. |
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wot? hmmm Po without the brackets, hee hee |
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OK, since you've been kind enough to
capitalize me. [P]o. |
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Sounds like magnetohydrodynamics ..... not practical in a dense atmoshere. |
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//with a set of rings which are ionized// How do you ionise rings?
Call that a turbo? (ironic turbo) |
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Ionized rings?
I think my ex-wifes wedding ring was positively ionized ...
It brought all her negative qualities to the surface. |
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I guess whether the pressure would be great enough depends on whether the wind coming off one of those ionic breeze air purifiers would be enough. I'm thinking not. |
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The closest thing to this that I know of is an Ion Air Cannon (link). It uses compressed air to blow ionized air around. I'd say that if they could make the ionized air move itself, they'd do it. |
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There is a little "UFO" object that uses ionization to move air for lift, but it's very small and uses lots of power. See link to Wikipedia. |
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"The Greeks made it long ago. It's an Ionic turbo." |
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I thought you said "Iconic Turbo" and imagined a large bronze statue - wondering all the while why the hell you'd bother. |
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Rather similar to this idea, actually. |
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The turbo only works for some people, and they have to concentrate really hard (psionic turbo). |
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The turbo looks great, costs a fortune and
makes the right noise, but isn't connected
to the engine (ironic turbo). |
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Or else it's a cross between an electric eel
and a plaice (ionic turbot). |
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Or else it's hand-cranked, and requires
superhuman effort to operate (bionic
turbo). |
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