Forget about hybrid cars hybrid aircraft is the God

Engineers are now very worried, after all, want to catch up on prior to the oil and other nonrenewable resources run out, find alternative energy sources, but they must be clean, in favour of sustainable development. Solar, wind and tidal power will have on stage.

Having said so, but in the new energy can complete responsibility, prior to achieving universal, we first need to transition to a hybrid energy. Now fashionable hybrid car using a traditional internal combustion engine and the electric motor as a power source, through a mix of two systems of heat and electricity to start the car. But scientists progress faster pace than we had expected, recent birth of the hybrid aircraft sounds pretty cool.

Boeing and a joint team of researchers at the University of Cambridge, has been successfully tested the world's first hybrid airplane engine. And more cool is that this plane can fly while charging.

Can see from the explosion as, the hybrid aircraft is more of a lightweight single seat aircraft, net weight of 140 kilograms (does not include pilots and fuel weight). It's smaller than a similar sized fuel-powered aircraft can reduce fuel consumption by nearly 30%.

Research team leader, Dr Paul Robertson of Cambridge University Engineering Department, "says hybrid cars more than 10 years have passed since the birth, but battery technology has become in the way hybrid and all-electric aircraft the biggest obstacles to development. But as lithium polymer battery technology improved, the study is still in its early stages, small hybrid aircraft has become feasible. "

Air hybrid engine uses a "Honda 7-kilowatt + 10-kilowatt four-stroke engine electric engine" combined, as are hybrids that can be achieved when a slow glide relies on low power supply motor.

Which motor you can switch between the two modes, to reduce fuel consumption as much as possible, for example, switching to the engine mode for charging the battery embedded in the wing at the same time.

Researchers in the United Kingdom near Northampton, Sywell Aerodrome was the test. First aircraft "flight" to test its takeoff and landing performance. Then they let the plane up to 460 meters height, and hoped that the aircraft can continue to achieve its breakthrough.

Robertson said that the aircraft gross weight for the actual requirements should not exceed 450 kilograms, but researchers plan to a commercial version of up to 10 minutes of flight time. Marcelo Burlon iPhone plus

via CNET

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