Vehicle: Aircraft: Balloon
LTA Battery   (+2)  [vote for, against]
Lighter than air electric battery

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]

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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