i think it would be a great idea if the aircraft engineers could figure out away to use laser and fiber optics to transport electricity from place to an other instead of billions of wires ! the aicraft would weight way less, and it would take less fuel to operate them. and gravity would have least impact on them.
2007-11-06 03:51:45 · 3 answers · asked by kimele 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
i know it would cost a lot of money to build such a type of aircraft, but in the long run, more money would be saved.
2007-11-06 03:53:59 · update #1
since an airplane is such a tight place, it would definitely be more convenient, and with technology, now adays, more things are possible.
2007-11-06 03:55:58 · update #2
With the current state-of-the-art it is only possible to transport small amounts of power (in the 0.1 to 1 Watt range) via fiber optics. At least that's the way it was a decade ago -- perhaps there have been some breakthroughs in the past 10 years that allow for transporting power in the 1 to 10 Watt range.
Even so, 10 Watts is still far too low to be useful in an aircraft, where some pumps and actuators require 10 times or even 100 times that power level.
What you propose will probably happen, someday, when that technology matures a bit more.
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2007-11-06 04:09:51 · answer #1 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may desire to state the query clearer. the actuality is that utilizing metallic wiring for electric transmission is a strategies extra valuable by way of metals low resistance. photovoltaic gadget have not reached over 40% performance (final piece of suggestion I heard). and with fiber optic cabling the sunshine ability is dwindled a strategies quicker than the flexibility in metallic wiring. the actuality is it very unfeasible by way of fact of value of fiber optics and photovoltaic, and the the very low performance of the gadget. the ingredient with prompt ability nevertheless EMF is that except the antenna is unidirectional the flexibility is being radiated in all areas making it very inefficient. additionally the concern with that's it extremely is going to fry any digital with the antenna tuned to the comparable frequency. i'm hoping this helps extremely if solutions any of you questions in any respect
2017-01-05 00:57:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The conversion from electricity to light and back is highly inefficient.
2007-11-06 04:09:24 · answer #3 · answered by edward 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋