From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Aug 20 1999 - 17:52:15 MDT
hal@finney.org writes:
> But jetpacks only last 30 seconds. The fuel is not energetic enough.
> And adding more fuel adds weight. It is questionable whether these can
> ever work.
An array of MEMS microturbines should be able to go a lot longer than
just 30 s. Difficult to predict how silent (or loud) such a thing
would be.
And, of course, things look even better with nano. (However, if you
have nano good enough to do a jetpack, there are no monkeys left to
lift which somewhat defies the purpose).
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