SkySpark - record 100% electric airplane

Volo record del velivolo SkySpark, primo velivolo elettrico ultraleggero ad elevate prestazioni in grado di superare i 250km/ora sul quale verrà installato un sistema di generazione elettrica a celle combustibile.
www.skyspark.eu
www.digisky.it

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• SkySpark
• idrogeno
• Maurizio Cheli
• DigiSky
• sfide
• volo
• collaudo
• Pioneer 300
• ULM
• experimental aircraft

[idjumdjum]

Excellent...!!!.. The way forward....good luck in your future developments....

[MisterSisterNW]

@themanwich212 ,100% of my power comes via Hydro and/or wind turbines. It doesn't matter to me where the power come from because using electric power is STILL more efficient. Any *decent* coal plant produces cleaner power than what comes out the exhaust of an aircraft engine burning 100LL..thus electric is cleaner.

Nobody I know of is claiming to be 100% green, but we can get pretty close. Solar, wind, thermal, hydroelectric...all sorts of clean(er) energy. Biodiesel could be used as well.

[themanwich212]

@MisterSisterNW Electricity doesn't come from nowhere dude, it still takes something BURNING to provide that power. So essentially, those electric vehicles are coal powered resulting in CO2, or nuclear powered resulting in nuclear waste, take your pick. I'm all over this plane, but there is no such thing as a 100% green society. At least until we get Fusion nuclear reactors.

[MisterSisterNW]

@themanwich212

Are you stupid or what? Do you not understand that it doesn't matter where the power comes from because we're compairing 25% efficient gas motors vs. 95% electric motors. You could get every watt you need from a coal power plant (or what ever "troll" dirty power source you choose) and the electric vehicle still comes out ahead.

It's not always about being green. Sometimes it's about emerging technology.

[toose70]

Looks like the Italian Pioneer 300. Electric aircraft still have a long way to go to be really useful. This same aircraft powered with a Rotax 912 100hp combustion engine, has a range of 6- 7hours carrying 2 people with 25kg luggage. I guess battery technology will eventually get there.

[mptrax]

Incredibly silent !

[themanwich212]

@freddytuber now don't forget where that electricity comes from

[14omega28ok]

@freddytuber I get called a "Redneck" and I completely support electric, and want an Electric Motorcycle! lol

[wolfeman28]

@kf4yno Same thing you do when a gas engine goes out. Glide.

[letour32rr]

@freddytuber Watch where you throw around the term redneck. I am one but have been keeping up with and contributing to electric transportation. However, I won't be jumping on an electric airplane soon until battery technology and electronic reliability is much improved. Electric cars just have to worry about getting stuck somewhere. If you use other electronics in flight more than you planned to, you might just fall too your death.