you need insane power and energy density and you need a lot of reaction area to be efficient; so part of the challenge is structural, in wing design. but actually materials and additive manufacturing and composites have gotten orders of magnitude better than even natural wings
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then there’s the challenge of energy and power density, but i think these can be solved.
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thin film power electronics and energy transformation processes can be extremely efficient if voltage matched somehow. the recent effort of hydrogen production from two solar cells stacked up voltage wise proves this.
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the power density of high end semiconductors can be amazing. even radiative cooling works.
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Modular components to limit manufacturing imperfection affecting the overall board.
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totally critical. the issue is routing up efforts, so they add correctly
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Look at them as individuals part of a collective then. Limit output from each, digitally, as we've already done with hyper virtualization
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maybe; but i’d prefer something that could almost always add somehow, usefully. it’s worth being efficient with energy
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but if you can actually switch something *off* it’s ok to let parts of the circuit go unused, better usually to save capacity
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this is speculation about a principle, really. ultimately you make a thing with what you can. i wish people understood how great it is to go through manhattan on an ebike already, and how it is like you are flying, and how valuable more power would be.
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all of the best ebikes right now, apparently, are built in part by by those that ride them
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