Check out the aerial vehicle running on sunlight, but no battery.
link to research paper with aerial vehicle specs
intercst
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Since I’m not familiar with motors powered by static electricity I found a couple of videos.
It took 10,000 V to cause a lightweight plastic cup on an almost frictionless bearing to rotate. The power source was a Van de Graaf generator. The second video used a 15 kV high voltage source. There’s no circuit (it’s static electricity) so no way to calculate watts.
There’s almost no resistance as the static electric field operates through the air. Resistance would waste energy in a conventional wire-wrapped electric motor (V = IR). The static electric motor is 80% more efficient than conventional since it doesn’t have resistance. But high voltage could be an obstacle for practical applications.
Kinda cool if the engineers can work it out.
Wendy
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