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MIT proof-of-concept demo of ionic wind propulsion for aircraft

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The aircraft has no moving parts, does not depend on fossil fuels to fly, and is completely silent. Most have been powered by fossil-fuel combustion. Further out, he envisions ion propulsion paired with more conventional combustion systems to create more fuel-efficient, hybrid passenger planes and other large aircraft.

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MIT team outlines path to low-cost solar-to-fuels devices; the artificial leaf

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A team of researchers at MIT has described a framework for efficiently coupling the power output of a series-connected string of single-band-gap solar cells to an electrochemical process that produces storable fuels. of sunlight into fuel. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) —Winkler et al.

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