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1 month agoThis MG Concept Car Uses MIT's Ionic Propulsion Instead of an Engine - Yanko Design
Remember when MIT flew that tiny airplane using nothing but ionic wind back in 2018? Steven Barrett and his team managed to get their 2.45-kilogram craft airborne for 60 meters using electroaerodynamic propulsion, basically ionizing air molecules and pushing them backward to create thrust. The plane looked like a weird skeletal kite with a bunch of thin wires, hardly the stuff of sci-fi dreams, but it proved that you could move through air without any moving parts, fuel, or exhaust.