{"id":169421,"date":"2023-08-10T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/high-voltage-ion-engines-take-trip-on-the-high-seas"},"modified":"2023-08-10T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:35:33","slug":"high-voltage-ion-engines-take-trip-on-the-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/high-voltage-ion-engines-take-trip-on-the-high-seas","title":{"rendered":"High Voltage Ion Engines Take Trip On The High Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-voltage-ion-engines-take-trip-on-the-high-seas2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last several months, we\u2019ve been enjoying a front-row seat as [Jay Bowles] of <em>Plasma Channel<\/em> has been developing and perfecting his design for a high voltage multi-stage ionic thruster. With each installment, the unit has become smaller, lighter, and more powerful. Which is important, as the ultimate goal is to power an RC aircraft with them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2RTGv-p-xxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still plenty of work to be done before [Jay] will be able to take his creation skyward, but he\u2019s making all the right moves. As a step towards his goal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2RTGv-p-xxY\" target=\"_blank\">he recently teamed up with [RcTestFlight]<\/a> to attach a pair of his thrusters \u2014 which have again been further tweaked and refined since we last saw them \u2014 to a custom catamaran hull. The result is a futuristic craft that skims across the water with no moving parts and no noise\u2026if you don\u2019t count the occasional stray arc from the 40,000 volts screaming through its experimental thrusters, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We were particularly impressed to see the boat doesn\u2019t use rudders, and instead relies on differential thrust between the two ion engines to turn. It was the more difficult approach to be sure, but as [Jay] explained it to us, the goal from the very start was to completely eliminate any moving components from the powertrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several months, we\u2019ve been enjoying a front-row seat as [Jay Bowles] of Plasma Channel has been developing and perfecting his design for a high voltage multi-stage ionic thruster. With each installment, the unit has become smaller, lighter, and more powerful. Which is important, as the ultimate goal is to power an RC [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}