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    Default 'Flying carpet' of conductive plastic takes flight

    'Flying carpet' of conductive plastic takes flight



    A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University.

    The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath.

    The prototype, described in Applied Physics Letters, moves at speeds of about a centimetre per second.

    Improvements to the design could raise that to as much as a metre per second.

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    Default Re: 'Flying carpet' of conductive plastic takes flight

    Combine them with tiny free energy power suply and we could use it for selfunpacking sandwitch wrapers!
    Best wishes and free energy to all
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    Default Re: 'Flying carpet' of conductive plastic takes flight

    Ali Baba and the 40 Al Qaeda suiside flying carpet bombers will launch a sneek attack on the whitehouse....


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