{"id":104777,"date":"2009-12-11T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2009:\/\/1.2067"},"modified":"2009-12-11T07:28:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:28:50","slug":"fuel-cell-powered-planes-a-possibliity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/104777","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Cell Powered Planes a Possibliity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another example of military technology that will have significant civilian benefit &#8230; in this case fuel cell powered unmanned drones (very small planes).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ion Tiger is small prop driven plane that promises to carry a five pound payload and stay aloft for more than 24 hours &#8230; power source is series of hydrogen fuel cells that crank out 500 watt &#8230; power the three quarter horsepower prop motor &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Oct. 9-10, the 37-pound Ion Tiger stayed aloft for 23 hours and 17 minutes at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, just missing its 24 hour goal &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; advantages to a hydrogen-powered craft like Ion Tiger &#8230; cheaper and fuel (water!) and zero emissions assuming the hydrogen comes from a non-polluting source &#8230; biggest advantage is the absence of heat and noise generated by an internal combustion engine which makes the Ion Tiger is hard to detect. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the viedo below &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V6WGb003R9M&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/V6WGb003R9M&#038;color1=0x234900&#038;color2=0x4e9e00&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><b>Via:<\/b>  SmartPlanet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/technology\/blog\/thinking-tech\/hydrogen-powered-drone-stays-aloft-for-a-day\/2179\/\" > LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another example of military technology that will have significant civilian benefit &#8230; in this case fuel cell powered unmanned drones (very small planes). &#8220;The Ion Tiger is small prop driven plane that promises to carry a five pound payload and stay aloft for more than 24 hours &#8230; power source is series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}