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To: Red Badger

you do realize electric motors still get hot


10 posted on 06/27/2024 7:05:49 AM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: al baby

Lot’s of cooling air at 50,000+ feet.................


11 posted on 06/27/2024 7:07:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: al baby
"you do realize electric motors still get hot"

You obviously don't realize how piddling "hot" electric motors are compared to jet engines. The burning fuel in the combustion can of a jet engine gets as hot as 3600°F, and the exhaust gas at the engine exit (which is completely visible in ordinary a/c) can be 1000°F.

Show me your electric motor that can match those numbers.

Regardless, the temperature of the engine itself is irrelevant compared to the heat of its exhaust gasses because the a/c's skin can be shielded from the engine's heat, but there's no getting around the fact that at some point you've got dump the jet engine's 1000° exhaust overboard.

And that's a dramatically bigger ask than disguising anything coming off an electric motor.

The XRQ-73's only "visible" sources of heat will be the air getting heated as it passes through the ducted propulsion fans, and the heating of the a/c's skin from aerodynamic drag.

13 posted on 06/27/2024 8:50:52 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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