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Who says they have to use battery tech? On a human scale drone I'm sure they could find room for a gas tank.
by spollock 12y ago
Who says they have to use battery tech? On a human scale drone I'm sure they could find room for a gas tank.
- maaaats 12y agoFor a quadcopter you need very fine control of the rotors, making a combustion engine hard to use. So then you will need to do combustion -> dynamo -> electricity -> electric motor. A helicopter is controlled in a completely different way.
- rebootthesystem 12y agoLarger multicopters are free to use alternative control methods. The method used in toy multicopters is both inexpensive and cheap yet other options do exist.