TeraDrone

Outstanding heavy load transportation airship

The TeraDrone is a strong contributor to the green globalization.

Its characteristics are the following

All weather
All terrain
No hangar needed for parking
Zero emission
hydrogen filled
fully dronized (100% autonomous)
100 to 1,000 tons payload with point to point transportation
Max altitude 7,000 m
Max Speed 150 km/h
transportation cost of 0.1 €/t.km

No place in the world is unattainable. Many applications are possible from goods transportation, through flying hospitals, fighting against forest fires, ensuring the security of borders, disenclaving remote populations, rescue up to a green fully silent zero-footprint aerial metro in megacities

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Stratospheric Platform

The disruptive concept of a high international supersonic airport

While humankind is desperatly trying to decrease its emissions the first idea that comes to mind, concerning aviation, is to fly lower and slower

WARPA has worked out a concept which allows flying much higher, much quicker and consuming less

Our concept is the following

Let us consider a tethered platform at 40 km altitude
The passenger board on ground in a small 50 pax high supersonic plane
The plane is put into a lift which climbs at 80 km/h
Upon arrival, the platform is used for the purpose of being a runway
When the plane leaves the platform it is already at Mach 1
It dives, using gravitation to accelerate until Mach 3.2 and reach 30 km altitude
This is the cruise altitude
Since the density of air is very small, the consumption is low while we are flying fast
The plane then lands on a normal airport
Since the plane is small, the shock wave does not reach the ground hence the possibility of flying anywhere

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X-Works

Disruptive science

There is a belief, worldwide, by the engineers, that in order to propel a spacecraft, it is necessary to reject matter outside. This belief is based on Newton's third law. However, this is a bad interpretation of this law.

WARPA has been able to find a way not to reject any matter outside the spacecraft, while generating a substantial thrust. This needed to develop a treasure of fine understanding of deep physics and led to a patent

Thanks to this discovery, we can provide the following

Trips to Mars will last 1 week only and Jupiter is at 1 month
Proxima Centauri, with a 300 kg probe is only at 18 years, passing by at c/2
The lifetime of satellites is brought to about 30 years against 15 years for the one in geostationary orbit and 5 years for low earth orbits
The orbit and plane of orbit change are for free
Once the life of a satellite is over, it can be de-orbited to burn in the atmosphere or even better, it can be recycled in a specific space station, decreasing the footprint to zero
This engine also allows to decrease the initial impulse given by the launcher hence decreasing also the launcher ecological footprint

TAG

Green electricity generation

Electricity is not a primary energy source, it needs to be produced. Today the different means are more or less efficient to do this, generally about 30%The TAG has a minimum efficiency of 50%, fuel-to-electricity. Its practical asymptote is about 65% .It works this way: a heat source (e.g., a burner) is brought into the TAG with heatpipes, the heat is transformed into sound and the sound into electricity.

Its main characteristics are the following (the figures have been measured)

Low outside noise (40 dB)
Very high reliability (MTBF=200,000h)
Very high specific power (>1 kWe/kg)
Easily adaptable to all vehicles (cars, ships, planes)
Power range from 0 to 500 kWe
Multi fuel capability
Zero emission capability

This generator will be part of the TeraDrone which will need 40 such units at 50 kWe. We are at TRL6.