Chalo said:
liveforphysics said:
Go electric of you want it to be quick. 140lbs of thrust is a pretty mellow ebike. They get pretty intense around the 500lbs of thrust range.
Thing about a reaction jet is that it keeps having the same thrust as speed increases,
Agreed, but with only 130lbs of force to push air it will rather quickly plateau under 100mph after some fairly dull acceleration leading up to it's balanced drag/thrust point. To do this dull run it will take 10's of minutes of preparation to get the engines lit, it will stink and be obnoxiously loud as it's occurring, cost Kerosene and spraying partially combusted hydrocarbons into the life support system, and the throttle response will feel terrible during it's mediocre performance run.
The same cost put into an ebike should be able to accelerate many times harder up to higher top speed, have instant response, be silent, and possible to use to hoon through cities and trails with.
If you're going to go through the hassles of something you would only use a couple of times to make a video, at least go for 8 of those turbines if you're going to make a big stinky loud contraption so the performance makes it appealing in at least some aspect.
