Electrostatic Motors

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How Electrostatic Motors are Breaking All the Rules

Your typical YouTube video: look at this amazing idea that'll revolutionise the world! And then you never hear of it again

What struck me as interesting though, go to ~4:50 where they animate a cutaway electrostatic motor. Kind of reminds me of a clutch pack! I'm wondering if you could have an electrostatic clutch, would obviously suit an EV bike Quick google search...

High-performance electroadhesive clutches with multilayered architecture

Wow! Someone's already thought of it but only a recent thing. Electrostatics might be a technology worth keeping an eye on
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[The Artist]

I specify industrial motors and gearboxes regularly and would lose my job if I ever proposed something with 65% efficiency.

We can achieve 85%-90% for most applications using regular induction motors and gearboxes using off the shelf products.

They seem proud that their supposed replacement industrial motor ran for 12 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 2 months. This is a tiny fraction of what industrial motors run and it is so rare to have issues in the first few years of 24/7 operation, so long as bearings are greased correctly.

Also the one model they have looks physically huge for the power output.

I have looked at their website and there is no torque specification listed anywhere. Just a vague comment saying "up to 10x Nm/kg of traditional motors".

Overall, it seems like marketing wank unless they list actual specifications and costs.

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i have electrostatic headphones. how ahead of the curve am i
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[The Artist]