Much has been made of the algorithmic advances in storage battery technology in recent years, but there’s another way to create quantum efficiency improvements — rethink the device which consumes the battery’s energy. A brilliant Texas father and son team formulated the Hunstable Energy Turbine (HET) and did just that (2min 33sec):
Every aspect of the common electric motor as we know it today went under scrutiny. Just one example — multiple rotors inside a single housing. What’s a rotor?
A windmill has a rotor, and this VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) has lots of them (12). Each one adds weight, but each one of them delivers slightly more power to the vehicle than it detracts by its own added weight. Still, this scenario could be more efficient — maybe we could somehow include more rotors within the motor casing itself? Linear Labs took the Hunstable’s idea and did just that by incorporating four rotors in the motor casing. And that was just the start (1min 58sec):
A design such as this is dependant upon high precision guidance electronics, which can respond to the microsecond timing necessary for optimization and the prevention of motor stall-out. It’s so efficient, it can even tax its own digital circuitry. Why is this motor revolutionary?
This radical electric motor redesign has been met with wide universal acceptance. The numerous and overwhelming advantages are so apparent that it’s a technology which is far beyond the 20th century motor technology in current use today. Advanced motor innovation such as this can also mean that widespread adoption of electric vehicle technology can come about much sooner due to its greater inherent simplicity. Brad Hunstable is the recipient of the 2017 The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business Entrepreneur and Innovation Alumni Award.
There is every indication that the HET will henceforth serve as the foundation for all major electric motors. There is a high likelihood that the Linear Labs HET will be the motor of the world. It’s a good time to be alive.
UPDATE: There’s a call in the comments for more testing, which is reasonable of course. I’ve responded to that suggestion, also in the comments, and there’s apparently a testing regimen in the works. A scooter powered by such an HET is planned for next year (2020), and the test we’re probably looking forward to the most — a street vehicle powered by an HET — is in the plans for 2021.
A rendition of the scooter can be found, actually, on Linear Labs’ website.
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