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by incomingpain 747 days ago
Stocks most likely, I kind of wish I knew how to start a business.

Here's my crazy idea that there's 0% chance of me starting.

General Aviation plane. It will look an awful lot like a B2 bomber. Rooftop solar panels on the top surface, this baby is parking outside.

2 EDF sourced out of the automotive crate engine options. Chevy bolt supplychain probably? Aiming for 400-600kw combined.

2 battery packs and speed control. You have a lever which picks 1 or the other battery pack. Solar charges the one not being used by the motors.

Everything is redundant. Who doesn't want to own this already?

But it would be a more advanced GA plane, retracting gear, twin engine, etc. Most likely a 02 bottle system and not pressurized. Probably limiting it to below 18,000feet.

The purpose? Not only will the bomber be able to manage the weight of 2 car battery packs, it also carries food to remote places. Food scarcity in the far north of Canada for example is it's purpose. It would have hundreds of km range, it can get high no problem.

The key problem would be runway, it likely requires a rather massive runway. especially when it has ~20,000lbs of food in its bomb bay.

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> I kind of wish I knew how to start a business.

No need to wish. Starting a business is a learnable skill, and you can learn it from any of a huge number of resources. It isn't even that complex.

It's just a whole lot more work than you probably expect, even if you expect it to be a lot of work. But you get all the rewards of it, rather than being underpaid as an employee (all employees are underpaid in the sense that they have to generate more money for the business than they cost, or hiring doesn't pencil out.)

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will pay you to build theirs."