Okay... Everyone here probably heard by now of the Avro case, the famous canadian plane and source of conspiration theories at times...
But we had in Quebec a recent one, the 90s.... Hydro-Quebec (a subsidiary, it seems) developed a supposedly 'revolutionary' motor-wheel, who was not used a lot.... It spurned many discussions, and similar conspiration theories about how 'the car/petroleum industry tried to suppress it'... A recent documentary spoke of it, here.
So.. thread. What if it was adopted by the industry? WOULD and COULD it have been adopted, was it actually overrated and not so good or as revolutionary as claimed?
And in general, not just this case, was this very idea feasable as common tech, usefull good?
But we had in Quebec a recent one, the 90s.... Hydro-Quebec (a subsidiary, it seems) developed a supposedly 'revolutionary' motor-wheel, who was not used a lot.... It spurned many discussions, and similar conspiration theories about how 'the car/petroleum industry tried to suppress it'... A recent documentary spoke of it, here.
So.. thread. What if it was adopted by the industry? WOULD and COULD it have been adopted, was it actually overrated and not so good or as revolutionary as claimed?
And in general, not just this case, was this very idea feasable as common tech, usefull good?