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To: Flavius
"wow guess you did not get to the part where they are having batteries and armored skeletons"

No, dear boy---that's what the WANT, not what they have. This fiasco suffers from the same problem that electric cars do--batteries don't hold sufficient energy to get the job done. The only place I see this as being practical is for handling cargo, where the exoskeleton can be hooked up to "wall power".

16 posted on 11/23/2007 8:57:03 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Wonder Warthog

yup no now is working on batteries

at all


18 posted on 11/23/2007 8:58:32 AM PST by Flavius
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To: Wonder Warthog

also i forgot to add i agree with you on batteries but i just belive its matter of time


21 posted on 11/23/2007 9:05:05 AM PST by Flavius
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To: Wonder Warthog

Every time something new pops up on Fr, posts like yours appear, saying it would never work.

I remember 3-4 years ago, when articles about hybred cars and electric cars first started , it was about 80% saying it would never happen. Look at todday, with hybreds actually in commercial production.

This is obviously an R&D project, coming off the drawing board and in the prototype stage.

....Bob


26 posted on 11/23/2007 9:13:08 AM PST by Lokibob (Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

You haven’t been following the advances in battery power.

With the exoskelton, a rather large battery could be carried.


27 posted on 11/23/2007 9:20:00 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Wonder Warthog
WHo the he11 cares about batteries??

With the muscle power afforded by the exoskeleton, they could strap a gasoline generator to your back and a gas tank too. You could still run 4 minute miles with all that luggage on your back.

Now, I remember some crazy guy building a suit of armor that was supposedly “grizzly proof”. If they could combine the grizzly armor with the exoskeleton, they would really have something.

32 posted on 11/23/2007 9:36:27 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Wonder Warthog

How about a small turbine powering up hydraulics? Even a small 2 cycle engine could provide enough power.


77 posted on 11/23/2007 2:12:52 PM PST by darth
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