• rethnor@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    I’ve never really understood this multiplayer thing, sounds like a free energy gimmick. You can move more mass at the same speed without putting in more power.

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      4 hours ago

      Basically they’re trying to claim that the Bernoulli principle is some amazing concept that only they’ve come up with.

      Their fans do work in the sense they do move more air but it creates so much back pressure that most of that air movement is lost. So you might as well not bother.

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      6 hours ago

      maybe it works kind of like how water works. Water also sticks to itself, like how separate droplets combine very fast when close enough.

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        4 hours ago

        Well in fluid dynamics you don’t really make the distinction between liquid and gas. You can model air as basically just a very low viscosity fluid and it works. No one really knows why it works because it shouldn’t, air doesn’t stick to itself, but if you pretend that it does the simulations still work, even though they’re wrong.

        If you look in most physics textbooks even at quite a high level they will tell you that aircraft fly because air sticks to itself, but again, it doesn’t. No one is quite sure why aircraft work, no one’s all that certain where the lift comes from. But physics textbooks hate to admit that so they just pretend that air sticks to itself.

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      10 hours ago

      You’re basically trading energy to move higher volume of air. The fan can move smaller amount of air at higher speed, but larger amount at a gentle breeze feels nicer and helps with circulating the air in the room better.

      You could achieve it by taking that exact motor and slapping a bigger fan onto it, but that looks less cool and probably produces more noise? Maybe there’s some efficiency differences if the motor is better at spinning fast, but as a spherical cow in vacuum it should be similar.