For you guys that are really on the forefront of new aircraft design, like perhpaps an airplane powered by batteries, ie an electric airplane. A few have already flown and maybe more to come and develop into more useful performance and not just a novelty.
Now here may be the next step.
What if you could power the charging or those batteries by a new source, a new type of electricty? Not solar or nuclear, not gas or coal fired.
There is a new company are at least a new company proposed called SEFE, inc. stock symbol SEFE on over the counter trading.
The company proposed to get electricity from static electric charges in the atmosphere. They would send a balloon aloft with a black box and a wire to capture the electricity and send it to the ground and to the grid.
The claim cost per kw/hr is .20 for solar, .14 for nuclear, .07 for wind, and only .03 cents for SEFE.
So this ought to be far out enough for most EAA experimental folks.
I do NOT recomend this for anyone to buy in any way. Just take a look at it and think of the idea. And I'd wear a good pair of rubber boots around any source of electricity. I have no other knowledge of the company, the stock, or the process, and I have no financial interest in this at all.