why cant we just add more blades to propellers and rotors to increase thrust?

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why cant we just add more blades to propellers and rotors to increase thrust?

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Well presumably it would add load to the motor and interfere with the airflow of the other blades and thus diminish returns. There’s a happy medium to be found and engineers are good at determining that and what we see is generally optimized.

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