Is the Double Channel Wing Design an Improvement?

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Can anyone take a look at the following video, and then look at the attached drawing, and tell me: Why shouldn't the design described in the drawing, improve upon the channel wing lifting force?

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One way or another, the air has to be directed downward to produce lift. Blowing it horizontally over/across a wing is a really inefficient way to do that (sucking it over the wing is even worse)...as the results in the video show, with the thrust produced being about 5x the lift produced.
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Can anyone take a look at the following video, and then look at the attached drawing, and tell me: Why shouldn't the design described in the drawing, improve upon the channel wing lifting force?
I'm sure it would -- but you should be able to predict how much of an improvement based on the results in the youtube video, and show yourself why it is still a really bad idea.
 
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