Earlier this week NASA published its findings on the performance of the experimental Emdrive engine. They concluded that it does generate a small amount of thrust despite the fact that there is nothing coming out the back to push it. If this can be verified by other labs we could be looking at a new more efficient space motor and forced to rethink physics as a whole.
More on the implications for physics Here
Dick Tracy knew it all along
Sandia National Labs has been playing with Radio Frequency (RF) Resonant Cavity Thruster technology for about 10 years. Probably because they get free access to Area 51.LOL. NASA should go talk to them. We were making some parts for them back in the day on that project.
Rename it the democrat engine. Scorch the earth looking for a reaction and not a peep.
Hey don’t forget, we had cold fusion for awhile in the late 80’s too.
Hey, why don’t they just send in 20 bucks to all those guys out there advertising their gee-whiz gizmos that are driving the electric companies crazy? Sheesh. Damn gummit. Do I have to think of everything.
I just want the X-ray specs that I ordered about 1965….
“…a new more efficient space motor…”
It’s not really about efficiency, it’s about practicality. What makes this motor interesting is that all it takes is electrical energy but no fuel in the normal sense of the word. A craft using this technology would not have to carry around a relatively large reaction mass and have to accelerate it with every course change. That’s a big Biden deal.
A small correction, Dr Tar:
They DID say, “it does generate a small amount of thrust despite the fact that there is nothing coming out the back to push it”
but I’m pretty sure you meant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo
EmCDrive.
Lazlo is enthused.
It may not be the holy grail of space travel, but it may be a look into the room it is stored in. It may achieve thrust by interacting somehow with non baryon matter and draw thrust out of empty space.
Or a bad cable in the testing equipment.
Either way there is interest drawing mathematicians, physicists and others into the arena and they are bringing their skepticism and curiosity with them.
So, they will spend millions studying this while ignoring a proven energy source and practical method of harnessing it – thorium and the molten salt reactor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyDbq5HRs0o
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knofNX7HCbg
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It’s a gizmo designed to generate public acceptance of massive government funding.
The problem with measuring forces this low is that you can’t differentiate the reading from the background noise.
Open another hole in the ground and just pour in money, that’s what this is all about.
It’s probably not the key to full Warp Drive.
But maybe it’s a step towards Impulse Drive, at the ‘low” setting.
And with this, they can finally cure global warming! lol
Jethro,
These guys are all over it.
http://cannae.com
I have a list of people I would like to see abord the first passenger carrying test flight. Harry Reid I sent in my Top 10.
I hear Samsung has some storage cells for sale.
It cud be working thought beams … really … I’ve found that if I concnetreate real hard, I can fart! Not nuff to propellar me into the future, or nuthin, but enuf to be heard and smelt.
Well, it’s about time they reverse engineered those alien flying saucers at Area 51.