Emdrive

Hi,

I'm skeptical too. It would be neat if it were true.
But then again all my work on a Space Gas Station
would be for naught...

This sort of reminds me of an article by Dr.Alexander
Bolonkin, 3 or 4 or 5 or so years ago in Jour. of
Brit. Interplanetary Soc. (JBIS) on using light for
space propulsion. In his article however, he didn't
settle on a single reflection, as a Solar-Sail might
enjoy. But he went on to describe a system of mirrors
and lenses that would reflect the light beam back and
forth 10s of thousands of times, extracting all of
it's energy. Admittedly, it's not my field, but
having a bachelor's in Physics, I could just barely
follow along. I wonder if this microwave device is
reflecting microwaves off of something out there, or
down here? A very high-Q copper cone, could indicate
one end of such a system???

Dave Handwerk

> Ummm, photon drive. Highest theoretical specific
> impulse possible but unless he's figuered out a way
> to
> convert one form of energy(from solar cells) to
> another with nearly 100% efficiency, it's not likely
> to be any better than a solar sail,,,
>
> On the other hand maybe he's stumbled upon some
> interaction between micro waves and the solar
> magnetic
> field, or something.
>
> I'm skeptical!
>
> GAry 7
>
> > > I found it:
> >
http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/9657/No-propellant-drive-prepares-for-space-and-beyond.aspx