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Propellant-less electric spacecraft engine?
« on: January 27, 2021, 01:32:03 pm »
Don’t know whether this belongs in dodgy technology or not. It’s way beyond me.
 
https://electricspacecraft.org/index.html
 

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Re: Propellant-less electric spacecraft engine?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2021, 03:35:02 pm »
What's with their obsession with elephants?

Edit: look out for the jumpscare on page 43  :-DD
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Re: Propellant-less electric spacecraft engine?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2021, 04:34:37 pm »
Sheesh. He seems to have a serious bee in his bonnet about PhDs. And he seem incapable of introducing this complex topic at an accessible level.

I gave up after page 7 (except a quick scan for elephants) and a look at his patent claims which are a million miles from a functioning propulsion system.
 

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Re: Propellant-less electric spacecraft engine?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2021, 04:40:47 pm »
EmDrive was a widely-ridiculed concept until a NASA team announced that it appeared to work a little bit.  That result has not been validated or replicated.  This appears to be the same notion, repackaged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
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Re: Propellant-less electric spacecraft engine?
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2021, 11:49:29 pm »
FYI, for space geeks and physics nuts, the Pioneer Anomaly is worth checking out as a form of 'free-energy' spacecraft deceleration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
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