At 23 minutes of this video. SSI SA Dr. Heidi Fearn explains how just scaling power and size causes problems. (heat, arcing and other problems).
For Mach effect propellentless propulsion it will be better to go to an array of smaller devices.
They expect 1-5 years to get to 1-5 millinewtons of thrust. (Using better materials and other near term design improvement.
Tajmar has replicated the 2 micronewton level and will scale to 12 micronewtons with a larger set of discs.
In 5-10 years, have array of several devices to get to 10-20 millinewtons.
10-20 years, increase thrust to 1 newton for each device.
Test arrays of 100 – 1 newton devices
MEGA space propulsion would be 1000+ 1 newtons devices.
MEGA would be powered by a 5 MW nuclear power source.
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Upcoming developments in exaflop computing should cut the development time by 1/3rd.
I’ve invented a warp drive. It works by farting north east while holding a non-conductive palladium cesium alloy in your left hand and keeping your right eye closed. I’ve no idea how it works but I’m sure it’s because of string theory. So far I’ve only been able to warp for 27.2 pico meters. If I had more funding I could perfect the system and revolutionist space travel. Please fund me!
No, you haven’t. You haven’t.
You also haven’t worked for over 30 years to develop a theory based on long established physics, the math behind which is impeccable and uncontroverted, to permit propellantless propulsion to be done in a manner consistent with the acknowledged laws of physics–which work has now been replicated independently 3 times.
I bow to this master of sarcasm, kudoz. Thank God not everybody is a fanboi. Somehow changing mass by a few joules of strain energy gives propellantless propulsion my arse.
We get it. You think E=mc^2 is wrong.
Not because of evidence, but because you don’t like what it’s consequences are.
Nice. Pointless, unconnected, irrelevant.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319974638_Mach-Effect_thruster_model
Some of the math you’ve been ignoring, GoatGuy.
Even I got something up on researchgate..
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319109915_AN_EXTENDED_CONVENTIONAL_FUEL_CYCLE_FOR_THE_BW_mPower_SMALL_MODULAR_NUCLEAR_REACTOR
The Goat’s convinced that this violates momentum conservation. Nothing you say or equation you show will convince him that this can possibly work until we have one swinging a ballistic pendulum in a vaccuum chamber, and even then he might suspect somebody to be using a large electromagnet just off-stage.
It’s fine. It may even turn out that the final product cannot scale beyond millinewtons; even then we may get enough knowledge of the inner workings of inertia that we may break out of this rut of inherently untestable Theories of Everything. And even if it’s only good for getting a half-dozen TU Dresden doctorates to debunking the whole thing, it’s still a plus. Never mind what GoatGuy believes or refuses to believe.
So a couple of things here…
The force scales with the cube of the oscillation frequency? What’s the fastest constrollable oscillator available?
And this thing becomes more efficient the faster you go? What’s the scaling relationship between efficiency and speed?
“Tachyon Speed!”
I recall that they have problems with reducing capacitors to slag.
IF it really works, and I am far from convinced by the present level of evidence, then the obvious approach is something like the “brane” ships currently being designed to use ion engines.
MEMS drives directly coupled to solar cells, with the weight as low as possible.
Considering how the effect scales with frequency, they should go straight to MEMS construction.
Carbon nanotubes are very fast mechanical oscillators – they should look into using something like that.
Also didn’t somebody at the University of California, Riverside create a tiny spring using the repulsive Casimir effect, by using a nested corrugated geometry? I’d imagine that thing must oscillate really fast.
Maybe. Still not convinced it’ll scale but would be cool if it does.