As mind bending as the casimir effect sounds, Mustafa feels that the potential (pun intended pac) is there to make space flight much simpler.
read the dvice article here
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Monday, May 21, 2012
19 Year Old Invents New Spacecraft Propulsion System
As mind bending as the casimir effect sounds, Mustafa feels that the potential (pun intended pac) is there to make space flight much simpler.
read the dvice article here
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Wait, ah... Doesn't this mean she's found a way to harness vacuum energy in a practical way? If this pans out, wouldn't the implications be infinitely greater than just making satellite manoeuvring a bit cheaper, or what have you?..
fly like an egyptian...had to see where sohag univ is....cairo egypt
Without going to massive scale with this, satellite maneuvering is about the best that can be hoped for. And that would be slow.
For long distance craft to stay under power and just keep flying it might be good, but it would still take forever to get anywhere. For speed you need an entirely different type of drive or power source. At least at our understanding at the moment.
I am fairly certain however that different materials will produce a different amount. Say paper compared to using silver maybe. Or what if the plates lets say are magnetic. Would that aid in power, or decrease it. Now I want to play.
One more reason I point out the need for a moon base. Access to vacuum, and only a fraction of earth's gravity to begin attempts at a proper experiment. Lots of proper experiments.
I am just amazed that a possible application has come out of a pretty obscure piece of research that I reported on last year. For me, I can see the gains in speed, such will be and has be demonstrated with satellites using ION engines. The exhaust gases are so fast and the engines can be run for long periods of time that the craft gains speeds unheard of with "chemical" conventional systems. I don't thing the new system will be that much more efficacious than ION but will be able to carry vastly less in fuel which even for an ION is still a penalty. Is Casmir smoke and mirrors? It is starting to look less and less like that is the case, but still, I would not look for any large scale implementation of any sort for the next 4 or 5 decades if even then. I would like to see a trial like the ION tests we saw a while back and now are seeing a cautious adoption of the tech. There is something there, there can be no doubt but there is too much zero point stuff being added in to keep me confortable.....
Maybe we are all looking at the alternative drives in the wrong way here. Maybe we should be looking at how to incorporate them into one unit. Minus any type of fuel or propellant systems for quick maneuvering, landing etc.
It would seem that if the systems were linked together, it would aid in the drive immensely, and still create excess energy for the ship itself, as would solar.
But like you said, 4-5 decades at least probably before we see any actual real application of this technology on a true test scale.
And I agree, I would like to see them move on with the ION tech myself. Lots of possibilities there as well.
I think they should se the Casimir force to power a loom... then they could manufacture Casimir Sweaters...
Not fair Jon, I was drinking coffee when I read that. But I wonder...does the sweater now become easier to put on, or just faster?
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