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wolfwings ([personal profile] wolfwings) wrote2006-09-22 10:19 pm

And as a bit of an update on that reactionless thruster I mentioned previously...



Note the ten times lower weight than a proven space-engine design, nine times greater lifespan, and approximately ten percent greater thrust for the same electrical input. This is all versus the recently-impacted Ion-drive engine tested extensively and proven to function quite well in space. So sure, the thrust sounds unbearably tiny, but a working (and cheap!) prototype that can keep up with a multi-million-dollar bleeding-edge engine design? Sold.