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Originally Posted by TrevorW
A read further apparently there are claims it can't work and is a fraud
A 1 giga watt power source potentially could produce 25,000,000 lbs of thrust
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That's why the British Government and EADS are funding the project... somehow I think those claiming fraud have an axe to grind, somewhere.
That's what they maybe quoting to make it sound as if it's too good to be true, however a simple look at the physics shows that it would never get to that much thrust simply because the Q value would breakdown at such high power ratings...the resonance effect of the waveguide cavity would collapse, using current waveguide technology. To produce and sustain that sort of thrust, the value for Q would have to be ridiculously high...10^100, or something like that. Almost perpetual motion, which is what I believe these detractors are using to criticise the work being done.
An engine with that size of power source might produce that thrust for something like 2 secs, but that's about it. It would grind to a halt really quickly...just couldn't sustain that sort of power output.
