Thoughts anyone?
Well I can't see power being the major engineering problem here. I work with RF in my day job and power out isn't that big a deal, but higher frequencies, which equates to higher photon energies could be a problem. A waveguide for gamma rays, if you could contain them, would be very tiny. Focusing x-rays and gamma rays is a pain too.
Quote from: Mulletron on 08/24/2014 01:26 pmWell I can't see power being the major engineering problem here. I work with RF in my day job and power out isn't that big a deal, but higher frequencies, which equates to higher photon energies could be a problem. A waveguide for gamma rays, if you could contain them, would be very tiny. Focusing x-rays and gamma rays is a pain too.Question,, has anyone measured the counter force, if any to the Sagnac effect?
Full paper regarding recent NASA test campaigns of emdrive and cannae:http://www.libertariannews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/AnomalousThrustProductionFromanRFTestDevice-BradyEtAl.pdfAnyone know any ways to increase the rate of quantum fluctuations and produce a greater flux of particle/antiparticle pairs? I got an indication earlier that this happens within dielectrics to a degree. (think it was the NASA slide show) Would a really strong electric charge field work, like in a capacitor across a dielectric? Could a strong enough electric field cause these virtual particle pairs to be ripped apart before they annihilate? If so, are these energy levels realistic or very high energy stuff? I know that high energy photon interactions with atomic nuclei can cause pair production if the energy of the photons is twice the rest mass of the particle, like for electrons, it is .511 MeV I think it was. So you need high energy photons. Any way to lower the energy requirement? A lower energy requirement would allow us to use lower frequencies. That's the goal I'm shooting for here. Radio frequencies instead of Gamma. Thoughts anyone?
I thought it was tested in a vacuum chamber.
NASA has its own list of capacitors that includes aluminum capacitors with solid conductive polymer as the electrolyte material that are compatible with the wide range of requirements for working in space conditions.BTW your iPhone and most modern miniaturized electronic devices use capacitors with the same technology because no bulky wet capacitor would fit the form factor.On a completely unrelated topic, unfortunately this kind of capacitor fuels wars in central Africa.
Quote from: Star One on 09/02/2014 09:10 pmI thought it was tested in a vacuum chamber.Yup, bat at 1 atmosphere. Capacitors couldn't take vac, IIRC. Cheers, Martin
Radiometers do work in a vacuum, just not particularly well.
Quote from: JPLeRouzic on 09/03/2014 07:13 amNASA has its own list of capacitors that includes aluminum capacitors with solid conductive polymer as the electrolyte material that are compatible with the wide range of requirements for working in space conditions.BTW your iPhone and most modern miniaturized electronic devices use capacitors with the same technology because no bulky wet capacitor would fit the form factor.On a completely unrelated topic, unfortunately this kind of capacitor fuels wars in central Africa.Isn't this a far higher power level than iPhone? Cheers, Martin