Em Drive: The Little Engine That Could

Dear Readers

In this vast Blogosphere it is vital to differentiate yourself from the rest of the faceless mass. I have done this by always being fashionably late and thus keeping stories alive. By giving you outdated news, I strive to combat their extremely high mortality rate.

In this day and age People yearn for new and fresh things, it’s like they have this bottomless pit in their souls which they try to fill up by cramming the latest trend, radical acronyms, hip songs, etcetera, etcetera.

First things first I’m the realest; so to those people I say screw you sirs and madams and while we are at it, screw main stream media.

 

I’m a Hipster jyeah , Bohemian jyeah  hypocrite, Did I say that out loud?  jyeah.But no matter ,the point is  old is gold (or bit coin, apparently that’s supposed to be more expensive).  

 

After that long winded excuse for my tardiness that alienated not only you dear readers but also my colleagues in the media sector Let us dwell upon a controversy of greater import and actual impact.

 I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the EM drive, the proposed Electromagnetic wave engine that seemingly defies the laws of physics, specifically speaking the law of conservation of momentum and energy. 

 

It is wondrous how the quantum realm defies main-stream classical physics. 

 We are both of rebellious nature like that. 

The device offers seemingly reaction-less thrust which to scientists, especially classical ones, verges on blasphemy. 

  

 

However British Inventor, aerospace engineer and a director of Space Propulsion Research .Ltd Roger Shawyer argues that this is not the case .By using the framework of special relativity, he states that the differential of radiation pressure is caused by the action of group velocity of waves in different frames of reference which basically means that a reaction occurred.

How it works

 

The EmDrive uses a high powered vacuum tube called a magnetron that creates microwaves which are fed into a conical resonant cavity (waveguide) that directs this microwave energy towards a dielectric resonator which oscillates these waves with greater amplitudes and when it finally reaches the end of the tapered cavity, turns this energy into thrust. 

What’s incredible is that the only energy it needs for this thrust is electricity, no reaction mass fuel is needed. Nada! Nihil! 什麼都不! Pagh! 

Worf, Son of Mogh

Product Testing 1, 2, 3

Chinese researchers led by Professor Juan Yang created a proto type of the proposed EM drive (which he claimed to have created a valid electromagnetic theory behind) A maximum thrust of 720 mN was measured at 2500 W of input power.

To put this in context the thrust created by the ion drive (used in space craft engines) is 20–250mN. Phenomenal isn’t it?

Nasa replicated this drive and although they made a miniature version of the Chinese proto type (lazy asses) they still got promising results. 

Cannae drive Vs Em drive: The fourth Punic war

Cannae drive was invented by one Feta.


Oh pardon me that’s the Cheese.


Fetta, Mr.Guido Fetta is his name and his device is quite similar to the Em Drive however it uses a single plate at the end to provide its thrust unlike the Em drive which uses two.

Let’s just say that if Cannae was Rome and EM was Carthage, Rome would’ve lost the Punic wars, the world would be a different place and Jesus would be alive! Can I get an Amen ?!

But enough of the hypotheticals (talk about irony). It’s like what my girlfriend said when she compared me to her ex, there’s a lot of potential here, but it just doesn’t produce as much thrust. 

In hindsight that probably wasn’t a good analogy…….for many reasons…….onward. 

Space Application 

Although Emdrive offers a host of solutions for terrestrial problems fuel, etc, the most thrilling prospect and main intention is for Space propulsion.

Not only does this offer fuel-less propulsion, the electricity that is needed to make this work is to be harnessed using the power of Ra.

This use of photovoltaic systems to power it almost makes the EMdrive a self sufficient and fundamentally a never ending source of energy.     

 Implications and Benefits 

•    Numero Uno Ladies and gents. Space Travel just became hella cost efficient. From getting to LEO,GEO and beyond.  

•  Offers better maneuverability and travel time reduction due to thrust capacity. It is assumed that the travel to mars can be reduced from I dunno 8 months to a matter of weeks. And even more excitingly it is proposed that an enhanced juiced up version of the EM drive could enable travel to Proxima Centauri within the span of 30 years!

• Satellite orbits can be altered with ease allowing for greater flexibility.

•   Longer Satellite Lifespan. The microwave generating cathodes have a life span of 15 years. Procedures can be set up so that Satellites can replace this and go in for further maintenance to Space Stations thus increasing their lifespan from around 20 years to around 30-45 years.

ISS

• Space Missions will have greater parameters and greater freedom due to the lack of threat from fuel consumption rations.  Payloads can also be increased, with estimated launches of upto 20 tonnes being common with the implementation of the Drive.

• Space Industry became more viable, economic and less further away. Travel has been a major obstacle in the realization of industrial space and even the colonization of Mars now we are just one step closer to that dream becoming a reality.

• Finally and most importantly this implies that I…….am a prophet. I didn’t believe it myself but in my   Asteroid mining article, I hate to say this, Well… actually I don’t but I……”Called it”. Proofs in the link.
  
  http://lifeofcontrovesy.blogspot.com/2014/06/minecraft-asteroid-edition.html

And on that Shocking revelation (which isn’t true this was in development from back in 2006) it is time to write off this article. Further info about the EMdrive can be found on the website.

But before ending dear readers we must salute the work of all the people who have contributed to the theory and development of the EmDrive, for it truly is an astounding invention.

Hats off to you Sir Roger Shawyer.

Haters gonna Hate.

But I’m just going to shake, shake, shake my maracas. 

Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai Ai