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The article mentions that the test was ran at only 80W of power, surely that could be scaled up to a few thousand watts and a more appreciable result could be s
by amiga-workbench 10y ago
The article mentions that the test was ran at only 80W of power, surely that could be scaled up to a few thousand watts and a more appreciable result could be seen even with another ground based test?
- TTPrograms 10y agoI think at those power levels you start vaporizing significant amounts of metal - the walls were heating up a fair bit at current power levels. You might be able to plate to increase reflectivity at GHz (gold, maybe something else is better up there, could do multi-layer metamaterial). But if you're vaporizing metal on the walls that's going to act like a propellant, so it will be very hard to distinguish what's causing the thrust (since thrust via propellant can be much stronger per Watt than the proposed propellant-less technique).