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That’s not at all the claim, and that’s not how it would work. If you tried to extract energy from the rotation, it would just stop. Space flight is exactly th
by jiggawatts 3y ago
That’s not at all the claim, and that’s not how it would work. If you tried to extract energy from the rotation, it would just stop.
Space flight is exactly the use-case for a propellantless drive because it would allow unlimited station keeping with only solar power as an input.
Satellites often have to be decommissioned because they run out of gas for their reaction control systems.
This drive would never run out.
- Gravityloss 3y agoPower = thrust times velocity. If this has constant thrust at constant power no matter what the speed and doesn't require propellant, then at the speed of power / thrust it's working at unity and over that speed it actually generates positive energy. There is already a reaction less drive, photons. The unity speed turns out to be the speed of light. It is also very impractical as thuster since it requires so much power per unit of thrust.
- rurban 3y agoThis drive will run out every 12 hours, when sunlight is blocked by the earth. Or just bad positioning.