Right - the only downside is that they have to stop every 50 miles for recharging.
“The rocket engines that would be required to lift that much extension cord would do irreparable harm to Mother Gaia. But they could safely power my pontoon boat due to my influence with King Neptune.”
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Combine that tech with space stations tethered to Earth using carbon nano-fiber construction and the idea colonizing the solar system is very possible.
Of course, the government is probably going to get upset when “citizens” in the asteroid belt decide they don’t want to pay taxes to a government that offers them nothing.
One of my favorite Blonde Jokes is the one where the Blonde says she’s going to take a trip to the sun. You can’t go to the sun, you’d burn up. Well duh, we’d go at night!
Obamamobiles in space.
Next they’ll stop Space Warming.
IOW, this is just another type of rocket engine. You move forward by throwing stuff out the back.
We will never accomplish much of anything in space as long as we try to get around by burning (or electrically accelerating) mass.
What is needed is some sort of massless method of propulsion. There are four elemental forces in physics, with two of them being gravity and electromagnetism. If we could control and manipulate gravity anything like we do electromagnetism, we'd probably have a space drive that is functional.