[Red Badger]

A rough prototype of the proposed water cloaking device being tested inside of an aquarium. Credit: Duke University

[katana]

Oh good. We used to be smart enough to keep this sort of thing secret for awhile and let the Navy perfect the application. Then again, the researchers who figured it out are probably Chinese anyway.

[GraceG]

Google “USO” and they probably already use this sorta concept..

[Abathar]

“We can’t hear anything Skipper, but there’s a hell of a EM ping right over there, detectors are going haywire.”

[Hot Tabasco]

Watch for this break through to be used in the America’s Cup yacht racing.........

[UCANSEE2]

Why not paint the ships with this ?

[TexasTransplant]

“MADMAN!”

[Paradox]

Urzhumov is turning to electromagnetic fields and the dense concentration of charged particles found in saltwater.

I had this same idea, back when The Hunt for Red October came out, and I learned about MHD drives. As a boat owner, I was fascinated with drag reduction ideas. I figured, if an MHD could in theory move sea water that way, one should be able to do so on the water contacting parts of the vessel. Dang..

[Davy Crocket]

Don’t need water you need this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9wsVGDSSs

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Urzhumov says that for an actual ship or submarine to ever use such a device, it would need a nuclear reactor to power it, given the enormous energy requirements to cloak an object of that size. That does not mean, however, that a smaller diesel vessel could not power a smaller cloaking device to shield potentially vulnerable protrusions from detection.

Urzhumov also says that his theories and calculations have many potential applications outside of the ocean. Similar designs could be used to create a distributed ion propulsion system for spacecraft or to suppress plasma instabilities in prototypes for thermonuclear ^nuclear fusion reactors.

Do you realize what that means! Controlled nuclear fusion reactors are only ten ¹⁰ years away!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Never mind the ship’s wake - just nullify the wake from, and drag on, the propellers.