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To: MinorityRepublican
It produces thrust by using solar power to generate multiple microwaves that move back and forth in an enclosed chamber.

Well that’s good. I can’t imagine how you would generate just one microwave.

On a serious note it seems that the author is trying to make this out to be a GREEN rocket engine because it will be SOLAR powered.

But that would seriously limit the rocket’s utility to space travel near the sun. The further from the sun the spacecraft gets the less power would be available from the sun.

30 posted on 07/29/2015 4:18:00 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac
Well that’s good. I can’t imagine how you would generate just one microwave.

Kidding aside, scientists have recently figured out how to make masers in a reasonable size and operating at room temperature. Given that a maser is the microwave equivalent of a laser, with it you can indeed produce a very tight and coherent microwave signal at a specific frequency.

33 posted on 07/29/2015 5:12:44 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
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To: Pontiac

Ditch the solar power. Plug it into a cold fusion generator and then you’ll really have something.


40 posted on 07/29/2015 8:13:47 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change)
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