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Anyone heard of these people? http://neumannspace.com/science/ They claim to have made an ion drive that has broken the record for ISP using solid fuel and a process similar to arc welding. Exhaust velocity of up to 140 km/s. Exhaust is quasi-neutral. Video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/w...

Heidi Fearn of SSI will be speaking about the Mach Effect work they have been doing with the NIAC grant they received in about 30 minutes from now. https://livestream.com/viewnow/NIAC2017 Thanks for the link. For those interested, her talk begins at 48:15 in Day 3 Part 2. Here is what I took from i...

So, this company said it would be powering drones by the end of 2016 and introducing commercial products in 2017. Then after its splashy announcement... crickets. No further announcements, no buyout, nothing. Even their own website just says "new website coming in 9.2017". Anyone want to s...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/25/google-enters-race-for-nuclear-fusion-technology Google enters race for nuclear fusion technology Google and a leading nuclear fusion company (Tri Alpha Energy) have developed a new computer algorithm which has significantly speeded up experiments...

ladajo wrote:And a year from now, there will still be no <insert name>-Cat on the market, nor in five years, ten or ever. What will the devout be saying then? Same shit I suspect...

I don't know about that, even the EEStor faithful eventually dried out and blew away.

Just for sake of closure: "How Steorn pulled the plug on its decade-long promise of free energy" (behind a paywall) https://www.businesspost.ie/business/power-off-steorn-finally-energy-e23-million-funding-370313 Or: http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/liquidation_...

https://fcnp.com/2017/04/27/great-energy-transition-brilliant-light-shifts-course/ ... Two weeks ago, the Brilliant Light announced that they now have automated the energy-producing reaction inside a SunCell using digital controls. By eliminating the need for manual control of the reaction and closi...

"Now John Goodenough, the 94-year-old father of the lithium-ion battery, is claiming a novel solution as a blockbuster advance." "If it proves out, the invention could allow electric cars to compete with conventional vehicles on sticker price. The improbable solution, described in a n...

It looks like they're paying Heidi Fearn to basically speculate about an "if Mach thrusters work, then.." situation.

The fact that we are still struggling with just going to the ISS, tells me that even a sustainable moon base is still way off. It would be very wise to invest in break through energy/ propulsion technology first, which would have other benefits as well. I wonder whether that's a matter of actual di...

A new BLP patent application, if anyone wants a look (117 pages long):

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Pars ... 0170070180

paperburn1 wrote:But it has one huge disadvantage the supply chain could not react quickly in case of emergency like the moon.

An answer to which is redundancy. Send three colonies' worth of supplies and equipment before the first batch of colonists arrive.

Replacing the primary loop every 4 years sounds very expensive- working underground, ripping out radioactive tubes that carried the decay product contaminated pipes that formed the primary cooling loop, would be time consuming and expensive and require up to many thousand of years of safe storage. ...

"Who?" was Jone's reply.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdjf4lMmiiI

Very entertaining movie.

nferguso wrote:With due deliberation. By top people.

Who?