Talk-Polywell.org

::groan:: Just FYI peeps, but this thread is full of obvious misunderstandings by people who claim to know. If you need to know about IP law, get a good book. Claims like "you can't own words" are so woefully inaccurate that it staggers the imagination anyone would pen them. Of course you can't own ...

Skip, it sounds like we agree on the essential points, I will however note 3 mistaken notions above. People who patent software that has been around for ages are simply abusing the system. To qualify for patent, you have to pass the test of "novelty" and so what you're referring to is not a problem ...

"Other testing in the company’s large vacuum chamber verified efficiencies of greater than 50% in the conversion of electricity to thrust through 112 kw. . . . . .The efficiency predictions climb to 60% at 200 kw., or full thrust." The point is efficiency in converting electrical to kinetic energy. ...

Also, trade secrets apply when you're looking at a portion of a subject that would not qualify for patent. Many of the intricacies involved in M-E thruster research fall under this heading. Specific understandings of the "art" of gravinertial propulsion are lessons learned over the years which would...

Lets remember that patents exist to protect intellectual property. There are good reasons that patents are granted for things we don't have reason to suspect will work. People are entitled to protect their IP regardless whether it will work, especially when at the time they need protection for it, t...

Yes well, M-E thrusters always have the equivalent of an extremely high Isp. It's not really fair to make a straight comparison here because there's no propellant, but the point is if you build a craft that can lift from the Earth's gravity well, and provide constant thrust at that magnitude, then y...

This above is why Paul March simply looked at the distance between the Earth and the Moon for his ground breaking WarpStar paper delivered back in 2007. Any future Golden Age in human spaceflight using M-E thrusters would not make use of orbits of any sort. When you can generate constant 1 Earth gee...

Chris, lets not waste any more time with you telling me what I don't know about while you're speaking in total ignorance?

http://www.intellectualpropertylawfirms ... -types.htm

IIUC, if you need a rocket to hold an object in a trajectory, that's not an orbit. Orbits are time-like geodesics where the object is in free-fall. By definition, the object cannot be receiving thrust or it's in a trajectory other than an orbit. This is why when in orbit, you are essentially weightl...

Actually, I know one person who haunts these forums who is an ivy league PhD EE and quite capable of telling off the top of his head if this scheme should work. He's a busy guy but I imagine he'll happen by sometime soon.

Giorgio, I think the issue here is the type and intent of the patent. In the chemical industry, you are applying primarily for design patents, and so there is a requirement for as much precision in the patent as possible. In most instances like the x-ray converter, one is instead applying for a util...

The 26k miles includes inside it the diameter of the Earth. It is not 26k miles above the Earth or even 13k.

900 miles high sounds about right. 26k mile diameter is enough room of an awful lot of sats, so long as they're taught to share, play well with others, all the stuff we learn in kindergarden.

This is the third time in a day I've had someone point me to this work. It's very exciting but I would caution that arxiv is not peer reviewed. I think it will be quite some time before we see a real critique of this, so it's good to know what's afoot, but also good to be patient.

Has anyone looked up the patent? Do we know about how many layers, how thick the foil or how far between layers? Do we know anything past that there are layers? For all we know, each layer and insulator is vapor or sputter deposited and is a tiny fraction of a micron thick. It is essentially an X-Ra...

Maybe one could also try deflecting it "downwards" instead of capturing it, so it will burn up... Now that is a truly novel idea--launch something robust enough to survive collisions, that has perhaps a single, large, smooth surface, and play bumper-cars with it. Remotely steer it into the path of ...