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Does an EmDrive exist?
Microwaves of the future It goes by various names — the EmDrive, the Q-Drive, the RF Resonant Cavity, the Impossible Drive — but all the incarnations of the device claim to do the same thing: bounce some radiation around inside a closed chamber, and presto-chango you can get propulsion. But the EmDrive doesn’t.
How fast is EmDrive?
The NASA experiments say that with an 80 watt input the EmDrive produced 100 micro-newtons of force. If you used that to drive a typical car – it would have a 0–60 time measured in decades!
Who created the EmDrive?
Roger Shawyer
Guido Fetta
EmDrive/Inventors
In his presentation to the April 3 meeting of the biweekly Alternate Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC), Roger Shawyer, who developed the EmDrive back in 1998, detailed different tests over time of all three generations of his concept.
Can the EmDrive really work in a vacuum?
Like, you know, real space – where the EmDrive is supposed to work. This means that there’s no data at all about how this technology might perform in an actual vacuum. Given that, it seems likelier that the motive force NASA validated is from
When was the first EmDrive made?
NASA The original EmDrive, built by Roger Shawyer in 1998, is a sealed copper tube (pictured above) wider at one end than the other. According to Shawyer, if you bounce microwaves around inside the…
Is NASA’s EmDrive a real thing?
The device last made headlines in late 2016 when a leaked study reported the results of the latest round of NASA testing. Now, independent researchers in Germany have built their own EmDrive, with the goal of testing innovative propulsion concepts and determining whether their seeming success is real or an artifact.
What is the difference between the EmDrive and Cannae Drive?
The EmDrive and the Cannae Drive are two different things. They were independently invented by two people. The EmDrive was invented by Roger J. Shawyer, a British aerospace engineer who has a background in defense work as well as experience as a consultant on the Galileo project (a European version of the GPS system).