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China: has working version of NASA's EM engine orbiting the Earth
2016-12-26
I say nonsense -- at least I hope it's nonsense. But if it's true it's yet another intelligence failure by American agencies. A working EM drive will truly open up space -- why aren't we in the lead?
Scientists in China claim they’ve created a working prototype of the ‘impossible’ reactionless engine – and they say they’re already testing it in orbit aboard the Tiangong-2 space laboratory.

The radical, fuel-free EmDrive recently stirred up controversy after a paper published by a team of NASA researchers appeared to show they’d successfully built the technology. If the physics-defying concept is brought to reality, it’s said the engine could get humans to Mars in just 10 weeks.

But now, scientists with the China Academy of Space Technology claim NASA’s results ‘re-confirm’ what they’d already achieved, and have plans to implement it in satellites ‘as quickly as possible.’
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Soon they'll be able to put metal in the microwave.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-12-26 23:10  

#5  It's not against the laws of physics it's against newton's laws of motion.

This is theorised to use the wall reflection angle to create a small force without a reaction mass (not fuel).

Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2016-12-26 18:44  

#4  ...and those were not Art courses.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-12-26 13:30  

#3  Not necessarily impossible. We have a stupid habit of every time we invent something we seem to need to overpublish details in scientific journals, put all the detailed plans on weakly protected servers connected to the internet, have Chinese engineers involved in everything important and train most of their engineers in our universities because they pay full out of state tuition without complaint.
Posted by: gorb   2016-12-26 12:56  

#2  Could we not think of the gas being burned on the sun as the fuel so that this is just a way to harness that energy?

It's interesting research anyway and seemingly a better investment than the shameful way that our government has squandered trillions of dollars on stupid wars, misguided social programs and climate change (or whatever they're calling it these days) while letting NASA wither.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-12-26 11:47  

#1  I say bullshit. Anybody who has a working model of something like this, would keep it a secret - because if you can get it to work, it makes you the master of the world.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-12-26 04:33  

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