An interesting idea....looks like the gist of the
principle is stated on the page as;
"Magnetic fields take finite time to travel between
two points. It is that loop hole that is exploited to
make the Stellar Drive Engine."
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The further the coils are from each other the weaker
the fields will be due to expansion of the magnetic
wave and you have to strike the outbound magnetic flux
lines at just the right time to get any thrust.
There seems to be a possibility that high density EM
can produce a mechanical thrust and I had seen a
patent that was posted here awhile back that I can't
seem to find, but there is a patent for a magnetically
driven engine that pushes seawater using 10-20 teslas
with a superconductor spiral coil as posted at;
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=22&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=pall&s1='electromagnetic+thrust'&OS="electromagnetic+thrust"&RS="electromagnetic+thrust"
the same principle should be applicable to air though
probably would take a lot more current.
It all ties in with the 'caterpillar' effect as in
'Hunt for Red October' and with reports of fluids,
from blood to water being moved with swept magnetic
fields;
http://www.keelynet.com/ecology/magpump.txt
"They could make the electrically charged atoms in
such solutions move in one direction by applying a
magnetic field in just the right way. Then they made
a second important discovery: The moving atoms
dragged water molecules along with them so that the
entire solution moved."
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a 1994 patent on such a water propulsion device;
http://www.patents.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05352139__
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and a further interesting tie-in is the 'magneto -
caloric' effect where a ceramic surrounding a hot
surface can be swept from inside out with high density
magnetic waves to transport the heat and dissipate it.
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/3_28_98/fob3.htm
"The magnetocaloric effect depends on the way a
material's atomic spins align themselves. All
materials store heat in the form of atomic vibrations.
An applied magnetic field forces the atoms into
alignment, reducing the system's heat capacity and
causing it to expel energy, which the water carries
away. When the field is removed, the atoms randomize
again and can absorb energy from their surroundings,
creating a cooling effect."
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--- DMBoss1021@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I am not sure if this has been previously posted,
> but it seems interesting:
>
> Stellar Drive Engine
>
> http://www.stellar.demon.co.uk/stellar.htm
>
> <<Introduction
>
> The Stellar Drive Engine is an electromagnetic
> device for generating
> unidirectional thrust. It has no moving parts and
> generates unidirectional
> thrust based on a flaw in Maxwell's electromagnetic
> equations which manifests
> itself when two conductors carrying current with
> harmonics greater than the
> fundamental interact through their magnetic fields.
> The vector sum for these
> interacting magnetic fields is zero when the
> excitation is sinusoidal (which
> is in general agreement with default observations
> based on standard
> calculations) but they are not zero for sustained
> non-sinusoidal excitations.
>
> In plain English, it means we may be able to build a
> machine that flies
> without using propellants. If you want to short cut
> the theory then look at
> the mental model first.
>
> .....Mental Model
>
> A simple persuasive mental model of what a stellar
> drive engine is designed
> to show how easy it is to explain the machine to
> someone else if you needed
> to bring this up in a dinner conversation!
>
> Consider what might happen if make large
> electromagnets as large as the Earth
> and the Sun and place them millions of miles apart
> roughly to the scale of
> the Solar system. These electromagnets are made of
> copper coils without any
> magnetic cores such that when they are switched off
> there is nothing magnetic
> there. When the Sun electromagnet is switched on, it
> will take 8 whole
> minutes to reach the Earth. If as it reaches the
> Earth, you switched the Sun
> magnet off and switched the Earth magnet on, then
> for the next 8 whole
> minutes you could pull yourself towards the Sun.
> After the field from Sun has
> passed by, you switch the Earth's electromagnet off.
> If there was a huge
> intervening plastic rod between the Earth and the
> Sun, then the whole Sun,
> Earth and plastic rod assembly would be
> unidirectionally accelerated. The
> Earth generated magnetic field rushes to the Sun to
> do the equal and
> opposite, but it takes 8 minutes to get there. If we
> wait another 8 minutes,
> then it would have passed by altogether. After that
> we are free to repeat the
> thrust generating cycle!
> >>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> DMBoss1021
>
>
>
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