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Brett Johnston
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Electric Jet Engines

06/03/2009 5:11 AM

With all the advances in electric motors are electrical jet engines becoming better than toy standard; or would any project have to be home developed?
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Re: Are electrically generated jet engines worth much yet?

06/03/2009 6:22 AM

electrically generated jet engines Fans?

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Re: Are electrically generated jet engines worth much yet?

06/03/2009 11:04 PM

Not even a little compression?
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Re: Are electrically generated jet engines worth much yet?

06/03/2009 8:06 AM

Are you thinking of plasma? In the basement? "Honey, what happened to the next door neighbor's house? There's just a wisp of smoke."

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Re: Are electrically generated jet engines worth much yet?

06/10/2009 4:43 AM

Dear Person,

Please reply with content rather than your mind.
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Re: Are electrically generated jet engines worth much yet?

06/10/2009 7:12 AM

Dere Geste,

Iff'n you'uns caint regstur, don't be acomplainin'.

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Re: Electric Jet Engines

06/03/2009 7:50 PM

What, is it just us SciFi geeks who believe in plasma engines?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket

There's the impulse engines for the first starship. Now we need the warp drive.

Oh, wait- http://stardrive.org/

I guess they're working on that, too.

It will scale up eventually. Compare the engine on the Wright Flyer with the engines on a B-29 bomber. That only took 40 years.

Compare the jet engines on the Messerschmidt 262 with the engines on the SR-71- that only took 20 years.

60 years from Kitty Hawk to 1,900 knots at 85,000 feet. We can get to Proxima Centauri if we really put our minds to it.

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06/04/2009 6:38 AM

Sorry Mark my work never gets that exotic! I used to read books in high school and they had things like solar yachts which impressed me more than coming up with a warp drive that needs to be x times faster than light. I'm more of the one scary big step after the other big scary step type even though I like multi tasking, innovating and theory. But we definitely have space engines on the upcoming agenda!
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