'Impossible' rocket drive works and could get to Moon in four hours

[MarkE]

I agree with your analysis above.  I must say though, the effect does have something to do with the vacuum.  This leads to questions, such as do they even have the slightest idea to what is going on, or is it more misdirection for the general public?

Gravock

The QV really doesn't enter into the claims as Shawyer makes them.  Special relativity does though.

[Paul-R]

I may be wrong but I am fairly sure I read that the actual thrust from one of the devices under discussion was measured as a few hundred millinewtons. It would take several weeks to accelerate a bicycle from 5 mph to 10 mph.

[synchro1]

Brown-Biefield effect. There's a thrust in a capacitor toward the negative charge plate too. The plasma produces a magnetic field.

[MarkE]

I may be wrong but I am fairly sure I read that the actual thrust from one of the devices under discussion was measured as a few hundred millinewtons. It would take several weeks to accelerate a bicycle from 5 mph to 10 mph.

Shawyer claims that using superconductors the Q of the cavity can be greatly increased (it can) and the specific thrust will also then increase (0*N = 0).

[Pirate88179]

It is a terribly written article.  The only new information is that some unspecified tests were conducted in Dresden.

Yes, I was not too impressed with the way it was written either.  At some point in the article, a guy is quoted saying something like...well...we can not really confirm nor deny if it works from these tests...which does not really jive with the whole upsetting of the laws of conservation of energy thing.

I just copied and pasted the headline from the article for the topic title but really...that headline is a little too optimistic at this point.  I really hope it does work and, I hope that the tests are done correctly and verified by others.  Then, we might really have something.

Bill