Thursday, September 25, 2008

Tom Swift and his Electric Rocket Ship

The Chinese claim to have figured out how to make this work. Others are skeptical. The gist is that while most electric propulsion systems include something to be expended as reaction mass, the Chinese version claims to run on microwaves alone. I'm with the skeptics on this one.

For the benefit of those of you who missed the series, most of Tom Swifts stuff was electric, making it the most advanced stuff in the universe.

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