Even at the fairly large element sizes chosen for performance
estimating, this prospective performance is startling, though the
example scale is too large to be maximallly effective. Using nano-
technology the performance could be improved by orders of magnitude.
For example, Casimir
The density of silicon is 2.33 g/cm^3, or 2.33 metric tons per cubic
meter. A thrust of 8.3 metric tons per cubic meter then readily
permits building a craft capable of sustained acceleration above 1 g,
or 9.8 m/s^2. Even without doppler shifting of the zero point field,
this will result
A thruster can be used to drive the armature of a generator. Suppose
a thruster can only withstand 10 g's, or about 9 m/s^2
acceleration. Given velocity v, and radius r, we have acceleration a:
a = v^2/r
and:
v = (a * r)^0.5
and power P is given by:
P = f * distance/time =
The following update has been appended to:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ZPE-CasimirThrust.pdf
my ZPE-Casimir Inertial Drive article.
If I made no simple calculation error the prospective performance of
this design, even at fairly large element sizes, is startling. Using
nano-technology
The following update has been appended to:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ZPE-CasimirThrust.pdf
my ZPE-Casimir Inertial Drive article.
Update 8/9/2009:
Another design for a Casimir thruster, based yet again on the premise
that matter within a Casimir cavity has reduced inertia, is based on
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