Saturday, May 03, 2025

Microwave plasma jet propulsion

We propose a prototype design of a propulsion thruster that utilizes air plasma induced by microwave ionization. Such a jet engine simply uses only air and electricity to produce high temperature and pressurized plasma for jet propulsion. We used a home-made device to measure the lifting force and jet pressure at various settings of microwave power and the air flow rate. We demonstrated that, given the same power consumption, its propulsion pressure is comparable to that of conventional airplane jet engines using fossil fuels. Therefore, such a carbon-emission free thruster could potentially be used as a jet thruster in the atmosphere.

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Our experimental setup is shown in Fig. 1 and includes a magnetron with the power of 1 kW at 2.45 GHz, a circulator, a flattened waveguide, an igniter, and a quartz tube. The magnetron is the microwave source, the circulator is used to absorb reflected microwaves, and a three-stub tuner is used to optimize the power inside the air ionization chamber....

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#1 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-05-03 03:54 AM

------- do it then, idiots

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-03 09:35 PM

The "Dean Drive"* reborn!

More nonsense from the nonsense department of repetitive redundant nonsense department.

* Yes I'm old enough to remember that nonsense.

#3 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-05-04 10:33 PM

From Grok:

Thrust Output: A prototype from Wuhan University (2020) produced 10 N of thrust at 400 W with 0.5 l/s airflow, achieving a jet pressure of 24,000 N/m, comparable to commercial jet engines. Efficiency was reported at 28 N/kW.

Jesus Christ, nobody here even read the article! This has going on for years! The Russians made one 2 years ago!

#4 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-05-05 02:01 AM

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