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Interesting article by Charles Platt (former senior writer for Wired): http://boingboing.net/2014/11/24/the-quest-for-a-reactionless-s.html He visited Dr. Woodward's lab in October. Apparent, through serendipity more than anything, Dr. Woodward's work has attracted the attention and involvement of D...

swamijake wrote:"meteorite based security" ???

good luck to him.

"meteorite based" is poorly phrased. It's a part of a keyless entry system, in bracelet form. An iron meteorite contributed to the materials.

Apparently it's been successful enough, along with his other company, to leave him money to play with.

Richard Dinan, whose company portfolio already includes meteorite-based security wearable Senturion and 3D printer company IonCore, has founded Applied Fusion Systems not to win the race to large-scale power generation with the technology, but establish a foothold in the field from which to explore...

SSI hasn't got any money. The royalties from Jim's book go to SSI which then is supposed to turn funds over to Jim for the lab work, but I don't think there's ever been a single such transfer. No real money coming or going at all. So this goes back to my earlier question: is there anything we can d...

Reuters is reporting that defense contractor Lockheed Martin claims it has made a technological breakthrough that places us on the doorstep of affordable fusion energy. Supposedly, the breakthrough will result in compact fusion reactors before a decade is out. But the Lockheed Martin press release ...

In case this hasn't already been posted: Exotic Propulsion Initiative at the Space Studies Institute 15 min presentation from "A Matter Of Some Gravity" by Gary Hudson during the 2014 NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Symposium ( NIAC 2014 ). ... Donations to the Exotic Propulsion Initiative of t...

Is it known that the nickel is strewn as a powder throughout? What if it's a pellet instead, and furthermore, placed in some recess so that only one facet is showing? Or what is it is a powder, but packed into grooves or so? The idea is that, even as it's consumed (converted to a Ni-62 powder, which...

On the other hand if you want to read the paper and offer some honest well thought out critique on the information found In the paper then by all means. Nice (well, insulting actually) red herring. I compared Rossi & Co. to BLP. You claimed they are further ahead. I pointed out there's no proof of ...

Mills and BLP all over again. Noise and more noise but it never seems to reach fruition. Well the latest news out of Rossi, a few weeks before today, is that they have a 1MW unit installed in a clients facility. So while you cannot run down to walmart to pick one up seems like they are making progr...

Mills and BLP all over again. Noise and more noise but it never seems to reach fruition.

GIThruster wrote: Where did you see the info about Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab?

At the very bottom of the article:

" The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has also expressed an interest in performing a Cavendish Balance style test with the IV&V shipset."

So, here they've tested both an EMDrive-like device and a Cannae drive device in a hard vacuum. They've also taken care to mute the possible effects of distant wave action and seismic activity. The plan remains to be creating Q-thruster test articles to be shipped to a few labs, namely the Glenn Res...

One concern about the Cannae drive tests is that, given they were performed at ambient air pressure, any apparent thrust might be the result of uneven heating of the device. A hot patch would heat the air nearby and thereby increase the pressure upon it. Did anyone try to do any thermal imaging of t...

I have a copy of the book as well. It's divided into three sections. The first addresses the underlying physics and the second past and current experiments. The "central theme" of the third is "the creation of an effective Jupiter mass of exotic matter in a structure with typical dimensions of meter...

More from Wired Magazine: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/07/10-qs-about-nasa-impossible-drive "10 questions about Nasa's 'impossible' space drive answered" Here's an interesting part: 4. Why didn't they test Shawyer's EmDrive design as well as the Cannae drive? It turns out that in Janu...