@WrinkleRelease
I’m confused. You start the video by saying scientists have made an electric jet engine (and show a video of what, I assume, is that same engine. Yet, you end the video saying the method doesn’t produce enough thrust to power a jet. So, which is it?
@scrapman502
Not practical for Jets on Earth, but very practical for Space Travel. The constant push, no matter how small or little with no resistance will add up and eventually accelerate the object to near speed of light.
@GaryBickford
A related technology was used back in the 1950s in research for the Atomic Airplane. A nuclear reactor can heat the air coming through a turbine to produce thrust. This just replaced the combustion of fuel as the heat source. Also, several rocket engine concepts use microwave plasma as the basis of producing thrust exactly like this, for interplanetary transfer.
@Deepthought-42
Microwaves expanding air has been known about for some time. Can’t remember where I read it but it is why bats can “hear” some microwaves which of couse have frequencies far too high to hear. The bats are aware of the modulations in the microwaves that cause by localised heating of the air.
@chandanchinnu5860
Sir, they are attacking us we need to take off right now!!!!! Wait, lemme charge my jet 😂😂😂
@JustAnotherSeeker
Old news——first time I’ve seen video of it though 😂 thank you.
@davidchavez81
you can literally put a grape in a microwave and get "microwave induced plasma"
@MuidIslamSifat
I have thought it many times but I couldn't reach any conclusion and now I am happy that scientist are continue researching about that 😅
@ball_of_wires
We couldn't have the technology we use today without the early technology of the past. We will get there.
@Kirillissimus
There is a much more important issue than the limited thrust due to low medium density and it is energy density. The amount of potential heat per mass unit of kerosine is more tgan 10 times higher than even the best batteries. Even fuel cells do not help and why even bother with them if in a jet you just turn the power into heat anyway. It means that a kerosine powered plane is guaranteed to be lighter, more powerful and more agile while having a better payload capacity than a similarly sized electric one while being more reliable and having lower maintenance cost. It is an interesting concept and it can be used for some tests but don't expect to see it in a normal plane.
@lbochtler
Basically just a micro version of a vasimir engine, but with less thrust. By the logic in the video, an arc jet with a axial compressor feeding it, is a fully electric jet engine.
@54m0h7
Pretty cool. I wonder if they combine it with the ramp-jet technology if it might work better.
@Liminalcontent
So just a VASMIR engine basically?
@A-T-M-
Essentially, a Carnot engine driven not by a temperature difference but by a pressure difference.
@stuartd9741
So basically the very early beginnings of star trek style warp drive.....👍
@HjarX
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@brettcrawford8878
If the air can be compressed enough and heated to 1200 degrees Celsius the air might be the fuel that runs the engine. Possibly a scramjet engine could use the plasma to help ignite the air as fuel. If so a scramjet engined plane could be kept in the air for a long time because the air it travels through would be its fuel. But then people working on similar powerplants would already know that. Odds are that scientist type people do not work on such powerplants to power biplanes at 60 miles an hour through the air.
@meinder2
Just make it bigger if y can ore make more of them
@MuidIslamSifat
then how will it works in space? 😅
@petesharpe5478