Re:The EmDrive just won't die
by jiofih on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:27AM
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You still need tons of fuel for that, in the order of tens of tons per year travelled - unrealistic for travel outside our solar system. Thrust doesn’t really matter at that time scale.
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The fuel is the reactor fuel. Literally the fission products of the uranium/plutonium in your reactor, from where the power you want to use for the EmDrive comes from, would beat this.
If the EmDrive actually worked, the correct use is to violate conservation of energy and momentum, not as a straightforward substitute for the engines we have now.