In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:55:05 -0700: Hi, [snip] >The key add-on would be an inline reactor subsystem, which would use >high pressure O2 which has already been used to cool the rocket motor >and then after polymerization - vent the diozone back into the motor. >This reactor would, of necessity, contain an intense UV source in the >critical spectrum of 254 nm. It would likely need to be a coherent >source of UV light. [snip] Most of the fuel mass carried aloft is O2, so any improvement in the energy derived from it would be valuable. However doing so implies adding energy to the O2 molecules. If this is done on the ground, then you are taking extra energy along with you. If you have to do this while in flight, then the extra energy has to come from somewhere else. Where? Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition (capitalism) provides the motivation, Cooperation (communism) provides the means.
