Interesting side note from http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20140006052
Which is the anomalous RF thrust device, aka Emdrive. NASA was not attracted (so to speak) to the EmDrive for many years, since it violates the law of the conservation of momentum and a few other problems. NASA has some pretty good ideas why it shouldn't work, but when China is about to upstage you, NASA can change course with the best of them. Same will be true with LENR. As discussed here and elsewhere, approximately 50 micro-Newtons of thrust was recorded from the microwave oven, oops make that the electric propulsion test device - consisting of a radio RF resonant cavity excited at approximately 935 megahertz. Not sure why they chose that frequency, but anyway... This is about at tenth of a mosquito power, in thrust, or 0.1 mq ... :-) ...but nevertheless, the result is drawing huge attention, since in space reactionless thrust is cumulative thrust and in the vacuum of space, with LENR power of course, this kind of cumulative thrust could take sputnik to a large fraction of light speed.... in a few billion years maybe. The side note to this story is that some of the apparatus was built in Doylestown PA. Ron Kita, who occasionally post here- has a company named Chiralex, which is located in Doylestown, and which is engaged in "gravitational shielding research" which is not the same but close. Is that merely a coincidence? Hope Ron is tuned-in and will give us the inside scoop... if he can, but he is probably under NDA
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