New Shawyer patent

Conundrum, Thu Oct 13 2016, 07:47AM



Interestingly this seems to draw from a lot of common themes on reddit.com/r/emdrive, including various experimenters
who also intended to add closed loop feedback via PLL feedback and piezoelectrics to the system.

I did wonder if the problems with a simple system might be resolved by using a sequential drive, ie pulsing them in a ring although in my case it was to decrease overall power usage on the diodes to prevent them overheating under load.
It did occur to me that feedback via accelerometer would also help, this seems to have been mentioned as well.

Its a shame that all the "nice" superconductors need such low temperatures, perhaps there is a way to make a material optimized for a single axis broadly similar to pyrolytic graphite, so the top surface is the only part of the molecule which is superconducting due to strain effects.
Perhaps a variant of TBCCO but with heavy atoms such as iridium in the underlying structure, in fact growing sapphire crystals with iridium or even heavier element doping might do the job here.

Also relevant:

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