How the Ramjet Became a Trans-Medium Fusion Drone
Summary
Analysis Robert Bousard Interstellar Ramjet evolution trans medium fusion drone. Bousard1960 concept collecting interstellar hydrogen electromagnetic scoop hydrogen fusion drive vehicle efficiently faster went collecting hydrogen allowing travel high percentage speed light.1 Subsequent studies serious drag issues solved plasma sheath laser pre ionize air plasma bubble eliminating drag. Concept criticized insufficient hydrogen outer space hydrogen abundant atmosphere water making trans medium capability air water plasma fusion powered. Bousard career Oak Ridge National Laboratory working Nuclear Energy Propulsion Aircraft NEPA project Los Alamos Project Rover NASA predecessor NACA evolved NERVA nuclear thermal propulsion prototyped Nevada desert proving technically achievable. 1950s early cold war fusion propulsion systems nuclear reactor heating propellant hydrogen high temperature expelling rocket nozzle creating thrust greater chemical engines flights Earth orbit birth Bousard ramjet engine. Tokamak criticism Bousard moved Washington policy assistant director Atomic Energy Commission fusion division Robert Hirsch oil shock expanded fusion budget advocating large programs Tokamak political organizational lever initially tactical strategic became budget preserving project rather power producing struggle confine neutral plasmas crippling losses scaling amplified cost complexity. Polywell fusion device combining electrostatic magnetic confinement magnetic cusp fields magnetic mirror magnetic bubble plasma stays cusp edge pinching balloon particles try escape follow magnetic field path circle trapped mirror polywell electrons trapped chamber mirror create negative electric potential virtual cathode positively charged ions attracted negative region fall well gain speed collide high energies magnetic electrostatic fusion device virtual cathode formed purely electrons avoiding collisions associated energy losses magnetic coils arranged faces cube producing cusp regions edges corners high plasma pressures high beta effect internal plasma push magnetic field trap effectively polyhedral shape donuts connected create cusps magnetic fields shoot particles axially superconducting tokamak magnets prevent plasma touching components MH370 orbs polyhedral shape spherical plasma.
Key Claims (10)
Bousard interstellar ramjet collects interstellar hydrogen electromagnetic scoop hydrogen fusion drive.
Evidence: Robert Bousard1960 concept faster went more hydrogen collected allowing travel high percentage speed light
Plasma sheath solves drag issues laser pre ionize air plasma bubble eliminates drag.
Evidence: Paul Sizz answer drag issue plasma sheath laser shoot front pre ionize air make plasma bubble drag issue solved
Bousard ramjet works Earth trans medium hydrogen abundant atmosphere water.
Evidence: Bousard ramjet criticism insufficient hydrogen outer space hydrogen abundant atmosphere water making trans medium capability air water plasma powered MH370 orbs
Oak Ridge National Laboratory connected nuclear propulsion fusion Bousard worked Project Rover Los Alamos NAC A evolved NERVA nuclear thermal propulsion.
Evidence: Bousard career Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nuclear Energy Propulsion Aircraft NEPA project Los Alamos Project Rover NASA predecessor NACA NERVA nuclear thermal propulsion prototyped Nevada desert proving technically achievable
Tokamak fusion tactical political organizational lever large budget preserving project rather power producing struggle confine neutral plasmas crippling losses.
Evidence: Bousard assistant director Atomic Energy Commission fusion division Robert Hirsch expanded fusion budget advocating large programs Tokamak political organizational lever initially tactical strategic became budget preserving project rather power producing struggle confine neutral plasmas crippling losses scaling amplified cost complexity
Polywell fusion device combines electrostatic magnetic confinement magnetic cusp fields magnetic mirror magnetic bubble.
Evidence: Polywell fusion device combining electrostatic magnetic confinement magnetic cusp fields magnetic mirror magnetic bubble plasma stays cusp edge pinching balloon particles follow magnetic field path circle trapped mirror
Polywell virtual cathode negative electric potential formed purely electrons avoiding collisions associated energy losses.
Evidence: Polywell electrons trapped chamber mirror create negative electric potential virtual cathode positively charged ions attracted negative region fall well gain speed collide magnetic electrostatic fusion device virtual cathode formed purely electrons avoiding collisions associated energy losses
Polywell magnetic coils arranged faces cube producing cusp regions edges corners high plasma pressures high beta effect.
Evidence: Polywell magnetic coils arranged faces cube producing cusp regions edges corners high plasma pressures high beta effect internal plasma push magnetic field trap effectively
MH370 orbs polyhedral shape donuts connected create cusps magnetic fields shoot particles axially superconducting tokamak magnets prevent plasma touching.
Evidence: MH370 orbs likely polyhedral shape inside donuts connected create cusps magnetic fields shoot particles axially superconducting tokamak magnets prevent plasma touching components变成 spherical plasma
Whitmer proposed catalyzed ramjet carries trace amounts carbon nitrogen oxygen.
Evidence: Whitmer1970 catalyzed ramjet carries trace amounts carbon nitrogen oxygen making fusion reaction efficient commonly found air water
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