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But these electrons don't do everything.
But these electrons don't do everything.
As an example, the researchers have used a similar method to create a small, but powerful, electric motor. The idea is to make a small, but powerful, electric motor that would generate more current than the current produced in a conventional airplane. They've done this in less than a year.
The researchers believe their first experiments will lead to a more powerful motor that uses less electricity and less wind to start the operation. At that point, the researchers can start using the ionic wind to propel more of the material in a larger plane, to accelerate the motors faster. It may take a few more years to get this motor working.
Although the researchers did not go into the exact details of their current-powered propulsion process, they've shown that this method still allows the researchers to make a large scale electric motor.
That's what's needed to put the jet engine into orbit. It's a long road, but it's already taken the team nearly 60 years to build this system. The researchers are already working on a final prototype that they say will be more reliable and much smaller than the one they've been using already.
The only question is how much of this final engine can be flown for the first time. In the beginning, it was thought that the ionic wind wouldn't work well with a wind turbine, so it would need to be a high-temperature rotor, using a lot of energy. The researchers are now trying to move the turbine to high speeds, then build a smaller, more efficient, turbine.
It'll take some more work to get the turbine up as fast as the jet and even more time to fly it from one side of the ocean to the other. In the meantime, the team has a pretty good idea of how to build the jet engine.
The paper also suggests that the ionic wind may be important in keeping all those particles in orbit around the jet engine: "There is a strong potential to get some particles into orbit about the ionic wind, and then bring them out of the way," says Dr. M. M. Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The article is available in print at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.R.R.E.M._M.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will present a new paper at an international conference on the future of high-speed flight that begins in June in New York City
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