Innovation in the field of sustainable mobility knows no limits, and is setting new proposals that challenge EVs and even FCEVs. If a few days ago we saw the first alcohol-based fuel in history, now we see the atom engine that Einstein predicted decades ago and that has now materialized. What’s more, it has the potential to revolutionize the roads forever.
New atom engine to revolutionize the roads: how it works?
Nuclear fusion has been looked at as the most wonderful solution for energy harvesting ever since it first seemed. Through the mode of action imitating outcomes from the mechanism by which the sun and stars operate, the nuclear fusion has been the most controversial source of energy, not renewable.
Fusing processes, on line of fission reactors, don’t lead to high-level radioactive waste which stays radioactive in a long-termed prospect. Finally, such fusion reactors will not have the potential to have a meltdown like fission reactors, as traditionals do.
Since persistently fussion energists strives for ‘ignition’, that is, a self-sustaining fusion reaction, for years. That, however, in 2023 a tiny business called Rocketstar got launched with a working fusion reactor. The company says their reactor is capable of producing more fuel than is put into it.
They also state that it´s the first time ever to achieve net energy gain. Indeed, this could prove one of the greatest achievements of modern human history. RocketStar states that its reactor works through using lasers to bunch up hydrogen atoms into a state of fusion by which the two nuclei are pulled together, releasing energy.
Einstein predicted this engine, and now is materialised: attention to this detail
RocketStars develops a reactor whose operation is based upon a system of lasers which compress and shoot hydrogen isotopes at each other, to release energy according to Einstein’s well-known formula E=mc^2. This fuel is not radioactive, doesn’t produce any greenhouse gases and generates huge energy.
The lasers contact the outer wall of a velocity-business of a centimeter-scale plastic canister filled with fusion fuel. In the implosion process, the material is driven inward rate slowing to great pressure and temperature that allows fusion to commence.
RocketStar’s generator is able to work in an unattended mode and does not require the reserve. Therefore, it can perform effectively in continuous mode. It can be called a revolution, because it stands out, since only big-time experimental reactors were ever before capable of introducing fusion.
Every one of them lacked the function of sustaining the chain reaction. On the contrary, reactor design of RocketStar is not only much smaller but also efficient as well. Through resolving innovative engineering design issues, RocketStar has become a pioneer of a highly compacted and autonomously operated fusion reactor.
Why could this proton engine be so important for mobility?
The advent of RocketStar’s technology is associated with the quantum vacuum plasma thruster (QPVT), which is its essence. This thruster uses quantum vacuum properties which helps to generate plasma when lasers are used to decelerate an outer atomic orbital fuel.
The quantum vacuum accepts the magnetic field of the plasma and thus the engine produces thrust without using propellant. As for this, including its quantum vacuum, the matter physics is a complex field, however, on a superficial level, we can understand that the virtual subatomic particles that flash in and out.
The quasiparticle produced by the QVPT lasers behaves as a pair of virtual particles that exerts a net momentum on these, and their passage produces thrust. This will result in the compliance of the principle of conservation of momentum since no overall momentum change will be imparted in the process.
As you can see, this proton engine is going to mark a historic milestone in alternative fuels, not only because it was predicted decades ago, but also because of its never-before-seen efficiency. Those who think it is a nuclear concept can rest assured that this is not the case. What we have seen is a somewhat experimental proposal, but one that opens the way to the future.