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About steam turbines being bulky... Well, yes, if you generate steam by heating it up... However, what would you say for a turbine being propelled by hydrogen peroxide catalyzed into water and oxygen ? :wink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide#Use_as_propellant It's also used as oxygen s...

There is an interesting patent about generating a standing detonation for lab purposes... http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20050079461.pdf They apparently have developed a witty way to compress the gas... You get two containers, one with lean fuel/oxygen mix, the other with very rich fuel/oxygen mix...

I've drawn a scheme to illustrate what I expect a CDE to look like. I don't expect it is anywhere near accurate in regard to angles, shapes and distances, so this is disputable as well :). CDE concept.gif One thing for sure, fuel delivery system would be very energy-consuming. This goes as follows: ...

There is a way to cheat a PDE pretty crudely... For example by injecting pellets of desired explosive into microwave-flooded chamber, or into a wake of a microwave laser. :D Makes me think paintball guns... :wink: Seriously, though, you could optimize the pellet for engine operation, for instance us...

Hello everyone I have been lurking for a while, consuming information rather than giving things out, but let's hope this will become profitable now that I have accounted (enmembered?) myself :) (sic) There is little information on CDEs around the web, although from what I have seen it has been ponde...