The energy catalyzer could be used to power spacecraft someday. In a recent interview with Ny Teknik (a Swedish magazine), Craig Cassarino of AmpEnergo said an unidentified company in the United States was interested in using the energy to catalyzer to propel space vehicles.
In the interview, Cassarino did not go into any details about this but it does raise an intriguing possibility. The energy catalzyer could possibly be used to propel vehicles through space and possibly to lift vehicles into space. AmpEnergo is the US company that has the right to license e-cat technology in the Americas. Cassarino said his firm is in discussion with a number of large companies about the e-cat but would not go into details.
The method for doing this would be a very simple one: the steam the catalyzer generates could be used to push a vehicle through space. It would push the spacecraft along the way the hot air from a jet engines pushes an airplane. The current generation of space probes uses nuclear fission to heat materials to high temperatures to push them along.
FamilyGuy July 18, 2011
Interesting idea. There is a 200 Watt version of an Ion engine called VASIMR being tested on the ISS around 2014 that requires energy and some lesser quantity of inert gasses to its chemical counter part. The inventor of the VASIMR, has plans, down the road, for a 200 Mega Watt version, which he believes can only be propelled using rather large Nuclear Reactors. Here is the link: http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/ToMars
Recently, on Peswiki.com, Rossi had mentioned one product he will offer, down the road, was a 3.45 MW self-sustaining power-plant, capable of fitting inside a 20ft container. It would be a step in the right direction by using the electricity produced to power an Ion Engine. Fifty-eight of those capable of operating in space, would be enough to produce the 200MW+ of power needed to take 40 days to reach Mars. If NASA / SpaceX became involved it might be possible to more tightly pack higher density Defkalion power plants into the rocket fairings, and possibly reduce the total launches.
Defkalion could send an employee “astronaut” out to refuel the VASIMR space ship every 6 months, while it orbits the earth.