Lewdog
Gold Member
It would not surprise me to find out that the government keeps a lot of tech. secret from the public.
It's nonsense, of course. The scheme at that link presumes that an internal combustion engine can provide the energy to electrolyze water, to produce fuel for itself, and have enough left over to propel a vehicle. Anyone with even the most basic grasp of the relevant sciences can see that it wouldn't work. It takes more energy to electrolyze water than you can get back by burning the hydrogen thus produced.
It might not even matter... NASA has supposedly developed a REAL warp engine similar to what Ray Bradburry invented in Star Trek.
Engage warp drive! Nasa reveals latest designs for a Star Trek-style spacecraft that could make interstellar travel a reality | Daily Mail Online
The public thinks that the press keeps them informed and the technical community believe they have the latest state of the art information, but I don't believe this is necessarily the case. We have precedence for the government keeping tech. secrets for long stretches of time. They do this for national security reasons, economic development reason, or a host of any other reasons.
Yep, the U.S. had rail guns long before the public found out about them.