{"id":106593,"date":"2020-05-05T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-create-jet-engine-powered-by-only-electricity"},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:48:16","slug":"scientists-create-jet-engine-powered-by-only-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-create-jet-engine-powered-by-only-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Jet Engine Powered by Only Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-jet-engine-powered-by-only-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Scaling Up<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a long way to go between a proof-of-concept prototype and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/get-ready-for-low-cost-jet-engines-that-reach-space-without-burning-fossil-fuels\">installing an engine<\/a> in a real plane. But the prototype was able to launch a one-kilogram steel ball 24 millimeters into the air. That\u2019s the same thrust, proportional to scale, as a conventional jet engine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results demonstrated that such a jet engine based on microwave air plasma can be a potentially viable alternative to the conventional fossil fuel jet engine,\u201d lead researcher and Wuhan University engineer Jau Tang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-05\/aiop-ffj050420.php\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaling Up There\u2019s a long way to go between a proof-of-concept prototype and installing an engine in a real plane. But the prototype was able to launch a one-kilogram steel ball 24 millimeters into the air. That\u2019s the same thrust, proportional to scale, as a conventional jet engine. \u201cOur results demonstrated that such a jet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}