{"id":146769,"date":"2022-09-21T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/chinese-scientists-experiment-with-ethylene-and-coal-power-for-hypersonic-travel"},"modified":"2022-09-21T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T18:24:58","slug":"chinese-scientists-experiment-with-ethylene-and-coal-power-for-hypersonic-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/chinese-scientists-experiment-with-ethylene-and-coal-power-for-hypersonic-travel","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists experiment with ethylene and coal power for hypersonic travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-experiment-with-ethylene-and-coal-power-for-hypersonic-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese researchers expect to significantly reduce the costs of commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/the-history-and-development-of-hypersonic-flight\" title=\"hypersonic travel\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">hypersonic travel<\/a> with a novel engine using a combination of ethylene and coal powder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3193116\/chinese-scientists-say-coal-power-could-slash-hypersonic-flight\" title=\"according to an article\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to an article<\/a> published by the <em>South China Morning Post (SCMP) <\/em>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In tests conducted, a prototype using the affordable and efficient mixture produced shocks traveling at more than 2km (1.24 miles) per second, or six times the speed of sound, the scientists claimed in a new paper published in the China Ordnance Society\u2019s peer-reviewed <em>Acta Armamentarii <\/em>journal on September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese researchers expect to significantly reduce the costs of commercial hypersonic travel with a novel engine using a combination of ethylene and coal powder, according to an article published by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Tuesday. In tests conducted, a prototype using the affordable and efficient mixture produced shocks traveling at more than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146769","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}