Are Electric Jets Possible? — Market Mad House
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4 min readOct 25, 2021
Chinese engineers claim they have built an electric jet engine. They claim the plasma engine, or microwave thruster, could lift 1,199 pounds (544 kilograms) with the power from a Tesla Model S battery.
A plasma engine uses high-frequency radio waves or microwaves to create super-hot plasma. Shooting the plasma out of a tube propels the engines at a high-speed. However, most plasma engines do not generate enough thrust to operate in an atmosphere.
Instead, they use plasma engines such as the Variable Specific Impulse…
