| As a technology and intellectual property attorney in | | | | Whether or not this new technology will be proved |
| Carlsbad, San Diego, California, Newport Beach, | | | | feasible or not, eventually technologies will be |
| Orange County, CA and a lawyer in the Palm Springs | | | | developed that either achieve extended travel with |
| and Palm Desert area, like many who remain hopeful | | | | little or no energy usage. While one can certainly see |
| for the future, new developments in technology are | | | | the possibilities for long-range space travel and use of |
| constantly catching one's eye. | | | | such technology by satellites, they also present hope |
| Whenever current affairs, such as the current | | | | for the future in daily travel on freeways with a |
| economic crisis makes the news seem bleak, an | | | | reduction in pollution. |
| inventor or scientist makes a startling new discovery | | | | While it is unlikely that we will soon see this |
| or obtains a patent that could be of monumental help | | | | technology available at Wal-Mart, one can imagine |
| to mankind. | | | | how such technology or extensions of it could make |
| A recent report has come out that the Chinese are | | | | many kinds of travel less expensive and less energy |
| building what was thought to be an impossible space | | | | wasteful in the future. |
| drive, one that might not only open up the | | | | As a patent attorney, one can only hope that other |
| possibilities of much more extensive space | | | | U.S. scientists will study the possibility of this |
| exploration but which could also transform any type | | | | discovery and improve upon it so it can be patented |
| of travel and if achieved. While other scientists are | | | | by U.S. interests. |
| downplaying this announcement as unlikely, while | | | | In the area of other new technologies for travel and |
| possibly seeking to duplicate their efforts, if this | | | | the automotive industry, researchers today are |
| discovery turns out to be accurate, it may provide | | | | constantly looking to develop materials that can |
| the Chinese with advantages over other countries if | | | | absorb the energy of an impact without injury to the |
| their engine and this new space drive cannot be | | | | occupants. If vehicles could someday have impacts |
| matched by the U.S. | | | | and not only absorb the energy but utilize it, the |
| This EMdrive or electromagnetic relativity drive is | | | | future looks much safer and less expensive for |
| thought by other scientists to violate the law of | | | | travel. |
| conservation of momentum and has been branded as | | | | Combined, travel on roads and freeways would be |
| just another perpetual motion devices that have | | | | safer, quieter, more energy efficient and better for |
| been disproved time and time again. | | | | the environment so long as such engines and |
| However, the researcher behind the Emdrive states | | | | materials could be built cheaply and without using the |
| that his engine is not a perpetual motion machine and | | | | same level of energy saved by such vehicles. |
| that rather than being at odds with Einstein, relies | | | | There's always a downside though. Imagine if you |
| upon Einstein's theories being correct. | | | | will, the ability to drive at little or no cost across the |
| Another scientist working on the Chinese project has | | | | state or across the country safely and without |
| experience with microwave plasma thrusters and it is | | | | pollution in your technologically advanced vehicle. Now |
| reported that the engineering principles of building the | | | | imagine if you will, how many other vehicles will be on |
| two engines are similar. | | | | the same freeways as you. |