"Classified Technology" #7, Graham Stevenson and Dylan Touhey

"Classified Technology" #7, Graham Stevenson and Dylan Touhey
Presented by: Graham Stevenson and Dylan Touhey
References: NUCLEAR SUBTERRENES
Underground Tunnels and Bases
Info From Book on Topic
ION PROPULSION
Graphically expalined by MSNBC
Ion Propulsion Technology Developers
Various Information of Ion Technology
Ask A High-Energy Astronomer
NUCLEAR SUBTERRENES
In the book Underground Bases and Tunnels, Richard Sauder describes a fascinating tunneling machine, a nuclear subterrene. “Nuclear subterrenes work by melting their way through the rock and soil, actually vitrifying it as they go, and leaving a neat, solid glass-lined tunnel behind them.”
This process requires immense heat, which is provided by a nuclear reactor. To tunnel through the rock liquid lithium heats the rock up to the point of melting it. While losing heat, the liquid lithium is expelled behind the subterrene and serves to cool the melted rock behind it. While moving forward the cooled liquid lithium moves back to the small reactor from which the process began. So the subterrene bores itself through the earth, solidifying the path behind it with glass. Sauder reports that the machine can boreholes up to 12 meters in diameter.
There are a number of patents for the subterrene, all belonging to the United States. The existence of subterrenes may explain many interesting phenomena, for instance the claim by many “UFO” victims that they have been taken to massive, cylindrical glass-walled tunnels. Who knows . . .
XENON ION ENGINE
NASA has developed a new engine technology, the Xenon Ion Engine, which will allow for many advancements in space travel. The Xenon Ion engine will work with solar electric energy to propel the new millennium’s space craft into new galaxies. The use of ion propulsion by NASA is the first instance of space travel that does not rely on chemical propulsion. Joe Feese explains the engine’s technology:
“DS1's xenon ion engine, which fires electrically charged atoms from its thrusters, is just 11.8 inches in diameter and is powered by more than 2,000 watts from large solar arrays, which focus, collect and store solar energy. Using xenon, a heavy inert gas, for fuel, the engine ionizes (gives an electrical charge to) the gas and electrically accelerates it to aspeed of about 18.6 miles per second (about 70,000 miles per hour). When the xenon ions are emitted at such a high speed, they then push the spacecraft in the opposite direction. The converted xenon appears as a ghostly blue haze that trails from the back of the spacecraft as it catapults through space.
Perhaps the strangest thing about ion propulsion is that it provides about the same amount of thrust as the pressure of a single sheet of paper held in the palm of the hand. So how does that power a spacecraft? As more and more ions are emitted, this low thrust gradually changes the craft's velocity from low to high speed.
Since the cumulative mass of the positively charged ions fired out of the thruster doesn't weigh much, the spacecraft moves only millimeters per second in its early stages of flight. But as the energy produced accumulates, the speed can eventually build up to 70,200 miles per hour, compared to just 10,400 miles per hour for the fastest chemical propulsion engines with the same vehicle launcher and amount of propellant.”