19-year-old invents spacecraft propulsion device  A woman named
Aisha Mustafa has invented a propulsion device that could result
in cheaper means of energy consumption for spacecrafts. Oh yeah,
and she's a 19-year-old college student.  The Egyptian
university student at Sohag University invented a propulsion
device that eschews the radioactive-based jet and rocket engine
set-up for quantum physics and chemical reactions. You know,
like most teenagers.  The device generates energy from electric
energy by using the Casimir-polder force, the energy that occurs
between separate surfaces and objects in a vacuum. This could be
a huge improvement over rocket-fuel based models that,
obviously, rely on solid and liquid fuels.  This could lead to
cheaper and greener space travel. Mustafa said the next step is
testing it at with a major scientific research organization and
one day hopefully bringing it practically into space missions
Not bad for a 19-year-old.  Via humanipo  For the latest tech
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