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Considering that photons have a force, I wonder if the force of the photos hitting a craft propelled by an EmDrive would be able to approach a star. The craft with an EmDrive would likely need solar panels to sustain the EmDrive which would increase the craft's surface area to encounter more photons and other energy particles.


There's no need of a solar panel for big spacecraft, US and USSR have designed compact enough nuclear reactor that can generate Mw of power for various submarines,like here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_class_submarine. There has been time that a single US submarine was able to power the entire Hawai island after a natural disater http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19821128&id=E...




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