The 'official' name of the StarDrive electronic dynamo, per the U.S. Patent and international PCT Application, is Electrodynamic Field Generator. The EDF Generator uses stationary permanent magnets and rotating field coils to produce a very-high DC primary voltage, and vacuum-tube constructs to electrostatically expand and control that voltage, for purposes of accelerating huge quantities of electrons to energy levels that are generally associated only with a particle accelerator. It's somewhat like an enormous glorified arc welder whose output is deliberately shorted to its own housing, and the DC voltage and current across emitter and collector sections of the hull are thermionically increased to values usually found only in lightning: but the current density is limited to a value which falls short of literally 'welding' the hull!
As depicted above, electrons in the electric field envelope (depicted in blue) reach an impact velocity at the central collector sections which is very nearly that of light, and applied magnetic fields allow modulation of the Drive Field current's properties. The Primary Arrays shown in the general schematic diagram below have control grids which allow a resistance imbalance to be imparted to the otherwise symmetrical Field current, so that they render the relativistic current impulse variably non-isometric: thus yielding thrust which is essentially reactionless! And the simple DC Primary Power System, like the early Faraday disk dynamo, is wholly rotor-based . . .
On June 11, 2002, U.S. Patent 6,404,089 for the Electrodynamic Field Generator was issued to Mark Tomion, author of "StarDrive Engineering". This Patent is the first in the world for a truly all-electric flying saucer design, and this type of starship is the only one ever developed thus far that would provide adequate electromagnetic shielding from interstellar radiation and microparticles at relativistic velocities.
Commentary by Bill Hamilton: Mark's design so impressed me that I asked if I could
post some of this material to this website as I feel it offers us a chance to make a leap forward in the engineering of starships.
Also, Mark's design parallels my own unpatented design that I started working on in the 1970s. I filed my drawings and photos
of my prototype as incomplete, but I am now encouraged to complete my plans.
Mark contributed something further. Below you will find a spreadsheet for his design hull configuration, which was created with much time and effort, and he asks that you do not copy it without
his permission. Mark has written and illustrated a 441-page book entitled
STARDRIVE ENGINEERING which you can order directly from him from his website at:
www.stardrivedevice.com
