Press reports of an invention of a new form of propulsion system

[Sticks]

According to a newspaper called the Daily Mail, an Egyptian Student has invented a new propulsion system that can be used for Satellites

See here for the article

According to this newspaper report

Mustafa's invention generates energy using the Casimir-Polder force, an obscure quantum effect using two surfaces and objects in a vacuum.

How do people assess this as a realistic propulsion system for satellites and possibly robot space probes as opposed to other means currently being used? Is this just media hype?

[eburacum45]

This sounds like some variation on the Drive Sail or Differential Sail, a highly speculative concept mentioned by the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program;
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakth...ferential_sail

these were included in an early version of Orion's Arm, but they seem so unliklely that we dropped them...

[NEOWatcher]

I've got two questions for that reporter.
How does it "leapfrog" NASA research?
Why the description "warp drive"?

Either way. If it works, good for her. Even if it is just a variation on a theme.

[Perikles]

According to a newspaper called the Daily Mail,...

Sorry, you can't use the words newspaper and Daily Mail in the same sentence without a negative. This comic exists for the purpose of generating outrage by ridiculous distortion of a few facts. That, and an obsession with celebrities especially if they have a bad clothes day or if their bikini falls off. If it transpires that there is any truth in any of their articles, it is purely by accident.

[marsbug]

RE the Daily mail: I agree.

[marsbug]

Although it is often unintentionally funny.