Good point. Is it possible that a warp drive needs to be kept hot while operating inside gravitiy wells or simply can never be shut down away from a massive infrastructure. This is hardly unreasonable.
most high temp industrial processesw are simply banked because actual shut down is a long costly exercise.
That was the real reason for the CANDU reactor design. wonderfully demoed after sixty years going through an operating refurbishment. That is the exception.
So yes a hot stable warp drive is something that does not do cold starts.
Numerical Simulations of the Glowing Orbs Surrounding Warp Drives in the Earth’s Atmosphere
Avi LoebAvi Loeb ∙ August 12, 2026 ∙ 4 min read ∙ View on Medium
Snapshot of a numerical hydrodynamic simulation of the air flow around a warp drive bubble, showing the projected density and velocity in the bubble’s frame. In this example, the warp bubble speed is 75% of the speed of light. The bubble wall is shown by the black circle near the shock nose. The stagnation zone is clearly displayed between the bubble wall and the tip of the shock zone, denoted by the blue zone in front of the black circle. (Image credit: S. Fell and A. Loeb 2026)
Snapshot of a numerical hydrodynamic simulation of the air flow around a warp drive bubble, showing the projected density and velocity in the bubble’s frame. In this example, the warp bubble speed is 75% of the speed of light. The bubble wall is shown by the black circle near the shock nose. The stagnation zone is clearly displayed between the bubble wall and the tip of the shock zone, denoted by the blue zone in front of the black circle. (Image credit: S. Fell and A. Loeb 2026)
The five tranches of data released by the U.S. Government over the past three months through the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (available here) report mysterious orbs in the Earth’s atmosphere which cannot be easily explained in terms of known natural or human made phenomena. Are these new atmospheric phenomena, black projects of adversarial nations or signatures of alien technology?
The UAP Science Advisory Council (https://uapsac.com/) under my leadership plans to
