What happened to it? Are they still putting it in the orbit?

It doesn't work.

The reason it's not been talked about is because scientists have realized how stupid it is. We already know it psychically cannot work.

>We already know it psychically cannot work.

Do you mean that it does affect psychic phenomenon, or that you have consulted an oracle about whether or not the EM drive works?

"Perpetual motion machine" is a stupid concept. Everything in the universe is in perpetual motion, until the universe ends.

Free energy device is a better term.

Didn't the inventor say it consumes power though? Several milliwatts I thought, I doubt the force it exerts is equal to it.

It isn't a perpetual motion machine at all.
It just (supposedly) produces reactionless thrust: it still consumes energy to do so, so you're not getting the thrust for free.

The main problem is that people assume it produces constant thrust dependent only on the wattage. Therefore past certain speed the delta v produced by thrust would make it gain more kinetic energy than what was fed as electricity.

The creator of the thing states that thrust decreases with the velocity vector of the thing (the one parallel to the direction of thrust), therefore nothing is being broken here, oh besides relativity which is also what he bases the explanation of it working on. Of course since the whole thing either doesn't work or at least nobody has any idea how exactly if works it's bullshit.

doesn't produce thrust, just heat

>Free energy device is a better term.
Energy-conversion device better still.

Idiots still believing in a perpetual energy machines. There intent might be positive, but their brains are in la-la land.

No, with the thrust to power ratio that's been reported, the drive's kinetic energy could easily exceed input energy. It would not have to be going much faster than the fastest spacecraft we've sent. It clearly violates conservation of energy.

>extrapolating that far from the tiny pool of numbers reported
yeah, no.