For decades the complaint about Ion-Wind Propulsion has centered on the relatively poor thrust-output and efficiency that it provides. While the Biefeld-Brown Effect has become a major avenue for hopeful scientists to seek entirely new types of efficiency, Ion-Wind research itself has languished in obscurity, resulting in no progress over time in making this type of propulsion technology more efficient. This article will not focus on the Biefeld-Brown Effect, but instead on the idea of Ultraviolet-PreIonization as a tool to enhance Lifter performance by lowering the operating voltage.

Using Saviour’s equations, a baseline voltage of 30kv from the emitter to the collector should produce an overall Lifter performance of 1 g/ Watt, and an ion-transport speed of 1.72 cm^2/Vsec. These values match established norms (calculated assuming a negative-output terminal to maximize ion-mass). Having established a baseline to compare against, consider what happens when the value of 115 volts (rectified to DC) is used instead of 30,000. The overall performance changes to 324.6 g/ Watt, which is equivalent to nearly 1 pound per watt, or about 746 pounds per horsepower).

The conductivity of a lightning channel – or any atmospheric plasma – is in fact greater than the conductivity of an equal volume of copper wire. This means that by using the appropriate wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation, it is possible to manipulate and direct low-voltage currents of electricity through the atmosphere in the same manner that they are directed through a circuit board.

Hence, instead of requiring 30 kilovolts of electricity to stimulate ion-production and conduction-charge transfer; a much greater amount of electricity can be transferred at a much lower voltage without the side-effects associated with the traditional Biefeld-Brown and Ion-Wind technologies through the intermediary use of UV radiation to modify the conductivity properties of air.

Using Saviour’s equations to demonstrate the increase in efficiency with a greatly reduced voltage helps to support the notion that lowering the voltage below the ionization threshold would provide attainable requirements for input power-levels, as well as reduce the voltage below the point where negative X-ray and ionic effects occur. However, Saviour’s equations tend to also breakdown with lower values, because the traditional community considers it common sense that “Ion-Wind” cannot exists without ionizing potentials.

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