I would like to know from Michael McDonnough in his view what more can be done by an opensource developer to protect the project and original work from being patented / ripped-off by the corporate / military industrial companies?

This is a problem that collectively needs to be cracked before any more opensource development can proceed in positive and forward direction with benefit to all.

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This is mentioned... “we were immediately hammered by a complete change in US laws and business practices”

I'd like very much to know more about this side of the story and how it affected the eventual shut-down of this project. I'm very much excited & amazed about this technology. I first seen examples of this “Lifter Project” on the Science Channel. I've been aware of similar anti-gravity technology being used in the current B-2 bomber enabling it to shutdown the conventional jet engines during flight and enabling it to fly on a gravity wave at supersonic speeds.

Hope to learn more and even perhaps build a model of the lifter (or variation thereof) seen on the Science Channel. Thanks for bringing this to the attention of people looking forward to the use of clean technology.

When laws change to avoid advancing knowledge/society/technology/ hope for new idea's it is a shame and we should be going back to the basic constitution and allow these ideas to come to benefit our country and people. Not benefit just those whose control everything in our world.

McDonnough's wide range of fringe science projects paint him as someone who is attracted to untested, unworkable ideas and unable to finish anything he starts. I doubt very much that the failure of his companies hare-brained physics has anything to do with government conspiracies and shady investors, but more to do with his extreme gullibility and lack of scientific prowess.

And in further news, Las Vegas will be the first city to ban Quantum Control Systems within city limits.

Something I have always been curious about. I try to read American antigravity as much as I can; however, the articles seem to always have the same conclusion. Great ideas / stores but one of two things always happen. Either a breakthrough is about to happen, but maybe next year or the great discovery is there but no one will pay attention / provide funding? Given the number of resources, why is it no one outside of a select few even know about these amazing discoveries? If someone is brilliant enough to dream up and implement these discoveries you would think they would be creative enough to make the public know about them. I hope I don't sound cynical (I REALLLLLYYY wish they were true) but come on, people everyday bring forth "mundane" and trivial inventions to the public eye. Can someone please provide some insight?

24 hours in a day ( 7 )day's in a week ( 52 ) weeks in a year.

Verification of the security code. 24h752 what do you make of that ????

Rutherford's comment about neutrinos, "compressed hydrogen atoms" is a goldmine of speculative thought..thank you!

No surprises here. The shadow government is NOT of the people, by the people or FOR the people. Unlimited energy would free mankind from their control, so it will be squashed at all costs . . .

An excellent article for the Web; brief, concise and informative, yet leaves the reader hungry for more information. Keep us posted, Tim!

It has always stunned me that any company would attempt to work with or even consider a nuclear based battery technology.

I am pro-nuclear 100%, but understand at the most intuitively simple level why such a company would never have a chance, even before 9/11.

It is a matter of energy contained in such batteries. A cell phone battery is typically tiny and capable of 600mah capacity. This is .6 joule second delivery rate.

No nuclear battery process is 100% efficient, though let us say this proposed nuclear battery technology is. Nuclear batteries would never be rechargeable and would have to be discarded even though their useful life might be very long (years). Disposal issues, even if recycled, would present major issues mainly for the original company manufacturing and selling. (government demands the manufacturer assume 100% long term responsibility for disposal.)

Simple math tells use that a beta emitter with betas at, say, 500kev energy, would require us to convert with 100% efficiency about 5 curies of beta decay product!! For those with even the meanest intelligence or knowledge of radiation, this is a massive amount of radioactive isotope to drop into a cell phone battery and sell to the public. While the mass of the full 5 curies might be far less than 1 gram, it presents a horrendous danger if the battery were compromised, damaged, lost or, if stolen, a terror threat. We are talking about one single cell phone battery!

Tritium is about the only Beta emitter where a license is granted in the curie range. Exit signs and other devices often contain up to 6 curies of tritium! However, the purchaser is considered a defaulting sub-licensee by the government. As such, joe public can't normally obtain these items. This is due to a line of government custody paper work that follows these serially numbered devices until they are returned for recyling or disposal to the original licensee.

The nuclear battery mentioned above would have to have hundreds of curies of tritium as its beta particles are of a vastly weaker particle energy than considered above.

Far more significantly, the government would never, ever grant a radioisotope site license for such quantities of isotope to any entity, even a company, without a complete and well staffed Certified health physics department in place. This is not a 9/11 new rule, but one that goes back 25 years!

Finally, no government department would grant a distribution, sales or other radio nuclide sales license for any consumer product with this multi-curie quantity of beta emitter in it.

All of the above militates for instant FAILURE TO START of any firm or venture looking to design, experiment or sell a multi-curie beta emitting product. I am stunned a business plan was ever drawn up for such an effort.

Richard Hull

Not much information in this article.

I have found your articles very interesting. The email address,shown above is my home address. If you'd like to respond/communicate during the day, my email at work is Bob.Guilmette@Harley-Davidson.com. They call me Uncle Bob there. My first career was in the military as a Nuclear engineer aboard Nuclear submarines in the Navy, I'm now a Senior engineer for Harley-Davidson. Still don't know what I want to be when I grow up I guess and I'm 55 now.

My major is Nuclear Physics and I helped rebuild my company. been here 20 years now.

I've alway been interested in the topics like you Tim are interested in. How do I get involved in your discussions/research is there a group I may join?. I may be older now but when challenged, the old grey matter still functions well enough. Maybe now as sharp as you. but I've evolved into quite an inventor through experience over the years and maybe I can help somehow, even just for discussion purposes.

Antigravity should not be the aim. Manigravity (manipulation of gravity) should be the focus. As weak as gravity is, developing methods to manipulate the force from within a device - rather than omit it - will generate work much more efficiently.

Very interested in contact with Dr. Ventura. Have some info to share. Please email me. Thanks.

Sounds like you know your stuff, what comment would you have on a full scale Anti gravity work. Does the technology exist in the spectrum. And how could it be proved that the essential make up of the properties of an atom are compressed substances. Would the be willing to contemplate complexity theory for AG work up or is as simple as the lifter. On another subject what portable energy supply is available for high voltage applications.

Marshall

Please, tell Mr. McDonnough about the U.S. Patent granted to Mr. Paul Brown on the same principle, and his impossibility to make a buck out of it in the '90s, that got nothing to do with 9-ll.

Along these lines, check also the work of Lt. Col Thomas E. Bearden (retd.)PhD, MS (nuclear engineering), BS (mathematics - minor electronic engineering). Co-inventor - the 2002 Motionless Electromagnetic Generator - a replicated overunity EM generator. Listed in Marquis' Who'sWho in America, 2004: http://www.cheniere.org/

This is just a few words, some names and imagery. Sounds like pure poppycock.

It's unfortunate that`This article is not more technically informative as to the methods and means to the alligations that have been made as far as propultion and the other mothods employed in said patents or briefings.

This is such HOGWASH .

Where are the Black ops guys if all this were to be true??

Hello Tim. If you are interested in futuristic projects Tim; I met someone who will bring you a few years ahead. By reading some of your articles I can also see how you and a common friend (Ex astronaut) can complement each other on some radical ideals for most of the population. Let me know if you are interested and I will send you the info. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Leonardo