Making Lifters Efficient with UV
- 10-18-2002
- Categorized in: Tim Ventura- Lifter Experiments
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.
PDF Link: UV-Stimulated PreIonization
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My personal suspicion is that the propulsion results from distortion of the background quantum flux energies. After all, what is electricity and magnetism? Simply aligned and coherent quantum energies. Remember that all matter is seething with massive electric and magnetic fields. Even your office desk probably has more magnetic energy in it than a state of the art neodynium magnet, but the reason you can't access or detect this energy is because every particle in the desk is generating electric and magnetic field lines in pseudo-random directions. I.e. the field lines are so misaligned that destructive interference causes them to cancel out, creating an overall net magnetic field which us humans have arbitarily labelled as zero (although probably isn't quite zero in an absolute sense). We create accessible electric and magnetic fields by taking the chaotic fields which already exist and aligning them so that the field lines reinforce each other rather than cancel out. I suspect this antigravity thing is something similar. The high voltages are stressing the quantum flux and aligning fields or energies in such a way to create physical movement. Other experimenters talk about extracting energy from space by using high voltages to create such stresses.
Where did you get the information about x-rays from lifters? Are you saying there's a radiation danger in these experiments? I don't want to go irradiating myself!
When a high voltage is placed on a thin wire (or any other surface with a sharp edge or tight curve), an ion cloud is formed in the air surrounding it. This is caused because the electrons "bleed" onto the surrounding air molecules and attach themselves.
Once these molecules are ionized, they accelerate away from the charged wire or toward the positively charged end of the lifter. If there were no air for the electrons to attach to, they would quickly move to the positive end of the lifter, and, due to their low mass, they would produce an imperceptible lift.
However, because they have attached themselves to the air molecules, they have a much higher mass, which translated to a much higher momentum. Not only this, but these charged molecules bump into many other molecules on their way to the positive end of the lifter.
This causes multiple transfers of momentum to these many other molecules, thus significantly increasing the apparent mass. (Momentum=Mass x Velocity, and Energy=.5 x mass x velocity^2=number of electrons x e x voltage differential). This increased apparent mass slows the movement of the electrons to such a level, that they literally "pile up" in between the discharge wire and the positive end of the lifter.
So now we have two differnt methods of increasing the efficiency of the lifter. The first is to decrease the voltage required to ionize the gas, which, unfortunately, decreases the energy and thrust. The second is to increase the current through the lifter.
It appears that pretty much any energy form which increases molecular activity would allow ions to jump from the wire onto the molecules would be acceptible. These may include UV radiation, hot gases, or some other form of energy. It doesn't really matter which one.
Perhaps a simple way to increase the efficiency of a lifter is to inject a little steam upstream of it, as steam increases molecular density, and high humidity air tends to be easier to ionize.
Another concept might be multiple stages. Yet another concept might be simply using a metal screen at each end of the lifter rather than one silly little wire. This would allow massive ionization at higher currents and lower voltages - Especially if combined with the steam concept.
Let's see what you think.
1) Heat the wire and use a high temperaure wire. Just as high temperatures in a vacuum tube increases the emissivity of the metal, so it would in the lifter wire.
2) Add a foil plate over the top of the wire to keep any stray electrons from leaving in the wrong direction. I know, I know...the weight would be too much. However, if we achieve a higher current by three orders of magnitude, it wouldn't be. At that point, you'd want to wrap the whole thing in a ceramic tube to contain the thrust, anyway.
3) Use a lot more wire to emit electrons.
Let's see what your think.