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Any one care for an April 01, 2010 April's fool joke?

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Wait patiently, through the Spring of 2011 (takes time to write the reports) Did you not read the above posts, or read and not comprehend? The reports for WB7 and WB7.1 are already written, that work was completed over two years ago now. This was the contract Bussard, (M Simon and others also) spen...

Paul, Quite the opposite. That is one of the reasons I have been dragging my feet with the FOIA thing as I have worked through the process. I am conflicted with the idea that public money deserves public scrutiny, vs EMC2's ability to progress the project without outside interference. Tie both thes...

At this point, due to multiple paths (and denials) from the original FOIA, and also with my move from VA to RI, I think I am going to restart the process and in a consolidated manner. This will enable me to focus the request, and make clear up front what info is sought from what specific reports, a...

GIThruster and Paul, I have been thinking intently about this whole conservation of momentum thing when I thought up a analogy to try to understand what was going on. Let's start with GIThruster's analogy of walking on the surface of the Earth. You said (I am going to do a lot of paraphrasing, so f...

I'm not the one turning over the prevailing paradigm .... Can you point to the equations of Woodwards that show Conservation of Momentum is not violated? NB: I'm not even asking for experimental evidence, just the theory. Icarus: I pointed out Woodward's pertinent M-E papers a few posts ago that ad...

GIThruster wrote:Paul, did Peter pull his web page down? I'm not finding it and I haven't been since my last 'puter died, so I have no link.

Ron:

http://www.cphonx.net/weffect/alt.php

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As far as extraordinary claims needing extraordinary evidence, okay. But you haven't looked at any of the evidence and you don't intend to, just as you have no intention of reading any of the papers. So who did you think you were kidding? Well I haven't stooped as low as casting aspersions on what ...

As far as extraordinary claims needing extraordinary evidence, okay. But you haven't looked at any of the evidence and you don't intend to, just as you have no intention of reading any of the papers. So who did you think you were kidding? Well I haven't stooped as low as casting aspersions on what ...

Ron & Crew: I'm reposting the below commentary on the issue of calling G/I thruster devices "propellantless" propulsion that I posted earlier today for John Fornaro in the Advanced Concepts section of NSF. I think it bears repeating here and if you or anyone else has any thoughts on this naming issu...

Well, how much vacuum is enough vacuum is TBD. For the design Bruce and I are working, we're only using 50V so the subject of ion wind is not really an issue. We're using very large currents so mag coupling is more an issue. Personally, I think showing no change in thrust from ambient to E-3T shoul...

Paul, I'm sure you know this: if the budget allows go for the turbo-pump. If you have H2 and He worries a small pump in series with the main pump will help. Think of the turbo-pump as insurance for the rest of your set-up. The turbo pump goes in series with the backing pump as the max back pressure...

"Paul, I agree save that I doubt E-7 T is necessary. If you get the same thrust at E-5 as you get at ambient, then you know you don't need harder vacuum. If you, Bruce and I or Jim can generate milli-Newton thrusts on the ARC Lite (which as I recall is limited to E-6T?) I have to hope we're in busin...

Jim Woodward's first exploration into M-E thrusters was over a decade ago when he was working with Tom Mayhood, who was his graduate student at the time. The test results of those early studies are impressive, as are the videos of the torque pendulum moving under it's own thrust. Those were UFG stu...

Paul, Yes, very sad for us. I'd kill for some WB-8 data. If one where using the Polywell configuration, I think it would be easy enough to create this asymmetrical jet mode if one were to just weaken one of the B-field coil's B-field as compared to the other five B-field coils so that the beta pinc...