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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~reginald/liftvac/Clip273.mpg Yeah I am being told that it can only work in the air but I have also found people claiming and demonstrating that it can work in a vacuum. The video above for example. Either way the atmosphere can reach beyond 40km giving the craft...

I thought I should post some links for anyone who doesn't know about lifters etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EHD_thruster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bicra-36fBo&feature=related (although it's...

I was thinking that a large scale ionocraft in theory could be built to reach space. An EHD (Electrohydrodynamics) thrusting device of this scale would need mammoth amounts of high voltage electricity that couldn't be practically fed via cables, however is there not a way to transmit the...

A nuclear warhead for example doesn't seem to take a lot of energy to make, however it outputs massive amounts of energy in an instant. Why isn't this more energy out than in and why doesn't it break the law of conservation of energy? I think the answer is going to have something to do with...

Thanks for helping me understand everyone. Thinking that resistance and the counter EMF was the same thing caused my confusion. Now I don't know what all the fuss about superconductors was. I thought that superconducting materials didn't produce any EMF when current was going through them...

If what I suggest did work then yes it would be an outright break of the law of conservation of energy. Therefore we start on the premise that I must not be accounting for something or have overlooked something. Unfortunately the reason I am posting here is because my physics understanding is...

I have read in several places that superconducting materials are the closest phenomenon to perpetual motion known to science (constant flowing electrons within a circuit without resistance). The problem is that the energy required to cool the inducting material to its superconducting temperature...

What about using a combination of the space lift and the platform? Have the platform at say 20km and then a lift in orbit? How feasible is this? I am sure there is something I haven’t considered? The lift would have less distance to extend. We would be saving more than 20km of cable. Also, if...