I finally found a video demonstration of this technology. The rumour is the US has developed this into a machine that can fly. I think we'll hear more about this in the years to come.
Essentlialy, you just run high voltage through wires and it causes the device to lift off the ground. If you think this is fake, check the other videos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lfYZeu6ZhvI&feature=related
Originally posted by uzlessThere was a local TV show in North Carolina, years ago.
I finally found a video demonstration of this technology. The rumour is the US has developed this into a machine that can fly. I think we'll hear more about this in the years to come.
Essentlialy, you just run high voltage through wires and it causes the device to lift off the ground. If you think this is fake, check the other videos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lfYZeu6ZhvI&feature=related
One time the guest was Howard Menger. Howard had an automotive coil with a Tesla winding, it produced a staggering voltage, which I don't remember.
He would put an aluminum disc with a large hole in the center, on one end of the coil, then chage the coil with a quick pulse. The aluminum disc shot off the coil and went up in the air.
Howard had noticed when he was a boy, a coil of wire would jump when it had a jolt of juice. If you ever notice when you hook up a set of "jumper" cables, when you complete the circuit, the cables will twist or move. Same principal.
Menger claimed to have built a UFO type craft for the US government.
Which makes me a skeptic right there. I mean the coil demonstration IF real is pretty cool, but the amount of energy required to make a self contained unit that would fly seems pretty far fetched.
I have the show on an old VHS tape.
It is still interesting stuff IMO
Originally posted by Ice ColdYa for sure. The demonstration was pretty cool. The object just floats above the table.
There was a local TV show in North Carolina, years ago.
One time the guest was Howard Menger. Howard had an automotive coil with a Tesla winding, it produced a staggering voltage, which I don't remember.
He would put an aluminum disc with a large hole in the center, on one end of the coil, then chage the coil with a quick pulse. The aluminum disc shot of ...[text shortened]... s pretty far fetched.
I have the show on an old VHS tape.
It is still interesting stuff IMO
As for designing an aircraft out of this technology, there are a lot of smart people out there. I wouldn't be surprised if they've done it. The stuff with the induction coil is cool. Basically wireless electricity. Can't wait for that to come to market...no more cords!
using coils, and charging them has been in use for over 100 years. nearly every furnace, automoblie, trafiic light, airplane, or any other highly industrialised equipment uses them to pull in contacts etc... by running electricity through a coil, you create a magnet. If you pass enough through, you create a very powerful magnet, which is not the same as reversing gravity
Originally posted by duecerduecer...did you watch the video?
using coils, and charging them has been in use for over 100 years. nearly every furnace, automoblie, trafiic light, airplane, or any other highly industrialised equipment uses them to pull in contacts etc... by running electricity through a coil, you create a magnet. If you pass enough through, you create a very powerful magnet, which is not the same as reversing gravity
I brought the inductive coil up as a side issue. The inductive coils are part of the other videos available but they deal with wireless electricity.
The video is of a triangle made of tinfoil that appears to "float" above a table when electricity is passed through wires attached to the tinfoil. I just thought it looked really cool when i first saw it. It appears to be an "anti-gravity" device but i do understand it's not actually reversing gravity but rather a different force is at work here.
Check it out if you haven't
In fact any lifting machine can be said to be an anti-gravity machine in so far as it acts against gravity.
More so every flying machine is an anti-gravity machine.
But what Sci-Fi people have in mind is a machine that "switches off" gravity in their vicinity, so that they don't have to use energy to overcome it.
Any machine I have seen up to now needs lots of energy to overcome gravity.
Originally posted by uzlessI think some technology is slated for a released later this year, but that's designed to replace chargers for portable devices such as Mobile Phones, media players, PDAs, etc. It'll probably be very expensive initially though.
The stuff with the induction coil is cool. Basically wireless electricity. Can't wait for that to come to market...no more cords!
I think the main problem that they're having with truly cordless electrivcity at the minute is how to stop people around you leaching electricity from you.
Originally posted by FabianFnasIn fact I was tryiong to make a point about the expression "anti-gravity" as it has been used in Science fiction, which is to overcome gravity by actually switching it off by some mysterious means and being able to fly without the use of energy. In fact I am quite sure that it can't work at all.
I think a true anti-gravity device needs as much energy as any helicopter does. It takes energy to overcome gravity.