On Jun 2, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Michel Jullian wrote:
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From: "Horace Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Miklos Borbas Thruster??
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I suspect the asymmetry in the the shape of the field in front of the
ping pong balls is important. I expect the field attracts ions
towards the balls and actually makes a wind around the balls. A
surface charge builds up on exterior the balls reducing the effect,
but the ion wind probably carries away enough of it to maintain
itself. However, the smoke test didn't show any of this happening?
It should show up in a smoke test. I suppose the much larger radial
wind might cover that up somewhat.
Mmm, which radial wind?
The stator wire tips are oriented radially. Their ion wind is
oriented radially. The field of the balls deflects that radial wind
towards themselves. That deflection is clockwise as viewed from the
top, for the device in the first photos of the web site.
In any case it would be hard to see anything while the rotor
rotates, but one could block the rotor and release the incense
smoke near the stator's emitters. If our explanation is correct it
should rise and flow towards the front of the ping pong balls.
Well, it should create a kind of vortex action (how on topic can we
get here?) It should deflect the radial flow from the axis stator
wires tangentially toward the front of the balls. I'm thinking here
in terms of the first device, which had what I call the "stator
wires", or corona wires, arrayed radially around the shaft at the
same level as the balls. The ion flow from those wires, even in the
complete absence of the rotor, should be radial.
Regards,
Horace Heffner
