On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, thomas malloy wrote: > Hum, let's hope that independent researchers have more luck > reproducing Podkletnov's latest claims then they did on his claims of > antigravity.
This is ALMOST a hobbyist project. Except that Podkletnov used superconductor pucks larger than 10cm diameter. And used expensive high-density HTSC rather than the sintered kind. And cooled the HTSC with liquid helium rather than with LN2. I'd like to know if the effect disappears for 100K liquid nitrogen temperatures. Liquid helium is NOT something easy to work with! It also would be helpful to know if a sintered HTSC disk produces any effect, or if the high-density melted copper oxide HTSC is required. If it works with liquid nitrogen, and with sintered HTSC, then most any hobbyist with a VandeGraaff machine can try the experiment. Here's one that didn't work, although I apparently had the polarity backwards and have never tried modifying my VDG machine to reverse the charge. Morton effect testing http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/mort2.txt http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/morton1.html (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
