Re: Electrostatic Hover Cars

[ThomasClark123]

In a message dated 10/14/2005 11:43:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here below is a link to an article that discusses how to make hoverboards and hovercars work based on Forcefield Air-cushion Technology:   http://www.spacemagnetics.com/hovercraft/faq_hovercraft.html I just bought a copy of their Hoverboard design notes at the above link, which is very professionally written.  It mentions a patent that presently exists for electrostatically levitated vehicles (Patent 3,095,167, filed June 1975 by H.C. Dudley) to propel a missile from Earth by using a high charge on the order of 400,000 to 500,00 volts that can be used to raise the charge on a hoverboard to compensate for the difference in charge between the board and the ground. The problem is to maintain such a high charge with such close distance to the ground.    The above design notes that I purchased also give a practical design answer that works using ions and microwaves with electrostatics but which has to be researched more and fine tuned to be mass produced.