Fred,
You will grab carbon fiber straws while Buehler in his capacitor experiments achieved up to "18% weight reduction" with 0.47 joules /newton or 20 joule/kg force.
I am convinced he, like dozens of others who have done similar experiments, is seeing only ion momentum transfer, or induced charge effects, or capacitive coupling effects... his protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
Put the thing in a vacuum and the effect goes away.
