Going way out on a limb.
An 8 inch diameter 24 gauge aluminum sphere inside a
12 inch diameter 24 gauge aluminum sphere (~ 1.2 kg wt.) laid on the
table with the outer sphere grounded so it's ~2.22e-9 farad capacitance
can be charged with energy > 20 joules:
V = [20*1.2/(0.5*2.2e-9)]^1/2 = 147,000 volts
Connecting the inner sphere to a Van de Graaff at 150,000 volts
(or more) through a suitable feed-though insulator will
make the thing want to float.
If it doesn't, it's back to the old drawing board. :-)
Fred
----- Original Message -----
From: Frederick SparberTo: vortex-lSent: 4/7/2006 6:36:39 AMSubject: Re: Electrogravity From Accelerated B FieldsIn order to achieve 1.0 kg of weightlessness at the earth'ssurface, ~ 20 joules of electrogravity energy (as D.C.) must be storedbetween the plate of a vacuum capacitor..Thus for a pair of one meter square plates separated by 1/2 meterthe voltage V required = (20/8.85e-12)^1/2 = 1.5 Megavolts.Obviously to get any floating levitation the two plates of the capacitormust have a combined mass of less than a kilogram.Sphere-within-a-Sphere capacitors will eliminate ion wind/coronaproblems if the radius of the inner sphere (a) is one meter(to allow occupancy) and the radius of sphere (b) is 1.5 metersC = 4(pi)8.85e-12/0.5 - 2.22e-10 farad.The vacuum volume between the spheres is about 36 cubic meters.The material for the spheres requires 41 square meters of strong-conductivematerial. Based on 24 gauge aluminum (~ 1.4 kg/meter^2) thecombined weight of the spheres is about 60 kg.At 20 joules/meter^3 required to achieve weightlessness it will requireat 1300 joules to float.V = [1300/(2*2.22e-10)]^1/2 = 3.4 MegavoltsConnecting additional sphere-in-sphere units together using crawl-abletubes-in-tubes (parallel capacitance at the working voltage) will add to float capability.TGIFAnonymous :-)

