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[Colin Quinney]

Hi Steven,   Coincidentally it also appeared in last week Sept.9's cover story for New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/archive.ns   Regarding it's speculative nature...     On the negative side:   I have heard that in one of their experiments they utilized an electric balance (I'm assuming a digital scale) and that the thick power supply wires might have interfered with one of their experiments. Others have noted .. It violates (apparently) the law of momentum. There are several other possibilities of artefacts such as heat build-up causing hot gas to escape from the MW cavity? Or possible coulomb artefact due to charge build-up across the assembly? Or interaction with the earth's magnetic field? And strange that it is only patented in the UK.   On the positive side:   Anyone familiar with microwave cavity and waveguide work.. can inexpensively build the unit with a kitchen microwave, sheet copper, and tubing.   - - -   In attempting to take a particular "side" in the controversy what are your potential rewards vs. your potential risks?  **IF** we are curious AND we have building experience with waveguides etc... we might decide to (quietly) attempt a replication. I suspect some folks are doing just that.   Ridicule is anathema to science. So also is believing everything we read. As in all things in life we must find that 'balance'.   Colin   ----- Original Message ----- From: OrionWorks To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:38 AM Subject: [Vo]: EM Drives, revisited Recapping the potential ramifications of the highly speculative "EM Drive" proposal. See: http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=295931 (Sorry, Tinyurl.com was down when trying to make the abbreviated version of this link.) If this speculative research turns out to be true, one can quickly extrapolate what the possibilities might quickly lead to, particularly if Mark Golde's RTS Room Temperature Superconducting material were also to become available on the market soon. From my perspective it seems conceivable that fast and efficient "EM Drives" could open up commercial space exploration of the asteroid belt, where everyone knows that's where the next Gold Gush is likely to exist in the form unlimited raw materials just waiting to be mined. Sometimes I wish I was 20 years old again. Have Space Suit, will travel. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks