apply a high voltage to certain asymmetric capacitors they produce thrust that's right propulsion with
more rigorous controls we see about 0.1 grams that corresponds to about one millinewton of thrust
also getting millinewtons of thrust basically real propulsion with electricity as the sole input and
uh but at high vacuum you'll get the thrust but it's always in the opposite direction of the
hard vacuum and you're getting measurable thrust oh we have we've been doing that since 2020 so the
there's no ion wind what kind of thrust in newtons or grams are you getting well we're we're still
them when we do that other than we can make more thrust which is important um but we like to
understand the thrust density if you will of each thruster so we're trying to optimize each type um
you any more thrust but you can stack them and get increased thrust well the physically large one will
thrust does depend on the area it does depend on the volume it does depend on the voltages the
the voltage range was you know the the thing causing the thrust but charles's belief is that that's sort
if you increase the voltage you don't see any change in thrust or oh you'll get more thrust for
electric field differentials creating thrust and then the second thing is very fast rotating spinning
the k factor the more thrust or propulsion you see in townsend brown's capacitor experiments brown spent
emitters at the base of lazar's craft didn't produce thrust in the traditional sense they didn't push