Hi Zoelra, thanks, that's a good tip.
I'll definitely have to build a powered, high-speed gyro, just for fun. Only a couple of weeks and I'll have a functional workshop, with doors...
Laithwaites design for a reactionless drive wasn't ideal for land-based craft, but it was a good starting point. Perhaps the effect could be used to drive a 'flying car', but it may be difficult to engineer.
The 'Dean Drive' is another - it doesn't use gyros, but eccentrics:
http://www.inertialpropulsion.com/dean_drive.htmNeither of these, however are really gravity-powered, or OU...
Gravity Can Do Work...The only possible ways to get gravity to do work, as far as I can tell ATM, are
1) Use a 'gravity shield' - e.g. Podkletnov, Keeley(?).
2) A system of varying inertial frames / reference points. This is only a Bessler-inspired conjecture TBH. I'm sad the RAR Energia seem to have hit problems.
3) Electro-static-gravitic lift - e.g. T. Townsend Brown, 'Lifters'. I assume that this can be made OU - as it's essentially an electrostatic effect... Not sure it's strictly gravity though...
Hypothesis: How Electrostatic Drive WorksHere's a hypothesis for where the lift in (3) comes from: By biasing the natural quantum fluctuations in the material.
- Quantum transposition is constantly happening, and a strong electrostatic field affects the probabilities of where things will 're-appear'.
- Electrons (-ve) will tend to re-appear towards the +ve pole of the field, and atomic nuclei (+ve) the -ve.
- So electrons, in the course of their orbit, will tend to miss out part of the orbit where they are moving toward the -ve pole of the electrostatic field. They will 'jump' to a more 'likely' orbit. So their centrifugal force will be asymetric - i.e. toward the +ve pole.
- Electrons, could also tend to re-appear in a higher orbit (shell), which would decay - resulting in fluorescence that apparently is observed(?)
- The nucleus, would tend to appear towards the -ve pole, and would then tend to 'spring back' to the center of the atom. If this is repeated at the top of each rebound, I think it could result in a 'Dean Drive' like effect on the atom as a whole.
Just thought I'd throw that in...