"ELECTRIC ROCKET" CAPACITOR ARRAY GRAVITY WARP DRIVE

LETHAL DANGER: THIS DEVICE IS AN ENERGY-STORAGE CAPACITOR. IT PRESENTS AN EXTREME ELECTROCUTION HAZARD AND MANY OTHER HAZARDS BESIDES. (ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITORS AT HIGH JOULE VALUES CAN CAUSE FLESH TO DETONATE LIKE A BOMB.) IF YOU ARE NOT TRAINED AND EXPERIENCED WITH HIGH VOLTAGE AND CAPACITOR SAFETY ISSUES, DO NOT BUILD OR OPERATE THIS DEVICE. IT CAN KILL YOU VERY EASILY. EVEN THE EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THIS TYPE OF DEVICE. USING IT IS FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN USING LOADED WEAPONS OR EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS.

Note that as of 2005, no reputable person has seen any thrust from "Gravity Capacitor." The two people who claim success have never provided any evidence for this, only words. The majority of hobbyists who build the device do not measure any thrust. Even the original author never built a successful device! I conclude that the claims of success are most probably lies.

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If it's about 25uA leakage at 2KV for 24 layers, then for 390 layers it will be 400uA (about a watt,) storing 48 millijoules. Or, if driven by a 20uA VandeGraaff, the leakage will only allow voltage to rise to a few hundred volts if using 390 layers.

If it's 1500pF (measured) for 24 layers, then it will be .024uF for 390 layers

If it's .32in thick (measured) for 24, then a stack of 390 will be 5.2in tall (compressed down to 4in min?)

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Norm S. found this:

J B Dental Supply (Calif USA)

Tin foil, $8/lb

800 333-7141

1/16/2002

The original paper was half bogus. See below. It doesn't look very certain that Kennedy ever obtained any thrust.



3/31/2000

If a capacitor-stack is divided in two by a thick dielectric plate, does it reduce the thrust? (In other words, is the 3D shape of the device important?) If we build two separate ones, do they interact? Does it interact with pieces of matter of various compostion? Magnets? Electrets? Why does it affect electronics? Alters transistors? Makes xtal clocks run fast? Alters dielectric of capacitors? Resistor values?



3/23/2000

India ink is conductive. Try printing the electrode pattern onto paper, then glue the printed paper sheets alternately with wax paper sheets to form a very solid stack.



3/23/2000

Will smaller electrode-rings also create a thrust? If so, then print arrays of small rings on the paper, instead of single large rings. If electrically charged during construction, and if there are no connections between them, then these rings will still operate even if the whole capacitor is chopped into pieces. Create antigrav-matter by fabricating ring-shaped regions of charge into solid blocks of quartz or other insulator. Antigravity building materials become feasible. Paper-stack bricks and morter can construct a floating mass!



3/22/2000

If the metal rings are adjusted so they they are slightly offset rotationally from each other, so that the slots in the metal rings SPIRAL lengthwise through the capacitor... will it produce torque and not just linear thrust?



3/22/2000

This device should not work! The inner plates are +-+-+- symmetrical, and should not contribute any forces. If the charge polarity of the end-plates controls the direction of the large thrust, then perhaps the end-plates determine the direction, while the rest of the stack acts like an "amplifier" with positive feedback causing maximum thrust. If so, the power supply of this "amplifier" is an energy source of unknown nature. Perhaps the entire thrust can be controlled by a small signal applied to just one end-plate. Switch it on and off, and thus create a piston engine.



3/18/2000

If the force is directional and not just up/down relative to the Earth, then the capacitor can be attached to a wheel rim with thrust-axis tangent to the rim, and used to run a generator. Like a water wheel, but the "paddles" are driven by "aether flow?" But if we cover the wheel-rim with capacitors, does it increase the thrust, or will the "gravity flux" connect into a circle and produce less force?



OLD:

If it runs with several thousand volts but essentially zero current, then use a DuLuc Drypile as a permanent power supply. Print the drypile onto the same paper stack as the electrodes.



This file below is INCORRECT. The author apparently never built the device himself, since he later wrote to others and said the stuff below is in error. See the files on vacuum-energy.com Among other things, Kennedy says that the foil sectors must be staggered, that the entire stack should be driven from copper foil plates on the end (not from individual strips on the sides.) He used a layer of glue under his foils (making them asymmetric,) and the capacitor is suppsed to be driven by rapid high voltage pulses of a single polarity (not by a "strong battery" as originally claimed.) The original paper says that tin foil is required and aluminum won't work. Later letters say he used aluminum foil because he couldn't get the tin! First he said that wax paper is the dielectric, later he said that it has to be a high-K material. The patent date is 1928, not 1930, and the patentee is Thomas Townsend Brown (UK patent No. 300,311)



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This file is several years old. I've called and left messages with the author twice and wrote once, all with no responses. (Update: someone on freenrg-L contacted the author's family and found that he had been killed in a car accident.) UPDATE: TOM KENNEDY WAS NOT KILLED AFTER ALL. HE DID HAVE A SERIOUS CAR ACCIDENT THOUGH. HIS FATHER LIED TO TELEPHONE CALLERS TO MAKE THEM STOP CALLING TOM.



I don't understand why the author didn't include a patent number. A cursory search of 1930 patents shows nothing called "electric rocket" or similar, but a more intensive search could be performed. I wouldn't be suprised to discover that the article is a hoax, with the goal being to get someone to put massive effort into building a foil-stack capacitor with thousands of layers, each made of many small parts! Fascinating idea though, and very much in line with T.T.Brown's work with the small apparent gravity forces generated by large capacitors at high voltage.



-Bill B. (more)