One of my less destructive hobbies is research into alternative energy technologies: not solar or wind, but one step further into the twilight zone from that. We're talking the Searl Effect, Biefield-Brown Effect, Hydrinos & the work of Nikola Tesla. I have played with large voltages and interesting frequencies myself and have certainly observed some interesting things - as well as almost killing myself on a few occasions. Air is not as good an insulator as some people think when the voltages are high enough...
This really is the realm of many scam artists, but similarly there are many individuals of great sincerity and also great brilliance, who endure ridicule (and worse) in order to see if it is possible to break out of the paradigm and usher in a quantum shift in the world.
Make no mistake: amidst all the charlatans and the deluded, there is real research going on here that is yielding intriguing - if inconclusive - results. I can more than vouch that many government bodies keep a watch on some individuals, if only on a "just in case basis". They'd be foolish not to.
One so called EM Drive has been generating some comment over the past few years, ever since a New Scientist article generated an specially vitriolic series of comments that touched not only the EM Drive itself, but the entire peer review process.
Conceptualized by Roger Shawyer, this device initially seems crazy...but on further research, you begin to wonder, if only a little. Allegedly, this drive uses a simple magnetron and wave guide (actually more accurately describe as a resonating cavity, shown above) to generate thrust - effectively a reactionless drive. In the process, it is supposedly violating the law of conservation of momentum.
It will take me too long to go through the debate that has raged here, but recently I have become aware that Chinese researchers have picked up on this and have run with it. Whilst second or third hand information must always be treated sceptically, I am in little doubt that the Chinese are taking it more than seriously. Northwestern Polytechnical University is allegedly running a series of parallel projects on the EM drive: one is focused on creating a working model of the device using currently known information, and the other is purely focused on developing the mathematical/physics models and equations that explains what is going on. An intriguing approach that should allow for rapid improvements if they reach a tipping point...
My scam detector is wary but not going off with this one: this guy is definitely onto something, even if the physics is not fully understood and thus poorly used to explain the effect.
One to keep watch on...
