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Re: Towards the autonomous lifter - electrostatic voltage generators.

Original poster: "Mercurus2000" <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>

I've gotten a small tranangular lifter to levitate using about 4 watts of
power.
Adam
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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Towards the autonomous lifter - electrostatic voltage
generators.


> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> "Especially useful for our methods might be the
> Wimhurst, Wehrsen,
> Holtz, or Bonetti machines. I believe these devices
> would be able to
> deliver more current and therefore greater wattage for
> our
> application than a Van de Graaff generator."
>
> Not sure about it, but I think that ES motors have a very poor
> power/weight ratio, and are probably quite inefficient.  Antonio would
> know about that.  Has anyone calculated the power required to operate a
> lifter of useful size?
>
> Ed
>
>