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Subject: What's New for Jan 22, 1999
WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 22 Jan 99 Washington, DC
4. PODKLETNOV GRAVITY SHIELD: NASA INVESTS ANOTHER $600,000. The
Small Business Innovation Research grant went to Superconductive
Components in Columbus, OH to make a 12-inch superconductive disk
for an experimental shield. It's a coveted Phase II award, which
goes to the top projects. A 6-inch shield built under Phase I
didn't work (WN 15 May 98), but NASA, which has been working on
this for 4 years, hopes a bigger one will. The Columbus Dispatch
quotes a NASA official: "Let your imagination run wild. What
could you do if you could cut gravity 50 percent or negate it
altogether?" Well, for one thing you could build a perpetual
motion machine, in violation of the First Law of Thermodynamics.
5. HYDRINOS: HONEY, I SHRUNK THE HYDROGEN! BlackLight Power is
relocating to the Princeton, NJ area, having purchased a building
for $2M where RCA once built satellites(WN 8 Jan 99). Randall
Mills, who says he has a technique for getting hydrogen into a
state below the ground state, explained to the Princeton Packet
that "It's the most important discovery of all time...up there
with fire." Back when BLP was HydroCatalysis, Mills sold one of
his cells to NASA. I guess they're still testing it.
THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (Note: Opinions are the author's
and are not necessarily shared by the APS, but they should be.)
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