the ion wind issue is pretty easy to solve, or at least so I think it is,
just reverse the polarity and one direction it will move slightly less, that direction is where the ion wind is the opposite direction than the main effect.
I do have a vacuum chamber, harder to set up tests in there, but I have done it.
and after testing for a bit, it is very clear that ion wind is not what is going on here.
and these people back me on the ion wind not being an issue
lifters.online.fr/lifters/arl_fac/0211001.pdf
only they bother to prove it with math.
so I was long ago convinced that the patent actually works.
so I know this is possible to do.
it is just a matter of finding the correct dielectric,
and after reading about the
expanded crystal thing, it seems to be the perfect dielectric,
sadly I just don't have the hardware to get it to work right now (I have tried) and the correct hardware is out of my price range, and potentially it is way out of my price range
if this website is correct,
Saucer Propulsion
"would only cost about a billion apiece"
even if the cost was 1/10 because it is not a secret project, and we ignore inflation, I still could not build a full ship even if I knew precisely how.
now I did quit all research on this topic for a few years,
someone else had gotten a good version of this working with an entirely other method, enough so that they could replace an engine in a model airplane,
spacewarp and all the math showed them that it was quite easy to make full sized craft fly without to much work.
I do think they have flawed physics showing why what they built works, but that does not matter.
other than updating the website (so that I can't read it all all anymore)
they have not said anything at all in years, so I guess we are not going to get anything good from them at this point.
so I started research again.
edit, this website changed my explicitly typed in link names to the titles of the pages, so sorry if the grammar seems bad where they happen