I claim to have some expertise in the field having put in the required 5000 hours of study over the last ten years.
I've not got very far of course, because after 58 years of undiagnosed Autism making me very unfit for modern society, I've been skint and depressed for much of the last twenty years, indeed my adopting this as a serious topic for investigation, sprung from my desperation to own my own house so as to minimise my financial cost of living.
The reasoning went thus:
I need a house and have no money, and for some reason since the parting of the ways with the woman who did my job applications I've become utterly unemployable at any rate that will allow me to save for one.
Therefore, traditional working for an employer isn't going to save me from homelessness. My partner intends to leave her house to her brother, who I like, and therefore do not want to live in his house, if she should die before myself. I've an idea that as a single bloke living on my own with near zero income I'd just slowly mess it up, and he'd have to watch that process, and I'm tired of being the bad guy..
So I need a big lump of money all at once, if I am to have a house. In short a "get rich quick scheme" and it's an existential need, caused by my very real fear of being excluded to the point of homelessness. I worked out the odds for me becoming P.M, winning the lottery, etc. I searched in vain for a victimless but lucrative crime I could commit, but came up empty handed. "Behind every great fortune is a great crime" I have heard said, but when you look into those crimes (as I have) it's just stuff I would not want to do to other people.
No, in short, I realised that I have to CREATE enough "value" that society would give me what I need in return.
Long story short, I find some UFO reports and evidence compelling. My fellow pilots for example, are a serious and largely humourless bunch, and the commercial ones are held to very high standards of mental and physical fitness, so when the non-handling pilot of Concorde made a very detailed report of an object he witnessed doing circles around the fuselage as they passed Mach two, I took it as most likely to be maximally credible, and noted the evidence of a technical way of moving things in a controlled manner through 3d space!
I did not care who's making that stuff happen, whether it's dot mil or aliens, (It appears to be both, since the fifties) all I saw was a huge technology, that if I could figure it out well enough to have it stolen and exploited by an "entrepeneur" would be so lucrative that I could get my house, simply by working as a consultant for a few years...
No better options presented themselves, so about 15 years ago I started really looking into the subject and in 2011, started building hardware rigs and doing tests on the Biefield Brown effect.
I swiftly found out that this is a field full of "liars and loons", of course, some of whom are very persuasive indeed, but there are indeed a few noteworthy names in the field, who have actually peeled back a little of the veil, and the amateur field has a few people in it who can really "think", but the odds are real low. For example 10,000 people according to the J.Naudin website have built high voltage "Lifters" YET I have only found THREE out of that host of "experimenters" who have ever posted work that builds on the original little thing, or extended the knowledge in any way.
My only contribution is that I made a test rig where I could measure the force obtained precisely, the electrical power required to obtain it, and the voltage available to create the force that I obtained, and was thus able to ploy a graph of force obtained / Kilovolts applied. That graph suggested that if one could get into the hundreds or even megavolts range the obtained force obtained would be enough to lift it's own power supply. And so I set out to invent such a power supply, because in the real world they are very thin on the ground, and erecting that sort of voltage in any controllable way, let alone as a wave form or series of pulses or as DC as required is something that hasn't been done yet.
So there are as I see it two opportunities for hobbyist activity in this area.
1. build a traditional low voltage lifter with it's 25Kv psu and a force measuring rig try to refine it to be more efficient at producing thrust.
A lot of boring iterative work, but it needs to be done, and more data collected about different materials and geometries for the plate would be very handy indeed. I've lacked the room until later this year (projected) to do this myself.
2. The novel P.S.U. design work needs to be completed.
I've had everything including our fusion project take precedence over this work, but I have a rough and ready 25KV module mostly built but not tested, to work in pulse or D.C. modes. Doing the wave form is a bit tricky and requires more electronics than I can remember right now. Indeed I'm struggling to recollect how to bias a bloody transistor to run on when an optical diode sees I/R light these days...
If anyone feels drawn to this subject, and would like to invest time and effort into understanding one of the most enigmatic forces of nature, (I think I mostly do know how it works, but there are huge blank spots, between my theoretical understanding and ability to deliver a practical drive system) with me, then please indicate your interest below...