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Reading the article and skimming the patent, whilst the explanation differs slightly the basic setup seems to just be the Biefield-Brown Effect. A heavily charged electrical condenser tends to exhibit motion towards it's positive pole.

I'm not a physicist and don't know if this is ion wind, if it works in a vacuum, or if this (and the Biefield-Brown Effect) is just dodgy science. Merely saying that the claims seem similar enough that it feels like nothing new.

There's videos of Biefield-Brown devices ("lifters") online, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVVJwObmTAk

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