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This is a JPRS translation, dated 16 June 1992, of an article by Vladimir Lagovskiy in the Moscow newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna. It covers work at the Scientific Production Association of Experimental Machine Building, which has military ties, on a saucer-shaped vehicle. The vehicle would be driven by a fast electron flux acting on a high-temperature superconductor. Researcher Vasiliy Shabetnik also claims an 'energy conversion' process that could power a round trip to Alpha Centauri in 12 years.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1992 Document 5 of 20 position.' 21. ''Okay, but what kind of fuel are you going to use to go into space?' I collected myself to ask. 22. ...And Almost With Perpetual Motion 23. ``Will you put a nuclear or fusion reactor on the space vehicle? Or will you turn to the energy of the vacuum?'' 24. 'Neither one of the three,' Vasiliy Dmitriyevich responds. Do you recall another sensation which was trumpeted roughly at the same time as high-temperature superconductivity? It was reported that the so-called cold fusion was discovered in the United States. Then this phenomenon was replicated in many laboratories throughout the world. That it was replicated yet again could not be explained. And why? Simply because they were trying to find the features of fusion reactors where they couldn't be found. 25. 'I remember these experiments vividly. I even observed one of those at Moscow State University. A jar with heavy water, two live electrodes, and all of a sudden, additional heat, as if from nowhere. And if its source is not 'cold fusion,' then what was it? 26. 'We call this phenomenon 'energy conversion.' And the jar itself is a primitive converter model. Water boils in it. Using the scientific language, we are dealing with a phase transition. Yet in this case the water particles are moving in an orderly fashion due to an electric field. And in such cases, according to our theory, phase transitions result in an increase in the energy release. The gain is some 2.12-4.2 times greater than the work spent. 27. 'Wait a second, wait a second,' I am trying to interrupt what I have just heard, 'Are you talking about perpetual motion?' 28. 'No, we are talking about extracting the inner energy of the matter.' 29. ''And can it be used in any way?'' 30. 'Be my guest. You can even design power plants instead of the traditional ones. Yet I must repeat that it would be an extremely primitive one-boiling water...and of course, such a converter is not suitable for space flights. 31. ''We have already found an electrical analog of the processes during which energy conversion occurs'', Shabetnik continues. ''And it can be extracted not from water but from, say, metal. Suppose you
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.