This effect has been known to the Internet for a long time... For example, here is a web page by Jean-Louis Naudin (Google his name + 'electrostatic' and/or 'l

This effect has been known to the Internet for a long time... For example, here is a web page by Jean-Louis Naudin (Google his name + 'electrostatic' and/or 'lifter', etc.) which dates around February 14th, 2002: http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm ...and contains references a patent by Townsend Brown (Google his name also) "US Patent N°2949550" which dates around Aug 16, 1960 -- which also describes the effect... And of course, there may be other earlier patents, foreign and/or domestic, if one does the appropriate research... But it's nice that this effect gets some more publicity here on HN...