{"id":172343,"date":"2023-09-19T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/youtuber-builds-diy-ionic-thruster-that-actually-works"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:25:44","slug":"youtuber-builds-diy-ionic-thruster-that-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/youtuber-builds-diy-ionic-thruster-that-actually-works","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber builds DIY ionic thruster that actually works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youtuber-builds-diy-ionic-thruster-that-actually-works2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, a YouTuber called Jay Bowles who goes by the name <em>Plasma Channel<\/em> built one and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrEBoPYS4ns&t=10s\" title=\"posted the process on his channel\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">posted the process on his channel<\/a> on Saturday. He started his video off by saying he was partially inspired to build the thruster by MIT\u2019s model developed in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nrEBoPYS4ns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This version of the technology actually made a vehicle fly. \u201cTheir design was brilliant,\u201d said Bowles in his video. \u201cAnd it included aspects of a decades-old device called an ionic lifter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, a YouTuber called Jay Bowles who goes by the name Plasma Channel built one and posted the process on his channel on Saturday. He started his video off by saying he was partially inspired to build the thruster by MIT\u2019s model developed in 2018. This version of the technology actually made a vehicle fly. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}