This sounds a bit like a variation on the Dean Device, a reactionless space drive scheme that John W. Campbell, one-time editor of Analog was all tooted up about. The inventor wanted investors, but when potential investors wanted the thing tested to see if it was even feasible, he was either paranoid enough or confidently sneaky enough to refuse to supply information about or a working model of the device so it could be tested, claiming that he was afraid someone would steal his idea. There are people out there still trying to hawk the idea, but takers seem to be pretty slim.

The problem with devices that do work without consuming energy invariably have one slight but lethal flaw   they don't work. Wouldn't it be loverly if they did? What was it that Robert Heinlein said about this sort of thing?   "TANSTAAFL."

What can I say?

Don Firth