[Christ]

The idea - as I understand it - is to slow the flow down such that it creates a high-pressure area at the rear of the capsule. The high pressure area, if it had greater pressure than the high pressure area at the nose of the capsule, would essentially create movement.

Keep in mind, that this would be overunity. We know that overunity does not exist, at the current time, in technology. Rather, what's happening here, is that with the aide of suction (generated by other means), the boundary layer is slowed and kept in an inswept area (concave shape) to allow that pressure to have some effect on the capsule at large. The gross effect appears to be thrust, but the net effect (forward pressure (fP) minus rearward pressure (rP)) would obviously not be. However, the net effect, after subtraction of the opposing forces, would yield that less power be needed to overcome drag from a mechanical source. If there is high pressure somewhere, there is not low pressure in that same place, and most of drag is the wake, or low pressure area.

So, looking at the formula:

fP - rP = net effect.

If we can calculate that the pressure at fP is 200 lbs, and the pressure at rP is 100lbs, then the formula becomes:

200 - 100 = 100

The net effect is a reduction in the mechanical force necessary, to 100 lbs, to defeat fP.

Where the design still fails is:

The design still requires that a vacuum be produced to adhere the boundary layer to the concave surface of the capsule. This vacuum is being generated by mechanical means, at a cost to efficiency, also partially canceling the effective reduction in fuel used to move the vehicle.

The actual effect of the current design is to move fuel use from one job to another. However, since optimal vacuum can be generated with an engine running at peak efficiency on a constant basis, there might still be fuel savings created, if the systems are isolated from each other. (The optimal vacuum obviously depends on speed of the boundary layer, and thus would only be "optimal" at a small range of speeds... like 60 MPH, if applied to passenger cars... or 500 MPH, if applied to jets.)