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He's absolutely correct about the unprecedented global revolution that the arrival of a viable gravitational field propulsion technology will produce - in fact, that's precisely why I've devoted most of my life to this subject.  Just imagine what it would mean to every one of us if we could safely traverse the solar system, and reduce transit times to warm and habitable Earth-like exoplanets to a matter of weeks or less.  Entire worlds would suddenly be available for settling and development.  Brand new industries supporting space travel and exoplanetary habitation would blossom virtually overnight.  Children would suddenly grow up dreaming about exploring the cosmos instead of taking menial low-paying jobs under the crippling burden of student debt.  Contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life would suddenly become an inevitability rather than a remotely unlikely possibility. Industry would have access to the asteroid belt for raw materials. Rapid transport between cities and continents would birth a planetary transportation revolution.  Space tourism to Mars and the Moon would become cheap and popular.  New energy technologies would arise and transform the energy sector entirely.  It would be a new global Renaissance unlike anything we've seen before.

But I see no connection between the bismuth/magnesium material activated via terahertz radiation (which the To The Stars Academy is undertaking experimentally), and Podkletnov's extremely dubious claims about gravitational shielding via a spinning superconductor.  In fact I can't even come up with a tentative conceptual model to explain how such a process could reduce mass, as has been claimed, but I wish them all the best with their efforts because any success in the direction of mass/gravity technology would be a major leap forward.