This would be the basic design of the airship:

1. Dielectric Exterior.
2. Mylar, or simlar foil interior.
3. Battery pack, with voltage multiplier.
4. At dead center of the sphere, the fusor or IEC, Inertial
Electrostatic Confinement Cage.
5. A molecular beam, the charges the gases inside and recirculates them
to charge them repeatedly.
6. An overpressure gas release into the atmosphere at the bottom of the
craft.


It's like taking the Acellerated Beam from a Van De Graaff, and aiming
it at the center of the sphere, where there is a inertial electrostatic
confinement grid.  When the gas accepts the voltage, which would be
static, it then expands and the overall potential in volts of the
outside of the sphere increases.  The increase in voltage will continue
until the input equals the loss brought about by the amount of power
that bleeds off into the surrounding environment.  That quantity will
vary with the humidity of the air around the craft.  If the air inside
is kept dry, and at a low humidity, it will retain a high charge with
less energy.  The first sphere will contain the electron cloud until it
reaches energy level high enough to escape the cage, IEC cage.  So,
recirculating the gas trapped will hyper ionize it because, once
airborn, the power supply and voltage doubler are only charging up in
respect to what is considered ground, and ground is simply the outside
of the sphere, and the higher it's potential becomes, the higher the
ground level state becomes in relation to space, or earth ground.
Circuit ground is the sphere, and as long as the multiplier circuit can
operate the overall static charge will increase until it is bleeding
off ions at a rate that is equal to their production.  The end result
is the gas contained inside the balloon, is so like charged atom per
atom, molecule per molecule that it expands as much or more than if it
were heated, or an lighter than air gas such as helium or hydrogen.
Heat would only cause the gas to expand, and the same will happen when
every atom/molecule is electrostatically supercharged.

The real difference is that it should take less power than heat, or
weight than the cylidars filled with the gases required to get or keep
a craft afloat or adrift in the air.  In effect, the way the pith balls
work, is the way air atoms and molecules will be working but, they
literally need to be charged.  It's one thing to rub a balloon on your
head, and create a surface charge on the rubber, and it's completely
another to place a charge on an atom or molecule.  But, once that issue
is resolved, which the fusor cage would do, then it's easy to make air,
lighter than air.