Salvatore Pais

Salvatore Cezar Pais is an American aerospace engineer and inventor, currently working for the United States Space Force. He formerly worked at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River. His patent applications for the US navy have attracted attention for their potential military and energy-producing applications, but also doubt about their feasibility, and speculation that they may be disinformation intended to mislead the United States' adversaries or a scam. Salvatore Pais received his advanced education at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, graduating with an MS for a thesis titled "Design of an experiment for observation of thermocapillary convection phenomena in a simulated floating zone under microgravity conditions" in 1993. Pais received his PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Case Western in 1999 on the subject of "Bubble generation under reduced gravity conditions for both co-flow and cross-flow configurations" for which he endured a number of parabolic flights to produce a low-gravity environment. His doctoral advisers were Yasuhiro Kamotani and Simon Ostrach who had carried out spacelab experiments in low-gravity aboard the space shuttle STS-50 in 1992. Pais's research was sponsored by NASA. Pais has worked as a scientist and aerospace engineer at the United States Navy's Naval Air Station Patuxent River. His patent applications on behalf of his employers have attracted international attention for their futuristic-sounding technology and potential military and energy-producing applications, but have also led to speculation that they may be disinformation intended to mislead the United States' strategic adversaries about the direction of United States defense research. He left the NAWCAD in June 2019 and moved to the US Navy's Strategic Systems Programs organization. In 2021, he transferred to the U.S. Air Force. His patent applications include: A "piezoelectricity-induced room temperature superconductor" with the function of enabling "the transmission of electrical power with no losses.