>>393447348 for more control, it could be one but then you couldnt reroute voltage to different plates. The side with slightly more voltage will allow the pilot to steer, with just one big capacitor you can just go up and no where else. With the 48 sided disk capacitor you can maneuver more precisely. It could be an 8 sided capacitor. Picture it as the dpad from a old playstation controller. Watch the video it explains it pretty well. Mercury is used because in a vacuum does weird shit, it may require aluminum as well i kinda forget, its in this book called evolution of matter by gustave le bon. Its a book about the weird properties of materials when certain processes are done to them(was pretty hard to find on amazon). Shit that is never mentioned or taught in regular chemistry.