 Campbell pointed out to a Wired magazine reporter that creating a true vacuum similar to space for the test requires tens of thousands of dollars in equipment.Byron Preiss in his 1985 book on the current science and future of the Solar System titled "The Planets" commented that electrogravitics development seemed to be "much ado about nothing, started by a bunch of engineers who didn't know enough physics".Preiss stated that electrogravitics, like exobiology, is "a science without a single specimen for study".