EU advocates can be roughly split into two groups. The first are garden-variety
physics cranks who are convinced that they have a legitimate, revolutionary scientific theory, and that the scientific establishment is either blindly ignoring them out of misplaced faith in their own theories, or deliberately suppressing them for
some greater, nefarious purpose.
The second group is composed of various other
woo-peddlers who use EU claims to prop up their main ideas (because mainstream
physics would blow them apart). For these people, the EU hypothesis is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
SAFIRE Project
The International Science Foundation (a front group of EU supporters who falsely claim to neither support nor oppose the Electric Universe hypothesis) says that they provided $2,200,000 USD to fund a laboratory experiment to test the EU claims regarding the nature of the Sun. There is no independent analysis of their work and no publications about SAFIRE found on Google Scholar. The SAFIRE Project is housed in Mississauga,
Ontario, and is documented in videos from the EU2016 conference. They say that their intent is to compare the results of this experiment to the results of NASA's Solar Probe Plus mission, and thereby demonstrate whether the EU solar model has any grounding in reality
