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Free Energy?
In this series
of articles, we will attempt to examine
several “Free Energy” devices, and explain
their workings in a very simplified way;
while discussing the proposed theories
behind them. Also, we will take a look at
the new inventors and researchers working
within the Open Source Energy movement; and
how Internet collaboration has changed the
face of invention… With selected interviews
with some of the most important players in
the movement today.
The proposition
here being that there are many new devices
being developed using clean, cheap, and
limitless forms of energy to power them: And
that these devices may have the capability
to change all our lives for the better. They
are a new breed of electro-magnetic and
magnetic motors and other devices that run
on very little current, but which can
provide both mechanical work and electrical
output in excess to the energy that is put
into them. Many of these fascinating
inventions have been around for over 20
years now; and there are literally hundreds
of patents on devices having such claims. A
few, in 2008, are finally coming into the
initial marketing, operational, and
manufacturing stages. These highly varied
inventions have three characteristics in
common: They are all outside of the
scientific mainstream, are rarely reported
on by the media, and are lighting-rods for
controversy and skepticism.
A word about
“Free Energy”, a “buzz word” which will come
up often: This is a highly controversial
term, even amongst those who believe it is
possible to extract large and useful amounts
of energy by unconventional means. The word
“Free” could imply there is no cost and is
somehow “magical”. That is not correct,
perhaps “cheap” is a better term; and the
well-documented science behind many of them
certainly is not “magic”. These devices will
of course cost money, and there will be
significant limitations to their efficiency
and effectiveness; especially until they are
developed further. “Free” also pertains to
the fact that they are all “pollution free”,
using no external chemical fuels and often
requiring much less electricity to operate
than they output (or least being much more
efficient than “traditional” means). But
perhaps the most accurate use of the word
“Free” would relate to the change in society
that these inventions would bring: Freedom
from the electrical grid and filling
stations… Freedom from an economy built on
“scarcity”…. And freedom from the need to
pollute our planet to maintain a high level
of civilization.
These devices
and principles may sound wildly optimistic,
perhaps even too good to be true… And
possibly they are. But please note, it is
not the science behind them that is holding
most of them back: It is the paradigm of the
society in which we live that is stopping
them from eventually becoming every-day home
appliances, industrial processes, and
utterly clean power sources.
A Brief Intro: Magnetic
Motors and Related Solid-State Devices
Most of the new
“magnetic motor” devices work by exploiting
previously unexplored aspects of magnetism
and/or inductance. By “thinking out of the
box”, their inventors have managed to create
devices that side-step, and even use for
gain, the biggest problem that traditional
electric motors face: What is commonly
called “Back EMF” ; or more accurately,
“Counter Electro-Magnetic Force”. CEMF is
the counter-current that is produced by the
rotation of a motor in a magnetic field, and
is what has, up until now anyway, stopped
motors from being truly efficient. The
higher the rotation rate of the motor, the
greater the CEMF opposing it: Creating a
natural brake and barrier to true energy
efficiency. What several inventors have
done, is find clever ways to get around most
or all of the CEMF; thereby greatly
increasing the efficiency of the motor. As a
bonus in some cases, excess electrical
energy gained from the CEMF itself has been
harnessed and taken out of the system as
generated electrical power; besides the
mechanical work being done by the turning
motor shaft. For this reason, most of these
devices would be more accurately termed
“motor-generators”.
It has been seen
with the designs of some of these devices,
that a rotor can be made to move and do
useful work using little more than carefully
placed magnets (or combinations of permanent
magnets and precisely-pulsed electro-magnets).
Other, more traditional designs utilize the
principals of “Variable Reluctance” (changing
the magnetic “resistance” within a motor
during operation), to lower current draw
greatly: Creating motors with efficiencies
undreamed of before (as developed by Dr.
Peter Lindemann and others). Some designs
are complex hybrids of these technologies or
others, such as electro-static energy. When
these turning motor shafts are used to
generate electricity, the result can be more
total power outputted than was put in. Some
of these devices have been reportedly made
to be “self-runners”: Powering themselves
from their own electrical output; creating
self-contained “fuelless” electrical and/or
torque generating systems…. Motors with the
capability to run as long as their
mechanical parts can last, without any
external input of energy.
Equally
important and promising as the very high-efficiency
or “free energy” magnetic motors; are new
non-rotating devices that work via the
interaction of inductance (specially
designed coils and transformers),
capacitance, and magnetism. Through clever
manipulation of magnetic fields, useful
electrical power can be extracted from these
devices that exceeds the observed power that
was put into them. Col. Tom Beardon’s device,
the “M.E.G.”, is one such invention that is
very well documented. It looks much like a
transformer with large magnets attached… Yet
it has been demonstrated successfully and
repeatedly to produce more energy than it
consumes. Perhaps another, much more
controversial one, is now known famously in
the Open Source Energy movement as the “TPU”
(“Toroidal Power Unit”); a device shrouded
in mystery which has become an urban legend
due to the fantastic “You Tube” videos
regarding it. The TPU is purported to be
first developed by a California inventor
named Steven Mark in the 1990’s; but Mr.
Mark has since disappeared or gone into
reclusion. Although the original TPU devices
have all been lost, there is a large
Internet cooperative project in the Open
Source movement to reproduce it. The amazing
thing about the TPU is, without any moving
parts, a device weighing about 30 pounds
could supposedly generate over 1,000 Watts
of power; using only a small excitation
circuit powered by a 9-volt battery (…this
according to several witnesses, including
reputable electronic engineers). Besides the
impressive power output, the TPU was
reported to have the very strange gyroscopic
tendency of resisting physical movement of
the device… It “pushed back” with resistance
when moved; suggesting that a circular
magnetic flux vortex was created within the
toroidal (“doughnut”) shape when operating.
It and the M.E.G. both appear to act as
“motor-generators”; but with no moving parts.
It is important to note that Col. Beardon’s
M.E.G. is a verified working device; and the
TPU is as yet unverified.
These systems,
whether solid-state or motive, often have
what is called “COP > 1” (a “Coefficient Of
Performance greater than One” also often
called “Overunity”)… Meaning that they
produce more energy than is observably put
into them. Well, this is of course
“impossible” under current scientific dogma
and by the “Laws of Thermodynamics”: Until
one considers that the form of energy these
devices may be tapping into is not
traditional or observable by ordinary means.
The motive force is most often thought to be
that illusive and seemingly “magical” form
which is known by many names: Zero Point
Energy (“ZPE”), Etheric Energy, Ergone,
Energy from the Vacuum, Radiant Energy, and
many others. It is energy that comes from
the surrounding “ether”, or residing within
the “quantum sea” of n-space if you prefer.
Others believe in the case of some devices,
that it is energy coming from the Earth’s
magnetic field. This highly controversial
subject (even among its proponents) has
caused some uproar in past years. We have
sometimes heard about a few highly
publicized frauds; and their inventors’ or
promoters’ wild claims made without any real
proof to back them or even a working device
prototype, for that matter. But this is
inevitable with any new and rarely studied
technology. The hand-full of frauds and
honest but deluded dreamers have the
unfortunate effect of clouding and tarring
the entire subject… And they are often
covered by the media while other legitimate
and serious alternative energy devices are
not. But it is important to note that by far
the majority of these alternative energy
devices are not frauds or unrequited dreams…
Many of them have been duplicated, proven,
and observed to work as promised by
respected members of the scientific
community… Producing cheap and clean energy
“from the air” so to speak. Amazing?
Incredible (literally..)? Perhaps…. But
hundreds of legitimate scientists have now
observed operation of these devices, and are
forced to admit that there is indeed
something unique going on here… Something
that traditional science cannot easily
explain without embracing new theories in
Physics. And because of the Open Source
Energy movement on the Internet, many
independent researchers (garage tinkerers
and shade-tree mechanics, would-be inventors,
and electronics hobbyists) have duplicated
these devices themselves with widely
differing results.
There are many,
many designs for non-traditional “magnetic
motors”; some that are simply more efficient
than traditional types (but still with a COP
<1), and some that exhibit “true overunity”.
The Adams motor/generator is one such device;
invented by the late brilliant New Zealand
inventor Robert Adams. This fairly simple
design lends itself well to reproduction,
and is a favorite of home “Free Energy”
electronic enthusiasts. Similar motor-generators
using magnetism as the motive force were
invented by Howard Johnson, Robert Teal, E.V.
Gray, Joseph Newman, John Bedini, Paul
Baumann, Bruce de Palma, Teruo Kawai, and
Dr. Peter Lindemann. A few companies are now
attempting to manufacture and market their
overunity-claiming inventions, such as Lutec
Ltd. of Australia, and the Steorn Group of
Ireland. And in June 2008 ; a new 300 horse-power
self-running magnetic engine using permanent
magnet pistons called the “Magforce” was
unveiled by a company in Korea; Shinyeon.
Although very little is known of this device
yet at the time of this writing, it appears
to be on the fast-track for mass production…
A true milestone in history if this happens.
And there are many other inventors and their
devices not mentioned here but which may be
equally effective and valid.
One of the most
unique of these working motor-generators is
the Testatika device, which is being
developed by the Methernitha religious
community located near Berne, Switzerland.
The now-deceased inventor and leader of the
commune, Paul Baumann, created a device that
can generate electricity without any
external fuel. It works on a principal of
high static electrical charge created by a “Wimshurst”-type
electrostatic generator (counter-rotating
metal disks creating huge static charges),
which is then converted into useful power
using a unique collection of coils,
capacitors, and other components. The
commune is very insular and has no wish to
market or advertise the machine. However,
many outside witnesses including scientists
and University professors, have visited and
studied it; and none have so far claimed the
Testatika does not work.
Nearly all these
magnetic motor devices share a design quirk:
They are generally powered by a “Source”
battery, and return energy into the system
via one or more separate “Charge” batteries.
This can make it a bit more difficult to
measure the power in and out… Especially
since the power coming out is unique and has
strange effects on the batteries themselves.
The energy generated from these devices is
usually derived from DC pulses (“DC” meaning
in this case unidirectional, positive-going
only and not just “flat” direct current; as
opposed to “AC” alternating current, which
changes polarity each cycle). These DC fast
“spikes” are usually of high frequency and
voltage potentials.
When batteries
are charged via this pulsing method, they
exhibit strange tendencies… Such as after
long periods of time, inexplicably charging
to higher voltages and amp-hour figures that
are much greater than their published rating
(…or that was previously thought possible).
12V batteries have been reported to
eventually over long periods of time safely
reach charges of over 30 Volts. These DC
pulses were also soon found to have the
serendipitous effect of “rejuvenating” old
batteries that were “sulfated”: Meaning;
that ions of oxygen sulfate had gradually
covering the electrodes and eventually made
the battery nearly “dead”; because the
coating had greatly lessened the charge
potential between the positive and negative
plates. This coating of sulfate SO4
ions is by far the most common fate of older
lead-acid batteries. Charging using these
sharp pulses “de-sulfates” the batteries,
and will return them to nearly “like-new”
condition again. However, it is important to
note here for the would-be experimenter that
this technique can also be dangerous if
misused; as over-voltaging a battery with
pulses of too-high a voltage and/or too fast
a repetitive frequency can cause it to
possibly explode, crack and leak, and fume
poisonous gas into the air (one should
always charge batteries in a well-ventilated
space immune to acid leak damage, and wear
eye protection and gloves when handling them).
Highly effective
and very energy-efficient de-sulfating
battery chargers (with safe, carefully
limited spike potentials) are now hitting
the market and will soon dominate the
battery charging industry… As a direct
result of the previous research done on free
energy magnetic motors by inventor John
Bedini and others. These “pulsers” can
charge a battery at a fraction of the time
and power used by traditional chargers,
while “rejuvenating” it and greatly
prolonging its life via de-sulfating. Also,
oddly enough, batteries previously thought
to be non-rechargeable such as disposable
Alkaline types can often be successfully
recharged when pulsed. De-sulfating is an
important technology for Wind or Solar
renewable energy systems; where the large
and expensive deep-cycle battery banks
needed for “off-grid” operation benefit
greatly. So far de-sulfating chargers are
one of the very few inventions from the free
energy sector to successfully make it into
the mainstream… But it won’t be the last to
do so; if the Open Source Energy movement
has any say in the matter.
The “spike”
pulses coming off of these unique motors
have other interesting effects and
characteristics besides battery charging.
They are often termed what is known as “cold
electricity” or exhibiting “Negative
Resistance”…. Meaning that this form of
power does not act as “normal” electron
charge-sourced electricity does. Devices
utilizing it will typically not heat-up as
usual; and if arcing occurs via shorting or
spark-gaps, the sparks appear long and
tenuous, bright in the infra-red spectrum
and somewhat like lightening…. Totally
different than “normal” electricity arcs.
Plus, the current path of this energy does
not always conform to regular electrical
laws and formulas: “Counter-currents” can
reside within the same wire… power flowing
in two or more directions simultaneously. In
fact, this “cold energy” has been termed as
not actually flowing through the wire; but
rather traveling along its surface. The
voltage spikes, created either as
electronically-generated pulses or as
artifacts from mechanical switching (“noisy”
transient spikes generated by a mechanical
switch’s movement across the contacts), are
thought to act as the triggering and
receiving mechanism for “zero-point” or
“cold” energy.
It appears that
most free energy electrical devices share
this characteristic: The “excess” energy
seen in the system is caused by the near-instantaneous
collapsing field of the large DC spike
pulses. It is as if the pulse opens a
fleeting window (only microseconds in
duration), where “free energy” is then
allowed to enter the circuit. These oddities
are also why batteries or very large
capacitors are so often used to collect the
pulse energy; to more easily convert it into
a useful form.
The phenomenon
of high-frequency pulses supplying excess
energy into a circuit was first observed by
Nikola Tesla in the 1890’s. Tesla is the
undisputed “Godfather” and beloved hero of
the Open Source energy movement, and was the
inspiration for many inventors. He had
several hundred patents to his name, and
while working for Westinghouse, was the
prime inventor of the AC power generation
and transmission system that is still being
used today by all our electric companies.
But once Tesla began studying radiant energy,
he left behind all work in AC generation;
convinced that “energy from the ether” (radiant
energy) was the proper answer for society’s
energy needs. By 1905, Tesla had built a
giant antenna tower array at Wardenclyffe on
Long Island, NY… Which was reported to be
designed to conduit, transform, and transmit
radiant energy power to millions of people
through the air and ground… Without any
wires. When his main financer, J.P. Morgan,
realized what Tesla intended to do with the
huge tower, he quickly closed the project
down, famously asking: “Where do we put the
meter?” To Morgan’s way of thinking, radiant
energy was not commercially viable because
the supplier could not reliably bill the
customer. Whether Tesla’s Wardenclyffe
system would have actually worked or not, we
may never know. However, Tesla did do other
related experiments in the countryside near
Colorado Springs, CO; and according to
reliable witnesses, transmitted power
through the ground: Lighting incandescent
light bulbs from simple grounding stakes
miles away from the power source…. Again,
without any wires. Although Wardenclyffe was
thought to be for transmitting
electromagnetic waves, it was likely really
using another principal altogether: Under
the huge structure, there was an extensive
network of buried antenna. Between the tower
and these ground antenna, power was supposed
to be sent out as a “pressure” front that
Tesla likened to a water pump. He imagined
receiving receptacles all around the planet
in homes and businesses acting like
“pressure gauges”; reacting to this
electrical “pressure” and receiving power
without significantly lessening it. He also
stated that these pressure waves were
instantaneous, and not governed by the speed
of light. Was he right? He certainly was
about hundreds of other devices he invented.
J.P. Morgan’s influence helped insure that
the world may never know this answer.
The Strange Case
of the Destroyed Dipole
An important
concept to understanding certain aspects of
free energy is the theory of “The Destroyed
Dipole”. This school of thought states that
all traditional circuits are designed
incorrectly…. That the energy used in them
is wasted to Ground in a closed loop (“destroying
the dipole”), instead of being “reused”
efficiently over and over again by use of an
“open-loop” circuit where there is very
little traditional current flow: Powered by
voltage potential and zero-point/radiant
energy alone. A “Dipole” could be described
as two opposite-charged poles with a voltage
potential between them. Batteries are a
prime example of a dipole device; or the two
leads of a charged capacitor in a DC circuit
(but note, capacitors act much differently
in an AC-powered circuit than in DC).
Imagine a
capacitor in a DC circuit: It charges up
without using any significant power; like a
short-term “battery”, but without the
current usage needed to charge it because it
is essentially an open circuit with no
current flow. Then, this “cap” will hold the
charge (equal to the source voltage of the
circuit), without using any significant
power. There may be micro-amperes of loss
caused by leaks in the cap’s dielectric, but
it is insignificant. In a constant-voltage
DC circuit, the charging of a capacitor is
essentially “free” energy… It is the voltage
potential rising within the cap to match its
circuit’s potential… Without electrical
current actually flowing through it.
It will just sit there, holding voltage
potential without spending any significant
power. Yet, that potential charge can do
work: One can take the charged capacitor
physically out of the circuit, and discharge
it by shorting it across the leads and
creating a big spark (often hot enough to
melt the metal tip of a screw driver), or
use it to run a small load for a few seconds
as it rapidly discharges. Then, when the
capacitor is replaced back into the circuit
and charged again “for free”, the cycle can
continue: All without spending any
significant amounts of energy. The original
voltage potential remains the same, and
since there was no current flow to ground,
there was no power “Wattage” used. This is
very much a rough simplification of the
complex theory behind the Destroyed Dipole
concept: That we could, like the charged
capacitor taken momentarily out of a circuit
and discharged, use energy to do work… Yet
not lose that same source’s potential to do
more work. It is an eye-opening and
revolutionary concept… And it could prove to
be the most important scientific leap of…
The early 1900’s.
For one of
Nikola Tesla’s greatest yet least-known
discoveries was that there is no need to
have a closed-loop circuit, shunting all the
power to ground… That motors and other
devices can be run essentially like a
charging capacitor: Powered by the
“pressure” of the voltage potential; without
the wasteful need to shunt flowing current
to ground and “destroying the dipole”. The
energy potential of the voltage source could
be re-used, over and over again: Meaning
that every major electrical system in use to
day may be hopelessly flawed, and tragically
inefficient!
Ask an
electronics college professor: “Why does a
capacitor work the way it does?” They cannot
give you a meaningful answer; regarding a
common device used in virtually every
electrical and electronic circuit. They can
fully describe and predict their
characteristics under nearly any
circumstance (coming from over 200 years of
empirical observation and using mathematics),
but there are no laws or theories accepted
by mainstream science fully describing
why a capacitor does what it is
observed to do.
The “Mutable”
Laws of Thermodynamics and Electron Charge
It is interesting to note
that up until the 1970’s; electricity was
thought and talked about using the term
“Electron Charge Theory”. Since then, the
“Theory” part was mostly dropped: It is now
generally assumed to be “law”. And this
comes with all the dogma and rigid thought
patterns associated with the term “law”, be
it religious or social. However, their “laws”,
certainly including the “first commandment
of the religion of physical science” (the
First Law of Thermodynamics), have been
found to be conspicuously flawed… And they
are being “bent’ or broken every day by
familiar household devices.
The first Law of
Thermodynamics, cornerstone of the
Conservation of Energy Theory, states that
“energy cannot be created or destroyed”. And
this is taught to mean that there is no way
to get more energy out of a system than is
observably put in to it. Although there may
be much truth in it, the 140-year old law
does not take into account other sources of
energy that are not observable (or even the
existence of atoms, for that matter).
However, even when viewing traditional
“observable” energy sources; the First Law
may be still regularly broken.
Heat Pumps (…refrigerators
and air conditioners are “heat pump” devices
that use the energy created by temperature
differentials) can exhibit a COP of “3” or
more. If the temperature differentials were
greater, such as utilizing the static 55-degree
F heat 10 feet underground beneath a house,
and/or solar water heating panels mounted on
roof-tops… Then this COP number could be
much higher, and these devices could then be
designed to be self-powered (thus
eliminating the greatest single user of
electrical grid power for home and office).
It could be argued, that although the energy
coming from the heat differential is “free”,
it is still “solar-generated”; in that the
air has been ultimately heated by the sun
and thus observable energy added into the
system. But there is another device, often
found in the home garage, that is a more
striking and less arguable “scoff law”: The
air compressor.
Inventors
discovered back in the late 1800’s that
compressing air, and then using the heat
that is generated by the compressing to help
self-run the compressor (as well as the
potential energy of the compressed air
itself), will give a COP of well over 1 .
When air is compressed, heat is always
generated… And this has nothing to do with
solar action. In common use this heat is
just wasted: But it still exists as fact….
And when the energy of the heat is added to
the potential energy of the compressed air,
the First Law is flaunted. Also, when the
compressed air is used to power a device
such as an air wrench, the dispersed air
that is released is cooler than the ambient
temperature. This thermal imbalance is also
added energy to the system. Whether the
heated or cooled air is easily utilized
energy or not is a moot issue when
considering the validity of the First Law.
In the case of the scoff-law air compressor;
it is the Law that is “busted”, not the law-breaker.
Several
fascinating devices and vehicles have used
this concept, going back to the 1880’s.
Railway locomotives powered by compressed
air and using sophisticated double- and
triple expansion engines were used in mines
and cities. Many automobiles powered by
compressed air have been built throughout
the years; some with specialized motors,
others using converted internal combustion
engines. Perhaps the most interesting thing
about these devices is that there are
several intriguing ways to help compress air
while under motion, making the air supply
last much longer. The dream is to make them
completely self-powered…. In theory at least,
this appears possible.
The point being
that the First Law of Thermodynamics is
wrong in some circumstances… But once a law
has been broken; good scientific practice
dictates that the theory behind it must be
re-evaluated. This is just not happening in
modern mainstream science. Perhaps because
if it was, then other forms of energy not
currently accepted, and the inventions that
operate by them, would be more difficult to
deny and ridicule.
The
Internet and the New Open Source Energy
Movement
All across the
world, people are now using the Internet to
collaborate and share information on their
free energy inventions in ways Nikola Tesla
could have only dreamed of. In some of the
sites linked at the end of this article, one
can explore many free energy devices, and
read detailed reports from those who have
actually built them.
Below is a
recent interview with Stefan Hartmann, owner
of the
www.Overunity.com
website, which is dedicated to furthering
the development of free energy devices
through the Open Source model. On the
Overunity forums as well as several other
similar sites on the Internet, would-be
inventors and hobbyists can exchange helpful
information and work together to design and
build free energy devices (as well as more
traditional highly energy-efficient ones).
Overunity.com has offered a large cash prize
for the first inventor to provide a working
prototype of a device with COP >1 (greater
than 100% energy efficiency)…. So far with
no successful takers. Mr. Hartmann is a
graduate of the Technical University of
Berlin, Germany; and a resident of that city.
_______________________________
jibbguy:
What made you start the Overunity site,
and how did you get interested in this
subject ?
Stefan Hartmann:
Well, it all started in 1981 when the
Sinclair ZX-81 computer came out and I
bought one, and then came the Commodore
C-64, Amiga, Atari ST computer, where I
developed the successfully-selling OverScan
graphics extension card with a few
university friends, and of course the birth
of the Internet during this timeframe..
As I had already
studied "alternative energy production
systems" during my time at the University, I
had a pretty good background about new
energy technologies. When I read Dr.
Nieper´s books in the 1980’s about Tachyon
Energy; I became hooked on this research
subject called "free energy".
I bought many
books about new free energy technologies at
this time and when I found the Joe Newman
book, I did a study project of a self-build
Newman machine. I even visited Joe Newman
and Bruce de Palma during my USA vacation in
summer 1987.
As I could not
really get my Newman machine to self-run
without batteries and did not understand the
main effects at this time, I quit working on
it and began studying other free energy
topics.
I worked in the
PC graphics card business during the 90s;
and then later started my own Internet
business. Now I am working almost full-time
to keep my OverUnity.com site running as we
already have over 12,000 members.
jibbguy: Please
give us your opinions on the Open Source
Energy movement and the role of the
Internet: What do you think the Open Source
Energy movement is accomplishing?
Stefan
Hartmann: Well, it is the same as with the
Open Source Software development and the
Linux system. The more people freely work
with it, the more will be done, that will be
the benefit for all people of the world to
share and help each other.
The problem with
inventors was until now, that they tried to
patent their work, so they could benefit
from it. As a patent does not automatically
give you money but you sometimes have to
defend it in court, and versus big companies
you as the small inventor do not have the
money to do it; patents are mostly useless
for a breakthrough technology. So we try to
get the best minds from all over the world
together and work together on this
breakthrough technology freely without any
patents; to lift up the living conditions
over here on earth for the whole of humanity.
I will try to
accomplish this goal by helping with my
computer knowledge to bring this research to
a new level, and finally find a free energy
device that will bring us the new freedom of
unlimited access to non-polluting energy.
jibbguy:
Regarding the Overunity Prize, where is the
money for the prize coming from?
Stefan Hartmann:
I am donating part of it. There are a few
other people who have also said that they
would donate money when a free energy device
is found. So far, I and a few others will
donate a bit over $5,000 U.S. to the
inventor who sends in a working free energy
device. I have not collected the money from
the other guys; it is just a promise that
they will then pay the inventor too, if I
announce that the device is working after my
testing. So I don’t collect and I don’t hold
any money from others. They have to send it
themselves to the inventor.
jibbguy: What in
your opinion, can would-be inventors of
“free energy” devices do to increase their
legitimacy, prove their claims, and gain the
highest level of credibility?
Stefan Hartmann:
Just post all the schematics, blueprints,
pictures, and videos; and show the device in
public.
jibbguy: Why do
u think so many of the free energy
inventions, despite early promise, have
failed to ever make it to market or into the
mainstream?
Stefan Hartmann:
Well, there are the people who have working
units, like Methernitha from Switzerland,
who say the world is not ready for such a
product. Then there are others, who first
want to patent it all and don’t tell us how
it works, so mainly it is the greed of the
inventors or their psychological view; or
their habit of control over other people
which prevents the wide release of the
technology. Also some oil industry interests
and government taxing of energy sales is
surely also involved… It is only still a
question of "politics" I guess... Not so
much a technology question anymore.
jibbguy: What
“new” scientific principals do you believe
are responsible for the overunity that many
devices are reported to have shown?
Stefan Hartmann:
Well, the main effect is the negative
resistance we can find for instance in the
Moray and Methernitha / Testatika devices;
and also some carbon (graphite)-arc units
which directly convert excited radioactive
decay into electrical output. The excited
radioactive decay generates free beta
electrons that are generated in these units
and come into the circuit; and this way it
acts like a "passive" amplifier that is
generating "free" amplification for the
circuit signal; and thus more power comes
out of it than is put into it.
As you cannot
see these effects directly very well, many
inventors are often mis-led and do not
understand their own devices.
There are surely
other effects like tapping other energy
sources and converting this to electrical or
mechanical output; where you don’t directly
see which source you are tapping. I still
believe that the First Law of Thermodynamics
is correct, but not the Second Law; as there
are cases where you can cool a body and
extract electrical energy from it. Also the
2nd Law is no real law, as it was just based
on experience, and this experience has been
broken with new experiments. Carnot is dead...
jibbguy: Thank you for your time, and for
all the great work you do… And let’s hope
someone successfully claims the
Overunity.com Prize this year!
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The Open Source
Energy movement is certainly not a perfect
solution… That would be more along the lines
of universities and independent laboratories
openly studying these devices and developing
them much sooner than the resource-limited
internet researchers can. However, this is
not happening. So the slow, painful, and
sometimes even blundering methods used by
the home inventors will have to suffice for
now. Yet, despite setbacks, some important
work is being done by these unnamed, unsung
heroes of the free energy cause. And one
never knows: Tomorrow could bring the
significant breakthrough.
Perhaps if our
political leaders embraced the idea of the
possibility of cheap and abundant energy,
then something positive will happen in the
future…. But when one “follows the money”
and examines who will lose greatly from the
widespread use of free energy, this is
unlikely to happen any time soon unless
major political change happens first. So
perhaps the Open Source Energy movement will
prove to be our best chance to gain new hope
for the planet: Where cheap, clean, and
abundant energy will one day slay the three-headed
demon of poverty, war, and hunger… Once and
for all.
Continue Part II...
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Suggested links:
The Overunity
forums; where internet inventors share their
projects.
http://www.overunity.com
Dr. Peter
Lindemann’s site, great source of
information and the place to buy his
excellent DVD’s and books on new motor
design and free energy: They are a
requirement to truly understanding this
subject!
http://www.free-energy.ws
The Panacea-BOCAF
site… Dedicated to the Open Source Energy
movement. A great resource with tons of
useful info:
http://www.panacea-bocaf.org
Col. Tom
Beardon’s excellent site; the most
comprehensive available for the new physics
theories explaining free energy principals,
as well as listings of many inventions:
http://www.cheniere.org
The Pure Energy
Systems main page; great source of general
information and news. Video of the new
Korean “Magforce” magnetic piston engine can
be seen here:
http://peswiki.com
Inventor John
Bedini’s website, a major source for
understanding magnetic motors, and his
pulsing, de-sulfating battery chargers:
http://www.icehouse.net/john34/
Rex Research. A
top resource for free energy devices:
http://www.rexresearch.com
Keeleynet..
Interesting font of info on hundreds of
inventions, some of them more amusing than
practical! But overall, a great source.
http://www.keelynet.com
Air Car Access,
a great site for exploring the wonders of
compressed air and the many inventions that
have utilized it. An often over-looked
subject that has great promise for free
energy:
http://www.aircaraccess.com
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