A far from complete list of “premature deaths” of new energy pioneers is started below, in no particular order. With a single exception (to follow), they are all fairly recent cases.
Stefan Marinov
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| Stefan Marinov |
Marinov was an avid experimenter and writer, particularly concerning Free Energy and similar topics. It is possible that the title, content and popularity of the journal that he published, Deutsche Physik, annoyed some who might have perceived similarities, whether intended or not, with the four-volume work of the same title written by the German Nobel Laureate Philipp Lenard in 1936-1937. A strong supporter of National Socialism, Lenard considered all Jewish influence on physics baleful, and in his Deutsche Physik sought to remove it.5 In any case, Marinov’s death brought to an end the long series of disputes he had with scientific orthodoxy, in particular the editor of Nature magazine, who refused to print either his papers or his letters to the editor. (This was the same editor who was publicly advocating book-burning; specifically for A New Science of Life by Rupert Sheldrake). In spite of this, Marinov actually found a way to publish some of his work in Nature anyway — as paid advertisements! These were occasionally, but not often accepted.6 Despite the rather strident tone, one or two of the remarks made by Marinov in his advertisement of 28 March 1996 seem very interesting and deserving of further detailed investigation.7 As is known to just about anyone involved in the subject, some of the foundations of electrical technology are shaky indeed. At least, it is known to anyone except, it seems, all too many of the orthodox academics who teach it. For example, if the great French scientist André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) were to come back today, he would surely repudiate what is taught as the force law for current-carrying conductors these days. The entirely home-schooled Ampère “got it right” back in the 1820’s: modern educators “get it wrong” today.
However, there are some efforts being made to achieve better understanding of the problems in modern electrical theory. It would need at least a book to deal properly with them. Two good ones are Newtonian Electrodynamics by Peter and Neal Graneau,8 and Weber’s Electrodynamics by A. K. T. Assis.9 The much earlier Electromagnetic Theory by A. O’Rahilly10 is also very good, but it is quite difficult to obtain.
Marinov was a member of the Methernitha community, and seems to have been a lone voice within that community calling for the full disclosure of the Thesta Distatica (also see the following entry concerning Andrei Sakharov), although he had not been personally involved with its invention or construction, and admitted he did not know how it worked.
There were some strange aspects to Marinov’s death, e.g. there was no news release; although various letters were left apparently signed by him asking for certain people to be immediately notified, the police did not act on these; his own son was not informed for at least two weeks, and even then the information was unofficial, etc. There is some correspondence on record from Marinov’s associate and friend Professor P. T. Pappas, which strongly hints of doubts about the official explanation of suicide.11,12 Russian quantum physicist Lev Sapongin, who knew Marinov and was planning to visit him in Austria, was unequivocal: he said that Marinov “... was thrown out of the window of the town library of Graz by unknown people and died, taking many secrets with him ... Our times are becoming more cruel and I want to explain this to the readers.”13
Chris Tinsley
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| Chris Tinsley |
Christopher P. Tinsley, of Nottingham, UK, died suddenly at his home on October 1, 1997, aged 54, from a heart attack.14
Tinsley, an electrical engineer, was a contributing editor to Infinite Energy magazine. He was very knowledgeable about New Energy, and was a highly effective communicator. Just before he died, he had been investigating the Takahashi scooter.15
If Tinsley had not died when he did, we would now surely have answers to the questions he raised about the Takahashi scooter, and more as well, concerning other promising New Energy devices he was investigating, for example from the Cincinnati Group — see Stan Gleeson below. But as it is — nothing.
Stanley Meyer
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| Stanley Meyer |
The following is quoted from Infinite Energy magazine No 19 —
“For now, here are some of the facts surrounding Meyer’s death:
He was apparently eating dinner at a Grove City, Ohio restaurant, when it is reported he jumped up from the table, yelled that he’d been ‘poisoned,’ and rushed out into the parking lot, where he collapsed and died. It has been reported by Meyer’s associates that Meyer had just secured funding for a $50 million research center near Grove City Ohio, where he had his famous workshop-lab, but there is no way to confirm or reject this at the moment.
An article on March 27, 1998 in the Columbus Dispatch newspaper said that he died of a brain aneurysm, but the Franklin County Coroner was waiting on toxicology tests for a final determination.”
[Several years ago I had a long conversation with someone who was a very close associate of Meyer. What I was told (in confidence, so I can't disclose any details) only added to my already strong suspicion of foul play concerning his death].
Jim Reding
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| Jim Reding |
Jim Reding, former CEO of the pioneering cold fusion firm CETI (Clean Energy Technologies, Inc.) of Sarasota, Florida, died suddenly on July 16, 2001 from a brain aneurysm. He was only 31 years old, and just prior to his death had reportedly been in excellent health.
CETI was one of the first to demonstrate convincingly excess heat from cold fusion/low energy nuclear reactions, which were based on thin metal film technologies invented by Reding’s grandfather, Dr James Patterson.16 Moreover, in September 1997 CETI actually managed to acquire a patent for a radioactive remediation process using an electrolytic cell system (US Patent 5,672,259).
Alexander Chernetskii
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| Alexander Chernetskii from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-94c1Q6Ms |
Chernetskii, a plasma physicist working at the Georgi Plekhanov Institute in Moscow, discovered a method of producing Free Energy from plasma. An extract from a NOVOSTI press release from the late 1980’s stated:—
“Classical physicists cannot explain what happens when a plasma discharger placed in a Chernetskii circuit is started. For no apparent reason the ammeter pointer suddenly shows triple strength of current increase and energy output is suddenly much more than one! No magic is involved. Additional energy outputs at specific plasma discharges have been established in several independent ‘expert reports’ by staff from the V. I. Lenin All-Union Institute of Electrical Engineering (Moscow) of the Ministry of the Electrical Equipment Industry. This effect has been checked by various methods. Where does this mysterious energy come from?”
Chernetskii’s work was solid and credible, and there seems no doubt that as early as 1975 he was able to produce a plasma that would deliver much more energy than that needed to sustain it. He called this a “self-generating discharge.”
An attempt was made in the early 1990’s to bring Chernetskii to Texas for independent verification there of his work. But, once again on the eve of a potential breakthrough, death intervened. Chernetskii died in 1992, (in a car accident, according to http://gratisenergi.se/sparkgap.htm) before his planned trip to the West could eventuate.17
References and Notes
5. An excellent experimentalist, Lenard (1862-1947) won the 1905 Nobel prize “for his work on cathode rays,” the culmination of work he began in 1888. Other awards included the Franklin medal (1932), and the Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (Eagle Shield of the German Reich, in 1933).
6. See for example Nature Vol. 380, 28 March 1996, pp xiv, xv.
7. Among other things, Marinov questioned relativity, the equivalence principle, energy conservation and the Lorentz equation.
8. Peter Graneau & Neal Graneau, Newtonian Electrodynamics, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore, 1996.
9. André K. T. Assis, Weber’s Electrodynamics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
10. A. O’Rahilly, Electromagnetic Theory, Dover Publications Inc, New York, 1965. This is an unique book, which delivers, at a very high level of scholarship, on the promise of its subtitle:— A Critical Examination of Fundamentals. It was written by the Irish polymath Alfred O’Rahilly, Professor of Mathematical Physics at University College, Cork. It was originally published under the title Electromagnetics in 1938, at the zenith of National Socialism, and its Foreword begins: “The clash of ideologies in world affairs has its counterpart in several domains of scientific thought.” With his concern for historical accuracy, pragmatic laboratory physics, and his support of European physicists such as Gauss, Weber, and Ritz, as opposed to his fundamental and generally adverse criticism of Einstein, O’Rahilly’s position is clear. And he intended to say more. In the Preface he tells us that “As originally planned, the work included a detailed criticism of the theory known as Relativity. But the material became so bulky that publication of this latter portion has been deferred.” Apparently it has never been published.
11. Infinite Energy No 13-14 p84.
12. Infinite Energy No 15-16 p8.
13. Infinite Energy No 32 p64-65.
14. Infinite Energy No 15-16 p60-66.
15. Infinite Energy No 5-6 p28-30 and p35-37.
16. Infinite Energy No 39 p57.
17. Keith Tutt, The Search For Free Energy, Simon & Schuster, 2001, p213-217.
[to be continued in Part III, with further cases]
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