Harassment, and “Premature Deaths” 1989 - 2004 Part III

[quote continues from Part II]

Stan Gleeson

Stan Gleeson

Gleeson was the lead researcher for the Cincinnati Group, a religiously-inspired group of researchers who, among other things, have produced (and offered for sale) a low energy electrolytic transmutation kit. This is made principally of zirconium, and it can take the radioactive element thorium through to its daughter products in a matter of hours, rather than the many thousands of years required under natural conditions. This device, which has been independently verified, was seen as an important step towards safe, cheap and effective radioactive remediation.

Cincinnati Group advertisement for their electrolytic transmutation kit

As was briefly reported by Chris Tinsley, the Cincinnati Group also discovered how to produce an electrochemical “fireball” capable of melting asbestos sheet or ceramic tiles with a power input of only a few tens of watts.¹⁸ Tinsley was himself able to verify some of this work.

None of this is explicable by conventional physics.

As the brief report in Infinite Energy put it: “...The company has seemed less active in the field since the untimely death of its lead researcher Stan Gleeson in 2000.”¹⁹

Gleeson’s premature death was followed by that of another Cincinnati Group associate, Don Holloman, in early 2004.


Kevin Wolf

Kevin Wolf

Nuclear Chemist Kevin L. Wolf, of the Cyclotron Institute at Texas A & M University, died at his home in College Station, Texas, on September 11, 1997, aged 55.

Although always a member of the scientific establishment, Dr Wolf was an early pioneer of Cold Fusion, announcing in May 1989 that he had detected neutrons and tritium in Cold Fusion experiments at Texas A & M. However he evidently succumbed to pressure that was subsequently applied, and started to express doubts about alleged “pre-existing contamination” (doubts which were later shown by other meticulous studies to be baseless).

During research funded by EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) in 1992, Wolf discovered that three of his palladium cathodes that had undergone electrolysis in heavy water had become highly radioactive. Gamma rays from at least seven radionuclides were unmistakably observed. However, although Wolf was completely convinced that his results were genuine, he apparently could not accept a “Cold Fusion” explanation for them.

Wolf was scheduled to talk about his work at the fourth ICCF (International Conference on Cold Fusion) in December 1994, but did not show up, having been “encouraged not to attend” by an opponent of Cold Fusion within EPRI, Dr Tom Schneider. Some details of Wolf’s research were belatedly announced by Dr Tom Passell of EPRI at the 1995 ICCF.^20,21

The System devotes much more effort into suppressing heretical views held by members of the establishment than it does for “outsiders,” who are relatively easily marginalised. It also tries to control both sides of any heresies that it cannot fully suppress — thus EPRI funded Cold Fusion research while at the same time its senior management strongly opposed any positive results. Wolf was evidently placed under very heavy pressure from powerful opponents of Cold Fusion, and he was also severely criticised by some Cold Fusion advocates for giving in to this pressure. It seems reasonable to speculate that all of this may have had an adverse effect on his health.


Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Laureate, one of the best known scientists of recent times, was a personal friend of Stefan Marinov (see above). Sakharov had taken the courageous decision to visit the Methernitha community to see the Thesta Distatica at first hand. This was to be a high-profile visit — he was to have been accompanied by reporters from the Russian news media, including television. Soon after the final details of the visit had been arranged, but before it could take place, Sakharov died suddenly, on December 14, 1989.²²


Peter the Great

Czar Peter the Great

The death of Sakharov in 1989 is unfortunately reminiscent of that of Czar Peter the Great in 1725. In both cases famous, progressive and influential Russians had become very interested in the best examples of Free Energy machines of their day, but both died on the eve of effecting what could have been breakthroughs in the introduction of the technology to the world at large.

In his book²³ John Collins quotes quite extensively from correspondence concerning Peter the Great’s efforts to buy the Wheel invented by Johann Bessler, also known as Orffyreus. [See my posts from 20 May to 14 June 2014 on this blog for more on the Orffyrean wheel.] Below are brief extracts from two letters written by Laurentius Blumentrost, Supervisor of the Museum portion of the Czar’s library (he was also the Czar’s personal physician, and later became the first President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Science). On 25 November 1720, writing to Christian Wolff, Professor of Mathematics at Halle University, Blumentrost said:

“In your last letter, you mentioned that Orffyreus’ invention could be of some benefit to the public if it were put into the hands of an expert mathematician to improve it, and this could only be done if the inventor was paid a certain amount of money. His Majesty, The Czar, after due consideration, has graciously advised me that he will spare an unlimited amount of money provided that you, yourself undertake this task and enter into His service.”²⁴

The negotiations concerning Wolff’s entry into the Czar’s service proved to be quite protracted. By mid 1723, in another letter to Wolff, Blumentrost wrote:

“With regard to the perpetual motion machine, His Majesty the Czar has decided to put into escrow with the King of Prussia, that amount of money agreed with the inventor. It would the be left to your judgement whether the machine is a real perpetual motion and whether it would benefit the public. In accordance with this, I will negotiate with Orffyreus and inform you of the contract or agreement.”²⁵

However, on November 8, 1723 the King of Prussia suddenly issued a decree ordering Wolff to leave Prussia within 48 hours, or else be put to death by strangulation! He was evidently enraged that Wolff, his most eminent Professor, was negotiating behind his back to enter the service of the Czar. Collins suggests that this reason explains the suddenness and severity of the King’s decree much better than the reasons offered by the orthodox historians — centering around long-standing disputes in Leibnitzio-Wolffian philosophy. But to admit this reason would ultimately involve acknowledging the Czar’s great interest in Bessler’s Wheel, something which orthodox historians and others seem most anxious to avoid these days.²⁶

There is no doubt that the Czar was a willing buyer, and of course Bessler was always a willing seller at his asking price. So why did the deal fall through? The King’s decree effectively removed Wolff from further involvement with the Wheel, but that was not a fatal blow. The Czar’s interest remained undiminished, and in January 1725 Detlev Klefeker, the King of Prussia’s representative at his court, was preparing to go to Germany to purchase the invention for him. It has even been suggested that the Czar was considering going to Germany himself in connection with the purchase.²⁷ But on the 28th of the same month occurred the blow which was fatal indeed — Czar Peter the Great died. The giant Russian, a man of boundless energy, keenly interested in science and technology, a man who had both the means and the desire to give Free Energy to the world in the early 18th century, and who had already made the decision to do so, lay dead at only 52.

References and Notes

18. Infinite Energy No 5-6 p29.
19. Infinite Energy No 37 p41.
20. Infinite Energy No 2 p30.
21. Infinite Energy No 18 p40.
22. Tutt, The Search For Free Energy, Simon & Schuster, 2001 p103-104.
23. John Collins, Perpetual Motion: An Ancient Mystery Solved? Permo publications, 1997.
24. Collins, ibid p128.
25. Collins, ibid p143.
26. Collins, ibid p144.
27. R. A. Ford, Perpetual Motion Mystery, Lindsay Publications Inc, 1987, p180.

[to be concluded in Part IV]

Harassment, and “Premature Deaths” 1989 - 2004 Part II

[quote continues from Part I]

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

Stefan Marinov

Stefan Marinov, born in Bulgaria, resident in Austria, committed suicide or was suicided on July 15, 1997, aged 66. The police explanation was that Dr Marinov killed himself by jumping from the outside emergency staircase of the Library building (Bibliothèque) of the University of Graz in Austria.

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

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

Stanley Meyer

Stanley A. Meyer, of Grove City, Ohio, USA, died suddenly on March 21, 1998, aged 57. He was the very controversial inventor of a “Water-Fuel Cell” which he claimed could disassociate water into a hydrogen and oxygen mixture with minimal energy input compared with conventional electrolysis.

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

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

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]

Harassment, and “Premature Deaths” 1989 - 2004 Part I

Controversies

Here is a quote from my post of 15 May 2014:—

"As I warned (or should that be "threatened"!) in my very first post to this blog, I'll occasionally post something on what I'll call "wider issues". This is the first one, and by comparison with others that I may do in future, it's a fairly small and innocuous one."

I had been wavering over the series of not-so-innocuous posts that I'll do now. My decision to proceed was prompted by a couple of recent news items: firstly, the improbable claim made by Cambridge Professor Peter Wadhams that three scientists investigating the melting of Arctic ice may have been assassinated within the space of a few months; see  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11762680/Three-scientists-investigating-melting-Arctic-ice-may-have-been-assassinated-professor-claims.html

Secondly, a more credible claim appeared; concerning the remote hacking and taking over control of a car; see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/22/car-hacking-just-got-real-hackers-disable-suv-on-busy-highway/

This is really just the mainstream media catching up at last with something that has been long known in the technological "underground" — that for many years, just about any modern car could be hacked and brought under remote control by anyone with the relevant knowledge and equipment. Even orthodox specialists have been aware of this for some time; see the paper published by the IEEE in May 2010: "Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile" at  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5504804&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5504804

This technology is sometimes called "Boston Brakes," and has been claimed, in one form or another, as the assassination technique used against Ian Stuart Donaldson (founder of Skrewdriver); Princess Diana; Jörg Haider (long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party and later Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria), and others.

An old article resurrected

I wrote the following article back in 2004, in a style conforming to that of a "samizdat" publication with a more political stance than this generally apolitical blog has. Although it's now somewhat dated, I've decided to leave it as it stands, apart from some occasional minor editing, shown in slate blue. This is mainly because I'm not motivated enough to do any major editing of it. To make it more manageable, I've decided to split it into four parts.

Generally, it discusses the premature deaths of individuals who were associated with perpetual motion/free energy research over the relatively brief "snapshot" period from 1989 to 2004. More cases could have been added of course, both before and after that time interval, and even during it.



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[Introductory quote]

Methods used against positive ideas

“It is enlightening to review the standard means whereby our masters combat positive ideas and movements. There is a pattern in such tactics which constructive forces will do well to study. The first tactic is suppression and determined non-recognition of the rebel and his works. The press will unanimously give the well-known ‘silent treatment.’ Even at this early stage, if the movement gives promise of becoming significant, assassination is considered and carried out if possible. The murder of young Newton Armstrong, Jr., in San Diego, on the night of March 31, 1962, is a case in point. Quoting from Che Guevara’s book on guerilla warfare and the question of when to resort to assassination:

It is generally against the policy of the Communist Party to resort to assassination . . . However it requires two criteria and a high-level policy decision . . . The criteria for the individual in question are that he must be highly effective and it must serve some sort of example — some sort of a highly effective example.

The next tactic is the Smear through libel, distortion, misrepresentation and the sowing of confusion wherever possible. This may be a negative smear with the purpose of destroying the effectiveness of an enemy or a positive smear for the purpose of building a haze around the truth to enable a disintegrative movement to develop. The falsification of the truth about Castro which was indulged in by virtually all of the press, and, of course the State Department, is a classic example of this. The Smear is usually started as an underground whispering campaign that viciously builds up to an outright and overt campaign, with the ‘free press’ called into play. The object is to isolate enemies of the present regime and discredit them. The third tactic is infiltration into the movement and/or the building up of false leadership in order to sabotage the movement at the optimum time, meanwhile diverting patriot energies into harmless or controlled activities. The fourth and final stage is called upon only as a last resort, after the movement or philosophy has become institutionalized and is immune to grosser tactics. This is to ‘interpret’ it so as to bring it as closely as possible into conformity with approved patterns. (Characteristically, the conflicting philosophies of both Jesus Christ and Friedrich Nietzsche have suffered this deadening interpretation.) Two or more of the above maneuvers are usually used simultaneously. For instance, in addition to the suppression of his Imperium, Yockey was also victimized by the Smear; and he was also in danger of assassination — and his enigmatic end settled the problem. Now it is with no gift of prophecy that one may predict that this present republication of his work will call forth the same sequence.” 

— Francis Parker Yockey, Imperium, first published by Westropa Press, 1948. Introduction to the edition published by The Noontide Press, Sausalito, California.¹

[Main comment begins]

Students of the history of the present System, which has been described by British writer David Myatt as a “world-wide, repressive anti-Aryan tyranny,”² will be aware that its advance has been accompanied by the untimely deaths of vast numbers of people. Often these have been unequivocally murders, for example the seven million or more Ukrainians killed by starvation in the late 1920’s and 1930’s, at the orders of Lazar Kaganovich, variously known as the “Wolf of the Kremlin” or the “Butcher of the Ukraine.” And the twelve thousand murdered during the early years of World War 2 in Vinnitsa for being “enemies of the people.” And the fifteen thousand Poles similarly murdered in the Katyn Forest massacre, originally blamed on the Nazis. Probably the deaths of the 2.1 million Germans among the 16.6 million who were ethnically cleansed from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary after World War 2 should also be regarded as murders, together with the 1.5 million more who died in prisoner of war camps during and after that war. [Further information on these latter cases can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Hellstorm-Death-Nazi-Germany-1944-1947/dp/1494775069 and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4661358/]

The above examples are all taken from Robert Griffin’s book The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds.³ To them should also be added further tens of millions of Soviet citizens systematically murdered in the years following the 1917 revolution. In those murders, as in other instances such as Vinnitsa and Katyn, a particular effort was made to kill the most intelligent and capable members of the population.

There is also a smaller number of “premature deaths” where a prominent victim dies under circumstances where murder cannot be proved, but where the timing of the death is very beneficial to the System. This sort of thing is not often discussed, although some examples can be found in The Controversy of Zion by Douglas Reed.⁴

Premature Deaths in New Energy

This rather macabre topic has been introduced because inventors and others trying to expose the truth about new energy technology have also suffered a disturbingly high number of “premature deaths,” — high, that is, in proportion to the small (but growing) number of people within the general population. To put this last point another way, on a purely actuarial basis, and without invoking any conspiracy theories, such people are undoubtedly in high-risk occupations.

As will be seen, it is not always the inventors themselves who suffer the “premature deaths;” in fact with some of the best examples of Free Energy it was the high-profile individuals who tried to introduce the technology who died, just as some significant breakthrough was imminent.

It will also be seen that besides those who were involved purely with Free Energy research, several of the inventors discussed below were also involved with work on radioactive remediation. This is technology that would simply and efficiently transmute radioactive material, including nuclear waste, into safe, non-radioactive end products. It is obviously in direct opposition to the interests of those who are trying, and largely succeeding, in turning nuclear power into Politically Incorrect technology, and who are promoting the supposed “difficulty” of dealing with radioactive waste as one of their main pieces of propaganda. In any case, radioactive remediation attracts opposition every bit as vicious as Free Energy does.

References and Notes

1. This Introduction appears over the signature of Willis Carto, but evidence has been submitted that it was mostly written by Professor Revilo P. Oliver. See http://revilo-oliver.com/rpo/Imperium_intro.html.
2. Cosmic Reich — The Life & Thoughts of David Myatt, Renaissance Press, 1995, p19. [Myatt, an apostate from his earlier views, is now generally scorned. Nevertheless, I still believe his earlier noble vision of an Aryan Galactic Empire would be a far better long-term future for the White race than the genocide by race replacement that will clearly occur otherwise, as long as Whites remain Earthbound with current trends continuing].
3. Robert S. Griffin, The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds, 1st Books Library, 2001, Chapter 21.
4. Douglas Reed, The Controversy of Zion, Veritas Publishing Co Pty Ltd, Australia, 1985.

[to be continued in Part II, with cases]

The Earth-Field Corona Motor

Another kind of perpetual motion machine

At the beginning of this series on electrostatic devices, I said that I would discuss two real-world perpetual motion machines working on electrostatic principles. I've already discused one, the Thesta Distatica, on 27 June. I'll now deal with the other one; i.e. exploiting the terrestrial electric field with suitable electrostatic motors.

The Earth's natural electric field

A perpetually available naturally-occurring electric field of about 150V/m exists near the Earth's surface, reducing somewhat in magnitude at higher altitudes. More on this can be found at https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Natural_electric_field_of_the_Earth

Electrostatic motors of various kinds can be powered by this electric field, such as the corona motor shown below.

A corona motor developed under the direction of Oleg Jefimenko, University of West Virginia. The Plexiglas cylinder, lined with conducting foil, is driven by slanted corona blades having alternative polarities. The motor is about 5 inches long, and can produce 0.1 horsepower (74.6 watts). It operates from a 6kV power supply or from an earth-field antenna.
Image from Electrostatics and its Applications, A. D. Moore, p144.

Accessing the Earth's electric field effectively

The difficulties associated with exploiting the terrestrial electric field lie not so much with the motors themselves, but with accessing the field effectively, in order to gain useful amounts of power from it. The following is quoted from p145 of Electrostatics and its Applications, by A. D. Moore:—

"Finally, a very interesting source of power for electrostatic motors is the atmospheric electric field. Experiments on operating motors from this source have been conducted by the author... In the initial experiments an electret motor and a corona motor were used; the electricity was extracted from the atmosphere by means of earth-field antennas. The corona motor was the one shown in Fig. 7.4. [i.e. above]. These experiments indicate that it is entirely possible to operate small electrostatic motors directly from atmospheric electricity. Whether it will be possible to operate large motors in this manner depends on how successful we are in designing and building earth-field antennas capable of extracting appreciable power from the atmospheric electric field."

Popular Science article

For more on Jefimenko's work on electrostatic motors, earth-field antennae, etc, see "The Amazing Motor That Draws Power From the Air," by C.P. Gilmore & William J. Hawkins, Popular Science magazine April 1971 p80. This article can be found in the Popular Science archives at http://www.popsci.com/archives (Search e.g. for "amazing motor draws power" — it should be the first result presented). From the last two paragraphs of this article:—

"The earth's field is greatest on mountaintops. Jefimenko would like to set up a large antenna in such a spot, then aim an ultraviolet laser beam at a receiving site miles away at ground level. The laser beam would ionize the air, creating an invisible conductor through apparently empty space.

To be sure, many difficulties exist; and no one knows for sure whether we'll ever get useful amounts of power out of the air. But with thinking like that, Jefimenko's a hard man to ignore."

A dearth of innovative thinking

From my own observations over the years, not least of the dysgenic trends now firmly established in the West, I find that (despite their own opinions of their abilities) fewer and fewer people are really able to think innovatively — or even independently — these days. There's also the question of whether the handful that still can may be "targeted," not necessarily in a good way. I've decided, possibly against my better judgement, to take a look at that topic next.

Transporting and Accessing Charge at EHV, Part IV

More on accessing charge already delivered at high voltage

Following from the calculations I made last time, if a 310 farad dissectible capacitor within an 800kV dome could be charged, dissected, discharged to the dome and reassembled, at a rate of 10 cycles of operation per second (10Hz), it would deliver about 3350 megawatts. This is comparable to the rated power per pole of one of the world's largest high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission links, the 7200 MW Xiangjiaba - Shanghai link, also designed to operate at 800kV.

Fig. 4. Converter transformer produced at the Siemens manufacturing plant in Nuremberg for the ±800 kV 7200MW Xiangjiaba - Shanghai HVDC link. See http://www.siemens.com/press/en/presspicture/?press=/en/presspicture/2009/Power_Transmission/EPT200911020-01.htm

HVDC — a proven method

I have raised the topic of HVDC transmission because this technology provides a well-proven way of accessing electrical energy that is delivered as direct current at very high voltage. Converter transformers, such as shown in Figure 4, are used to step up voltage at the "sending" end of an HVDC link (the rectifier) and also to step down voltage at the "receiving" end (the inverter). 

Usually in HVDC links, groups of thyristors are used in three-phase Graetz bridge circuits, to perform either rectification or inversion as required; depending on the direction in which power is to be transmitted. At the inverter, such circuits convert the electrical energy from direct current back to alternating current, in conjunction with converter transformers which transform it to the voltage required to match that of the network into which the energy is to be fed.

We recall that, in principle, a transformer can take electrical energy at any voltage and current, and deliver it at any other voltage and current, as desired, such that overall losses are generally very small.

Technological advances awaited

Currently, it seems at first sight anyway, that we are still waiting for technological advances in one or two areas before any real breakthroughs could be achieved in transporting and accessing charge at very high voltage, which would then permit this technology to deliver free energy at (very) high power.

These advances are the development of good insulating fluids, as previously discussed in my post of 6 June 2015, and/or the development of fast-switching, dissectible supercapacitors, as discussed in my previous post and above.

Unfortunately, as things are in the current world, I won't be holding my breath waiting for either of these advances to occur.

Fig. 5. The Xiangjiaba dam under construction, at the rectifier end of the Xiangjiaba - Shanghai HVDC link. This facility incorporates eight Francis turbine hydroelectric generators, with a claimed total generation capacity of 6,448 MW.
Could very large, costly, structures such as these dams and their generators be replaced by fast-switching, dissectible supercapacitors, in much less expensive devices of far smaller total volume?

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