I picked up on one thing in Bearden's blurb about "Gabriel Kron and the Negative Resistor" which comes from Bearden's book, "On Extracting Electromagnetic Energy from the Vacuum.”
Bearden says this:
A true negative resistor appears to have been developed by the renowned Gabriel Kron, who was never permitted to reveal its construction or specifically reveal its development.
Bearden is setting up an "aura" about the mysterious "negative resistor." It is ostensibly a source of energy, drawing energy from the "Heaviside energy component."
Note that the "forbidden fruit" card is being played by Bearden. Bearden even says, "Apparently Kron was required to insert the words 'none or' in that statement." MIB suppression card being played also. Steorn plays the "forbidden fruit" card also.
I am being somewhat harsh but with good reason.
I did a search on "Gabriel Kron" and it took me less than one minute to get this link:
http://www.quantum-chemistry-history.com/Kron_Dat/Kron-1945/Kron-PR-1945/Kron-PR-1945.htmTo quote:
1. The circuit contains positive and negative resistors and in each state the currents and voltages are constant in time. The state is changed by varying the resistances, corresponding to a change in eigenvalue (energy level).
2. Although negative resistances are available for use with a network analyzer, in practice it is more convenient to use a second type of circuit, in which the positive and negative resistors are replaced by inductors and capacitors and the d.c. currents and voltages are replaced by a.c. currents and voltages of fixed frequency. The use of the second type of interpretation is equivalent to multiplying the wave equation by i = √- 1.
In the diagrams to follow, unless otherwise stated, the inductors (whose reactance at the fixed frequency is denoted by XL ) may also be viewed as positive resistances of value XL and the capacitors (whose reactance is denoted by - XC ) as negative resistances of value - XC.
The real "negative resistor" in the network analyzer at that time was implemented with some sort of a tube-based amplifier circuit. You can easily create a "negative resistor" nowadays using operational amplifiers configured in such a way to make a network element that behaves like a negative resistor. You can easily find this in an op-amp applications book. Alternatively, as they state above, you can play with flipping the time and frequency domain modeling such that you emulate the DC behaviour of a circuit by using a fixed AC frequency. This gives you the ability to model a negative resistor using a capacitor.
I am not going to go into mathematical circuit modeling, but "XL" and "-XC" come from frequency domain modeling of circuit components. An inductor's circuit impedance is jwL and a capacitor's is (1/j)(wC) = -jwC. ("w" is really omega, angular frequency, and "j" is the square root of -1. ) I am really rusty here as a disclaimer...
The main point is that this is all very well known stuff. It makes perfect sense to use a capacitor to model a negative resistor as described above where you simulate DC behaviour by going over to the frequency domain. You can also model a real negative resistor with active components, be they tube-based amplifiers or transistor-based operational amplifiers.
Back to Bearden:
Here the introductory clause states in rather certain terms that negative resistors were available for use on the network analyzer, and Kron slipped this one through the censors.
For sure they were available, the "negative resistors" were nothing more than boring old vanilla capacitors, or some sort of active tube-based circuit. There was no censorship issue, Mr. Bearden is dishing out goop. The "network analyzer" is simply an analog computer. It's what I often talk about, using electrical circuits to model real-world physical systems like a car's suspension and vice-versa. Analog computers were used for decades before digital computers existed and they still use them.
So what Bearden is saying is nonsense. He is mining true research information from the 1940s that was done to model big electrical motors and stuff like that, and snowing his audience and telling them pure fiction. There is no "mysterious negative resistor" that was "suppressed." Sorry for being that harsh, but it's the truth.
MileHigh
Edit: Corrected and changed "inductor" for "capacitor" in a few instances above.