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Hi folks!
Some of you might remember me from a few years back on OU before "Ashtwit" and Stefan banned me for holding Ashtweth’s feet to the fire regarding energy i/o tests on the infamous Charles Campbell devices and the "Neon Extraction Circuit" that was purported to make Ashtweth's famous "RV" into a "self-runner". I then went to Energetic Ministries and lasted all of 4 hours before being banned for questioning some of Lindeman’s statements.
Those folks, (Panacea and Energetic Ministries and Lindemann/Bedini/Bearden) I’m afraid, are the most insidious scammers in the arena. To this day, the Panacea University still has claims published openly regarding the RV and Chas Campbell being legit OU devices! This despite their being thoroughly debunked and virtually forgotten years ago.
I'm an EE with 40+ years designing high power switching power supplies, analog circuitry and industrial controls/power conversion circuitry for audio through 100MHz 5000W RF plasma generators used in huge lasers. I have a couple of granted patents and a goodly number of designs that are still being produced exactly as designed as many as 20 years later. My patents were sponsored by DARPA research grants and DOD projects involving electro-optics and guidance/intelligence-gathering systems.
Interestingly, I dropped out of school in tenth grade and have never been back, so I cannot really be accused of being any kind of "ivory tower expert" or "dupe of the established academic regime". Everything I have learned has come from hands on "design and build" experience and from working with some quite famous entrepreneurs and around some rather brilliant researchers in US government-sponsored labs. Nope...I'm not a big fan of the military-indutrial complex or the MIB crowd, either, at this point.
I suppose I could be called an "App Note Engineer", having gained much of my understanding of electronic circuits as a result of applying devices based on data sheets and application notes and hints and tips from more experienced experts in various fields of applied physics and real-world product design..
My interest in the “free energy culture” is, by my own open admission, purely a curiosity and I have almost no “hope” or “faith” or “belief” that any sort of useful “free energy producing” machine will evolve from the online FE culture or these forums. I am being honest here.
Truly, I became involved as a “poster” on the forums strictly as a debunker. I have no intention of building anything that I’m convinced cannot possibly “work”. Like MileHigh, I am able to evaluate most circuitry and mechanisms "by inspection" or by appropriate modelling to determine their modes of operation and efficacy. Had I "built" every idea or approach I have ever thought of or pondered to see if it worked, I'd have never produced much at all.
The ability to evaluate and reject weak ideas quickly is a huge part of science and engineering. But the very concept is the worst taboo in the field of internet forum OU research. That's why even the simplest most obviously flawed concepts always take years and endless failed replications and thousands of hours of argument and discussion before slipping into oblivion.
I simply could not stay as “a lurker” in the face of the vast and unending fallacies and insane claims and ridiculous measurement techniques (or lack thereof) that are rampant among the culture. So far, this forum is the only one I’ve encountered that has any basis in reasonable scientific analysis, thanks to members like Poynt and Milehigh and a few others.
After reading just about every “high-participation” topic on the forum, I have decided that I should probably not do a lot of posting here, however. That’s because Poynt and Milehigh have pretty much got it covered in terms of keeping things on task and quashing, correcting or at least pointing out misinformation and outright fraud here.
I can absolutely identify with MileHigh’s sense of urgency and frustration as the Bedini/Lindemann/Arron crowd appear to be moving from selling books and CD’s and tickets to their shows (bad enough) into that far worse realm of actually selling non-functional hardware to unsuspecting rubes. They seem rather organized in their efforts to foist this crap off for personal gain while avoiding outright clear claims of any specific performance, yet using unwitting brainwashed and highly-invested shills like poor Jeff to front the claims of OU and “self-running”. machines that are heavily implied to address real-world energy needs. It is no less than full-out organized crime, in my opinion.
In my work, as in all true engineering work, the goal is always to provide a given function using the simplest and least expensive yet robust and reliable combination of elements. The obvious objective of most “free energy” claimants appears to be the exact opposite: To employ maximally “Rube Goldberg” designs in a clear attempt to obscure and delay the discovery of the fact that their machines don’t actually work. For instance, here is a quote from MileHigh in a recent post in this thread:
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“Jeff and his associates have two possible arguments on which to base their proposition on, 1) the current spike from the coil is "magic" and contains excess energy, 2) the battery is "magic" and ends up with excess energy after you charge it with current spikes.” This statement beautifully cuts to the chase.
The use of huge batteries (way larger in energy storage than the expected “free energy” output power) is a typical and ubiquitous method of obfuscation and delay. It allows them to “demonstrate to” and delude themselves and the public regarding how their machines produce seemingly excess output power, but always only for finite-time demonstrations, of course.
Reduced to a ridiculous simplicity to make the obvious point, this is like charging a capacitor very slowly using a mere trickle of measured power and then suddenly putting a screwdriver across the terminals to exhibit a huge “bang/flash” of enormous sudden output energy. Makes a great show. They always ignore the time-factor in the energy equation for as long as they are allowed to.
If there was any substance to the claims that pulse-charging a battery with “radiant energy” produced by sudden discharges produced more energy in the battery than was required to generate the pulses then why, oh why, do they need all the contraptions, ferris wheels, battery swappers, complex multiple coils and control electronics?
Why not a simple black box with two leads coming out that you just attach to any partally-charged battery and it takes in some energy and then returns it to the same battery in a pulsed fashion? If the theory they espouse actually worked, there is no obstacle to building battery chargers that were powered by the very battery they were charging! Take the root theory at the simplest form and directly implement it. No Rube Goldberg stuff.
But you can bet they would come up with a million magic reasons why this straightforward approach just wouldn't work. Because the basis theory and concept is just no good, they must shroud and bury it amongst a million bells and whistles that they claim require endless finicky tuning and a myriad of complex custom-made extraneous "stuff" that obviously contributes nothing but obfuscation. Expensive stuff that only they supply.
These people are dangerous and must be held accountable not only for the money they are taking on false pretexts but for the time they waste of innocent experimenters who follow their BS as if it were a religion.
It is my opinion that the whole “free energy” movement is a frustrated manifestation of the same excellent and honorable and useful desire to learn by doing that I and many of my peers (I’m now 60) used to be involved back in “the day” when we eagerly awaited the next issue of Popular Electronics so we could build and tinker with some circuitry. These days, there is almost none of that going on where the project is described clearly, the end-function is given, the parts are listed, etc.
As the parts have gotten smaller and more sophisticated and the prices of end-products in the market have diminished so far, the home-brewed building of practical functional electronic things has gone the way of TV repair. It just isn’t practical anymore. Are you going to build a laptop computer or a cell-phone or a DVD player from a PC board and a bag of parts? Are you going to spend time trying to repair or modify your 15” LCD monitor or TV? Hell no! Not when you can buy a fully assembled and tested new item for 5% of the cost and zero work. This basically leaves only power audio and speakers as a practical area for home experimenters…oh, and one other: FREE ENERGY MACHINES!
Trouble is, there are never clear objectives, straightforward plans, well-defined test procedures, etc. Never, I mean, when it comes to any kind of project intended or claimed to produce useful amounts of “free energy” that might actually be useful in powering our appliances, homes and vehicles much less a single 100W light bulb.
So, my involvement here, sad to say, will be limited to helping keep people from being misled or spending large sums of money based on purposely-constructed (by outright fraud artists) false hopes. Since that is generally not considered to be enough of a “contributory” or “positive” motivation, I probably will not be heard from very much. Poynt99 and MileHigh are doing a pretty good job on this forum in that regard, while still retaining an optimistic outlook for the possibility of someday helping to evolve an actual OU or free energy device. I can’t honestly say I share that optimism.
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