Free energy suppression

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Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory which claims that advanced technology that would reshape current energy paradigms is being suppressed by governments or special interest groups.[citation needed]

Description[edit]

The word Free (meaning unattached) has multiple meanings in English: physical, political, economic and scientific definitions tend to become confused, and so the term "free energy" is ill-defined and somewhat variable, but should not be confused with thermodynamic free energy.

Generally, 'free energy' is used to refer to purported transformative technologies which have the potential to dramatically reduce personal energy costs with relatively little capital investment.[citation needed]

There have been numerous free energy claims over the years.[citation needed] In alternating current power, the voltage and current can be manipulated to be 'wattless' (recording no consumption). While early utility supply meters may have been fooled by phase-changing devices, this ruse was discovered and remedied in the mid-20th century. The devices still appear from time to time, but suppliers or users may risk prosecution by regulation agencies.[1] Merely seeking to use of any tariff evasion mechanism, even if technically ineffectual, is known as a crime of 'attempted theft' in most jurisdictions.

Some free energy devices imply it is possible to harness perpetual motion which conflicts with the universally accepted physical laws of energy conservation which allow energy to change form, but to be neither created nor destroyed. Others claim to access novel or occulted power sources such as the actual source hypothesis by Nikola Tesla based on naturally occurring potential differences caused by photon interaction with Earth's atmosphere at different altitudes. His Wardenclyffe Tower demonstrated that a structure of sufficient dimensions, or alternatively a machine to electrically vibrate the Earth enough to harness useful power would be extraordinarily uneconomic. Photons are however a genuine power source and are exploited by photovoltaics.

Similarly, cold fusion while not fundamentally proven impossible, is not accepted as established or even regarded as potentially viable by the scientific community at large.[citation needed] Skeptics usually regard all claims of and research into free energy technology as pseudo-scientific.[2]

The alleged suppression (or weakening) is claimed to be going on for a long time[3] and perpetrated by government agencies, special interest groups, fraudulent inventors and/or a non-demanding public.[4][unreliable source?] The special interest groups are usually claimed to be associated with the fossil fuel or nuclear industry,[5][6] whose industries would be threatened.[7][8]

The suppression claims basically are:

  • The claim that the scientific community has controlled and suppressed research into alternative avenues of energy generation via the institutions of peer review[9] and academic pressure.[10]
  • The claim that devices exist which are capable of extracting significant and usable power from preexisting unconventional energy reservoirs, such as the quantum vacuum zero point energy, for little or no cost, but are being suppressed.[11][12][13][14]
  • The claim that more efficient versions of renewable energy technologies (such as solar cells[15] and biofuels) and energy-consuming technologies (such as electric vehicles[16]) are being suppressed.

Some examples of individuals that allegedly fell victim to suppression, harassment or death, are: Thomas Henry Moray[17][unreliable source?],[18] Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell[19][20][21][22] and Eugene Mallove[23][unreliable source?].[24]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Seven men to appear in court as power theft bill hits R180m". The Herald, South Africa. 2013 04 13. Retrieved 2013 05 15. 
  2. ^ Vic Stenger (December 2005). "Free Energy and Teleportation: Numbers Don’t Lie". Skeptical Briefs (Committee for Skeptical Inquiry). Archived from the original on 21 March 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013. 
  3. ^ Tutt, Keith (2003). The Scientist, The Madman, The Thief and Their Lightbulb: The Search for Free Energy. UK: Simon & Schuster UK. ISBN 978-0684020907. Retrieved 23 March 2013. 
  4. ^ Peter Lindemann (2007-06/07). "Where in the World is all the Free Energy?". Nexus magazine. Archived from the original on 2001. Retrieved 23 March 2013. 
  5. ^ Charles D. Jaco, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil. Politics of Energy, Page 191 - 198 (ISBN 978-1592571406)
  6. ^ Richard A. Smith, Interest Group Influence in the U. S. Congress. Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Feb., 1995), pp. 89-139 doi:10.2307/440151
  7. ^ Hambling, David (11 April 2002). "Flower power". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-03-22. "Siding with Puthoff are backyard inventors and conspiracy theorists, convinced that ZPE technology is being suppressed by the government, in league with oil companies and others, whose businesses would be threatened if it was allowed." 
  8. ^ Paul Ballonoff, Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis. (ed., The book states that governmental energy regulation only help special-interest groups at the cost of energy consumers.)
  9. ^ Sarewitz (2002). Public Failures in US Science Policy. p. 12. "as the paradigmatic means of choosing among research projects and, more recently, programmatic awards and grants for new research centers and national science and engineering facilities, sometimes has the effect of suppressing consideration of public values" 
  10. ^ Phenomenon Archives: Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion. Channel One. (video)
  11. ^ Frissell, Bob (2002), Nothing in this book is true, but it's exactly how things are: Esoteric meaning of the monuments of Mars, Frog Ltd, ISBN 1-58394-067-7
  12. ^ Mad Macz (2002), Internet Underground: The way of the hacker, PageFree Publishing, Inc. ISBN 1-930252-53-6
  13. ^ David Alison (1994), Another free-energy cover-up?: The Dennis Lee Story, Nexus Magazine, (June–July 1994)
  14. ^ Free Energy - A Reality Not a Conspiracy. (Video) Time frame 00:35 - 00:45.
  15. ^ Aftergood, Steven (October 21, 2010). "Invention Secrecy Still Going Strong". Secrecy News. Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 25 March 2013. 
  16. ^ Dargis, Manohla. "'Who Killed the Electric Car?': Some Big Reasons the Electric Car Can't Cross the Road", The New York Times, June 28, 2006
  17. ^ Infinite Battery From Tom Bearden's Website (EXCERPTED FROM TOM BEARDEN'S "EXCALIBUR BRIEFING"),http://www.cheniere.org/books/excalibur/moray.htm
  18. ^ B. King, Moray (2005). The Energy Machine of T. Henry Moray: Zero-Point Energy & Pulsed Plasma Physics. Adventures Unlimited Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1931882422. Retrieved 2013-03-21. 
  19. ^ Edwards, Tony (1996-12-01). "End of road for car that ran on Water". The Sunday Times (Times Newspapers Limited). p. Features 12. Archived from the original on 12 March 1996. Retrieved 2013-03-23. 
  20. ^ Narciso, Dean (July 8, 2007). "The Car that Ran on Water". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2008-03-24. 
  21. ^ Ball, Philip (September 14, 2007). "Burning water and other myths". Nature News. Retrieved 2007-09-14. "He died in 1998 after eating at a restaurant; the coroner diagnosed an aneurysm, but the conspiracy web still suspects he was poisoned." 
  22. ^ [1] Lieutenant Steven Robinette of the Grove City Police Department talks about the investigation into Stanley Meyer's death. Robinette was in charge of the detective bureau at that time. quote: "The one thing that was based on science."
  23. ^ "Eugene Mallove's Open Letter to the World" with preface by Richard Hoagland and clarification by Christy Frazier. PES Network, last update August 30, 2004. Last Retrieved 2007-01-31
  24. ^ Smith, Greg (April 20, 2012). "Schaffer accepts plea deal in Mallove murder trial". Norwich Bulletin. Retrieved 2012-05-06. 
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