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This file MCKIE.ASC is bundled as MCKIE.ZIP with MCKIE1.GIF and
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MCKIE2.GIF, where 1 is a picture of Scott McKie, and 2 is a circuit diagram.
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FROM SEATTLE TIMES - June 23, 1993
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The McKie PODMOD
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If he's right,the world will hear of this man
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BY TERRY McDERMOTT
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Seattle Times staff reporter
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Scott McKie, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and would-be violator of
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physical laws, lives in Ballard, the center of sensible citizenship. He
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drives a four-year-old Ford, wears polo shirts and deck shoes and his
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coffee table is covered with issues of Sunset and Modern Maturity
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magazines.
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He is far from the image of the wild-haired, bug-eyed mad scientist but
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what he wants to do--is on the very verge of doing, he says--is bug-eyed
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science, indeed:
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Manufacture a power generator that will perpetually produce more
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energy than is fed into it; manufacture, in other words, perpetual-
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motion machines that will replace the world's electric power grid by
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the turn of the century and internal-combustion engines somewhat
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thereafter.
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This raises at least one obvious question. Is McKie nuts?
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Asked to evaluate someone who has spent the better part of a dozen years
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single-mindedly pursuing an idea most people find ludicrous, Blake
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Andersen, a local psychologist, said that generically speaking, lots of
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people do lots of weird things. We live on a continuum of odd behavior.
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"You can't place a value judgment on whether it's functional or dysfunc-
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tional. It's results-oriented," Andersen said. "The degree of dysfunc-
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tionality depends on the environment and the results." Andersen then began
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to explain some symptoms of obsessive behavior but, in midsentence,
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interrupted himself to ask: "Does it work?"
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Engineers by their nature are not off-the-wall people and, although McKie
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admits going through several jobs and bank accounts in service of his idea,
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he is in other ways a very practical man.
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Witness the collection of financiers, planners, engineers and marketing
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people he has collected around himself. If he is a mad scientist, he's one
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with a business plan and a $10 million line of credit.
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But he is also a devotee of Nikola Tesla, a turn-of-the-century Serbian-
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American inventor, who, by all accounts, was a mad scientist with countless
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phobias and odd personal habits. His psyche, wrote Margaret Cheney, a
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biographer, was a "festival of neuroses." He swore, for example, he could
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Page 1
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hear a fly land on a table. He threw kisses to pigeons. He held lightning
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in his hands. He had an obsessive fear of germs and required precisely 18
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linen napkins be set on his dining table so he could clean and polish his
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silverware every night before eating.
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He felt compelled to walk around the entire block where his Manhattan
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laboratory was located three times before entering its door.
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At the height of his celebrity, he hobnobbed with Mark Twain, J. Pierpont
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Morgan and the Vanderbilts and was regarded as one of the greatest and most
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important scientists in the world, an archrival of Thomas Edison.
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Edison took the competition so seriously he waged a fierce disinformation
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campaign against alternating current, which Tesla promoted as the best
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means of generating electricity in large amounts. Edison favored direct
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current, the status quo. Edison derided alternating current as dangerous.
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He hired a man to go around the country electrocuting small animals with
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alternating current just to prove its dangers.
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He also promoted the first execution of a criminal by electrocution for the
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same reason. (The pitch was straightforward: If alternating current can
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kill criminals, do you really want it in your kitchen?)
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Tesla ultimately won out and virtually all the electric power used in the
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world today is generated and transmitted via descendants of Tesla's
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systems.
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In addition to the alternating-current motor, Tesla also invented wireless
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communication--that is, radio-- although the Italian Guglielmo Marconi was
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falsely credited and most general reference books still reflect this.
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Partly this was caused by Tesla's compulsive secretiveness and his habit of
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conceiving an invention in his head, then going on to his next project
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without bothering to actually build or even make a written record of the
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thing. Without such physical evidence or even clear explanations, it is
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hard to know exactly what Tesla was talking about much of the time.
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Scientists still puzzle over how he achieved some of the things he did.
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This has helped obscure Tesla's place in history. Now, although references
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to him litter diverse segments of the scientific literature, his
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accomplishments are largely forgotten except among a group of equally
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diverse adherents who have a zealous devotion to his ideas.
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Resurrecting 'resonance' theory McKie is a promoter of one particular idea
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of Tesla's, the notion that the power in an electric circuit can be
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amplified by a phenomenon known as resonance. Broadly stated, in a resonant
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circuit a small flow of electrons can cause a larger amount of electrons to
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move. This phenomenon was first discovered by Tesla and by now is well
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understood.
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Vangard Notes
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In fact, the phenomenon of tapping energy from resonance was first
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discovered by John Keely and PUBLICLY documented in the book "Keely and
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his Discoveries" by Clara Bloomfield Moore in 1893. The principle was
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discovered even earlier by Keely yet this is the most accessible
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document of it.
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Page 2
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To quote:
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The time is probably near when these finer forces will be employed
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universally. Everybody knows that a note struck upon an instrument
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will produce sound in a correspondingly attuned instrument in its
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vicinity.
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If connected with a tuning fork, it will produce a corresponding sound
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in the latter; and IF CONNECTED WITH A THOUSAND SUCH TUNING FORKS, IT
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WILL MAKE ALL THE THOUSAND SOUND, AND PRODUCE A NOISE FAR GREATER THAN
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THE ORIGINAL SOUND, WITHOUT THE LATTER BECOMING ANY WEAKER FOR IT.
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Here, then, is the AUGMENTATION OR MULTIPLICATION OF POWER. If we had
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any means to TRANSFORM SOUND again into MECHANICAL MOTION, we would
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have a THOUSANDFOLD MULTIPLICATION OF MECHANICAL MOTION.
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---->>> Vangard Note
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This is apparently a pumping of the neutral centres of the mass
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to cause a release of the now current ZERO POINT ENERGY. ----<<<
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It would be presumptuous to say that it will not be as easy for the
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scientists of the future to transform sound into mechanical motion, as
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it is for the scientist of the present to transform heat into
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electricity.
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Perhaps Mr. Keely has already solved the problem. There is a fair
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prospect that in the very near future, we shall have, in his ethereal
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force, a power far surpassing that of steam or electricity.
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Nor does the idea seem to be Utopian if we remember that modern science
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heretofore only knew the law of the conservation of energy; while to
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the scientist of the future the law of the AUGMENTATION OF ENERGY will
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be unveiled.
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As the age which has passed away has been the age of steam, the coming
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era will be the age of induction. There will be a universal rising up
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of LOWER VIBRATIONS INTO HIGHER VIBRATIONS, in the realm of motion.
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Mr. Keely will, perhaps, TRANSFORM SOUND INTO MECHANICAL MOTION by
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applying the LAW OF AUGMENTATION AND MULTIPLICATION OF FORCE."
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*** The principle follows with all forms of energy, not simply
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acoustic.
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*** Just wanted to set the record straight, there are STILL many
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misconceptions in the F/E field, especially with regard to Tesla.
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Many people have never heard of Keely and others who have, simply
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brush him off in favor of the more public and easier to understand
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Tesla. I think the term is 'afficionados'...<g>.....>>> Jerry
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"Boilerplate stuff," McKie calls it.
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"The knowledge is very old and had gotten lost," he said. "I've just gone
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back and brought it up to '93 specs."
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The " '93 specs" consist of a device designed with two resonant tank
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circuits--so called because they are able to store an electrical charge--
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operating alternately. The first circuit can be made to simultaneously
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Page 3
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charge the second and send electric current out for other uses. The
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circuits can then be switched so the second recharges the first while also
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sending current out for other uses.
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McKie thinks that if properly devised, the two circuits will produce more
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power than the total amount of power it took to set them in motion. Going
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"over unity," this is called. He thinks, in fact, the power can be
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amplified many thousands of times and the device can be disconnected from
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the power source that started it and continue running. McKie thinks such a
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system could operate indefinitely.
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"In the field of electronics that sends them ballistic," he said.
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Next step: POD Mods in Ephrata When you talk to McKie about the apparent
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impossibility of what he is trying to do, he invariably thinks you're
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talking about marketing the end products, never for a moment questioning
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whether any such products will ever exist. McKie has so little doubt his
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invention will work he is already making plans to manufacture boxcar-sized
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versions of it -- power on demand modules, or POD Mods, he calls them --in
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Ephrata, Grant County. He has signed an agreement with a California
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investor for $10 million in start-up financing.
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He's already planning an electric hydroplane to advertise his company. His
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single-mindedness is so complete he hardly even notices that his house is
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in foreclosure. He says things like, "If investors don't come forward here
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in the Northwest, I'll be forced to take the project overseas and, if it's
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funded there, they'll get to use it first."
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McKie first achieved the over-unity effect accidentally in 1982 when he was
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working on a wind-turbine design for Bonneville Power. Trying to figure out
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what happened, and why, has shaped most of his life since. He duplicated
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the effect with a different electrical generator in 1984 and has, in some
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sense, been trying to do it again ever since.
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He received a U.S. patent for the idea last year, constructed a working
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model, took that model apart and is now trying to convert the whole thing
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to solid-state electronics. The device he is now building, on a workbench
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the size of an espresso cart in his garage, is about as unprepossessing as
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you can get. It is a cardboard box sparely furnished with circuit boards
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and voltage meters. The whole thing is approximately a foot square, about
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the size of a bread box.
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It uses no fuel. There are no moving parts.
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Inside the box are a pair of tank circuits, electric circuits that include
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both a capacitor--basically, an electrical storage unit--and am inductor --
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basically, a coil. It is the interaction of the capacitor and the inductor
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that McKie supposes creates resonance.
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'He's out on the edge of science'
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Ira Myers, a physicist at the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
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tration's Lewis Research Center in Ohio, has worked with McKie on the
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design of the individual components of his apparatus. He is cheering for
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McKie.
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"It's possible but it hasn't worked yet," Myers said. "He's out on the edge
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of science rather than on the center line. But it's important to have
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people out on the edge. "I personally like a good fanatic every now and
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then."
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Page 4
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Nick Butler, an electrical engineer at BPA in Portland, has supported
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McKie's work; his employer has not. "Whenever something new appears, it is
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often ignored," Butler said, citing a conventional analysis of change.
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"Once it can't be ignored any longer, people attempt to suppress it. When
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they can't suppress it, they rush to embrace it."
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Butler said he remains skeptical but thinks McKie might have as much as a
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50-50 chance of being right. Others reject the notion that there actually
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is some sort of "extra" energy almost as a matter of faith.
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"Theoretically it might be possible. Practically it can't be," said one
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electrical engineer who has reviewed McKie's data and asked that his name
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not be used. "You can't get energy from nothing. The thing as I saw it was
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nothing but measurement error that gave the impression of more output than
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input."
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Even supporters like Butler do not necessarily buy McKie's explanation that
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the power comes from resonance. Where else might it come from? "I haven't
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the faintest idea," Butler said. .
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What happens if he's right?
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Gravity Bar, the local juice empori- um, has a pineapple-lemon-ginger drink
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named for Nikola Tesla. There is also a Christian heavy metal band from
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Guam ("Rock for God") named Tesla, as is an alien character in a recent
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science fiction novella who comes to Earth and bedevils patrons at an S&M
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bar.
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The idiosyncratic David Lynch has expressed interest in doing a movie of
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Tesla's life. A local painter was inspired by Tesla to do a series of
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paintings of lightning in an airplane hangar, and Seattle City Light once
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commissioned a ceramic sculpture of Tesla's head that doubled as a planter.
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This is pretty strange company to be kept in memory of the man who invented
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something as fundamentally practical as an electric motor, but a kind of
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shroud of the bizarre has settled around the traces of Tesla's genius.
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Among some people that casts doubts on McKies efforts. Among others it
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lends credence. The debate about McKie's proposal is not irresolveable. At
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heart he is not a theorist but an engineer. He intends to begin selling his
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machines next year. What if he does? What if McKie's right?
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Each production unit, McKie says, will be completely portable, will run off
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a 12-volt battery and will produce 10 megawatts of power a year (100 such
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units would power Seattle). In one brochure, McKie matter-of-factly ticks
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off some of the advantages. For starters, use of the devices would
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eliminate high-voltage transmission lines, eliminate conventional power
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plants and, oh, by the way, replace all other sources of power generation.
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Then the environmental crisis will recede. Growth and prosperity will
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blanket the globe. An age of plenty will wrap humankind in its embrace and
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McKie and everybody who was ever nice to him will become rich beyond
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belief.
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Somewhere along the line, McKie might even get his house out of hock.
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The patent number for the McKie PodMod circuit is 5,146,395. It is a total
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of 23 pages with text and diagrams. Because of it's length, I am only
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Page 5
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including the Abstract. The circuit is listed as MCKIE2.GIF.
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United States Patent - 5,146,395
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Inventor - Scott McKie
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Filed - August 9, 1991
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References Cited
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3,387,201 6/1968 - Greenberg et al
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3,886,429 5/1975 - Maillard et al
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4,319,315 3/1982 - Keeney, Jr. et al
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4,488,214 12/1984 - Chambers
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4,513,226 4/1985 - Josephson
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4,542,440 9/1985 - Chetty et al
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4,628,284 12/1986 - Bruning
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4,709,323 11/1987 - Lien
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4,748,311 5/1988 - Thomas et al
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ABSTRACT
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The present invention provides a power supply for supplying electrical power
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to a load. The power supply includes first and second tank circuits having
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a common resonant frequency, and functions repetitively in two "major
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periods."
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In the first major period, the first tank is disconnected from powering the
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load and the second tank supplies power to the load while charging the
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first tank.
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In the second major period, the second tank is disconnected from powering
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the load, and the first tank supplies power to the load while charging the
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second tank. The tank circuits are arranged with constant current
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controllers and switches to function so that the major periods each include
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first and second minor "intervals." The first minor interval of the first
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major period defines a time during which the second tanks' capacitor is
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providing power to the load AND IS charging the first tank circuit;
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the second minor interval of the first major period defines a time during
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which the second tank's inductor is charging the first tank circuit and
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providing power to the load.
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During the second major period's two minor intervals, the tank circuits
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perform functions identical to those performed in the first two minor
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intervals.
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Vangard Note
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This is similar to a circuit called the Tesla switch which alternated
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between batteries to provide for a very slow drain. Tom Bearden says he
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thinks McKie is onto something but went too far too fast. Tom says the
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principle is correct.
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I asked him because it is similar to his claims in the "Final Secret"
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where a collector is charged up, then completely switched into a load.
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This is done in such a way as to tap the displacement current through
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rapid switching of potential to sustain a load.
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