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The following is a MOST INSPIRING series of letters or presentations
written for two purposes, to show that there IS harassment of those
working on free energy and other liberating technologies and to
question WHY such technologies, though promised for many years, have
yet to see the light of day. They were downloaded by Jim from Toby
Grotz' TESLA BBS in Colorado and uploaded to KEELYNET.
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BROWN.TXT
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL WORKING ON ALTERNATE ENERGY
November 1, 1991
Paul Brown
c/o: P.O. Box 201.
Los Altos, CA 94023
Greetings,
I have been involved with alternate energy research since 1978,
while still a college student. Over the years I have heard many
nightmare stories about people who developed something significant
only to be persecuted, harassed, prosecuted, and even killed.
I was sure that these stories were exaggerated or possibly the
result of the inventor's own paranoia or such. Further, I met
several inventors whom I felt were their own worst enemies (via
fabrications of their imaginations) which confirmed my beliefs.
As time went on, and in about 1982, I became involved in work of
some significance and received some minor criticism and skepticism
that I found to be beneficial as well as practical, but no death
threats or any of the other forms of persecution. I built
experimental devices, learned things unavailable from books, filed
for patents and in general felt very satisfied with my life, society
and the scientific system.
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However; things began to change, slowly and alarmingly. The more
success I had in my endeavors - the more I began to attract
dishonest and greedy people (I know this now but was unaware of it
then). My life became more uncomfortable as time went on but I was
not sure of the problem.
In 1987 we decided it was time to let the world know what we were
working on and the results we were getting. It was a proud time for
me. I thought we were doing the right thing. But this was the real
beginning of the worst.
Since that February 1987 I or my company have been persecuted by the
State Dept. of Health;
then the Idaho Dept. of Finance filed a civil complaint against
the company and myself;
my license for handling radioactive materials was then suspended
for 6 months;
I began to receive threats (i.e. "We will bulldoze your home
with your family in it.");
securities fraud charges were then filed against my company and
myself;
then investigation by the Oregon Dept. Finance;
then the tax man;
then the Securities and Exchange Commission;
my wife was assaulted;
I lost control of my company;
my home has been robbed three times and vandalized on four other
occasions;
twice now I have been accused of drug manufacturing;
I lost my home;
most recently my mother's car was pipe bombed.
With each hardship I strive harder toward successful development of
the technologies under my endeavor. But it only seems to get worse.
Someone once said, "Paranoia is only a heightened sense of
awareness." He was right! It is hard for the average guy to
comprehend these disasters happening to select people. I am here to
tell you it is not coincidence. I now understand why some inventors
drop out from society.
My advice to you is keep a low profile until you have completed your
endeavor; be selective in choosing your business partners; protect
yourself and your family; know that the nightmare stories are true.
R. E. McMaster elegantly summarizes the character of the suffering
scientist (The Reaper, Vol. 15, No. 36, 9-4-91) *:
"The history of science and technology, the history of significant
breakthroughs for mankind, which has launched him into new eras,
is the history of 'tinkerers', of private individuals who have
sacrificed their lives, time, money, reputations and families to
research and experiment in their garages and basements in search
of truths, the applications of which in their hearts they know
exist ... These are the men of passion, of character and
professionalism - great minds, holistic and synergistic minds,
blessed with hands-on mechanical skills, working to bring
scientific theory and concept into practical, working, useful,
productive technology.
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These are the men whom a life, love, liberty, law, light-
oriented, long-term biased society would lift up. Unfortunately,
the character of the modern world is just the opposite of the six
'Ls'.
And so men suffer, are persecuted by the government and culture-
at-large. They scramble for funds, are abandoned by their
families, suffer the ridicule of their colleagues, are forced to
stuff their thoughts and keep their mouths shut. They are
lonely. And yet, they drive on in their relentless pursuit of
truth to make this scientifically and technologically a better
world.
There is something about the non-stop pain of long-term suffering
which humbly grounds a man in reality. Under such continuous
pressure, men break and either become bitter or better. They
have neither the time nor the interest in the air heads who are
wrapped up in materialism, conflict and leisure orientation of
today's world. Nor do they belong to the group of intellectual
acid-heads who read books, gather facts, and are ever learning
and talking, but do not have the hands-on skills or the hearts to
help their friends and fellow man when the need arises. Rather,
such men are the point men, leading the dangerous platoon of
life. They are self-assured and have few good, reliable
friends... These are the men who challenge the new frontiers and
the old order to make a better tomorrow. These are the loners
who have been persecuted by both industry and government, who
have endured grave injustices in search of scientific truth."
God speed, Good Luck in your endeavors, and Never lose The Faith.
Sincerely,
Paul Brown
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* The Reaper
P.O. Box 84901
Phoenix, AZ 85071
$5.00 per Back Issue
(800 528-0559)
(Transcribed from Paul Browns' Original Letter. Return address
changed by agreement.)
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FORDYC.TXT
...And Promises to Keep
Dr. J. Stuart Fordyce, Deputy Director
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Keynote Speech Delivered at The 27th Annual IECEC Conference
August 3, 1992
San Diego, CA
Good morning everyone. It is indeed a great privilege to be here to
address you today. As the keynote speaker, I feel that I should
provide some ideas and thoughts which you will keep in the back of
your minds as you listen and participate over the next few days.
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I have chosen to title my address "...And Promises to Keep" which I
am sure you recognize as coming from Robert Frost's famous poem,
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. I hope after I have finished
speaking, the thoughts that prompted me to select that title will be
understood. I liken my address to the poem because, like Frost, I
cannot help but feel that we, you and I and the country we so dearly
love, have not kept our promises... promises made in previous years,
by us in the technical community and by our national leaders.
What were the promises? Why did we not keep them? And what shall
we do about it? This is my theme. In 1977, then President Jimmy
Carter declared a "War for Energy Independence" and we, the keepers
of the energy grail said, "Yes, we can" Recall what we said we as a
Nation would do. I quote now from the National Energy Plan of 1977
and the follow-up of 1979. By 1985, we would reduce our annual
energy use growth rate to less than 2 percent per year.
We were going to reduce our dependence on imported oil to one eighth
of our total energy consumption. We were going to reduce gasoline
consumption by 10 percent. We were going to aggressively promote
the development of new technologies for renewable energy with an
expectation of achieving near 20 percent of our domestic energy from
renewables by the year 2000. Two and one half million homes in the
U.S. were going to use solar energy by the year 1985. We were going
to reduce our energy consumption by 1/2 % through conservation.
Have we achieved any of these goals? The results are mixed. Some
we did... but most we did not. Why not, you ask? Well there are
several reasons, but the main reason is simply we, the technical
community, didn't deliver. We didn't make the technological
breakthroughs we promised. We have been successful at holding our
annual energy demand growth to below the goal of 2 percent per year,
primarily through conservation, BUT today, imported oil accounts for
40 percent of our total energy consumption, and it's expected to
climb to 58 percent by the year 2010. [These figures give reality
to the importance of Operation Desert Storm.]
Our gasoline consumption has decreased by only 2 percent, despite
the introduction of more fuel efficient vehicles. In 1991, we
consumed an average of 16.7 million barrels of oil per day, up from
7.3 million barrels per day in 1976. In 1990, renewable energy
accounted for only 8 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S.
Today less than 1 percent (or less than 1 million homes) in the U.S.
use solar energy. We had promised utility sized photovoltaic power
systems and roof top residential systems. Where are they? We said
by the mid 1990's, we would be producing photovoltaically generated
electricity at a cost of around 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. The
actual cost, for terrestrial applications is still about an order of
magnitude higher today. We are 1000 percent from our promise.
For wind systems, we promised economically viable systems. Without
the benefit of legislative mandates and tax incentives, these
systems fall well short of viability. Again we failed our promise.
We said we could produce efficient, environmentally benign electric
vehicles. Where are they? We still don't have a good, affordable
electric vehicle battery and not much on the horizon even though a
number of you are working hard in that area. We have fortunately
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begun to reassemble teams for their development, but cycle life and
energy density still remain the challenge. Perhaps variations on
the nickel-hydrogen battery which is now flying reliably in space
systems can offer some reason for optimism. No matter that ideas
like this were being worked 15 years ago.
We talked of modular fuel cells for utility application, converting
natural and/or coal derived gas efficiently and cleanly for making
electricity. Did we deliver? Are they commercially available?
Almost? What of nuclear power? Fusion reactors may well be the
ultimate solution to all the world's needs. Are we closer or are we
farther away?
This summer engineering work began on the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Program, an international
effort to achieve the long sought "break-even and ignition points."
An exciting undertaking, but as Paul-Henri Rebut, the ITER Director
said, "If ITER fails, fusion will be delayed a half-century or more.
"And what about hydrogen? It was promised as the energy fuel of
the future... clean, abundant, non-polluting... to fuel our homes,
factories, cars and airplanes. We seem to have lost interest.
These are a few of the things we promised over a decade and a half
ago. Like vote hungry politicians, we promised easy solutions to
hard, hard problems, and, perhaps like some of those candidates, we
didn't deliver! Not our fault you say? "The marketplace didn't want
these solutions" or "The price of oil dropped and remains too
cheap," you say, or maybe it's because "our national political
leadership abandoned the quest." Then whose fault is it... Mr. and
Mrs. American Citizen's? No! It is not their doing, it is ours!
You, and yes me, the technical community dropped the ball. We gave
up! We lacked the will to lead and fight for the longer term
benefit when the tide turned, and we went off in other directions
like mercenary soldiers looking for the next war.
A lot of us who were in this army seeking efficiency and energy
independence (perhaps the community that holds the long term
viability of earth in its hands), found new tables to feed from...
we changed our hats, embraced new goals and saluted new flags. Do I
really blame you for this? Of course not! I am a realist too, as
well as a sometimes hopeless romantic and optimistic futurist. The
need to support graduate students, keep a healthy bottom line, keep
the tyranny of Wall Street at bay, and pay the bills made us, maybe
reluctantly, into a different kind of warrior.
How many kinds of warriors have you been or will you be in your
career? How many times have we turned our backs on our former
passions to seek new relationships with some new and glitzy newcomer
whose allure is measured by the size of its purse? But has this been
necessary? Are you and I obligated to forgo our beliefs and
commitments? Are we forever going to abrogate our promises? Are we
forever going to let our dreams die, our technical expertise wither,
our passions cool?
That, my colleagues, is the crux of the real question you need to
address. Let me rephrase it very simply. Do we believe and care
enough to do what is right... what is right for our nations... what
is right for our world? I think you and I have an obligation we
have not delivered on.
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We have an obligation to our nations and to the world to provide
leadership. We have an obligation to make the hard choices and
propose and demand, yes demand solutions, even difficult and
unpopular ones.
In many ways we are at the junction in the path that Frost talks
about in another of his poems, The Road Not Taken. In that poem
Frost talks of two paths in a woods and says, "I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference." To draw the
analogy, think of the path we have been traveling. A journey begun
with a rousing sendoff at the start. A sendoff characterized by
national pronouncements, brass bands, press conferences, lofty goals
and national commitments, and yes, even resources!
But after we had trod down the path for a kilometer or two, the
voices of the critics and the naysayers begin to whisper from the
dark woods through which we travel. Soon the whispers grow to an
ebullient chorus, singing the critical song of discontent in an ever
rising crescendo. You have heard their voices and the ever ringing
echoes, the verses of their songs becoming more and more petulant,
more caustic, more negative. These songs soon are joined by the
brass instruments of those with other agendas... those who see
profit in stopping your journey so they can plunder your carriage.
Soon we once again are debating the wisdom of the journey we are on.
"Why," the chorus and band assembled shout, "are we doing this when
we have so many other urgent needs? Why are we doing this when it
is the responsibility of others? Why are we doing this when I
could be using your carriage for MY special journey to MY
destination... one, they assert loudly, that offers far greater
reward than yours?" And so we debate again, endlessly it seems.
What is so interesting is that when we ask the same questions we
asked previously, we now get strikingly different answers to the
same questions. Now we have plenty of oil... now we have plenty of
natural gas... now we have plenty of everything! No need to do
anything. Let's move on to other more pressing priorities! So it
goes, we start, we travel a little way, and then we quit. That is
the path we are on my colleagues, and this is a path that is well
trodden by others before us... their tracks visible in the clay of
history.
Unlike Frost, we are taking the path trodden by others... a path
well worn, littered with discarded commitments, broken promises and
decaying ideals. Frost takes the path less traveled. That, I
suggest to you, is what we should do as well. Maybe we need to take
the path that is rocky and steep and not well lighted, and stay on
our path no matter how loud the whispers from the woods become, no
matter how bitter the environment, and no matter that the journey
may be longer and harsher than we first thought and no matter that
hidden behind the rocks are those who would ravage us and plunder
our purses to fatten theirs.
Think of the journeys we have begun in the recent years. I have
already mentioned the "War for Energy Independence." Two decades
ago we went to the moon, not once but several times. Why did we go?
Well, John Kennedy said it so well: "We go not because it is easy,
we go because it is hard." The keys were leadership and commitment.
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We had them then... we set tough goals, we met the challenges, we
overcame the setbacks. We went to the moon and then [pause]... and
then we quit. That is something people hundreds of years from now
will never understand. We have now lost that capability. We now
are farther away from being able to go to the moon than we were 25
years ago!
Remember the Solar Power Satellite concept? With its huge solar
collectors orbiting the earth, beaming power down to an energy
hungry world... a bold concept, utilizing space for terrestrial
needs. Relegated to our bookshelves or file cabinets now. Why?
Was it too grand, too visionary, too hard? [A footnote: I have just
returned from Japan at the International Space University where 100
of the world's brightest young professionals from across the
technical, business and social disciplines in 29 countries are busy
with a comprehensive design project on all aspects of this
concept... There is hope! These ideas will be kept alive in many
countries.
Remember our attempt to build an American supersonic transport...
again we quit... it got too hard... the road was too long... the
path too dark to see clearly. All these years later, we are
starting over with a new supersonic program, the High Speed Research
Program. So many years lost! Where might we be now if we had seen
it through? And what about hypersonic flight, broadly supported or
faltering??
Look back to this summer. The superconducting supercollider, an
investment to penetrate the most fundamental properties of matter,
is near termination. Another big start... another abandonment or
pulled from the fire? How many of you know that NASA actually built
and flight tested nuclear space power systems in the late 1960's.
But we stopped, we quit, we gave up. Now, more than two decades
later, we have to start over. Will that be sustained? Do you
remember our commitment to eradicate poverty in America? That
journey has been halted and in fact the travelers on that path have
retreated... as the echoes were too loud and the challenges
allegedly too great.
What about our goals of civil rights and true equality? The wardens
of distrust and bigotry seem to have halted that journey. How about
the International Space Station Freedom? Boldly, we invest in the
future to take a permanent habitat into space using the first
electric utility in orbit. True to our recent history, we
repeatedly downsize and re-scope the effort, pairing the capability
down to the bone (at an even greater total cost by the way). And
now we talk of quitting and push it almost to the brink. Not, my
colleagues and fellow citizens, atypical in our world today!
We are now embarked on other national crusades. In the United
States, education, as it should be, is in vogue right now. We have
an Education President and Education Governors and Education Mayors
and others. We all know how vitally important an educated citizenry
is to our society. We are, we are told, going to be first in
science and mathematics, assure that better than 95% of our children
graduate from high school, and assure functional levels of
competence in the basic skills.
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Remember the Williamsburg Education Summit with its big press
conferences and media events, the pronouncements, the speeches, the
trumpets blasting that Wagnerian-like overture entitled a "New
National Commitment." Will we see this commitment through either?
Schools in both rural and urban America are laying off teachers and
staff, cutting programs as budgets are cut and tax levies fail. We
even hear calls to challenge the public school system, once the
bedrock of the American culture, in favor of a network of private
schools. History will cast its harsh light on that question and its
answer will be part of our legacy to those who will inherit our
world.
American business has often been criticized for being short sighted,
for only looking at this quarter's "bottom line." We have seen
advanced technology, often paid for by tax dollars, abandoned to
foreign competition by our business leaders because the time frame
was viewed as too long. I am personally familiar with several
examples... one, developed to the state of potential commercial
application by the government, was pursued by an American company
but then dropped when the buyout barons arrived on the scene. The
Japanese are now pursuing its commercialization feasibility.
Coal-based Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) was
developed and first demonstrated in this country in the mid-1980's..
but the first commercial prototype will be installed in the
Netherlands next year. These are not uncommon stories and you each
can add your own vignettes I am sure. The wisdom of establishing an
American Industrial Policy (the politically correct term) is evoking
intense debate and whatever evolves may be a factor in the way
American business operates in the future.
It was once believed that government had that special obligation to
invest in our longer term needs... it was acknowledged that major
national commitments were often decades in duration. We once
accepted and practiced that belief... but now the pressures are
intense for government to focus more and more on current needs and
to sacrifice the strategic investments in our future.
Like Mr. and Mrs. American citizen, our national bank account is
being overdrawn so we can consume now rather than invest for
tomorrow... and the bill is being sent to our children. "Please pay
promptly," it will say, "or your privileges will be suspended." A
question that begs to be asked: To whom will they make out the
check? I don't know if you enjoy and read history like I do, but
any examination of past civilizations, in particular those that
flourished and prospered, shows they practiced boldness and
commitment. But history also shows that when doubts creep in and
the whisperers begin to have the ear of the leaders, when the
naysayers' and the exploiters' voices are so loud that their shrill
drowns out the reason and rhetoric of the committed, decline finds
its point of entry and begins to fester in the timbers of the
society... that the pervasive fog of negativism blocks the light
from reaching into the debate, and as soon as the last flicker is
extinguished, the cold night swallows them forever.
Perhaps I am getting too philosophical here for the keynote address
to a technical conference... but I hope you bear with me and don't
take my admonitions for other than what they are intended to be...
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an alert, if you will. A clang or maybe in the words of a popular
TV commercial, "a Cha-Ching," a loud noise designed to get your
attention... not to sell you hamburgers, but to sell you a notion. A
notion that we must take a far different path then the one we have
been following.
We must because, my colleagues, the path we are on is not getting us
to grandmother's house, it is the road to the wolf's lair! It may
be very appropriate to give time to these issues right now as we in
the U.S. are embarking on our quadrennial presidential campaign
season. The issues of leadership and national commitment ought to
be on the menu of discussion and debate. And if the candidates are
timid in discussing these issues, we should demand their views and
demand they share their solutions to our crisis of commitment.
We should ask why we are afraid to be bold, why we are afraid to
make hard choices, why we are afraid to lead, why do we succumb to
the forces of negativism and doubt? We have seen changes of profound
and yes, epoch defining proportions in the world in recent years.
Changes that the pen of history with its indelible ink, will record
and put into context.
But we react strangely to this new world. We are simultaneously
optimistic and pessimistic. We rejoice in our successes and then
demean our motives. We praise our technology but then damn it in
the next breath. We clamor for more but deny our responsibility to
pay and persevere through the difficult times. We stress the here
and now, and ignore the hereafter. We ask for faster, better,
cheaper but will not quench our appetite for big and expensive.
In my mind there is no question about our abilities to find
solutions... no questions of our technological acumen... and no
question about our needs. The only question is: Are we going to
take the path less traveled? For my colleagues that will "make all
the difference!"
In this brave new world we face, we must find new ways of doing our
business. We are going to be faced with increasingly scarce
resources in a time of increasingly severe problems, not only in the
energy arena, but in many aspects of our lives. To enable us to
continue viable and productive research and technology programs, in
order to avoid quitting yet again in mid-journey, we the technical
community must find new economies, new approaches and new ways of
"getting on with it."
In NASA the words are "Faster, Better, Cheaper, Without Compromising
Safety." I think those words may be applicable here as well. We
must collaborate more, share our ideas, share our facilities and
yes, even our people. To quote Edzard Reuter, Chairman of the Board
of Management at Daimler-Benz, talking about future technologies, he
says, "The technologies vital to our future can be researched and
developed only through global cooperation, which calls for
pioneering strategic business alliances unhindered by bloc
mentalities... and it will be not so much policy, as technologies
and markets that will cross borders and promote integration the
world over."
That broad based technology has been and will continue to be the
engine of economic growth and the catalyst for human progress is, I
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think, acknowledged by most of us. However, as the mathematicians
say, "That is a necessary but not sufficient condition." By itself,
technology will not assure success. That team of horses that pulls
Robert Frost's sleigh along the path less taken, must pull together
for the common good on the journey. Like a solitary horse,
technology cannot pull the sleigh alone. It must work in harmony
with others on the team... others with names like leadership,
government-private sector partnerships, national will, environmental
commitment, international cooperation, and social justice, to pull
us up the steeper hills.
As we follow the path, we will be guided by a combination of our
intellect, our training, our experience, our instincts, and the
driver's gentle tugs. Please let us work together as colleagues to
set the direction and keep our journeys, once undertaken, on the
path of progress, moving forward, regardless of the steepness of the
path or the whispers from the trees. The generations that will
follow us depend, critically on you and me. We must engage
ourselves and look beyond our perceived limits of influence. That
is the legacy we should leave... that is the duty we have.
I trust that the conference will provide you all the opportunity to
discuss and share, challenge and debate, define the problems and
suggest the solutions. Our obligations as technical leaders and
innovators are real and of more importance now than ever.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak this morning and for your
willingness to listen to me struggle with reality as a humanist, and
yes, still an optimist. In closing, ponder the challenge, symbolic
of [Slide]: America at the Threshold and the poet's closing line:
"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep..."
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HYDE.TXT
URGENT APPEAL
APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR HELP WITH GOVERNMENT
AND
BIG BUSINESS SUPPRESSION OF NEW EMERGING ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Dear Fellow American,
Let first introduce myself. I am an independent inventor and
engineer working in the field of advanced energy systems. I have
been very successful in creating the advanced energy systems that
all of us will need if we are to survive and prosper in the coming
years. These energy systems use the forces of the electric,
magnetic, and gravitational nuclear, etc. Some of my work is
contained in US Patent No. 4,897,592: Electrostatic Energy Power
Generating Systems.
The United States Department of Energy and various large
corporations have and are attempting to suppress this new emerging
energy technology. They use vicious harassment, death threats,
blackmail, extortion and employ people to file frivolous lawsuits to
drain off resources to stop development and manufacture. I have
been in court for five years over every conceivable frivolous matter
one could think of.
Unless I receive help from the American people, I will not be able
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to work in this important energy technology area, as the costs of
fighting a cabinet level federal bureaucracy and billion dollar
corporations is prohibitive. My legal costs over the last five
years has been over $35,000. I have lost over 30 foreign patents
because of the government action. The politicians wonder why we
have no economy, no jobs.
Please help one of America's most talented creative inventors by:
calling or writing President Bush and your congressman to stop this
outrageous attempt to maintain the "status quo" greedy monopolies
that rip you off day after day.
Please send me a short note of your contribution towards this effort
with your name and address and I will place you on a mailing list.
People on this list will first be offered the stock of the
corporation formed to manufacture this now emerging energy
technology plus will receive technical updates.
Again, I ask for your help in this important matter. I personally
thank all of you in advance for your help. I look forward to
hearing from you all.
Sincerely,
(signed)
William Hyde
1685 Whitney
Idaho Falls, ID 83402-1768
Received via FAX on April 28, 1992.
WRITE HIM! I suggest you enclose $1 to defray his mailing costs.
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KING.TXT
On Solving the Great Problems of the World
Mr. Llewellen King
Publisher of The Energy Daily, Defense Week, and Environmental Week
Washington D.C.
Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
Invited Luncheon Speaker
American Nuclear Society, Host Organization
Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
August 7, 1991
Selected Excerpts Made by Videotape Transcription
I have been observing many meetings on 'Solving the Great Problems
of the World' for many years now.
One of the things we are constantly looking for in our meetings, and
have been for many decades, is an elusive thing called 'Energy
policy.' This is like looking for the 'Holy Grail.' ... Since the
early 1970's, there has been much searching for this Holy Grail.
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- * - * - * - * - * - * -
(regarding public, political, and governmental policy)
Now the problem with all of this, and it is not only our problem, it
is a problem that I see throughout the world, is that we do not hold
cohesively against certain national problems. Or, it takes a very
long time to get together a consensus to make a decision.
In energy, we have made decisions in the United States that have
led us in one direction. ... They hold decisions in 'Public Policy'
as separate from 'National Policy.'
Now, sometimes a government can act decisively. This is a great
quality, and sometimes it is a great error: sometimes it goes the
Wrong Way!
Now in science and technology, (I think that we say) that in a
rather Ecumenical way, that all science and all engineering and all
discovery is good, and it should be financed. And then we break
apart into our separate disciplines, and we believe that what we
(individually) are doing is good and it should be financed; and
that it might be the entrepreneur solution to all our problems.
The problem of the commitment with scientists and engineers, is that
it tends to be looked at in a one factor analysis and extrapolated
out into the future.
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(in relating a story told by a senior member on the
Science and Technology Appropriations Committee)
"I don't know what to do about these scientist fellows. They come
in here and want a million dollars from my Appropriations Committee
to discover something. And, well you give the million dollars, and
they probably discover something, and then they're back the next
year - and they want three million to find out what it is that they
discovered."
This is another problem in science, and that is that we tend to
spend all of our efforts to replicate something that we have,
instead of taking that 'Quantum Leap Forward' to the next thing! It
is understandable in this situation that that is quite comparable to
building a wind machine to make the sail ship more efficient.
Instead of taking the power and driving the propeller. We do it all
the time!
When Howard Hughes built the 'Spruce Goose', he had a problem: he
didn't have enough power for it. He had eight reciprocating
engines. He needed a 'Giant Step Forward.' He understood this.
There was no point in adding more engines and propellers. He needed
the Jet Engine!
Sometimes I think that we are trying to replicate something that we
have had, instead of taking a 'Quantum Leap Forward.' And, it is
not always clear what that 'Forward Step' is.
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(while relating a story regarding a slow train trip during
after his first seeing a demonstration of fiber optics:)
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... And I was just stunned. It was amazing, this technology.
And I began thinking about electricity, about energy in general, and
where is the 'Quantum Leap Forward?' Where is the jump from a
copper wire to a fiber or to cable? Where was the 'Leap Forward!'
Where was the 'Equivalent' of fiber optics (for electricity)?
Whatever we have done to improve the production of electricity, we
have done one tremendous thing: and that is nuclear. We are still
boiling water! And we are still using 19th century plumbing. We
are still using 21st century technology on top of 19th century
plumbing!
We have failed with energy to come up with the 'Great Big
Breakthrough!' 'The Major Change.' 'The Radically Different
Thing.'
The new technologies (discussed at this conference), such as
magnetohydrodynamics, (are coming forth)... and yet these things
have not fostered (results) - and we are still left boiling water!
It is theoretically possible that we could at some point take this
'Quantum Leap.' However, (from where I sit and what I see) the
evidence is not promising. There us nothing in sight that looks as
though it can substitute for the way we do it now.
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(about the US love affair with and inside of gasoline
automobiles, and about how to advance any forthcoming technology)
We are not going to do it until we deploy some new cars, get running
experience, and incremental improvements. You cannot get from Kitty
Hawk to the Concord without building some airplanes along the way,
and yes, crashing them to boot. You could not have designed from
Kitty Hawk to the 747 on a computer!!!
We are restricted, in these days upon this world, in deploying new
technologies and think projects. Because we have developed a dismal
habit of trying to predict the future - and the risks of the future.
We are no good at it, and we know that. There is no projection of
the future that works!
However, we live in very strange times. And again I find there is
an international commonality, that is not particularly American, but
that is that our 'Public Policy' is driven by 'Hypothetical Horrors'
that we are known (to be fostering). ...
'Hypothetical Horrors' abound: they are on our front pages every
day! ... We are driven by these events, not by what is here now,
not by what is real, but by what might be! And it is having a
deleterious impact on the development of large projects and changes
in the way we have done things.
As so often, the United States becomes the first in this sort of
grid-lock fear of the future. And that is not confined to us. It
is a world-wide phenomena.
Things are changing very quickly. And it seems to me, that the
great success of Japan to which they should be promoted and
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welcomed, and admired, and the last above all these, is that the
Japanese have collectively taken on the 'Adventure of Science!'
That they have a sense of adventure about science, about commerce,
and about engineering - that the British had in the 18th and 19th
centuries, and that we had in the latter part of the one and in the
early part of this century; and we know that!
We have become rather slow in society, where everybody is looking
for some sort of mystical plateau, on which they can serve out their
time on Earth. Corporations are looking for this plateau,
individuals are looking for it, and therefore anything that suggests
change, competition, or different ways of doing things, is very
difficult to deal with.
One of the Great Problems that you have as engineers and scientists,
and there may be people in this very room who can make enormous
contributions to the energy equation, is the slowness, that we have
of adopting new technology: 'Technology Transfer.'
Most of the technologies that we now speak about on the Globe have
been around for a good while, and were not developed in the manner
in which they were invented. Whether it was the jet engine in
Britain or Ampex (magnetic) tape in the United States: We are
reluctant to transfer technology! Because of disturbing the
'Political Tide!'
We have not solved the technology transfer problem whatsoever. We
have set up various crucibles of experimentation, bases, privately
funded like the Electric Power Research Institute, publicly funded
like the national laboratories in this country, or Harwell in
Britain, and on and on and on, but the rate of transfer has is very
very poor and very slow.
More productive societies are still looking for their plateau. They
have not reached that point of self-satisfaction that is causing us
such difficulty as we move ahead.
In energy, we have adopted in this country one of the most
destructive public policy options that you could have: We have
declared that gasoline could be the next cheapest substance
available in large quantities than water. It's much cheaper than
Coca Cola, it is much cheaper than Gatorade water, it is much
cheaper than all the other silly things - and in that, we are
serving a staple to our consumers that is much larger than all of
our rhetoric. And we are prepared, apparently, to fight wars, in
order to maintain this.
Therefore, there is very little hope for some (new) form of energy
policy, while the people are prepared to pay for their largest
extravagance in energy, which is gasoline. It is not electricity;
it is not crude oil; it is gasoline - petrol. We are sending a
signal that this is the way to go!!!
If any of you have gone to purchase a new automobile these days, you
will find the salesman as often as not will forget to tell you in
the United States, the gas mileage. I doubt that in Italy he
doesn't forget to tell you the gas mileage!
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That has become our 'policy.' Therefore, we cannot look to 'energy
policy' for 'energy policy guidance.' The 'policy' being one of:
'Let It Stay As It Is!'
But we can look to 'environmental policy,' which is more active in
the United States than in any other nation.
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(on the US electric utility industry)
And it is my belief that a gas turbine is to energy policy that a
hotel is to homelessness: a very expensive and temporary
alternative.
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(back to the US energy policy)
And this mess is going to go on until a point in time. And then
something is going to happen that is going to change it -
permanently, and differently.
And, this involves a theory that I have. And that is that we like
to say that: "You can't just have simple solutions to complex
problems. You must have complex solutions to complex problems." So
you get: 'Very Complex Solutions' to 'Very Complex Problems.' Until
the point is reached where the weight of this thing causes its own
collapse - and a 'Big Bold Simple Solution' to the 'complex problem'
is required. And when that emergency is perceived, 'Big Bold Simple
Solutions' are introduced, and they Do Work! They can be swept thru
Parliaments, swept thru Congress, or implemented by Fear, as often
happens. And at some point, as we roll toward the next century, it
is my belief that we will again visit (vastly increased) oil prices,
oil shorts (shortages), and environmental impact problems. Do not
forget that the Green Movement may be driving the (energy) policy,
and the environmental impact is quite substantial in that it extends
from the extraction, to the transportation, to the combustion
(empires). At which time we will look at some of the things that
are (waiting) in the wings, and some of the things that may be in
the wings!
And if you would go out and invent a new electric generator today,
the 'Black Box,' the equivalent of the fiber optic cable, you would
find that the most severe opponent would not be from the
environmental movement, but it would be the extant of the industry
(to not be destroyed or lost), because that is how we operate!!!
And likewise, if we would come up with an electric vehicle that is
of the form, or equal to, or was in close relationship with the
internal combustion engine, your opponents would be worldwide: the
automobile manufactures would not be ready to adopt this new
technology.
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(on the development and introduction of new technologies)
And in order to do that, I believe that you will need new
institutions to deploy new technology. That they won't be deployed
by the extant of the old institutions.
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The Challenge in Technology is to find it, and then sell it, and
finally to employ it. After R&D is another D, which is
'Deployment.' The technology that is developed and put onto the
self is sueable.
In the situation that we are in, in the nation, it takes a
Professional Society to be their own advocates in their own
technology. The corporations are not credible, and even governments
are not credible. An individual and individual societies are.
You are in a very exciting situation, because as being scientists
and being engineers, you have inherited the mantle of the poets: You
can dream the dreams that only once poets could dream. We too
become obsolete.
Thank you very much.
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MACNEI.TXT
INSIGHTS INTO THE PROPRIETARY SYNDROME
By KEN MacNEILL
Cadake Industries
Winter Haven, Florida
PART I
To give you some background on myself, I have been interested in the
energy situation since I can remember. I have built all kinds of
devices, solar energy panels, windmills, photovoltaic arrays,
flywheel devices, and also carburetors of which I will talk on
Sunday. In my background I am an accomplished tool and diemaker,
moldmaker, been involved in Design Engineering for the past 12
years, primarily in the automation area.
My first real involvement with other people in this alternate energy
area was at the Toronto Symposium in 1981 where I met George
Hathaway as well as over 100 other people that believe in the
impossible according to orthodox science. Since that time I have
made myself aware of just about everything that is happening in this
field, and believe me there are some really fantastic things going
on. The rediscovery of some of the technology that was lost in the
past is finally coming to realization, for instance the Tesla
technology, the Hubbard device, the Moray approach to tapping into
the free energy supply that we're sitting in without even knowing
it.
A friend of mine gave me a real insight possibly without even
knowing it. He said the problem could only be solved by just
considering the problem of weighing a glass of water at 500 feet
under water. Here you are under water with a glass of water: how
do you weigh it???
The analogy is the same for us. Here we sit in the vastness of the
cosmos on top of one of the biggest magnets known to us and we are
like the glass of water. We are in the vast ocean of energy. Look
around us and watch just the weather for instance, the next
thunderstorm, think of all the electrical potential being wasted.
That energy is there; it is very real.
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Tom Bearden, one of our upcoming speakers, may have illustrated it
quite well by the bird sitting on top of the wire with 13,000 volts
going through it. We all know that it could kill him but it
doesn't. I am positive that within this group will be the ways and
means for making the energy situation of the future change.
Now to the other side of this coin. Why has not this technology
been allowed to become established? We have to look at the 'profit
motive' involved. If we have free energy, how will they charge for
it? What will happen to the billions of dollars that the utilities
and oil companies and the government backing these establishments do
if we can give the people independence from the chains of having to
pay for energy?
One question that has been uppermost in my mind for the last year
has been the rhetoric given by our elected representatives about the
energy situation and the amount of money given to small researchers
who could possibly give us a viable approach to becoming energy
independent. Who gets the government money?? Let me get a little
audience participation in the question. How many of you have all
the money you need for research in the energy area? Everyone who
has please stand!!!!! Now let me mention a few of the names of the
companies that get the money. See if you recognize them: Exxon,
Gulf Oil, General Electric, Westinghouse, TRW, Exide Storage
Battery, all manufacturers or producers of fossil fuel products.
We need to get away from the fossil fuels for the future and get
into something that can indeed give us a future because we are
rapidly depleting not only our natural resources but our air and
water. All because of burning fossil fuels. We fund our
universities and colleges in the most directed of ways. If you want
to explore the possibilities in some of the more esoteric areas, for
instance the ones you will be hearing about in the next three days,
there is no money for that. WHY??? Because of the possibility that
we might succeed. What would our government do if all the American
people could go back and forth to work, heat their homes, run their
businesses without paying taxes on gas and oil?
Consider the fact that all of the gas stations would go out of
business or would have to find other ways of making money. Many
complimentary businesses would also fold. But alas, this is
America. What are we here for??? To perpetuate Big Business, Big
Government, or to advance toward the future, not expending all of
our natural resources but to save them to make the goods of the
future. Coal and oil both can be used for making all kinds of
things besides fuels; the list is endless.
It is my feeling that the technology may be already here and may
have been shown to the government. It even may have been introduced
to our patent office and turned down. Because as you know, there is
no such thing as a perpetual motion device. And I agree with the
premise because forever is a long time.
But there are surely some of the devices or parts thereof that have
been introduced to the government or to big business in the past
which have been shelved. Tesla's transmission device is a classic
illustration probably best known to this group. What happened is
that they removed the money from him to do his research and
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effectively stifled this remarkable man. How many other times has
it happened to someone not so well known?
At this moment, there are over 3,000 devices or applications in the
patent office that have been branded as security or put under wraps
by the secrecy order, Title 35, U.S. Code (1952) Sections 181-188.
What is security? How is it defined? I have had many inventors or
other scientists tell me that they did not want to discuss their
invention with me or others because they might lose it to us or we
might tell someone else before they got it onto the market. Believe
me, it won't get there by going through the patent process. It is
my feeling that if such a device were introduced at this level, then
it would be put under the Secrecy Act. I don't know that I am
correct in this assumption. But I cannot imagine a government like
ours wanting to commit financial suicide. So what better way than
to brand something as a secret?
I would like to read the Secrecy Order to you so that you may better
understand my concern. Please pay close attention. I think it is
very important. To you or anyone!!! Consider your receiving this:
SECRECY ORDER
(Title 35, United States Code (1952), sections 181-188)
NOTICE: To the applicant above named, his heirs, and any and all of
his assignees, attorneys and agents, hereinafter designated
principals:
You are hereby notified that your application as above identified
has been found to contain subject matter, the unauthorized
disclosure of which might be detrimental to the national security,
and you are ordered in nowise to publish or disclose the invention
or any material information with respect thereto, including hitherto
unpublished details of the subject matter of said application, in
any way to any person not cognizant of the invention prior to the
date of the order, including any employee of the principals, but to
keep the same secret except by written consent first obtained of the
Commissioner of Patents, under the penalties of 35 U.S.C. (1952)
182, 186.
Any other application already filed or hereafter filed which
contains any significant part of the subject matter of the above
identified application falls within the scope of this order. If
such other application does not stand under a security order, it and
the common subject matter should be brought to the attention of the
Security Group, Licensing and Review, Patent Office.
If, prior to the issuance of the secrecy order, any significant part
of the subject matter has been revealed to any person, the
principals shall promptly inform such person of the secrecy order
and the penalties for improper disclosure. However, if such part of
the subject matter was disclosed to any person in a foreign country
or foreign national in the U.S., the principals shall not inform
such person of the secrecy order, but instead shall promptly furnish
to the Commissioner of Patents the following information to the
extent not already furnished: date of disclosure; name and address
of the disclosee; identification of such part; and any
authorization by a U.S. government agency to export such part. If
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the subject matter is included in any foreign patent application, or
patent, this should be identified. The principals shall comply with
any related instructions of the Commissioner.
This order should not be construed in any way to mean that the
Government has adopted or contemplates adoption of the alleged
invention disclosed in this application; nor is it any indication
of the value of such invention.
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It is my feeling that something on the order of a so-called 'free
energy device' would receive this treatment. My only approach would
be to go to the public domain. That is, get the information or the
device out there to enough people that they could not stop you.
This group looks like the best group to give this information to.
Hopefully it will forthcoming in the next three days.
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Transcribed from: PROCEEDINGS; The Second International Symposium
on Non-Conventional Energy Technology, pp 125-126.
I have been told this was presented on September 23, 1983.
Contact Ken MacMeill at Cadake Industries, P.O. Box 1866, Clayton,
GA 30525.
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