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'''Free energy suppression''' is a [[conspiracy theory]] that claims that advanced [[technology]] that would reshape current electrical generation methods is being [[suppression of dissent|suppressed]] by [[special interest group]]s. These groups are usually related to the [[oil industry]], to whom current energy generation [[technology]] is profitable. |
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==Description== |
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'''Josue Nahun Galdamez''' (Born [[December 18]], [[1982]] in [[San Salvador]], [[El Salvador]]) is a Salvadoran professional [[soccer player]]. |
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In this context, the term "free energy" is not well-defined, and should not be confused with [[thermodynamic free energy]]. Generally, it is used to refer to purported transformative technologies which have the potential to dramatically reduce personal energy costs with relatively little capital investment. |
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[[Category:Salvadoran footballers|Galdamez, Josue Nahun]] |
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Many free energy claims, such as [[perpetual motion]] or extracting [[zero point energy]], are impossible according to currently accepted physical laws.<ref name=gribbin>{{cite book | last = Gribbin | first = John | title = Q is for Quantum - An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics | publisher = Touchstone Books | year = 1998 | id = ISBN 0-684-86315-4}}</ref> Others, such as [[cold fusion]], while not impossible, are not accepted as established by the scientific community. Conspiracy advocates therefore claim that the scientific community has controlled and suppressed research into alternative avenues of energy production via the institutions of [[peer review]].<ref>{{citation |last=Sarewitz |year=2002 |title=Public Failures in US Science Policy |page=12 |quote=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}}</ref> |
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In addition, some claim that [[perpetual motion]] machines or other devices capable of extracting significant and usable power from pre-existing energy reservoirs for little or no cost exist but are being suppressed<ref name=frissell1>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 1583940677</ref><ref name=intunde1>Mad Macz (2002), ''Internet Underground: The way of the hacker'', PageFree Publishing, Inc. ISBN 1930252536</ref><ref name=davide1>David Alison (1994), ''Another free-energy cover-up?: The Dennis Lee Story'', [[Nexus Magazine]], (June-July 1994)</ref><ref>''Free Energy - A Reality Not a Conspiracy''. (Video) Time frame 00:35 - 00:45.</ref> by [[government]]s and [[special interest group]]s (such as the [[fossil fuel]] and nuclear industry),<ref name=autogenerated3>Charles D. Jaco, ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil''. Politics of Energy, Page 191 - 198</ref> and that suppression has been going on for some time.<ref name=autogenerated6>Tutt (2003), "The Scientist, The Madman, The Thief and Their Lightbulb: The Search for Free Energy". </ref> According to energy suppression conspiracy advocates, the main motive behind this is the preservation of the economic status quo and sustained increase of fuel prices. Variations on the energy suppression conspiracy state that free energy cannot be allowed in a [[capitalism|capitalist]] system because the system would break down if it were introduced. |
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Only small parts of evidence have ever been presented for free energy suppression, and the basic premises of the theory are flawed according to mainstream [[physics]] (see ''[[#Theory analysis|Theory analysis]]'' section). |
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Proponents of this [[conspiracy theory]] also claim that certain renewable technologies (such as [[solar cells]]<ref name=smithadmend>Solar development cooperative/smith's amended, motion of notice of intent to claim compensation, Solar development cooperative 'Lighting the Way With Creation’s Original Remedy', Corona del Mar, CA 92625 July 19, 1999. Retrieved April 2007. [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocities.com%2FEureka%2F1905%2FAMENDEDNOI.doc&ei=JbYmRsepNJv0iAGav7nGCg&usg=AFrqEzcCY33_r96zQdk0Ju48-epJ1AMOMA&sig2=nxUh7KRMfoU4IfrPCMnfwQ Original location, http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/1905/AMENDEDNOI.doc] (ed., there was a notice of intent decision at [http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/Published/Final_decision/1792-01.htm#P29_1614 cpuc.ca.gov]) [cf., ''Enron-Amoco began using Solarex patents to sue major American PV leaders that attempted to evolve new or innovative PV applications or technologies in this nation'']</ref> and [[biofuel]]s) and other efficient technologies (as [[electric vehicles]]) are being suppressed<ref name=autogenerated8>Eric Lerner, ''[http://www.progressiveengineer.com/PEWebBackissues2002/PEWeb%2028%20Jul%2002-2/28editor.htm Stop the Suppression of an Alternative Energy Source!]''. Progressive Engineer.</ref> or weakened by [[government]]s<ref name=autogenerated4> Paul Ballonoff, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ONmpxiQUa8oC 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.) </ref> and [[special interest group]]s.<ref name=autogenerated5>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</ref> |
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Alternative and free energy research is typically considered to be [[pseudoscience|pseudo-scientific]] or unrealistic by the scientific community. Conspiracy theorists allege that this is a deliberate attempt by conspirators to suppress this research. There are various other factors which can prevent funding of some alternative energy development, such as "time and information" and capital costs.<ref>Weinberg (1979) "''Are the alternative energy strategies achievable''".</ref> Groups behind "the conspiracy" have been said to include various national governments, international automakers, and the petroleum industry. An article in [[Nexus magazine]] claims |
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:''The spread of working free-energy technologies has been prevented by wealthy elites governments, deluded inventors and con men, as well as a non-demanding public''.<ref>[http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/freeenergy.html Where in the World is all the Free Energy?], [[Nexus magazine]], V8#4 (2007-06/07</ref> |
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* [[Occam's razor]] - is the alternative story more complicated and therefore less probable than the mainstream story? |
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* [[Whistleblower]]s - how many people — and what kind — have to be loyal conspirators? |
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== Theory analysis == |
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With respect to physically possible technology being suppressed, economic arguments hold. Various energy commodities are in some form of competition in the market place, with oil, coal, and natural gas in competition with known renewable energy methods. In 1979 Carter installed solar panels on the roof of [[the White House]] and said he was going to: ''"move our nation toward true [[energy security]] and abundant, readily available energy supplies."''<ref name="boston.com">[http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2008/06/jimmy_carters_solar_panels_hel_1.html Jimmy Carter's solar panels help power a Maine college, then star in film -The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston<!-- bot-generated title -->] at www.boston.com</ref> In 1986, President Ronald Reagan took the solar panels down when the White House roof was being repaired.<ref name="boston.com"/> |
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However, governments have not imprisoned individuals for research concerning solar cells, [[windmill]]s, and [[Geothermal power|geothermal]] [[energy production]], nor have they closed down research centers investigating such topics. To the contrary [[National Renewable Energy Laboratory]] employs many such researchers and is dedicated to alternative energy research with select energy projects being conducted at other national labs such as [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] and [[Pacific Northwest National Laboratory]]. The United States government ([[United States Department of Energy|DOE]], [[National Science Foundation|NSF]], [[United States Department of Defense|DOD]], and others), the European Union and the Japanese have invested resources in developing alternative sources of energy, typically with the goal of gaining [[energy independence]] and a [[Marketing strategy|competitive market edge]]. |
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The usual claimed justification for alleged suppression is to maintain the current economic system. But from an economics perspective, the existence of [[free good]]s contradicts the idea that free or very cheap energy would destroy a market economy. Air and water, necessary raw materials in many processes, are available to anyone at no cost except transport and storage. Furthermore, if energy were in fact free, then there would still be charges for costs of delivering that energy to the end user in [[Electric power transmission|conventional transmission lines]]. In many parts of the world, water is free in the sense that anyone can pull it out of a river; purifying and delivering it, however, has profit potential. Moreover, according to established economic theories, significantly lowered energy costs would result in increased economic growth, since the costs of producing goods and services would drop. "Free energy" would produce a fast growing economy and enable huge economic growth. Increased economic growth from lowered energy costs has occurred before: raw material and resource commodities (notably coal, aluminum, textiles, and labor) dropped in price as a consequence of the [[industrial revolution]]. Generally, when a resource becomes cheap, other economic sectors absorb the loss, or new demands will be created. |
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== Specific cases == |
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Many inventors have attempted to construct means of over-unity energy production. Supporters claim that the ones listed below have had work suppressed: |
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=== Nikola Tesla === |
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[[Image:Nikola Tesla.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Nikola Tesla: "''I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.''"<ref>Nikola Tesla; Brooklyn Eagle, [[July 9]] [[1931]]</ref>]] |
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In June 1902, Tesla moved his laboratory operations from his [[Houston Street, Manhattan|Houston Street]] laboratory to [[Wardenclyffe]]. By 1903 the tower structure was near completion, but was not yet functional due to last-minute design changes. Tesla intended for the tower to demonstrate how the ionosphere could be used to provide free electricity to everyone without the need for power lines. Construction costs eventually exceeded the money provided by [[J. P. Morgan]], and additional financiers were reluctant to come forward. Morgan, who could not foresee any financial gain from providing free electricity to everyone, balked at investing further in the scheme and encouraged other investors to avoid the project.<ref>When Morgan wanted to know "''Where can I put the meter?''", Tesla had no answer. Tesla's vision of free power did not agree with Morgan's worldview; nor would it pay for the maintenance of the transmission system.{{cn}}</ref>{{cn}} In May 1905, Tesla's patents on [[alternating current]] motors and other methods of power transmission expired, halting royalty payments and causing a severe reduction of funding to the Wardenclyffe Tower. In an attempt to find alternative funding, Tesla advertised the services of the Wardenclyffe facility, but he met with little success. By this time, Tesla had also designed the [[Tesla turbine]] at Wardenclyffe and produced [[Tesla coil]]s for sale to various businesses. |
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Soon after Tesla's death, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] instructed the government's [[Alien Property Custodian]] office to take possession of his papers and property, despite his [[United States nationality law|US citizenship]]. His safe was also opened. After the FBI was contacted by the War Department, his papers were declared to be [[Classified information|top secret]]. The personal effects were seized on the advice of presidential advisers; [[J. Edgar Hoover]] declared the case most secret, because of the nature of Tesla's inventions and patents.<ref>Hoover, John Edgar, et al., [http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/tesla.htm FOIA FBI files], 1943.</ref> |
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However, the likely cause for the seizure of Teslas' documents was that he had been working on the [[teleforce]] weapon, or death ray, that he had unsuccessfully marketed to the US War Department—not because of his work on free energy devices which had ended eleven years earlier. |
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[[Nikola Tesla]] stated, when asked if the principle of his worldwide wireless system of "free energy" would upset the dominant economic system, "''It is badly upset already''".<ref>Nikola Tesla, ''Tesla harnesses cosmic energy''. Philadelphia Public Ledger, November 2, 1933. (cited in: Margaret Cheney, et. al., ''Tesla, Master of Lightning''. Page 142.)</ref>--> |
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===Tomas Henry Moray=== |
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{{main|Thomas Henry Moray}} |
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In the 1930s, Thomas Henry Moray reported that he and his family had been threatened and shot at on several occasions and his lab ransacked to stop his free energy research and public demonstrations. The 1975 book ''The Sun Betrayed'' claimed solar energy production was being suppressed by the US governmental bureau allocated to help its development.<ref>Ray Reece, ''The Sun Betrayed'', page 14-15</ref> |
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=== Wilhelm Reich === |
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[[Image:Croftpyramidcb.jpg|thumb|150px|An "experiment" to test Reich's ideas surrounding "atmospheric orgone".]] |
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{{see also|Wilhelm Reich}} |
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Wilhelm Reich claimed the existence of "[[orgone|Orgone energy]]" - a [[Bioenergetics|bioenergetic]] extrapolation of the Freudian concept of [[libido]]. Reich's ideas were quickly denounced in the American press<ref>Mildred Brady, The New Cult of Sex & Anarchy, article in ''The New Republic'' printed 1947</ref> as a "cult of sex and anarchy". Following widespread outrage, the [[FDA]] successfully sought an injunction to prevent Reich from making claims relating to orgone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orgone.org/wr-vs-usa/wr40319d.htm|title=DECREE OF INJUNCTION ORDER (MARCH 19, 1954)}}</ref> When he defied the order, Reich was jailed and the FDA destroyed all of his books relating to orgone. <ref>[http://www.orgone.org/wr-vs-usa/wr40319d.htm DECREE OF INJUNCTION ORDER (USA vs Wilhelm Reich) by JUDGE CLIFFORD MARCH 19, 1954 - USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957<!-- bot-generated title -->] at www.orgone.org</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite book | author=Gardner, Martin | title=Fads and Fallacies in the name of Science | publisher=Dover | year=1952 | chapter=Chapter 21: Orgonomy}}</ref> <ref>{{cite book | author=Gardner, Martin | title=On the Wild Side |publisher=Prometheus Books}}</ref><ref>Lugg, A. (1987). ''Bunkum, Flim-Flam and Quackery: Pseudoscience as a Philosophical Problem.'' Dialectica, 41(3), 221-230.</ref> |
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===Stanley Meyer=== |
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[[Image:Water fuel cell capacitor.png|right|thumb|150px|Stanley Meyer's Water Fuel Cell]] |
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{{see also|Stanley Meyers' water fuel cell}} |
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Stanley Meyer produced nine patents relating to his water powered car. Following [[Stanley_Meyer#Death|his sudden death]], an autopsy showed that he died of a cerebral aneurysm.<ref>{{cite news |
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}}</ref> Meyer's supporters continue to claim that he was assassinated by 'Big Oil', Arab death squads, Belgian assassins or the US Government.<ref name="WPC-death">{{cite web |
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: ''"It was a shame to hear that he was poisoned .... He died in the parking lot of a restaurant in his home town of Grove City, Ohio. Sharks came a week later and stole the dune buggy and all of his experimental equipment, according to his brother, Steve. Stan said while he was alive, that he was threatened many times and would not sell out to Arab Oil Corp."''</ref><ref name = "Nature">{{cite web |
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| quote=He died in 1998 after eating at a restaurant; the coroner diagnosed an aneurysm, but the conspiracy web still suspects he was poisoned. |
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}}</ref><ref>[http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/export-content/sites/dispatch/multimedia/audio/2007/07/Robinette.mp3] 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."</ref> However, Meyer's patents are readily available online, and his many supporters continue to discuss his ideas at great length on the [[Internet]]. So any attempt at suppression appears to have been fruitless.<ref>{{US patent|5149407}},{{US patent|4936961}},{{US patent|4826581}},{{US patent|4798661}},{{US patent|4613779}},{{US patent|4613304}},{{US patent|4465455}},{{US patent|4421474}},{{US patent|4389981}}</ref> |
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===Tom Bearden=== |
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In spite of the difficulties and delays in bringing the [[Motionless Electromagnetic Generator|MEG]] to market, Tom Bearden maintains that a number of free energy technologies have been available for well over a century, yet have been actively suppressed by government or private interests. |
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Bearden and his colleagues have proposed a simple modification to the magnetic Wankel engine (Takahashi Motor<ref>[http://www.cheniere.org/images/takahashi%20article.jpg Article in The Sunday Times, 1995: ''"'Accident' in lab creates super motor."'']</ref>) which he claims would deliver "over-unity performance" through [[gauge theory|asymmetrical regauging]]. |
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He believes that this technology is known, and suppressed, by the Japanese.<ref>[http://www.cheniere.org/misc/wankel.htm The Magnetic Wankel Engine] (retrieved 6 August 2007)</ref> |
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He has repeatedly expressed his belief that the key to over-unity systems was present in the |
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original form of [[Maxwell's Equations]], and this potential was realized by [[Nikola Tesla]]; however, he claims that part of the equations were deliberately suppressed in their vectorization by [[Heaviside]] and [[Lorentz]] in the late 19th century. Bearden claims this was orchestrated by industrialist [[J.P. Morgan]], in order to |
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protect his oil interests<ref>Tom Bearden, "''[http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/050207.htm Correspondence 050207]''", Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 00:07:54 -0500</ref> |
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He claims that "nuclear power plant consortium" has worked to "ruthlessly suppress" [[cold fusion]], and further that this consortium "is almost certainly to blame for the murder of [[Eugene Mallove|Gene Mallove]], the main proponent and activist for cold fusion".<ref>Tom Bearden, "''[http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/011105.htm Correspondence 011105], Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:14 AM</ref> |
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He has hypothesized that the [http://www.wbtv.com/home/11188186.html death of Arie M. DeGeus] in |
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Charlotte, North Carolina was actually a murder carried out to suppress his development of |
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a "self-powering battery" .<ref>Tom Bearden "''[http://www.cheniere.org/articles/Coincidence%20or%20Suppression%20of%20the%20Self-Powering%20Battery%202.doc A Curious Coincidence]''", ''posted on his website'', 2007</ref> |
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Bearden has published no evidence for any of these claims. |
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=== Gary McKinnon === |
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[[Image:GMKtrafalgar.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Gary McKinnon]] |
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Between 2001 and 2002, Gary McKinnon carried out what has been described as being the "''biggest ever military computer hack''" in history<ref name=guardian1>Campbell, Duncan (04-04-07), "Hacker faces US justice after extradition appeal fails", The Guardian</ref> when he gained access to 97 computer systems belonging to the US military and other government bodies, claiming to have seen designs for free energy devices (specifically, [[zero-point energy]] devices), and other potentially beneficial technologies that the US government has suppressed.<ref name=wired1>[http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71182-0.html?tw=rss.technology "UFO Hacker" Tells What He Found], Wired News, 21 June 2006</ref> No evidence for his claims has been provided. McKinnon's appeals against extradition to the United States in both the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[European Court of Human Rights]] have been unsuccessful, and he is due to be extradited in early September 2008.<ref>{{cite news |
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}}</ref><ref>[http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/mckinnonIndict.htm usdoj.gov, London, England Hacker Indicted Under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act For Accessing Military Computers]</ref><ref>{{cite news |
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===Cold fusion=== |
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{{see also|Cold fusion}} |
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Researchers in the field of [[cold fusion]] have been claimed to be subjected to [[suppression of intellectual dissent|suppression via academic pressure]] as well as via lack of funding.<ref>Phenomenon Archives: Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion. Channel One. (video)</ref> |
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==See also== |
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* [[History of perpetual motion machines]] |
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==References and external articles== |
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[[Category:Conspiracy theories]] |
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Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory that claims that advanced technology that would reshape current electrical generation methods is being suppressed by special interest groups. These groups are usually related to the oil industry, to whom current energy generation technology is profitable.
Description
In this context, the term "free energy" is not well-defined, and should not be confused with thermodynamic free energy. Generally, it is used to refer to purported transformative technologies which have the potential to dramatically reduce personal energy costs with relatively little capital investment.
Many free energy claims, such as perpetual motion or extracting zero point energy, are impossible according to currently accepted physical laws.[1] Others, such as cold fusion, while not impossible, are not accepted as established by the scientific community. Conspiracy advocates therefore claim that the scientific community has controlled and suppressed research into alternative avenues of energy production via the institutions of peer review.[2]
In addition, some claim that perpetual motion machines or other devices capable of extracting significant and usable power from pre-existing energy reservoirs for little or no cost exist but are being suppressed[3][4][5][6] by governments and special interest groups (such as the fossil fuel and nuclear industry),[7] and that suppression has been going on for some time.[8] According to energy suppression conspiracy advocates, the main motive behind this is the preservation of the economic status quo and sustained increase of fuel prices. Variations on the energy suppression conspiracy state that free energy cannot be allowed in a capitalist system because the system would break down if it were introduced.
Only small parts of evidence have ever been presented for free energy suppression, and the basic premises of the theory are flawed according to mainstream physics (see Theory analysis section).
Proponents of this conspiracy theory also claim that certain renewable technologies (such as solar cells[9] and biofuels) and other efficient technologies (as electric vehicles) are being suppressed[10] or weakened by governments[11] and special interest groups.[12]
Alternative and free energy research is typically considered to be pseudo-scientific or unrealistic by the scientific community. Conspiracy theorists allege that this is a deliberate attempt by conspirators to suppress this research. There are various other factors which can prevent funding of some alternative energy development, such as "time and information" and capital costs.[13] Groups behind "the conspiracy" have been said to include various national governments, international automakers, and the petroleum industry. An article in Nexus magazine claims
- The spread of working free-energy technologies has been prevented by wealthy elites governments, deluded inventors and con men, as well as a non-demanding public.[14]
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Theory analysis
With respect to physically possible technology being suppressed, economic arguments hold. Various energy commodities are in some form of competition in the market place, with oil, coal, and natural gas in competition with known renewable energy methods. In 1979 Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House and said he was going to: "move our nation toward true energy security and abundant, readily available energy supplies."[15] In 1986, President Ronald Reagan took the solar panels down when the White House roof was being repaired.[15]
However, governments have not imprisoned individuals for research concerning solar cells, windmills, and geothermal energy production, nor have they closed down research centers investigating such topics. To the contrary National Renewable Energy Laboratory employs many such researchers and is dedicated to alternative energy research with select energy projects being conducted at other national labs such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The United States government (DOE, NSF, DOD, and others), the European Union and the Japanese have invested resources in developing alternative sources of energy, typically with the goal of gaining energy independence and a competitive market edge.
The usual claimed justification for alleged suppression is to maintain the current economic system. But from an economics perspective, the existence of free goods contradicts the idea that free or very cheap energy would destroy a market economy. Air and water, necessary raw materials in many processes, are available to anyone at no cost except transport and storage. Furthermore, if energy were in fact free, then there would still be charges for costs of delivering that energy to the end user in conventional transmission lines. In many parts of the world, water is free in the sense that anyone can pull it out of a river; purifying and delivering it, however, has profit potential. Moreover, according to established economic theories, significantly lowered energy costs would result in increased economic growth, since the costs of producing goods and services would drop. "Free energy" would produce a fast growing economy and enable huge economic growth. Increased economic growth from lowered energy costs has occurred before: raw material and resource commodities (notably coal, aluminum, textiles, and labor) dropped in price as a consequence of the industrial revolution. Generally, when a resource becomes cheap, other economic sectors absorb the loss, or new demands will be created.
Specific cases
Many inventors have attempted to construct means of over-unity energy production. Supporters claim that the ones listed below have had work suppressed:
Nikola Tesla
In June 1902, Tesla moved his laboratory operations from his Houston Street laboratory to Wardenclyffe. By 1903 the tower structure was near completion, but was not yet functional due to last-minute design changes. Tesla intended for the tower to demonstrate how the ionosphere could be used to provide free electricity to everyone without the need for power lines. Construction costs eventually exceeded the money provided by J. P. Morgan, and additional financiers were reluctant to come forward. Morgan, who could not foresee any financial gain from providing free electricity to everyone, balked at investing further in the scheme and encouraged other investors to avoid the project.[17][citation needed] In May 1905, Tesla's patents on alternating current motors and other methods of power transmission expired, halting royalty payments and causing a severe reduction of funding to the Wardenclyffe Tower. In an attempt to find alternative funding, Tesla advertised the services of the Wardenclyffe facility, but he met with little success. By this time, Tesla had also designed the Tesla turbine at Wardenclyffe and produced Tesla coils for sale to various businesses.
Soon after Tesla's death, the FBI instructed the government's Alien Property Custodian office to take possession of his papers and property, despite his US citizenship. His safe was also opened. After the FBI was contacted by the War Department, his papers were declared to be top secret. The personal effects were seized on the advice of presidential advisers; J. Edgar Hoover declared the case most secret, because of the nature of Tesla's inventions and patents.[18]
However, the likely cause for the seizure of Teslas' documents was that he had been working on the teleforce weapon, or death ray, that he had unsuccessfully marketed to the US War Department—not because of his work on free energy devices which had ended eleven years earlier.
Tomas Henry Moray
In the 1930s, Thomas Henry Moray reported that he and his family had been threatened and shot at on several occasions and his lab ransacked to stop his free energy research and public demonstrations. The 1975 book The Sun Betrayed claimed solar energy production was being suppressed by the US governmental bureau allocated to help its development.[19]
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich claimed the existence of "Orgone energy" - a bioenergetic extrapolation of the Freudian concept of libido. Reich's ideas were quickly denounced in the American press[20] as a "cult of sex and anarchy". Following widespread outrage, the FDA successfully sought an injunction to prevent Reich from making claims relating to orgone.[21] When he defied the order, Reich was jailed and the FDA destroyed all of his books relating to orgone. [22][23] [24][25]
Stanley Meyer
Stanley Meyer produced nine patents relating to his water powered car. Following his sudden death, an autopsy showed that he died of a cerebral aneurysm.[26] Meyer's supporters continue to claim that he was assassinated by 'Big Oil', Arab death squads, Belgian assassins or the US Government.[27][28][29] However, Meyer's patents are readily available online, and his many supporters continue to discuss his ideas at great length on the Internet. So any attempt at suppression appears to have been fruitless.[30]
Tom Bearden
In spite of the difficulties and delays in bringing the MEG to market, Tom Bearden maintains that a number of free energy technologies have been available for well over a century, yet have been actively suppressed by government or private interests.
Bearden and his colleagues have proposed a simple modification to the magnetic Wankel engine (Takahashi Motor[31]) which he claims would deliver "over-unity performance" through asymmetrical regauging. He believes that this technology is known, and suppressed, by the Japanese.[32]
He has repeatedly expressed his belief that the key to over-unity systems was present in the original form of Maxwell's Equations, and this potential was realized by Nikola Tesla; however, he claims that part of the equations were deliberately suppressed in their vectorization by Heaviside and Lorentz in the late 19th century. Bearden claims this was orchestrated by industrialist J.P. Morgan, in order to protect his oil interests[33]
He claims that "nuclear power plant consortium" has worked to "ruthlessly suppress" cold fusion, and further that this consortium "is almost certainly to blame for the murder of Gene Mallove, the main proponent and activist for cold fusion".[34]
He has hypothesized that the death of Arie M. DeGeus in Charlotte, North Carolina was actually a murder carried out to suppress his development of a "self-powering battery" .[35]
Bearden has published no evidence for any of these claims.
Gary McKinnon
Between 2001 and 2002, Gary McKinnon carried out what has been described as being the "biggest ever military computer hack" in history[36] when he gained access to 97 computer systems belonging to the US military and other government bodies, claiming to have seen designs for free energy devices (specifically, zero-point energy devices), and other potentially beneficial technologies that the US government has suppressed.[37] No evidence for his claims has been provided. McKinnon's appeals against extradition to the United States in both the United Kingdom and the European Court of Human Rights have been unsuccessful, and he is due to be extradited in early September 2008.[38][39][40]
Cold fusion
Researchers in the field of cold fusion have been claimed to be subjected to suppression via academic pressure as well as via lack of funding.[41]
See also
References and external articles
- ^ Gribbin, John (1998). Q is for Quantum - An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. Touchstone Books. ISBN 0-684-86315-4.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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 1583940677
- ^ Mad Macz (2002), Internet Underground: The way of the hacker, PageFree Publishing, Inc. ISBN 1930252536
- ^ David Alison (1994), Another free-energy cover-up?: The Dennis Lee Story, Nexus Magazine, (June-July 1994)
- ^ Free Energy - A Reality Not a Conspiracy. (Video) Time frame 00:35 - 00:45.
- ^ Charles D. Jaco, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil. Politics of Energy, Page 191 - 198
- ^ Tutt (2003), "The Scientist, The Madman, The Thief and Their Lightbulb: The Search for Free Energy".
- ^ Solar development cooperative/smith's amended, motion of notice of intent to claim compensation, Solar development cooperative 'Lighting the Way With Creation’s Original Remedy', Corona del Mar, CA 92625 July 19, 1999. Retrieved April 2007. Original location, http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/1905/AMENDEDNOI.doc (ed., there was a notice of intent decision at cpuc.ca.gov) [cf., Enron-Amoco began using Solarex patents to sue major American PV leaders that attempted to evolve new or innovative PV applications or technologies in this nation]
- ^ Eric Lerner, Stop the Suppression of an Alternative Energy Source!. Progressive Engineer.
- ^ 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.)
- ^ 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
- ^ Weinberg (1979) "Are the alternative energy strategies achievable".
- ^ Where in the World is all the Free Energy?, Nexus magazine, V8#4 (2007-06/07
- ^ a b Jimmy Carter's solar panels help power a Maine college, then star in film -The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston at www.boston.com
- ^ Nikola Tesla; Brooklyn Eagle, July 9 1931
- ^ When Morgan wanted to know "Where can I put the meter?", Tesla had no answer. Tesla's vision of free power did not agree with Morgan's worldview; nor would it pay for the maintenance of the transmission system.[citation needed]
- ^ Hoover, John Edgar, et al., FOIA FBI files, 1943.
- ^ Ray Reece, The Sun Betrayed, page 14-15
- ^ Mildred Brady, The New Cult of Sex & Anarchy, article in The New Republic printed 1947
- ^ "DECREE OF INJUNCTION ORDER (MARCH 19, 1954)".
- ^ DECREE OF INJUNCTION ORDER (USA vs Wilhelm Reich) by JUDGE CLIFFORD MARCH 19, 1954 - USA vs WILHELM REICH 1954-1957 at www.orgone.org
- ^ Gardner, Martin (1952). "Chapter 21: Orgonomy". Fads and Fallacies in the name of Science. Dover.
- ^ Gardner, Martin. On the Wild Side. Prometheus Books.
- ^ Lugg, A. (1987). Bunkum, Flim-Flam and Quackery: Pseudoscience as a Philosophical Problem. Dialectica, 41(3), 221-230.
- ^ Narciso, Dean (July 8, 2007). "The Car that Ran on Water". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Water Powered Car report on Meyer's death". Retrieved 2008-03-24. states (as of January 2007):
- "It was a shame to hear that he was poisoned .... He died in the parking lot of a restaurant in his home town of Grove City, Ohio. Sharks came a week later and stole the dune buggy and all of his experimental equipment, according to his brother, Steve. Stan said while he was alive, that he was threatened many times and would not sell out to Arab Oil Corp."
- ^ 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.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ [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."
- ^ U.S. patent 5,149,407,U.S. patent 4,936,961,U.S. patent 4,826,581,U.S. patent 4,798,661,U.S. patent 4,613,779,U.S. patent 4,613,304,U.S. patent 4,465,455,U.S. patent 4,421,474,U.S. patent 4,389,981
- ^ Article in The Sunday Times, 1995: "'Accident' in lab creates super motor."
- ^ The Magnetic Wankel Engine (retrieved 6 August 2007)
- ^ Tom Bearden, "Correspondence 050207", Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 00:07:54 -0500
- ^ Tom Bearden, "Correspondence 011105, Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:14 AM
- ^ Tom Bearden "A Curious Coincidence", posted on his website, 2007
- ^ Campbell, Duncan (04-04-07), "Hacker faces US justice after extradition appeal fails", The Guardian
- ^ "UFO Hacker" Tells What He Found, Wired News, 21 June 2006
- ^ "Hacker loses extradition appeal". BBC News. 2008-07-30. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
- ^ usdoj.gov, London, England Hacker Indicted Under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act For Accessing Military Computers
- ^ "Hacker loses extradition appeal". BBC News. 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
- ^ Phenomenon Archives: Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion. Channel One. (video)
