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The following article appeared some time ago in For The People
magazine under the Energy/New Ideas section:
Title: Scientists Claim To Tap The Free Energy Of Space |
Subtitle: A promising new alternative energy source,
neglected in the U.S., advances in the Far East
Author: Richard Walters
Physicist Bruce DePalma has a 100 kilowatt generator, which he
invented, sitting in his garage. It could power his whole house, but
if he turns it on, the government may confiscate it.
Havard educated DePalma, who taught physics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology for 15 years, claims that his electrical
generator can provide cheap, inexhaustible, self sustaining and non
polluting source of energy, using priciples that flout conventional
physics and are still not fully understood. His N machine, as it is
called, is said to release the "free energy" latent in the space all
around us. DePalma views his device as an innovation that could help
to end the worlds's dangerous dependence on finite supplies of oil,
gas, and other polluting fossib based fuels.
Deceptive Simplicity
The DePalma generator is essentially a simple magnetized flywheel, ie
a magnetized cylindrical conductor rotating at high speed with the
help of a motor. His astonishing claim is that the present verions of
the N machine can generate up to five times more power than it
consumes. This, of course, defies the basic law of the conservation
of energy, which says that the output of energy cannot be more than
the input. Most physicists simply refuse to look at DePalma's
findings and dismiss his theories out of hand.
Yet "proof of principle" for his invention was apparently provided
when a large N machine, dubbed the Sunburst, was built in 1978 in
Santa Barbara California. The Sunburst machine was independently
tested by Dr. Robert Kincheloe, professor emeritus of electrical
engineering at Stanford University. in his 1986 reprot (presented to
the Society for Scientific Exploration, San Francisco, 6/21/86),
Kincheloe notd that the drag of the rotating magnetized gyroscope is
only 13 to 20 perscent of a conventional generator operating at an
ideal 100 ppercent effiiency, the DePalma N machine could produce
electricity at around 500 percent efficiency.
In Kincheloe's cautious summary: "DePalma may have been right in
that there is indeed a situation here wherby energy is being
obtained from a previosly unknow and unexplained source. This is a
conclusion that most scientists and engineers would reject out of hand
as being a violation of accepted laws of physics and if true has
incredible implications".
"The jury is still out on the DePalma N machine," says physicist
Harold Puthoff, a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Austin, Texas. "It isn't clear where the reported excess
energy is coming from--wheater out of the elecromagnetic field or as
the result of some anomaly associated with rotating bodies in terms of
inertia. The DePalma machine needs to be replicated on a broad scale
to see if it actually works. Though I'm rahter skeptical, I certainly
would encourage independent laboratory experimentation. While such a
phenomenon would have seemed to absolutely go against the law of
energy conservation a number of years ago, we now recognize that the
potential for extracting energy out of so called empty space is in
fact a reality".
Not So Empty Space
Puthoff, a PhD. from Stanford University, belives that a new, non
polluting energy source may be acheived by tapping the force random
fluctuaions jostling atomic particles within a vacuum. Scientists now
know that "empty" space seeths with waht are called vacuum
fluctuations: huge amoutns fo enrgfy that suddently burst forth,
jiggling particles to and fro. Puthoff has developed his own therry,
zero point energy, in an attempt to tap the abundant power found in
the vacuum of space. He and associates in a new company, Jupiter
Technologies, may soon try to manufacture zero-point energy machines.
DePalma described his N machine and outlined a theory to explain its
workings in a paper, "On the Possibility of Extraction of Electrical
Energy Directly From Space", published in the British science journel,
Speculations in Science and Technology (Sept 1990, Vol 13 No 4). So
far, the scientific establishment either has ignored DePalma's
controversial claims or remains unaware of them.
Patent *Not* Pending
No one has ever obtained a patent for an N machine in the U.S.,
although in the San Francisco area alone, there are some 200 patent
applications relating to such devices. The U.S. Patent office
automatically denies a patent to any gizmo which purports to produce
more enerty than it consumes, on the grounds that its personnel are
not equipped to evalute such claims. DePalma is quick to point out
that the N machine is not a perpetual motion machine, that mythical
contraption long sought by frustrated inventors. "The purpetual
motion machine is only supposed to run itself. It could never put out
five times more power than is put into it. Perpetual motion schemes
used conventional energy sources, whereas the N machine is a new way
of extracting energy from space".
Other scientists-inventors who attempted to build and operate free
energy machines have been intimidated and harassed by the U.S.
government. At least one inventor had his device confiscated by the
Defense Department on the grounds that its free energy technology
endangered national security interests. This inventor was put under a
gag order, so that he could not even tell the press that his N machine
had been confiscated. This is ironic when one considers that the idea
for the N machine came directly from a famous experiment performed by
Michael Faraday in 1831.
U.S. Not Interested
The U.S. energy monopoly, which pushes for the development of oilm
gas, coal, and nuclear power--while defunding solar energy and other
non polluting alternatives--apparently does not want to see free
energy emerge as a viable option.
Meanwhile, other countries, notably India and Japan, are vigorously
pursuing what might prove to be a technological breakthrough. (is
this yet one more example of the Invented in USA/Made in Japan"
syndrome, the outcome of American shortsightedness and vested
interests?) In India, eminent engineer Paramahamsa Tewari is currently
testing his invention, called the Space Power Generator (SPG), which
essentially replicates DePalma's N machine. With 5 kilowatt total
input, the SPG is reportedly yielding 30 kilowatt electrical output
(correspondence to B. DePalma 8/13/90).
Tewari, a senior engineer with India's Department of Atomic
Energy-Nuclear Power Corporation, also directs the Kaiga Project,
India's largest atomic power facility, in Karnataka. He freely
acknoledges his dept to DePalma, who has shared his experimental
results with Tewari for many years. According to Tewari, "The
electrical power generatred by the Space Power Generator is indeed
commercially viable and shoudl be brought to the notice of the general
public." He has urged India's Atomic Energy Commision to create an
independent research group to advance free energy technology. Tewari
also credits John Wheeler, the prominent American physicist and
discoverer of the black hole, for his steady encouragement. Wheeler,
who had been searching for a mathematical theory that would predict
free energty, appluded Tewari for his effors to develp such a theory,
and the two scientists corresponded for several years.
Japanese Interest
The Japan Science Foundation, under Japanese government auspices,
awarded grants to two universities and one company to produce models
of the N machine and to investigate how it works. Kazama Giken
Corporation is commercially supplying small N machines for research
and educational purposes . Another Japanese company, Panasonic/National,
is also prusuing this technology. Shiuji Inomata, Ph D president of the Japan
Psychotronics Institute and seniaor scientist at the Electrotechnical
Laboratory in Ibaraki, has been instrumental in sparking the interst
of Japan's scientific community in the N machine.
"One day man will connect his apparatus to the verty wheelwork of the
universe... and the very forces that motivate the planets in theri
orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinary,"
predicted Nikola Tesla, the Croation born American electrical genious
whose discoveries and inventions rival those of Edison. Proponents of
the N machine believe that it taps directly into a primordial energy
source, meshing witht the wheelwork of the cosmos.
A Wrong Turn
"Electrical engineering took a wrong turn 160 years ago," according to
Tewari, referring to English scientist Michael Faraday's pioneering
work of the world's first dynamo. In 1831, Faraday performed a series
of experiments which led to the modern electri induction generator,
having two moving parts--a rotor anda stator. Faraday moved a wire
near the pole of a magnet, producing an electrical potential across
the ends of the wire. This induction principle is used in all the
electrical generators we use today. And that's precisely what Tewari
means by a "wrong turn."
In that same year, 1831, Faraday also performed a simple yet
ingenious experimetn with a rotating magnetized conductor. The
resulting phenomenon (free energy?) has yet to be explained in terms
of conventional scientific theory.
By cementing a copper disc on top of a cylinder magnet, and rotating
the magnet and disc together, Faraday created an electrical potential.
After pondering this phenomenon for many years, he concluded that
when a magnet is rotated, its magnetic field remains stationary.
Thus, he reasoned, the metal of the magnet moves through its own
field, and the relative motion is translated into electrical
potential.
Farady's experiments led him to the revolutionary conclusion that a
magnetic field is a property of space itself, not something attached
to the magnet, which merely serves to induce or evote the field.
A Prototype
Known for over 150 years, the Faraday homopolor generator, as his
contraption is called, has been viewed by a handful of visionary
inventors as a basis for evoking the free energy latent in space. They
see is as the prototype for a generator capable of providing its own
motive power with additional energy to spare. When the world embraced
Faraday's two piece induction generator, whose drawbacks include
mechanical friction and electrical losses, the enormous potential of
the Faraday homopllar generator was abandoned, in the opinion of
free-energy proponents.
Following in Faraday's footsteps, DePalma in 1978 speculated that free
energy could be tapped from the matrix of space simply by magnetizing
a gyroscope. "I reasononed that the metal of the magnetized gyroscope
moving through its own magnetic field, when rotated would produce an
electrical potential betwwn the axle and the outer edge of the
rotating magnetized flywheel," he explains.
This insight led to his N machine, essentially a one piece rotating
magnetized flywheel, "Instead of having a rotor and a stator, as do
conventional generators, the n machine only has a rotor.. Half of the
flywheel is the norht pole, the other half is the south pole. One
elctrical contact is put on the axle, another contact is placed on the
outer edge of the gyroscope, and presto, electricity is taken directly
out of the magnet itself.
Idea Put to the Test
For 150 years after Faraday's controversial experiment, no one
bothered to see whether or not a rotating magnet generator would
have to to the same amount of work as a conventional induction
generator in order to produce and identical power output. Then, in
1978, the aforementioned Sunburst homopolar generator was built. Tests
determined that is output power greatly exceeded the input needed to
run the machine, that it was much more efficent that an induction
generator. Opinions differ as to the exact mechansms by which the N
machine generates energy. In 1977 Tewari created a minor sensation
when he put forth the theory that space is filled with a dynamic
medium whose swirling motion is the sourc of all matter and energy.
In his Space Vortex Theory, more fully developed in his 1984 book,
Beyond Matter, the Indian engineer inventor postualted that a void
lies at the heart of the electron-- a void whose high speed roation
within a vacuum could produce energy from space. Tewari's theory is
based on the assumption that the electron has a definate structure,
and is not just a homogeneous "droplet of charge".
According to Tewari, the movement of "voids" in the spinning
magnetized cylinder of his Space Power Generator liberates free
energy out of sthe space between the machine's axis and the magnet. He
readily admits that this soudns incredible, by the yardstick of known
laws of physics. Tewari says he never would have developed his theory
had he been trained as a physicist rather than as an engineer, since
his ideas differ so radically from conventional physics.
"Tewari's explanation is perfectly possible," comments DePalma. "He
is attempting to conceptualize what's happening between the atoms and
where the energy is liberated."
Concept of Magnetism
"My own approach," continues DePalma, "is that space is all around us
like the sea of water the fish swim in. The only way you know it's
there is to distort it in some way, and the simplest way to distort
space is with a magnet." DePalma maintains that his own conception of
magnetism as a distortion of a pre-existant homogeneos field is "the
first new thought on the fundamental nature of magnetism since
Oersted."
Having taught at MIT as a lecturer in physics for 15 years, DePalma
grew increasingly dissatisfied with mainstream physics' explanation of
the way things work. His current view of the universe would strike
many conventional scientists as heresy.
For example, modern science says that energy is a constant substance
in the universe, and taht the conversion of energy from one form to
another will lead to the heat-death of the universe eons from now. In
contrast, says DePalma, "My cosmos is an open-ended universe, one in
which energy can be evoked from space itself. All energy come from
space," he maintains, "and there are various prodcesses which can
release this energy, the simplest of whic is lighting a match or
rubbing two sticks together."
Suppose you light a candle. The heat in the flame derives from the
releaes of latent heat stored in the wax, according to the textbooks.
Nonsense says DePalma. "The law of energy conservation is pure
assuption," he insists. In his theory, the heat of a lit candle comes
from space, and this substrate is slowly consumed by the energy of
space flowing through it.
When you drive a car, the heat latent in the gasoline is extracted
through burning, which propels the pistons. Right? Wrong syas
DePalma. His understanding of the process is that the gasoline-air
mixture, catalyzed by an electric spark, acts as a "molecular antenna"
to release energy from space. Heat energy thus release cooks or burns
the substance whih is evoking it in the first place, producing
exhaust.
Likewise, when a magnet is rotated in the N-machine, DePalma
theorizes, the electrical current comes from the space through which
the magnet is drawing its energy, not from the magnets mechanical
rotation.
DePalma's approaches to other basic phenomena are equally
unorthadox. In the mid-1970's he performed the "Spinning Ball
Experiment," which purportedly demonstrated that a rotating object
will fall faster or go higher than an identical non rotating object
with the same initial velocity. If true, these results fly in the
face of all knows physics. The experimental procedure is simple: Take
a steel ball bearing (the kind used in a pinball machine), set it
rotatig, drop it, and measure how fast it falls. Compare its time
with that of an identical but non-rotating control ball.
DePalma explained his anomalous results in terms of free energy
added to the motion of the rotating object. Thse and other
experiments led him to forumulate radical new concepts of rotation,
gravity, inertia and motion in general building on the work of
pioneers in the fiedl. He published hsi findings on the Spinning Ball
Experiment in the British Scientific Research Association Journal in
1976. He also outlined the Spinning Ball Experiment to Dr. Edward
Purcell, a Harvard physics professor, one of the most eminent
experimental physicists at that time. According to DePalma, Purcell,
after contemplating the experiment for several minutes, blurted, "This
will change everything."
Applying New Technology
"Applied physics is not engraved in stone," says Don Kelly,
president of the Space Energy Association (SEA/US), a group of
engineers, scientists, and inventors dedicated to developing
free-energy technology. Today's free-energy scene encompasses a
bewildering array of devices, including N machine, Russian plasma
generators, a Swill hybrid converter (combining free-energy components
and solid state methods), permanent magnet motors (PMMs), the
multiple-coil Hubbard Generator, and various hydrogen power systems.
A standout among the latter group is the "Enerex" H20 unit invented by
Yoshiro Nakmatsu, known as the "Edison of Japan." This prolific
inventor--father of the floppy disk--claims that his pollution free
Enerex unit runs on tap water alone and can generate three times as
much power as a standard gasoline engine. An H20 splitter, the Enerex
produces hydrogen as the working fuel.
Kelly notes that Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Korea and the
Netherlands all have active free-energy research associations, with
which SEA/US exhanges information. Nevertheless, he feels that the
nascent free energy technology faces opposition in the United States
from government agencies, academics, and vested industrial interests.
Kely envisions free energy eventually gaining acceptance and
application through a grassroots movement of do-it-yourselfers aroudn
the country. SEA/US publishes an interesting quarterly newsleter,
available to members. (Space Energy Association/U.S. P.O. Box 11422,
Clearwater, FL 34616; phone 813-441-3923; membership dues are $35 per year).
Economics of the N machine
DePalma Energy Corporation has not sold a single machine yet. To
build an N machine by hand, the company charges around $500,000. Bruce
DePalma claims that, if mass produced, the cost of hsi machine would
drop to a mere $400 to $500. He points out that a typical 100
kilowatt AC generator costs a little over $100,000, and add that an N
machine putting out the same amount of power could be manufactured for
one trhird to one half the cost in regular production. His goal is to
set up technology sharing agreements with clients who would
manufacture his machine.
Surveying the variety of electro-magnetic free energy units
available or on the drawing boards, Don Kelly concluded that most of
them are plagued by fuzzy applied physics, lack of technical and
financial support, and "a distinct cost effectivness problem."
However, Kelly singled out the DePalma N machine as "the mainstaty for
this F/E category" and "the best of the F/E units for its potential
today." He gave the N machine a high "KISS rating" (KISS=Keep it
simple and stupid) due to the machines simple, one-piece rotor
performs better than today's conventional two piece generators," says
Kelly.
Other Applications
The gyroscope with its anomalous properties, so crucial to the N
machine, is also finding applications in antigravity and space
propulsion. Eric Laithwaite, electrical engineering professor at
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