I first heard about it today, when I received a message from colleague Ken Rasmussen.  (I had photographed him a few years ago in the San Francisco Bay area when he was listening to an inventor.  A group of us had gathered; we came from the East coast, Utah, California and Canada.)

The email began “Hi Jean” (minor correction, Ken, my name has an unusual spelling: Jeane),

“My company has a break through coil design. It needs funding to implement into an electric motor. We are running a crowd funding project on Indiegogo through Friday next week April 26. I’d appreciate you giving us a glance at first opportunity. http://www.ElectricJumpStart.com
Thanks,  Ken Rasmussen ”

So I did. The pitch video sounds a bit too smooth at first, but then you realize that it deals with real people who come on camera and are telling you about their backgrounds and credentials. The team has been solving cutting-edge tech challenges for more than 30 years. And the claims made for their Electric Jump Start technology are reasonable in light of what I’ve been hearing about emerging knowledge, even though their breakthrough is potentially game-changing for electric motors.

They only have until Friday April 26 to meet their goal. Check out the honesty — that’s my impression — of their written version of who and what they have. It begins with: “Electric motors need an interaction between magnets and coils. Our new configuration boosts that interaction by an astounding factor.”

Thanks to the fundraisers, he is no longer sleeping in his car in the desert, and donations of equipment for the laboratory have been showing up as well as cash for his work, I’m delighted to hear.

I’d love to thank his fundraiser personally – the compassionate person who interviewed Eric and posted those interviews so that people see the real person — the almost-forgotten expert on lost science — who’s the topic of the fundraising appeal.

On the other hand, the Internet is being used by scammers, as my friend Carmen Miller (pictured here) and others have found out to their dismay. Carmen isn’t the one selling anything. Instead she’s creating progress on her father’s invention in a responsible quiet manner – not making any public announcement until the technical experts working on it can provide incontestable proof that the Muller Motor/Generator is operating with the incredible efficiency that’s claimed for it.

Meanwhile some scammer/s have erected a commercial website to sell “Muller Free Energy Generator Plans.”  They mixed fact with fiction by stealing images from Carmen’s website (including one that I photographed of her and the invention). They lifted text as well as photos from various sources, and included the stolen information in a streaming video that apparently convinces desperate homeowners and poverty-stricken renters that they could have obtain a way to have free electricity – just send money and it will be yours, the website  promises.

Carmen tried to contact whomever is behind the website, but the slippery person/s don’t step out of the shadows long enough for her to insist that they cease this scam. She’s tried. They aren’t even located on this continent, she told me, so what can she do? It pains her heart to receive correspondence from, for example, a low-income lady who bought those “plans” thinking that she’d be able to solve the problems with her utility bills. Carmen feels deep frustration at this injustice.

I noticed last year that someone did a similar hoax on the Hendershot Motor – selling plans. The pitch was based on materials available on the internet – old diagrams and photos of a historical device. Con artists mix historical truth with their own fiction.

Let’s hope that the sincere heroes of the non-conventional energy research field will make fast progress and bring truly low-cost electrical power to the people. And I hope that Eric Dollard will also continue to educate us on the truths of “lost science.”  Thanks to those many individual contributors to that cause, who gave new meaning to “people power” this year!

In about 10 days from now my article on the Global Breakthrough Energy Movement conference will be posted on http://www.infinite-energy.com. What took so long to write it, you ask? You’ll see; it’s more than 5,000 words long, and in the meantime I’ve been juggling unexpected responsibilities.

Here’s a fun one coming up: Dr. Rita Louise of the Institute of Applied Energetics will be interviewing me on Just Energy Radio this Friday, December 14^th, from 2-3 pm CST (noon – 1pm PST). You can tune into the show by going to http://www.justenergyradio.com.  You can also call into and listen to the show on your phone by dialing (786)837-2262.  An MP3 of the show will be archived afterward and will appear by the following Wednesday. It will also be available on YouTube as a streaming audio file.   The MP3 archives can be found at:  http://justenergyradio.com/just-energy-radio-archives.htm   The YouTube archive can be found at:  http://www.youtube.com/user/JustEnergyRadio?feature=mhee

Mitch Rabin wears many hats including author and founder of A Better World Radio & TV, based in New York City. He hosts shows on topics in line with the Breakthrough Energy Movement — healing, environment, consciousness and “Conscious Capitalism and Politics.”

Catherine also uses the power of her intellect in service and toward a better world. She’s savvy about the hard realities that face a whistle-blower, having been managing director of a Wall Street investment bank, and Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush administration, and having been president of Hamilton Securities Group Inc. Therein are many stories; for a chronicle see a link on her website. More recently she founded Solari. She serves on the board of the Gold Anti-trust Action Commitee and publishes a column, “Mapping the Real Deal,” in Scoop Media in New Zealand.

So now that I’m back from travels including a spiritual retreat in Oregon, I’ll go through my photos and notes and write the article that Infinite Energy magazine has commissioned, about the Global BEM conference in Hilversum, Holland earlier this month. There were numerous extraordinary speakers with intent to create a better world — a world in which the finest qualities of both men and women are allowed to shine.

The first meeting of New Energy Movement - Seattle will be at the Seattle Metaphysical Library, 2220 Northwest Market St., Room L-05 (downstairs) on Tuesday, November the 20^th at 6:30 PM. The meeting is called to discuss conventional and exotic clean energy alternatives, their feasibility, progress towards marketability, causes of hindrances to progress in the past, and strategies for marketability in the future.  For more information call John 206-634-1848.

I first heard about his invention in 1997, and an appendix to the book Breakthrough Power tells his story. Austrian engineer Wilhelm Mohorn discovered an aetheric dehydration system for buildings. He established a business in 1985 and there have been 30,000 installations of his system throughout Europe. It uses what he calls cosmic energy, to repel water and make water retreat from the walls of a building and to keep the walls dry indefinitely.

A part of the Budapest parliament building beside the Danube River, for instance, had a problem with dampness until Aquapol in 1992 successfully dried it. Mohorn’s technology shows how dramatically different a non-conventional energy system can be. Benefits include: No chemicals, no drilling, no additional electrosmog. No fuel, no batteries, no maintenance.

The name of his business is Aquapol, with the syllable –pol standing for polarization. The inventor explains his phrase “orientation polarization” as meaning the water molecules can be oriented and directed via specific fields of energy

He says he is working with a type of radiation from the earth that is not electromagnetic but is dynamic in nature. The system’s antennae receive the radiation and redirect it. The process can cause either moisturization or dehydration, depending on in which direction it is arranged to move water molecules in a capillary system – upwards or downwards.

When accepting an award in Vienna in 2008, Mohorn’s speech referred in part to free energy: “New ecologically-friendly energy technologies are desperately needed in order to enhance environmental protection effectively” …”Renewable energy technologies like solar technologies, bio-mass and wave power stations are an excellent temporary solution, which will be amended considerably by free energy technologies in the future.”

That’s just one of many excellent presentations I’m looking forward to seeing at the conference, such as Moray King’s talk. Moray has pulled together the physics of zero-point energy — many years of the bits and pieces in the standard physics journals — with the down-to-earth results discovered by garage experimenters and more recently by accredited academics. In short, he gives a how-to presentation — steers the experimenters toward the goal of widely-duplicated experiments that will change our world for the better.

There will be speakers that I haven’t even met in person before, such as the visionary writer/broadcaster David Gibbons,  and  others whom I haven’t seen in a long time such as Nick Begich. He’s a statesman in his own way, and his straightforward, heartfelt eloquence and insight is always popular with audiences.

This is a last-minute blogpost because I hadn’t been checking my email during this Canadian thanksgiving long weekend. Also been on the road, and preparing for trip to Geneva later this month — will visit family living in France and then to Hilversum, Holland, to attend the Breakthrough Energy Movement conference which I’ll report on for Infinite Energy magazine.

Joel and Gary’s topic tonight on the Alternative Energy Hour at 5 PST is Unintended Consequences.  I’m reminded of the phrase wild card, used by futurist and consultant to the U.S. military John L. Petersen.  His 1997 book Out of the Blue was subtitled Wild Cards and Other Big Future Surprises. The wild card of an energy revolution could come from a scientific breakthrough which makes all fossil fuels and other traditional energy sources obsolete .

Petersen wrote about possible implications of a commercial zero-point-energy  generator of electricity or heat that requires no known fuel. Implications would be vast “and in some cases, rapid improvements to the ecosystem and biosphere. There would be decentralization of government control of energy, and energy independence. What’s not to like? Well, let’s listen tonight and see what Joel and Gary have to say.  I’m also looking forward to Joel’s speech to the Breakthrough Energy Movement conference.

The Fukishima nuclear mess – radioactive particles in the atmosphere and leakages into the sea ongoing from March of last year – has made Sara Shannon’s research even more important than it was in the mid-1980s. That’s when she first unearthed medical information about how we can protect ourselves from the harmful levels of radiation in our environment.

So I recommend her deeply researched 323-page updated book, now titled Radiation Protective Foods. Its main point about protecting ourselves is the Principle of Selective Uptake. Certain stable elements in our diet are built similarly to unstable (radioactive) elements. The Principle of Selective Uptake says if we have a sufficient amount of the stable element in our bodies, we won’t absorb its radioactive counterpart. In other words, if we eat enough of the right foods to fill our nutritional requirement for the elements they contain, we will not absorb the radioactive counterparts to those elements.

When I read the first edition of Sara’s book, no other author was discussing this principle — which she had unearthed in a publication in a medical library. Even today, relatively few people are putting that easy-to-understand principle of selective eating to use although, thanks to her, the word has gone out that if we have enough calcium, for example, we won’t absorb radioactive strontium which is similar to calcium.

“But obviously there is a limit, and if there is just too much exposure (to pollutants), then the body can only handle so much,” she said in an email recently. “The main thing now, though, is that we must stop the source of this poisoning.”

Most educated people are aware that nuclear power can be disastrous if there’s an accident, but what’s not well understood by the public is that nuclear power during its normal routine operation is damaging because of invisible releases. Radiation Protective Foods points out that nuclear power plants regularly release radioactive materials as part of their everyday operation. “These routine emissions are described as low-level and safe, but in reality they are a continuing assault on human health and the environment.’

“This health damage includes infertility, mental retardation, cancer, infectious diseases, asthma, diabetes and arthritis. Exposure to radioactivity causes a general weakening of the immune systems of individuals, and damage to the genetic health of the species as a whole.”

The urgent need for humankind to stop building and operating sources of dangerous pollution such as nuclear wastes is why we carry on learning and writing about new clean energy alternatives. The public must learn that we don’t need nuclear fission power plants. Nor do we need oil wars. In recent years those wars have resulted in depleted-uranium dust – from exploded weaponry — blowing around the world in global air currents.

Sara is a nutritionist whom I met about 20 years ago in New York City where she lives. As a working professional she kept up with the scientific literature, and she’d noticed a lack of articles about health problems connected to exposure to radioactivity. A famous author of health books had stirred her interest in 1977 when he mentioned that a special concentration of garlic detoxifies radiation. It planted the thought in her that foods we eat could counteract the hazardous effects of radiation.

As a mother she had listened to her own instincts during the near-disaster at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 1979, and kept her son out of school so they could leave the city quickly if necessary. The prevailing mindset however judged that as an extremist reaction, and school authorities were dismissive.

It’s not surprising that the vice-principal of a grade school was ignorant about nuclear radiation, because most of us are. Seeking answers to her questions, Sara found that information about nuclear hazards wasn’t readily available to concerned citizens although we encounter low-level exposure to various forms of radiation daily. It’s not only from nuclear fallout, power plant releases and transportation and storage of wastes, but also we encounter non-ionizing radiation risks from everyday technologies such as microwaves.

She persisted through many afternoons in libraries and the result was Diet for the Atomic Age, published in 1987 I believe. It not only presented theories about how certain foods stave off the effects of radiation, it also contained recipes so we can get the maximum protection from those foods. And now that we’re faced with the possibilities of an increasingly toxic post-Fukushima world, the book is being re-released with a new preface and other updates. Radiation Protective Foods is the 2012 updated edition of that timeless book.

The new preface says basically that we can no longer totally count on the use of foods for protection. The situation has gone beyond that point, so Radiation Protective Foods could perhaps be a survival guide while an awakened world society phases out the sources of radiation poisoning.

The 2012 book’s appendix also has new information. Regarding population for instance, surprisingly it indicates that over-population is not the problem.

To Sara’s dismay, the 2012 printed book has a few typo errors, but in my mind those are trivial in comparison to the wealth of information it contains. As the late Ernest J. Sternglass Ph.D. said about the first edition, “Sara Shannon has brought together the evidence that radioactive substances appear to be the single most damaging of all the various toxins, and that it is to a large extent in our power to protect ourselves and our children from their harmful effects.”

The book emphasizes whatever positive steps we can take, and gives ample reasons for action. For instance, have you thought about the connection between health and getting enough oxygen into your body? The percentage of oxygen in the air is down to about 19 percent, compared to the standard reference amount of 21 percent. Oxygen is released by trees and plankton – those tiny plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water. Trees and plankton can be killed by radiation. The consequences of widespread radioactive fallout can be described as unthinkable but we’d better think if we want to continue breathing oxygen.

I’ll give the last word to the fearless scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell, who passed on recently: “Sensible eating is our first line of defense against the military and industrial waste now being spewed into our air, land and water!  When we learn to choose healthy food we maximize our life energy and our creative intelligence.  I see this book as a valuable contribution both to those trying to survive today’s polluted environment and to those who are unborn and who deserve a real chance at a good life!   Thank you, Sara Shannon!” - Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D

Paul Babcock’s remarkable speech — the first video from the June 30-July 1 Bedini-Lindemann conference –  was released, in digital. In this lengthy post I’ll review it.

John Bedini’s and Peter Lindemann’s presentations always deliver valuable information for experimenters, and now they’ve introduced us to new stars on the scene who reinforce similar messages about innovative energy generators. Babcock’s presentation about magnetism’s secrets is the first of probably four videos that will be sold by the Bedini-Lindemann conference organizers.

“Magnetism imparts energy!” is Babcock’s message in that video, and “Overunity is how the universe works.” He explains different ways to tap magnetism for a power gain in electrical circuits.

Although Babcock says overunity (more energy output than the measured energy input warrants) is found in processes throughout the universe, he adds that nature places “governors” on it. Nature’s governors prevent the universe from blowing up. His presentation explains how he and his partners developed their own tricks to fool Mother Nature for our benefit, such as designing an electric motor in such a way that nature’s counter-force that usually fights the forward motion of a rotor is reduced or eliminated. His talk also explains why no real law of physics is broken when his team dramatically increases the output of an electrical circuit.

The general drift of his talk is no surprise to researchers who have for years been listening to another brilliant inventor, John Bedini. One experimenter comments that Babcock’s clear explanations make it easier to understand how Bedini could get excess energy from his own “impulse motors.”

I’ll introduce the story of Babcock’s search-for-knowledge and some general areas where he found answers, but you’ll need to buy his full presentation like I did if you want to understand the principles of electricity and magnetism he’s talking about. Please don’t argue here about his message without watching his video!

Paul Babcock ambles onstage dressed in faded blue jeans and plaid shirt. Sporting a ponytail and greying beard, he introduces himself by saying he’s always been a geek. However despite his low-key manner, I’d say he has a large presence, in more than one way. Speaking with firm conviction as well as humor, he openly shares what he’s learned. “All I want to do is give you people the tools to advance the cause. Because I can tell you a lot of stories about what happens when you go out in the world of physics and make claims they don’t like.”

His joking and casual manner almost hides the fact that he’s recognized internationally as an experienced industrial electronics technician, project manager, design engineer, communications and alternative energy expert and that he’s a savvy inventor involved in starting a multi-million dollar business with products based on recovery of magnetic energy. (Products that the alternate-energy and energy conservation marketplace welcome, but not the full gift to humankind that he could build if financial institutions welcomed game-changing electric motors.)

From the time he was a kid Paul played with magnets. Fortunately for us he never lost that sense of play, because while fooling around with magnets he eventually found ways to tap magnetism for a power gain in electrical circuits

In college he learned the laws of classical electrical physics. But during his career out in the world of real electricity he saw things happen that defied understanding. While working with high-powered systems he would see bursts of energy seemingly come out of nowhere. Frustrated by the fact that the bursts of energy didn’t relate to Ohm’s law, through the 1980s he studied the works of alternative theorists such as Thomas Bearden and read John Bedini’s technical writings. Babcock concluded that something is missing from standard teachings.

His quest for answers intensified in 1988. He was having a bad run of luck while living in Alaska and his right arm was injured in an accident, so during a severe winter he lived in a little cabin, broke and hungry. One night sitting by his kerosene lamp listening to a radio show he heard the show host say his guest was an inventor named Joseph Newman who would talk about a free energy machine.

Babcock didn’t have anything else to do, so he listened to Newman’s claims about magnetism. Intrigued, Babcock scraped up the fifty dollars and bought Newman’s book. “I got this big tome, a huge book…politics and ego and patent wars. But in the middle were 20 pages of absolute brilliance and observation about magnetism. He made this simple observation about magnetism – ‘the power you expend to make a magnetic field has nothing to do with the strength of the magnetic field you create!’”

From then on Babcock was on a quest to learn how Newman’s observation relates to the known laws. How does it relate to the simple algebra of electrical physics? As a result of finding answers, he and his business partners later developed their new technology.

The physics laws named after people such as Ohm, Faraday, Joule, Lenz and Kirchhoff are essential, Babcock says, for anyone who wants to do free-energy work out in the world. His presentation showed which electrical laws are never subject to change and which ones you could skirt around in order to engineer electrical circuits that harness magnetism effectively. He said if you know how to use the laws, you can employ simple algebraic truths to prove to anybody that magnetism is energy. “Or if it is not energy, it begets energy.”

Back to his odyssey: Another “aha!” moment came when he was in Alaska in winter with spare time to sit by the woodstove at a friend’s house. It was the first time he encountered the new super-powerful magnets made from neodymium. The friend handed Babcock two magnets about an inch square and they marveled at the magnets’ super-strong forces of attraction and repulsion. After taking his turn handling the magnets, he reached out to give one back to the friend. Babcock’s hand passed near the cast iron stove and the magnet suddenly leapt off his hand and accelerated as if “from zero to sixty in eight inches.” It hit the stove with such force that the magnet shattered into a dozen pieces.

This huge expression of energy had nothing to do with the energy of his hand’s relatively slow motion. The magnet imparted that energy onto itself, he realized. He hadn’t lit a rocket or burned any fuel to make it speed up so forcefully.

Babcock showed a simple experiment reinforcing his point that magnetism is an expression of energy. It involves two projectiles of the same weight and dimensions each traveling the same distance toward a target. In one scenario, the materials used are non-magnetic and in the other they are magnetic. Watch the experiment and try it!

Babcock said that when he demonstrated his insights to graduate students, university gatekeepers threw him out. He took it in stride, realizing that, for career reasons, some people cannot listen.

Why did he and his partners choose the name Flyback Energy for their business? Other experts in magnetism and electricity try to get rid of flyback. Flyback is the burst of energy that suddenly appears when an electrical current’s flow through a conductor is interrupted and as a result the magnetic field that had been produced by current flow collapses, creating an electrical discharge. The disruptive burst is also called Reverse Electromotive Force or Flyback Electrical Discharge.

The Flyback Energy company partners turn a problem into a solution and are in the business of magnetic energy recovery. Physicists tell Babcock that the flyback electrical kick is not energy. He insists that it is, and he presents ample evidence.

What does this mean for us in the general public? I see it as meaning that if a previously unharnessed type of clean energy has been overlooked and can be proven to exist, we have no valid excuse for allowing the oil-spill, coal pit, gas fracking and nuclear-waste damage to continue. Breakthroughs such as motors and generators that are even fifty per cent more efficient can be combined with solar and wind power to make standard energy alternatives easily affordable and free us from filthy energy-generating systems. That’s my opinion — admittedly judgmental and emotional.

For Paul Babcock the road to a revolutionary motor design was long, and traveled one step at a time from the moment in 1988 that he realized there doesn’t have to be a fixed relationship between the amount of electrical energy expended into a circuit and the amount of magnetic flux created. He learned the tricks regarding electrical resistance and other factors that can change the end result.

One of the video clips in his presentation demonstrated a simple experiment with plasma arcs. The output energy as shown by the size and heat of sparks and melting of metal rods dramatically increased when he used a large inductive resistor compared to a smaller mass, but the mathematical expression for what he was doing hadn’t changed.

After countless experiments to learn how to catch very brief electrical bursts and store them for later use, he and his partners made a breakthrough with another factor — limiting the amount of circuit “on” time in order to limit how many joules of input energy had to be used. “A point is reached where the joules of energy discharged by the Reverse Electromotive Force of the conductor exceeds the amount of Joules of energy consumed by the circuit,” Babcock explains.

It seems that the Conservation of Energy rule doesn’t really apply to the team’s wizardry.

In my non-technical view, the high point of Babcock’s talk was a clip from a video professionally made by his brother nearly ten years ago and never before shown to a public audience. It includes action shots of an unusual fast-switching motor — the culmination of all the things the team had learned, built into one prototype device.

The clip begins by acknowledging the standard belief about limitations to the amount of horsepower that electric motors can make for a given amount of electrical watts. Ever since the first electric motor more than 130 years ago, scientists and engineers have accepted the limitation that counter-motive induction slaps onto motor design, and they believe there’s no way to conquer that limitation. They teach that the only way to increase speed and horsepower is to increase the input voltage.

But by combining proprietary switching and other now-patented technologies and processes, Babcock’s direct current electric motor eliminates or radically reduces countermotive induction and the effects of Lenz’ law, the narrator of the video clip says. This makes it possible to increase motor speeds and thus increase horsepower without the need to increase voltage and total input power. The new design concept makes it possible to build electric motors that are electrically much more efficient than conventional motors.

Babcock says the mathematics shows that this kind of motor could possibly produce a mechanical horsepower output for as little as 200 watts of electrical input per horsepower. (I’m looking at two regular 100-watt lightbulbs as I realize how little energy it might take to run that motor.)

Before the showing at the Bedini-Lindemann conference, why had no public audience ever seen that video clip? Paul Babcock explains. “We made that video almost ten years ago, and we buried it. Because all it got us was trouble.”

When trying to raise funding to build a company, he explains, telling the truth about how world-changing your discovery is may create resistance in the status quo. He and his team ten years ago were younger “and kind of naive, thinking ‘Hey we have a great thing. The world is going to welcome us with open arms.’ Wrong. It’s time to get your beating for doing good work. And it really set us back,” Babcock adds, “in the world of finance and business anyway.”

When is his company going to take that revolutionary prototype shown in the film and develop it into a commercial motor? Not until he can pay the million-dollar cost of product development himself, Babcock tells us vehemently. Not until he doesn’t have to beg for startup money and go to financial institutions for funding. In the meantime, Flyback Energy is happily in the business of making acceptable helpful products.

The Magnetic Secrets video doesn’t provide his company’s proprietary schematics for how to build a motor of course, but Babcock gives enough information in the hour-long talk that any experimenter can test the principles. I hope that thousands of engineers and physicists end up watching Paul Babcock’s presentation. Better yet, hundreds of thousands of experimenters…

(PS. The Bedini-Lindemann conference had a friendly atmosphere and attendees from the Pacific Northwest and around the world who praised the quality of information conveyed, and for the most part it ran smoothly. My own presentation on July 1 however was cause for retirement. The Powerpoint with my photos was too byte-heavy to be run from a thumb drive, so the equipment took on a mind of its own and distracted me from what I’d planned to present. It was a learning experience.)
Another PS, another learning… I’m drawing attention to a comment that relates to this blogpost:

Hal Freeman wrote today:  “I think there’s a little technical mistake in the text. Where we read “conductor” should be “inductor”. The inductor is the one that have the property of causing flyback or Reverse eletromotive force. Just to help clarify readers, as a matter of fact, a inductor is just a conductor wrapped in coils. ”

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