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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.

Contents 1 Description 2 Analysis 3 Historic cases 3.1 Tomas Henry Moray 3.2 Stanley Meyer 3.3 Eugene Mallove 4 Current cases 4.1 Tom Bearden 4.2 Gary McKinnon 4.3 Steven Greer 4.4 Gordon Novel 5 See also 6 References and external articles

[edit] 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 fundamentally 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]

Standards for assessing conspiracies

Main article: Study of conspiracism Occam's razor - is the alternative story more complicated and therefore less probable than the mainstream story? Logic - Do the proofs offered follow the rules of logic, or do they employ Fallacies of logic? Methodology - are the proofs offered for the argument well constructed, i.e., using sound methodology? Is there any clear standard to determine what evidence would prove or disprove the theory? Whistleblowers - how many people — and what kind — have to be loyal conspirators? Falsifiability - Is it possible to demonstrate that specific claims of the theory are true, or are they "unfalseifiable"? For more details on this topic, see conspiracy theory.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Historic cases

Many inventors have attempted to construct means of over-unity energy production. Supporters claim that the ones listed below have had work suppressed:

[edit] 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.^[16]

[edit] Stanley Meyer

Stanley Meyer produced nine patents relating to his "water powered" car. He was subsequently sued by two investors and the court found Meyer guilty of "gross and egregious fraud", ordering him to repay the investors their $25,000.^[17][18]

Following his sudden death, an autopsy showed that he died of a cerebral aneurysm.^[19] Meyer's supporters continue to claim that he was assassinated by 'Big Oil', Arab death squads, Belgian assassins, or the US Government.^[20][21][22] 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 claims of suppression appear baseless.^[23]

[edit] Eugene Mallove

Eugene Mallove was a notable proponent and supporter of research into cold fusion. He authored the book Fire from Ice, which details the 1989 report of table-top cold fusion from Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann at the University of Utah.^[24] The book claims the team did produce "greater-than-unity" output energy in an experiment, which supposedly was successfully replicated on several occasions.^[25] Mallove claims that the results were suppressed through an organized campaign of ridicule from mainstream physicists. He was fatally beaten May 14, 2004 in Norwich, Connecticut by a unknown assailant. His violent death was suspected by some to be related to the nature of his work^[26], while the police officially suspected robbery as the motive.^[27]

In 2005, two local men were arrested in connection with the killing.^[28][29][30] The case proceeded slowly,^[27] and the charges against the two men were dismissed on November 6, 2008.^[31]

Other 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.^[32]

[edit] Current cases

[edit] 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^[33]) which he claims would deliver "over-unity performance" through asymmetrical regauging. He believes that this technology is known, and suppressed, by the Japanese.^[34]

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^[35]

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".^[36]

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" .^[37]

Bearden has published no evidence for any of these claims.

[edit] Gary McKinnon

Between 2001 and 2002, Gary McKinnon carried out what has been described as being the "biggest ever military computer hack" in history^[38] 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.^[39] McKinnon's appeals against extradition to the United States in both the United Kingdom and the European Court of Human Rights were initially unsuccessful, but his legal team launched a successful appeal in August 2008, following McKinnon's diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome.^[40] He was due to be extradited in early September 2008.^[41][42][43]

[edit] Steven Greer

Steven Greer is mainly known for The Disclosure Project^[44], which held a massive press conference in 2001 at Washington Press Club on the alleged coverup of UFOs and related technologies. Since then he has been active in the field of Free energy suppression, setting up two related organizations: AERO (Advanced Energy Research Organization)^[45] and The Orion Project^[46].

[edit] Gordon Novel

In an interview with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot, Novel made several claims on conspiracy theories. One of which is the existence the alleged secret group Majestic 12, which he claims to be in a complicated conflict with. This conflict revolves largely around the conspiracy of free energy suppression. Novel claims he is working with a group of scientists and intelligence agents, calling themselves the Knights Temporal, that aim to break the conspiracy and release free energy technology.^[47]

[edit] See also

• History of perpetual motion machines

[edit] References and external articles