A chapter from my book.
Misconception of Over-Unity:
People who say, "there's no such thing as a free lunch" have probably never picked wild berries and just called it “lunch.” "Free Energy" is about harvesting what is already present. But in a way that doesn't result in YOU having to pay to maintain the system.
Free energy is real. The energy all around us is indeed free. We don’t have to barter with the Sun for it to shine. It doesn’t cost any fiat currency for the rain to fall or for the wind to blow. The wheelwork of nature all around us, as Nikola Tesla put it is indeed free. But over-unity is not real. The end results of extra output is real, but over-unity implies a closed system puts out more than what goes in. That assumes more energy is coming out than the totality of energy available. And that’s nonsense.
Let’s go over the semantics. You can only pour out as much water from a glass as you fill it with first. You can only drain a battery with us much energy as you charge it with first. That is a very simple concept. Let’s say you have 8 ounces of water in a glass and you’re slowly pouring it out drop by drop. You can only pour out up to 8 ounces of water from the glass. But if you have that glass outside during a rainstorm while pouring out the water... then the surrounding environment can contribute more water to the system more than what YOU initially put in. And at that point, it becomes an open system because it’s receiving input from the environment and exchanging matter.
As 3 drops of water are poured from the glass, there is 1 raindrop that falls into the glass from the sky. From the perspective of the glass, it is only pouring out as much water as went into it. But from the perspective of the person who initially filled the glass, there is 30% more water being poured. If the person who first filled the glass with 8 ounces of water doesn’t realize it was raining when the experiment was performed, that person will make up nonsense getting 30% more out than in. Everyone can clearly measure that indeed 30% more water was poured from the glass. The overzealous experimenter will claim over-unity and that aether must be the cause. Or... I mean... space-time must be the cause.... er... rather... it must be... the dark matter, or dark energy that’s the cause of the extra water output. Another person adds their two cents, “no, no, it must be virtual molecule production from quantum black holes... that’s it. That must be the reason for the extra water. Or just acknowledge the rain added input to the glass. That’s it.
Energy must come from somewhere. Abiding by the first law of thermodynamics, when a system absorbs the internal kinetic energy of electrons from around it, the temperature drops as a byproduct. Rather than make up a bunch of erroneous variables to explain the extra energy an exotic system produces... just acknowledge the energy is being fed and input by the environment somehow. Rather than flounder with aether, space-time or quantum interpretations which are based from an invariant model of light speed, we can just acknowledge the environment can act on a system. Under special circumstances, a system can “tap into” that wheelwork of nature all around us. Using the surrounding radiation and existing energy across the electromagnetic spectrum as fuel. And it might take an initial push or putting energy into the system first to initiate a larger chain reaction leading to absorption from the surroundings.
If you think you're getting more energy out than in… Then you are not realizing the system is absorbing from around it. Anytime someone claims over-unity, first ask if they know how to use an oscilloscope. If everything checks out from an electrical engineering perspective and a true anomaly is taking place, then look for a drop in temperature or a lack of heat production.
A closed system cannot tap into that surrounding energy. Like a bottle of compressed air or a can of spray paint. Thus.. closed system. It is closed off from the open environment, preventing an exchange due to condensed matter walls and boundaries and pressurized chambers. If a system is tapping into a larger reservoir around it… It is doing so openly. A bottle of compressed air cannot mutually exchange air with the environment. That’s a one way processes. The paint in the spray can only come out of the can. If you blow the compressed air on a fan blade, it will cause the fan blade to spin. When the air pressure in the bottle equalizes with the atmosphere outside the bottle, the fan blade stops spinning and there’s no more compressed air. Closed system ceases.
But a wind turbine in a meadow is an open system. The air can freely flow around and through the turbine. The energy of the Sun ultimately makes the wind blow and governs all weather and climate on Earth. The Earth is openly receiving input from the Sun.
Anyone who claims their system is producing over-unity is stating their system is closed and is not receiving input from the environment. Like insisting it’s not raining into the glass of water. Over-unity is synonymous with closed system and implies that system is putting out more than what goes in. But in an open system… there is a conversion of surrounding energy. If a unit is absorbing the energy from around it, and the inventor doesn’t realize it, they will assume their system is above unity. But really, you have to account for the total amount of energy from the Sun and the Earth and the total surroundings. Since the unity would still be < 1, but you are now tapping a much larger reservoir all around you.
People are also used to assuming energy always propagates in 3 dimensions like corkscrews or vortexes of particles. Walter Russell’s statement that “nothing travels in a straight line” has tarnished a lot of people’s thought process. Any anomalous results measured by an inventor are probably because there’s an aspect of coherence and electron pairing and/or a harvesting effect from the surroundings. A system where electrons are bound to propagate a 2D path can deliver energy AS IF it is putting more out than in. Always be hyperaware of any potential illusions of AS IFs. Be open minded and willing to entertain the inverse scenario to how you currently view something. We can only do so much with the information available, but we also must develop the foresight to try and account for unaccounted variables by changing the fundamentals by which we asses a scenario.
The phrase “Free energy” is synonymous with "open system." Free energy means you do not have to pay fiat currency for harnessing electricity after a system is set-up and established. Free energy does not mean over-unity or "energy magically from nothing.”
Also, free energy does not mean perpetual motion. Hoover Dam has been operating 80 years nonstop as an open system. In its 80 years of operation, Hoover dam has generated more joules of energy by tapping a natural cycle than the total amount of joules exerted by human efforts to establish, start and maintain the system. No violation of thermodynamics.
A lot of people confuse the concept of “power factor correction” for over-unity. Many others don’t accurately measure the factors in their system or don’t use an oscilloscope to see what’s really happening from an electrical engineering perspective. There have only been a few genuine contenders to offer breadcrumbs to the path of achieving what people call “free energy.” The end results are not only possible... but inevitable. It’s just the semantics and interpretation of how those end results arise that needs a serious overhaul.
The negative connotations and esoteric associations with the phrase “free energy” have tarnished the pursuit and discussion about it. Nonsense pervades the internet about perpetual motion, over-unity, energy from nothing and systems doing work on themselves. There are hoaxes, snake oil, scams, charlatans, conmen and liars who have infected the community. There is no shortage of frauds in the free energy community peddling camera trickery, tesla coils off camera generating an oscillating electric field, induction coils, compressed air, hidden batteries, hidden motors, magnets under the table, hidden cables connected to power sources, etc.
There are very few people who have offered credible insight and truthful scientific work to lead the world in the right direction when it comes to genuine free energy. Some people who have achieved anomalous results have embellished their work which hurts the credibility of the totality of genuine anomalies. It takes away from one’s own achievements if you exaggerate your genuine findings.
Look for the similarities between the genuine experimenters and researchers and toss out the contradictions you find. Test things for yourself and experiment with what you have around you. Find others who are like yourself and team up to experiment and earn results. I found a few people over the years who I’ve personally vetted as achieving credible anomalies. Professor John Searl is one of those genuine people despite some of the extraordinary claims he made.
As Carl Sagan said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” A rebuttal to that quote is that acquiring extraordinary evidence sometimes requires extraordinary funding and support. How is one supposed to yield anything extraordinary by using ordinary means? Even Einstein seemed to agree in a quote attributed to him saying, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
You can't find the solutions to the problems of the very model that created the contradictions and problems. You can't explain the mysteries and limitations of a model by using the explanations within its own model. A model with contradictory paradoxes and mysteries cannot solve those contradictions from within its own model. That would be like a system doing work on itself which is a violation of thermodynamics. That would be like a psychotic individual seeking help from the voices in his own head. We should approach problems inside and outside of physics with this same logic of a system not doing work on itself. Sometimes serious problems need an outside opinion with fresh eyes.
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