GEET( Global Environmental Energy Technology) Fuel Processor
Field Note
As the old adage advises, where there is smoke, there is fire. And I have to admit that this is one “yardstick” I have started to use to determine what new “revolutionary technologies” to examine a little more closely. From what I have seen over the years, coupled with events surrounding now famous lives such as Tesla and Wilhelm Reich, one would expect strange attacks and turmoil surrounding an inventor who actually had come up with something that would seriously challenge established vested interests.
For those unfamiliar with what happened to Wilhelm Reich, following a series of articles about his orgone theory in The New Republic and Harper’s, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. obtained an injunction against the interstate sale of his orgone accumulators. Charged with contempt for violating this order, Reich conducted his own defense, which involved sending the judge all his books to read and arguing that a court was no place to decide matters of science. He was sentenced to two years in prison, and in August 1956, several tons of his publications were burned by the FDA, certainly one of the worst examples of censorship in U.S. history. Reich died in jail of heart failure just over a year later, days before he was due to apply for parole.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that in the wake of actual fraud, there isn’t turmoil and legal proceedings. So part of the formula is legal proceedings that seem to be somehow askew, at least in a layman’s sense of justice.
But when strange things start to happen, that sets off alarm bells – albeit as journalistic gut feeling that something’s not right here. That tells me that perhaps there really is something to the invention. Or at least it’s worth more thorough investigation.
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Arctic Images Derived From Classified Data Should Be Made Public
Hundreds of images derived from classified data that could be used to better understand rapid loss and transformation of Arctic sea ice should be immediately released and disseminated to the scientific research community, says a new report from the National Research Council. The committee that wrote the report emphasized that these Arctic images show detailed melting and freezing processes and also provide information at scales, locations, and time periods that are important for studying effects of climate change on sea ice and habitat — data that are not available elsewhere.
“To prepare for a possibly ice-free Arctic and its subsequent effects on the environment, economy, and national security, it is critical to have accurate projections of changes over the next several decades,” said committee chair Stephanie Pfirman, professor and chair of the department of environmental science at Barnard College, New York City. “Forecasts of regional sea-ice conditions can help officials plan for and adapt to the impact of climate change and minimize environmental risks.” (more…)
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The Real British X-Files
By Nick Pope
There's some amazing stuff in amongst the mass of more routine material, says Nick Pope. UFOs seen by police officers and pilots, UFOs tracked on radar, craft seen performing speeds and maneuvers significantly in excess of those of our most advanced military aircraft, intriguing photos and videos...
Nick Pope used to work for the British Ministry of Defense and for 3 years headed up their UFO project. His remit was to investigate UFO sightings reported to the British government, looking for evidence of any potential threat, or anything judged to be of any “defence significance.”
Abstract
Late in 2007 the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) gave an undertaking to release its entire archive of UFO files. On May 14 2008 the National Archives released the first batch of files, leading to worldwide media coverage, including articles in the New York Times and coverage on CNN News. On October 20 2008 the National Archives released the second batch of files, again generating global media coverage, including a feature on ABC News’s Nightline. I used to work at the MoD on these files and although I left government service in 2006, I assisted the National Archives in the release process by reviewing the files, selecting cases of potential interest to the media and acting as someone to whom they would refer journalists wanting to discuss the files. I will set out the background to this release and explain how the French government’s 2007 decision to release its UFO files was a major factor in the UK decision, as was the fact that the MoD receives more FOI requests on UFOs than any other topic. I will then give detailed information about the files, explaining how much material there is, what it comprises and what the timeline is for full disclosure. I will also discuss the level of classification involved and the various FOI exemptions that mean certain information will not be released. Finally, I will pick out some cases from the newly released files and discuss the wider implications of this release. (more…)
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Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed
Through good detective work by Touko Pouko, the Mylow Magnetic Motor that was receiving widespread attention has been proved a hoax. Mylow himself has admitted this (see last video posted here), coupled with a strange claim of having being coerced into faking his later demonstrations.
Here is Touko Pouko’s first video showing how Mylow faked his “magnetic motors.” (He suggests you use HQ and full screen if possible because some of the details are difficult to notice.)
Some of the still images available here:
http://touko.cjb.net/mylow/
You can spot the lines in some of the existing YouTube backups of Mylow’s videos if you watch them in HQ/full-screen.
Mylow fumbles with hidden drive belt on glass table video.
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Mylow Magnetic Motor Update
/Field Note
Update: This has now been proved to be a hoax. See “Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed.”
Thanks to Alan Sterling’s updates and reporting on developments with the “Mylow” magnetic motor, a number of people have been working to replicate this. And while some have used the opportunity to raise even more skepticism, it turns out that building a motor that will work the way Mylow has reportedly demonstrated in his videos is a little more challenging that it first appears.
Background: An inventor from Chicago who goes by the pseudonym, “Mylow”, appears to have a knack for getting all-magnet motor designs to work that are based on the efforts of the late Howard Johnson. And he is intent on giving his design away to the planet in an open source manner.
On March 17, 2009, he posted his first video showing full rotation of the “Stonehenge model”, that Johnson worked on in the early 1980s to demonstrate to the U.S. Patent Office. (See earlier Mylow magnet motor report.) Mylow purposely kept his replication as close as possible to Johnson’s design — per the photos, not the patent. (more…)
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Video: James Burke’s Knowledge Web
/Field Note
“Learners may study either history or physics, or perhaps only Renaissance history and astrophysics. People tend to become experts in highly specialized fields, learning more and more about less and less.”
James Burke
In following down one line of investigation for the first documentary I’m researching, I was reminded of an interview I did with James Burke for one of the first issues of Visions magazine.
In case you don’t know, James Burke is probably best known as the author and host of the television series Connections on PBS and The Learning Channel.
As it explains on his Knowledge Web web site (k-web.org), “James’ work explores the idiosyncratic relationships between technology, science, and social change throughout modern history. Through a variety of media—radio, television, print, and now the World Wide Web—James has brought the world a unique perspective on how all of history is interrelated and interdependent. (more…)
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Fifth X-Conference Continues Calls for UFO Disclosure and UN Investigation
/Field Note
The Paradigm Research Group’s fifth X-Conference in Gaithersburg, MD wrapped up this week (April 17-19), followed with a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (No relation to the X-Journals, by the way.)
This event is an integral part of The Paradigm Research Group’s advocacy work aiming to change government policy toward extraterrestrial-related phenomena, according to a press statement. “Since 1947 the United States has imposed a ‘truth embargo’ on formal acknowledgment of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race,” the group said in the statement. “This engagement has been confirmed by a mountain of evidence compiled by hundreds of researchers over six decades.” (more…)
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Insiders Expose Reasons for Secrecy /Disclosure Project Background
/Field Note
Originally released by the Disclosure Project November 13, 2007, this offers a perspective on UFOs, government secrecy and new energy technologies that steers clear of the typical, over-simplified “conspiracy theory” rhetoric. It is followed with a video presentation which further illuminates why a reportedly highly classified program related to UFOs continues to this day while disinformation and ridicule is used year after year to keep elected leaders and the general public uncertain, misinformed or confused.
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Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer on UFO Technology, Wilbert Smith and Alternative Energy
/Field Note
Exposing the truth regards to UFO / Unidentified Flying Objects and secret technology research and development.
Reportedly recorded at the April 2008 X-Conference at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. [However, although Hellyer did speak at this conference, I am not sure this video is actually from this event. - Editor]
In the video, Hellyer refers to Wilbert Smith. Here’s one very good summary regarding Smith found on a web page dedicated to him. (more…)
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Scenarios of Suppression
/Field Note
“Coincidences are a true paradox… on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities–seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren’t there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.” - Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in The Power of Coincidence.
When seeking to determine the extent of suppression of scientific research and technological development, there is a considerable range in the scenarios presented.
At one end of the spectrum, we have what might easily be classified as “conspiracy theories.” Here we have the claims that workable technologies and discoveries have already been made and that these have somehow been withheld or buried, often as the result of threats and even the suspicious deaths of researchers.
Here’s a trailer I found on YouTube this gives an example of this type of extreme scenario: (more…)
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Orbiting Solar Space Power A Step Closer
/Field Note
John Mankins speaks at press conference about space solar power.
A couple of days ago, on the Next100, a blog published by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, California’s biggest energy utility (PG&E), it was announced that the company is seeking approval from state regulators for a power purchase agreement with Solaren Corp., a Southern California start-up that has contracted to deliver 200 megawatts of clean, renewable power over a 15 year period, starting in 2016.
What’s notable is that Solaren says it plans to generate the power using solar panels in earth orbit, then convert it to radio frequency energy for transmission to a receiving station in Fresno County. From there, the energy will be converted to electricity and fed into PG&E’s power grid. (more…)
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Raphial Morgado & Breakthrough Power Event
/Field Note
Raphial Morgado sets up his Mighty Yet Tiny engine. Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon co-authored "Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World." (Courtesy PESWiki)
An interesting event was held recently (April 2) sponsored by Golden Key International Honour Society at San Jose State University and the New Energy Movement. Entitled the Breakthrough Power Event, this featured presentations by Joel Garbon, Sterling D. Allan and Jean Manning.
Sterling videoed the presentation and has put it up on YouTube. The whole event is now available through his PESWiki web site.
Much of what is presented will probably be familiar to those following the Free Energy movement. However, what is of special interest is the Q and A session with Raphial Morgado that Sterling arranged. Seeing Raphial Morgado demonstrate and explain his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine was eye opening and fascinating. (more…)
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Magnetic Motor Experiment
/Field Note
by Blake Harris
Over the last few weeks, Alan Sterling over at the PESWiki has been reporting on a new magnet motor experiment/demonstration. The inventor, who calls himself Mylow, originally loaded up a number of videos to YouTube detailing the construction of his motor which apparently was an effort to duplicate a magnetic motor originally built by Howard Johnson back in the 1970s. In 1979, Johnson managed to secure a US patent for a “Permanent Magnet Motor.”
Here’s a video of the working Mylow motor:
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Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Skepticism
/Field Note
by Rochus Boerner
The following article was inspired by an article by Dr. Robert L.Park, a spokesman for the American Physical Society, titled Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science.
The progress of science depends on a finely tuned balance between open-mindedness and skepticism. Be too open minded, and you’ll accept wrong claims. Be too skeptical, and you’ll reject genuine new discoveries. Proper skepticism must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Unfortunately, much of what comes out of the “skeptical” community these days is not proper skepticism, but all-out, fundamentalist disbelief. Such skepticism can be called pseudo-skepticism, pathological skepticism or bogus skepticism.
Here are seven major warning signs of bogus skepticism.
1. The Skeptic has reached her skeptical opinion not after careful research and examination of the claim, but simply based on media reports and other forms of second-hand knowledge.
Example: Pathological cold fusion skeptic Robert L. Park revealed in his March 1st 2002 What’s New column that Science was going to publish an article on Sonofusion, and that even though he had not seen the paper, talked to the researchers or conducted any personal research in the area, he already knew that the Sonofusion discovery would turn out to be “a repeat of the cold fusion fiasco”. Park used every bit of influence he had in a behind-the-scenes attempt to kill the paper. Luckily, the Science editor didn’t cave and decided to publish. (more…)
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Schrödinger on Cultural Context
The philosophical issues raised by Schrödinger's cat are still debated today and remains his most enduring legacy in popular science, while Schrödinger's equation is his most enduring legacy at a more technical level.
/Field Note
“Physical science, which aims not only at devising fascinating new experiments, but at obtaining a rational understanding of the results of observations, incurs at present, so I believe, the grave danger of getting severed from its historical background. The innovations of thought in the last 50 years, great and momentous and unavoidable as they were, are usually overrated compared with those of the preceding century; and the disproportionate foreshortening by time-perspective, of previous achievements on which all our enlightenment in modem times depends, reaches a disconcerting degree according as earlier and earlier centuries are considered. Along with this disregard for historical linkage there is a tendency to forget that all science is bound up with human culture in general, and that scientific findings, even those which at the moment appear the most advanced and esoteric and difficult to grasp, are meaningless outside their cultural context.” - Erwin Schrödinger, Are There Quantum Jumps? (1950)
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James Burke: Connections, World Views and Technological Innovation
/Field Note
James Burke: "There is nothing hard-wired about the human mind. Over long periods of time, I think what we do is alter our perceptions."
Again retracing my steps a little in preparing a launch point for the first documentary in the current series, I took a fresh look at an old interview I did with science historian James Burke. It’s got a lot in it that is still very relevant today and so I’m posting it below.
Burke is possibly best known for Connections, a ten-episode documentary television series he created and narrated. It first aired in 1978 in the UK. It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention and demonstrates how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events built off one another in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. (more…)
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Making the Quantum Leap - The View of W.R. Clement
/Field Note
"When I talk about a ‘raised level of abstraction,’ I mean a significant leap in our understanding of the forces driving the universe. This ‘quantum jump’ is so profound that it casts doubt on most, if not all, of our past assumptions about how the world is organized." (Photo by Blake Harris)
This is an article I wrote originally published in 2005, based on interviews conducted with W.R. Clement that year. In my current research, one of the jump off points (and something I will be covering more fully in later field notes), is the whole notion of the “quantum leap” in scientific research and understanding - a significant change that happens all at once (revolutionary), rather than gradually over time (evolutionary). As I retrace some of my earlier research, looking at the whole subject anew, this is one article which I thought offered one relevant perspective. - Blake Harris
Several years ago — 1998 to be exact — W.R. Clement published a book that never quite achieved the fanfare and popularity of works by futurists like Alvin Toffler or John Naisbitt. Yet in 50 years’ time, while other bestselling explanations of our era will likely seem quaint and myopic, Clement’s book, Quantum Jump: A Survival Guide for the New Renaissance, just might be the one that holds up. It could well be the most accurate analysis of the social transformation during the first half of the 21st century — or at least the underpinnings of this transformation.Among other things, Clement has been a military intelligence officer, a software developer and a career policy analyst for the Canadian government. In the 1970s, when our new age was still called a communications revolution, Clement was conducting studies for Canada to see if that revolution was significant enough to pay serious attention to. His conclusion even back then? It was. (more…)
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Jane Jacobs - A Dark Age Ahead?
/Field Note
Jane Jacobs on her front porch in Toronto Canada. Photo taken by Blake Harris during one of several interviews.
I just spent the last few days in San Francisco, meeting with CIOs from some of the of larger cities and counties in the US – all related to my day job as an editor at Government Technology magazine.
Of a little relevance here given the focus of this site, I heard about some of the political wrangling related to distribution of the US stimulus money for broadband and other IT related activities. And for all the talk of change, it is still very much politics as usual in Washington, DC when it comes to meeting America’s economic challenges and addressing America’s continued lagging behind in broadband deployment and usage.
This prompted me, on the plane back, to think a little more about some of the intellectual territory I had previously covered before launching The X-Journals in the first place.
Specifically, I began thinking about conversations I had previously had with the late Jane Jacobs as well as her last book, Dark Age Ahead. (more…)
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First Impressions of the “Free Energy” Movement
/Field Note
Over recent weeks, I have begun to make some initial forays to establish contacts within the “free energy” movement. I call it that because the more I research, the more it does seem like a sub-culture at this point, albeit composed of many loosely associated groups and individuals.
What I mean when I describe it as a sub-culture is that it appears that it has its personalities, its stars or big names, its factions and alliances, not to mention its personality clashes and disputes. Many of the key players, of course, virtually all know one another, or at least know of one another. (more…)
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Greer and Loder Briefing Report to the Obama Administration
/Field Note
Dr. Steven Greer and Dr. Ted Loder have prepared a comprehensive briefing document on the new energy issues which Dr. Greer sent recently to President Obama and members of Congress.
In his cover letter, Greer argues that we need to refocus the national discussion on energy away from the zero sum game of ‘clean coal’, solar, wind, biofuels and nuclear power and towards advanced systems that involve an entirely new area of physics.
“Unfortunately, many of the greatest advances in this area of science and technology have been illegally classified through abuses of the National Security Act, the Patent Law and other mechanisms,” Greer writes. “This needs to be corrected immediately.” (more…)
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Zones of Scientific or Technological Stagnation
/ Field Note
In the whole Montreal International Auto Show 2008 there was only one revolutionary car. The Tesla Roadster, by the start-up Californian company Tesla Motors, is a car that breaks the stagnation in the car industry. It's 100% electric with no emissions and no compromise in range or performance. (Etienne Boucher/ CC)
Although I’ve only completed a rather cursory, “broad shoot” assessment, a number of key zones of scientific investigation nevertheless emerge as areas where technological development appears to have been heavily stifled, either by vested interests or the scientific establishment’s orthodoxy.
Most of these zones at least have their advocates or supporters, if not a well developed community of interest pursuing research and development outside the main scientific or engineering community. And each of these zones is definitely a fascinating subject for further investigation in the context of The X-Journals.
Vacuum or Zero Point Energy
Zero point energy or vacuum energy is the lowest state of energy in the universe. It is strong enough to keep helium a liquid, even at temperatures that are micro-degrees from absolute zero. It gives rise to the mysterious Casimir force, also called van der Waals forces, that keeps geckos stuck to any surface. It causes non-thermal noise in lots of electronic circuits, which some think can be filtered out to produce an energy flow. And zero point energy is also becoming the leading candidate for dark energy. (See today’s posted story, New Evidence for Dark Matter Around Small Galaxies.) (more…)
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Alexander Chernetski and ‘Vacuum Energy’
/Field Note
Free energy inventor from Russia who reportedly died suddenly in 1992 after speaking to Hal Putoff and demonstrating his ability to transform pure dieletric field energy into any sized KW output. (Unverified report at this time - B.H.)
Below is a report, source unknown, further describing Alexander Chernetski’s work: (more…)
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Engineering a Paradigm Shift
/Field Note
In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), epistemologist and historian of science Thomas Kuhn defined scientific revolutions as a paradigm shift – a term that has since found its way into wide and sometimes over-extended and inappropriate use.
A good summary of Kuhn’s thesis is found on Wikipedia:
“A scientific revolution occurs, according to Kuhn, when scientists encounter anomalies which cannot be explained by the universally accepted paradigm within which scientific progress has thereto been made. The paradigm, in Kuhn’s view, is not simply the current theory, but the entire worldview in which it exists, and all of the implications which come with it. It is based on features of landscape of knowledge that scientists can identify around them. There are anomalies for all paradigms, Kuhn maintained, that are brushed away as acceptable levels of error, or simply ignored and not dealt with… (more…)
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Looking Ahead at the Next 100 Years
/ Field Note
On this web site, you will begin to see posted what I’m calling “field notes.” These will form, in essence, a running record of the research and production activities for the films I’m making. They will be more along the lines of what is generally expected from a blog – often a personal perspective from a working journalist interested in finding and promoting the truth.
But let me backtrack for a moment, and explain a little more about the overall approach of The X-Journals, at least as it is currently presented.
The fundamental premise, of course, is that over the next 100 years, our society is going to change far more dramatically than any of us can really imagine at this point. The fundamental driver of that change will be science and technology, just as it has been for the last 100 years. Belief systems, politics, and even real, behind-the-scenes conspiracies all must adapt to new technological developments one way or another - which is why I consider these of secondary importance. It is what emerges from science and technological innovation into public hands that will most define the dimensions and character of the world our children and grandchildren inherit. (more…)
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