David Hamel was a fiercely independent, obstinate, rough-edged, generous, tough and brave man. He spent the past three decades building models of an advanced technology he was shown in 1976 or so, but the only time he achieved “lift-off” was many years ago in Maple Ridge, BC. At that time an unmanned disk that he had built — and set into oscillation — suddenly built up an ionized glow around itself and shot up into the sky, never to be seen again. David was ticked off because there went all his savings — all the magnets he had bought and the careful machining work…

He so very much wanted to give humankind a source of truly clean energy technology and propulsion. Will anyone carry on his experiments? As far as I can find out, no one in his family is particularly interested in what he was doing. An all-too-common situation. The papers and prototypes just get tossed aside.

I’ll be sending flowers to McConnell Funeral Home in Medoc, Ontario (ph 613-473-2833 if you want to do the same), but I won’t be able to attend the memorial at the cemetery at Gilmore, Ontario, on Saturday October 6.

Happy journeys, dear David, and give your Nora our love as you two souls reunite.

In short, Nick and his wife Shelagh are great to work with; when Nick and I co-authored Angels Don’t Play This HAARP in 1995, the brilliant flashes of humor sustained me with a generous daily quota of laughs, the best way to keep our spirits up for the task.

Now he’s the executive director of a Texas-based foundation funded by Dorothy Lay (yes as in Frito-Lay munchies). It allows him to continue researching, writing books, bringing independent scientists together in thinktanks — and have time to do an internet-based radio show about Changing The Way We Live. He believes in empowering the citizens of our planet with information about new technologies — before those technologies can be mis-used by whomever wants to control humankind.

Did you enjoy the Bob Teal story that science researcher Dr. Peter Lindemann dug up? I retold a bit of it to draw attention to Peter’s informative new DVD “Electric Motor Secrets”. His DVD is a more-than-two-hour course on the secrets of the electric motors of our future. You can order it from Lindemann’s website www.free-energy.ws.

(more…)

Near the leading edge of well-known energy technology, the landscape is increasingly dotted with inventions - from solar-electric breakthroughs to new hydrogen-generating alternatives. I’m pleased that Doug Kenyon asked me to write this column regularly, to bring you some of the exciting news from that landscape. And beyond.

(more…)

One night a decade ago, I was in Calgary’s Centre for Positive Living. The conference room was packed with well-dressed men and women who each cheerfully paid $35 to hear an American space scientist talk about his latest book. The author, Brian O’Leary, had earned a Ph.D. in astronomy and now held their rapt attention with anecdotes of his odyssey. He’d journeyed from the excitement of the NASA astronaut program in the 1960s and teaching physics in Ivy League universities to Exploring Inner and Outer Space – the title of one of his books.

The audience’s mood shifted, however, when O’Leary said that independent inventors and theorists proved it’s possible to tap the underlying “zero-point energy” of the space that surrounds us, for generation of electricity. He asked rhetorically, “Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have to drill for oil anymore?”

Silence. Bewilderment.
(more…)

The two Russian scientists were in for a surprise when they set up their experiment in a high-ceilinged concrete laboratory. They had built a meter-wide energy converter whose rotating part carried magnetic rollers similar to those built by John Searl, a British inventor. They wanted to test Searl’s claims to have had a flying disc and a generator that converted energy from surrounding space into electricity. With a special non-magnetic platform underneath, the Russians’ total apparatus weighed 350 kilograms.

When they sped the rotor up to 200 revolutions-per-minute (rpm), instruments showed the platform rising slightly on its vertical slides. Weight loss! At 550 rpm the ampmeter in the motor circuit showed zero current being consumed. Using clutches, they disconnected the motor and connected the generator to the converter’s shaft. After the shaft reached a critical speed of 550 rpm, the rotor accelerated sharply. The machine was running itself! It didn’t slow down until they connected the first of ten kilowatt-heating-units as a load.

The strangeness escalated. In an experiment in the dark, they saw a donut-shaped pink-and-blue light around the machine and smelled ozone from ionization of the air. A wavy pattern corresponding to the surface of the rollers was superimposed on the corona. Zones of yellowish-white light appeared, but there were none of the crackling sounds that usually accompany electrical arc discharges.
(more…)

A high-ranking journalist risked his career by probing a taboo topic - one isolated by fear and ridicule. Defence journalist Nick Cook of London kept encountering questions about hidden developments in energy and propulsion. Had the Pentagon buried something real for half a century, some knowledge that could free us to explore the stars?

In seeking answers, Cook had to look at the 1940s importation of German scientists into what became the American military-industrial “black world”. In these projects, National Security is the excuse to pour billions of dollars into secret compartments of the military without allowing outsiders - including legislators or presidents - to know what is built with the money. The deep black world is buried so far from accountability, it’s as if it doesn’t exist.

Cook concluded that by the 1950s the U.S. was seriously working on “electrogravitics”, a science that looks for the source of gravity and how to control it. If something could indeed lift and propel vehicles without wings or thrust, where would the energy come from?
(more…)

The mystery in the Alvord desert hit TV newscasts years ago, but the story behind it contains ideas whose time may have come. Since ancient times, art has been a doorway to other levels of life. Could art now assist us toward a more harmonious level? The untold story sparks such questions.

An Air National Guard reconnaissance pilot flying over a remote part of the southeast-Oregon desert in September of 1990 spotted a huge, perfectly-made geometric design on an old lake bed. Experts identified it as a Sri Yantra, symbol for the mother spirit of nature, venerated in India. This was the first time it had been drawn at a scale of nearly one-quarter-mile across. A closer look showed no tire tracks or footprints, so some excitedly claimed that aliens made it. Newspapers from coast to coast carried aerial photos, and television stations beamed it to the world.
(more…)