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From: zzbunker on 3 Sep 2009 00:21 On Sep 2, 2:08 am, gabydewilde <gdewi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Floyd Sweet - Solid-State Magnet Pioneer > by Jeane Manning > > "There is suppression launched against any free-energy inventor who > succeeds or is very close to succeeding." - Ret. Lt. Col. Thomas > Bearden Well, nobody said magnet researchers couldln't research, just that they'll probably have much more luck finding jobs rather with Quantum Mechanics Historians, rather than with engineers who work on Electronic Books, Light Sticks, Atomic Clock Wristwatches, Compact Flourescent Lighting, Multiplexed Fiber Optics, Cyber Batteries, Self-Assembling Robots, Self-Replicating Machines, GPS, Data Fusion, Micoromputers, Distributed Processing Software, Desktop Publishing, Holograms, Home Broadband, Lase Disk Libraries, HDTV, On-Line Publishing, UAVs, AAVs, Pv Cell Energy, Biodiesel, Flat Screen Software Debuggers, USB, Mini Harddisks, mp3, mpeg, PGP, Plexiglass, and Post GM nomics > > The late Floyd "Sparky" Sweet created a breakthrough magnetic > solid-state energy generator. For complex reasons, he did not develop > his device into a commercially viable product. However, as a magnetics > specialist with a distinguished industrial career, Sweet was not a man > whose technical claims could be easily dismissed by critics. > > Sweet's story is important for three reasons. First, creditable > witnesses saw his invention convert the invisible energy of space into > useable amounts of electric power without fuel, batteries, or > connection to an outlet. Second, he was subjected to the same kinds of > harassment that the inventors we met in Part I had to face, including > threats on his life. Third, and most important, Sweet's research has > inspired the work of other space-energy inventors, some of whom may > well produce a useful stationary-magn et device. > > FLOYD SWEET AND MAGNETS > > Floyd Sweet (1912-1995) grew up in Connecticut, in an era when radios > were home-built crystal sets. At the age of nine, his intense interest > in how things work was directed into building and disassembling radios > and other electrical apparatus, such as a small Tesla coil (see > Chapter 2) energized by a Model T spark plug. > > When Sweet was eighteen, a family friend helped him find work at the > nearby General Electric plant while he went to college. He got the > > nickname "Sparky" after he Disconnected some wires one day, which > resulted in an instrument exploding in a spectacular spray of sparks. > Despite this incident, his employers were pleased with his work > especially his intuitive gift for coming up with answers to electrical > problems. > > Sweet stayed with GE after completing his education. He worked in the > company's Schenectady, New York, research and development center from > 1957 to 1962 a dream job in which he could use a well equipped > laboratory to follow his hunches on intriguing magnetics projects. > That line of research fascinated him. In 1969, he obtained a master's > degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. > > By the mid-1970s, Sweet and his wife, Rose, had moved to the Los > Angeles area to enjoy semiretirement. Besides serving as one of GE's > preferred consultants, Sweet designed electric equipment for other > customers. > > Floyd Sweet was more than a professional scientist who worked with > magnets. He had a passion for magnetism, and for the concept that the > entire universe is permeated with a magnetic field. Once he fully > retired in the early 1980s, he would have happily spent many hours > each day building a device that could tap into the energy of that > magnetic field. But Rose fell ill, and was an invalid for the last > seven years of her life. This demanded Floyd's attention and forced > him to dip into their savings. He also ha d to cope with his own ill > health, including a period of near blindness. Despite these problems, > he worked on his device when not preparing meals and tending to his > wife's needs. > > SWEET'S VACUUM TRIODE AMPLIFIER: DEFYING CONVENTION > > For decades, new-energy researchers talked about the possibility of > treating a magnet so that its magnetic field would continuously shake > or vibrate. On rare occasions, Sweet saw this effect, called > self-oscillation, occur in electric transformers. He felt it could be > coaxed into doing something useful, such as producing energy. Sweet > thought that if he could find the precise way to shake or disturb a > magnet's force field, the field would continue to shake by itself. It > would be similar to striking a bell a nd having the bell keep on > ringing. > > As usual, Sweet-who said his ideas came to him in dreams turned for > inspiration to his expertise in magnets. He knew magnets could be used > to produce electricity, as we learned in Chapter 4, and wanted to see > if he could get power out of a magnet by something other than the > standard induction process. That process involves either moving a > magnet past a wire coil a coil of conductive wire, such as copper or > moving a coil through the field of a magnet. This changing magnetic > field causes an electric current to flow in the copper wire. > > What Sweet wanted to do was to keep the magnet still and just shake > > its magnetic field. This shaking, in turn, would create an electric > current. One new-energy researcher compares self-oscillation to a leaf > on a tree waving in a gentle breeze. While the breeze itself isn't > moving back and forth, it sets the leaf into that kind of motion. > Sweet thought that if space energy, discussed in Chapter 4, could be > captured to serve as the breeze, then the magnetic field would > serve as the leaf. Sweet would just have to supply a small amount of > energy to set the magnetic field in motion, and space energy would > keep it moving. > > By 1985, he had come up with a set of specially conditioned magnets, > wound with wires. To test his device, Sweet discharged a current into > the wire coil around the magnet. As a result, the coil disturbed the > magnet's field. It was as if Sweet had snapped the magnet's Held out > of position to set it in motion. Sweet then connected a twelve-volt > lightbulb the size used in flashlights to the coil. If the device was > producing electricity, the bulb would light. > > The results were more than Sweet expected. A surge of power came out > of the coil and there was a bright flash from the bulb which had > received so much power that it melted. Years later, Sweet remembered > that Rose had seen the flash and called out, "What did you blow up > now?" > > The inventor was baffled by the dazzling flash of light why so much > energy? He returned to his workbench to make further models. Needing a > theory to explain his startling discovery, he remembered hearing about > Thomas Bearden, retired Army officer and nuclear physicist, and John > Bedini, an electronics expert, on a local radio show. Sweet called > Bedini, who arranged for Bearden to visit Sweet. > > Bearden saw the curious device pull nearly six watts of electric power > out of the air with only a tiny fraction of a watt going into the > machine. Bearden ran tests to his heart's content, and was delighted > to see a little unit embodying the unorthodox concepts that he had > written about over the years, the concepts behind space energy. He > called Sweet's assembly of magnets and wire coils the Vacuum Triode > Amplifier (VTA). Bearden decided that the device was serving as a gate > through which energy from space w as being herded into a electric > circuit. > > The most amazing aspect of Sweet's device was that it put out so much > more power than it took in. How much more? In a 1988 model, Sweet > found that 330 microwatts 330 one-millionths of a watt of input power > made it possible for the VTA's wire coils to put out more than 500 > watts of usable energy, or about one and a half million times the > input power. > > The VTA's Special Effects and Difficult Development > > The VTA turned out to have some very odd effects, but Bearden's > research background prepared him for that. So in 1987, Bearden asked > Sweet to perform an antigravity experiment. Bearden calcu1ated that > the six-pound machine would levitate when about 1,500 watts of power > were drawn out of it, but that the magnets might explode at about the > same power level. He warned Sweet to limit the output to no more than > 1,000 watts. A VTA would be placed on a scale so that its weight could > be carefully monitored while it was hooked up to a box of lighibulb > sockets. Screwing bulbs int o the sockets would draw off the power. > > About a week later, Sweet excitedly read off results over the phone to > Bearden who was home in Alabama as Sweet screwed in ten 100-watt > bulbs, one at a time. The device gradually lost weight until it was > down to 90 percent of its original weight. For safety reasons, Sweet > and Bearden stopped the experiment before the device could begin to > hover or fly. > > Why did the VTA lose weight? According to Bearden's theory, gravity > becomes a pushing force rather than a pulling force under certain > conditions. Bearden also says that space energy has a pressure, > referred to as energy density. If the pressure above an object is > decreased while the pressure under the object is increased, the object > will be drawn upwards. The VTA may have changed the energy density by > drawing on space energy. > > The technology could sometimes do spooky things. Walter Rosenthal of > California, a test engineer who has helped many struggling inventors > test their devices, recalls an incident that Sweet had told him about. > The incident occurred while Sweet was trying to document his > > antigravity experiment: > > "The machine's weight was observed [to be] decreasing with an > increased > load [of lighibulbs], in a quiet orderly fashion, until a point was > suddenly reached when Floyd heard an immense sound, as if he were at > the center of a giant whirlwind but without actual air movement. The > sound was heard by Rose in another room of their apartment and by > others outside the apartment." > > This experience has been confirmed by a Canadian space-energy > researcher, who heard a similar whirlwind sound during one of his > experiments. > > Another unusual effect of Sweet's VTA was the fact that it produced > cold, instead of the heat usually generated by electric equipment. The > inside of the VTA was as much as twenty degrees cooler than the > surrounding air. The greater the load put on the device, the cooler it > became. When VTA wires were accidentally shorted out, they flashed > with a brilliant burst of light, and were found to be covered with > frost. One time, a brief contact with the equipment froze some of > Sweet's flesh, causing him pain for ab out two weeks afterward. > > Sweet discovered other interesting effects. But development of the VTA > was slowed by trouble with materials and processes, and by financial > entanglements. Sweet had to find magnets that could hold the > self-oscillation effect. That required ... > > read more »
From: Benj on 9 Sep 2009 01:13 On Sep 2, 12:49 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:28:36 -0700 (PDT), gabydewilde > >It is fascinating what crazy things people believe in. > > We can sure agree on that. > > When you get one of those free-energy gadgets working, let us know. Fer sure. And we'll send the CIA around to gather it and you up for "testing".
From: John Larkin on 9 Sep 2009 11:27 On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:13:36 -0700 (PDT), Benj <bjacoby(a)iwaynet.net> wrote: >On Sep 2, 12:49�pm, John Larkin ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:28:36 -0700 (PDT), gabydewilde > >> >It is fascinating what crazy things people believe in. >> >> We can sure agree on that. >> >> When you get one of those free-energy gadgets working, let us know. > > >Fer sure. And we'll send the CIA around to gather it and you up for >"testing". > > Cool. I've always wanted to ride in a black helicopter. John
From: John Larkin on 9 Sep 2009 11:29 On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:18:23 -0700 (PDT), Benj <bjacoby(a)iwaynet.net> wrote: >On Sep 2, 10:20�am, John Larkin ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:08:38 -0700 (PDT), gabydewilde > >> >"There is suppression launched against any free-energy inventor who >> >succeeds or is very close to succeeding." - Ret. Lt. Col. Thomas >> >Bearden >> >> ... and it's called Conservation of Energy. > >Bearden may be a major shill, but obviously you know nothing about >this subject. Does zero point energy ring a bell? No, it takes actual energy to ring a bell. That's because the bell will radiate sound, which is energy, which is conserved. John
From: Rich the Philosophizer on 9 Sep 2009 16:05
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:18:23 -0700, Benj wrote: > On Sep 2, 10:20�am, John Larkin >> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:08:38 -0700 (PDT), gabydewilde > >> >"There is suppression launched against any free-energy inventor who >> >succeeds or is very close to succeeding." - Ret. Lt. Col. Thomas >> >Bearden >> >> ... and it's called Conservation of Energy. > > Bearden may be a major shill, but obviously you know nothing about this > subject. Does zero point energy ring a bell? That sure blows your > "conservation of energy" "proof" all to hell. I first heard of Bearden and his "zero point generator" decades ago. In fact, the concept is so popular, it's used on Stargate Atlantis. But if it's possible, howcome he hasn't demonstrated anything? I'm not ruling out the concept of "zero-point" energy - after all, where did the Universe come from in the first place? But I think that until we learn to heal our denials, we'll never find it, and when we do, the Earth will have already been transformed into the REAL Garden of Eden. http://www.godchannel.com Hope This Helps! Rich |