FORTEAN TIMES UNCONVENTION 1996

Inventions are protected by patents. Corporations do not want to accept confidential information. One cannot knock on a door without a patent application. A patent is a public record.

Not repression:

In 1955 Aspden was working for an engineering company. He was offered an invention by an inventor who had letters signed by Einstein, Planck and Heisenberg. His invention was a perpetual motion engine to replace diesel engines. But it did not work. The inventor had forgotten something and deceived himself. Policy was not to argue with an inventor about the merits of the work. He received simply a letter of refusal. Therefore, it looked as if the invention was repressed.

Aspden’s interest in energy future:

He had done a PhD in magnetism at Cambridge and discovered an anomaly in transformers. 30 years later he realized that heat produced through metal in a magnetic field was regenerating electricity. He was led to believe in an aether. He wrote a book on it, showing how Einstein’s physics could be explained in another way. In other words, he was not accepting relativity.

The cycle:

Investment in research - technology - protection - manufacture - production - sales - profits - investment again. This means that companies are normally not interested in inventors coming off the street. They have their own research facilities.

Conventional energy sources: wood, coal, gas, nuclear fission, hot fusion??, solar power, windmills.

Unconventional: Tesla, Coler, Correa, Lambertson, Patterson, Inomata etc.

Repression example #1:

1931 Tesla’s magnetic engine allegedly ran on no fuel. The enduction motor. An electric car with no fuel that went to 90mph. 12 vacuum tubes and 2 rods. Did it really work? The technology is lost. Moray (sp?) allegedly did the same thing and his work was also lost. Is this because inventors are secretive?

Repression example #2:

Hans Coler: In government files there was a secret intelligence report on his invention. He allegedly produced electricity with no power. A senior British scientist and Norwegian army scientists went to see him. They brought the required wire and 6 cast metal magnets themselves. In the British intelligence committee report (BIos Kinal Report no.1043 item no.31) it says that the gaps between the magnets had to be adjusted sensitively before power was produced. The Coler situation is repression under government secrecy.

Repression example #3:

Cold fusion: March 1989. Aspden heard the news. (Aspden had retired in 1983 and got established at Southampton University working on research he’d begun in 1969 to do with deuteron not containing any neutrons). Has the invention been repressed? The patent on it was rejected in the United States. So Aspden made something based on it. This patent was rejected because the Wall Street Journal said cold fusion was not possible.

Repression example #4:

If inventors employed by corporations invent something that the employer does not want, they cannot get it patented by their boss and would be wasting company time, even if they had it released.

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