Possible connection to the old MRA2 device?

[eldarion]

Hi all,

I was doing a bit more digging in my spare time, and I came across this in the old MRA documents (emphasis mine):

Tapping A New Ambient Power Source By Resonant Ecitation ~

It has been discovered that an apparently hitherto unknown or unexploited source of ambient power exists everywhere on  earth (extrapolating from experiments in Atlanta, GA and Austin,  TX!)  and from which essentially "FREE" energy can be  extracted at almost no cost, merely by using  the Key Concept in the Wootan/McClain discovery, namely external  armonic excitation of a saturable core transformer, which causes it to act like an Antenna that extracts ambient energy in amounts 19 times or more than the energy required for the harmonic excitation. Indeed, the original MRA design continues to work and to exceed all original expectations.

In the MRA2 configuration, even when the piezoelectric capacitor has been removed and even when the primary resonant circuit has been cut, it still continues to produce verifiable output power! All that is required is a single wire from the AC Signal  Generator to the saturable-core transformer of the original MRA disclosure in order to cause useful power to be generated in the secondary circuit in amounts vastly greater than the power input from the harmonic Signal Generator.

This appears to be an electrical analogue of the chemical phenomenon of Catalysis, namely the periodic pulses of energy into the transformer 'catalyze' the transformer's nature so that it operates in an apparently hitherto never before seen mode, namely it behaves like a novel 'Antenna' which is extracting AMBIENT ENERGY from "somewhere"! It is not necessary to understand completely at this time what the source of Ambient Energy may be, in order to exploit the phenomenon in an environmentally benign way for the benefit of mankind.

Numerous maverick scientists and engineers have suggested that there may be hitherto unknown aspects of electromagnetic radiation not comprehended in the standard Maxwell's Equations, such as the controversial "scalar  waves" postulated by  retired Air Force Colonel Tom Bearden.

Retired physicist Greg Hodowanec, who duplicated the MRA independently after learning about it from the New Energy News newsletter, which reproduced the internet announcement of Wootan and McClain, suggests that the ambient energy  comes from the earth's gravitational field and is somehow being converted into electrical energy.

Former BYU professor of Physics & Astronomy, Dr. Bob Bass speculates that MRA2 (as was the original MRA1) may be somehow tapping the ambient electromagnetic energy known to exist in the Earth-Ionosphere Cavity in the form of Schumann  Resonances which are continually resupplied every time a lightning bolt from a cloud strikes the earth. "As explained in the Second Edition of Jackson's classical book on Electromagnetism, the great genius Nikola Tesla discovered the Schumann resonances experimentally 50 years before Schumann predicted them theoretically," says Bass, who adds that he once calculated that "every cubic meter of space near the surface of the earth contains on the order of one kilowatt of standing waves, similar to those in a microwave oven except at vastly reduced frequencies, which no one knows how to extract efficiently." Or do they? The late Utah inventor Moray, author of a book entitled "The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats", astounded famous scientists in the 1920s and 1930s with never-explained demonstrations of his ability to extract 3 kilowatts from 'nowhere' at will, anywhere (even randomly selected points in the desert), using his unexplained Moray Valve.   Moray submitted a Patent Application, but withdrew it and his secret died with him. Admirers of Moray point out that his  writings included the words "Germanium triode" decades before the Transistor was discovered by Bell Labs scientists (who won a Nobel Prize) and who had been directed into solid-state physics by the late Harvey Fletcher, who had earlier witnessed Moray's work and been shown every detail except the secret of the vest-pocket-sized Moray Valve.

A recent controversial theory of Austin Institute for Advanced Study physicist Hal Puthoff and his collaborators Haisch and Rueda appears to explain gravity as not an intrinsic property of matter but as an indirect consequence of Maxwellian electromagnetic radiation, namely that (as earlier suggested by the late Russian dissenter Sakharov) gravity is a "shadow  effect" similar to the accepted Casimir Effect of quantum electrodynamics. Bass points out that if the Haisch-Puthoff-Rueda theory is correct then Hodowanec's idea of tapping the earth's gravity field in some electromagnetic way not hitherto suggested is conceivable.

Whatever the Ambient Energy Reservoir into which the MRA is tapping, the novel phenomenon is real and deserving of exhaustive further investigation, according to elated inventors Wootan, McClain, Taylor and McCracken, who urge independent investigators to seek to replicate their discovery.

Now if that is coincidence, it is simply amazing!

Eldarion

[EMdevices]

Very Interesting Eldarion, very interesting!

If I remember correctly I tried to build one of these MRA2 devices back in college.  I used the labs sig gen and oscilloscope etc and witnessed the build up to resonance between the piezo and the coil and then the theory said to detune slightly and the phase between the current and voltage will adjust and power will start to flow out galore.  That's where I had some problems, never produced much power but the piezo was weird.  It's true that if you detune slightly it holds the resonant mode before it quickly snaps to another one.   I did sustain some hearing loss from all that high pitch sound 

Maybe I'll go read some more about it, thanks for posting.  I can see what attracted your attention, the pulse and core talk, interesting.

EM

[gn0stik]

So the problem with Wootan et al's discovery with the MRA is the same problem with Floyd Sweet's VTA. It requires the use of Barium Ferrite Magnets, which are simply not acquirable these days. Every replication that I have heard of has failed save for one. In that one exacting adherence to the original were observed. The average Joe simply cannot get their hands on some of these exotic materials, and hence cannot build these.

I have often wondered about the odd, and sudden disappearance of these magnets from the American and European markets. Odd, is that they are still used to this day for the study of electromagnetic phenomena in experiments performed by graduate level students and in working colleges, and govt. and corporate labs. However unless you can find some very old ferrite bar magnets from the days where they were the standard, you probably won't be successful.

The MRA2 is a bit more flexible, and can obviously be stripped down to the lowest common denominator and still work. However, the BaFe mag is still a primary component.

At any rate, this is slightly off track to the topic at hand.

@EM what type of mag were you using for your core?