| Subject: RE: congratulations 
      for your work (from Belgium)  Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 12:30:47 -0500 
          
        Dear Christopher, 
          
        
        The many appeals I get 
        from interested young folks is precisely why I'm laboring to finish my 
        book and get it published and out there.  In the book, my target 
        audience is the sharp young graduate students and young post-doctoral 
        scientists.  My intention is to provide them with essentially everything 
        I have been able to discover in the last 30 years, so that they can 
        quickly reach where I am in understanding, and then go much farther. 
        
          
        
        To build a system 
        extracting EM energy from the vacuum is simple; the problem is in how to 
        intercept and catch the energy flow in a circuit, and then discharge 
        that energy into a load to power it. 
        
          
        
        For example, charge a 
        parallel plate capacitor, and lay it on a permanent magnet so that the 
        E-field of the capacitor is at right angles to the H-field of the 
        magnet.  One has therefore maximized E X H, which is the Poynting energy 
        flow.  Even the conventional electrical engineering texts begrudgingly 
        admit that this simple gadget will sit there and pour out EM energy in 
        all directions.   Then, of course, some remark is made to dispose of 
        that situation, such as "The theory indicates that the crossed E and H 
        fields are the seat of an energy flow, even though all fields are 
        static. 
        
          
        
        They do not wish to 
        have to try to explain what inputs the energy to the contraption, and in 
        what form, and from what source.  So they just leave it as an "unsolved 
        and abandoned problem".  That is exactly where the young student must 
        start, because it grasps the entire problem in a nutshell. 
        
          
        
        Anyway, building the 
        MEG is quite complex, even though it "looks simple".  It isn't.  There 
        are four areas of physics involved, in addition to electrodynamics. 
        
          
        
        My advice is to keep 
        all this in mind as you continue in school.  About the time you finish 
        your sophomore courses in university, you will then begin to see many 
        things that open to you for experimenting, once you understand that the 
        energy is coming from the vacuum, not the generator or the battery. 
        
          
        
        Best wishes, 
        
        Tom Bearden 
        
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