Tesla | Bob Neal | Ron
Rockwell | Charles Brown
HEAT: Heat is available for free from environmental sources
like the Sun for heating water, building materials, or air. Heat
can also be stored, or conserved, by using insulation methods. So,
it can be gathered when it is freely available and used when it is
needed. But Ambient Heat can also be used as an energy source.
In 1900, Nikola
Tesla described an invention to use the heat in the
ambient air to drive an engine to produce mechanical energy and refrigerated
air as a by-product. He called this invention his "Self-acting
Engine" because it could find the energy it needed to run anywhere.
On a warming planet, the heat available in the ambient air is the
ideal energy source.
In 1934, Bob
Neal demonstrated his compressed air engine/compressor
unit to the US Patent Office and showed it was possible to build
a heat engine that produced mechanical energy from the heat in the
ambient air. Circumstances prevented him from developing his technology,
but Bob Neal's success has been an inspiration to others for decades.
But even more
amazing methods of tapping energy from ambient heat have been developed.
In the 1960's, Haskell Karl was part of a project that produced a
jet-engine like device that ran on the heat of the ambient air moving
through it. Recently, Ron
Rockwell has been working to reproduce this air-turbine
Also in the
Brown was granted US Patent #3,890,161 for his ultimate
solid-state heat-to-electricity converter. His nano-diode array system
literally "rectified" EM energy waves in the infrared frequencies
producing DC electric power and cooling of the panel.
The idea that
useful energy cannot be extracted from the ambient air, water and
ground is wrong, and dozens of inventors have demonstrated otherwise.