Reposted and revised version of the introduction to this idea for those who missed it.
I like to make correlations to pick threads of truth out of the noise. I believe I have found one that IMO seems to give an almost complete and certain engineerable Free Energy effect, I believe that unlike most Free Energy effects this one is robust and that most all of the necessary conditions for success are reasonably known. A long time ago, on a list I was on was this "crazy" guy named Joseph Hiddink, he made some wild claims about an electrostatic generator that didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time. However more recently I saw a correlation between Joseph Hiddink's claim and another device, namely Edwin Gray's conversion tube, however this correlation spread to 2 or 3 other devices. Ronald Stiffler of SEC fame was inspired by a post I made on the subject and attempted and reported succeeds in replication of the effect, He replicated Hiddinks pulse effecting electronics and even reported getting excess energy out of it. So what is the effect? The effect is very easy to explain on a basic level, as most anyone reading this should be able to appreciate the capacity of a 2 plate parallel capacitor is greater than the capacity of a single terminal capacitor of similar size. Electrostatic induction machines work by charging a parallel plate capacitor to a low voltage, the plates are then separated reducing the capacity which causes the voltage and energy on the capacitor to raise dramatically, of course you had to do work against the electrostatic field to pull the plates apart. The method involved here is to turn a 2 terminal capacitor into a one terminal capacitor, to do this one terminal (plate, cylinder) is metal but the other is a thread of plasma, an arc, once you stop the plasma (arc) it collapses and that plate no longer exists, the voltage and energy on the remaining metal terminal is raised significantly. Ok, that is how Hiddink explains his device, he has made it and reports others who have, and of course Stiffler more recently did so too. see his patent here: http://www.rexresearch.com/hiddink/hiddink.htm But before we get any further I am not going to insult your intelligence, not everything is yet solved, there were charges on the plasma, when the plasma stopped being a plasma what happened to these charges? Well the good news is that if you do it right they don't just stay in the gas. Hiddink reported killing electronics in the area, And actually I just replied to someone who tested a Gray tube who reported killing a whole pack of distant diodes. And it is well known that Tesla Coils can charge distant metal in the lab despite being run in a fully AC mode, this charge in instant and penetrates insulation. Tesla of course reported shock waves being issues from wires and arcs on making and breaking circuits, he could feel a stinging effect and it would create a radiant charging effect on distant metals. BRSF shows this charging effect in action in one of their videos. It is worth noting that Stiffler found that a very sudden collapse was required to get the pulse, the plasma had to be collapsed by disconnection at both ends in his tests. But I bet you want more evidence. Well what if JLN successfully replicated this and got overunity results? Better yet what about a patent where JLN is a coinventor: http://www.google.com/patents?q=10%2F472%2C714&btnG=Search+Patents They use the Hiddink effect (and admit to such) to gain overunity operation. They charge plates and plasma tubes as a capacitor, shut off the plasma and use the energy in the capacitor. Ok, want another? How about Imris Pavel: http://www.rexresearch.com/imris/imris.htm Here too if the name didn't give it away "Optical Electrostatic Generator" we have a capacitance between an arc that is made and broken and an outer capacitor termed an "absolute condenser", an electrical oscillation takes place between the plasma and this outer condenser, this is the same effect and again overunity operation is achived. There may be another example. Though the workings of the Testatika are not fully known, Paul Baumann gave this hint about the function fof his generator: Mr.*Paul Baumann* claims, its running principle was found by studying the *lightning* effects from nature. Hmmm, well we have a Whimhust style style electrostatic generator, it makes sense that it must discharge and how can a device be based on the effects of lightenibng if the device does not even involve the small scale version of lightening? Those metal cylinders with the holes in them however are perfect as the outer capacitor plate if an arc is hidden inside, let me explain why. We know that charges, Ok I'm going to assume it's really only electrons that are sprayed around, are released from plasma (perhaps wire too) in a way that seems both not as deadly as normal beta radiation and yet far more rapid than ion wind, it seems they can pass through metal indeed Tesla observed such however they are also deposited on metal too, so we want the metal capacitor plate/cyljnder (terminal) to miss as much of this as possible and so the best form is a grid which is what Gray used, this added with the Faraday cage effect ensures that his grid will avoid interaction with the majority of escaping electrons. We see that the metal cylinders full of holes that the Testatika employs would be ideal. So we have a conventional effect which without a doubt is real, lower capacity = more energy. A very well observed "fringe" effect of charges being projected from a collapsing plasma, Tesla, BSRF, and most anyone who ever used a Tesla coil can verify that. We have 4 people who thought the effect was worth patenting, all except for Hiddink reported it as being over unity. (Hiddink's setup is not designed to generate usable power) There are a number of important points, minutia about getting the effect that Stiffler has shared. Oh, and Stifflers video (one of 2 related to the effect) is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR1KOy0hbuM&NR=1 Note, the 3rd video it likely an unrelated effect. Ok, there is one last issue, since I tend to believe that success is more probable with a negatively charged arc and Edwins arc would be charged positively based on his patent and the location of the resistor, this resistor BTW is required to charge the plasma (arc) and it is reported no energy is generated without it. Anyway it well known that Edwin was extremely secretive, he would disassemble everything and mix up real and junk parts, he would never trust anyone with all of it. I believe that he reversed the polarity in the patent, I believe evidence of this exists in bedini's drawing of the Gray's tube, he witnessed it many times in the late 70's and 80's drawing several diagrams over the years now posted on keelynet, in ALL of these he consistently drew one the main blocking diode the wrong way round, well either he made a consistent mistake or he simply drew what he saw copying the symbol printed on the diode. I tend to think the latter is more likely than making the same mistake again and again. Either way there is now enough other supporting evidence to accept this besides Edwin Gray's tube but it makes more sense of his tube than any other I have heard since there is a capaciror and transformer in series with the grid so any theory that uses it as a collector of a DC current as Peter Lindeman believes require more radical changes.
