Free energy suppression conspiracy theory

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Free energy suppression (or new energy suppression) is a conspiracy theory that technologically viable, pollution-free, no-cost energy sources are being suppressed by governments, corporations, or advocacy groups.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=Milbank>Template:Cite news</ref> Devices allegedly suppressed include perpetual motion machines, cold fusion generators, torus-based generators, reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology, anti-gravity propulsion systems, and other generally unproven or physically impossible, low-cost energy sources.<ref name=Milbank /><ref name="Thrive Torus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Point">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Claims

The alleged suppression (or weakening) of the technology is claimed to have occurred since the mid-19th century<ref name=autogenerated6>Template:Cite book</ref> and allegedly perpetrated by various government agencies, corporate powers, special interest groups, and fraudulent inventors. The special interest groups are usually claimed to be associated with the fossil fuel or nuclear industry,<ref name="Jaco">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=Smith>Template:Cite journal</ref> whose business model would be threatened.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Ballonoff">Template:Cite book</ref>

Claims of suppression include:

• The claim that the scientific community has controlled and suppressed research into alternative avenues of energy generation via the institutions of peer review and academic pressure.<ref>Phenomenon Archives: Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion. Channel One. (video)</ref>
• The claim that devices exist which are capable of extracting significant and usable power from pre-existing unconventional energy reservoirs, such as the quantum vacuum zero point energy, for little or no cost, but are being suppressed.<ref name="Alison">David Alison (1994), "Another free-energy cover-up?: The Dennis Lee Story", Nexus, (June–July 1994)</ref><ref name="Frissell">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Mad">Template:Cite book</ref>
• The claim that related patents have been bought up, such as those for 100 mpg carburetors.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Some people who have been claimed to be suppressed, harassed, or killed for their research are Stanley Meyer,<ref name="Narciso">Template:Cite news</ref> Eugene Mallove,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Nikola Tesla.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Free energy proponents claim that Tesla developed a system (the Wardenclyffe Tower) that could generate unlimited energy for free. His system was only intended to transmit energy for free; the system's energy would still need to be generated through conventional means.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Proponents of the conspiracy theory include Gary McKinnon, a Scottish computer hacker who unlawfully accessed computer systems to look for evidence of a secret free energy device.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Followers of the Tartaria conspiracy theory believe an advanced civilization called Tartaria destroyed by a "mud flood" now covered up by the world's governments once had free wireless energy.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

See also

• Disclosure (ufology)
• Gravitational energy
• Invention Secrecy Act
• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
• Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact

Further reading

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