Alternative Sources of Clean,
Free Energy Are Available But We Can't Have It
Several years back, when I was a young and eager
reporter operating a news bureau in Michigan's Sanilac
County, I met an amazing man named Vernon Trigger who
claimed to have found a source of clean, free energy.
Trigger was in his twilight years when I knew him. He
said he was fighting a losing battle with the big
energy companies that were blocking efforts to get his
discovery marketed. He was attempting to write a book
about his discovery. Being careful not to reveal his
secret, he gave me a limited version of his story. I
was surprised after writing the piece when my
newspaper, a member of the all-power Gannett chain,
refused to print it.
Although he lacked the title of "Ph.D." in front of
his name, I was convinced that Vernon Trigger was not
a fake. He was a genius who accomplished more than 20
"specialists" might achieve in a lifetime. He grew up
during the early years of radio, helped develop the
first ship-to-shore radio communication system and
worked with Westinghouse in developing the first
commercial radio transmission towers. During World War
II, when gasoline was being rationed, Trigger invented
a carburetor that allowed automobile engines to run on
methane gas. He studied architecture and designed a
few homes (including his own) that rivaled the work of
Frank Lloyd Wright. Before he retired he worked with
the government in the development of nuclear energy.
When I met him, Trigger had a team of people working
in a laboratory in the basement of his house. He did
not disclose to me the source of his energy discovery,
but he assured me that it was readily available all
around us. He even gave me a few demonstrations by
sending light jolts of energy through my body from
across the room. He implied that he had stumbled on a
secret that Nicola Tesla knew, and understood why
Tesla believed it possible for everybody to have free
and natural energy to heat their homes and turn on
lights without having to buy power sent to our homes
on wires.
Trigger said he was being blocked by the same kind of
industrial greed that went to great lengths to stop
Tesla. There was just too much money to be lost if
people ever learned Tesla's secret. They could have
all of the natural energy they needed without having
to pay for it.
I have a feeling that these sources of energy were
known to people like Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan and
Thomas Edison during the years when steam, gasoline
and electric power systems were being developed. They
were kept secret because nobody could find a way to
profit from the sale of this kind of energy.
Electricity, which for years was an extremely
inexpensive form of energy, was made available only
because Tesla invented the concept of alternating
current. Edison had the idea of building electric
generating plants and sending juice down wires to
houses and industry, but he didn't have a workable
delivery system.
Now, thanks to the Internet, there are inklings that
inventors all over the world are discovering some of
the secret things that Tesla and Vernon Trigger knew,
but were prevented from making available to the world.
In Cairns, Australia, engineer John Christie and
electrician Lou Brits have applied for a patent on a
machine they say will use batteries and magnets to
provide years of enough free and non-toxic energy to
power a house.
Relying on the attraction and repulsion of internal
magnets, their machine, called the Lutec 1000,
operates continually on a pulse-like current after it
is kick started from a battery source. The machine is
more than 500 percent efficient. The inventors say it
is almost a perpetual motion machine but for the fact
that the battery pack must be replaced once every five
years.
They hope to sell the machine for under $5,000.
I am not going to hold my breath on this one. Small
businessmen with great inventions like this have been
getting bought (swallowed up) by the big power
interests for years. Trigger told me about a friend of
his that developed a working solar cell during the
depression years, sometime in the early 1930s. The
patent was bought by a major electric company and
never seen again.
My wife's brother, Wayne, once bought a new Ford
pickup truck. It had a big V-8 engine, back in the
days when gasoline was cheap and trucks averaged about
15 miles to the gallon. Wayne noticed that this
particular truck seemed to go a long way on a tank of
gasoline so he started calculating the distance he
could go on a gallon of fuel. He was shocked to
discover this particular truck was averaging about 50
miles on a gallon, something unheard of at the time.
Wayne loved that trick and drove it for several years.
He was a back-yard mechanic and did his own
maintenance. One day, he said he removed the
carburetor for cleaning, and accidentally damaged it.
He had to buy a new carburetor. After that, the truck
averaged only 15 miles to the gallon, just like
everybody else's truck.
What was different about the original carburetor in
Wayne's truck? Did he actually buy a truck with one of
those fabled "experimental" carburetors mistakenly
installed? That I knew a man who could give me a
first-hand account of having owned such a vehicle was
evidence to me that carburetors existed years ago that
were capable of delivering exceptional gas mileage
with those old and powerful V-8 engines we used to
love.
The 1970's "fuel crisis" was a scam designed to force
fuel prices up and put bigger profits in the pockets
of the energy giants. I suspect the move to force
automobile manufacturers to shift to smaller, fuel and
energy-efficient engines also was part of the scam.
The price of cars more than doubled after that and we
bought that lie, hook-line-and-sinker.
Some might say the business is business and that we
enjoy our cars, electronic devices and comfortable
home heating and cooling systems because the people
who developed them were motivated by profit.
This is true. But the system we developed, all of it
dependent on the burning of fossil fuels, has
destroyed the natural ecological balance of nature,
poked giant holes in our protective ozone layer, and
now threatens the future existence of all life on this
planet. In the long run, we are going to all have to
admit that we took a wrong turn sometime around 1890
and followed an industrial path into self destruction.
Visit the author's web site at www.jamesdonahue.com
or contact him at jdona@lighthouse.net
