The Edwin Gray Mystery
My interest in Free Energy began in the summer of 1973 when I first picked up The National Tattler. In an article authored by reporter Tom Valentine, (Figure 1) the headline read: “Man Creates Engine That Consumes No Fuel; Invention Could Change History by 1984.”
Well, I was young and gullible but I'd sure never seen a newspaper headline like that before. The article went on to say:
A California inventor has found a way to create limitless electric power without using up fuel, potentially the greatest discovery in the history of mankind.
Edwin Gray, Sr., 48, has fashioned working devices that could power every auto, train, truck, boat and plane that moves in this land perpetually; warm, cool, and service every American home without erecting a single transmission line; feed limitless energy into the nation's mighty industrial system forever, and do it all with-out creating a single iota of pollution.
After several paragraphs devoted to such subjects as raising capital and bringing a working team together, the article continued to describe two very interesting tests which the writer had personally witnessed at Gray's laboratory in Van Nuys, California in the company of several other scientists:
The Tattler was given a thorough demonstration of Gray's “impossible but- true” methods for using electricity. The first demonstration proved that Gray uses a totally different form of electrical current - a powerful but “cold” form of the energy.
A 6 volt car battery rested on a table. Lead wires ran from the battery to a series of capacitors, which are the key to Gray's discovery. The complete system was wired to two electro-magnets, each weighing a pound and a quarter.
“Now if you tried to charge those two magnets with juice from that battery and make them do what I'm going to make them do, you would drain the battery in 30 minutes and the magnets would get extremely hot,” Gray explained.
“I want you to watch what happens.” As Fritz Lens activated the battery, a voltmeter gradually rose to 3,000 volts. At that point, Gray closed a switch and there was a loud popping sound. The top magnet hurled into the air with tremendous force and was caught by Richard Hackenberger.
A terrific jolt of electricity had propelled the top magnet more than two feet into the air -but the magnet remained cold. `The amazing thing,' Hackenberger said “is that only 1% of the energy was used - 99% went back into the battery.” Gray explained, “The battery can last for a long time because most of the energy returns to it.
The secret to this is in the capacitors and in being able to split the positive.” When Gray said “split the positive” the faces of two knowledgeable physicists skewed up in bewilderment.
(Normally, electricity consists of positive and negative particles, but Gray's system is capable of using one or the other separately and effectively.)
Tom Valentine then described the second demonstration as shown in the photograph in Gray showed this Tattler reporter a small 15-amp motorcycle battery.
It was hooked to a pair of his capacitors, which in turn were hooked up to a panel of outlets.
