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From: jeff@isi-vaxa.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Joseph Newman's Energy Machine
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 19:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 19:04:00 1985
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From:  jeff@isi-vaxa.ARPA (Jeffery A. Cavallaro)

An opinion from someone with an incomplete EE background:

The description given of the large "energy machine" sounds like some
sort of flyback transformer or some mechanism that harnesses voltage
reflections.  Using such schemes, it is possible to take a relatively
small input voltage and produce high voltages.

The trick is in the current draw.  I find it significant that he used
inert-gas type lighting devices to display his machine.  Such devices
present a near infinite load resistance to the system, and even with
the high voltages, will draw little current.  When using small flashlight
batteries, the main factor is the current draw, not the produced voltage.

If this is the case, nothing startling is going on.  I agree with the
response.  Let us see a microwave oven or TV fired up with this thing.

Again, my background is not complete, so this response is subject to
correction by those more in-the-know...

					Jeff