As last as 2009, he claimed that development was 'on hold' pending the release of funds from the UN. However, Bearden never produced a prototype or commercial products based on it, nor had he ever did a public demonstration of the technology. In 2001, Bearden predicted that the first commercial products based on the MEG would be 'rolling off the production lines in about one year', and as early as 2002 claimed to have a prototype of the device that produced '100 times more power out than was input'. This has never been actually demonstrated in a controlled setting. It can allegedly sustain its operation, in addition to powering a load without application of external electrical power, by extraction of vacuum energy from the immediate environment. Over-unity claims Motionless electromagnetic generator īearden designed the Motionless electromagnetic generator (MEG), a proposed device which is most notable for claims of over-unity operation. These theories offered no concrete testable predictions, none have been published in independent, peer-reviewed physics literature, and Bearden himself had little formal training in physics. This group has published papers in established physics journals and in books published by leading publishing houses, but one analysis lamented these publications because the texts were 'full of misconceptions and misunderstandings concerning the theory of the electromagnetic field' and also states that 'existence of non transverse waves in vacuum does not imply that electromagnetism is not a U (1) gauge theory.' īearden supported his various claims with a wide range of crank theories, including the proposal that all electrical devices, from batteries to electromechanical generators, in reality operate on vacuum energy. īearden founded and directed the Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study (AIAS) to further propagate his theories. Science writer and skeptic Martin Gardner said that Bearden's physics theories, compiled in the self-published book Energy from the Vacuum, are considered 'howlers' by physicists, and notes that his doctorate title was obtained from a diploma mill. 2.1 Motionless electromagnetic generator.

Fer-de-Lance by Thomas E. Bearden