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INSIGHTS INTO THE PROPRIETARY SYNDROME

By KEN MacNEILL

Cadake Industries
Winter Haven, Florida

PART I

To give you some background on myself, I have been interested in the
energy situation since I can remember.  I have built all kinds of
devices, solar energy panels, windmills, photovoltaic arrays, flywheel
devices, and also carburetors of which I will talk on Sunday.  In my
background I am an accomplished tool and diemaker, moldmaker, been
involved in Design Engineering for the past 12 years, primarily in the
automation area.

My first real involvement with other people in this alternate energy
area was at the Toronto Symposium in 1981 where I met George Hathaway as
well as over 100 other people that believe in the impossible according
to orthodox science.  Since that time I have made myself aware of just
about everything that is happening in this field, and believe me there
are some really fantastic things going on.  The rediscovery of some of
the technology that was lost in the past is finally coming to
realization, for instance the Tesla technology, the Hubbard device, the
Moray approach to tapping into the free energy supply that we're sitting
in without even knowing it.

A friend of mine gave me a real insight possibly without even knowing
it.  He said the problem could only be solved by just considering the
problem of weighing a glass of water at 500 feet under water.  Here you
are under water with a glass of water:  how do you weigh it???

The analogy is the same for us.  Here we sit in the vastness of the
cosmos on top of one of the biggest magnets known to us and we are like
the glass of water.  We are in the vast ocean of energy.  Look around us
and watch just the weather for instance, the next thunderstorm, think of
all the electrical potential being wasted.  That energy is there;  it is
very real.

Tom Bearden, one of our upcoming speakers, may have illustrated it quite
well by the bird sitting on top of the wire with 13,000 volts going
through it.  We all know that it could kill him but it doesn't.  I am
positive that within this group will be found the ways and means for making
the energy situation of the future change.

Now to the other side of this coin.  Why hasn't this technology been
allowed to become established?  We have to look at the 'profit motive'
involved.  If we have free energy, how will they charge for it?  What
will happen to the billions of dollars that the utilities and oil
companies and the government backing these establishments do if we can
give the people independence from the chains of having to pay for
energy?

One question that has been uppermost in my mind for the last year has
been the rhetoric given by our elected representatives about the energy
situation and the amount of money given to small researchers who could
possibly give us a viable approach to becoming energy independent.  Who
gets the government money??  Let me get a little audience participation
in the question.  How many of you have all the money you need for
research in the energy area?  Everyone who has please stand!!!!!  Now
let me mention a few of the names of the companies that get the money.
See if you recognize them:  Exxon, Gulf Oil, General Electric,
Westinghouse, TRW, Exide Storage Battery, all manufacturers or producers
of fossil fuel products.  We need to get away from the fossil fuels for
the future and get into something that can indeed give us a future
because we are rapidly depleting not only our natural resources but our
air and water.  All because of burning fossil fuels.  We fund our
universities and colleges in the most directed of ways.  If you want to
explore the possibilities in some some of the more esoteric areas, for
instance the ones you will be hearing about in the next three days,
there is no money for that.  WHY???  Because of the possibility that we
might succeed.  What would our government do if all the American people
could go back and forth to work, heat their homes, run their businesses
without paying taxes on gas and oil?  Consider the fact that all of the
gas stations would go out of business or would have to find other ways
of making money.  Many complimentary businesses would also fold.  But
alas, this is America.  What are we here for???  To perpetuate Big
Business, Big Government, or to advance toward the future, not expending
all of our natural resources but to save them to make the goods of the
future.  Coal and oil both can be used for making all kinds of things
besides fuels;  the list is endless.

It is my feeling that the technology may be already here and may have
been shown to the government.  It even may have been introduced to our
patent office and turned down.  Because as you know, there is no such
thing as a perpetual motion device.  And I agree with the premise
because forever is a long time.

But there are surely some of the devices or parts thereof that have been
introduced to the government or to big business in the past which have
been shelved.  Tesla's transmission device is a classic illustration
probably best known to this group.  What happened is that they removed
the money from him to do his research and effectively stifled this
remarkable man.  How many other times has it happened to someone not so
well known?  At this moment, there are over 3,000 devices or
applications in the patent office that have been branded as security or
put under wraps by the secrecy order, Title 35, U.S. Code (1952)
Sections 181-188.  What is security?  How is it defined?  I have had
many inventors or other scientists tell me that they did not want to
discuss their invention with me or others because they might lose it to
us or we might tell someone else before they got it onto the market.
Believe me, it won't get there by going through the patent process.  It
is my feeling that if such a device were introduced at this level, then
it would be put under the Secrecy Act.  I don't know that I am correct
in this assumption.  But I cannot imagine a government like ours wanting
to commit financial suicide.  So what better way than to brand something
as a secret?

I would like to read the Secrecy Order to you so that you may better
understand my concern.  Please pay close attention.  I think it is very
important.  To you or anyone!!!  Consider your receiving this:


SECRECY ORDER
(Title 35, United States Code (1952), sections 181-188)

NOTICE:  To the applicant above named, his heirs, and any and all
of his assignees, attorneys and agents, hereinafter designated
principals:

You are hereby notified that your application as above identified
has been found to contain subject matter, the unauthorized
disclosure of which might be detrimental to the national security,
and you are ordered in nowise to publish or disclose the invention
or any material information with respect thereto, including
hitherto unpublished details of the subject matter of said
application, in any way to any person not cognizant of the
invention prior to the date of the order, including any employee
of the principals, but to keep the same secret except by written
consent first obtained of the Commissioner of Patents, under the
penalties of 35 U.S.C. (1952) 182, 186.

Any other application already filed or hereafter filed which
contains any significant part of the subject matter of the above
identified application falls within the scope of this order.  If
such other application does not stand under a security order, it
and the common subject matter should be brought to the attention
of the Security Group, Licensing and Review, Patent Office.

If, prior to the issuance of the secrecy order, any significant
part of the subject matter has been revealed to any person, the
principals shall promptly inform such person of the secrecy order
and the penalties for improper disclosure.  However, if such part
of the subject matter was disclosed to any person in a foreign
country or foreign national in the U.S., the principals shall not
inform such person of the secrecy order, but instead shall
promptly furnish to the Commissioner of Patents the following
information to the extent not already furnished:  date of
disclosure;  name and address of the disclosee;  identification of
such part;  and any authorization by a U.S. government agency to
export such part.  If the subject matter is included in any
foreign patent application, or patent, this should be identified.
The principals shall comply with any related instructions of the
Commissioner.

This order should not be construed in any way to mean that the
Government has adopted or contemplates adoption of the alleged
invention disclosed in this application;  nor is it any indication
of the value of such invention.
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It is my feeling that something on the order of a so-called 'free energy
device' would receive this treatment.  My only approach would be to go
to the public domain.  That is, get the information or the device out
there to enough people that they could not stop you.  This group looks
like the best group to give this information to.  Hopefully it will
forthcoming in the next three days.

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Transcribed from:  PROCEEDINGS;  The Second International Symposium on
Non-Conventional Energy Technology, pp 125-126.

I have been told this was presented on September 23, 1983.

Contact Ken MacMeill at Cadake Industries, P.O. Box 1866, Clayton, GA
30525.

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From:    Ken Shirriff
Subject: Re: OIL BARONS SUPPRESS EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Organization: University of California, Berkeley
From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff)
Message-ID: okl0hINNk8u@agate.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic

In article <9202280004.AA08796@echidna.swdc.stratus.com>
lpb@stratus.swdc.stratus.com (Len Bucuvalas (408)559-5363) writes:
>At this moment, there are over 3,000 devices or
>applications in the patent office that have been branded as security or
>put under wraps by the secrecy order.

The easy way around this is to publish your invention first in a foreign
journal and then apply for a US patent less than a year later.  It worked
for RSA.

Ken Shirriff   shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU


From:    Gerry Roston
Subject: Re: OIL BARONS SUPPRESS EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU
From: gerry@cs.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Message-ID: GERRY.92Feb28123454@onion.cmu.edu
Reply-To: gerry@cs.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic

Two comments:
1-This article presented simple paranoia on the part of the author,
without presenting any technical information to show, or even explain,
how this free energy might be captured.
2-The author has no knowledge of simple physics.  A bird on a wire
does NOT have any appreciable voltage differential applied across its
feet.  Lightning would be almost impossible to capture because it can
not be predicted.