Joel Lagacé
Revealing the Hidden Physics of Free Energy
Revealing the Hidden Physics of Free Energy
Instead of yanking current from a source, we first accumulate electric pressure (high voltage at negligible current). A capacitor is charged from open environmental inputs—static accumulation, RF harvesting, earth batteries, or similar. The capacitor is not treated as a current bucket but as a stable reference potential well. The prime directive is simple: do not collapse the well. Preserve that pressure as a reference you can “tap” later through high-impedance gating.
Rather than discharging the capacitor into a load, we open a very high-Z path for tiny, sharp, high-voltage pulses using a spark gap, SCR/STR, or a fast transistor topology. These pulses carry high potential and minimal charge. They do not “feed” a load directly; they excite an intermediate resonant structure. By metering potential through a needle-valve of impedance, the well remains deep while still seeding the next stage with the kind of impulses that matter at resonance.
The intermediate stage is an air-core transformer tuned to high-Q resonance. With no ferromagnetic core, we avoid saturation and hysteresis losses. In this regime the device behaves less like a power transformer and more like an RF cavity: a place where energy oscillates as a magnetic standing wave. We are not chasing tight flux transfer; we are nurturing a persistent, low-loss, resonant field that can be sampled without dragging it down.
When the air-core is driven at its resonant frequency by high-voltage impulses, a coherent magnetic field builds. Loosely coupled secondaries—also tuned—do not “receive current” from a primary the way power transformers do. They sip energy from the resonant field, like antennas pulling energy from a broadcast. This is the magnetically resonant pathway described in the Don Smith tradition: energy couples out of the field because the field is coherent, not because a copper loop is being forced by a heavy current. The input pulses help sustain the resonance; the environment (and the standing field) do the rest.
With resonance established, we set up a strong artificial potential at the resonator output and reference it to a natural low potential—earth ground. The load is placed between these potentials. The field responds to that gradient: displacement currents and alignment effects appear, and current through the load is sustained by the field conditions, not by emptying the original capacitor. In other words, the load conducts between two potentials the system created and stabilized.
This is not a conventional transformer. The input capacitor is not being “depleted to feed the secondary.” The device behaves more like a radio transmitter and receiver: the coupling is through fields and resonance, not forced conduction. Power seen at the load is drawn from the resonant field supported by the potential well, not from a direct conduction loop to the source.
In high-frequency, high-Q work an air-core, loosely coupled transformer becomes an RF cavity or antenna system. Traditional engineers dislike leakage inductance and stray capacitance. We embrace them: they help decouple conduction while letting the field “ring.” That decoupling is where nonlinear field amplification and ambient (even zero-point) interactions can emerge.
A burst of pure potential into the air-core launches the system into the magnetic domain, where the only thing that matters is rate of change. At resonance even tiny pulses can maintain a large, coherent oscillation—effectively a “magnetic potential well.” Nearby tuned coils—or even antennas—can extract real wattage from this well without wrecking the original capacitor’s state.
The high-voltage node and earth form a gradient; the load sits between. Current through the load is a manifestation of displacement and polarization in response to that gradient. The source’s dipole is preserved because you never gave it a low-Z path to bleed into. You shaped a field condition and let the environment honor it.
The same pattern applies across domains—thermal, acoustic, mechanical, optical. Choose outputs that let nature amplify in its native mode. In EM systems, the rule is: keep high-Q and high-Z through every intermediate stage. Do not clamp waveforms to ground with ordinary PN junctions until the very last capture stage. Early low-Z “cleanup” kills the gain.
Directly cable-chaining inductors tends to collapse active dipoles. Transitions must be field-mediated through controlled high-Z gates. Spark gaps can do this (with their negative-resistance regimes and radiant behavior), but they’re fickle: gas, spacing, pressure, and pre-bias shift their operating zone. Conventional solid-state switches, used naively, enforce charge conduction and flatten the very asymmetries we need.
Rewire an NPN with the base shorted to the emitter. You’ve removed the usual control path and left a collector junction that behaves like a nonlinear, field-sensitive capacitor. It prefers dv/dt. It will “stretch” under voltage without instantly conducting; then, at a threshold, it avalanches for a nanosecond snap. That delay window lets field energy accumulate before any collapse—perfect for displacement charging, secondary triggering, and deep dipole alignment.
Compare this to a regular diode or normal BJT bias: those immediately clamp and conduct, enforcing a linear, lossy path. The shorted-base configuration is different by design; it acts as a field gate, not a current valve.
In Bearden-style models every EM signal carries both a forward wave and a time-reversed replica (TRW). In ordinary, symmetrical, low-Z circuits they cancel or average away. But in high-Q, high-Z, nonlinear conditions that cancellation can be prevented, allowing feedback that reinforces the dipole rather than exhausting it.
A self-oscillating flyback “Joule-Thief” can—by accident—produce the messy harmonic richness and phase jitter where this behavior peeks through. Close it conventionally with a direct load, and the effect disappears. Gate it through a nonlinear field device (e.g., the shorted-base BJT) and you can recycle potential without shutting the dipole. Symptoms include apparent reverse current in a high-Z path, LEDs glowing in “impossible” directions, and load activation that exceeds what the obvious DC numbers suggest.
The DC string is: Electret-A → bench supply → Electret-B (wired reverse). On paper it’s a loop; in practice it is practically current-starved because both electrets act like ultra-high-Z 1-volt capacitors. That starvation is the point: the bench supply’s dipole never collapses; the line carries a standing field you can nudge without draining it. The reversed electret does not “burn up” like a battery; it stores stress as field.
A tiny NPN with a center-tapped transformer sips only milliamps at high frequency. The iron core of T1 can’t follow the speed cleanly, so switch-off events spray ragged, high-voltage, low-charge bursts—perfect “outgoing” signals in Bearden’s language.
A second transistor with its base shorted to emitter sits so the T1 spikes land on its collector. With the control path disabled, the junction silently stretches to hundreds of volts, then snaps in a nanosecond avalanche. Because almost no supply charge crossed while it stretched, the snap is primarily a release of stored field tension—free to carry a phase-inverted signature.
T2 catches the snap and rings for microseconds, smoothing the raw spike into a compact pulse. A fast series diode makes the path one-way so nothing leaks back to collapse T1’s conditions. That shaped pulse lands first on the reverse side of Electret-B, briefly aligning with its natural orientation. In that instant, B lowers its impedance, absorbs the field without fighting it, and reproduces the stress on its other plate as a real, measurable current through the load across B.
Classic circuit theory frames everything as closed and tidy: energy in, energy out, losses accounted in copper and iron. But many real systems are open to their surroundings. Aerodynamics updated its thinking to explain bumblebee flight by acknowledging external inputs—turbulence, vortices, unsteady flow. Likewise, some EM systems should be modeled as open: interacting with ambient electrostatic gradients, the quantum vacuum’s fluctuations, resonant environmental couplings, and gravity-linked potentials.
Constructive next steps: explicitly model openness when you build, develop instruments to log subtle inputs (ambient potential changes, scalar-like gradients, anomalous coupling at resonance), use analogies (solar panels, sails, heat pumps) to normalize “external input” thinking, and—above all—publish repeatable, instrumented experiments with transparent energy accounting.