FWIW, a quote from Bearden that might be a propos to the latter parts of this discussion:
Maxwell's equations (Heaviside version) do indeed allow open EM systems freely
receiving excess energy from their environment, and producing overunity. Such
systems can (1) self-oscillate, (2) self-organize, and (3) power themselves
while simultaneously powering a load.
There is no problem at all in extracting all the EM energy you wish from the
vacuum. Everything does that anyway! Our normal circuits only capture and
use about 10exp(-13) of the actual energy flow extracted from the vacuum by
the source dipole. Heaviside pointed out that most of the energy was just
wasted in nondivergent form. Lorentz impatiently formulated a procedure that
just discards all that 10exp13 component, leaving only the 10exp(-13)
component. That tiny little remaining "diverged" (collected) fraction is what
drives our circuits. Lorentz also taught us the completely stupid (from a
power system viewpoint) procedure of symmetrically regauging Maxwell-Heaviside
equations before we use them. In other words, he taught us to discard far
more systems -- all those that asymmetrically self-regauge so as to retain a
net force and be able to use that excess free energy in a load -- than he
retained. Since then, all our engineers have dutifully -- like good little
parrots -- applied those equations AFTER the Lorentz procedure has been
invoked.
Free energy experimenters always expected a conspiracy somewhere. It actually
was an innocent conspiracy originally. The old guys did it to ease the
solution of the equations mathematically. It appears that one or two later
realized what I speak of in this writeup. However, their controllers (the
financial end) in secret has had this kind of thing suppressed for decades.
Now you know the exact nature of the real conspiracy. It is innocent on the
part of the scientists for 99.9999% of the cases. It is not innocent at all
on the part of a very few powerful industrialists who know this and pass it
along.
Both the Russians (Moscow University) and the U.S. (Gabriel Kron for a
contractor in a Navy contract at Stanford University) made free energy devices
in the 1930s. The Russian work is fully documented in the hard Russian
physics literature and the French physics literature. The KGB/Communists
suppressed the Russian work at the beginning of WW II. I do not know what
happened in France to cause its abandonment. In the U.S., Kron's work was
never openly released on what he called his "negative resistor" which, when
connected to the Network Analyzer at Stanford, allowed the NA to be
disconnected from the generator because the negative resistor would power it.
See:
http://users.navi.net/~rsc/physics/beard24.txt