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and an inventor himself, and the other was an ex-Boeing plant himself. He tried to convince one of the scientists to move to supervisor who had been an electrical engineer for 40 years. They Boston and work with him, but the man himself had been bumed each independently confirmed that the concept was sound. A so badly by the government that he had to think long and hard demonstration was put together to prove the concept worked. about it. Finally the scientist agreed, but he insisted that if Lee Dennis wrote letters to the Department of Energy and every wanted to work with him he would have to come to California. Congressman in Washington to explain his discovery and invite Dennis Lee, more determined than ever, left for California, not them to a demonstration of ‘free electricity’. He wrote a letter to knowing at the time that Ventura, California, was big oil country. President Carter, the ‘environ- Dennis set up a research lab in 7 7 nel . oa i mental President’ who was Ventura, and the scientist he'd openly encouraging research come to California to work with into renewable energy sources was the head of research. to prevent the impending ener- Others joined them, The cre- ey — looming dsr rg In January of 1988, without notice or —_ - & Lima? si. called newspapers, ines, . ive: who w radio ea, TV ne pro. Warning, 13 armed, bulletproof-vested nicknamed "the father of the grams, and invited them all to a 4 4 HH Boeing 747"; the man who demonstration of his technolo- deputies raided the research facility, designed the modern-day sub- gy. But no one came. And no stripping the company of all its marine hull and gave the design one responded to the letters or to the Navy; a prior chief phone calls. Here was a nation technology prototypes and records. research engineer for Batelle, in distress over its energy prob- designer of tracking systems for lem, spending billions of dol- NASA and an expert on internal lars on solar research and other combustion engines. Here they renewable energy Sources, Md ee ~«CODUilt prototypes for technologies no one had the time to see a to provide safe, clean, cheap demonstration of ‘free electricity’. This should have been the news energy. Among the technologies were the Low Temperature story of the century, but not one reporter came! Notevena spark Phase-Change Electric Generator, the Fischer Heat Engine (an of interest! Not even a story on this 'con' who was trying to sell _ engine that runs with no condenser and no exhaust!), the Adiabatic the fact that he could make free electricity! Astonishing! Even Bicoannular Reactor that could burn black coal 90% efficient, and more astonishing was the response he got from our elected repre- _ the Hot Box Thermal Storage Unit. A machine shop was set up so sentatives in Washington when he called to follow up. Most were __ they could tool the parts for the technologies themselves. simply not available. A few wrote letters thanking him for keep- Dennis Lee was very outspoken about what he was doing. He ing them informed, and one responded angrily. A nation faced had heard too many stories about inventors with technologies that with a serious energy crisis was told that the billions spent in ener- could put big business out of business, either disappearing or gy research would not bring winding up dead. He believed results for another 20 years, but exposure and public support would taking one day to investigate be his only protection. He was this American citizen, who determined to fight big business wanted to provide free energy After the raid the municipal court interests and government suppres- to the country, seemed to be * . sion of technologies because the asking too much of our elected judge, inn unusual move, ordered world badly needed the technolo- officials. the records to the case sealed... gies, and the people deserved to Having already experienced . know how its government was ‘pro- Pca: 2 ‘just-us' >= finest, The normal bail schedule for the tecting’ them. : F Lee realised that bringing free 4 Because of his determination and electricity to the people was not offence he Was charged with was outspokenness, hundreds of inven- going 1 Happen jt because he $5,000, but Lee was held on the tors came Haran with inventions had it. He would have to fight * ‘1° e offer em the possibility of to bring it to the people. fe outrageous bail of a million dollars. having their ieee developed discovered that over 50% of and marketed if the research staff Wall Street's portfolio was found them to be worthwhile. Lee invested in utilities. After all, es WAS amazed at the scores of impor- who didn't use energy? There tant inventions that couldn't get to were some heavy money interests involved. Oil and fossil fuels the marketplace because of big business's intervention. were big business and they wouldn't relinquish their control of the Lee also knew from his experience in Washington that if these nation without a fierce struggle. The demonstration, called "The technologies were ever to get to the people, he could not have one Declaration of Energy Independence", took place anyway. It was _ central distribution facility that would be an easy target. So, while appropriately presented at the Old South Meeting House in Boston _ technologies were being developed, Lee was also developing a where, two centuries earlier, the seeds of America's Declaration of network of people to whom he sold information on the heat pump Independence were planted. Thirty people witnessed history and and who would eventually be involved in the distribution and probably didn't even realise it. manufacture of the products being developed. He thought having His faith a little further shaken in the government 'of, by and for hundreds of people involved in distribution would increase his the people’, Dennis decided to develop and market a final product odds of success. But another course in the education of govern- JUNE - JULY 1994 48¢NEXUS