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Free energy claims and organizations of an unscrupulous nature.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Bogus Plans 2.1 JohnsonMotor 2.2 HoJo 2.3 Magniwork 2.4 Tesla's Secret 2.5 Other Alt. Energy Plans 3 Alternative Energy Companies 3.1 Precombustion Technologies Inc. (PTI) 3.2 Dennis Lee 3.3 Tilley Foundation 3.4 Leonardo Corporation 3.5 Future Horizons 3.6 Air4Zero 3.7 Cycclone 3.8 Boswell Power Production 3.9 Other Companies 4 Defunct 5 Misc. 6 Comments 7 See also

Overview

• Download interview with well-known FE skeptic (13 Mb; mp3) - On March 31, 2008, Sterling D. Allan conducted a live, 1-hour interview with Eric Krieg as part of the Free Energy Now radio series. A look from the perspective of one who is highly doubtful about many of the free energy claims and claimants. After ten years, his offer of a $10,000 prize for a free energy demo is still unclaimed.

Bogus Plans

JohnsonMotor

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Magnet Motors > Howard Johnson >
  Howard Johnson Magnet Motor Scam Hosted by ClickBank - ClickBank has been hosting a vendor that claims to have developed plans for a magnet motor that will power a house using less than $100 in parts, taking maybe a couple of hours to build, even by "newbies" -- obviously bogus. Furthermore, at least some of the plans are misnamed and plagiarized. (PESN and BeforeItsNews; March 17, 2012)
  

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Magnet Motors > Howard Johnson >
  JohnsonMotor.org Scam Newsletter Plagiarizes PESN - Giving us yet more evidence of their unethical modus operandi, in their newsletter today, the people at JohnsonMotor.org plagiarized an entire article we published in 2007, word for word, with no attribution, taking credit for it themselves. And their ad grossly exaggerates. BeforeItsNews doesn't care, becoming complicit. (PESN; March 18, 2012)
  

HoJo

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Magnet Motors > Howard Johnson >
  Letter to Hojo Motor Plan Scammers - Hank Mills has composed a letter to the company and individuals selling bogus plans for a claimed free energy motor, based on Howard Johnson's technology. He addresses the fact they are lying, and bamboozling people. (PESN and BeforeItsNews; October 4, 2011)
  

Magniwork

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  Feature: Electromagnetic / Buyer Beware > Magniwork >
  Open letter to Clickbank regarding Magniwork scam involvement -- Warning of possible legal action - For the past year, Magniwork and others have been using Clickbank to sell $49 DIY plans for a device alleged to cost less than $100 in parts and which can power a house. Clickbank continues to allow this to go on, despite our warnings that the plans are bogus and that we've received no evidence to support the claim. (PESN; May 24, 2010)
  

• Electromagnetic > Magniwork >
  Magniwork Energy internet scam - Internet fraudsters are raking in thousands of dollars a day with a scam selling plans for what alleges to be an electromagnetic free energy machine capable of powering a house. One estimate puts sales of the guide as high as 5,000 copies a month, making the scam worth up to $3m a year. (Off-Grid; Oct. 8, 2009) [We've not yet received a scrap of evidence supporting the claims.]
  

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  Featured: Buyer Beware > Electromagnetic > Magniwork >
  ACTION: Report Magniwork (Scam) Ads to Google and Clickbank - Easy steps presented for you to be able to lodge a complaint about the fraudsters who are selling plans for what alleges to be an inexpensive electromagnetic free energy machine capable of powering a house, though no supporting evidence has been given. Let's stop these hucksters who prey on the free energy believers and give the field a bad name. (PESWiki; Nov. 5, 2009)
  

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  Buyer Beware > Electromagnetic > Magniwork >
  Lutec Disavows Magniwork - Lutec posted the following notice on their home page in a marquee text: [all caps] "Be Warned - 'Magniwork' is not related in any way to Lutec Australia, doe not sell plans for our equipment and is not authorized to use our videos on their site!" (PESWiki; Nov. 10, 2009)
  

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  Featured: Electromagnetic > Bedini SG >
  Magniwork free energy plans = bogus claim; say they'll remedy that - Magniwork has been selling a set of plans for a free energy device they say could be scaled to power an entire house. However, it turns out that the device is nothing more than the Bedini SG circuit, which, though interesting, has never been embodied in a self-looped system with energy left over for practical use. They've apologized and removed the Bedini stuff. (PESWiki; June 2, 2009)
  

Tesla's Secret

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  Featured: Tesla > Buyer Beware >
  "Tesla's Secret" - A fool and 47 dollars are soon parted! - An online affiliate program called, "Tesla's Secret" is selling plans for a device they claim can free you from the power grid. Their technology has nothing to do with Tesla's work, and is basically no better than a crystal radio set. It works, but is nothing to get excited about, and is certainly not going to power your home. (PESWiki; April 4, 2011)
  

Other Alt. Energy Plans

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  Electromagnetic >
  LEGO electromagnetic motor hoax by Tom A - In February of 2009, Tom Altman(?) posted a video on YouTube showing magnets around a wheel with an inductive coil supposedly firing from the incoming magnetic flux to kick the magnet along. It turns out, though, that a hidden capacitor, pre-charged-was assisting the kick. (PESWiki; Sept. 19, 2009)
  

• Calloway Magnet Motor - Says that after two decades of finding out what won't work, he is ready to divulge how to build an operational all-magnet motor. Ends up being an intentional wild goose chase. (PESN; Feb. 10, 2006)
  

• MXLO Magnetic Motor Plans - Of 14 known independent replications from the MXLO plans, not one working device has been produced yet. Plans are neither easy nor adequate as claimed on the site.
  

Alternative Energy Companies

Precombustion Technologies Inc. (PTI)

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Suppression > Hydroxy > Boyce >
  Action: Bringing Robert Potchen to Justice - Bob Boyce calls on the dealers and dissatisfied customers of renegade associate Bob Potchen to report their problems to their state attorney generals to bring Potchen to justice, as he has been discrediting the industry with his product that has been shown to actually decrease mileage rather than increase it. (PESWiki; Dec. 14, 2009)
  

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Suppression > Hydroxy > Boyce >
  Another VeriChip Found in Inventor's Shoulder - An RFID reader and an X-ray confirm a VeriChip implant in Bob Boyce's shoulder, where a tumor subsequently formed. More witnesses step forward and steps being taken against Bob Potchen, the likely perpetrator of the implant, who also sabotaged Boyce's hydroxy technology. (PESN; Dec. 16, 2009) (Comment)
  

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Suppression > Electrolysis > Boyce >
  Boyce chip implanter suspect identified - Bob Boyce first noticed what turned out to be the VeriChip implant that caused his malignant tumor when he was working with former associate, Bob Potchen. Having fallen asleep at a desk, when he awoke, his right shoulder felt like it had been numbed; and when he rubbed it, he noticed a small, hard lump there. (PESN; Dec. 6, 2009)
  

Dennis Lee

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  Featured: Fuel Efficiency > H Injection > HAVC >
  Dateline Accuses Dennis Lee of Fraud - Citing credible third-party testing of an HAFC installation on a Honda Accord, a Dateline special paints Dennis Lee as a charlatan preying on good people who want to see fuel economy improvement, and who believe that a conspiracy keeps these technologies from going forward. (PESWiki; April 8, 2009)
  

Tilley Foundation

• Tilley Foundation - Proven fraud. Uses stolen technology that is semi-legit; inflates claims of its capabilities, bilks investors. History of taking the money and running.

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  Featured: Buyer Beware > Electromagnetic > Tilley >
  Investors win $26M award against Tilleys - A Nashville jury found Carl Tilley and his wife guilty on several counts and levied both compensatory and punitive damages against them jointly, individually and the two companies. Tilley made a splash in 2002 with the claim he could run a DeLorean he had converted to electric, powered by his device that could keep the car running indefinitely. (PESN; Jan. 29, 2010) (Comments)
  

Leonardo Corporation

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  Featured: Buyer Beware > Nuclear > Cold Fusion > Rossi > Skeptics >
  Rossi Tells Florida Bureau He Has No U.S. Factory, No Nuclear Reactions - An inspector from the Florida Bureau of Radiation Control said that Rossi told him "No nuclear reactions occur during the process;" and "There are no radiation readings above background when the device is in operation;" and "Currently all production, distribution and use of these devices is overseas." (PESN and BeforeItsNews; March 11, 2012)
  

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  Buyer Beware: Nuclear > Cold Fusion > Rossi > Skepticsc >
  Rossi's Italian Financial and Environmental Criminal History - An index of more than 100 news reports of Rossi’s Italian criminal history as reported by major Italian newspapers. Rossi moved on and left the equivalent of two cargo ships worth of toxic waste, most of it liquid sludge, to poison the environment. He left the residents of the Milan area with the multi-million dollar cleanup bill. [1] (New Energy Times)
  

Future Horizons

• Future Horizons - Entertaining site with numerous kits and plans for sale; but science is often shoddy, claims stretched or outright bogus, and ethics questionable.

Air4Zero

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  Featured: Buyer Beware / Fuel Efficiency > Retrofits > Air Cars >
  Air4Zero's Compressed Air Claims Defy Logic - A company named Air4Zero claims to have a conversion kit that can allow any car to run on compressed air. Their claims of zero cost per fueling, a 20,000 to 50,000 mile range, and a method of continually recycling the compressed air are bold, to say the least. (PESN and BeforeItsNews; August 29, 2011)
  

Cycclone

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  Cycclone Magnet Engine - Company claims to have an all-permanent-magnet engine. The company has been under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission since April 2006.
  
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  Buyer Beware / Magnet Motors > Cycclone >
  The menace of magnetism - It has been a wild ride for Michael Peter Nugent, who claimed to have invented a magnetic engine that magically needed no fuel. But in the past decade the conman has lived the high life on money raised from small investors across the country without producing anything that works. (Sunday Morning Herald; Australia; April 17, 2011)
  

Boswell Power Production

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  Featured / Buyer Beware: Electromagnetic > Boswell >
  Boswell Power Production Unit Videos Posted - Claims that something turning in a 5-gal. bucket elevated on a 4-foot PVC pipe, having 12-gauge wire coming from it is producing 5.4 kW and has been powering his home for months. Documents PG&E vehicle stopping by the day after he posted his video. (PESN; April 14, 2009)
  

Other Companies

• N-Motion: The Perpetual Motion Vehicle Company - Snazzy-looking website gives the appearance similar to Tesla Motors, Co (a legitimate electric car company), but with no supporting technology. A "perpetual motion" company with no "perpetual motion" working technology. (PESWiki; Jan. 30, 2007)
  

• Electromagnetic > GMC Holding > SEC Files Action On Fuelless Motor Fraud - The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an action against GMC Holding Corporation (GMC) and its CEO, Richard Brace, for defrauding investors by issuing false press releases touting the company's development of a motor technology device capable of generating unlimited energy. (PESN; Feb. 27, 2008)
  

• AKOIL Power Generator fraud charge - An energy professional who closely inspected the company and the technology on-site recounts the frustration of trying to verify the technology with an adequate test procedure. (PESWiki; Oct. 19, 2006)
  

• Latest News on Perendev - 1) At least 20 customers are documented as not having received the goods they paid for, but they are powerless to complain or receive remedy due to the way the paperwork has been ran. 2) Another public demo canceled. (PESWiki; Nov. 5, 2007)
  

• Europositron Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries Alleged as Fraud - The "inventor" of the battery, Rainer Partanen, is being held in custody for fraud. Europositron Ab has sold stocks to hundreds of Finns for at least 1.3 million Euro, but police say there is no actual product. (PESWiki; Nov. 6, 2007)
  

• Hydrogen Injection > HAFC >
  Hydrogen-Assist Fuel Cell Warning from Former Installer - Richard Coyle said the units sometimes work at first, but then the improvements go away, and in their place some serious problems arise such as stuck idle motors, boiling water and gunk in the motors, plugged air filters. (PESWiki; July 22, 2008)
  

• Solar > Citizenre > Citizenre: A House of Cards? - Jeff Wolfe asserts that the new multi-level distributor company that claims to be able to offer solar power at or below grid energy pricing toward the end of 2007 does not have its act together and is actually diverting solar customers away from real technologies to false hopes. (Renewable Energy Access; Feb. 12, 2007)
  

• Hydrogen > Genesis World Energy > Kelly Sentenced for Stealing Funds Invested in Bogus Fuel Technology Venture - Genesis World Energy founder lied about the technology and its alleged partners, defrauds investors, misallocates funds, including $2.5 million from around 500 New Jersey residents. (PESN; Nov. 15, 2006)
  

Defunct

• NJ Bureau of Securities Ready to Tighten the Screws on Genesis World Energy - Disgruntled eyewitnesses say one the bench-top model used by GWE for proof of concept demos is nothing more than a slight modification of a fuel cell devices sold at Hammacher Schlemmer.

Misc.

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  Featured: Global Warming / Global Cooling >
  ClimateGate: Hackers post emails proving 'global warming' is a fraud - This past weekend, a major fraud was uncovered regarding the politicizing of "global warming" for the purpose of promoting increased world government regulation such as the global carbon tax. The email database of some of the chief climatologists was hacked into and the emails posted on the web for anyone to see. (PESWiki; Nov. 24, 2009) (Comments)
  

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  Health > Buyer Beware >
  Mainstream media websites promoting Acai Berry Diet weight loss scam with "weird belly fat tips" ads - Ad takes you to a fraudulent news-looking site that claims minimal shipping charge for a "free sample", with small print at the bottom of the site announcing a "non-refundable one-year membership fee of $149.95" that will be charged in seven days; and imposes a $12.95/month fee for continued product shipment. Furthermore, while acai berry has health benefits, weight loss isn't one of them. (Natural News; February 1, 2011)
  

• Aged Tires: A Driving Hazard? Video - Did you know vehicle tires have a shelf life? Check the inside rim of the tire and look at the last digit of the 3-digit sequence. Is it over 6 years old? You may have a problem with tire separation. "New" tires need to be checked for manufacturing date. (ABC News; July 18, 2008)
  

• Watch out for Jiffy Lube: Is Your Mechanic Honest? - 5 out of 9 stations visited in California by NBC4 investigative team in Los Angeles stiffed the investigators, charging for services they did not perform, as documented by hidden cameras. (NBC4)
  

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