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Magnet Motor Pioneer Dies - Howard Johnson of Blacksburg, Virginia passed away on the evening of Jan. 2, 2008. He was one of the most famous names in the field of Magnet Motor research, in which magnets are the only motive force. (PESWiki; Jan. 4, 2008)

Bert Schreiber - Charles Bert Schreiber, Lt. USN Ret., age 83, of Bellaire, TX, died October 19, 2007 after a brief illness. He was a truly brilliant man who contributed much to science in his own way. He was never afraid to take a position (which he knew to be correct) i spite of overwhelming odds against him. AND, he had a great knack for simplifying complcated equations ad concepts to a few simple basic concepts. (National Philosophy Science; Oct. 30, 2008)

Robert George Adams - Inventor of the Adams Motor, passed away on the night of May 10, 2006 in New Zealand. In his late 80's, he had a serious stroke recently which had paralyzed his left side. He will be missed.

Walt Rosenthal Departs - New energy researcher who tested a wide range of devices, encouraging with due diligence, will be missed. Memorial services were held Jan. 27, in Santa Maria, California.

Aerielle Louise Has Died - A proponent of new energy and new thinking, involved with several internet radio programs, passed away on July 30 or 31, 2007. The circumstances of her death are tragic, and ironically present us with a personal manifestation of the effects of the warming of our planet.

Free-Energy Battery Inventor Killed at Airport?' - Official statement cites "natural causes" but others familiar with the disruptive potential of Arie M. DeGeus' technology to the existing power structure consider it a probable assassination. (PESN; Dec. 5, 2007)
- Arie DeGeus Research and Death - Tim Ventura gives a brief review of the abundant and very significant work of the late Arie M. DeGeus, and the primary surviving associates. (PESN; Dec. 10, 2007)

David Hamel - David Hamel successfully claimed/proved to be given insights into the principles of free energy, anti-gravity and how to build a flying saucer engine. Had many prototypes which worked and lots of actual data/drawings and knowledge on the concepts of free energy apparatus'. He was and probably still is one of the most misunderstood free energy pioneers since the 1970's. (April 2009) (See also, remarks by Jeane Manning)

Eugene Mallove - Cold Fusion champion, and editor of Infinite Energy magazine, was brutally murdered May 14, 2004. (Pure Energy Systems)

Mark Tomion (Stardrive device) passed away in June - Hal Ade writes: "Mark was working on a capacitive-type device, the StarDrive Electrodynamic Field Generator (EDF), and was, in a step-by-step manner of sequential development, coming very, very close to what most New Energy types have termed a working 'overunity' electrical generator." (ZPEnergy; August 06, 2009)

Charles Yost's passing - Executive editor of the Electric Spacecraft Journal, passed away March 29 from pancreatic cancer. (ZPEnergy; March 30, 2005)

Bill Muller - Inventor of the William (Bill) Muller Dynamo, passed January 22, 2004, at the age of 72. His work is being perpetuated by his daughter Carmen.

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Tesla Motors employees' plane crash takes out power in Palo Alto - In a tragic turn of events today, three Tesla Motors employees were killed when their small Cessna plane clipped a power line during take-off in fog, taking out power to the city also known as Silicon Valley. No one was killed on the ground. (MSNBC; Feb. 17, 2010) (Other coverage)

John Kanzius remembered by friends, family The man who gained world wide attention with his radio wave machine to fight cancer was remembered as a hero and man of vision. John Kanzius lived part time on Sanibel Island. But it was in his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania that his friends and family said goodbye to him. (Includes video.) (MSNBC; Feb. 24, 2009)

Obituary: Geoffrey Ballard helped usher in hydrogen age - “He once said to me that we were witnessing the death of the internal combustion engine", said Ballard’s son Mark. “His hope for Ballard Power Systems was that it would herald the birth of the hydrogen economy. (Global BC"; August 5, 2008)

Dr. Robert W. Bussard Passed Away - Polywell Fusion Continues - The inventor of one of NEC's Top 100 energy technologies, the Inertial Electrodynamic Fusion Device passed away. (Slashdot; Oct. 12, 2007)

Star Trek's 'Scotty' Dies - James Doohan, 85, died of complications from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at his home in Redmond, Wash. (CBS News; July 20, 2005)
- Doohan narrated a video about cold fusion called Fire From Water.

John DeLorean Dies at 80 - Founder of DeLorean Motors. DeLorean's stainless-steel, gull-winged car, was featured in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" and its two sequels. (CNN; March 20, 2005)

Victor R. Hansen - 89, of Dike, Iowa, died March 23, 2008, at the Shell Rock Care Center, Shell Rock, Iowa. He owned a Keely Motor ,of which the executor of his estate would like returned.

Jules Verne - France's sci-fi ambassador, feted 100 years after death - Author of "20,000 leagues under the sea," died March 24, 1905. Impact still felt today. (Designerz; March 21, 2005)