Thomas E. Bearden

Thomas E. Bearden claims to be developing various (perpetual motion).
Over-unity claims
Motionless electromagnetic generator
Tom Bearden helped design the Motionless electromagnetic generator (MEG), a proposed device which is most notable for claims of over-unity operation, a feat which would violate the second law of thermodynamics (see below). Allegedly, the device can sustain its operation in addition to powering a load without application of external electrical power, by extraction of vacuum energy from the immediate environment. However this has never been actually demonstrated in a controlled setting.
In 2001, Bearden predicted that the first commercial products based on the MEG would be "rolling off the production lines in about one year", and as early as 2002 claimed to have a prototype of the device that produced "100 times more power out than was input". However, to date there are no commercial products based on this device, nor have there been any public demonstrations of the technology. As of 2009, he claimed that development was "on hold" pending the release of funds from the UN. Bearden has given no details as to what further development is needed, given the claimed success in 2002.
Modified magnetic Wankel engine
Bearden and his colleagues have proposed a simple modification to the magnetic Wankel engine (Takahashi Motor) which he claims would deliver "over-unity performance" through asymmetrical regauging. He believes that this technology is known, and suppressed, by the Japanese.
Theoretical justification
Bearden supports his claims with a wide range of alternative theories, including the proposal that all electrical devices, from batteries to electromechanical generators, in reality operate on vacuum energy. However, these theories offer no concrete testable predictions, and are generally dismissed by the physics community at large. None of these theories have been published in independent, peer-reviewed physics literature, and Bearden himself has little formal training in physics. One analysis of the theories of Bearden et al. describes them as "full of misconceptions and misunderstandings concerning the theory of the electromagnetic field" and also states that existence of non transverse waves in vacuum does not imply that electromagnetism is not a U (1) gauge theory."
Other views
Bearden has extended his views on electromagnetism to encompass the effect electromagnetic fields have on biological cells. He has stated that, as a result of his theories, "inexpensive, quick, nondebilitating, cures can be developed for most major dread diseases, including cancer, arteriosclerosis, and AIDS". This assertion is based on his description of diseases and the body's state as being not phenomena, but rather epiphenomena. Bearden labels the source of these manifestations "energy precursors" and states that they are the root causes of symptoms manifested.
Bearden has also made claims regarding Electromagnetic Warfare, involving something called a Quantum Potential Weapon, which he claims can "broadcast" destructive disease-triggering waves upon an enemy from a distance. Bearden insists that such weapons were the cause for the momentary outbreak of "flesh-eating disease", as he believes streptococcal infection is a symptom of electromagnetic radiation. He does not cite any published medical literature in these claims.
New theories
Bearden suggests that many of these advanced technologies are known by a few governments and clandestine organizations. These theories are a central theme in many of his books, particularly ', Fer de Lance, and .
Suppression of energy technology
In spite of the difficulties and delays in bringing the MEG to market, Bearden maintains that a number of free energy technologies have been available for well over a century, yet have been actively suppressed by government and private interests.
He has repeatedly expressed his belief that the key to over-unity systems was present in the original form of Maxwell's Equations, and this potential was realized by Nikola Tesla; however, he claims that part of the equations were deliberately suppressed in their vectorization by Heaviside and Lorentz in the late 19th century. Bearden claims this was orchestrated by industrialist J.P. Morgan, in order to protect his oil interests.
He claims that a "nuclear power plant consortium" has worked to "ruthlessly suppress" Cold Fusion, and further that this consortium "is almost certainly to blame for the murder of Gene Mallove, the main proponent and activist for cold fusion".
He has hypothesized that the death of Arie M. DeGeus in Charlotte, North Carolina might have been a murder carried out to suppress his development of a "self-powering battery".
Secret electromagnetic warfare
He believes that Russia developed a weapon in the 1960s which uses "time-polarized EM waves" to disrupt the normal flow of time, and used this in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Chernobyl
Bearden believes that the Chernobyl disaster "was almost certainly caused by an accidental catastrophic failure of a large TR Woodpecker transmitter about 30 kilometers away" (could be a geographical reference to the former ) , where the device in question generated "giant electrogravitational standing waves". He claims the official story of the meltdown was fabricated by the Soviets after the fact.
Earthquakes and volcanoes
Bearden has claimed that Russia used various other technologies in the 1980s to cause the destruction of the Challenger space shuttle and induce "several large earthquakes".
He believes the Japanese Yakuza used this technology to trigger the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and the resulting tsunami, which killed approximately 200,000 people, and that the Yakuza is also plotting to trigger the Yellowstone Supervolcano, which would kill the majority of the US population.
Weather control
Bearden has maintained that scalar electromagnetic waves can be used to create the high and low-pressure zones and influence the weather. He claims that the Russian KGB, in collaboration with the Japanese Yakuza and Aum Shinrikyo cult, have been secretly influencing the weather since 1990, and explicitly blames the Yakuza for Hurricane Katrina.
Claims to academic credentials
Biographies of Bearden consistently state that he received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Northeastern Louisiana University and a Master's Degree in Nuclear Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Some time in or before 2001, Bearden began to identify himself as "Tom Bearden, Ph.D.", and claims to have written a Ph.D. thesis, he has never made this thesis public or provided affiliation or details. The Skeptical Inquirer, among others, revealed that Bearden purchased his Ph.D. from Trinity College and University, which the magazine describes as "a British institution with no building, campus, faculty, or president, and run from a post office box in Sioux Falls, South Dakota". This institution is not accredited by any recognized accreditation association and is generally regarded as a degree mill. It has since changed its name to Bronte International University and its exact location is uncertain.

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