Defense Intelligence Reference Document Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor

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The Type 1 Inventor
One should examine the area of novel energy generation inventions from the
standpoint of the maverick inventor who has no formal training. Because the approach
and timeline of the typical energy inventor mimic those of the propulsion (read
"antigravity") inventor,2 we will concentrate on the energy inventor. Often the invention
involves a device that is purported to produce more energy than it consumes. In some
cases the inventor naively thinks his invention is simply creating the extra energy from
nothing. More often the inventor believes his device is tapping a new energy source,
such as "zero-point energy" or "magnetic energy." He typically begins his quest by
literally playing with storage batteries or pulse-driven, simple, permanent-magnet-
based motors. Since the typical maverick inventor has negligible funds for research and
development, cheap measuring instruments are the norm. A very cursory
understanding of electrical wiring and possibly a rudimentary capability in designing
solid-state circuitry seem all that are necessary from an educational standpoint. Delving
into thermodynamics, proper experiment design, error analysis, or even power factor is
usually seen as taking valuable time away from construction of an invention prototype.
Alas, it is most often in the area of measurement that the maverick inventor solidifies
his belief that he has discovered the answer to the world's energy problems. His fear of
ridicule and belief that the local university or testing agency would (a) steal the
invention, (b) not do a proper test because they do not believe in the underlying
concept (for example, zero-point energy), or (c) are in league with big oil and will
suppress the invention ensure that proper measurements are rarely performed at the
important early stages of the invention's development. Fear of suppression also
contributes to the typical inventor's lack of proper note taking. The test instruments
used usually are not suitable for use in measuring the various electrical parameters in,
for example, pulsed-motor designs. Even if more expensive oscilloscopes are
purchased, their internal math functions are overrelied upon without giving a second
thought to applicability, calibration, or use of proper probes within specification, among
a host of bothersome details. The measurement problem is generally compounded
when attempting to measure the true power or energy output of a device, especially
where the output is a rotating shaft or source of heat.
The modern Type 1 inventor shuns publishing in the peer-reviewed literature for
obvious reasons and instead makes a YouTube video or appears on a TV "weird science"
program or news clip to further promote this incredible invention.
Up to this point, the invention has been developed using personal or immediate family
funds. Once the maverick inventor is convinced he has the ultimate solution, the next
step is to raise the necessary funds to produce a larger, higher power prototype. Note
the key step of independently verifying the technical validity of the device at low power
is to be avoided. "Only a big power output will convince the skeptics" is the slogan at
this stage. And a high-power prototype will take much longer to build, thus buying
more time for the inventor to invent excuses for why the whole idea was unworkable in
the first place. Usually the original prototype is either scrapped or robbed of
components to make a new high-power device.
2 For typical examples of inventors concentrating on gravity and propulsion means, see Reference 10, 11, 12.
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