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Groundbreaking Discovery: Man Solves Tesla’s Secret To Amplifying Power By Nearly 5000% (Video)

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By: Johnny Liberty, The Free Thought Project |

Jim Murray has been electrifying the world for over 50 years. His lifetime of experience has produced dozens of patents, inventions and now a truly remarkable discovery that can fundamentally change the way that human beings use energy forever.

When he was just five years old, Jim tells the Free Thought Project that he had already developed an affinity for motors and electricity. This curiosity was piqued by his father’s model train sets which Jim spent hours tinkering with. His natural gift and childhood passion fostered the creation of his first electromagnet when he was only six years old.

Over the next several years, Jim allowed his intellectual curiosity to carry him into multiple fields. He studied and built rockets and radios when he was in grade school and by the time he entered high school had developed an interest in nuclear physics. This led Jim to the construction of a linear electron accelerator, which was entered in the New England Science Talent Search of 1964.  This entry won young Murray first place in school, city and state science competitions. Additionally, his project was displayed in the Boston Museum of Science.

It was not long after graduation that Jim began seriously examining the work of Nikola Tesla. He was fascinated by Tesla’s incredible claims concerning power generation and transmission, and he vowed to rediscover the great scientist’s undisclosed secrets. Jim’s efforts eventually led him to individuals like Otis T. Carr, who claimed to have known Tesla personally. They also gave him a greater understanding of several lost Tesla secrets.

During his professional life, Jim has conducted research and experimentation on a variety of different technological applications all of which eventually contributed to the development of his SERPS (Switched Energy Resonance Power Supply) device.  This highly specialized electronic circuit has the ability to “Magnify” the effective power applied to it by nearly 50 times. When Jim coupled his device with his friend Paul Babcock’s patented ultra fast 5 nanosecond switching technology, they achieved a 4790% increase in electrical power compared to the input. This type of performance, if commercialized, would cause the largest electric utility companies to shake in their boots.

Jim explains:

Electric power is supplied by a special transformer to energize a resistive load. The undissipated  magnetic potential is then captured and stored temporarily, before being sent back to the source through the very same electrical load. This oscillating power has completely different properties than conventional electrical power, and actually reduces the total power required from the source.  The consequence of this energy dynamic is that the resistive load can be powered more than twice as efficiently, while the net power supplied by the line is reduced to a very small value. The implications of this technology for power conservation in the future are absolutely astonishing!

In the video below Jim gave The Free Thought Project an exclusive look at his groundbreaking new technology.

After watching this amazing innovation in action, it is hard to believe that Mr. Tesla reached this same technological plateau nearly one-hundred years ago, and still, there has been minuscule advancement, until very recently, in the industry of energy generation. One need only examine the contents of Tesla’s patents to understand why the famous scientist was being watched by the FBI. It is no secret that after Tesla’s death in 1943, government agents seized much of his private research.

Jim’s research has also been scrutinized by the FBI. He tells The Free Thought Project that he, too, has had a run-in with the FBI because of one of the projects he was working on.

“Back in 1966, not long after my father died, I returned from work one day to find a strange message waiting for me.

When Jim attempted to ascertain the source of the message he was given a note that said:

‘Take the Hudson-Manhattan subway to Newark, New Jersey, and arrive at 11 Centre Place, FBI Newark Headquarters, no later than 10:00 AM tomorrow morning. Ask to see Agent Harold Miller, he will be expecting you.”

Upon his arrival, agents began questioning Jim about his research. After informing them of his interest in Nikola Tesla’s work, Jim says:

“The agents looked at each other silently, then scribbled some additional notes, which were inserted into a file folder with my name on it. I later learned that once you become a person of interest, the FBI retains your file indefinitely!”

Thankfully Jim did not let this obvious scare tactic deter his research. Now, thanks to modern technological advancements and the tireless work of courageous men like Jim Murray, we can begin to understand the truly groundbreaking nature of Tesla’s original work.

The ramifications of the mass application of SERPS technology are nothing short of paradigm shifting. It is widely known that the “energy variable” is a primary factor in US policies. The pursuit of energy is no doubt a catalyst for many of the decisions politicians regularly make. However, most Americans are only aware of the research efforts which involve the utilization of coal, petroleum, nuclear power, wind and solar. These accepted avenues of exploration receive over 5 billion dollars in subsidies per year, while independent researchers like Jim are totally ignored.

The positive environmental impact of radical technologies like SERPS also cannot be understated. While lawmakers continue to pay lip service to the issue of global warming, this technology could drastically reduce the carbon footprint of the entire planet. Mountaintop coal removal is destroying entire swaths of land, oil sands developments are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation, and hydraulic fracturing for oil & natural gas can require up to 15.8 million gallons of water per well.

In 2012, the total energy output from wind power alone in the US surpassed 60 gigawatts, enough capacity to power nearly 15 million homes. While renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and hydro have been widely criticized as being inefficient to meet the nation’s energy demands. The obvious truth is that through the use of technologies like the SEPRS device, we can more than meet our energy needs.

So long as organizations exist that can legally ensure the suppression of emerging technologies, the best interests of the people will always run secondary to the interests of those who have controlling ownership in traditional power systems. The same systems which ensure cash flow to the elite and continue to destroy our planet in the process.

In addition to re-discovering Tesla’s technological secrets, Jim is also dedicated to revealing those secrets for the benefit of everyone. While he has independently secured funding for his technology already, Jim is also trying to secure funding to publish a book which will explain to everyone how it is done. If you would like to assist Jim you can donate to his Go Fund Me below.

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    • Redeemer

      Anyone who finds a legitimate way to give the people cheap or free power, is first discredited then destroyed.

      The technology is out there, but we may never get to see or use it! :mad:

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      • apache5

        your correct, lots of people either went to jail, or were killed under strange events and or discredited.

    • Lucifer Morningstar

      Is that old man in the pic near Tesla trying to cosplay….?

    • doggy do

      instead of claims, investigate, then confirm. THAT is the difference between speculation and science. Read this as an example:

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      (CNN)The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has its eyes — and soon possibly one of the United States’ premier telescopes — focused on an anomaly that some astronomers can’t quite explain.

      Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface Planet Hunters discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago. The group uses publicly available data gathered by NASA’s Kepler Telescope, which has been tasked with finding Earth-like planets by searching for the periodic dimming of stars that might suggest such a planet is passing by.

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      After a number of users noticed the peculiarity, it was sent to the group’s advisory science team, which includes Yale postdoctoral astronomy fellow Tabetha Boyajian.

      “It did definitely spark some lively discussions on the talk boards. We scrolled through the discussion boards and superusers, and they let us know that there’s something we should be watching out for,” Boyajian says.

      “What was unusual about that was the depth of the light dips, up to 20% decrease in light, and the timescales (of light variation) — a week to a couple of months.”

      So what’s the explanation? Could it be from a swarm of comets? Some sort of intergalactic phenomenon that Earthbound scientists haven’t discovered? Or an effect of planet-sized structures built by some sort of alien civilization?

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      Jason Wright, a Penn State astronomy professor, saw Boyajian’s data and can’t quite explain it. But in a post Thursday to his website, he cautioned against jumping to conclusions — as some apparently have — that intelligent beings far away are behind this oddity.

      “My philosophy of SETI,” Wright wrote, referring to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, “is that you should reserve your alien hypothesis as a last resort.” He also cited “Cochran’s Commandment to planet hunters … : Thou shalt not embarrass thyself and they colleagues by claiming false planets.

      “It would be such a big deal if true, it’s important that you be absolutely sure before claiming you’ve detected something, lest everybody lose credibility,” the astronomer added. “Much more so for SETI.”

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      The star, identified by researchers as KIC 8462852 — though Wright calls it “Tabby’s star” and his team labels it the “WTF star” after the subtitle to Boyajian’s paper, “Where’s the flux?” — is roughly 1,465 light-years from Earth, or about 8.6 quadrillion miles.

      Along with a group of colleagues, Boyajian published an academic paper last month about the star and concluded that the light peculiarities could have been the result of comet fragments.

      This is “a plausible but contrived natural explanation,” according to Wright.

      “I would put low odds on that being the right answer,” the Penn State astronomer said. “But it’s by far the best one I’ve seen so far (and much more likely than aliens, I’d say).”

      Boyajian herself stressed “the necessity of future observations to help interpret the system,” which is why she and her cohorts took the paper to Andrew Siemion, the head of the University of California-Berkeley’s SETI Group. They wanted answers, and they said top-notch telescopes were needed to get them.

      “At first I thought they were absolutely nuts; it wasn’t until they told me their data had been vetted by the Kepler team at NASA,” Siemion said.

      The California-based astronomer, who’s been working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence for about 10 years, called the findings “very atypical.”

      “This is one of maybe only two or three times we’ve been contacted by an astronomer who says there’s something we don’t understand,” he said. “It is a very strange object.”

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      Siemion submitted a series of proposals to use telescopes — including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, which the National Radio Astronomy Observatory calls the premier single-dish radio telescope — to look deeper into the anomaly.

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      The Green Bank telescope would be a good fit, given that SETI involves the search for extraterrestrial intelligence using, of all things, radio waves. According to Siemion, “There are particular types of radio waves that as far as we know can only be produced by technology.”

      “The advantage is that it’s very easy to distinguish,” he said. “Lots of the galaxies produces radio waves. If we see lots of energy in an area, it’s an unmistakable marker of technology.”

      The SETI Institute, which is based in Northern California, expects to hear the results of its request within the next month or two.

      “We’re going to look very closely, as closely as we can. We are limited in terms of how long we can view a target given the curvature of the earth (and) instrumentation,” Siemion said. “If we’re awarded the observation, we’ll have between 24 to 36 hours with a variety of different radio receivers.”

      While those involved in this effort are hesitant to jump to conclusions about what exactly is going on, they do think it’s worth digging into it.

      According to Yale’s Boyajian, “Information will allow us to confirm something or rule something out. We’re excited to learn all about this system — we want to figure it out.”

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      CNN’s Greg Botelho and David Gilbert contributed to this report.

      • The Clucker

        TLDR

    • blondemoment

      If this guy is really on to something, he better keep an extra set of his research in a safe and secret location. Same goes for whatever he’s builtt. Even go so far as to build some gizmo that doesn’t work with papers that tell nothing.Too many people who come up with various technology, end up dead or labled a kook and end up in an institution, jailed and their work grabbed by the powers that be. Or they come along and try to buy the patent to make sure it never gets out there, Tesla and Rife come to mind.

    • Nova8

      thats why people who finds this answer should spread this information over the internet as quick as possible, then trying to make a fortune.

    • inventor

      Using a resistive load as described in this article will not work. A resistor will convert applied current into heat and will not provide a kickback voltage.

      What the author is attempting to describe is an L C tank circuit. L for inductive and C for capacitive. This circuit is well known in electronics and in electrical power generation and transmission.

      It is true that by applying a relatively small pulsed voltage to this circuit it will charge to hundreds or thousands of volts. This will happen in five time constants and once the tank circuit peaks in voltage and “rings” it takes a much smaller current pulse to spank the circuit and maintain oscillation.

    • anyoneamongUS

      …….and then there was this sudden emf event and all of this knowledge that had been up to now suppressed was …. well, quite literally fried….

      how sad… but it does make sense of the evil intentions of tptb

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