Bearden's website (cheniere.org) and its mirror (2026-10-05)
- http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/081502.htm redirected to https and showed only a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" banner, no content: the original domain appears no longer to serve Bearden's site (blocked/defunct; not a CAPTCHA).
- Mirror read: https://billstclair.com/www.cheniere.org/correspondence/081502.htm (Bearden letter dated Thu, 15 Aug 2002). The mirror was already used by the arbiter for the 2 Dec 2000 letter.
Findings [web, mirror URL above]
Bearden, 15 Aug 2002, answering a member of the public (name redacted on the page): - Magnetic Energy Ltd has "a series of successful little experimental devices that prove the overunity and the concepts"; "Our first patent has issued, and two others are in various stages"; no finished power units; "still a year of very hard research away", once funded. - Funding: "in serious negotiations with several major financial groups"; "The 'bare bones' funding requirement is $9 million per year for three years". - Demonstrations: "We do not sell stock to the public, put on public demonstrations, etc. Instead, we give demonstrations (with nothing hidden) to potential financial partners, whose technical representatives do their own measurements"; this also protects IP "since patent applications are still being prepared and processed". - Plans: a 2.5 kW basic unit, ganged up to six (2.5-15 kW) in year one after the lab exists; a 10 kW unit (10-60 kW) in year two; 10% of sales in poor countries reserved for wells, schools, clinics. - He notes that "every previous legitimate COP>1.0 system ... has been firmly defeated right at this same 'vertical cliff'" of scale-up funding. - Announces his book Energy from the Vacuum: Concepts and Principles (2002), "nearly 1,000 pages". - P.S.: a charged capacitor or electret laid across a magnet with E perpendicular to H is a "proven 'free energy generator'" by Poynting's E x H (his theory; the Poynting-flux interpretation is for the reviewers).
Bearing on the claims
- Claim 5 and the absence-of-evidence analysis: the company's own account of its 2002 state (small experimental devices only; capital sought $27 million over three years; demonstrations only to prospective investors, whose measurement reports have not surfaced). "Two others [patents] are in various stages" matches the record found today: the US continuation (abandoned 2005) and the EP/PCT family (EP granted 2013). Witness accounts of those investor demonstrations are a target for the historical record.
- Interested party: Bearden is a co-inventor and company spokesman; these are his statements.
Not done
- Other cheniere correspondence and the 30 Oct 2001 "MEG patent status, manufacturing update" page.