Central claims: Frollov-Alexander (Alexander V. Frolov)
Note on the folder name: the folder is "Frollov-Alexander"; both documents are by Alexander V. Frolov (Faraday Laboratories, St Petersburg).
Documents: 2 (a 1994 three-page article, a 2003 eighteen-page magazine article, PDF p.1 = magazine p.11). Both have a full text layer; no OCR and no skipped files. Coverage: single-wire note read in full; FreeEnergy.pdf digested, with deep reads of PDF pp.1-5 (closed-trajectory argument, Figs 1-3 viewed as images, 1995 coil experiment, Strebkov sentence) and PDF pp.10-16 (Figs 8-12 viewed as images). PDF pp.6-9 (Brown, Sweet, Searle, Godin-Roshin, unbalanced wheels; Figs 4-7) rest on the digest and text reading only, with no deep read and no images of Figs 4-7; appendices pp.17-18 are digest only. No source gap for these two documents. Nothing else by Frolov (books, patents, later Faraday Lab papers) is in the folder; every claim about other people's devices (Brown, Sweet, Searle, Avramenko, Strebkov, Methernitha, Johnson, Moray, etc.) is reported second-hand by Frolov and no primary document for any of them was available.
Evidence pattern: apart from the 1994 spark-gap numbers (0.1 W out, 3 W in), neither document gives measured data from Frolov: his own experiments in the 2003 article (the 1995 flat-spiral coil, the Fig.3 single-wire circuit, ferrite self-cooling, the back-EMF rotor, the arc) are one to four sentences each, with no instruments, waveforms or power values (only "about 300 mA"). His closed-trajectory argument (Claim 1) contains no equation at all.
- The potential (scalar) field can do net work around a closed cycle, without fuel, if the negative-work half of the cycle is removed by pulsing, gradients, polarity change or screening (he concedes closed-path work is zero when positive and negative parts cancel, but never accounts for the energy cost of the switching or screening, and ultimately points to "space-time/aether density" as the source). The argument has an engineering form, testable only by measuring input and output energy, and a metaphysical form. Figs 1-2 (grid-under-cathode tube, pulsed anode) are unlabelled schematics with no data. Frolov applies this to tubes, capacitors, magnet motors, arcs and electrolysis (the "field does the work, so the battery need not" argument, PDF p.14).
- A single-wire line fed by a high-frequency, high-voltage source through an "Avramenko plug" (two diodes) carries only wattless displacement current, yet delivers real power to a load "for free"; his home test (2 kV, 10 nF spark gap, 5 Hz) gave 0.1 W output against 3 W input, which he reads as free power because the load current is not conduction current in the source. The 2003 article adds that 20-100 kW lines were "built and tested" by a Moscow team (Strebkov, Avramenko, Nekrasov; the only source is ref [8], New Energy Technologies #5(8), 2002, in Frolov's own journal, not seen; no voltage, frequency, efficiency or independent tester) and gives the Fig.3 circuit (two diodes, quarter-wave chokes, TV high-voltage unit, "resonance is the high efficiency mode", no numbers), while also saying receiver power cannot exceed generator power.
- Resonance (Tesla transformers, standing waves, quarter-wave lines) can raise such output until efficiency exceeds 100%.
- Energy conservation is not violated because it must be "generalized" to a four-dimensional balance: heat produced in the load is paired with an anti-entropy process in reversed time, and the vacuum or aether is an unlimited source whose density sets the rate of time (Kozyrev).
- Anomalous devices of others are real examples of this effect: T. T. Brown's asymmetric capacitors (reactionless thrust), Sweet's vacuum triode amplifier, Searle disks, Godin-Roshin, Cooper, Hubbard, unbalanced wheels, and, in the second half of the article, grouped as magnet motors and alternators (Johnson 5 kW, Adams, Hide, Echlin, Koler 60 kW, Methernitha 750 kW), unipolar generators (de Palma, MITI 40 kW), atmospheric and discharge devices (Moray over 50 kW, Swenson, Lambertson, Correa 483%), electrolysis and cold fusion (Latchinov, Goriatchev 1500%, Kanarev, Filimonenko, Patterson, ENECO), and second-kind heat engines (Serogodsky-Scheffer, Buynov). Reported numbers have no named independent measurement.
- Frolov's own bench experiments (2003 article, PDF p.4 and pp.11-13): (0) a 1995 flat spiral secondary with solenoid primary gives "asymmetrical mutual induction", a lamp load "free from input power" (one paragraph, nothing measured or numbered; standard mutual inductance is symmetric); (a) a ferrite alternator core "is self-cooling"; (b) a generator rotor "is accelerated by the secondary field (back-EMF)", patented, Fig.11, no numbers; (c) an arc in a transformer secondary shows negative resistance, with consumed DC battery current falling to zero and reversing, at about 300 mA, partly demonstrated in 1996 at St Petersburg, with bigger spark gaps giving more surplus. The DC battery measurement answers only AC phase errors, not averaging, stored energy or battery sag.
- Suppression: free-energy work is blocked rather than tested. Allegations are about others' work, not Frolov's own: Filimonenko's 1957 electrolysis effect, backed in 1960 by Kurchatov, Korolev and Zhukov and then suppressed, with a 1994 Moscow City Council commission urging renewal; Johnson's patent delayed 1973-1979; Russian institutes unable to take up new ideas. Sources are Frolov's assertions plus named Russian journals he did not quote in detail.