2026-10-08 Floyd Sweet VTA sources (rexresearch, hyiq.org, AboveUnity, YouTube)
Queries: "Floyd Sweet" "vacuum triode" Bearden 1987 OR 1988 paper OR "lab notes" OR notebook; "Floyd Sweet" "Mark Goldes" OR "Aesop Institute" OR "Sky Ship" VTA funding; "1987 - Floyd Sweet's Secrets" Bearden youtube.
rexresearch (https://www.rexresearch.com/sweet/sweet.htm)
Index lists: (1) Letter, F. Sweet to "Maurice", 26 April 1987 (sparky1987.pdf); (2) Narrative Report by "Maurice", undated, post-1988 (floydsweet.pdf; this is the Maurice text Kelly reproduces at A-803 to A-808); (3) Floyd Sweet, "Nothing is Something...", original typewritten ms., 24 June 1988 (nothing.pdf; Kelly's A-808 to A-817 source). Also images of Sweet's MIT and General Electric credentials. Downloaded: research/files/rex-sweet-sparky1987.pdf (8 pages, scanned), research/files/rex-sweet-nothing.pdf.
Letter of 26 April 1987, page 1 [read: page image p.1]: headed "S-E-N-S-I-T-I-V-E", handwritten "To: Maurice from: Sparky", recipient name redacted. It describes the device as "a gate or switching device for polarized vacuum energy", "for a miniscule power input (one milliwatt), the unit produces over 200 watts of output (in recent experiments, over 500 watts)", "a gain of some 200,000", a "small (4"x6"x6" or so) solid state unit", "Up to 1,000 watts of power has been obtained in actual tests". It says the inventor "has authorized me to discreetly approach selected potential financial backers". Interested-party document (fund-raising). Pages 2-8 not read yet.
hyiq.org (Chris Sykes's site)
"Floyd Sweet's Vacuum Triode Amplifier - Generation 1" (15 Oct 2013) [web: https://www.hyiq.org/Page/Details?Name=Floyd%20Sweet's%20Vacuum%20Triode%20Amplifier%20-%20Generation%201]: - "Documents show Generation One VTA was in the order of 6 - 19 Watts Output, Revision two of the Generation One VTA was 100 - 110 Watts." - First successful test of the Space Quanta Modulator on 19 May 1986; shown to Mark Goldes and Darryl Roberts on 24 May 1986. - "Mark Goldes funded Floyd Sweet in the early days before Tom Bearden and John Bedini were on the scene (1985 - 1986)"; the lab notes were taken by Darryl Roberts in May-June 1986, added to by Sweet, and sent to another researcher to replicate. - Quotes Goldes: he began with the non-profit Aesop Institute in 1973, which spawned MPI (Magnetic Power Inc) and SunWind Ltd. Goldes was a funder (stake).
AboveUnity.com, "My Notes on Floyd Sweet" (rough draft, last edited 23 Sep 2021)
[web: https://www.aboveunity.com/thread/my-notes-on-floyd-sweet/, saved research/pages/aboveunity-sweet.txt] - Section headings: Space-Flux-Coupled Alternator (1985-1986); Agreement between Mark Goldes and Floyd Sweet, 29 Dec 1985; John Bedini handling Sweet's documents; Static SQM Mark 1 plans by Ashley Gray, 22 Mar 1986; similarity to Kunel's 1980 patent; VTA (1987-1988) powering five 100 W bulbs. - Readings attributed to the 1987 video: "input is 10 V at 31.2 uA, output is 112.5 V at 4.7 A. Tom Bearden reads off the wattmeter as about 500 W, but the more accurate value calculated from voltage and current is 528.75 W. The power factor is measured to be 1". Another reading: input 10 V at 29.2 uA. - Early SQM lab-note figures: E-coil 1 input 10.41 V and 1.84 A, about 400 Hz; P-coil 1 output 12 V 500 mA into four 12 V lamps; E-coil 2 input 7.2 V and 143 uA, P-coil 2 output 24.2 V at 4.6 A at 388 Hz into four 26 W bulbs. - Roberts "admits" the excitation coil impedance in operation is "millions of times greater" than measured outside the device and has no explanation (the note-writer's paraphrase of the lab notes).
How it bears on claim 3: 10 V x 31.2 uA = 0.312 mW, which is exactly Kelly's "under 0.31 mW" figure; 112.5 V x 4.7 A = 528.75 W is his "over 500 W". The 1 mW figure appears in Sweet's own 1987 letter. So the book's numbers trace to (a) one filmed 1987 demonstration read by Bearden and (b) a fund-raising letter. The 1986 lab notes (Roberts) give much smaller outputs (6-19 W, then 100-110 W) and, in one reading, an input of 10.41 V x 1.84 A (about 19 W). Whether the power-factor statement rests on a measurement or a reading of the meter is a question for the reviewers; the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EksumJXwEw, 53:59, channel Zero-Point Energy) was not watched in this run.