Kelly-Patrick: Investigator site log

Run 2026-10-08 (first run)

Web time used: 9.5 minutes (572 s by date +%s, first search to last page; cap 10 minutes). Chrome (claude-in-chrome) used for Google searches and pages that refuse scripts; pages that allow scripted access were saved with curl to research/pages/ and grepped. No sites.md existed, so there was nothing to recheck.

Framing: the "inventor" of this project is Patrick J. Kelly, a compiler. Priority 1 here therefore means Kelly's own later editions, site, videos and identity, plus primary documents of the inventors whose numbers Kelly repeats (Sweet, Benitez, Skinner, Moray, Papp), where those documents fix where Kelly's figures come from.

Keywords tried

• "Patrick J. Kelly" "Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices" died OR obituary OR interview
• "Patrick Kelly" "free-energy-info" passed away OR "last update" OR "version 33" OR "version 34"
• "Edward Dickson Williams" OR "Edward Williams" "Patrick Kelly" free energy
• archive.org advancedsearch: ("Patrick Kelly" OR "Patrick J. Kelly") AND (free-energy OR "free energy")
• Wayback CDX: free-energy-info.com/PJKbook.pdf; free-energy-info.tuks.nl/PJKbook.pdf; free-energy-info.com
• Google Patents direct: GB121561A, GB191417811A, GB191514311A, GB191505591A, US20090096219A1, US6362718B1, US5455474A, US3680431A, US4428193A, US2460707A, US11588421B1, WO2008103129A1, WO2008103130A1
• Joseph Papp inert gas engine 1968 explosion TRW observers lawsuit
• "The Dream Machine" Papp hoaxes.org
• Papp sued Feynman Caltech engine 1968 lawsuit settled
• "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
• William Skinner 1939 gravity machine newsreel "1200" Popular Science OR "British Pathe" OR "AP Archive"
• "William F. Skinner" OR "W. F. Skinner" Miami 1939 gravity motor newspaper OR patent
• Moray radiant energy demonstration "Murray O. Hayes" OR "Chester Todd" watts affidavit
• Moray "550,611" OR "serial number 550611" patent application 1931 radiant energy
• "Chas Campbell" flywheel generator replication measured OR test OR "self-running"
• "Lawrence Tseung" "lead-out" energy FLEET demonstration Hong Kong 2009 OR 2010
• "Carlos Benitez" 1915 OR 1916 OR 1918 patent "generation of electrical energy" Guadalajara OR Mexico inventor
• "Bob Boyce" electrolyser 101 plate independent test OR measured "Faraday" efficiency percent
• Stanley Meyer 1998 death coroner Franklin County aneurysm Grove City Columbus Dispatch
• "Roger Hastings" Newman motor test 1986 OR 1987 report efficiency "National Bureau of Standards"
• "Jes Ascanius" Tesla radiant energy plate replication battery
• Tariel Kapanadze generator demonstration Tbilisi news OR patent WO

Ideas for next run (not yet tried): "Edward Dickson Williams" obituary UK (genealogy, probate 2020); Kelly "engpjk" interview / radio; FESIG meeting minutes; Espacenet family searches; "Buie-Morin"; "Art Porter" magnet; Ansley Mercury News 1989 original; "NBSIR 86-3405"; Breckenridge American scan; "A. P. Michaels" Jacksonville engineer; "George C. Estill" Florida Power and Light; Moray application 550,611 file wrapper (USPTO / NARA); Tseung Tong Po Chi 2009 Hong Kong press; Metin Turk / Kapanadze Turkey company; Chas Campbell Australia 2017 large version.

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work (Kelly)

• Later editions exist; the project copy is not the last. The project holds V32.9 (16 Feb 2018). Kelly's tuks.nl mirror serves V34.5 (24 June 2019, 2,561 pages, 80 more than V32.9) [web: http://www.free-energy-info.tuks.nl/PJKbook.pdf; downloaded research/files/tuks-PJKbook-2019-09.pdf]. The Internet Archive holds the final edition V34.8 (26 February 2020), described by its uploader as the last update before his death [web: https://archive.org/details/pkj_free_energy; text downloaded research/files/archiveorg-PJKbook-v34.8-2020-02_djvu.txt]. New sections in V34.8 not found in V32.9 include "The Buie-Morin Power System" and "Art Porter's Magnetic device" [read: V34.8 contents, lines 173 and 183 of the text file]. Bears on all claims: later steps can check whether Kelly changed any figure or caveat in his last two years. The preface wording (hearsay disclaimer, "failed replication does not disprove") is unchanged in V34.8 [read: V34.8 text lines 60-90].
• Identity and end of the record. "Patrick J. Kelly" was a pen name. The FESIG memorial service video (5 Aug 2020) says his real name was Edward Dickson Williams [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrNmV-vYO4]. A Google snippet of a members-only OverUnity Research thread (13 Jul 2020) says his daughter reported he died unexpectedly on Saturday 11 July 2020 [web: https://www.overunityresearch.com/index.php?topic=3932.0, snippet only, page blocked]. The book stops being updated in Feb 2020, and the main site's last dated item is May 2020 [web: Wayback 20200816200346]. The end of the record is explained by his death, not by an unexplained silence.
• Kelly's video work. YouTube channel @TheEngpjk (79 videos), including a 2017 video on Skinner's gravity machine [web: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheEngpjk/videos]. Not watched.

2. Supporting information by others (and primary sources behind Kelly's figures)

• Sweet VTA: where "0.31 mW" comes from. A builder's compiled notes report readings from the 1987 video: input 10 V at 31.2 uA (= 0.312 mW), output 112.5 V at 4.7 A (= 528.75 W), with Bearden reading a wattmeter at about 500 W and "the power factor is measured to be 1" [web: https://www.aboveunity.com/thread/my-notes-on-floyd-sweet/]. So 0.31 mW and 500 W both come from one filmed demonstration. Bears on claim 3 and on the in-book spread of numbers (0.31 mW / 1 mW / 10 mW). The 1987 video itself is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EksumJXwEw (not watched).
• Sweet's own 1987 letter. "Sparky" to "Maurice", 26 April 1987, marked sensitive: "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", "Up to 1,000 watts of power has been obtained in actual tests" [read: page image p.1, research/files/rex-sweet-sparky1987.pdf, from https://www.rexresearch.com/sweet/sparky1987.pdf]. The letter says it was written to approach "selected potential financial backers" (an interested-party document). This is the earliest dated source found for the 1 mW figure.
• Sweet's early tests and funder. hyiq.org (Chris Sykes's site) says the first Space Quanta Modulator test was on 19 May 1986, shown to Mark Goldes and Darryl Roberts on 24 May 1986; Generation 1 output was 6-19 W, revision two 100-110 W; the lab notes were written by Roberts in May-June 1986 [web: hyiq.org page above]. Goldes (Aesop Institute, later Magnetic Power Inc and Chava Energy) was the funder, which gives him a stake. A Goldes-Sweet agreement dated 29 Dec 1985 is listed in the AboveUnity notes.
• Newman: what Hastings measured, and what NBS found. In Newman v. Quigg (D.D.C. 1988) the court records that Roger Hastings counted as output the mechanical work plus heat plus "anomalous back spikes" in the MHz range that he observed on an oscilloscope and used to heat water; the National Bureau of Standards made 77 measurements and calculated efficiency of 27 to 77 percent [web: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/681/16/1800217/]. Bears on Kelly's "COP 8.0 measured by Dr Roger Hastings" (Chapter 11). Both sides are interested parties in the suit.
• Tseung's statement of principle. "If an invention uses X units of supplied energy and it can lead-out or bring-in Y units of existing energy from the surrounding, the effective total input energy to the system is X+Y units" [web: Energetic Forum thread 7530, post #8, 17 Feb 2011]. This is the open-system argument of claim 1 in Tseung's words.

3. Closely related work

• US 11,588,421 B1 (Robert M. Lyden, granted 21 Feb 2023), "Receiver device of energy from the earth and its atmosphere". A granted US patent that cites Benitez's GB patents as showing that two batteries can be kept charged "with relatively little or possibly no energy loss" (the applicant's characterization), and cites Moray's US 2,460,707 [web: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11588421B1/en]. Bears on claims 2 and 6.
• Kapanadze patents. WO 2008/103129 "Independent energy device" and WO 2008/103130 "Energy transformer", Tariel Kapanadze with co-applicant Metin Turk, priority 2007, Turkish utility model TR200700996U [web: Google Patents]. Bears on claim 2 (Kapanadze 40 W start / 5 kW).

4. Historical record

• Benitez patent family is four GB documents, not three. GB 191417811A (filed 28 Jul 1914, published 13 May 1915), GB 191505591A (filed 14 Apr 1915, published 19 Aug 1915, an addition to 17,811/14 that drops vapour converters), GB 191514311A (filed 9 Oct 1915, published 17 Aug 1916) and GB 121561A (filed 10 Apr 1918, published 24 Dec 1918) [web: Google Patents]. Kelly lists three and dates 17,811 as 1915 (its publication year).
• Patent status records. Annis and Eberly US 2009/0096219: Abandoned. Bearden et al. MEG US 6,362,718: lapsed for unpaid maintenance fee, effective 26 Mar 2006 (assignment to Magnetic Energy Ltd recorded). Flynn US 5,455,474: lapsed for unpaid fee 3 Oct 2007 [web: Google Patents]. Abandonment and lapse are facts about the record; the reasons are not stated (commercial, cost, or other). Bears on claims 3 and 7.
• Papp 1968. David Ansley, San Jose Mercury News, 27 Aug 1989 (reprinted by the Museum of Hoaxes): a November 1968 demonstration attended by engineers, reporters, a TRW attorney said to carry a $3.5 million contract, and Richard Feynman with Caltech students; the engine exploded; a Mattel engineer died and "Eight others were badly wounded"; investors' later suits [web: https://hoaxes.org/comments/papparticle.html]. Feynman's own account says three men were injured, that Papp sued him, and that "The case was settled out of court, and Mr. Papp was paid something" [web: https://hoaxes.org/comments/papparticle2.html]. Papp's US 3,680,431 (assignee Environetics Inc) has priority 1 Nov 1968; US 4,428,193 (Papp International Inc) was granted 31 Jan 1984 [web: Google Patents]. The two accounts give different injury counts. Bears on claim 6 (Papp, 1968 detonation) and claim 7.
• Skinner 1939. British Pathé "Gravity Power!", Pathetone, issue date 31 July 1939, film ID 1190.10 [web: https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/68269/]. A United Press story (Breckenridge American, Texas, 4 April 1939, as transcribed by rexresearch) gives Skinner's own estimate of "about 1,200 per cent", a 1/8 hp motor running a 12-foot lathe, drill press and hacksaw, and names two engineers: A. P. Michaels (Jacksonville consulting engineer) who wrote that it was "a practical device", and George C. Estill (retired president of Florida Power and Light) whose check "was not complete enough" to form a conclusion [web: https://rexresearch.com/skinner/skinner.htm]. Bears on claim 4 and on Kelly's reading of 1200 percent as 1200 times.
• Moray. Witness excerpts (Murray O. Hayes PhD, Carl Eyring and Harvey Fletcher of BYU, David Gardner affidavit, Chester M. Todd 19 Mar 1971), Moray's own statement that "the frequency is so high that I have no instrument in my laboratory that is able to measure" it, and the family's statement that the original patent application file jackets are at the US Patent Office but their contents are gone [web: http://www.rexresearch.com/moray2/morayrer.htm, excerpts of The Sea of Energy]. Patent application serial 550,611 of 13 July 1931 is named in several copies. Moray's only grant found here is US 2,460,707 (1949, electrotherapeutic apparatus). Bears on claims 6 and 7. The missing file contents are an anomaly to chase in the USPTO and National Archives records.
• Meyer. Secondary sources report a 1996 Ohio court finding of "gross and egregious fraud" in an investors' suit after expert witnesses examined the cell, and the Franklin County coroner's ruling of cerebral aneurysm in 1998 [web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fuel_cell; Columbus Dispatch 8 Jul 2007, snippet]. The court file itself was not reached. Bears on claims 5 and 7.

Corrections to earlier documents

• claims.md and facts.json describe the project source as "Patrick J. Kelly". Add that this is a pen name: the FESIG memorial (2020) gives his real name as Edward Dickson Williams, and he died on 11 July 2020 (forum report of his daughter's message; second source the memorial video). Also note that V32.9 is not the final edition (V34.5 June 2019; V34.8 February 2020).
• facts.json Chapter 5 entry lists "Carlos Benitez patents GB 17,811 (1915), GB 14,311 (1916), GB 121,561 (1918)". The family has a fourth member, GB 5591/1915 (an addition to 17,811/14), and 17,811 was filed in 1914 [web: Google Patents GB191505591A, GB191417811A]. This only completes the record; nothing in the earlier text was misread.