Investigator sites log: NRGFromTheVac

Run 1: 2026-10-04 (first run; no earlier sites.md). Time cap 10 min; web time used about 6 min. Research in Chrome (Google, YouTube, forum pages); Wayback CDX index, the 2012 archived video page and the blog's comment HTML read with curl where Chrome could not extract them. No files downloaded to research/files/: the two source PDFs found (EVGRAY correspondence, Genesis) need the owner's approval to download (see Leads).

Inventor: "NRGFromTheVacuum" (blog spelling "NRGFromTheVaccum"), YouTube channel youtube.com/user/NRGFromTheVacuum, active Aug 2008 - at least Apr 2012, removed by Dec 2017. Real name unknown.

Keywords tried

• "NRGFromTheVacuum" OR "NRGFromTheVaccum"
• NRGFromTheVacuum (YouTube search)
• "NRG From The Vacuum" capacitor bifilar OR endothermic OR "cold electricity"
• "NRGFromTheVacuum" site:overunity.com OR site:energeticforum.com OR site:overunityresearch.com
• "NRGfromthevacuum" OR "NRG from the vacuum" "cold spark" OR "cold electricity" OR "light bulb" -energeticforum (no results)
• nrgfromthevacuum overunity.com
• "genesis project" "negative inductor" bifilar cooling
• "genesis project" "negative inductor" hoax OR "charged to" 500V bifilar
• "Free Electrical Energy" youtube 2008 24 volt capacitor bifilar coil "timing" overunity
• site:overunity.com "NRG" "cold electricity" bifilar capacitor 24V
• "cold electricity" "light bulb" "laser drive" OR "NRG" 2009 youtube
• EVGRAY yahoo group "cold electricity"
• site:groups.io NRGFromTheVacuum OR "NRG from the vacuum"
• "NRGFromTheVacuum" -energeticforum -semresearch
• Wayback CDX: youtube.com/user/NRGFromTheVacuum; watch?v=2cUS03yNl40, Mo6gViPywRI, Y9irQJ6mivs Not yet tried (next run): "Free Electrical Energy 2"; "Cold Electricity Light Bulb"; "endothermic spark gap" frost; XenomorphLabs; CitizenDC; Magnethos replication; "chadj2" single-wire power transmission; Warren Kistenbroker / PrimaryRayResearch; "Master Ivo" negative impulse; Peter Lindemann "Free Energy Secrets of Cold Electricity"; Spanish-language forums (Magnethos appears Spanish-speaking).

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

• [web] Inventor's own description of "Free Electrical Energy" (uploaded 26 Aug 2008), from Wayback capture 23 Apr 2012 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cUS03yNl40 : potential from 24 V batteries is applied briefly to a ferrite-cored coil "before the current saturates that resistance", then disconnected, "Allowing the counter-charged or negative potential to move through the coil and the battery into the capacitor"; "its all about the timing between making and breaking the circuit paths". Bears on claim 1: primary statement of his principle; his own wording puts the battery in the discharge path, unlike the blog's "no closed current loop". Notes: research/2026-10-04-youtube-wayback.md.
• [web] Inventor's replies relayed by CitizenDC, Energetic Forum thread 2711, 2-3 Sep 2008: coil #23 + #26 AWG on a 3.5 in x 1 in core, "impedance of the coil is 4.7 ohms"; "Use a DC 250 volt 30uf capacitor"; source must be stiff ("when you short the source through the coil the voltage does not drop"); 40 V 47,000 uF capacitor also used as source; "the current is the enemy. Short all three together as fast as possible"; maximum "just over 600 volts"; "if you add a mechanical switch, you can keep the battery charged indefinitely, while getting mechanical motion for free"; circuit found "on my own through trial and error". Bears on claim 1 (specs; coil resistance conflict 4.7 / 30 / 300 ohm) and adds an untested self-charging claim by the inventor. Relayed, single source.
• [web] Other inventor videos named but lost: "Free Electrical Energy 2" (Y9irQJ6mivs, spark gap run from the circuit, 16,959 views by 2012); "Cold Electricity Light Bulb" ("Negative end of a modified laser drive", per Vortex, Mar 2009); a frost-on-electrodes video (recalled by chadj2, 2021); a CSET/Gray-tube replication and "2-capacitor discharge concept" at >= 6 kV with a Tesla-coil secondary (Reiyuki, 14 Apr 2009). Bears on claim 2.
• [web] Surviving footage: re-upload of "Endothermic & Exothermic Electric Discharges" (1:09) by Duncan Pickthall, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo6gViPywRI . The reviewers can watch the two spark types directly. Bears on claim 2.

2. Supporting information by others

• [web] XenomorphLabs "Relay Switch Capacitor Experiment", 1 Apr 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5otnGu9iZUM : relay-timed replication with on-times 13.5 ms, 1.35 ms, 60 us, non-bifilar coil; uploader declines to judge gain because a battery was the source. Bears on claims 1 and 6 (timing dependence).
• [web] CitizenDC, Energetic Forum 6 Sep 2008: capacitor reached about 125 V from 2 x 12 V batteries, 400 V 3.3 uF capacitor, many attempts at simultaneous contact; parallel-strand bifilar of 300-350 turns. gmeat: no success at 12 V. Magnethos (4 Mar 2009): "succesfull replicated", no figures. Bears on claim 1 and 6 (extends the mixed replication record beyond the blog).
• [web] Witness: AetherScientist (Energetic Forum, 9 Mar 2016) saw NRG's "cold spark gap" videos ("implosive", different sound, "small amounts of ice") and says he holds copies. chadj2 (blog author, 2021) recalls a video with frost on the electrodes. Bears on claim 2. Viewer reports of a video, not measurements.

3. Closely related work

• [web] E. V. Gray / CSET "cold electricity" replication community (Energetic Forum thread 3317; Aaron Murakami, Ghst, Reiyuki, 2009) in which NRG was counted as a replicator. EVGRAY group now at groups.io/g/EVGRAY; the blog's Feb 2009 PDF of EVGRAY correspondence: https://semresearch.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/cold-electricity-messages.pdf (download pending owner approval). Peter Lindemann, "The Free Energy Secrets of Cold Electricity". Bears on claims 2-3.
• [web] Genesis negative inductor source PDF: https://semresearch.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/the-genesis-project.pdf (download pending owner approval); "Hector" RE-OU forum compilations (studfile.net "RE-OU-v6_1", Scribd "Duncan #7129 RE OU v6 - 1") discuss it, one snippet calling it "the apparent 'hoax' of the Genesis project". Bears on claim 4 (commenters' theory, not the inventor's).
• [web] Later alternative accounts on the blog: rod2m (2014) thermoelectric/heat-transport reading of one cold electrode ("One switch (spark gap) can get cold ONLY because the other is getting hot"); Bertilo (2016) positron annihilation objection; Ivo (2022-23) high-side vs low-side switching and ~40 ns quenched discharge. Bears on claims 2-3 (reported as those commenters' characterizations).

4. Historical record

• [web] Timeline: video uploaded 26 Aug 2008; Energetic Forum discussion Sep 2008 - Mar 2009; blog post written about Feb 2009 (upload path of its PDFs), printed 18 Sep 2013; video page live with 49,218 views on 23 Apr 2012; by 2 Dec 2017 the videos and "entire channel" were gone (JW, Duncan on the blog); one video recovered 6 Mar 2018 from a private hard drive. Absence of evidence: the inventor stops appearing after about 2010-2012 (named on a Dec 2010 conference wish list, no sign he presented). Competing explanations for the disappearance of the channel: account deleted by the owner (loss of interest or criticism), YouTube removal, or move to another name; no record yet decides between them. A record that would decide: Wayback captures of the channel page before 2011, or a statement by the inventor elsewhere.
• [web] Blog author identified only as chadj2 ("Chad"); About page empty.