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2026-10-04 New Energy Times archive (newenergytimes.com)

Found through Google query 3. The PDF was downloaded with curl: https://newenergytimes.com/v2/archives/fic/N/N199311s.PDF File: files/New-Energy-News-v1n7-1993-11-Schaffranke-Ether-Research.pdf (scanned, 16 pp., no text layer). It was OCR'd with tesseract into /tmp/sigmaro_ocr (scratch). The quotes below come from that OCR; tag [web: OCR of scan p.10-11].

"Ether Research: Frontier Perspective in an Age of Revelation", by Rolf Schaffranke (pp.10-11)

This is the inventor's own later writing (priority 1). It is published under his real name, one year before his death. Content: - Opens with Einstein: "Science has no eternal theories." It cites Hannes Alfvén (Schaffranke dates his Nobel to "1979"; the prize was 1970 [memory, high]) on space plasma and Dirac 1954, "we see in the aether a new hope for the future" (the same Dirac quote as the book). - Einstein's ether: it quotes Sidelights on Relativity ("According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable"). Schaffranke says the Institute of Experimental Physics at a Polish university in Gdańsk "assembled all available Einstein's quotes on the subject of the ETHER" and that he translated it and submitted it to "the US journal Raum & Zeit, vol 2, no 5, 1991, by this reporter" (a lead to another Schaffranke publication). - Max Planck's "There is no matter as such!" quotation. - "The practical application of ether research in many countries is the development of so-called cosmic space energy converters". His examples: the Methernitha M/L converter, Linden, Switzerland ("output of 3-4 KW, with an input of essential ZERO", started via "the hundred year old Poggendorff-effect with a modified electrostatic Wimshurst generator"); Paramahamsa Tewari's Space Power Generator near Bombay ("2.5 more power than the input"); and a 30 May 1991 memo from Dr. Masayoshi Ihara, Cosmic Energy Association, Kyoto: "at least four free-energy groups have started here". - He closes with Beverly Rubik (Frontier Perspectives, Temple University): "The aim of science is NOT to satisfy the needs of vested interests".

Bearing on the claims: it shows that by 1993 Schaffranke's ether programme had moved from gravity control (1972/1977) to "space energy" conversion. Claim 2 (the ether exists; Michelson-Morley did not dispose of it) is restated with Einstein's 1920 ether lecture as the main authority. The article has no new data on Searl, Brown or Seike. The same issue (p.11) carries an unrelated Moebius-coil test report by N.A. Reiter.