2026-10-08 energyevo.org: compilations of Smith's posts to the NuEnergy and FreeEnergy Yahoo groups
Site run by a Smith follower; it republishes e-mails and posts. The posts are Smith's own words (priority 1) or those of Bruce A. Perreault, the organiser of "Inventor's Weekend" (an interested party: event organiser and video seller).
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"Don Smith" "NuEnergy" Yahoo group compilation OR "nuenergy.org";"Inventors Weekend" OR "Inventor's Weekend" 2001 "Don Smith" nuenergy;"Monroe Fischer" "Don Smith" Inventor's Weekend(only the energyevo page). - Script fetch blocked by "Bot Verification"; read in Chrome with keyword extraction.
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- https://energyevo.org/2015/01/18/updated-compilation-of-important-info-don-smith-shared-to-nuenergy-yahoo-group/ [web] - Post headed "Smith about self-sustainable devices" (undated in the compilation; it sits before an e-mail dated "Fri, 09 Nov 2001", and refers to a photo at nuenergy.org/iw/2001): "This is the Device from the small Black Suitcase ( Briefcase Size ) presented at the 1996 International Tesla Convention at Colorado Springs, Colorado. Input was 12 V DC at 300 milliamperes and the Output measured by an Electrical Engineer, picked by the audience, was a continuous 120 V at 80 Amperes as Documented in the VCR Tape of the Presentation. You may see a photo of the Device taken at 'Inventor's Week End' and shown to the Audience." Then: "This is a close relative of Tom Bearden's Device. However I used a different Coupling System" (citing "Drake's Radio Cyclopedia (1929)"). - Numbers as stated: input 12 V x 0.3 A = 3.6 W; output 120 V x 80 A = 9,600 W, a ratio of about 2,700. Smith names the measurer only as "an Electrical Engineer, picked by the audience"; the engineer's name, the instruments and the load are not given. This is Smith's own account, written about five years after the event; no second account of the measurement found yet. The workshop itself is independently documented (ExtraOrdinary Science 1996 programme: "Don Smith, Free Energy Device", 18 July 1996, Colorado Springs). The recording he cites would decide it: Rick Friedrich lists a 1996 video (2 h 39 min, https://youtu.be/INPIfDGfMGs). - E-mail of 9 Nov 2001 from Don Smith on a Bearden-related Canadian patent "CIPO - Patent - 2172240" ("An apparatus in the form of a genetraor with no moving parts for direct conversion of magnetostatic energy ...") (related work, priority 3; Smith links his device to Bearden's motionless electromagnetic generator line).
- https://energyevo.org/2016/08/05/nuenergy-and-freeenergy-missing-posts/ [web] - Bruce A. Perreault (2002, before the 4 October 2002 Inventor's Weekend registration deadline): Smith would present material kept "as proprietary information up until just recently. He has informed me that he is doing this now because his patents in Mexico have been approved. Don also tells me that he will be bringing along some good test equipment to validate his claims." - Perreault, "Don Smith's Health": "Those of us who attended Inventor's Weekend were sadly disappointed that Don Smith could not give his presentation ... Don had another stroke shortly after his surgery that has given him a speech impairment." - Perreault, on the 2001 tape: "Yes, I did edit one tape, it was about five minutes of Don Smith's presentation because Monroe Fischer got up and confused Mr. Smith and made him look like an idiot ... Everyone at this event knew that Don had suffered from a severe stroke ... If you hit him too fast with questions he gets confused." He says a critical report on another web site ("Sanser's website", per the text) was "a fabrication", and that "There will be no camcorders allowed at Inventor's Weekend." - Bearing (absence of evidence): a planned validation with "good test equipment" in 2002 did not happen because Smith was ill; the 2001 recording was cut by the organiser at the point where an audience member (Monroe Fischer) questioned Smith. Competing explanations for the edit: protecting an ill speaker (Perreault's stated reason) versus removing an unfavourable exchange (the critic site's reading). The uncut tape or the critic's report would decide; neither found yet.