2026-10-08 Patrick J. Kelly, "A Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices", Chapter 31 (tuks.nl mirror)

Secondary source: a compiler and enthusiast who presents Smith favourably; he reports Smith's claims and adds his own reading of the circuits. Not Smith's words except where he reproduces Smith's documents.

Searched

• Google: "Don Smith" free energy inventor died OR obituary OR "passed away" (led to Chapter 31).
• Fetched http://www.free-energy-info.tuks.nl/SChapt31.html by script (saved as pages/kelly-ch31.txt) and grepped for: died, patent, video, DVD, 1996, 2006, kilowatt, demonstrat, Tesla Society, measured, Big Oil, suitcase.

Found [web: http://www.free-energy-info.tuks.nl/SChapt31.html]

• "Donald Lee Smith died a few years ago ... There are several videos on the web, showing some of his lectures. He produced one pdf document which is shown at the end of this chapter, and in May 2004 he was granted one patent." The patent is given as "Patent NL 02000035 A 20th May 2004 Inventor: Donald Lee Smith TRANSFORMER GENERATOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE INTO ELECTRIC ENERGY". The IMPI document is an application, not a grant (see 2026-10-08-patents-mx-espacenet.md).
• "Don stated clearly in one of his lectures, that he never did disclose the full details of his designs. However, Don says that he discloses enough for somebody who is experienced in radio-frequency electronics to be able to deduce the things which he does not disclose."
• "Don produced at least forty eight different devices which draw energy from what Don prefers to call 'the ambient background'. His devices are capable of supplying kilowatts of excess energy and in most cases they do not require any input energy" (Kelly's statement; no test cited).
• A video "recorded in 2006" on metacafe; Kelly writes that Smith's web site "has been taken over by Big Oil who have filled it with innocuous similar-sounding things" (Kelly's characterization; he gives no evidence for who took the domain; a lapsed domain bought by a domain reseller is the competing explanation; a WHOIS history of altenergy-pro.com would decide).
• "The present situation in 2019 is that few people understand Don's designs fully (and I myself, fall into that category)".
• Kelly reports a reader's point that the output choke in one Smith photograph "appears to be wound with wire that is far too small diameter to carry the currents mentioned by Don" (a point against the stated current, reported by Kelly).
• Kelly describes a neon-tube driver used by Smith producing "9,000 volts at a frequency of 35,100 Hz" with a Variac (archive.org copy, line 9715).

Bearing on claims

• Claims 1 and 4 (frequency-squared, L-1/L-2 turn gain): Kelly restates them and builds his circuit readings on them; no measurement.
• Claim 5 (dipole/plate collector): Kelly reproduces the MX application's text.
• Historical record: Kelly is the main channel through which Smith's documents reached the public; his "granted" statement is the likely source of later repetitions.