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2026-10-08 YouTube and TeslaTech: recordings of Smith's lectures, 1994-2005; Lagace videos 2026

Searched

  • YouTube: Don Smith free energy lecture 2006 full; "Don Smith" 1994 Tesla Society lecture; Joel Lagace Don Smith.
  • Google: "Don Smith" free energy lecture 2006 video "Tesla Society" OR "NUEnergy" OR "Bird on the wire"; "TeslaTech" 2006 conference "Don Smith" Albuquerque OR "Salt Lake" OR speakers.
  • Script fetch: https://tesla3.com/teslatech ; https://www.teslatech.info/ttservices/catalog.pdf (saved in pages/).
  • Video metadata read in Chrome (ytInitialPlayerResponse: title, publish date, description); videos were paused, not watched.

Found

  1. Rick Friedrich, "Don Smith Resonance Energy Crafting Systematic Index" series (Friedrich sells the "Resonant Induction Coupler Kit" at R-Charge and an index book and course: an interested party) [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHr3eDELyHk, published 2018-07-18]. - Videos listed: 1994 (BHr3eDELyHk), 1995 (_8JwIlHLOUI), 1996 (INPIfDGfMGs, 9,559 s), 1998 (-Ct5mjcyuhQ / Mnoy2D4wuf8), 2001 (mHhfNjPk7o4), audio 2003, 2005 (yLjt3y1_ceY, oyionE-sCis), and an eighth (xBF8VPYGl-g) [web: descriptions of BHr3eDELyHk and INPIfDGfMGs]. - Friedrich on the 1994 video: "This is the first Don Smith public demonstration video. July 23, 1994" (the date of the binder's speech, pp.67-75). "Thanks to Don Smith's 'friend' Alex for making this recording available". He reports "the negative reaction of some people near the end of this video after some of the demos had some problems", and gives his explanation: Smith "had attempted to run the setup with a 12V battery when the module was for 24V input"; he says he holds "privately sent hand-drawn papers that Don sent to Alex of that demo where it shows the two 12V batteries in series". He also reports: Smith "talked about just discovering the battery self-charging part of the system just a month prior, and that the battery remained at the same charge for a month. A year later he says it was for a year, and 2 years later the batteries were still the same"; "People were further frustrated with Don for not directly loading the 4 secondary tesla coil setup"; Smith "runs it to the point of the neon bulbs". [web] - Bearing: first-hand audiovisual record of the 1994 speech that the binder prints; the description itself is a witness-style account (Friedrich's reading of the tape) of a demonstration that drove neon bulbs but was not loaded, with audience doubt recorded. The tape is the deciding record for what was shown. - Friedrich (1996 video description): "There is about 170 letter size pages worth of Don Smith original material that I have processed" (books, handouts, videos "from the 1990's to mid 2000's") [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPIfDGfMGs]. A larger corpus of Smith originals than the project's 96-page binder exists in private hands.
  2. TeslaTech, "Don Smith - Resonant Energy Power System, Part 1, Extraordinary Technology Conference, 2005", TeslaTech's own channel, 3,159 s, published 2022-01-28 [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duR1aYqiLzc]. The TeslaTech catalogue lists Don Smith in the "2005 Complete Conference Set (Includes 19 DVDs)" [read: pages/tt-catalog.pdf text]; tesla3.com lists "Mr Don Smith - 'Resonance Energy Power System'" for "The 2006 Extra Ordinary Technology Conference (Jul 27-30/Salt Lake City)" [web: https://tesla3.com/teslatech]. Kelly says the metacafe video was "recorded in 2006". The organiser's own catalogue and channel say 2005; the year of the Salt Lake City talk is 2005 or 2006, unresolved.
  3. Joel Lagace (author of the project's secondary document don-smith.pdf) has YouTube videos "Don Smith Real Power" (published 2026-06-01), "Don Smith LIVE Mode" (about June 2026) and "Don Smith Load Backwards" (about early October 2026) [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiji0JqY90o ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeJgKazZOjM ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t2a3GsryKk]. From the "Real Power" description: "I completely cracked the Don Smith mystical process"; "this modified Don Smith replication, which operates as an open thermodynamic system"; "the input inverter stays completely cold running at around 79 degrees without the fan even revving up while the output side is generating enough intense power to overheat and melt standard consumer power supplies"; section heading "Inverter Isolation and the Gating Effect". No input or output power figures in the part read. Bearing: claim 6 (Lagace's reconstruction) now has bench demonstrations by its author; the videos would show what was measured.