Smith-Don: Investigator sites log

Run 1, 2026-10-08 (Step I, first run)

Web time used: 9.4 minutes (563 s wall clock from the first search to the last page; cap 10 minutes). Notes and reading of saved files afterwards are not counted. Chrome (claude-in-chrome) was used for Google, YouTube, OpenCorporates, Espacenet and energyevo; curl for pages that allow scripted access (archive.org, tuks.nl, energeticforum, Google Patents publication page, rexresearch PDF, TeslaTech catalogue).

Keywords tried

Run 1 (2026-10-08): - "Donald L. Smith" patent "electrical energy generating" OR "dipole transformer generator" (Google) - "don smith" OR "donald l smith" AND (energy OR resonance) (archive.org advanced search) - Google Patents: inventor=Donald L Smith q=(resonance OR dipole OR "energy generating") before:priority:20100101; inventor="Lee Smith Donald"; publication MXNL02000035A - "Don Smith" free energy inventor died OR obituary OR "passed away" - OpenCorporates: transworld energy (jurisdiction us_tx) - Wayback CDX: altenergy-pro.com*, 28an.com/altenergypro* - "Donald Lee Smith" "resonancia magnética" OR Monterrey OR "Nuevo León" energía transformador - "Donald Lee Smith" obituary "Spring, Texas" OR "Spring, TX" - "Don Smith" free energy replication OR replicated energeticforum OR overunity.com "Don Smith device" - Google Books: "Don Smith" "Tesla Society" energy device 1994 OR 1996 - Utkin "Don Smith" pdf amplification energy - site:patents.google.com "Smith" "Spring, TX" OR "Spring, Tex" resonance "air core" OR dipole energy generator - "Don Smith" free energy lecture 2006 video "Tesla Society" OR "NUEnergy" OR "Bird on the wire" - YouTube: Don Smith free energy lecture 2006 full; "Don Smith" 1994 Tesla Society lecture; Joel Lagace Don Smith - "TeslaTech" 2006 conference "Don Smith" Albuquerque OR "Salt Lake" OR speakers - "08/100,074" OR "08/100074" patent application - "Don Smith" Смит резонанс трансформатор энергия избыточная - "Don Smith" OR "Donald Smith" Spring Texas inventor "free energy" OR "energy generating" newspaper OR chronicle 1993..2008 - site:energeticforum.com "Donald Smith Devices too good to be true" - "Don Smith" resonance energy "passed away" OR "has died" OR "RIP" energeticforum OR overunity OR peswiki - "Donald Lee Smith" "November 22, 2010" OR "22 Nov 2010" Texas - "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 - Espacenet: in="SMITH DONALD LEE" AND pd<2011; in="LEE SMITH DONALD"; pn=MXNL02000035A

Not yet tried (next run): "Juan Antonio Villarreal Gutierrez" + patente; "Donald L. Smith" "TransWorld" Spring OR Houston assumed name; "Bruce Perreault" "Inventor's Weekend" 2001 program; "Don Smith" "Monroe Fischer" on other forums; "Don Smith" "atomic battery"; "Don Smith" Bearden "2172240"; Lagace's own site or channel; "International Tesla Society" 1994 convention program Smith; ExtraOrdinary Science 1994-1997 issues for other Smith articles.

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

• Mexican patent application MX NL02000035 A, "Transformer generator of magnetic resonance into electric energy", applicant and inventor Donald Lee Smith, 8110 Bent Oak Lane, Spring, Texas; filed 15 Nov 2002 at the Nuevo León office (agent Juan Antonio Villarreal Gutierrez, Monterrey); published 20 May 2004 as "SOLICITUD de PATENTE"; Google Patents status "Application Discontinuation"; family of one. Copy in research/files/MXNL02000035A.pdf. Bears on claim 5 (dipole/plate collector) and claim 7 (patent history). [web: https://patents.google.com/patent/MXNL02000035A/en]
• ExtraOrdinary Science, Apr/May/Jun 1996 (Vol. VIII no. 2), Smith, "Electrical Energy System": the published form of the "cycles per second squared" essay. Example B is printed as "= 500 x One Million squared" and "more than 500 MegaJoules", differing from the binder's "greater than 50 Mega K-Joules"; adds that device B "sits comfortably on a breakfast table" and that its starting source "remains fully charged at all times from the System". Bears on claims 1, 2 and 7. [web: https://archive.org/details/electrical-energy-system-extra-ordinary-science-magazine; read: page image p.7]
• Smith's own account of the 1996 suitcase demonstration (NuEnergy Yahoo group post, about 2001): "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". That is 3.6 W in and 9.6 kW out by his figures. The only quantitative performance statement by Smith found so far; it bears on claims 1-3. [web: https://energyevo.org/2015/01/18/updated-compilation-of-important-info-don-smith-shared-to-nuenergy-yahoo-group/]
• Recordings of Smith's lectures: 23 July 1994 (International Tesla Society; the binder's speech), 1995, 18 July 1996 (workshop, 2 h 39 min), 1998, 2001 (Inventor's Weekend), 2005 (TeslaTech ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference, "Resonant Energy Power System"). They are the deciding first-hand records for what was demonstrated. [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHr3eDELyHk ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPIfDGfMGs ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duR1aYqiLzc]
• About 170 pages of Smith originals (books, handouts, hand-drawn papers sent to "Alex") are held by Rick Friedrich; a Smith paper "CAPACITOR FUNCTIONS" dated 14 Feb 2004 is on Scribd. More of Smith's corpus exists than the project's 96-page binder. [web: video descriptions above; Google result for Scribd]

2. Supporting information by others

• 1994 demonstration, as described by Rick Friedrich (seller of a Smith-derived kit, an interested party): the flat-coil setup was run "to the point of the neon bulbs"; the four-secondary Tesla coil setup was not loaded; part of the demo failed and the audience reacted negatively; Friedrich attributes the failure to a 12 V battery on a 24 V module. Smith said then that a battery had held its charge for a month (later "a year", then "2 years"). Bears on claims 3 and 4 and on the binder p.36 self-recharging note. [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHr3eDELyHk]
• Bench reproduction "Reproducing the Don Smith Effect" (energeticforum, tswift, 24 Jul 2016): flyback (30 kHz), battery, "kickback diode", earth ground; about 1 W continuous; reports a battery "self-charging" effect and flags a possible meter artefact himself. Names Marc Belanger and "Zilano" as other claimed replicators. Bears on claim 3. [web: https://www.energeticforum.com/forum/energetic-forum-discussion/renewable-energy/13932-reproducing-the-don-smith-effect]
• Joel Lagace's 2026 bench videos ("Don Smith Real Power", 1 Jun 2026; "LIVE Mode"; "Load Backwards", Oct 2026). The author of the project's secondary document now claims a working "modified Don Smith replication" with a cold input inverter and an output that melts consumer power supplies. Bears on claim 6. [web: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiji0JqY90o]

3. Closely related work

• Vladimir Utkin, "Free Energy: Nikola Tesla Secrets for Everybody" (PDF, about 2012): describes a Smith arrangement in which "the capacitor is charged by sparks and powerful displacement current is produced. The transformer with the ferromagnetic core is collecting this current" [corrected 2026-10-08 after QE: the PDF reads "is produced", not "is around"; it is Utkin's caption for a 2006 rendering titled "Don Smith Device" (credited to Zero Point Films), not Smith's words]. This is the displacement-current capture idea of Lagace's claim 6, stated earlier by a different author. Also gives "Bird on the wire" as Smith's name for the technology. [web: http://www.free-energy-info.tuks.nl/VladimirUtkin.pdf; saved in research/files/]
• Smith links his device to the Bearden motionless electromagnetic generator line (Canadian patent CIPO 2172240, cited in his 9 Nov 2001 e-mail): "a close relative of Tom Bearden's Device. However I used a different Coupling System". [web: energyevo compilation]
• J. E. Dalton II, "Radiant Energy Induction Using RF Pulsed Plasma" (2014) discusses Smith's Electrical Energy Generating System (not opened). [web: http://gratisenergi.se/rfplasma, via Google]
• Patrick Kelly's Chapter 31 (secondary, favourable): restates Smith's claims; credits him with "at least forty eight different devices"; reports a reader's point that an output choke's wire looks too thin for the stated currents. [web: http://www.free-energy-info.tuks.nl/SChapt31.html]

4. Historical record

• Patent outcome: Kelly (2019) says Smith "was granted one patent" in May 2004, and Perreault (2002) relays Smith saying his Mexican patents "have been approved"; the IMPI publication is an application ("SOLICITUD") and Google Patents records "Application Discontinuation". The deciding record is IMPI's file history for NL/a/2002/000035. Bears on claim 7.
• Planned validation that did not happen (absence of evidence): for Inventor's Weekend 2002, Perreault announced Smith would bring "good test equipment to validate his claims"; Smith then had a stroke after artery surgery and did not present. Competing explanations for the lack of later test data: illness (documented here); commercial or contractual secrecy (Smith's own "contract obligations", in the Kelly part of the archive.org compilation); no working device. Evidence for each is so far only the statements quoted. [web: https://energyevo.org/2016/08/05/nuenergy-and-freeenergy-missing-posts/]
• Edited 2001 recording: Perreault says he cut about five minutes of Smith's 2001 presentation where Monroe Fischer questioned Smith, to protect a speaker weakened by a stroke; a critic web site called the event report misleading. The uncut tape and the critic's report would decide. [web: same page]
• Events with dates: International Tesla Society convention speech, 23 Jul 1994 (binder; video); 1996 International Tesla Symposium workshop "Don Smith, Free Energy Device", Thursday 18 Jul 1996, Colorado Springs Sheraton [read: research/files/1996-ExtraOrdinary-Science..._djvu.txt]; Inventor's Weekend 2001 (and 2002 cancelled); ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, 2005 (TeslaTech catalogue and channel; tesla3 and Kelly say 2006); death 22 Nov 2010 (forum snippet only; no obituary found yet).
• Company: no Texas TransWorld Energy entity is shown active in 1992-2002 on OpenCorporates; the two "TRANSWORLD ENERGY, INC." entries forfeited in 1983 and 1987. Smith's company may have been an assumed name; county DBA records would decide. The MX filing names Smith personally, not a company.
• Web site: Smith's site altenergy-pro.com; Kelly says it was "taken over by Big Oil" (his characterization, no evidence given; a lapsed domain bought by a reseller is the other explanation). Wayback check blocked this run.

Corrections to earlier documents

• claims.md, "Source gap", says the folder holds "no ... patent grant". That still holds, and the web record does not add one: the only located filing (MX NL02000035 A) is an application that was discontinued. Later documents should not repeat Kelly's "granted in May 2004" without this qualification. Evidence: IMPI front page "SOLICITUD de PATENTE"; Google Patents status "Application Discontinuation".
• facts.json entry for Resonance-Energy-Methods-Don-Smith.pdf pp.36-53 and the deep read: the 1996 magazine printing of example B gives "500 x One Million squared" and "more than 500 MegaJoules", not the binder's "greater than 50 Mega K-Joules". The two versions differ. The deep read's statement about the binder stands, but reviewers should note that the published 1996 version has a third figure. Evidence: research/files/1996-ExtraOrdinary-Science-Electrical-Energy-System.pdf, page image p.7 (magazine p.37).
• claims.md, claim 7 and facts.json describe the pending US application 08/100,074 (4 Feb 1992) as Smith's patent position. Add that Smith also filed in Mexico on 15 Nov 2002 (MX NL02000035 A) for the dipole/plate transformer generator (binder pp.10-19).
• The Lagace document (don-smith.pdf, p.47) says Smith's work "peaked over 35 years ago", i.e. before about 1990. The dated record found here puts Smith's public activity at 1994-2005 (lectures, the 1996 article, the 2002 MX filing). This corrects a statement in the secondary source, not in our files; facts.json may note it.