A typology of independent inventors in energy and propulsion, set out in PURSUE Release 06 record DOW-UAP-D134, Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor: Where Will the Next Major Innovations Arise?, a Defense Intelligence Reference Document of 30 March 2010 (DIRDs).
The paper sorts maverick inventors by formal training and money into five types, and lists what they pursue: permanent magnets, cold and warm fusion, zero-point fluctuations, batteries, rotating systems and approaches to modulating the local gravity field. It sorts inventors by training and money: a negligible chance that inventors with no training and little money contribute anything of significance; those with no training but some money much more dangerous, because money lets them appear to have something of value, though useful in showing others where not to tread; the trained in an entirely different league. It concludes that trained inventors with little or some money are the best choice and should be monitored and encouraged, that university innovators are often hidebound by dogma, and that the rest need only be watched casually. It names no one to do the monitoring.
The paper names no device and no inventor. The wiki’s entries on Zero-Point Energy, Anti-Gravity, the Searl Effect Generator and the Motionless Magnetic Generator cover the kind of territory it describes.
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DIRDs · PURSUE · Zero-Point Energy · Anti-Gravity · Searl Effect Generator · Motionless Magnetic Generator · Nonlocal Signalling