> Do you (or anyone else) have more details concerning Hutchinson's work?
Correct spelling is John Hutchison, if you care to do a search - but
there's not much about him on the web, and he doesn't have a site nor an
email - in fact he doesn't have a computer, says he's too broke for it. He
lives in Vancouver, is an independant free energy & Tesla researcher, and
he's been at it for almost 20 years.
Last year I phoned him, for a TV program I was doing on alternative science,
and he sent me about 10 hours of video ! I must say this is the weirdest
thing I ever saw in my life. Imagine a small closet-like room with dirty
walls, a concrete slab sticked on an old oil barrel for a work-bench, and
various objects on the bench (metal bars, cans, milk bottles, bowls, paper,
whatever...) doing the craziest things - jumping suddenly up to the roof and
sticking there, jerking or squirming, melting and shifting shapes,
crumbling, ripping themselves open... All that filmed with a small amateur
camera with no sound... You never get to see the equipment, it's supposed to
be in another room. There's some still pictures of it - big high-voltage
racks, Van der Graaf type gizmos, monstrous coils, real Frankenstein's lab
stuff...
John has been featured in a lot of TV shows, notably in Japan, with this
footage. Unfortunately his big lab was dismantled long ago and he doesn't do
this kind of tricks anymore. FE researchers who checked on him (I have their
names in a file somewhere...) seemed to conclude it was more likely a very
strong PK (psychokinesis) effect than electromagnetism. Anyway it was
completely impredictible and uncontrollable.Right now he's working on
mineral and crystal materials that generate small amounts of electricity, a
bit like TT Brown's petrovoltaics, and still hopes to make big
contributions to free energy.
I spent hours looking at these films again and again, and I still haven't
made up my mind. Obviously it could be a complete hoax. Everything could
have been done with clever effets - transparent invisible threads, moving
magnets, inflatable rubber painted as metal (you never see underneath the
bench...). But if it's the case he's never made any money out of it - as I
said he's quite broke at the moment. Maybe for the fun of it ? Really, I
don't know what to think. He's real nice and cool on the phone... Looks like
a spaced-out middle-aged hippie... Well, I'll stop for now. This guy had me
scratching my head like nobody. A real living enigma !
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