Text: "Energy storage in the electrostatic field." Rigorously, the concept of energy should not be used with a potential, since the concept of energy (the capability to do work) is logically tied to a single force-gradient (single vector in a potential field), moving against a resisting mass. In the scalar view, the concept of 'anenergy' is utilized when one is dealing with multiple (or infinite) vector gradients (each possibly virtual as opposed to observable). In the case of a natural potential, one is dealing with an infinite number of virtual gradients, not just a single gradient. In the case of an artificial potential, one is dealing with a finite number of gradients (each of which would produce an observable force on an electron), where the ensemble vectorially sums to zero everywhere. The distinction between energy and anenergy is important; anenergy is more basic. Energy becomes just a special form of anenergy, as does mass. Thus the conservation of energy law is replaced by a more fundamental conservation law, the conservation of anenergy. It is the anenergy equivalence of anenergy, energy, and mass that is conserved, not just energy and the energy equivalence of mass. This is extremely important for the free energy researcher; unless this distinction between energy and anenergy is clearly understood, the researcher will not understand how to curve spacetime and obtain a free energy source locally, as permitted by general relativity. American Journal of Physics. 42(9), Sept. 1974. p. 788-790.

See Also: energy, anenergy, electrostatic field, electrostatic scalar potential, scalar field.

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