IEEE PI2 Austin July 22, 2025 Tech Mtg: The Big Lie – Unlimited Free Electricity – Will not Die

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IEEE PI2 Austin, July 22, 2025, Tech Meeting In-Person 6 PM Central / 7 PM Eastern at  

Balcones Country Club, 8600 Balcones Club Drive.Austin, TX 78750

Dinner Provided 
Abstract:

In the mid-1980s, Joseph Newman, a self-educated inventor, announced that he could tap a previously unrecognized relativistic quantum mechanical phenomena in the copper wire in the stator of a specially designed generator. The result was a generator that produced much more energy than it took to make it operate. With much fanfare, it was proven that it did not work. About annually for the past two decades, videos appear on YouTube to convince a new generation that the invention works but was suppressed by a conspiracy between the government and the energy industry.

This talk highlights the technology and the testing in the context of the legal and political interactions that complicated the technical approach. The presentation aims to be an interesting and entertaining insight into professional ethics and the standard of care we all must exhibit in designing, building, and testing. It also shows that marketing can be successful, at least for a time, without being closely tethered to the truth.

 

Details:

Dinner and soft beverages will be provided for those with reservations. If you do not have a reservation you will not be able to eat.

Cost, to defray the room, dinner and refreshments cost: Thank you in advance:

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IEEE Student Members:

Free (must register in advance before July 17th with your IEEE member number) Skip the payment

 

All registrants After July 17th , 2025: Pay $30.00 at the the meeting in cash

Attendees must be registered before the event for food accommodations. Unfortunately, we are charged more for the meals after the advance registration date

 

For PDH hours, please email the PI2 Secretary, pi2-secretary@ieee.org.


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  • Balcones Country Club
  • 8600 Balcones Club Dive
  • Austin, Texas
  • United States 78750
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  • Officers

    Chair:  melvin.moncey@gmail.com

    Vice Chair: r.hebner@ieee.org

    Treasurer: neminer@sandia.gov

    Secretary: cgoertz@us.tuv.com

  • Starts 07 July 2025 05:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 21 July 2025 05:00 AM UTC
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  Speakers

Bob Hebner

Topic:

“The Big Lie – Unlimited Free Electricity – Will not Die”

Abstract:

In the mid-1980s, Joseph Newman, a self-educated inventor, announced that he could tap a previously unrecognized relativistic quantum mechanical phenomena in the copper wire in the stator of a specially designed generator. The result was a generator that produced much more energy than it took to make it operate. With much fanfare, it was proven that it did not work. About annually for the past two decades, videos appear on YouTube to convince a new generation that the invention works but was suppressed by a conspiracy between the government and the energy industry.

This talk highlights the technology and the testing in the context of the legal and political interactions that complicated the technical approach. The presentation aims to be an interesting and entertaining insight into professional ethics and the standard of care we all must exhibit in designing, building, and testing. It also shows that marketing can be successful, at least for a time, without being closely tethered to the truth.

Biography:

Bob Hebner led the testing of the Newman machine and was the key witness in the defense of the test results in the Federal court case concerning the machine. In the more productive parts of his career, he is a life Fellow of the IEEE and former VP for Technical Activities for the IEEE. As a manager, he filled the roles of Director, Deputy Director, CFO, and head of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory for NIST. He was also a program manager at DARPA. The capstone of his career was serving as a research center director at UT. He published over 200 papers mostly addressing the interaction of voltage, current, and electromagnetic fields with materials and components primarily for grid or defense applications. He is retired, but most who know him view him as failing retirement.