Are We Inside a Revolution in Physics?

If so, it would solve the climate and energy crises almost overnight.

I have sent more rambling, manic, and inconsiderately long voice notes over the past two weeks than in the rest of my entire life. Why? Because it looks like we might be in the midst of a technological breakthrough that would dwarf the whole history of science, give or take a paradigm—and, you know, I care about you, and we have to do this together. Right? Right??

My own paranoid manic-depression aside, here’s what seems to have been unfolding in relatively quiet corners of the internet for some years now:

An Australian mad scientist may have cracked cold fusion, unifying modern physics with alchemy, sacred geometry, and all manner of esoterica—and not just theoretically. He has actually built and tested what he calls a thunderstorm generator (TSG), a device made of simple mechanical components that can be attached to the exhaust of any combustion engine (or to any smoke stack), converting the CO and CO2 in the exhaust back into O2 at atmospheric levels.

To spell it out: if true, that would mean we’re on the precipice of eliminating 2/3 of our greenhouse gas emissions.

Perhaps the most concrete evidence I’ve seen are the videos taken by independent analysts hooking up said TSG to gas-powered generators and filming the screen of their gas meters, making comparisons between a modified and unmodified generator (emissions from the modified generator go to near zero, oxygen to near 20%). (The YouTuber behind that link describes himself as a student of Bendall’s, and has many other videos on the TSG, Bendall’s theories, and, as his channel’s name indicates, alchemical science.)

Also compelling, if a little frumpy, is Alpha Prospects, a company that is managing the licensing and distribution of Bendall’s patents and technology (which you can read about in more detail at his website, http://strikefoundation.earth), and a recent paper published in Nature addressing what seems like only a small piece of the technical puzzle, but nonetheless ends suggestively: “The observed isotope gases produced from reactors having excess heat verifies that water can trigger a peculiar nuclear reaction and produce energy.”

And then there is Bob Greenyer, a charming lunatic and son of a Freemason who, despite not being a physicist by training, seems to pass as one, and is welcomed at physics conferences to present his findings synthesizing under-appreciated research from decades past with his own work at the Martin Fleisman Memorial Project, an independent research group exploring low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), formerly known as cold fusion. While I’m not up to speed on the history of Bendall’s and Greenyer’s collaboration, they frequently appear in videos and livestreams together, and have a shared obsession with fractal toroidal moments, or the plasmoid structures that appear to transmute matter (i.e., one element into another, or raw energy).

Finally, I’ll give my personal impression of this mind-(and-matter-)melting possibility, because I expect much of the above to give a scruffy one: while there are good reasons to be skeptical (especially in the age of generative AI, which I don’t think is involved here), it all looks rather plausible to me. My B.S. in Computer Engineering is distant and dusty and not quite up to the task of grokking all of Bendall’s theories, but I find that what I can grasp makes sense, and all the characters involved, while eccentric, seem sincere and trustworthy. What I find most digestible about Bendall is that his theories seem to be not so much original as a culmination of a long intellectual history stretching back to at least Pythagoras, including the astronomer Johannes Kepler, the naturalist and inventor Viktor Schauberger, and Nikolai Tesla, amongst others. Schauberger in particular spent much of his life exploring the possibility of using implosion as a means of producing nearly unlimited quantities of energy from air and water, a concept that Bendall appears to have brought to fruition in the design of a turbine.

Schauberger, in fact, deserves an article of his own, so for now I am going to trust you to take all this with a grain of salt, and ask you to cross our fingers and hope that it turns out. What a world we could make.

Thank you, Mark Alexander, my dear friend and compatriot in exploring the liminal space between science and spirituality, for pointing me in this direction.