The alleged suppression (or weakening) is claimed to have occurred since the mid-19th century[6] and allegedly perpetrated by various government agencies, corporate powers, special interest groups, and fraudulent inventors. The special interest groups are usually claimed to be associated with the fossil fuel or nuclear industry,[7][8] whose business model would be threatened.[9][10]
Claims of suppression include:
The claim that the scientific community has controlled and suppressed research into alternative avenues of energy generation via the institutions of peer review and academic pressure.[11]
The claim that devices exist which are capable of extracting significant and usable power from pre-existing unconventional energy reservoirs, such as the quantum vacuum zero point energy, for little or no cost, but are being suppressed.[12][13][14]
Some notable people who have been claimed to be suppressed, harassed, or killed for their research are Stanley Meyer,[17]Eugene Mallove,[18]
and Nikola Tesla.[19] Free energy proponents claim that Tesla developed a system (the Wardenclyffe Tower) that could generate unlimited energy for free. However, his system was only intended to transmit energy for free; the system's energy would still need to be generated through conventional means.[20]
Notable proponents of the conspiracy theory include Gary McKinnon, a Scottish computer hacker who unlawfully accessed computer systems to look for evidence of a secret free energy device.[21]
^ abMilbank, Dana (18 September 2007). "There's the Red Vote, the Blue Vote…and the Little Green Vote". Washington Post. …the aliens' advanced technology, which uses nonpolluting fuel, could revolutionize the transport of goods and people on this planet and rejuvenate the biosphere.
^Gamble, Foster. "The Torus". Thrive. Clear Compass Media. Retrieved 26 September 2013. The torus, the fundamental energy pattern… Each individual's torus is distinct, but at the same time open and connected to every other in a continuous sea of infinite energy.
^Jaco, D. (2003). The complete idiot's guide to the politics of oil. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha. p. 191. ISBN978-1-59257-140-6. OCLC53402065.
^Smith, Richard A. (1995). "Interest Group Influence in the U. S. Congress". Legislative Studies Quarterly. 20 (1). Wiley: 89–139. doi:10.2307/440151. ISSN0362-9805. JSTOR440151.
^Hamblin, David (11 April 2002). "Flower power". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 March 2013. Siding with Puthoff are backyard inventors and conspiracy theorists, convinced that ZPE technology is being suppressed by the government, in league with oil companies and others, whose businesses would be threatened if it was allowed.
^Phenomenon Archives: Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion. Channel One. (video)
^David Alison (1994), "Another free-energy cover-up?: The Dennis Lee Story", Nexus, (June–July 1994)
^Frissell, Bob (2002). Nothing in this book is true, but it's exactly how things are : the esoteric meaning of the monuments on Mars. Berkeley, Calif: Frog Distributed by North Atlantic Books. ISBN1-58394-067-7. OCLC50065097.