Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries (34 page)

"BUILD MACHINES, OR DIE"

He himself was drafted in 1943, despite his age. After a brief stint as commander of a parachute group in Italy, he was ordered by Himmler [Hitler's chief lieutenant] to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Himmler's greeting, passed on by the camp's military leader, gave him a choice—death by hanging, or develop machines which used the energy he had discovered. He was told to lead a scientific team of the best engineers and stress-analysts from among the prisoners.

The work was based on Schauberger's discovery of how to develop a low-pressure zone at the atomic level. This had happened in seconds when his laboratory device whirled air or water "radially and axially" at a falling temperature. He referred to the resulting force as diamagnetic levitation power. He emphasized that nature uses indirect—what Schauberger called reactionary—suction force.

He insisted that the technical team from the concentration camp be treated as free men would. After their research headquarters was bombed, they were transferred to Leonstein and started a flying disc project to be powered with his trout-inspired turbine which rotated air into a twisting type of oscillation resulting in a buildup of immense power causing levitation. A small model which crashed against the ceiling glowed blue-green at first as it rose, then trailed a silvery glow.

According to researcher Norbert Harthun, his devices were no more than laboratory models by the end of the War. However, the American military officers who showed up a few days after the model hit the ceiling seemed to know what he was doing. They seized everything. He was interrogated by a high-ranking officer, and put in "protective custody" for six months. The officers also heavily questioned his helpers. Russian members of the team later returned to the Soviet Union.

Alexandersson's book quotes a letter from Schauberger saying he was confined by the occupying forces for nearly a year because of his knowledge of atomic energy (even though his research was directed toward implosion—which was labelled fusion—rather than toward the destructive fission approach to the atom).

A few tantalizing bits of lore about Hitler's "flying saucers" rose into public awareness years later. The July 27, 1956 Munich publication Da Neue Zeitalter said that".. . Viktor Schauberger was the inventor and discoverer of this new motive power—implosion, which, with the use of only air and water, generated light, heat and motion." The first unmanned flying disc was tested February 19, 1945 near Prague, the German periodical claimed; the disc could hover motionless in the air and could fly as fast backwards as forwards. "This 'flying disc' had a diameter of 50 metres."

Viktor wrote to a friend in 1958 that the craft test-flown near Prague was built according to the model he made at the concentration camp, and it rose to 15,000 metres in three minutes. It then flew horizontally at 2,200 kilometres per hour. "It was only after the war that I came to hear, through one of the workers under my direction, a Czech, that further intensive development was in progress; however, there was no answer to my enquiry."

There is no doubt Viktor Schauberger knew how to build an implosion device which levitated. His problem was how to brake it. Test models generated so much energy that an entire engine lifted itself off the floor, levitated in the high-ceilinged test hall, and crashed against the ceiling.

At the end of the Second World War, American and Russian military confiscated his models, diagrams and even the materials he used. Reportedly the Russians even burned his apartment in case they had missed any technological secrets hidden there. Did anyone carry on the levitationcraft work after Schauberger's wartime research team was split up? The answer may be buried in some country's classified defense files.

After the Far East Treaty was signed, Schauberger took up his research again. He had lost his financial assets in the war, but he stubbornly persisted from his home at Linz, and took out patents. Despite having no money, he thought he could help the world by turning his inventive genius and his insights toward agriculture.

Bitter about the effects of both the chemical industry and deforestation upon agriculture, he stated, "The farmers work hand-in-hand with our foresters. The blood of the earth continuously weakens, and the productivity of the soil decreases."

When forests can no longer nurture water sources which supply vitality, then farmland downstream cannot build up a voltage in the ground which is necessary for keeping parasitic bacteria in balance, he observed. Noticing that soil dried out after being ploughed with iron ploughs, he built copper-plated ploughs. The ploughs successfully increased crops, but the greed of special-interest groups stopped the venture.

Schauberger continued to come up with innovations to help grow healthy crops, until all his work was halted in 1958. Walter and Viktor were in the United States from June 26 through September 20, 1958, living together day and night, and Walter emerged from the experience with a new appreciation of Viktor's knowledge. But their joint attempt to get his implosion generator funded and developed was derailed.

PROMISES PROM THE USA

Little is known publicly about their trip to America except a few key aspects. In the winter of 1958 two men, which European researchers refer to as "American agents," visited Viktor and convinced him to go to America for what they promised would be only three months. He was led to believe that the purpose would be to finally convert his knowledge into the manufacturing of beneficial devices.

It turned out to be an ordeal which the father and son had not expected. They were flown to a sweltering hot climate—Texas in summer— which stressed Viktor's health. He was now nearly 73 years old. Over the months Viktor became increasingly angry because the men and their associates now were in no hurry to set up a facility and develop implosion motors to generate clean power. "Now we have plenty of time," was their reply.

At first trusting the sincerity of his hosts, Schauberger had brought all his documents and devices to Texas, and was then asked to write down everything he knew. He co-operated and the material was sent to an atomic technology expert who met with the Schaubergers for three days in September. According to Olaf Alexandersson, the expert from New York said "... The path which Mr. Schauberger in his treatise and with his models has followed is the biotechnical path of the future. What Schauberger proposes and asserts is correct. In four years, all this will be confirmed."

The two Schaubergers expected to go home now; three months had passed. But the Texas group apparently demanded that the father and son remain in the United States of America and live in the Arizona desert. The Schaubergers refused. After much argument, the Americans relented and said Viktor could travel home, but first he had to sign a contract and agree to take a course in English. Unfortunately the contract was in English and Viktor did not know the language. His biographers say he was pressured to sign quickly; their flight would leave shortly and there was no time to quibble.

Viktor at that point only wanted to get out of the hellish heat and away from these deceptive people. He signed. Walter refused to sign. He would be on dangerous ground with immigrant authorities if he signed such a contact, for one thing.

After Viktor gave in and signed, suddenly there was ample time before they needed to go to the airport. Champagne corks popped and their hosts celebrated.

One can only imagine the conversation between father and son on the flight home. At last we can go home; get away from those thieves. But what have we done?

Walter probably had the heartbreaking task of spelling it out to his father. "Yes, it is as I told you when they were pressuring you to sign; the contract says that now you can't write about or even talk about your past-and-future discoveries, and you are bound to give everything you know to that boss of the Texas consortium. Their contract says they now have all the rights to the 'Schauberger business' as they put it."

Was Schauberger's implosion process considered by the American officials to be "cold fusion"? The Austrian observer of nature apparently did arrive at results related to modern sub-atomic research. In the late 1980s, an independent researcher tried to get information on the Texas incident. Erwin Krieger's attempt to get information through the Freedom of Information Act failed; he was told by a form letter that the material may be related to national security.

"I DON'T EVEN OWN MYSELF"

Viktor Schauberger was at the end a despairing man. In the last few days of his life he reportedly cried over and over, "They took everything from me, everything. I don't even own myself!" Stripped of hope, he died five days after they returned home.

His passion for learning nature's ways and then applying that knowledge to life-enhancing technology, and his efforts to interest those who could fund its development, had let him a long way from the peaceful forest. The more recent loss was the legal right to work on his implosion technology. But how did that compare to what seemed like the loss of his lifetime of hard-won insights? The world had ignored warnings—from him and others—about what would happen if natural forests disappeared en masse, and his planet's weather, water, soil and air deteriorated as a result. Nature was thrown out of balance. Too much of the life-destructive motions and not enough of the life-creative motions? In Schauberger's despairing view, humanity was headed towards a mental and spiritual sluggishness, easily controlled by dictators who step in at a time of food shortages.

More than thirty-five years after Viktor Schauberger's death, there is a surge of concern for the planet's health. The health of its inhabitants—in the sea and on land—is in turn deteriorating. Will humanity turn toward Viktor Schauberger's insights? There are signs: maverick scientists are developing theories such as how a subtle energy (unknown field structure) may be drawn into use by shapes and vortexian movements. In Europe, new books and magazines bring out Schauberger's teachings; nonconventional scientists teach that the opposite poles in nature (light and dark, warm and cold, pressure and suction, male and female and so on) are necessary to create movement. Further, these books say, without movement there is no life, and the force created in healthy moving water is the life force.

Cambridge-educated John Davidson of England looks at "a possible similarity between magnetic alignment of atoms in iron, and alignment of molecules of water moved in Schauberger-advocated hyperbolic spirals ... we create effects which were not apparent beforehand."

Across the Atlantic, nuclear physicist Dan Davidson suggested mathematical research into natural river meanders, naturally occurring spirals and other geometric patterns in nature, to find equations for tapping the diamagnetic forces which Viktor Schauberger used.

Meanwhile in Europe, Walter Schauberger snubbed Americans who tried to communicate with him; so deep was his anger at the way his father was treated. But Walter is reportedly doing all he can to carry on his father's work, at his secluded private institute. Among other teams doing scientifically-rigorous related research are the Scandinavian Institutes of Ecological Technique.

In New Mexico, William Baumgartner dedicated years to experimenting on building implosion hardware such as a version of Schauberger's "trout motor" and a water-energizing device, and he expects to have a reliable suction turbine built by the time this is in print. Baumgartner also lectures on Schauberger's innovations for agriculture and water treatment, as does Callum Coates in Australia and others in Europe and Canada.

Life-oriented technology may yet arrive in time.
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Alexandersson, Olaf, Living Water: Victor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy, Turnstone Press Ltd., Wellington, Northamptonshire, 1982.
Baumgartiner, Williams, Energy Extraction from the Vortex, Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Energy, Denver 1993.

Baumgartiner, Williams, Energy Unlimited Magazine and Causes Newsletter, numerous articles on vortexian mechanics and Schauberger technology, based on Baumgartiner's hands-on experience, 1970s and 1980s, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Brown, Tom, Editor, More Implosion than Explosion, Borderland Sciences, Garberville CA, 1986.

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