I was born under the sign of Nikola Tesla or at least he was driving his Electric Car, a modified 1931 Pierce Arrow, in the year of my birth. Since the car required no fuel and had no batteries, the range was limited only by the stamina of the hardware and driver. It may have been around this time that Henry Ford stated: "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." Tesla thought he could make an automobile that required no fuel or stored energy--so he did. Almost everyone else thought it was impossible so they didn't. There were also people who didn't like the idea of a fuel-less automobile so the automobile companies didn't mass produce the car. But, I knew nothing of this at the time, even though I dreamed of an engine that required no fuel as a teenager; it was, however, a transient dream as I was busy in high school then college--graduating from Caltech with a B.S. in 1954 and receiving a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech also in 1954. Perhaps reading Atlas Shrugged in the early 1970's rekindled my interest in fuel-less motors. For John Galt, the hero of the book, had a motor that required no fuel. It wasn't until the early 1980's that I learned how such an motor could be made.
The Heaviside Plan ™ has been germinating in my mind, without a name, since the early 1980's when I saw a video by John Bedini and read some books by Thomas E. Bearden regarding the flaws in the Electrical Engineering mathematical model. Tom's book, Energy from the Vacuum, revealed much of the physics that allows energy to be extracted from the active vacuum (identically curved spacetime). A later book, Free Energy Generation, co-authored by John Bedini and Tom Bearden contained actual circuit diagrams. John Bedini is now manufacturing battery chargers that use free energy. The universe is full of energy that can be obtained without burning fuel. In fact, some scientists claim that the very definition of energy is curved spacetime.
When T. Boone Pickens came out with his plan and said that if anyone could come up with a better plan he'd adopt it, I decided it was time for my plan to germinate, grow and flower. I started by writing a series of messages which I sent to Mr. Pickens and published here The last of these 12 messages contains the Executive Summary of The Heaviside Plan ™ which is published separately at this URL
I struggled for some time coming up with the name for this plan. I considered Larry's Plan, Larry Brown's plan, but the plan is less my plan than others. I considered calling it the Bearden - Moore plan, but even though Bearden and Moore were the inventors of the major break-through see note needed for the plan, I thought it might be abbreviated to the B-M plan and that would give the oil companies too much of an opportunity to lambast the plan. So I finally decided to call it The Heaviside Plan ™ because it was Oliver Heaviside that discovered the phenomenon upon which the "Bohren Experiment" and the plan rests.
I believe The Heaviside Plan ™ is superior to the Pickens Plan because it requires:
| 1) No wind turbines. | 4) No fuel (petroleum, natural gas, coal, or nuclear). | |
| 2) No solar panels. | ||
| 3) No dams. | 5) No government subsidy. | |
Pickens claims to have spent $58 Million advertising the Pickens Plan, so I selected $58 Million as the proposed development costs to get the first units for The Heaviside Plan ™ perfected. Because the Pickens Plan allowed 10 years to implement the plan to replace 25% of the petroleum currently used, I suggested 40 years to replace 100% of the coal, natural gas, petroleum, and nuclear fuels used. I should note here that approximately 50% of the petroleum is used as feedstock to manufacture various products; The Heaviside Plan ™ will not replace the petroleum used thus. I remember that my high school chemistry teacher told us that the time would come when petroleum would be considered too valuable for its organic chemicals to even consider burning it; The Heaviside Plan ™ will bring this prediction to pass.
I cannot deny that this is a disruptive technology because it will decimate the electric power industry, cut the petroleum required in half, reduce the coal consumption to near zero (coal will still be used to produce coke for steel making), and require significant changes to our transport vehicles. It is also because of this disruption that I felt The Heaviside Plan ™ should be implemented over 40 years--that is the approximate lifetime of a large 1 GW (1,000 MW) electric power plant.
Now, we're going to see whether or not T. Boone Pickens was just "blowing smoke" because The Heaviside Plan ™ is superior to the Pickens Plan on all counts; moreover, when implemented, The Heaviside Plan ™ will end the so called energy crisis for all time.
Larry Brown
January 9, A.D. 2009
Updated: April 18, A.D. 2009
Sutherlin, Oregon 97479