Viktor Schauberger -
possibly the most forward-thinking scientist 
of this century? 

Viktor Schauberger was the inventor of the first 
man-made vortex powered "flying saucer"!
He also realised by observation what Cartesian Reductionist 
deduction couldn't... that moving fluids can generate energy 
by reducing entropy.
His motto was "understand nature, and then copy nature"  
He was known as the 'Water Wizard'.
Alongside Nicola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich, 
Schauberger is one of that distingushed company of pioneers whose 
work is so unprofitable, so contrary to the perceived norm of 
'profit at any cost', that their major works are bought up 
and shelved indefinately.

Here is his story...
 
Born towards the end of the nineteenth century in Austria, Schauberger's 
teacher was the natural world itself.  In forests, alongside rivers, he studied 
the life-enhancing energy, which manifests in water or air as vortices.  

"Prevailing technology uses the wrong forms of motion.  It is based on 
entropy - on motions which nature uses to break down and scatter 
materials.  However, Nature uses a different type of motion for creating 
order and new growth.  The prevailing explosion-based technology - 
fuel burning and atom splitting - fills the world with expanding, 
heat-generating centrifugal motion," he warned.

Energy production, he believed, could instead use inward-moving, 
cold-generating centripetal motion, the same that nature employs to build 
and enliven substances.  Even hydro-electric power plants, Schauberger 
said, use a destructive motion - they pressure water and chop it through 
turbines.  The result is 'dead water'.  He built suction turbines which 
enliven and invigorate, resulting in clean, life-giving water downstream.

Schauberger produced electrical power from a unique suction turbine by  
implosion principles, and later was pressured into developing a 
propulsion system using the same principles applied to air. 

of flying saucers and nazi imprisonment...

Hitler came to power and Schauberger's experiments had 
started to attract attention.  After hearing about Schauberger's 
discoveries, Hitler threatened to hang Schauberger and 
his entire family if he did not co-operate with Nazi plans.  
Hitler wanted Schauberger to supervise the building of a 
new flying craft which levitated without burning any fuel.  
Because of the war, the Third Reich was desperate for 
new technological aid, but Schauberger did not want to give 
the Third Reich any technological advantages!  
He went to work as ordered, but deliberately took a great 
deal of time over everything, hoping to foil Hitler that way...

The idea of a new type of flying craft was based on Schauberger's 
discovery, made a few years earlier, of how to develop a low-pressure 
zone at the atomic level.  He had actually achieved this in a laboratory, 
when his prototype whirled air or water 'radically and axially' at a falling 
temperature.   Schauberger referred to the resulting force as 'diamagnetic 
levitation power'.  He emphasised that nature already successfully used 
this direct, or 'reactionary', suction force, within weather 
generation, solar fusion stability etc.   

Schauberger was given a team of scientists to help him with his work, and 
he insisted that these be treated not as prisoners but as free men - even 
though they were all technically prisoners of the Nazis.  After their research 
headquarters were bombed, they were all transferred to Leonstein and 
there they perfected the "flying disc",  powered by Schauberger's turbine 
which rotated air into a twisting type of oscillation resulting in a build-up of 
immense power causing levitation!   Schauberger's prototype was 
developed into a vehicle that could speed 15000m in 3 minutes and 
fly in any direction at mach 3! 

In what is now eerily reminiscent of current reportage of alien 
spacecraft, the flying disc prototype, which rose and crashed 
against the laboratory ceiling, glowed blue-green as it rose, 
and left a silvery glow! (was this possibly ionised water vapour?)  

At the end of the war, American military officers seized 
everything in the laboratory and, seeing Schauberger as 
a Nazi collaborator, put him into 'protective custody' for 
six months. 

The Munich publication, Da Neue Zeitalter, wrote in 1956 that "Viktor 
Schauberger was the inventor and discoverer of the new motive 
power, implosion, which, with the use of only air and water, generated light,
heat and motion".  The publication noted that the first unmanned flying disc 
was tested in 1945 near Prague, that it could hover motionless in the air 
and could fly as fast backwards as forwards.  This flying disc was reported 
to have a diameter of 50 metres. 

There is no doubt that Viktor Schauberger knew how to build a disc that 
levitated.  However, he had not, at the time of his imprisonment, 
worked out how to 'apply the brakes', as all his test flying discs 
eventually crashed.

on environmental concerns and selling one's soul...

After his imprisonment, Schauberger took up his research again.  He had 
lost his financial assets but he still thought he could help the world by turning 
his inventive genius and insights to good use.

He felt bitter about the effects of chemicals and deforestation upon 
agriculture.  He noted that "the farmers work hand-in-hand with our 
foresters.  The blood of the earth constantly weakens and the productivity
of the soil decreases".   When forests can no longer nurture water sources
which supply vitality, farmlands downstream cannot build up  voltage 
in the ground for keeping parasitic bacteria in balance, he observed.  
Noticing that the soil dried out after being ploughed with iron ploughs, 
he built copper plated ploughs.  He continued to work on his agricultural 
ideas for some time.  

Then Schauberger was called to America, where, still thinking he could 
do some good for the world, he was persuaded to provide a 
team of scientists, military and government officials with 
a record of everything he knew and to sign some contracts.  
But eventually he became worried that his projects seemed
to have been left sitting on the shelf, and that no further 
research was being done. He then discovered that in actual
fact he had signed the rights to his work away to an 
industrial concern, and that this concern now retained power
over the use and development of his work.  And clearly their 
position was to do nothing to further Schauberger's research. 
(One wonders if they are perhaps now working on some of 
the ideas, particularly the levitating disc, in secret...) 

By this stage, Viktor Schauberger was an old man, and 
he died a despairing death, reportedly crying in the last 
days of his life that he had lost everything and that he no 
longer even owned himself.

Schauberger's legacy...our view

Now, 38 years after Schauberger's death, our planet is still in crisis.
Will humanity turn, as it no doubt should, to Viktor Schauberger's insights?

There are several aspects of Schauberger's work which encourage further 
thought.  Spinning objects, such as Tops, exhibit well known tendencies to 
resist axial rotation, but neverthless, as energy is lost from the system, 
chaotic impulses lead to precession, which occurs in a way reminiscent of 
the decay of a musical note in a stretched string.  From the Top's point of 
view, its axis is unique and fixed - it is the universe that wobbles!  
What happens if you entrain particles at near light speed in a closed loop, 
and then rotate the whole structure?  What happens if you then rotate that 
system? and so on.   

This problem has baffled me for ages, but by contemplating
Schauberger's insights (if I may call them that) I have realised the obvious, 
that a vortex is a type of fluid gyroscope, and that a collapsing vortex's  
axis does oscillate with increasing frequency until the liquid reverts to a 
turbulent state, thereby losing as much energy as possible as fast as it 
can.  Coincidentally, chaos theory got a good break by considering  
the stages of transition from laminar, ordered flow, to turbulence, in 
liquids.  Water is at maximum density at 4 degrees celcius, and 
Schauberger's research indicates that at this same temperature 
water has its best 'carrying, life giving' properties.  At maximum 
density, water obviously can carry the most, but what of the life 
force?  Since water should be a gas at room temperature (20 degrees 
celcius) according to its molecular weight, it has long been 
assumed that water 'polymerises', which assumption, unverifiable as
yet by direct obsevation, may account for many of its peculiar properties.  

At 4 degrees, water is in its longest chain state, and thus ionic charges 
have a chance to build up macroscopically as the long molecles entrain, 
 if the flow remains ordered or 'laminar'.  On a sub-atomic level, this same 
spin may have entrainment effects.  What if the whole system became 
aligned?  Is it possible that all the kinetic energy present in a fluid might 
be released as motion in a region?  This might be analogous to the way light 
behaves in a laser, but in this case the output would be thrust and suction at 
opposite ends of the vortex.

I mentioned W Reich earlier, as his forbidden experiments into nuclear 
radiation and life energy (for which he was indirectly gaoled) seem to point 
to the startling conclusion that entopic energy in the cosmos is balanced 
by an absorbing, patternmaking force, which can been seen as
information, or as life in the most general sense.  If this were 
to be so (and the idea is appearing more and more frequently 
in current scientific literature), then not only would life be 
inevitable throughout the universe, but our short term and 
disastrous manipulation of the atom might find a long term solution
in the creation of 'nuclear neutralisation plants', which 
would increase growth rates, precipitation and flowering around them. 

A utopian fantasy?  Perhaps... we will have to see.

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Eiser, Jonathon (Editor) 
SUPPRESSED INVENTION AND OTHER DISCOVERIES
- a very informative chapter on Schauberger, written by 
Jeane Manning.  
Her 1996 book, The Coming Energy
Revolution, also deals with Schauberger, as well as other 
20th century inventors.
  
Auckland Institute of Technology Press, New Zealand

Alexandersson, Olaf  
LIVING WATER: VICTOR SCHAUBERGER AND THE SECRETS OF NATURAL ENERGY 
 Turnstone Press Ltd, Wellington, Northamptonshire  UK 1982

Baumgartiner, William  
ENERGY EXTRACTION FROM THE VORTEX, 
Proceedings of the International Symposium on New Energy,
Denver, USA, 1993