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Adam D. Trombly
Adam D. Trombly
Born	1951
Residence	Aspen, Colorado, United States
Nationality	American
Known for	New Energy; Closed Path Homopolar Generator; Project Earth
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics, geophysics, atmospheric dynamics, electromagnetic systems

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Adam D. Trombly (born 1951) is an American inventor, self-described physicist and environmental activist. He is best known within the New Energy and free-energy communities for the "Closed Path Homopolar Generator," an electrical machine he and a colleague patented in the early 1980s and claimed produced more electrical energy than was supplied to it. He is the founder and director of Project Earth, an environmental research and advocacy effort. His energy claims are outside mainstream science, which regards over-unity ("free energy") devices as inconsistent with the law of conservation of energy.

Biography

Trombly has described a family background in science, stating that his father was a biochemist and Air Force officer, his mother a blood specialist, and his sister a biophysicist. He counted the designer and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller as a friend and mentor, and credits Fuller with encouraging him to maintain a "synergistic, global view" across multiple disciplines.

Trombly presents himself as an expert in physics, atmospheric dynamics, geophysics, rotating and resonating electromagnetic systems, and environmental global modeling. Independent commentators have noted that no academic degrees from accredited institutions have been publicly documented for him.

He has served as Director of Project Earth for the Institute for Advanced Studies at Aspen (later also based in Maui, Hawaii). In 1984 he received an endowment from R. J. Reynolds III in support of the Project Earth work. In later years he has been an outspoken advocate for action on environmental degradation and climate change, and a public critic of reliance on fossil fuels.

Scientific contributions

In 1979–1980 Trombly, with colleague Douglas Kahn, designed the Closed Path Homopolar Generator, a variant of the homopolar (Faraday disk) generator intended to route magnetic flux through a low-reluctance return path. An international patent application was filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (Application No. PCT/US81/01588) and published on 24 June 1982 as International Publication No. WO 82/02126, assigned to the Acme Energy Company of San Rafael, California.

Trombly claimed the device could generate substantially more electrical power than was required to run it, citing figures such as 250% efficiency. He has stated that the United States patent application was rejected and that a government secrecy ("gag") order was subsequently imposed on the work in 1983. A design derived from the patent was later tested in India, where Trombly reported that Paramahamsa Tewari, then associated with the Tarapore Atomic Power Station, obtained results indicating an efficiency above 250%.

With colleague David Farnsworth, Trombly reported demonstrating a solid-state device (variously described as a piezoelectric resonance generator or over-unity transformer) in New York City in June 1989, claiming an efficiency ratio of 54:1, after which he addressed a gathering at the United Nations.

These claims are not accepted by mainstream science. Over-unity and "free-energy" machines are generally classified as perpetual-motion devices, which violate the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Independent evaluation of homopolar generators built from Trombly's design—including testing associated with the Kirloskar Electric Company in India—reported no excess ("free") energy and only the small output expected from conventional electromagnetic effects.

Abstracts

1984 - "Philosophical Overview of Free Energy"

Media

- DePalma N-machine 1/18 (Video Commentary)

External links

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+| birth_date = 1951
-| residence = Aspen, CO, United States
+| residence = Aspen, Colorado, United States
-| known_for = [[New Energy]]
+| nationality = American
+| fields = Physics, geophysics, atmospheric dynamics, electromagnetic systems
+| known_for = [[New Energy]]; Closed Path Homopolar Generator; Project Earth
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-Adam Trombly, Director of Project Earth, is an internationally acknowledged expert in the fields of Physics, Atmospheric Dynamics, Geophysics, Rotating and Resonating Electromagnetic Systems, and Environmental Global Modeling.  Taking the advice of his friend and mentor R. Buckminster Fuller, Adam has maintained a "synergistic, global view" within a multi-disciplinary scientific background. From this perspective, Adam offers unique insights into the changes humankind has effected on our environment, and the adjustments our future requires of us.
+'''Adam D. Trombly''' (born 1951) is an American inventor, self-described physicist and environmental activist. He is best known within the [[New Energy]] and free-energy communities for the "Closed Path Homopolar Generator," an electrical machine he and a colleague patented in the early 1980s and claimed produced more electrical energy than was supplied to it. He is the founder and director of Project Earth, an environmental research and advocacy effort. His energy claims are outside mainstream science, which regards over-unity ("free energy") devices as inconsistent with the law of conservation of energy.
-For further information about Project Earth, please visit ProjectEarth.com
+==Biography==
-'''Adam Trombly''', Director of Project Earth for the Institute for Advanced Studies at Aspen (now also in Maui, Hawaii) has at age fifty-five proven to be one of the most influential and unorthodox scientists of his generation. In 1980 Adam and colleague Joseph Kahn designed and applied for patents for the Closed Path Homopolar Generator, a potentially revolutionary design for super efficient generation of electrical power. In June of 1982, International Letters of Patent were published by the International Patent Cooperation Treaty Organization. (Patent Publication Number WO82/02126)
+Trombly has described a family background in science, stating that his father was a biochemist and Air Force officer, his mother a blood specialist, and his sister a biophysicist. He counted the designer and futurist [[wikipedia:Buckminster Fuller|R. Buckminster Fuller]] as a friend and mentor, and credits Fuller with encouraging him to maintain a "synergistic, global view" across multiple disciplines.
-In 1983 Adam began to dedicate his efforts to Project Earth. The late R Buckminster Fuller is quoted as saying, "Project Earth is a human design experiment. It will be incumbent on human beings throughout the Earth to become a living network, to demonstrate the power of working synergistically with their environment to insure a future worth living in."
+Trombly presents himself as an expert in physics, atmospheric dynamics, geophysics, rotating and resonating electromagnetic systems, and environmental global modeling. Independent commentators have noted that no academic degrees from accredited institutions have been publicly documented for him.
-In 1984 Adam was awarded the RJ Reynolds III Endowment for his efforts with Project Earth. I spoke to the late Mr. Reynolds during a Tesla Society Conference in Colorado Springs in 1988. He said: "Many people approach me and ask me and my family to support their work. After I heard Adam speak at two separate International Conferences, I approached him! I had never done that before. Adam has never ceased to amaze me. When you know Adam, you begin to see both the present and the future through his eyes. When you see the world like he does then there is this urgency that takes a hold of you to do whatever you can to make a difference for the better. I could not be happier with his work. We all need to listen to this man."
+He has served as Director of Project Earth for the Institute for Advanced Studies at Aspen (later also based in Maui, Hawaii). In 1984 he received an endowment from R. J. Reynolds III in support of the Project Earth work. In later years he has been an outspoken advocate for action on environmental degradation and climate change, and a public critic of reliance on fossil fuels.
-As the eighties progressed, copies of the Closed Path Homopolar Generator Patent had circulated throughout the world. One scientist, Paramahamsa Tewari, who was then Head of Quality Control for the Tarapore Atomic Power Station in Trombay, India, received permission to carry out experiments with the design. In 1986, Tewari (with the blessing of the late Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi) published results of experiments carried out with a crude facsimile of the machine described in the patent. In the American Industrial Journal, Magnets, Tewari wrote, 'The test results have shown an efficiency of the machine above 250%." It was the first time in human history that claims of greater than 100% output had been independently verified by a bona fide third party using the description of the art provided by a patent document.
+==Scientific contributions==
-This further propelled Adam and Project Earth into the international spotlight. I ran into Adam next at the largest New Energy Technology conference ever held (even up to this point) in Hanover, Germany in 1987. Paramahamsa Tewari had brought his rather crude facsimile of the Trombly/Kahn generator. The next day, Adam gave one of those lectures with an impact that never seems to leave you.
+In 1979–1980 Trombly, with colleague Douglas Kahn, designed the Closed Path Homopolar Generator, a variant of the [[wikipedia:Homopolar generator|homopolar (Faraday disk) generator]] intended to route magnetic flux through a low-reluctance return path. An international patent application was filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (Application No. PCT/US81/01588) and published on 24 June 1982 as International Publication No. WO 82/02126, assigned to the Acme Energy Company of San Rafael, California.
-Adam continued his research into new energy technologies with colleague David Farnsworth. In June, 1989, in New York City, Trombly and Farnsworth physically demonstrated a small solid state electrical transformer that measurably showed an efficiency of 54:1. Adam then walked down the street to the United Nations to give an address. From the point of view of one who witnessed this event firsthand, I can't believe the entire world didn't change as a result. One of the reasons I asked Adam if I could write this piece is because it is now ten* years later and the American people, in particular, have still not gotten the message that there is an entirely new and benign option to the current death spiral of humanity. As the result of ignoring the opportunity that was presented on that day in 1989, the world still suffers under the tyranny of fossil fuels and a global power structure which seems bent on the eradication of all species.
+Trombly claimed the device could generate substantially more electrical power than was required to run it, citing figures such as 250% efficiency. He has stated that the United States patent application was rejected and that a government secrecy ("gag") order was subsequently imposed on the work in 1983. A design derived from the patent was later tested in India, where Trombly reported that Paramahamsa Tewari, then associated with the Tarapore Atomic Power Station, obtained results indicating an efficiency above 250%.
-Today Adam continues to pursue the work of Project Earth in spite of the fact that in his view the destabilization of Planet Earth has reached critical, even nearly irreversible proportions.
+With colleague David Farnsworth, Trombly reported demonstrating a solid-state device (variously described as a piezoelectric resonance generator or over-unity transformer) in New York City in June 1989, claiming an efficiency ratio of 54:1, after which he addressed a gathering at the United Nations.
-"At this point I am recommending that people pray like they never have before for Divine or at least Benign Intervention. It is unlikely that the boys in Washington and other world capitals are going to implement any world healing policies unless the populations of the world rise up and unequivocally demand change. We don't have much time." AT
+These claims are not accepted by mainstream science. Over-unity and "free-energy" machines are generally classified as perpetual-motion devices, which violate the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Independent evaluation of homopolar generators built from Trombly's design—including testing associated with the Kirloskar Electric Company in India—reported no excess ("free") energy and only the small output expected from conventional electromagnetic effects.
-For my part, I want to thank Adam for allowing me to make this little, historical sketch my small contribution to the work of Project Earth. There is so much more I could say but I hope this gives you a better idea of who this man called Adam Trombly is. (Mark Schreibner, 1999)
 ==Abstracts==
 * 1984 - "[[Philosophical Overview of Free Energy]]"
 ==Media==
 *  - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHuLCSOKV4Y DePalma N-machine 1/18] (Video Commentary)
+==External links==
+* [https://www.rexresearch.com/trombly/trombly.htm Trombly & Kahn homopolar generator documentation (rexresearch.com)]
+* [https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=WO8202126 Patent WO 82/02126 record]
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