Andreas Manthey
Andreas Manthey | |
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| Known for | Advocacy of "space energy" (Raumenergie) technologies; co-founder of Binnotec |
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| Fields | "Space energy" / free-energy technologies |
Andreas Manthey is a German engineer and organizer known for promoting so-called "space energy" (Raumenergie) and other unconventional energy technologies. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Activities
Manthey is a co-founder of the Berlin Institute for Innovative Technologies (Binnotec e.V.), established in 2001 together with Thorsten Ludwig and Marco Bischof, and has served as its association chairman. He is also active in the Deutsche Vereinigung für Raumenergie (DVR, German Association for Space Energy), sitting on its presidium and acting as a responsible editor of its magazine DVR-Info.
In these roles he has organized lectures and information events on unconventional and "innovative" energy concepts, and he co-authored, with Marco Bischof and Thorsten Ludwig, a study on unconventional approaches to energy generation prepared in connection with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
His advocacy centers on the idea that usable energy can be extracted from the vacuum or "space," a class of claims associated with the free-energy movement that falls outside mainstream physics; critics describe such space-energy and perpetual-motion proposals as pseudoscientific.