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an orgone atmosphere of high concentration A Skeptical Scrutiny of the Works and Theories of WILHELM REICH used by the motor when it was rigged up to be "orgone-powered." As related to Orgone Motors Ultimately, we will not know if Reich's orgone motor actually works until the Reich Archives are opened in 2007 and the By Roger M. Wilcox dreaded "Y Factor" is made public. But I don't have very high hopes. Many well-intentioned folks have been sure, absolutely sure, that they've stumbled upon a way to make a motor that runs on "free" energy or has an "over unity" Last modified 31-March-2002 efficiency, only to discover that some other non-free power source he had not fully taken into account was responsible. (Eric Krieg keeps an extensive list of historical free-energy claims at http://www.phact.org/e/dennis4.html. Most are Orgone motors are devices which can supposedly turn atmospheric orgone energy into a useful motive force. charlatanry, but a few are the product of True Believers.) More than likely, Reich's orgone motor does not harness any energy source not already well known to mainstream science, and will not produce excess energy or solve humanity's energy Unfortunately, the only documents that describe how to build an orgone motor are locked up in the Reich archives until problems. 2007. We can only go by what little information Reich published about them in other sources. One such source is The Cancer Biopathy, chapter IV, section 7. Here, Reich wrote (emphasis in the original): Send comments regarding this Web page to: Roger M. Wilcox. Main Wilhelm Reich index page | Roger M. Wilcox's home page "Geiger counter tubes that have absorbed orgone energy by being kept in

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And of course, even if there were a higher-than-normal radiation level in an "orgone soaked" vacuum tube, the above quoted paragraph tells us nothing about how Reich harnessed it and turned it into a motor. Other webpages containing information related to the orgone motor and Reich's experiments with Geiger-Mller tubes include Research Equipment in Orgonomy, and The Geiger-Mueller Effect of the Orgone - Revisited. The former webpage does have a paragraph titled "motor force of orgone energy," but this paragraph actually only contains a brief description of Reich's VACOR experiments. The latter webpage is more detailed, and actually raises some additional questions about Reich's experiments in its attempt to defend them such as the fact that Reich actually did some of his Geiger-Mller experiments with voltages set intentionally above the breakdown-voltage threshold, so that the tube conducted continuously. James DeMeo, head of the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, has compiled perhaps the most extensive list of information known about Reich's orgone motor, which he titled The Orgone Energy Motor: Reference and Data Package and published in 1986. On page 1 of this 11-page pamphlet, DeMeo claims that Reich was able to hook up a Western Electric KS-9154 (an AC motor designed for a 12-volt system, about 3 inches across and 4 inches long) to run, quote, "more directly from the orgone," without any Geiger-Mller or VACOR tubes at all. Eyewitness accounts are included from Myron Sharaf, Elsworth Baker, and Lois Wyvell. Two of these accounts tell of how the motor ran noisily, wobbily, and with a grinding motion when attached to a normal electrical source, but smoothly when "running off orgone energy." Two of the accounts also tell of how the orgone-powered motor would occasionally switch direction. DeMeo also claims to have seen films on display at the Reich Museum in Maine, taken while Reich was still alive, which show Reich demonstrating the orgone motor with the Geiger-Mller apparatus's high voltage wire detached. None of the accounts in DeMeo's pamphlet, however, states unequivocably that no outside power sources were connected to or used by the motor when it was rigged up to be "orgone-powered." Ultimately, we will not know if Reich's orgone motor actually works until the Reich Archives are opened in 2007 and the dreaded "Y Factor" is made public. But I don't have very high hopes. Many well-intentioned folks have been sure, absolutely sure, that they've stumbled upon a way to make a motor that runs on "free" energy or has an "over unity" efficiency, only to discover that some other non-free power source he had not fully taken into account was responsible. (Eric Krieg keeps an extensive list of historical free-energy claims at http://www.phact.org/e/dennis4.html. Most are charlatanry, but a few are the product of True Believers.) More than likely, Reich's orgone motor does not harness any energy source not already well known to mainstream science, and will not produce excess energy or solve humanity's energy problems. Send comments regarding this Web page to: Roger M. Wilcox. Main Wilhelm Reich index page | Roger M. Wilcox's home page