Free energy suppression (or new energy suppression) is a conspiracy theory that technologically viable, pollution-free, no-cost

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s are being suppressed by government, corporations, or

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. Devices allegedly suppressed include perpetual motion machines,

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generators,

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-based generators, reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology,

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propulsion systems, and other generally unproven, low-cost energy sources.

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The alleged suppression (or weakening) is claimed to have occurred since the mid-19th century and allegedly perpetrated by various government agencies, corporate powers, special interest groups, and fraudulent inventors. The special interest groups are usually claimed to be associated with the fossil fuel or

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, whose business model would be threatened. Claims of suppression include: * The claim that the scientific community has controlled and suppressed research into alternative avenues of energy generation via the institutions of peer review and Suppression of dissent, academic pressure. * The claim that devices exist which are capable of extracting significant and usable power from pre-existing unconventional energy reservoirs, such as the quantum vacuum zero point energy, for little or no cost, but are being suppressed.David Alison (1994), ''Another free-energy cover-up?: The Dennis Lee Story'', Nexus Magazine, (June–July 1994) * The claim that related patents have been bought up, such as those for Fuel efficiency, 100 mpg carburetors. Some notable people who have been claimed to be suppressed, harassed or killed for their research are Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell, Stanley Meyer, Eugene Mallove, and Nikola Tesla. Free energy proponents claim that Tesla developed a system (the Wardenclyffe Tower) that could generated unlimited energy for free. However, his system was only intended to ''transmit'' energy for free; the system's energy would still need to be generated through conventional means. Notable proponents of the conspiracy theory include Gary McKinnon, a Scottish computer hacker who unlawfully accessed computer systems to find evidence of a secret free energy device.

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