ZP OWER C ORPORATION PAGE OF 352 Z ERO P OINT E NERGY lines Puthoff suggests that engineers try designing zero-point energy machines with a cold, charged plasma or gas. Like the metal plates. the Casimir effect would pinch the plasma together producing energy in the form of heat and condensed charged particles. The various so-called free energy devices now in operation might be employing similar principles, allowing coherence of the ZPF under specific excitation of the vacuum, producing visible macroscopic effects. One such device is the Plasmatron generator built by Moscow physicist A. Chernetsky.(12) This apparatus reportedly takes 700 watts of electricity, and via heavy current pulse discharge created through unstable plasma states, gives back 3500 watts manufacturing slightly more than three horsepower out of nothing. The mysterious discharge stimulating additional energy extraction was called self-generating discharge. Measurements showed that part of the discharge power went back into the network as if two series-connected electromotive forces are at work. In one special test, current discharge was so great that a megawatt substation near the experiment burned out. This brings to mind a similar event experienced by Nikola Tesla during one of his experiments where a power plant caught fire. It is entirely possible that vacuum energy from the ZPF can explain both these incidents. Another prominent energy device which operates independently of any priming power other than a manual start, appears to be a true free energy system. This is the Swiss ML Converter first mentioned by Davidson in his book The Secret of the Creative Vacuum) It provides some of the power used by the spiritual community of Methernitha. The dynamic components of this device constitute a modern version of a self-propelled Wimshurst machine, with large Leyden jars forming capacitors for electrostatic energy stoarge.(14) Once the machine is started manually, the high electrostatic potential generated primes the system. Solid state components include twin bifilar- wound coils situated within the capacitors. In addition there are two horseshoe magnets also wound with bifilar coils and other self-standing capacitors connected in the circuit. Interestingly. this is a hybrid system, since it involves both dynamic and solid-state conversion features. There is a harmonous combination of electrostatic as well as electromagnetic circuit elements. Notably. a similar hybrid power combination comprised the Hutch inson- Hathaway experiments of the s. which produced anomalous phenomena via the crudely constructed arrangement which adjoined a Van Der Graaff generator to two modified Tesla coils, along with other field-shaping elements) The videotaped record of these experiments shows the complete levitation of several objects including 20 pound toolboxes. as well as the frequent catastrophic fracturing of pieces of metal or other samples, giving them the appearance of corrugated cardboard.