The

Free
Nature of

Energy
 In harmonious interaction with
the human mind's
creative reason,

the free nature of energy

places
a plentiful abundance of power
within our grasp.

Albeit with a single, very rigorous, limitation:

the imperative to employ it
for the good,
and only for the good.
In February, 2004 – at the age of 75, and in failing health
after having suffered several strokes – retired petroleum
geologist Donald Lee Smith produced a pair of jpeg files that
presented an extraordinarily simple invention.

While he called it
The
Ambient Energy Generator
it might best be described as an
“Energy Intake Valve”.

The value and ultimate impact of the device would be hard to

overstate. Being extremely simple, it is the epitome of
reliability; yet, it is no less brilliant in the fact that it re-purposes
existing technology, which makes it very inexpensive to build.
 But, more significantly,
it provides us with a way

to draw energy,
in directly usable form, (as electricity)
“straight out of the surrounding environment”.

The next two slides present a facsimile of the original

jpeg files, followed by a brief description of the process of

energy harvesting
that the invention is designed to enable.
References to “the load” indicate a device, such as a
lamp or a motor, that requires electricity to operate.
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 Smith's
Diagram of “It's much
what he simpler than
called the anyone would
Ambient ever have
Energy imagined…”
Generator (Smith, in 2005)

1. A VOLTAGE is applied to ONE SIDE ONLY… (Plate “A”)

3. OUTGOING
“Pathway” (To
Ground, via primary 2. INCOMING
coil of Transformer, “Pathway” (Reaction
whose secondary coil From Ambient /
powers the Load). Ground).
DIODE On This Line DIODE On This Line
ONLY Allows Energy ONLY Allows Energy
OUT of Plate “E”. INTO Plate “E”.
4. Energy flows (is “pumped”, Smith says)
FROM the Ambient, through the plate, TO the Load
(via Transformer & an adjustable Ground connection).
"The capacitor transformer opens the door to an endless source of useful energy".
 Two Notes:
1. - The contraption works by “draining” all Ambient-supplied
charges from plate “E” to ground through the primary coil of
a transformer, whose secondary coil powers the load. This
“leakage” to ground compels the Ambient to constantly
deliver additional charges into plate “E”. Because “E” must
match – at all times – the voltage being applied to plate “A”
by the operator.
2. - In the text that accompanies his diagram, the inventor
indicates that ”the only limit on the output is the capacitor
size”. (Rule of thumb: 1 Farad = 1 Kilowatt; he cites 400).

The statement obviously refers to the output of an individual

device (and Smith repeatedly states that these units should
be custom-designed to “feed” a specific application). Even
then, given that capacitors are regularly deployed in
multiple-unit combinations, or “banks”, one can safely
conclude that there is no hard-and-fast limit on output.
This being a brief overview, we shall only include here, and
summarily discuss – for the perusal of those with some
understanding of electricity and electronics – one other
example of Smith's work, also in the form of a schematic.

A separate, extensive, presentation

covers the subject in greater depth,
and illustrates the inventor's work with
reviews of several of the more
elaborate devices he built.
To find it, go to slideboom.com and
enter energy capture in the site's
search box.
The results returned should include one
or more presentations with the image at
left as the first slide.
 The diagram below shows one embodiment of the “complicated” version of
Smith's approach. The complexity was, in large part, a smokescreen. He
more or less explicitly admitted to this by stating, in a 1998 video recording:
“Most of the things that are in my devices which I demonstrate were put there
because people expect to see them, not because they need to be there”.

www.free-energy-
info.com/Smith.pdf - page 26
A short number of e-mails exchanged in 2004
further confirm this interpretation.

In them, he provides precise instructions to “de-

complexify” the diagram just presented, as well as
to incorporate the key feature: the OPEN nature of
the circuit, without which the drawing of energy from
the surrounding environment would have been, at
the very least, much more difficult, if not impossible.
 “Positive diode bridge connect only, with negative capacitor open - unattached”.
“Wipe out 6, 7 and 8 and connect the diode bridge where #6 was”.

Diode bridge's OPEN - Allows Energy

Negative output IN from Ambient
Connection is left Separate Load-
“dangling”; OPEN.
powering Circuit.

[Again…] “Disconnect the main diode bridge negative output from the output
capacitor bank. Then hook the disconnected negative capacitor to a separate
circuit which powers the load and into an adjustable earth grounding”.
“There is a simple way which does not require the inverter”.
[Here he may well be referring to his “Device 5”. Rather than an inverter as such, the unit
uses an RC Thyristor – which includes a reverse diode – to take care of the inversion
function. Extended presentation previously mentioned contains further details, links, etc].

[http://chomikuj.pl/DonaldKapanadze/Donald+Lee+Smith/Teksty/Don-Smith-s-Emails-on-Schematic-Corrections,2663066153.pdf]
 The incisive insight that led to the invention
was the realization that

a capacitor is the ultimate transformer,

and that it can be used as
the crucial controlling component in
an electrical circuit
specifically designed to remain
OPEN
to the surrounding environment
(the Earth's magnetic- and electrical fields),
thereby enabling us to TAP the planetary system's
boundless, incessantly flowing, reservoir of energy.
 Smith's ingenious device makes power widely
available, regardless of location, while,
simultaneously, eliminating the operating cost.

No more price-per-gallon
(bye-bye, cash-fuel-dependent devices!);
no more cost per kw/hour
(my “harvester” will capture those kilowatts for me,
thank you very much!).

This completely revolutionizes one of the most

basic and far-reaching functions upon which
economic activity and productivity depend.
Then again, for these very reasons, it is highly
disruptive of a long-established, strongly
entrenched, existing order and power structure.

Not only several business sectors (Oil & Gas Co's,

Electric Utilities), but also The State itself (via the
levying of sales taxes), are highly invested in the
existing paradigm.

Under the system in place, individuals and

businesses must engage in an exchange of
MONEY in order to obtain energy (thus giving the
State the opportunity to grab “its” share).
 But it doesn't HAVE to be that way.
Not any more…

With remarkable
swiftness and elegance,
Smith's
Ambient Energy Generator
pulls the rug out
from under the established “arrangement”.

It's a game-changer
whose time may very well have come.
 As simple as it gets, fully scalable, no moving parts… pure genius! Smith's Outstanding
Achievement and
Dielectric - Magnum Opus,
Polycarbonate?
the Uniquely Great
Plate “A” - Typically, Plate “E” - Typically,
Copper Aluminum Capacitor
Transformer,
Input (reaction from Ambient):
as applied to
HF (RF) Pulsed DC.
NEGATIVE Charges ONLY. Energy Harvesting.
Input: HF (RF) Pulsed DC.
POSITIVE Charges ONLY. While he called it the
Ambient Energy
(Typically sourced from 12V, 7Ah battery,
driving a switch-mode power supply, such Generator,
as a neon-sign driver. Feedback loop
technique - via magnetic domain - keeps Output (to Load): HF (RF) Pulsed it is perhaps best
battery at top charge even as it powers the
system - see “Energy Capture 101”, sec. 3).
DC. NEGATIVE Charges ONLY. characterized as a
Universal
Diodes or Diode Bridges are placed where appropriate to “enforce” stated rules: Energy
ONLY positive charges allowed onto positive plate (plate “A”);
ONLY negative charges allowed onto negative plate (plate “E”) Intake Valve

Step-Down
Transformer
Diode protects plate ”E” from HF (RF) Pulsed DC – Frequency Inversion with
any backfiring or surges. NEGATIVE charges ONLY. Adjustment Stage Adjustable LOAD
Ground
Connection
Functional block diagram of the output leaving plate “E”; what Smith referred to as
“a separate circuit which powers the load”.
 To coin a phrase:
Energy is FREE – Like the AIR that you breathe.
Is this just “a slogan”?
Let's see: what makes air so
invaluable?
The fact that we “come equipped” with an “automatic
system” that efficiently draws in air, extracts from it what
our body requires (mostly, oxygen), circulates it to where
it's needed, and returns the remainder to the source.

Smith's uncannily ingenious device does “just that” with

regard to energy. It creates an area of relatively low
“pressure” (voltage) which effectively draws in energy from
the ambient. It then skilfully sorts the types of charges
most useful to it, passes them along to where they're
needed, and returns the remainder to the source. Neat!
Affectionately known to some as “the little Tesla from
Texas” – “little” because he was short of stature, certainly
not of creative mental ability, or strong determination –

Donald Lee Smith

(U.S.A., 1928 - 2010)

was a combat veteran of several wars, the father

of at least one child (a son), and a highly
accomplished petroleum geologist.

As our luck would have it, he dedicated his

retirement years to conducting what turned out to
be some of the most highly original research on
advanced forms of energy procurement.
Literal Transcription of Smith's text in jpeg document: CAPACITOR [ A ] WITH A PREDETERMINED VOLTAGE
PLACED UPON IT, CAUSES CAPACITOR [ E ] TO DUPLICATE FROM THE AMBIENT - EARTH GROUNDING THE
ENERGY PRESENT AT [ A ]. WITH AN INPUT DIODE PLACED [ C ] AND AN OUTPUT DIODE PLACED AT [ B ], THE
ENERGY PRESENT ON [ E ] FLOWS THROUGH A TRANSFORMER INTO AN EARTH GROUNDING. USEFUL ENERGY
IS OBTAINED FROM THE TRANSFORMER. DONALD L. SMITH, 14 FEBRUARY, 2004.

CAPACITOR FUNCTIONS
Two main types being regular and electrolytic. Also Super Capacitors versions.
A Capacitor is a blocking device, the charge is placed on one side only. The other side pulls and equal amount of Energy
from the Ambient Background. The Capacitor is an Energy Pump. This second side captures ambient energy and will on it's
own maintain it's charge even tho there is an energy is passing through the outlet. The beauty of this is that when used with
a diode and or a diode bridge which are one way devices You have an Energy Pump with unlimited output is present. The
second side feeds from the Ambient. By arranging the diodes You can get negative or positive output. Positive output will
die a heat death and the negative will run cool. The only limit on the output is the capacitor size. New shoe box seized
super capacitors as single units greater than 400 Farads has 400,000 Watts of energy storage.

The Device does not deplete if only the output side is used. Since this action has not been named, I get to name it. I
herewith name it the [ DSE ] DON SMITH EFFECT.
Further it is visually observed if one leg of a light emitting diode is attached to the output side capacitor plate. The main
output side should be diode passing through to the point of use or load. Another phenomn is observable, namely a cooling
effect as seen in the heat exchange modules.

AMBIENT ENERGY GENERATOR [ AEG - DLS ]

My initials = DLS
ADVANTAGES OF THE GENERATOR
1. Simple to build with long trouble free life.
2. Few parts and all easily available.
3. Moron level of comprehension required.
4. Once installed Energy is Cost Free.
5. The energy source is universally present.
6. Full fills any and all energy requirements. Automobiles and Airplanes are a couple of examples.
----------- End Smith transcription (literal, unedited)
Re-write / Edit of Smith's text on jpeg file (with a few comments, between brackets)

PLATE [ A ] of CAPACITOR, WITH A PREDETERMINED VOLTAGE PLACED UPON IT, CAUSES PLATE [ E ] of
CAPACITOR TO DUPLICATE -- FROM THE AMBIENT / EARTH GROUNDING -- THE ENERGY [in the form of
Voltage / Potential] PRESENT AT [ A ]. WITH AN INPUT DIODE PLACED AT [ C ] AND AN OUTPUT DIODE
PLACED AT [ B ], THE ENERGY PRESENT ON [ E ] FLOWS THROUGH A TRANSFORMER INTO AN EARTH
GROUNDING. USEFUL ENERGY IS OBTAINED FROM THE TRANSFORMER. DONALD L. SMITH, 14
FEBRUARY, 2004.
CAPACITOR FUNCTIONS
Two main types of capacitors are found in widespread use; namely, regular ["standard", "conventional"] and
electrolytic. Super Capacitors are also becoming more generally available.
A Capacitor is a blocking device. The charge is placed on one side only. The other side draws an equal amount of
Energy from the Ambient Background.
The Capacitor is an Energy Pump. The second side captures ambient energy and will -- on its own -- maintain its
charge, even though there is energy passing through the outlet [i.e., _flowing through_ this second plate, to go
feed the load]. The beauty of this is that, when used with a diode, and / or a diode bridge -- which are one-way
devices -- you have an Energy Pump with unlimited output. The reason the second side can perform this
unlimited-output pumping function is that it feeds from the Ambient. By arranging the diodes, you can get negative
or positive output. Positive output will die a heat death [i.e., will be hobbled by resistance, and won't be able to
convey energy very far] whereas the negative will run cool. The only limit on the output is the capacitor size. New
shoe-box sized super capacitors are rated, as single units, at greater than 400 Farads, and deliver 400,000 Watts
of energy storage.
The Device does not deplete if only the output side is used. Since this action has not been named, I get to name it.
I herewith name it the [ DSE ] DON SMITH EFFECT.
Further, if one leg of a light emitting diode is attached to the output side capacitor plate, the LED will provide an
effective visual observation of the DSE. The main output side should be a diode passing through to the point of
use or load. Another phenomenon is observable; namely, a cooling effect, as seen in the heat exchange modules.
-----
"The capacitor transformer opens the door to an endless source of useful energy".
[http://chomikuj.pl/DonaldKapanadze/Donald+Lee+Smith/Teksty/Don-Smith-s-Emails-on-Schematic-
Corrections,2663066153.pdf]
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