Dear Ion,
I understand that after being involved in a project like this for a long time, seeing that its purpose is discredited by others should not be pleasant. I knew you wouldn't like my previous post, but I have to say what I think and why.
I'm not questioning the four points you're making. If they are perfectly admissible in support of this machine. However, they are not proof of a real overunity.
For the conspiracy theory, I can't follow you or anyone else. Men in black stories are not reasonable. Not only is it impossible to prevent a leak, but it is easier from the beginning to convince by publishing a plan to have your machine duplicated by all the DIY enthusiasts on the planet, than to produce obscure videos. This is how Naudin was able to popularize the lifter.
When you make videos, it's because you want your discovery to be known. But if we want our discovery to be not only known but credible, it must be duplicated by independent people. I can't believe Steven Mark would ignore it. He chose the way to make his montage known without wanting to make it credible, and therefore it is not credible.
Dear F6FLT
I will answer your points (which are well taken) and try to refute or explain in sequence, to the best of my ability and knowledge.
1) I have no problem and am not displeased with, rather am very interested your thoughts on the TPU, your experiments and in all your work that you have generously shared with all of us at OUR. You will find that we are in strong agreement on most things. I am glad that you can be comfortable to express your thoughts, and encourage it.
2) I agree that the videos are not real proof of overunity that an engineer would require. I agree that there is a possibility for fakery, even in the videos. This is also true of any supporting data, it could all be contrived.
3) I also do not give credence to conspiracy theories, men in black etc. I also regard them as a last ditch attempt to divert from a non-working device. I am only reporting the documents as they were given. We must however be careful here, and be sure not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Certainly there are military secrets that people have died for, and that are kept secret to this day under severe penalty of imprisonment or death.
4) Regarding the videos, SM himself admits they were only very crude attempts to document events as they transpired. They were never meant to give away the operational mechanism nor to be promotional. SM wanted a lot of money to reveal the true operating mechanism, so he was holding out for some big fish investors. SM was not a scientist willing to share the mechanism with the world, rather he liked money and his lavish lifestyle.
As far as I know, only interested parties that SM could trust were allowed to witness the video demonstrations. SM closely guarded the operation of his devices. In one instance, however, when a device was not putting out full power, only about 2/3 power, he became disappointed and took a saber saw to the device cutting it up into many pieces, giving each person a portion of the cut up device. This he did after letting the witnesses fully disassemble and test with meters to look for hidden power sources. Dr. Schinzinger was present during this and can be positively recognized in the video. That they all could have been in on the scam is a possibility. Not probable though if you closely watch the entire video and listen to the dialogue.
So as usual everyone is perfectly entitled to continue research into these devices or walk away.
The worst that would happen for anyone to continue TPU research with the goal of discovery of new principles in mind, is they will have wasted time and maybe learned some physics, so for me it is just a goalpost that seems to have a use.
My own belief is that there may possibly be a combination of electrostatics and electromagnetics going on in the device that may not have been priorly explored . Other possibility is some acoustic/electric principle that may have been overlooked. Possibly combinations of both. The area for experimentation is wide.
This I do know: There are many new experimenters just now learning what is inside the box of electronic engineering and believing they have something new. As they get further up the path they will see that these areas have been well explored, and their device is not at all novel. It's a good idea to fully explore the inside of the box and know the terrain well before exclaiming Eureka! Then one has a better idea of what may exist over the edge of the box.
Best of luck to all in their research.
"Secrecy, secret societies and secret groups have always been repugnant to a free and open society"......John F Kennedy