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<body background="images/dr_bg.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" text="#808080" link="#0000FF" vlink="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000"> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <b><a href="#ringwood">Hello, my name is not Ringwood - and i am not a doctor  **</a></b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>however, everything else in these webpages is true (i believe!)</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>i was inspired, after reading some papers by a gentleman named H. Aspden, to carry out some experiments which might show if it is possible to extract energy from the vacuum medium (or, as it was called at its last known address: 'The Aether')</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>one of my experiments was prompted by Mr Aspden inviting the reader to consider the possibility that, under certain conditions, a capacitor might be able to discharge more energy than was used to charge it<br> <br> (...i hope you're not putting any money on this!)<br> </b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>so i designed a simple circuit to repetitively charge a capacitor from a voltage source and discharge it into an output load (which could also be another capacitor)</b></font></p> <p align="center"><br> <img border="0" src="images/basic_cct.jpg" width="563" height="331"></p> <p align="center"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b><i>    basic circuit arrangement for switched capacitor experiments</i></b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b><br> my first tests were just to discharge one capacitor stack into other, initially fully-discharged, capacitors<br> <br> subsequent experiments used developments of the circuit to investigate energy implications arising from the results i found</b></font></p> <p align="left"><b><font size="3" face="Arial"> <br> </font></b></p> <p align="left"><br> <font size="3" face="Arial"><b>Click a menu item below to view that page; <br> please use your browser 'Back' button to return to this page</b></font></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="30"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/welcome.htm"><img border="0" src="images/button.gif" alt="click to return to Doc Ringwood's Free Energy home page" width="19" height="19"></a><a href="welcome.htm"><br> </a> </b></font></td> <td width="*"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/welcome.htm">Home<br> </a> </b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/charge_anomaly.htm"><img border="0" src="images/button.gif" alt="click to view Doc Ringwood's Charge Conservation Anomaly" width="19" height="19"></a><a href="charge.htm"><br> </a> </b></font></td> <td width="*"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/charge_anomaly.htm">Charge Conservation Anomaly<br> </a> </b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/energy_anomaly.htm"><img border="0" src="images/button.gif" alt="click to view Doc Ringwood's Free Energy Experiment" width="19" height="19"></a><a href="energy.htm"><br> </a> </b></font></td> <td width="*"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/energy_anomaly.htm">Energy Anomaly<br> </a> </b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/conclusions.htm"><img border="0" src="images/button.gif" alt="click to view Doc Ringwood's Further Observations" width="19" height="19"></a><a href="energy.htm"><br> </a> </b></font></td> <td width="*"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/conclusions.htm">Observations and Conclusions<br> </a> </b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/questions.htm"><img border="0" src="images/button.gif" alt="click to view Doc Ringwood's Further Observations" width="19" height="19"></a><a href="energy.htm"><br> </a> </b></font></td> <td width="*"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/questions.htm">FAQ<br> </a> </b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="30"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/contact.htm"><img border="0" src="images/button.gif" alt="click to view Doc Ringwood's contact details" width="19" height="19"></a></b></font></td> <td width="*"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><a href="pages/contact.htm">Contact</a></b></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"><b><font size="3" face="Arial"> <br> <br> <a name="ringwood"></a>** and now, the Doc Ringwood thing:</font></b></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>in a move that wouldn't seem out of place in the pages of one of Douglas Adams' 4-book  trilogies, i was once named as referee for a heavy-duty Science Grant application by someone who, although co-incidentally NOT being named Ringwood either, WAS however a doctor (PhD)<br> <br> unfortunately, he submitted his application to the distinguished panel of scientists for consideration BEFORE checking that my name was Ringwood or that i did indeed have a PhD myself (not when i last looked!)<br> <br> this left me with something of a dilemma:<br>   - should i point out to him that neither of the only two things he had stated about me on his grant application were true - in which case he would have then to re-approach the award panel & either explain his mistake ("but you can still entrust me with all this money & expect me to get my facts straight in my reports") or say that Doctor Ringwood declined to act as Referee for him any more - also certain to throw the grant his way!<br> <br>  - or, should i (forgive me for even thinking of this possibility...) go ahead & write him a reference, as if from Doctor Ringwood, on his suitability for receiving such a prestigious research grant <br> <br> it's funny how time compresses when there's a major b***s up on the event-horizon, because before the ink had dried on his email explaining that he hoped it was ok to have given my name as a referee, a huge envelope arrived from the grant panel, addressed to a Doctor Ringwood, asking me to provide a reference<br> <br> so i ...<br> ..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><b>..</b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>..<br> </b></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>...am going to leave it as an exercise in human psychology for you to decide what i did next<br> <br> i seem to remember i kept the envelope addressed to Dr Ringwood, to show to any future grandchildren of mine when they don't believe that this story is completely true</b></font></p> <p> </p> </body>