Bruce De Palma

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Bruce DePalma (born Bruno James DePalma) (October 2, 1935–October 1997), son of orthopaedic surgeon Anthony DePalma and elder brother of film director Brian De Palma, was a well known figure in the Free energy suppression community.

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De Palma claimed that his N-machine, a Homopolar generator based on the Faraday disc, could produce five times the energy required to run it. The principle of conservation of energy as currently taught states no such device is possible; however, when James Clerk Maxwell's original equations are used, rather than the grossly oversimplified versions popularized by Oliver Heaviside most commonly used today, such devices are quite possible.^{[citation needed]} De Palma studied electrical engineering at Harvard (1958) and taught physics at MIT for 15 years, working under Harold Eugene Edgerton. He was also employed by Edwin H. Land of Polaroid.

Bruce De Palma's N-machine concept of 1977, his other anomalous devices (some alleged to display anti-gravity characteristics) and the claims for them, set him on a collision course with mainstream scientists who contradicted his claims of "free energy" over the course of twenty years, as did some members of the alternative energy community.

His search for financial backing for the construction of a marketable N-machine led him to move from Santa Barbara, California to Australia around 1994 and on to New Zealand in 1996. Probably his greatest ally in his conviction that the N-machine could solve the world's energy and environmental crisis was Paramahamsa Tewari, a Project Director with the Indian Nuclear Power Corporation, with whom he corresponded over many years. Tewari's Space Power Generator, claimed to be 200% efficient, is based on the same alleged theoretical considerations as the N-machine.

De Palma's death in New Zealand in October 1997 put an end to his most ambitious free energy project, and occurred only weeks prior to the official testing of a device constructed during 6 months in an Auckland workshop. The test was attended by, among others, the project's financial backer, Bruce Bornholdt, a prominent Wellington barrister, as well as the pioneering developer of the Adams motor, Robert Adams (now deceased), who observed the operation of, and measured electrical output from, the N-machine. The test demonstrated no over-unity potential of the N-machine - most of the output energy was lost as heat - and the project was abandoned.