Experimental Confirmation of the Reich Orgone Accumulator Thermal Anomaly; James Demeo

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EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATIONOF THE REICH ORGONEACCUMULATOR THERMAL ANOMALY

by James DeMeo, Ph.D.

ABSTRACT

Experimental investigations were undertaken by the author, of the thermal anomaly (To-T) inside the orgone energy accumulator(Oa phenomenon firstly observed by the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich, who invented the ORAC device. This thermal anomaly, by the of Reich, is produced from the rarified motional-pulsatingorgone energy continuumwhich is concentrated inside the ORAC, proda frictional thermal heating of the air. Discussion is given on the experimental proofs standing behind Reichs theory and cdrawing attention to similar concepts in the modern sciences. The orgone energy is similar in many respects to the older lumincosmic etherin that it fills all space, but also fulfills the role of an atmospheric-biological life-energy, in that it is pulsatory and exc

and charges living tissues. In the To-T experiment, air temperature was measured inside the upper part of a 10 cm cubical ORACcontrasted to the temperature within a thermally-balanced but non-orgone-accumulating Control enclosure, following the protoReich. Exceptional care was taken in the construction of the apparatus and in control procedures, with instrumentation calidown to ~0.002C. The experiment was undertaken in a well-ventilated but fully dark-shaded outdoor thermal shelter spconstructed for the evaluations. Under the optimal conditions for ORAC functioning (i.e., low humidity, light or no windsskies), a cyclical positive thermal anomaly was systematically detected, with an average of +0.13C differential in two 1experimental runs presented here, with maxima peaking daily around +0.5C warmer than the Control, and minima at around -0The experiments confirmed Reichs claims of a slight spontaneous heating effect inside the ORAC, which has no known energy sby classical empty space determinations.

Keywords:Wilhelm Reich, orgone energy, orgone accumulator, thermal anomaly, To-T

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INTRODUCTION

This report presents the preliminary findings froman extended experimental evaluation of thethermal heat anomaly within the orgone energyaccumulator (ORAC), or To-T effect. The To-T is oneof several experimental proofs developed by the late Dr.

Wilhelm Reich for the existence of what he called theorgone energy, or cosmic life energy. From Reichs theory,the thermal anomaly is produced due to a postulatedsubtle friction-heating of the air, from the rarifiedmotional-pulsatingorgone energy continuumwhich ispreferentially attracted into and concentrated inside theORAC, but less so inside the Control. Myexperimental investigations into this phenomenonextend back to c.1970, but I began in earnest toevaluate the To-T experiment under optimal laboratory

conditions around 2000. Early in my work I was usingsensitive mercury thermometers, calibrated to NISTstandards and with tenth-degree markings, which byuse of a magnifying glass could be evaluated forhundredth-degree determinations. These were latergiven up for thermocouple measuring systems, whichfor other reasons also proved unsuitable for theexperiment. Ultimately, I settled upon sensitive high-quality thermistors, which could be individuallycalibrated electronically by software adjustments. I alsoexperimentally tested different shapes and sizes ofORACs, such as cone-shapes, and sizes ranging from 1cubic foot, down to a 10 cm cube. ORACs andControl devices were tested inside special chambers,underground in dug pits, as well as above ground, inthe shade and in open sunlight. In the end, a simplemethodology was finally settled upon which producedrelatively consistent and positive results, as given below.

REICHS DISCOVERY OF THE ORGONE,AND EXPERIMENTALCONFIRMATIONS

The discovery of the orgone was claimed by Reichoriginally as a sensible bioelectrical currentwhich movedalong the skin surface during states of emotional andsexual excitation.1 His later work examining biologicalexcitation in single-cell microorganisms demonstrateda similar sensible, but also visible and photographableblue-glowing energy-field emitted by special micro-

spheroid vesicles derived from crushed beach heated to red-hot incandescence, and then quplunged into sterile nutrient solutions.2

documented various protocellular life-like formboth heating and freezing of preparations.2,3 Rblue-glowing vesicles were around 1 micron, and cbe observed and photographed in the

microscope.3,4,7,8

He called these vesicles the bionsgiven their pulsatory movements and culturabconsidered them to be a transitional entity betwliving and non-living matter.2,3,4,7 His now-validexperiments on this subject predate and anticipsimilar findings on the development of life-like mspheroid vesicles produced under conditions of heand/or freezing some 30 years later by scientists suBahadur, Carnes-Smith, and Fox.5 The existenthermophillic microbes as from deep-sea hydrothevents or hot springs, which today stand at the cutedge of research on the origins of life question, anticipated by Reichs early experiments. therapeutic value of natural hot springs, whichtypically enriched with mineral vesicles, is accepted by folk medicine and natural-oriephysicians as having healing properties similar to Reich previously documented with the radiating bReichs findings on the bions were originally repliby Roger duTeil and they jointly communicatedfindings to the French Academy of Sciences in 1

However, Reichs bion discovery remained relatunknown and unacknowledged due to the evenWorld War II and the Vichy take-over in Frparticularly given his public anti-Nazi writingscame to the USA in 1939, just ahead of the invasion of Norway.

Reich also observed an anomalous blue-enradiation around living red blood cells vimicroscopically, a phenomenon which also registe

photographs.3,4,7,8

This appears to be one and the as the classically-described zeta potentialof electrocharge around the blood cells, and which is acceas a measure of overall vitality as expressed insedimentation testing of blood.9 Broth cultures osand-bions were also observed to have strong raeffects which passed through glass containers to c



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biological reactions among laboratory workers(conjunctivitis of the eye from prolonged microscopicalobservation, plus an irritation or tanning of the skin).Physical effects were also noted, such as the fogging ofphotographic plates, the spontaneous magnetization ofmetal laboratory implements kept near to the radiatingsand-bion cultures, and non-frictional electrostatic

charging of nearby insulators.10

These kinds ofobservations led Reich to understand he was dealingwith an entirely new form of energy, something relatedto bioelectricity and life, but also with clear physicalexpressions in non-living material.

In efforts to better study this radiation, which couldnot be detected via standard electromagneticinstrumentation, Reich constructed a special metal-lined insulated box, to capture and amplify thephenomenon for closer study. This effort wassuccessful, and Reich observed this would enhance theobserved visible and sensible effects of the radiatingsand-bion cultures. However, the metal boxsurrounded with insulation also showed similarphenomenon without inclusion of the radiant sand-bion cultures. After considerable puzzlement andinvestigation, Reich concluded the atmosphere wasfilled with the same energy which charged and radiatedfrom the sand-bion cultures, though in a form notbound directly to life or matter.11

Reich thereby made the simultaneous discovery of theorgone energy, and invention of the orgone energyaccumulator. The discovery led him into medicalresearch on the health effects of this radiant andluminous energy, and investigations into the bestmaterials and environmental conditions forconstructing and using the orgone accumulator. At hislaboratory, Reich and his associates were injecting theradiant blue-glowing sand-bions into experimental

cancer mice, and also having human subjects sit insidelarger orgone accumulators (ORACs), for directexposure to the radiant energy. His experiments alongthese lines were controversial, as they producedremarkable life-positive effects, including prolongationof life in cancer mice, plus remissions of various healthproblems not anticipated by classical biology or

medicine. Reich eventually came to believeresistance to disease was basically a condition oenergy charge and pulsation within the organism

Both during his lifetime and in the years afterORAC has been shown to produce powphysiological effects in clinical research for treat

of humans against what he called low energy biopawhich included most cancers.3,7 While stopping of claiming a cure, his orgone accumulator therapspread both informally through the grapevinethrough professional and scholarly groups, and is twidely used in both Europe and North Amethough almost exclusively outside of the hossystem of the medical mainstream.12,13 The ORACalso been shown to stimulate an increased growthvigor in controlled experiments with plants, increased life-span and slowed tumor growth in cmice.14,15 Published clinical case-studies of the effebenefit of the orgone accumulator on human disare too abundant to review here, but there are sedouble-blind and controlled experiments, undertat European universities and published in more ryears, confirming Reichs observations on the oraccumulators parasympathetic influence uponhuman organism.16 A German government minin the state of Niedersachsen also included oaccumulator therapyas a recommended form ofe

medicinealong with homeopathy and acupuncturharmonization within EU medical practice.17 Ocontrolled and blinded clinical experiments emploorgone-radiating tubes as substitutes or additioacupuncture needles, strongly suggest that orenergy is also the acupuncture energy of Chmedicine.18 These and other findings are strosuggestive also of the work by Popp and odocumenting a weak but permanent biophotonflthe visible and ultraviolet range.19

Reichs studies on the physical properties of the orenergy were equally remarkable. The ORAC develop a higher electrical charge-density inside itscompared to the exterior, as determined through deelectroscopic discharge-rate experiments.20 My experiments indicate orgone energy can charge up w



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suppressing its evaporation.21 Orgone accumulators werealso shown, including within my own laboratory, tocharge up high-vacuum tubes, yielding anomalousluminous and electrical effects, indicating high vacuumtubes approaching deep-space environments remainedfilled with a mass-free energetic substrate.22 Reichs high-vacuum experiments are thereby suggestive of classical

physics concepts invoking terms like dark matter,neutrino sea, or zero-point vacuum fluctuation, todescribe a still-unsettled issue about what actually existsin the core of a deep-vacuum.23 Geiger Muller tubes forradiation detection were also shown, after sufficientcharging inside an ORAC, to yield anomalously highcounts for background radiation alone.24 I havereplicated this effect in my laboratory where upwards of4000 counts per minute have been recorded from Geiger-Mller tubes charged in strong ORACs for about a year,and exposed only to normal background radiation.25

Athermal anomalywas also noted by Reich inside theorgone accumulator, with special experimental testsdeveloped for its measure. This experiment, which inits basics has been replicated many times, shows howthe ORAC spontaneously develops a slightly highertemperature inside itself than in a thermally-balancedcontrol enclosure.26

All of these experimental anomalies were replicated and

the effects corroborated by other scientists, eitherduring Reichs lifetime or in the decades after his death.

A GREAT BOMB FORPHYSICS,WITH DISMISSALSOne of the scientists who corroborated the ORACthermal anomaly was Albert Einstein, who met withReich over five hours at his Princeton home on 13January 1941.27 Reich brought several of hisinstruments to their meeting, including an

orgonoscope which allowed for visual objectificationof atmospheric orgone phenomenon, as well as a specialorgone accumulator for demonstrating the thermalanomaly. During the demonstrations, Einsteindeclared to Reich, should it be true, it would be a greatbomb, presumably because of its implications forclassical physics theory.28

At the end of their meeting, Reichs devices were loto Einstein for further study. Einstein confirmeeffect in a subsequent letter of 7 February to ReUnfortunately, one of Einsteins assistants offereexplanation that the To-T effect was an artifathermal-convection in the room. Einstein accethat explanation without further attention and in

same letter communicated his opinion to Reich. Rsubsequently wrote back to Einstein on 20 Febroutlining various control experiments whichundertaken, would refute the idea of simple conveeffects. However, Einstein never replied back to Ron this issue of control experiments, and there evidence he ever bothered to undertake fuinvestigations.27

Today we know Reichs orgone energy, whichsimilar cosmic medium to the older cosmic ethspace, would have undermined Einsteins theorelativity, which demands that space be empty olight-affecting medium. Only eight years eaEinstein had been confronted with experimevidence of a similar cosmic energy continuum bAmerican physicist Dayton Miller. Miller undertaken several decades of work on the question, including a definitive series of interferomtests over four seasonal epochs atop Mt. Wilson, ilate 1920s. There, he detected an ether-drift s

which overcame the small and less conclusive resuthe better-known Michelson-Morley experiment

Einstein never embraced the Miller results, howdismissing them ex-cathedraas thermal artifacclaim which Miller successfully rebutted whenalive.31 The same explanation was resurrecteEinstein to dismiss Reichs troubling findings, walso suggested the discovery of aponderable medithe orgone energy in Reichs case.27 Today, we k

the Miller ether-drift experiment was corroborateseveral others, including the late Albert Michelsonin more recent years by Yuri Galaev at the UkRadiophysics Institute.31-33 The most forward-loophysicists today speak about the intergalmedium or mysterious dark matter, and there growing number of scientists and engineers



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increasingly speak about the cosmic ether of space, basedupon these and other experimental confirmations.34

All of this newer research provides support to conceptswhich are quite similar to Reichs cosmic orgonecontinuum.35

AN AROUND-THE-CLOCK

THERMODYNAMICALLY-CONTROLLEDPROTOCOLThe basic To-T or thermal anomaly inside the orgoneaccumulator has been replicated by different scientistssince Reichs time, with varying degrees of certainty.Prior to my own studies on this issue, and beyond thework presented by Reich, successful replications wereundertaken notably by Blasband, Baker, Fuckert, Grad,Konia, and Seiler.26,36-40 My own experiments benefitedfrom those earlier studies, but additionally addressed anumber of potential issues, using a protocol to rule outall known classical thermodynamic objections.41 Myown experiment would additionally be run around-the-clock over many days, using an automated data-acquisitions (DAQ) system, and with greater precisionthan in prior trials. Space does not allow a fullexposition of the methodology, but I can summarize.

The most definitive results came from using matchingthermistors of high sensitivity and accuracy, whichallowed very exacting calibrations down to 0.002 C,

with around-the-clock automated To-T recordings.These were used inside a small but strong ORAC, anda thermally-balanced Control enclosure, with hollowinterior dimensions of 10 cm in both cases, andexterior of 17 cm, the difference being composed of thevariable materials from which they were composed.The goal, which was achieved through empiricallaboratory thermal stress-testing, was for the ORACand Control to have nearly identical thermal resistanceand heat capacity, such that ordinary natural diurnal

thermal variation would create nearly identical thermalreactions within their interiors. Whatever residualeffects were noted, then, could be viewed as a possibleinfluence of the orgone energy phenomenon actingwithin the ORAC, but not in the control.

Reichs original determinations on the best materials

for an orgone accumulator require use of ferromagmetals (galvanized sheet steel or steel-wool prodinterlayered with insulators of a high-dieleproperty (rough sheeps wool blankets or wool-fiberglass materials, certain plastics such as styrenacrylic felt, mason-board or fiber-board materials

From these guidelines, and following my experimental testing of materials, the ORACcomposed as follows:

1. An inner 10 cm box of thin galvanized steel metal, 27-gauge (~0.5 mm thick) was construOne of the metal sheets had a inch hole drthrough, for insertion of the measuring thermi

2. This metal cube was firmly nested inside anothecomposed of inch fiber-board material, Celotex brand) which is typically composecrushed agricultural residues (i.e., sugar-cane stwhich at the factory is mixed with binding gspread out flat and allowed to harden into semi-sheets, one side of which is typically given a wcoat of paint. It is used for ceiling tiles or insulaand is readily available in most building-sustores in North America. These fiber panels cothe exterior sides of the metal cube, overlappicompose a slightly larger cube which was glued

coated with a white silica-based paint of a hdielectric property. One of the fiber-board palso had a hole drilled into it, to match up withole in the sheet metal. This side with thebecame the top of the ORAC. A straight andhollow plastic tube of around 10 cm length wasfixed through and cemented into the hole infiber-board panel, but resting against the outsithe metal plate, such that the thermistor (finside a separate rigid jacket which allowed on

sensing tip to be exposed) could easily be insdown the tube and precisely into the top-interithe metal box. A cotton-fluff insulation gaskefitted to the thermistor jacket such that, wheninserted down the tube, the top-hole in the Ointerior would be fully sealed from outside air.



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3. A layer of 000-grade steel-wool was then laiddown to cover the full cube, and that was in turncovered over with a double-layer of acrylic felt, ascan be obtained in fabric shops. 100% wool feltalso could be used (but not polyester). Three suchalternating layers of steel-wool/double-felt wereapplied in turn. The final exterior layer was

composed of a double-layer of acrylic felt.Standard masking tape was used to hold the steel-wool/felt layers together during the constructionprocess.

4. A final exterior layer of thin plastic kitchen food-wrap was added, to slow or eliminate air-intrusion.

This ORAC construction design employing layeredferromagnetic conductive material with high-dielectricinsulation material, creates, by my observation, a typeof hollow capacitor, which has no history ofexperimental development outside of Reichs discovery,and which attracts a higher charge of the cosmic life-energy inside itself.43

The Control enclosure used similar insulating materialsbut no metals whatsoever, as follows, from the inside out:

1. Five layers of 110-pound card-stock (from a printingshop as used for post-cards) were lightly cemented

together in a stack and then cut to compose a 10 cmcube, with hollow interior, matching in size themetal cube of the ORAC. A inch hole is drilledfor thermistor insertion, identical to the ORAC.

2. A surrounding box of inch fiber-board materialwas created, exactly the same as in the ORAC,snugly fitting around and lightly cemented to theoutside of the constructed card-stock box. Amatching hole was also drilled in the fiber-board,

with the addition of an identical rigid plastic tubefor insertion of the thermistor, as was done with theORAC.

3. Multiple layers of the same acrylic felt, but no steelwool, were used for the Control, which did notinclude metals in its construction. Because there was

no steel wool, the Control required about twimuch acrylic felt layering as used for the ORA

4. A final exterior layer of thin plastic kitchen fwrap was added, as before, to slow or eliminatintrusion.

Several times during the construction processmaterials were evaluated empirically as to their theproperties. The choice of 5 card-stock layers inControl to match against the single layer of steel iORAC was determined empirically, by experimmeasurement of their heat-resistance propertiethermal heat lamp and/or radiant heater was usdetermine the number of card-stock layers necessamatch the thermal resistance of the 27-gauge (~0.5thick) sheet steel, by measuring temperature risefall on the side opposing the heat source. Bymethod, I determined that 5 card-stock lproduced nearly identical thermal shielding fromheat sources, as did the single metal layer being While one might anticipate the metal layer would quickly conduct a thermal impulse across and thrits dimensions as compared to card-stock materialsmust keep in mind the metal also reflects away mof the incident thermal infra-red which strikesurface. By classical theory, this difference would against any mechanically-produced thermal

anomaly in the ORAC, as discussed below.

A subsequent thermal evaluation of the compmetal box and cardstock box was also made, andstill of these boxes with their respective fiber-bcovers, verifying the accumulator and control yievery close thermal reactions to the intensive heat lThis thermal-stress evaluation was repeated agadetermine how many layers of acrylic felt was neceon the Control to compensate for the steel-woo

construction of the ORAC. By adding or subtralayers of acrylic felt to the Control, I was abproduce a nearly identical thermal-resistance andtime response between the two enclosures. The osize of the ORAC and Control ended up nidentically also, at ~17cm on each side.



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The metal components of the ORAC would, byclassical theory, reflect away a significant quantity ofwhatever thermal infra-red (IR) energy was incidentupon them. One might therefore expect, with noorgone energy and equal thermal dynamics, the orgoneaccumulator would never get as warm as the Control.Consequently, by classical thermodynamic theory andno orgone energy effects, the ORAC should produce amuch more shallow oscillating curve over the course ofthe day as compared to the Control, the latter of whichwould allow radiant IR energy more directly into its

interior, yielding a greater warming effect. By thisreasoning, even with identical thermal effects from airtemperature, as from air conduction and convectionincident upon the exteriors of the ORAC and Controlenclosures, the accumulator should never get as warmas the control. The ORAC should constantly bereflecting away considerable IR energy, and henceremain slightly cooler than the Control in the daytimewhen the Sun is heating up the atmosphere andlandscape. Over the cooling night period, and

assuming no orgone energy thermal effects, the ORACwould retain more of the thermal energy it hadacquired in its interior during the day, given theinward-reflecting nature of its metal components.

In this regard, the thermal reactions of the ORAC bearsome similarity to how modern building design uses

metal foils with insulation materials to reflect theIR energy: To keep a building cool in aenvironment, the metal foil reflects away the unwadaytime heat; in a cold environment, the metalayer helps retain a buildings internal heat by inwreflection. Likewise, metal-foil-lined surblankets retain body heat in cold environments, w

foil lined beverage coolers ward off IR heat fromoutside. Consequently, there are several linclassical thermodynamic argument which predicORAC should show a lower temperature thanControl during the daytime, and a possibly wacondition during the night. As will be shown, jusopposite was the case.

It was also important to create an outdoors, ventibut dark-shaded environment in which to run theT experiment, where no significant differencthermal energy input could preferentially arrieither the ORAC or Control, to create a mechawarming or cooling of one of them over the othcould not use the standard kind of laborenvironmental-chamber, notably because they doallow for fresh-air mixing, and are composed of mboth of which would predictably affect the orgenergy dynamics of the experiment.

From many sources 12-16, 42 it is known the more sen

orgone accumulator experiments require a ventilated but dry space, away from any kinds of mestructures, and without interfering low-electromagnetic fields from either 60-cycle power VLF from computers or electronic equipment, anfrom wi-fi, cell phones and towers, and siradiations. Nuclear materials must also be exclfrom within the proximity, with a preferred distanaround 50 miles from any nuclear reactors or simatomic facilities, and the experiment should optim

be undertaken at higher altitudes. Reichs laboratoRangeley Maine met such standards, and my laboratory was selected for those exact properties, iforests of SW Oregon at a high altitude of 4300(~1300 m) elevation, with a pronounced summeseason -- conditions known for stronger orgoeffects. This essential aspect of the experimental pro


Figure 1. General layout of the To-T Experiment. Thermistorsmeasure the temperature in the upper interior of both ORAC andControl enclosures, with separate air temperature measurements.


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is in fact no more stringent than, for example, thedifferent but equally specific demands that a cosmic-raytelescope be located in an isolated high-altitude regiondistant from city lights, or that neutrino-detectionexperiments be isolated deep underground or within ahuge mass of glacial ice, and also fully away from atomicpower reactors. As previously cited, others have made

reasonably good measures of the thermal anomaly underconditions less-than-optimal. But a negative resultunder non-optimal conditions would be no moredefinitive than a cosmic-ray photograph fogged up bylights from a local airport, which the incautiousastronomer thought would be irrelevant, but wasnt.

Initially I devoted considerable effort to running thisexperiment within a sheltered enclosure inside mylaboratory building. However, multiple problems andissues forced moving the experiment outdoors into aspecial ventilated thermal shelter. This shelter, shownfrom the outside in Figure 2, was located under ashaded tree canopy on the forest floor away from allother structures. The walls were composed of double-layered plywood with numerous gaps allowing slowmixing with the outside air. Fresh air is necessary forgood orgone accumulator functioning. It was paintedwhite on the outside, with additional interior andexterior 1 inch Styrofoam insulation-shade panels. Theroof was plywood with composite asphalt shingles to

shed precipitation, and also covered with Styrofoampanels on the top. The entrance door was on the northside corner, covered over with a heavy tarp andplywood sheet when closed up for the experiment.During those times, the interior was quite dark,requiring a flashlight to view things. The exterior ofthe structure received only spotty direct sunlight aswould filter diffusely through the thick cedar and pineforest canopy which rises overhead to around 150 feetin height at this location. By empirically adjusting

plywood shade and Styrofoam insulation panels, I wasable to create a shelter where the internal thermalgradient was typically no greater than ~0.2Cdifference from one interior side to the other over thecourse of the day. This was determined firstly by use ofan infrared thermometer-scanner, and later confirmedby separate measuring with thermistors during actual

experimental runs. It becomes quite essential,there be no great variance in internal air temperanor point-sources of IR heat (as from the Sun) wwould thereby skew the results.

Once the thermal shelter was prepared, I crearotating pivot on the interior ceiling, and from thisuspended by ropes a platform composed of siplywood measuring ~25 cm width and ~1.25 mlength. The ORAC and Control were placed onplank about 1 meter distance from each other, at a1 meter height. The orientation of the axis,location of the ORAC and Control enclosures, c

then be moved around, or the locations reverseevaluate the effects of environmental influences. is seen in Figure 3.

In later experiments this whole platform would binto slow rotation by a DC motor, of around 1 rotper 3 minutes, so that both the ORAC and Cowould be progressively exposed to whatemperature variations existed inside the theshelter, from the various walls. In practice, this rot

system often malfunctioned, so it was used intermittently, but it finally did produce some obest results. Confounding problems existed power black-outs from winter blizzards or sumthunderstorms, causing computer crashes and lost Occasionally on windy days there would significant flow of warm summer or cold winter air


Figure 2. Exterior of Ventilated Thermal Shelter undera heavy tree canopy, with air-gap double-walls and

protective shade panels.


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would enter the interior of the ventilated shelterpreferentially on one side, and skew the interiortemperatures and the To-T results. This wasdetermined by separate thermistors set to monitor theopen air temperature near to both the ORAC andControl. The best results were consistently obtainedon low-wind and low humidity summer days, duringthe Oregon dry season.

Thermistors used in the measurements were coupledto a Vernier Lab-Pro DAQ system, with a hard-wiredremote USB connection to a laptop inside the mainlaboratory building, running Vernier Logger Prosoftware.44 Once an experiment was up and running,the door into the thermal shelter was covered withopaque plastic and the interior remained dark and withonly very diffuse light entering inside. Four termistorswere used, identified as the ORAC, Control, Air3, and

Air4. These latter two thermistors were placed in theopen air, covered only by a thin plastic tube with singlefelt-layer cover, to moderate against short-termfluctuations. These were positioned about 10 cmdistant from the respective ORAC and Controlenclosures, and at the same height, to monitor theactual air temperature differences within the thermal

shelter close to the two experimental enclosures. will note later, under the most satisfactory condi and this became a determinant between usablenon-usable runs -- the difference between the Air3Air4 thermistors was typically less than whatrecorded from the ORAC-Control (or Tdifference. When this Air3 and Air4 temper

difference became greater than around 0.2 all by or being extremely variable, I considered that partirun as questionable even if it had a very positive T

With all these considerations in place, one finalwas necessary. Off the shelf, the thermistors (VeSTS-BTA) would yield very stable readings overfor the same absolute temperature, but could bfrom each other by as much as ~0.2C. Fortunthe Vernier software allowed for electronic adjustmof their absolute readings. To evaluate and correcfactor, I created a special highly insulated CalibrChamber, composed of nested Styrofoam boxesfour of the thermistor probes were firstly inserteda small clear-plastic pill box where they shared the air within a tiny space of around 1 cm3. This pbox was then inserted inside a Styrofoam enclowhich in turn went inside the larger Styrofoamwhich was then sealed to prevent air intrusion. overall Calibration Chamber was then placed rotation on the same platform used for

experiments, inside the thermal shelter. The thermprobe-wires then connected back through the Dsystem just as when an experiment would be During these calibration runs, I could monitor wif any of the thermistors yielded higher or lreadings for the same absolute temperature insidcore of the Calibration Chamber. By adjustincalibration values in the software, corrections coumade to each thermistor, bringing their valuwithin a remarkable ~0.002C of each other.

minimal variation was possible even as tempervaried over the course of the day and night, wcould be as much as ~10-20C. Frequently, I wrun the calibrations over several days and observedbeing adjusted, they would retain the same valuethe same absolute temperature for a consideperiod. Once the calibrations were completed


Figure 3. Interior of the Thermal Shelter, showing platformwith ORAC and Control enclosures. Thermistors enter themfrom the top. Separate Air3 and Air4 thermistors are also

attached to dowels at the far end of each platform. ORAC andControl are ~1 meter apart. White Styrofoam insulation panels

are seen in the background, and these covered a full circle

around the device, as well as above it.


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actual experimental runs would begin. Withoutchanging any of the electronics or settings, and withthe full system continuing to run, I would carefullyremove the thermistors from the Calibration Chamberand place them inside the ORAC and Controlenclosures. The Air3 and Air4 thermistors werelikewise placed into position, near to the ORAC and

Control, and I would exit the shelter, cover the door,and the actual experimental measurement run wouldbegin.

CONTROLLED MEASURESOF THE THERMALANOMALYOnce I had completed the calibrations and set-up fora run of measurements inside the thermal shelter, anddeparted back to the laboratory, typically it would takeseveral hours for the thermal variations from my body-heat and handling of the thermistors to dissipate andstabilize. I could then study and review whateverthermal energy anomaly might be produced inside theORAC relative to the Control. With the Air3 and Air4thermometers in place, I could also monitor the effectsof wind or Sun on the shelters thermal dynamics. Ialso developed a method to mathematicallycompensate for smaller variations within the thermalshelter. When one side of the thermal shelter waswarmer or colder than the other, determined by thedifference between the Air3 and Air4 thermistors, I

could subtract that environmental difference from theactual To-T to create a new value, of the Adjusted To-T. When winds were very light, the Air3-Air4difference was within 0.1 to 0.2C of zero. In thosecases, one could say the conditions were optimal forthe most significant determinations, and in fact theactual To-T and the Adjusted To-T was very close ifnot identical at those times. Presented below are severalselected experimental runs made during those mostexacting and optimal conditions.

Figure 4 for example, shows one selected 10-day run in2008 where the ORAC and Control sat on the plywoodplatform inside the thermal shelter, but without anyrotation of the platform. This was under light wind orno wind conditions, with clear skies and humidity lowerthan 50%. Under those conditions, the graphs show

persisting though cyclical positive To-T readings, gin the blue line. Here the ORAC developed an anoaveraging around +0.088C, and typically pearound +0.5C warmer than the Control at Solar Nwith minima of approximately -0.1C clos

Midnight. The red line is the temperature diffebetween two air-exposed thermistors, Air3 and Airopposite ends of the platform, indicating a nathermal gradient within the shelter of an av-0.055C, with the environment of the ORAC bthat much cooler. This means, the actual tempergradients inside the thermal shelter worked agains


Figure 4. To-T in Clear Weather, Outdoor Thermal Sheltethermal anomaly is present. N (with yellow dot) = Solar N

Grey dot = midnight.

Figure 5. To-T in Clear Weather on Rotating Platform inOutdoor Thermal Shelter thermal anomaly is present. N

(with yellow dot) = Solar Noon, Grey dot = midnight.


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T effect, and the relatively flat nature of that data graphis itself a confirmation of the basic methodology, andaccuracy of the original empirical testing andcalibrations used for construction of the experiment.Had there been some major error in the constructionof the ORAC versus the Control enclosures, such thattheir thermal resistance or heat capacity was

significantly different, or if the calibration procedureswere inaccurate or faulty, then the data displayed inFigure 6, acquired under conditions when noorgoneenergy effects were anticipated, is where we shouldexpect to see such errors expressed. Daily temperaturevariations, from night minima to daytime maxima onthis particular run of wet conditions were from 5 to12C daily, which is similar to what existed in both theprior two graphics Figure 4 and 5, under dryconditions of clear positive To-T effects, which bothhad daily variations of around 8 to 14C. This alsowas indicative, the positive To-T readings were not dueto thermal-lag reactions to diurnal temperaturevariations. The To-T is not created by mechanicaltemperature bias due to slight differences in thethermal properties of the two enclosures. If that werethe case, we would see a significant oscillatingtemperature mimicking the To-T even during wetperiods, due solely to daily temperature variation. Thisnever happened. Wet conditions always extinguishedall but the most insignificant thermal variations.

Figure 6 thereby provides added support to theanomalistic nature of measurements in Figures 4 and 5,where a clear and positive To-T was obtained under theexact optimal conditions when we expect the orgone

accumulator to generate a high charge inside itse

Table 1 summarizes these overall results, which the Average To-T values for the two dry periohigher orgonotic charge to be from 4 to 5 times as as during the wet periods of no anticipated orgoeffects. The Adjusted To-T shows an even l

difference, the dry periods of expected high chyielding a thermal response from 16 to 20 timgreat as during the wet periods of no anticiporgonotic effects.

There is yet another even more telling factor in thT data indicating the thermal anomaly is noproduct of mere solar heating either, as mighconsidered given how the data has a diurnal period(and ignoring for the moment, the significant shaand insulation provided by the thermal sheSignificantly, note the locations of the yellow which mark Solar Noon, and the grey dots which Midnight. This also is anomalous as it showORAC is peaking out in temperature not at the hotime of day, which occurs some 3-4 hours laterbottoming out at the coldest time of the nightbefore sunrise.

In both Figure 4 and 5, the temperature anoincreases in the daytime and peaks out at solar-n

even though the experiment proceeds in near-darkinside the shaded and insulated thermal shelter. yellow dots on the graphs mark those points of Noon, over the ten-day period, while midnig



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identified by the grey dots. Significantly, the peakdaytime air temperature of 3-4 PM showed nodiscernable influence on the To-T readings, and theminima is similarly anomalous, trending towards zeroanomaly at the time of midnight. Therefore, theminimum night air temperature of 5-6 AM, just beforesunrise, showed no effect upon the measured To-T

minima either, and the steady increase in To-T duringthe early AM hours is one of the more interestingaspects of the anomaly. The ORAC gradually loses itsinterior heat source from noon towards midnight, butthen picks up again, as if a tiny and growing heat sourcehas returned; this continues from midnight towards apeak at noontime, after which it falls off once again.

This indicates, the ORAC is responding to some factorrelated to the absolute position of the Sun in the sky, ratherthan merely to the effects of solar-heating at the Earthssurface. Somehow, without any direct thermalinfluence, the experiment can detect when the Sun isdirectly overhead, or even more significantly, underfootat midnight.

Over many runs of this experiment, I never saw evenonce a purely mechanically-determined temperaturecurve, peaking at the hottest time of day andbottoming-out during the coldest. The anomalyreveals a pulsatory diurnal effect, suggesting a non-

thermal solar excitation influence directly upon thebackground orgone energy ocean. The To-T curvesfactually correlate with tidal forces related togravitation, something which Reichs own work ledhim to postulate.45 I should also note, this kind ofsolar-noon diurnal influence has also been noted bybiologists and naturalists, who have argued for a tidalinfluence upon biological clock cycles.46,47 Fromgeology and meteorology we also have long-timeevidence of tidal forces influencing the Earths crust and

atmosphere, in ways which are not always sostraightforwardly understood as mere products ofgravitation alone, which itself remains a point of greatmystery to natural science.

We do not anticipate ordinary ferromagnetic metalslayered with high dielectric insulators be it described

as ahollow capacitoror orgone accumulator to proheat inside itself, nor does classical physics give uhint as to why this might occur. The ORACControl enclosures, balanced in construction as are, should behave nearly identically so far as claphysics is concerned. And they do, but only dwet periods when no orgone energy effects are pre

During dry periods, the orgone accumulator funcexactly as Reich described.26,42

While the magnitudes of the To-T effect demonsthere are small, in only tenths of a degree, they areconsistent and up to 20 times greater than what clathermodynamics alone will produce in the apparatus as seen in Figure 6 and Table 1. To bunderstand this thermal anomaly, we must give credto Reichs original theories on the matter, and likconsult the voices of those radical scientists of the Century whose work provides independent suppothis more dynamic view of nature. While space doeallow discussion, I would especially point todiscoveries of Frank Brown, Giorgio Piccardi, HBurr, and Dayton Miller.30,31,46,48,49 Elsewhere, I presented entire lists of such dissenting scholarsscientists whose work gave support in this directionso unhesitatingly assert that Reich was not alonproclaiming the existence of such a dynamicubiquitous cosmic energetic phenomenon.50

My results therefore confirmed Wilhelm Reichs orifindings on the thermal anomaly within the oraccumulator, as well as to validate the confirmations of others. This confirmation is beall known thermodynamic expectations, and is documented in a most carefully-conduexperimental protocol. There is no other known for the anomaly, other than a true and real effect oorgone energy, or something very similar to it.

being the case, it is yet another call for an open scieand medical reappraisal of Reichs larger body of w

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Anxiety(1937) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1982).2. W. Reich, The Bion Experiments: On the Origin of Life(1938)

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1979).3. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, Vol.2, Discovery of the Orgone

(1945) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1973).4. For example see the photo plates of experimentally produced

bions and protocells in: R. Dew, Reich's Experiment XX,

Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science, 6(1):1-32, September1989. M. Snyder, Some Observations on Reich'sExperiment 20, Pulse of the Planet5:88-94, 2002. Also see:B. Grad, Wilhelm Reich's Experiment XX, Cosmic OrgoneEngineering, VII(3-4):130-143, 1955. B. Grad, Studies onthe Origin of Life: The Preparation of Primordial Cell-LikeForms, Pulse of the Planet, 5:79-87, 2002. S. Shanahan,Elektronenmikroskopische Fotografien von Bionen ausEisenstaub, Nach Reich, J. DeMeo & B. Senf, Editors(Zweitausendeins Verlag, Frankfurt 1997), pp.582-585.

5. K. Bahadur,A Functional Approach to the Origin of LifeProblem(National Academy of Sciences, India: Golden

Jubilee Commemoration Volume, 1980). K. Bahadur,Jeewanu, The Protocell, (Ramnarainlal Beni Prasad,

Allahabad, India, 1966). A.G. Cairns-Smith, GeneticTakeover and the Mineral Origins of Life(Cambridge Univ.Press, New York, 1982). A.G Cairns-Smith, Seven Clues tothe Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story(CambridgeUniversity Press, NY 1985). S.W. Fox & K. Dose, MolecularEvolution and the Origin of Life(Marcel Dekker, New York,1977).

6. R. duTeil, Leben und Materie: Drei Versuchsreihen(ThreeSeries of Experiments Based on the Tension-ChargePrinciple), Communication to the Natural PhilosophySociety, Nice, and Academie des Sciences, Paris, France,1938. Reprinted in W. Reich, The Bion Experiments: On theOrigin of Life(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1979).

7. C. Raphael & H.E. MacDonald, Orgonomic Diagnosis ofCancer Biopathy,Wilhelm Reich Foundation, Maine, 1952;originally published as Orgone Energy Bulletin, IV(2):65-128,1952.

8. J. DeMeo, Bion-Biogenesis Research and Seminars at OBRL:Progress Report, Pulse of the Planet5:100-113, 2002.

9. K. Jan & S. Chien, Role of Surface Electric Charge in RedBlood Cell Interactions, J. General Physiology, Vol.6i,pp.638-654, May I973. I. Bauer, ErythrocyteSedimentation: A New Parameter for the Measurement ofEnergetic Vitality,Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science,4(1):49-65, September 1987.

10. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, ibid, pp.81-90.11. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, ibid, Chapter 4.12. J. DeMeo, The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Construction

Plans, Experimental Use and Protection Against Toxic Energy,2nd Revised Edition(Natural Energy Works, Ashland,Oregon 1989).

13. J. Kavouras, Heilen mit Orgonenergie: Die medizinischeOrgonomie(Turm Verlag, Bietighem, Germany, 2005).

14. M. Courie, Plant Response to Orgone Energy, CosmicOrgone Engineering, VII(3-4):203-204, 1955. L. Lance,Effects of the Orgone Accumulator on Growing Plants,

Journal of Orgonomy, 11(1):68-71, 1977. J. Espanca, TEffect of Orgone on Plant Life: Part I, Offshoots of Orgo3:23-28, Autumn 1981 [continued in Espanca, OffshooOrgonomy, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986]. J. Heckm(pseud. H. Claymond), Effect of the Orgone Accumulaon Potato and Onion Plants,Annals, Institute for OrgonScience, 4(1):44-48, September 1987. J. DeMeo, SeedSprouting Inside the Orgone Accumulator,Journal ofOrgonomy, 12(2):253-258, 1978. J. DeMeo, Orgone

Accumulator Stimulation of Sprouting Mung Beans, Puthe Planet5:168-176, 2002.15. W. Reich, The Cancer Biopathy, ibid, pp.290-309. R.

Blasband, The Orgone Energy Accumulator in the Treaof Cancer Mice,Journal of Orgonomy, 7(1):81-85, 1973Blasband, Effects of the Orac on Cancer in Mice: ThreeExperiments,Journal of Orgonomy, 18(2):202-211, 198Baker & R. Dew, Studies of the Reich Blood Test in CaMice,Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science, 3(1):1-11September 1986. B. Grad, The Accumulator Effect onLeukemia Mice,Journal of Orgonomy, 26(2):199-218, 1

16. S. Mschenich & R. Gebauer, Die (Psycho-) PhysiologiWirkungen des Reich'schen Orgonakkumulators auf denmenschlichen Organismus[The (Psycho) Physiological E

of the Reich Orgone Accumulator], University of Marb(W. Germany), Department of Psychology, Dissertation1986. S. Mschenich, Der Gesundheitsbegriff im Werk

Arztes Wilhelm Reich (The Concept of Health in the Wof Dr. Wilhelm Reich), Doktorarbeit am FachbereichHumanmedizin der Philipps-Universitt Marburg (VerlGorich & Weiershauser, Marburg 1995). G. HebenstreDer Orgonakkumulator nach Wilhelm Reich. EineExperimentelle Untersuchung zur Spannungs-Ladungs-Formel, Diplomarbeit zur Erlangung des MagistergradePhilosophie an der Grung- und Integrativ-wissenschaftlFakultt der Universitt Wien, 1995.

17. See: Natural Healing Methods for the European Commun

Doc. Reg. V.5, Min. of Tech., Niedersachsen (Univ.Lueneburg, Germany 1991).18. B. Senf, Wilhelm Reich: Discoverer of Acupuncture En

American Journal of Acupuncture. 2(7):109-18, 1979 ApJune, 1979. L. Southgate, Chinese Medicine and WilhelReich: An Analysis of Chinese Medical and Reichian TheoLife Force, and Experimental Orgone-Acupuncture Study(Lambert Academic Publishing, London 2009).

19. F. Popp (Ed.) et al, Integrative Biophysics: Biophotonics(Springer Netherlands, 2009). J. Chang (Ed.) et al,Biophotons(Springer Netherlands, 2009).

20. W. Reich, Three Experiments with Rubber at the Electros(1939), Orgone Energy Bulletin, III(3):144-145, 1951. Reich, Thermal and Electroscopical Orgonometry (Disc

of the Orgone, part 2), International Journal of Sex-Econ& Orgone Research, III(1):1-16, March 1944. ReprintedReich Cancer Biopathy1948. C. Baker (pseud. C.F.Rosenblum), The Electroscope - Part I,Journal of Orgon3(2):188-197, 1969. - Part II,Journal of Orgonomy, 4(190, 1970. The Electroscope III: Atmospheric Pulsation

Journal of Orgonomy, 10(1):57-80, 1976. The ElectroscIV: Atmospheric Pulsation,Journal of Orgonomy, 11(1):48, 1977. M. Fuckert, Measurements of the Atmosphe



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Orgone Energy,Annals, Institute for Orgonomic Science,8(1):1-16, September 1991.

21. J. DeMeo, Water Evaporation Inside the OrgoneAccumulator,Journal of Orgonomy, 14(2):171-175, 1980.

22. W. Reich, Orgonotic Light Functions 3: FurtherCharacteristics of Vacor Lumination, Orgone Energy Bulletin,I(3):97-99, 1949. W. Reich, The Oranur Experiment, FirstReport(1947-1951) (Wilhelm Reich Foundation, Maine,1951). W. Reich, The Orgone Energy Charged Vacuum

Tubes (VACOR), Orgone Energy Bulletin, III(4):235-266,1951. B. Bizzi, Light in Deep Vacuum Lamps and VitalEnergy, Energy & Character, 3(3):16-17, 1972. J. DeMeo,Research Progress Reports: Photographing the OrgoneEnergy, Pulse of the Planet5:254-255, 2002.

23. For a discussion on this see: J. DeMeo,A Dynamic andSubstantive Cosmological Ether, in Proceedings of the NaturalPhilosophy Alliance, Cynthia Whitney, Editor, Vol.1, No.1,Spring 2004, pp.15-20. Internet posting:http://www.orgonelab.org/DynamicEther.pdf

24. W. Reich, The Geiger-Mller Effect of Cosmic OrgoneEnergy, Orgone Energy Bulletin, III(4):201-234, 1951. Alsoin W. Reich, The Oranur Experiment, ibid.

25. J. DeMeo, New Experiments at OBRL: Reich's Geiger-

Mller and To-T Effects Confirmed, Abstracts Of Papers,Conference On New Research In Orgonomy, Chipping, UK,18-19 August 2007, pp.11-12. J. DeMeo, Orgone

Accumulator GM Effect, OBRL Quarterly Newsletter#19,August 2008, pp.7.

26. W. Reich, Thermal and Electroscopical Orgonometry(Discovery of the Orgone, Part 2), International Journal ofSex-Economy & Orgone Research, III(1):1-16, March 1944.Reprinted in Reich Cancer Biopathy1948, ibid.

27. W. Reich, The Einstein Affair, Wilhelm Reich BiographicalMaterial, History of the Discovery of the Life Energy,AmericanPeriod 1939-1952, Documentary Volume A-IX-E (OrgoneInstitute Press, Rangeley, Maine, 1953).

28. Letter from Wilhelm Reich to A.S. Neill, 6 Sept. 1943.Contained in Record of a Friendship, B.R. Placzek, Editor,Gollancz, London, 1982, pp.98.

29. Letter from Albert Einstein to Wilhelm Reich, 7 Feb.41, Ihave now investigated your apparatus... [and] made enoughreadings without any changes in your arrangements. The box-thermometer showed regularly a temperature of about 0.3 0.40higher than the one suspended freely. Contained in W. Reich,The Einstein Affair, ibid.

30. D. Miller, The Ether-Drift Experiment and theDetermination of the Absolute Motion of the Earth, Reviewsof Modern Physics, Vol.5(2), pp.203-242, July 1933.

31. J. DeMeo, Dayton Miller's Ether-Drift Experiments: A FreshLook, Pulse of the Planet5:114-130 2002. Internet postedhttp://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm

32. A. Michelson, F. Pease & F. Pearson, Repetition of theMichelson-Morley Experiment, Nature, 123:88, 19 Jan.1929; also inJ. Optical Society of America, 18:181, 1929.

33. Y.M. Galaev, Ether-drift Effects in the Experiments on RadioWave Propagation, Radiophysics and Electronics, Institute forRadiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy ofSciences of Ukraine, Vol.5, No.1, pp.119-132, 2000. Y.M.Galaev, Ethereal Wind in Experience of Millimetric

Radiowaves Propagation, Spacetime and Substance, Vol.2No.5 (10), 2001, pp.211-225. Y.M. Galaev, The Measuof Ether-Drift Velocity and Kinematic Ether Viscosity

Within Optical Waves Band, Spacetime and Substance, VNo.5 (15), 2002, pp.207-224.

34. J. Levy (Editor), Ether Space-Time and Cosmology, in thvolumes. (Aperion 2009). S. Deutsch, Return of the Et(SciTech Publishing, 1999). J. Milutis, Ether: The NothThat Connects Everything(Univ. of Minnesota Press, 20

35. J. DeMeo, Reconciling Miller's Ether-Drift with ReichDynamic Orgone, Pulse of the Planet5:137-146 2002. J. DeMeo in refs. 23 and 31 above.

36. R. Blasband, Thermal Orgonometry,Journal of Orgono5(2):175-188, 1971. C. F. Baker (pseud. C. F. RosenblThe Temperature Difference: An Experimental Protoco

Journal of Orgonomy, 6(1):61-71, 1972.37. Fuckert, 1991, ibid.38. B. Grad, Some Heat Experiments Implicating the Exist

of a Subtle Energy, Subtle Energies, 7(3):239-262, 199739. C. Konia, An Investigation of the Thermal Properties

ORAC -- Part I,Journal of Orgonomy, 8(1):47-64, 1974Part II,Journal of Orgonomy, 12(2):244-252, 1978.

40. H. Seiler, New Experiments in Thermical Orgonometr

Journal of Orgonomy, 16(2):197-206, 1982.41. Early in my investigation, it was determined that one o

Reichs methods, to measure the To-T above the top meplate of the ORAC, was particularly susceptible to thermartifacts from downward-directed IR radiation. Iconsequently abandoned that approach and only mademeasurements within the upper-interior of the accumul

Also, one published report of a high To-T reading avera~8.0C appeared suspect, due to inadequate shading froSolar IR radiation, with data recorded only over part of day, and then using only a bare metal box, rather than aauthentic well-constructed orgone accumulator. Myreplication of that experiment under full shade over the

hour clock showed the large readings were due to ordinSolar IR and inadvertent selective measurement ofmechanically-produced diurnal thermal lag. This did ninvalidate Reichs thermal anomaly claims, however. SeCorrea & A. Correa, The Reproducible Thermal Anomthe Reich-Einstein Experiment Under limit ConditionsInfinite Energy, #37, 2001. J. DeMeo, Preliminary Repa Bare metal-Box 'Naked Accumulator' To-T Experime

with Negative Results, Dec. 2001. Internet published:http://www.orgonelab.org/correas2.htm

42. W. Reich, The Orgone Energy Accumulator, Its Scientific Medical Use(Orgone Institute Press, Maine, 1951).

43. Some have likened the orgone accumulator to a FaradaCage. However, over the long history of people making

using Faraday grounding cages, few or none of the anomor properties of the orgone accumulator have been note

within them. While there are similarities in theirconstruction, the layered nature of the ORAC, without need for an Earth-ground, suggests a fundamental diffe

44. http://www.vernier.com45. W. Reich, Ether, God & Devil / Cosmic Superimposition

(1951) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1973).46. F. Brown, Evidence for External Timing in Biological



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Clocks, inAn Introduction to Biological Rhythms,J. Palmer,ed. ... The first part is a chapter contribution by Brown,

within the larger book by Palmer.47. J.A. Knight, Moon Up, Moon Down(Solunar Press,

Montoursville, PA, 1972).48. G. Piccardi, Chemical Basis of Medical Climatology(Charles

Thomas, Springfield, 1962).49. H.S. Burr, Blueprint For Immortality(Neville Spearman,

London, 1971); The Fields of Life(Ballantine Books, NY,

1972).50. J. DeMeo, The Orgone Energy Continuum: Some Old andNew Evidence, Pulse of the Planet2:3-9 Fall 1989.

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