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From: Ray 
Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 20:16:44 +0100

	Newman is for real.  I saw him speak last year at the conference of
	the Institute for New Energy in Colorado.
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From: someone else
Received-Date: Thu Feb 17 23:23 MEZ 1994

					Smithsonian, November, 1986

[...]
    Newman has since waged a two-prongedattack, both legal and theatrical.  In
places like the Louisiana Superdome, he has staged a series of well-attended
exhibitions.  Surrounded by signs reading "Danger: High Voltage," the device
would make a bank of light bulbs glow, sometimes running a portable fan or a
water pump to boot.  As a "catalyst" to help things along, Newman would first
hook it up to an array of 1,000 nine-volt batteries.
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Life, September, 1986, Pg. 19

[...]
   Like any hardworking evangelist, Joe Newman has attracted his share of
proselytes. In April, when he demonstrated one of his machines at the Louisiana
Superdome, 8,500 people paid to see it. Newman has sold more than 5,000 copies
(at $34.95 each, plus postage) of a privately printed book describing his
invention. He receives 150 admiring letters a week, some of them addressed,
simply, to " Energy  Man, Mississippi." A consortium of businessmen has investedmore than $500,000 in his project. Thirty scientists, including a NASA aerospaceengineer and an electrical engineer who worked on the Saturn 5 rocket, have
signed affidavits saying they have tested the machine and believe it is indeed,
s its inventor calls it, "An  Energy  Generation System Having Greater External Energy  Output Than External Input."
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Chicago Tribune, August 29, 1986 Friday, SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: TEMPO; Pg. 1; ZONE: C

[...]
    The man who offers this rich possibility or absolute impossibility is a
self-taught, backwoods inventor of plastic barbells, of a deflector that keeps
the rain off windshields at drive-in movies, of a gadget that sucks the juice
from oranges still hanging on the tree.
    In his own words, Newman is just "a country boy." He lives in a small
house at the end of a two-rut lane in Lucedale, Miss., and has taught himself ..
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