Introduction
'I no longer own my own mind. I don't own even my own thoughts.
After all I've done, finally there is nothing left. I am a man with no
future.'^1 These were the words of Viktor Schauberger, an Austrian
naturalist, the pioneer of Eco-technology (working with Nature)
who had devoted his life to demonstrating how the desecration of
our environment proceeds directly from our complete ignorance of
how Nature works at the energy level. His controversial credo was
that humanity must begin, with humility, to study Nature and learn
from it, rather than try to correct it. We have put the future of
humanity at risk by the way we produce and consume energy. His
aim was to liberate people from dependence on inefficient and pol-
luting centralized energy resources and generation of power.
Viktor was communicating his distress to his son, Walter, on the
plane home from Texas after a nightmare of exhausting cross-
examination to extract the secrets of the devices he had developed
which demonstrated free energy, anti-gravity and fuel-less flight.
He died five days later on September 25,1958, in Linz, Austria, of a
broken heart. Father and son had embarked on an ambitious, but
ill-conceived, scheme hatched by an American consortium' which
probably had CIA and atomic energy connections, in order to per-
suade him to give up the keys to his mysterious research (see Chap-
ter 18). Schauberger had in 1944, under threat of death, been forced
to develop a flying saucer programme for the Third Reich, the secret
weapon which, had it been initiated two years earlier, might well
have tipped the war's balance in Germany's favour.
Schauberger's inspiration came from studying the water in fast-
flowing streams in the unspoilt Austrian Alps, where he worked as a
forest warden. From his astute observations he became a self-trained
engineer, eventually learning, through the implosive, or centripetally
moving, processes that Nature uses, how to release energy 127 times
more powerful than conventional power generation. By 1937 he had
developed an implosion motor that produced a thrust of l,290m/sec,
or about four times the speed of sound. In 1941 Air Marshall Udet
asked him to help solve the growing energy crisis in Germany; how-
ever the research came to an end when Udet died and the plant was
INTRODUCTION