My scientific research began when I taught myself to read electronic symbols sometime around the year 1976. I remember gathering junked black and white vacuum tube type television sets and other discarded electronic consumer products. This was done alongside my paper delivery routes that spanned about a  five year period.

It was between the years 1980 and 1995 when I was like a kid with a new chemistry set. I tried just about everything that you could think of in the way of building electronic circuits. I just about blew up my place of residence in carrying out chemical experiments. I also got my hands on all the books that I could find about Nikola Tesla. I learned everything that I could about what had already been known to science. This included the extraction of radioactive material from its ores, developing my own processes as I went along.

Sometime in the year 1995 I built a device that powered two 100-watt light bulbs for about seven months, intermittently. I remember it being powered up continuously for just about a one-week stretch. One day I turned on the device and it was dead cold and would not give even the faintest glow. Around this time I got a call from Steven Elswick, then the President of the "International Tesla Society." He had called to ask me to do a lecture about the device. I told him that I did not want to expose my research to the public. My prototype was not even up and running. He then convinced me that it would be the best way to keep my work safe. He said that the society Vice-President J.W. McGinnis would be calling me to promote the conference on the radio.

Next came the radio talk shows hosted by J.W. McGinnis. On the very first show he announces that I had plans for sale that fully explained my device. The very next week J.W. calls me saying that people were calling him for orders. I had no plans at that point to sell and I never told him that I did! Needless to say, I scrambled and extracted as much information that I could from my computer and from the relative information that I had collected over the years. I managed to put together a folder that included a diagram of a design that I had not yet tested. It was to utilize chlorine gas in place of the radioactive material that I was using in my working device. It was based on the working  tube that powered my prototype.  Later, this tube was named "ion valve." In my original design I used radium scraped from old clock dials but I did not find this appropriate at the time to tell this to the do-it-yourself researcher. Only a small handful of people could get the experiment to work and very little power was obtained from it. This is how I met Calvin Bahlmann my mechanical engineer. He was one of the people who was successful with the chlorine substitute. My own chlorine tube setup had its share of problems when I finally got around to testing the new design. It did work but the chlorine gas was so corrosive that the effect only lasted for a few short hours at best using a freshly built tube.

Then came my first conference in 1996 and I still could not get the 200-watt light bulb device to work again. I really didn't know back then precisely why it worked in the first place. J.W. hyped up the conference to the ends of the Earth. He claimed that I had a unit ready to be sold that would get people off from the grid. I did not tell him this. However, I did go along with anything that he said in fear that if I didn't he would cancel my flight tickets. Back then I was as poor as a church mouse. I know now that this was not the best choice that I have made in my life. It had the effect of damaging my credibility. All I really wanted to do was to meet people who were into the research that I was into. Ordinary people in my day to day social circles just did not understand what I was doing. Finally, I was going to meet people that could relate to me. I was proud of my research. I wanted the world to know that there was a totally new source of power waiting to be harnessed. 

From the above account you can see that I have been involved in alternative research from about 1995 to 2001. This is a very short term considering what I have accomplished within these six years. It has only been in the past year that I have come to understand how my original device produced energy. I have said little about what I have gleaned in this past year. The primary reason is that I have learned there are many people who are trying to destroy my work for different reasons. Knowing this I often find myself asking other researchers questions that I know the answers to. It is an unconscious self-defense mechanism. Regardless, all the answers have been posted to my website and through my lectures. If the heart of a researcher is in the right place then they will earn their answers by doing hands on experimentation.

Presently, I am making good progress from week to week. These next few months I will be working on perfecting my fuel cell concept for the marketplace. Hopefully, by the October inventor's weekend conference I will be able to announce my first product. With the funds made from this product the commercial development of radiant energy could have a fighting chance.              

                        - Bruce A. Perreault