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	Walter L. Rosenthal spent most of his working ~~life employed by several~~ defense contractors at Vandenberg ~~AFB as a member of many different~~ missile launch crews, ~~spanning over 35~~ years~~. He has tested at numerous locations~~ an ~~extensive number~~ energy ~~machines, using a collection of test equipment manufactured by Yokogawa, Tektronix~~ and ~~Hewlett Packard~~.		'''Walter L. Rosenthal''' (June 11, 1931 – January 13, 2007), known as Walt, was an American electronics test engineer and measurement specialist. He spent most of his career working for defense contractors at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where he served on missile launch crews, including work in support of the Titan launch program at Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4). In his later years he became known within the alternative-energy community as an independent tester of claimed "new energy" and overunity devices.

	Walt was a courteous, kind, and very competent test scientist. He also did lots of work on the Sweet machine, and Floyd permitted Walt to see and test his ?self-powering‿ version as well. Walt even built the ?control discharge‿ unit that Floyd used to active his permanent magnets (trigger the barium nuclei into self-oscillation). Since a magnetic pole is actually a magnetic charge, Floyd's activated magnets thus became a magnetic version of the ?negative resonance absorption of the medium‿ (NRAM) effect presently known and demonstrated in optical physics since 1967. And since the nuclear binding energy is negative energy, it meant that the ?gain‿ achieved did involve negative energy. Hence Sweet's machine output true negative energy, as could easily be shown by simple tests. Because the ?level of self-oscillating magnetic charge‿ was so small inside the nucleus, the field gain was enormous ? being some 1,500,000. Before Walt built the precision ?activation discharge‿ unit for Sweet, Floyd had great difficulty in activating the magnets, often blasting away for three or four weeks before having real success. And even when activated, the activation often would slowly drain away. However, once he was using the precision discharge unit courtesy of Walt Rosenthal, his activation effort became much easier and much longer lasting.		==Biography==

	~~So not only was Walt very instrumental in accurately measuring the results successfully achieved~~ by ~~Sweet~~, ~~but he also contributed directly to the success~~ of the ~~fundamental activation process used by Sweet in activating his magnets~~.		Rosenthal spent more than 35 years employed by several defense contractors at Vandenberg Air Force Base, serving as a member of numerous missile launch crews. His professional work included support of the Titan launch program at Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4).

	~~We have lost~~ a ~~very good man~~ and he ~~will be sorely missed~~. - ~~<em>Tom Bearden, January 25, 2007</em>~~		Outside of his defense work, Rosenthal maintained a private interest in the testing of energy machines. He assembled a collection of laboratory instrumentation manufactured by Yokogawa, Tektronix and Hewlett Packard, which he used to record voltage waveforms from DC to 50 MHz and current measurements of up to 1000 amps. He also designed and built special-purpose electronic circuits for inventors who lacked that expertise.

	'''~~Articles:~~'''		Rosenthal lived in Santa Maria, California. He died on January 13, 2007, of cardiomyopathy and heart failure. A memorial service was held in Santa Maria on January 27, 2007. He was survived by his wife of 51 years, Betty, and by three children, Duane, Scott and Gretchen, as well as eight grandchildren.

			==Scientific contributions==

			Rosenthal tested a large number of claimed energy devices at various locations, applying conventional electrical-measurement techniques to evaluate assertions of anomalous or overunity output. Within the new-energy community he was widely regarded as a careful and rigorous measurement authority; supporters credit him with identifying measurement errors that accounted for apparent gains in a number of devices he examined. Among the machines he is reported to have tested were electrical devices built by Earl Davenport (2003), and he traveled to Australia to evaluate claims associated with the Lutec technology.

			Rosenthal is most often associated with the work of inventor [[Floyd Sweet]] on the so-called Vacuum Triode Amplifier (VTA), also described as the "Space Quanta Modulator." Rosenthal measured the device and authored an article and conference paper describing his observations. According to proponent Tom Bearden, Rosenthal also built a precision "control discharge" unit used by Sweet to condition, or "activate," the permanent magnets at the core of the device. Bearden and other supporters advanced various theoretical explanations for the device's claimed operation, including interpretations involving negative energy and vacuum energy; these explanations are not accepted within mainstream physics.

			At a public presentation of Bearden's work, Rosenthal is quoted in Jeanne Manning's book ''The Coming Energy Revolution'' as stating that he had personally seen Floyd Sweet's machine operating: "It was running ... those small motors you saw in the video. It was jump-started with a nine-volt battery. There was no other electrical input required. ... There was no connection to the power line whatsoever," and that the device had no moving parts.

			Following his death, physicist and new-energy writer Tom Bearden described him as "a courteous, kind, and very competent test scientist" who was "very instrumental in accurately measuring the results" reported by Sweet.

			==Abstracts==

			* 1994 - "[[Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition]]"
			* 1994 - "[[Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition]]"
			* 1993 - "[[Floyd Sweet's VTA Unit]]" ([http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/sweetvta.html Read in full])

			==External links==

	* [http://www.energyfromthevacuum.com/ <i>Energy from the Vacuum</i>] - DVD includes feature of Walt Rosenthal, along with Tom Bearden and John Bedini.		* [http://www.energyfromthevacuum.com/ <i>Energy from the Vacuum</i>] - DVD includes feature of Walt Rosenthal, along with Tom Bearden and John Bedini.
	* [http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Books/Energy_Revolution/ <i>The Coming Energy Revolution</i> by Jeanne Manning] - "After Bearden's paper was read, Walter Rosenthal stood up and startled the audience of skeptical engineers: 'I have personally seen Floyd Sweet's machine operating. It was running . . . those small motors you saw in the video. It was jump-started with a nine-volt battery. There was no other electrical input required. . . . There was no connection to the power line whatsoever." And, no, there were no moving parts.		* [http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Books/Energy_Revolution/ <i>The Coming Energy Revolution</i> by Jeanne Manning] - "After Bearden's paper was read, Walter Rosenthal stood up and startled the audience of skeptical engineers: 'I have personally seen Floyd Sweet's machine operating. It was running . . . those small motors you saw in the video. It was jump-started with a nine-volt battery. There was no other electrical input required. . . . There was no connection to the power line whatsoever." And, no, there were no moving parts.
	* [http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22Walt+Rosenthal%22+energy Google > "Walt Rosenthal" + Energy]		* [http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22Walt+Rosenthal%22+energy Google > "Walt Rosenthal" + Energy]
	~~<ul>~~ * [http://www.keelynet.com/energy/wrightgain1.htm Wright Energy Gain] - KeelyNet 03/01/03 - "I recently went to Santa Maria and met Walt Rosenthal. I have personally experienced the quality of this man's experience and his reputation for being the final authority on electrical and electronic measurements. With his modern and high-tech equipment, he patiently and meticulously checked every point of data on my version of Bearden's theoretical switching circuit. (See "Current News on Current Gain", New Energy News, Feb. '94, p.15.)"		* [http://www.keelynet.com/energy/wrightgain1.htm Wright Energy Gain] - KeelyNet 03/01/03 - "I recently went to Santa Maria and met Walt Rosenthal. I have personally experienced the quality of this man's experience and his reputation for being the final authority on electrical and electronic measurements. With his modern and high-tech equipment, he patiently and meticulously checked every point of data on my version of Bearden's theoretical switching circuit. (See "Current News on Current Gain", New Energy News, Feb. '94, p.15.)"
	~~</ul>~~ * [http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/seaback.html Space Energy Journal, Back Issues] - "L. MARCH 1993 QUARTERLY VOLUME IV Issue I 117. Feature: The Floyd Sweet, V.T.A. unit by Walt Rosenthal 3 pages" ~~<ul> <li>~~[http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/sweetvta.html Floyd Sweet's VTA Unit] - article by Walt Rosenthal ~~<ul> <li>~~[http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Essays/unusual_properties_aetheric.htm Unusual Nature of ?theric "Power"] - reply to VTA article by Rosenthal, includes comment by Rosenthal. ~~</li> </ul></li> </ul>~~		* [http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/seaback.html Space Energy Journal, Back Issues] - "L. MARCH 1993 QUARTERLY VOLUME IV Issue I 117. Feature: The Floyd Sweet, V.T.A. unit by Walt Rosenthal 3 pages"
			* [http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/sweetvta.html Floyd Sweet's VTA Unit] - article by Walt Rosenthal
			* [http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Essays/unusual_properties_aetheric.htm Unusual Nature of ?theric "Power"] - reply to VTA article by Rosenthal, includes comment by Rosenthal.
	* [http://www.padrak.com/ine/INE5.html Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on New Energy: 2nd ISNE] - "Walter L. Rosenthal - Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition [pp 403-408]"		* [http://www.padrak.com/ine/INE5.html Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on New Energy: 2nd ISNE] - "Walter L. Rosenthal - Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition [pp 403-408]"
	* [http://www.freeenergynews.com/Classifieds/Services/DeviceTesting/WalterLRosenthal/ Walter L. Rosenthal - Expert Free Energy Device Testing] - index page at <i>FreeEnergyNews.com</i> includes some Rosenthal citations.		* [http://www.freeenergynews.com/Classifieds/Services/DeviceTesting/WalterLRosenthal/ Walter L. Rosenthal - Expert Free Energy Device Testing] - index page at <i>FreeEnergyNews.com</i> includes some Rosenthal citations.
	* [http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2205&mode=&order=0&thold=0 Sad News - Walter Rosenthal R.I.P. January 13th, 2007] (<i>ZPEnergy</i>; January 24, 2007)		* [http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2205&mode=&order=0&thold=0 Sad News - Walter Rosenthal R.I.P. January 13th, 2007] (<i>ZPEnergy</i>; January 24, 2007)

	~~==Abstracts==~~

	* 1994 - "[[Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition]]"
	* 1994 - "[[Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition]]"
	* 1993 - "[[Floyd Sweet's VTA Unit]]" ([http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/sweetvta.html Read in full])

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| name = Walter L. Rosenthal
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| alt = Walter L. Rosenthal
| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|06|11|mf=y}}
| death_date = {{birth date|2007|01|13|mf=y}}
| residence = Santa Maria, CA, United States
| nationality = USA
| known_for = [[New Energy]], [[Magnetic Motors]]
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Walter L. Rosenthal spent most of his working life employed by several defense contractors at Vandenberg AFB as a member of many different missile launch crews, spanning over 35 years. He has tested at numerous locations an extensive number energy machines, using a collection of test equipment manufactured by Yokogawa, Tektronix and Hewlett Packard.

Walt was a courteous, kind, and very competent test scientist. He also did lots of work on the Sweet machine, and Floyd permitted Walt to see and test his ?self-powering‿ version as well. Walt even built the ?control discharge‿ unit that Floyd used to active his permanent magnets (trigger the barium nuclei into self-oscillation). Since a magnetic pole is actually a magnetic charge, Floyd's activated magnets thus became a magnetic version of the ?negative resonance absorption of the medium‿ (NRAM) effect presently known and demonstrated in optical physics since 1967. And since the nuclear binding energy is negative energy, it meant that the ?gain‿ achieved did involve negative energy. Hence Sweet's machine output true negative energy, as could easily be shown by simple tests. Because the ?level of self-oscillating magnetic charge‿ was so small inside the nucleus, the field gain was enormous ? being some 1,500,000. Before Walt built the precision ?activation discharge‿ unit for Sweet, Floyd had great difficulty in activating the magnets, often blasting away for three or four weeks before having real success. And even when activated, the activation often would slowly drain away. However, once he was using the precision discharge unit courtesy of Walt Rosenthal, his activation effort became much easier and much longer lasting.

So not only was Walt very instrumental in accurately measuring the results successfully achieved by Sweet, but he also contributed directly to the success of the fundamental activation process used by Sweet in activating his magnets.

We have lost a very good man and he will be sorely missed. - Tom Bearden, January 25, 2007

'''Articles:'''

* [http://www.energyfromthevacuum.com/ Energy from the Vacuum] - DVD includes feature of Walt Rosenthal, along with Tom Bearden and John Bedini.
* [http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Books/Energy_Revolution/ The Coming Energy Revolution by Jeanne Manning] - "After Bearden's paper was read, Walter Rosenthal stood up and startled the audience of skeptical engineers: 'I have personally seen Floyd Sweet's machine operating. It was running . . . those small motors you saw in the video. It was jump-started with a nine-volt battery. There was no other electrical input required. . . . There was no connection to the power line whatsoever." And, no, there were no moving parts.
* [http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22Walt+Rosenthal%22+energy Google > "Walt Rosenthal" + Energy]
<ul> * [http://www.keelynet.com/energy/wrightgain1.htm Wright Energy Gain] - KeelyNet 03/01/03 - "I recently went to Santa Maria and met Walt Rosenthal. I have personally experienced the quality of this man's experience and his reputation for being the final authority on electrical and electronic measurements. With his modern and high-tech equipment, he patiently and meticulously checked every point of data on my version of Bearden's theoretical switching circuit. (See "Current News on Current Gain", New Energy News, Feb. '94, p.15.)"
</ul> * [http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/seaback.html Space Energy Journal, Back Issues] - "L. MARCH 1993 QUARTERLY VOLUME IV Issue I 117. Feature: The Floyd Sweet, V.T.A. unit by Walt Rosenthal 3 pages" <ul> <li>[http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/sweetvta.html Floyd Sweet's VTA Unit] - article by Walt Rosenthal <ul> <li>[http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Essays/unusual_properties_aetheric.htm Unusual Nature of ?theric "Power"] - reply to VTA article by Rosenthal, includes comment by Rosenthal. </li> </ul></li> </ul>
* [http://www.padrak.com/ine/INE5.html Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on New Energy: 2nd ISNE] - "Walter L. Rosenthal - Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition [pp 403-408]"
* [http://www.freeenergynews.com/Classifieds/Services/DeviceTesting/WalterLRosenthal/ Walter L. Rosenthal - Expert Free Energy Device Testing] - index page at FreeEnergyNews.com includes some Rosenthal citations.
* [http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2205&mode=&order=0&thold=0 Sad News - Walter Rosenthal R.I.P. January 13th, 2007] (ZPEnergy; January 24, 2007)

==Abstracts==

* 1994 - "[[Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition]]"
* 1994 - "[[Apparatus and Techniques for Energy Machine Waveform Acquisition]]"
* 1993 - "[[Floyd Sweet's VTA Unit]]" ([http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/sweetvta.html Read in full])

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