Paul Brown: Tesla Technology & Radioisotopic Energy Generation at the 1990 International Tesla Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO, USA:
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Paul Brown died under suspicious circumstances likely stemming from the potential his work with energy generation technology had to improve lives.
If you review the comments, he was also apparently working on a Searl Effect Generator.
Paul Brown's questionable death:
BY STEVEN COLE SMITH
OCT 4, 2002
It might be melodramatic to suggest Americaâs best hope for ending our nuclear waste problem died late one night in an illegal street race in Idaho.Then again, it may not.
We know this: Paul Brown loved cars, especially his lumpy little 30-year-old Mazda RX-2, which he owned for 19 years. Most of that time was spent turning the two-door subcompact into an ultra-high-performance racer, years before the import drag racing boom began.And Brown loved racing, whether it was his Mazda or his Chevy Monte Carlo or his V8-powered motorcycle. When Brown raced at the World Streetnationals at Orlando Speed World Dragway in 2000, he qualified the Mazda at 174.21 mph, covering the quarter-mile from a standing start in less than eight seconds.
Brown came back to the same event last year, towing his Mazda all the way down from his home in Meridian, Idaho, near Boise.Speed World owner Carl Weisinger remembers him. âVery nice guy,â Weisinger recalls. âI didnât have a clue he would ever get involved in doing what he did. This is a case of a smart man who did a stupid thing.â
What Brown did was race his Mazda on the street, illegally. On the access road to Interstate 84 east of Boise, at 1:30 a.m. last April, racing against a hot-rodded Chevrolet Nova, Brownâs Mazda went out of control and flipped, perhaps as many as eight times. Witnesses estimated his speed to be about 130 mph.âThe car just all of a sudden veered to the right, then it veered to the left, and went off the road, and it just rolled and rolled,â said Brownâs wife, Jackie, in an interview with KTVB, an Idaho TV station. She was the first to reach him. âI tried to feel for a pulse, and I couldnât feel anything. I felt that he was warm, so I held his head up to keep him from choking on his blood. But I think he was already dead.â
At this point, you are tempted to write this one off as a typical but tragic accident that occurred when, as Weisinger says, a smart man did a stupid thing.But it is at this point that Paul Brownâs story becomes anything but typical.
Brown, 43, was the founder and chief executive officer of a company called Nuclear Solutions Inc. To quote from the Nuclear Solutions announcement of its founderâs death: âNuclear Solutions regretfully announces the death of Dr. Paul M. Brown. Dr. Brown was killed on April 7, 2002, in an automobile accident in Boise, Idaho. He developed the idea for the companyâs patented photoremediation technology for the remediation of nuclear waste that will now be his legacy. He is survived by his wife and two children.â
Paul Maurice Brown was a nuclear scientist. He was working on a way not only to dispose of nuclear waste, but to turn that waste into an energy source. To quote from a story in Wired magazine: âThe U.S. Department of Energy predicts that weâll spend $150 billion to dispose of radioactive leftovers generated during four decades of Cold War weapons production. Paul Brown, a physics Ph.D. from Boise, Idaho, says he can do it for less than a quarter of that priceâwithout burying hazardous waste. How? Give the nukes a taste of their own medicine: Blast them with radiation.â
The story quotes Bob Park of the American Institute of Physics as saying Brownâs idea is ânot far-fetched.â John Schiffer, senior scientist and an experimental nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratories, told the magazine the idea had merit.
Clearly, Paul Brown was leading two lives. In one, he was a distinguished nuclear scientist. In the other, he was a gearhead of the first order, who lived and breath-ed fast cars, many built with the help of his best friend, Willie Lambert, a Boise truck broker.
Lambert recalls when Brown first got that Mazda RX-2. He junked the rotary engineâblown up, anywayâand dropped in a small-block Ford V8, then a small-block Chevy V8. It was, for two decades, a work in progress.âPaul could just look at a problem and solve it,â Lambert says. âHe loved to do things that people said couldnât be done. Heads, camshaft grindsâhe built one version of the rear suspension of that Mazda using trailing arms from a 1967 Chevy pickup truck. You wouldnât believe how well that worked. Or how funny it looked.â
Brown, Lambert says, essentially introduced nitrous oxide to the racing scene. âThere are people who, more than once, saw that Mazda popping wheelies in downtown Boise,â Lambert says.
When he crashed it, the Mazda had a 540-cubic-inch big-block with dual-stage nitrous injection. They guess at full wail, the horsepower approached 1400. They got it up to 197 mph on a dyno before they decided that was fast enough. It was Brownâs daily driver. More than once, he drove it to California and back, Lambert says.
At the races, âNobody knew what Paul did for a living,â Lambert says. âOh, theyâd speculateâhe was a flashy guy, with fast cars and a beautiful wife. Jackie drove a 2001 supercharged Trans Amâwe were building a 454 for it when Paul died.â He was, Lambert says, âthe best driver Iâve seen. Iâd put him up against John Force any day.
âI called him âthe dude with the âdo,ââ Lambert says, a reference to Brownâs combed-back preacher hair. âIâd tell him that style went out 25 years ago; heâd just laugh.âGoing fast, Lambert says, âwas Paulâs release. You canât imagine the kind of pressure he was under. But he was one of those guys who had time for everybodyâs problems but his own.â
From both sides of Paul Brownâs lifeâfrom people who barely knew the other existedâthere is one thing they agree upon.
âPaul Brown was a genius,â says Lambert.
âPaul Brown was a genius,â says Thomas Valone, president of the Integrity Research Institute in Washington, D.C., which made Brown the first recipient of the Integrity in Research award, given at the Conference on Future Energy in 1999.
Until they could be proven, though, Brownâs theories remained just that. He formed Nuclear Solutions to raise money to build a facility to test them. The company trades on NASDAQ as NSOL. The 52-week high is $4.03 a share, the low is 30 cents a share. The stock seems to be hovering around 40 cents now.
You would think this fluctuation would be due to the death of the company founder, and you would be correct. In part. But trace the story of Nuclear Solu-tionsâ stock price, and the unusual story of Paul Brown accelerates into the bizarre.
It involves a 35-year-old Egyptian named Amr I. Elgindy, who financed his own love of fast cars and his San Diego-area mansion through a couple of Internet stock advisory sites, insidetruth.com and anthonypacific.com. Subscribers to his site would receive stock information based on Elgindyâs contacts before the information became public, allowing his subscribers to buy or sell stock before that news affected stock prices. For this, they paid as much as $7,000 a year.
Elgindy may indeed have had some valuable sources: In May, the U.S. Attorneyâs Office in New York indicted Elgindy on charges of manipulating stocks by using secret government information fed to him by an FBI agent, and a former FBI agent, who quit the agency to go to work for Elgindy full-time. The indictment inferred as many as six companies may have been victimized, but named only oneâNuclear Solutions.How did it work? Simple. Elgindy was a âshort seller,â meaning he borrow-ed stock, promising to pay for it later. That is not uncommon. But Elgindy is charged with manipulating the stockâs price. The idea: Borrow a share of stock that sells for, say, $1, sell it, then sabotage it and replace the share of stock you borrowed by buying one when the price drops. If you replace a $1 share of stock with a share you pay 50 cents for, in theory, youâve doubled your money. Multiply that times millions.
The indictment charges that one of the FBI agents searched the FBIâs confidential database, where he found information about Brown then passed it along to Elgindy, for money. Elgindy shorted the stock and distributed a report to his subscribers last December calling Brown âa convicted felonââwhich, incidentally, is untrue. Years ago Brown was investigated for having chemicals that could be used in the manufacture of drugs, but he was able to prove the chemicals were being used in his scientific experimentation.
Regardless, âthe stock of Nuclear Solutions fell sharply in the aftermath of Mr. Elgindyâs report,â said the Dow Jones News Service. The indictment also charges Elgindy with extorting stock or payments to stop the smear campaigns. Prosecutors are seeking Elgindyâs $2.2 million home, as well as his Ferrari, Bentley, Jaguar and Hummer.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Breen initially alleged that Elgindyâs source of inside information may have even deeper implications. Breen told a federal judge the Cairo-born financial analyst may have known about the terrorist attacks of September 2001; at Elgindyâs detention hearing, Breen speculated, âPerhaps Mr. Elgindy had pre-knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. Instead of trying to report it, he tried to profit from it.â
On Sept. 10, Breen says Elgindy called his broker and tried to liquidate a $300,000 fund, because, he reportedly told the broker, the Dow Jones industrial average would soon collapse to 3000 points, at a time when it was 9000. Breen also said that in the months leading up to Sept. 11, Elgindy transferred $700,000 to Lebanon, where he owns a home.Elgindyâs attorneys deny any wrongdoing, and any connection to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Prosecutors and federal investigators have since dropped allegations linking Elgindy to Sept. 11.
Elgindy has had legal problems before. He was indicted on nine counts of fraud in 1999 in Texas, and pleaded guilty to one, serving four months in jail despite the testimony of character witnesses that he was a supporter of Mother Teresaâs ministry. Elgindy was apparently not beloved by his Texas neighbors: One complained he would blast through the stop signs in his Fort Worth residential neighborhood in his Ferrari Testarossa.A report in the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Elgindyâs former attorney, Matthew Tyson, who sued his own client for libel and emotional distress and won a $155,000 judgement. âHe threaten-ed to hunt me down and somehow strike me with his shoes, with his foot, and made some threat about hanging me by [an anatomical part],â Tyson told the newspaper.
An investigation by the Wall Street Journal suggests Brown was working with the FBI on their case against Elgindy, also confirmed by a close business associate of Brown. When Elgindy finally goes to trial, assuming he does, it seems likely a star witness could have been Paul Brown, who could potentially have testified about what Elgindyâs actions did to Brownâs business, and his reputation.
But Paul Brown is dead.
A website called âFuture Energy eNewsâ ran a lengthy obituary of Brown titled, âRemembering a Genius Energy Inventor.â The author had known Brown since 1983, when Brown was working on another invention, a nuclear-powered battery that would last 25 years. In 1988 and 1989, Brown was profiled in Fortune and Business Week, and mentioned in The New York Times.
But in 1991, Brown essentially âdisappeared from the business world,â the website obit says, after distributing a letter to colleagues on Nov. 1 of that year. In part, the letter said: âI have been involved with alternate energy since 1978, while still a college student. Over the years I have heard many nightmare stories about people who developed something significant only to be persecuted, harassed and even killed. I was sure these stories were exaggerated, or possibly the result of the inventorâs own paranoia.â
His opinion changed. âIn 1987, we decided it was time to let the world know what we were working on, and the results we were getting. It was a proud time for me. I thought we were doing the right thing. But this was the real beginning of the worst. Since that February 1987, I or my company have been persecuted by the State Department of Health; then the Idaho Department of Finance filed a complaint against the company and myself; my license for handling radioactive materials was suspended for six months; I began to receive threats (i.e., âWe will bulldoze your home with your family in itâ), then the investigation by the Oregon Department of Finance; then the tax man; then the Securities and Exchange Commission; my wife was assaulted; I lost control of my company; my home has been robbed three times and vandalized on four other occasions; twice now I have been accused of drug manufacturing; I lost my home; most recently my motherâs home was pipe-bombed.
âWith each hardship I strive harder toward successful development of technologies under my endeavor. But it only seems to get worse. Someone once said, âParanoia is only a heightened sense of awareness.â He was right.â
Brown and his family went underground for four years, resurfacing when he thought it was safe.
It may not have been. Brown had a lengthy record as a consummate speeder in Idaho, and he was considered the king of the street racers. Racing his Mazda âwas his life, itâs what he enjoyed doing. It was what he always wanted to do. He was just living his dream,â Jackie told a Boise TV station.So how did he lose control of a car he had driven for years, at far greater speeds? âHe knew that car like the back of his hand,â says Lambert. âSome-thing doesnât add up. Iâve seen Paul drive that car out of situations I never would have imagined. Whatever went wrong out there, I know one thing for sureâit wasnât Paul.â Something else that may not add up, but at this point canât be confirmed as anything more sinister than a simple mechanical problem, are reports from one source that bolts on the front suspension of a Brown family car were found loosen-ed shortly before Paulâs death. That did not seem particularly significant then.
As for Nuclear Solutions, it survives, but it has been crippled without its found- er, president and CEO. The com-pany moved its offices from Idaho to Washing-ton, D.C. Understandably, though one of Brownâs business associates says the company still has Brownâs research and patents, and should turn things around, the momentum has stalled.
A month before Brownâs death, the company announced an expansion into the decontamination of radioactive wastewater, using exclusive technology obtained from the Institute of Industrial Mathematics in Israel. Executive advisors of Nuclear Solutions mentioned in that press release include Dr. John Powers, former director of Research and Develop-ment Strategies for the Department of Energy; Dr. Don Hunsaker, president of the Environmental Trust and a professor of biology at San Diego State University; and Eric Lindeman, director of the Washington Nuclear Corp.Though multiple credible scientists say Brownâs theory of handling nuclear waste is promising, others are less certain. Said Brown in a press release last November: âWe have a technology whereby we can render nuclear waste no longer radioactive. We can make it stable. The real beauty of this process is it actually produces power, so we have a safe, clean, efficient method of generating power that just happens to burn nuclear wasteâ as fuel.
Not long after this technology was announced, a Ph.D. posted this on a scientists-only website: âScientifically illiterate investors are lining up as you read this.â Brownâs friends admit his doctorate degree was honorary, but that Brown himself could not have cared less. âHe was too busy inventing to worry about a degree,â one said.
Regardless, plenty of people are convinced Brown was onto something important, and always has been. But important enough to pipe-bomb his motherâs home? To have him arrested for making drugs?Even to sabotage his beloved Mazda?Conspiracy theorists, the line forms to the left. Donât forget Brownâs company ties to Israel, his probable testimony in the Elgindy stock manipulation case, on top of Brownâs suggestion that he may have, in part, solved not only the nuclear waste problem, but lessened our dependence on conventional energy sources.
The answer to these questions died in a 1972 Mazda, in the middle of the night, in Idaho.
One thing Paul Brown would want you to know, though: When his car crashed, he was winning the race.
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