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Tilley Wrested Ultra-Efficient Technology from Kibbey and Ran a Con
See also: Index of Documentation of Tilley Fraud
By Sterling D. Allan
Copyright © GreaterThings News Service
January 31, 2003
Part I
The purported endless charger technology presented by the Tilley Foundation, of which they do not
have the originating ownership claimed, has piqued the curiosity and in some cases, deep
pocketbooks, of many people: from the layman scientist to careful international venture capitalists.
The technology is not "endless," but uses energy in a super-efficient manner so that many
times more work can be done for the same amount of input. That in itself is worth a lot, which gives
Tilley a believable edge and forms the basis for what has turned into a con operation of potentially
epic proportions if he is not stopped.
Despite facts (what few have been allowed to be collected) to the contrary, and supported by some
unethical slight-of-hand tricks such as plug-ins while no one is watching, Tilley claims that this
technology will enable electric devices to operate without any input of outside conventional power.
This seemingly impossible notion is fueled by a multiplicity of other related technology claims of
varying credibility in circulation around the world that suggest that the source of power for such
devices could be extracted somehow from an unseen but very real sea of energy that surrounds us,
similar to how photovoltaic cells draw energy from sunlight.
The thought of being the first to harness this invisible and hitherto evasive energy likewise fuels
the enthusiasm and hopes of the 40 plus number of individuals who have gone so far as to plunk down
between $5,000 (minimum investment) and upward of half a million dollars worth of stock in the
Tilley Foundation, with the added motivation of the potential for huge returns on this purportedly
unprecedented energy revolution.
The proposed price tag of many billions of dollars for an outright purchase of the technology, which
are the only terms Tilley says he will accept, has been answered by inquiries from a near continual
stream of business interests from around the world. Some of these inquiries have been actual, while
others have been fabricated for the sake of hype, such as Tilley's claim at the first stockholder's
meeting May 4, 2002 that he had spoken with a vice president of GE the night before who had offered
2 billion for the technology, "sight unseen." General Electric has been informed of this
bogus claim by Tilley, and their legal department is in process of responding.
This fact and others have been presented at various times to the stockholders by whistleblower Walt
Webb, who resigned in protest from the board of directors for this and other infractions by Tilley;
yet many of the stockholders continue to cling to the hope that the dream will come true.
No buyers have materialized yet, but there is ever the giving of a promise of the long-awaited buyer
in process of negotiating that keeps the stockholders at bay from collecting the contracted
guarantee of a return on their investment if no return is realized within a year, which is now
expired for those who were among the first to purchase.
In the December 2002 newsletter, Foundation spokesman, Doug Littlefield, acknowledge that the fact
that the Foundation has never documented the technology by a reputable third party, and that this is
playing a role in delaying a sale of the technology.
The irony is that the underlying technology is in actually quite decent. But because it isn't nearly
what Tilley is claiming, he has to keep anyone who can prove that at bay -- including any of the
interests who are willing to pay billions of dollars for the technology. Ridiculous as it may seem,
Tilley now expects them to pay then look.
Part II
Until recently, most stockholders didn't even know that Kibbey even had a role in the invention, let
alone that he has a notorized 50-50 contract with Tilley for any derivation thereof, or that
Tilley's intellectual contribution was minimal. Tilley led them to believe that he is the sole
originator. By the time the Tilley Foundation began selling stock in January of 2002, Tilley had
already marginalized Kibbey. And in June of 2002 when the shareholders became aware of Kibbey's
role, Tilley claimed that what they were using was different from what he and Kibbey had worked on.
Before he resigned, Webb had been given a look inside the Tilley technology black box, and after
finally getting together with Kibbey (who Tilley had kept away from Kibbey from December to June of
2002), was able to confirms that it is definitely close enough to that developed jointly with Kibbey
that their 50-50 contract should still be binding.
Tilley and Kibbey met in June of 2001 through their wives as a result of a real estate deal they
were involved with in December of that year. Kibbey believed Tilley to be genuine, and was grateful
that Tilley was spurring him to complete a working proof of concept. Without Tilley's encouragement,
Kibbey comments that he may not have finished the device; and Tilley should be acknowledged in that
role.
It was that working device, called the TKEG, for Tilley-Kibbey Electric Generator, that was featured
on Channel 5 CBS in Nashville in 2001.
Part of the reason Kibbey agreed to go 50-50, and even allow Tilley to put his own name first in the
patent applications and legal agreements, is that Tilley led him to believe that he had come up with
similar ideas on his own prior to meeting Kibbey, and hence that they were co-inventors.
"I would explain something to him, then a few days later he would produce a document supposedly
from his archive, and say with enthusiasm: 'Look here, this is something I wrote back in 1990.
Isn't that amazing how similar it is to what you are doing!' " Kibbey says he didn't catch on
to what Tilley was doing until later on as it became increasingly apparent that Tilley did not have
a natural electronics ability, or even mechanical sense. "He can hardly change the spark plugs
in his own car," Kibbey said, perhaps exaggerating to make a point. The reality set in
further when he began to catch Tilley in other contradictory statements.
Part III
Coming Next: How the device works, according to Kibbey (a rough idea)
When I first interviewed Tilley in August 2002, to report on his Foundation, he portrayed
himself as the sole inventor of the TEV technology. Webb and Kibbey report that this is how
Tilley portrayed himself to the shareholders as well.
-- Sterling D. Allan (Jan. 29, 2003)
The following documents Kibbey's involvement.
See also
- Exposé Index (GreaterThings News Service) - index of
articles, documentation, recourse
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