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Kibbey Denied in Duress
Robert Kibbey, who claimed to be the actual originator
of the ultra-efficient charger technology claimed by Carl Tilley, recants his
claim. Person close to Kibbey said he lost heart and gave up.
By Sterling
D. Allan
July 20, 2004
Copyright © Greater Things News Service
LEBANON, TENNESSEE, USA
Though Robert Kibbey signed an affidavit recanting his claim to be the actual
inventor of a super-efficient charger technology claimed by the Tilley
Foundation, a source intimately close to Kibbey, who requests to be unnamed,
said that in truth he just gave up the fight.
"The endless legal battles finally got to him."
"He just got tired of it all and signed the affidavit to get out. He
didn't have the heart or the money to keep going. He lost faith in
people. He was hurt and angry. He didn't have the funds to keep
fighting."
"Tilley has a lot of money and people backing him, Kibbey doesn't.
Tilley lives up on the hill in his compound, Kibbey just has a little farm down
below."
The stress of the situation contributed to Kibbey's divorce last March.
Now Kibbey has moved somewhere, and he hasn't said where, though he does stay in
touch with the unnamed source by phone. He is most likely in Florida.
Tilley claims the technology will allow continuous operation with no additional
input required. Kibbey never made such a claim, but only claimed it to be
highly efficient. To this author's knowledge, Tilley has never publicly or
independently demonstrated the claim to the endless recharger.
Kibbey worked with Carl Tilley for about two years before their falling out near
the end of 2002. Documentation is posted showing their mutual claim to
technology.
Until then, most stockholders didn't even know that Kibbey even had a role in
the invention, let alone that he has a notarized 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, former board member, Walter 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.
After blowing the whistle at the end of 2002 and beginning of 2003, Tilley and
Kibbey entered into a number of legal disputes.
The recent affidavit by Kibbey is supposed to put this to rest to that.
Others see a broken man, smashed under the heavy heel of a bully.
Tilley Foundation
Affidavit
Proof of Kibbey Involvement in Invention
The following documents Kibbey's involvement.
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July 20, 2004
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