Inventor's Affidavit of Denial Was Signed in Duress

Robert Kibbey, who claimed to be the actual originator of the ultra-efficient charger technology claimed by Carl Tilley, recants his claim.  Intimate associate said Kibbey 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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