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“You guys…are more in touch with reality. Like farmers.”

That observation was heard during Sunday’s panel discussion at the 2026 Energy Science and Technology Conference (ESTC.)

The remark came from one of this year’s new-to-ESTC guest speakers, trauma therapist Tom DiFerdinando, who’s now president of the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab.

He was complimenting fellow presenters, most of whom are hands-on builders of practical hardware. DiFerdinando compared their practical and productive collaborations to a less helpful competitiveness that he’s observed at well-funded academic conferences.

The researchers who speak at ESTC are mostly self-funded. They invest years, decades, lifetimes to develop game-changing products.

A prevalent goal is to eventually sell kits, devices or machines to the public, for experimenters or for water quality, health, and clean electrical power.

An ESTC speaker who goes by the handle Hakasays is a good example of a knowledgeable and dedicated volunteer for these unusual research projects.

In his Tesla Coil talk, he encouraged experimenters to avoid wasting their time and talents on trivial activities, and instead stay focused on advancing whatever project appeals to them.

A thread running through ESTC 2026 (and not new to the group) was working with natural systems--guiding new technologies along nature’s preferred paths.

A vortex for example.

Electrical whiz Eric Dollard was, for health reasons, not at ESTC 2026 in person. Beamed in from Nevada, he talked for several hours at a time. To illustrate the hidden geometry of a natural process, he presented an image from Walter Russell’s The Universal One. In my copy of the book it’s page 139.

This year’s ESTC topics also included the Tesla turbine as reversed into a Tesla pump. Jeremiah Ferwerda shared that his father’s home had burned in a north Idaho fire. As a result, he wants to see rural homes be protected by the powerful Tesla-type water pumps.

The audience regrouped outside the warehouse while Ferwerda entertained them by starting up his Tesla pump and firehosing a stream of water across the street an impressive distance.

A professor from a Washington state university spoke about collaborating with the pump project.

Sustainable living was another presenters’ theme.

A wind generator project was designed to take wind power results “to the next level” for a couple who live off-grid in northern Idaho.

Peter Lindemann, DSc, author of books such as The Free Energy Secrets of Cold Electricity has improved on an unusual wind-powered generator to make it easier for individuals to build. He credited Mike Waters for earlier innovations of bladeless vertical-axis wind turbine designs.

Lindemann’s design has been installed and tested at the off-grid home of Terry and Jennifer McMenomy.

It catches wind as it comes from, and blows to, any direction. Lindemann and Terry McMenomy described the project’s development.

Cowboy lineman spoke at ESTC.

Volunteers who help Eric P. Dollard with projects in the Nevada desert refer to Justin Miller appreciatively as their ‘cowboy lineman.’ He gave an ESTC talk for the first time, with slides about ongoing projects of EPD Labs.

Miller also gave a presentation about his experiments with soil-regenerative ranching on rangeland.

He had found ways to entice cattle from pasture to greener pasture in line with his plan. Those fenced migrations did not destroy native grasses by over-grazing, and instead improved the soil on the land.

Offerings for body, mind and spirit.

Attendees enjoyed the relaxed Saturday night “listening party” with Davy Oneness music enhanced by his replication of John Bedini’s B.A.S.E. sound system.

They urged organizer Aaron Murakami to continue ESTC, even if it requires another location in Spokane besides the current venue, which is a high-ceiling industrial building with limited seating space.

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After the coming holiday (July 1 in Canada, July 4 in USA) I’ll cover more developments discussed at ESTC 2026.

For instance, I’ve already written Substack articles about Al Francoeur’s work, and will keep you informed. Briefly, his ESTC presentation drew much interest.

As I see it, this series of breakthrough-energy meetings in the northwest USA is trending toward a holistic mix of topics.

EPD Labs’ consultant Adrian Marsh is a strong contributor in that body/mind/spirit direction, as well as helping uncover basic principles of electricity.

He’s a Cambridge-educated Ph.D. engineer with a successful career. At a young age he’d also begun his journeys of self-development and what he calls New Science.

“Esoteric Science includes feelings, whereas conventional science excludes feelings as ‘subjective’. Feelings (different from emotions) are direct irrational knowledge that originate in the Aetheric spectrum beyond our normal perception.”

Without judging anyone’s beliefs, Dr. Marsh’s presentations go beyond learning about the laws of nature in the physical world, and indicate that spirit is reality.