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206 The Hunt for Zero Point
appeared to have a dual purpose: first as an energy generator and second
as a power plant for an aerospace vehicle of saucer-like appearance.
Descriptions of the workings of this generator, sometimes referred to as
a "trout turbine," were always woefully inadequate. One such relayed the
apparent fact that "if water or air is rotated into a twisting form of
oscillation known as 'colloidal,' a buildup of energy results, which, with
immense power, can cause lévitation."
Details of the chronology were hazy, Cross explained, but Schauberger's
team had apparently claimed success a few days before Germany
surrendered. One of the scientists who'd worked with Schauberger
reportedly said that at the first attempt to run the machine "the flying
saucer rose unexpectedly to the ceiling and then was wrecked. The
apparatus functioned at the first attempt. . . and rose upward trailing a
blue-green and then a silver-colored glow."
The craft in question, Cross said, had a diameter of 1.5 meters,
weighed 135 kilograms and was started by a small electric motor with
takeoff energy supplied by the so-called trout turbine.
The next part, Cross' text alerted me, was really weird. "A few days
later an American group reportedly appeared, who seemed to understand
what was happening and seized everything (his emphasis, not mine)."
Schauberger was kept under "protective U.S. custody" for six months to
a year, Cross maintained, and some of his work was reportedly branded
by the Americans as "atomic energy research." Cross ended up saying he
had no idea what happened to Schauberger after this period.
I kept all of this in mind as I drove through Ebensee, scanning the
mountains for a glimpse of the entrance to Kammler's tunnel system:
the Zement complex that would have developed and manufactured the
A-9/A-10 intercontinental rocket. I saw nothing but for some road signs
directing visitors to a Holocaust Memorial. Zement had become a tourist
attraction.
Following directions from Schauberger's grandson, Joerg, I pushed
through Bad Ischl, following the River Traun through a patchy expanse
of woodland until, on the left-hand side of the road, I spotted the
institute, a large imposing house with a tower rising from one of its
wings, the initials "PKS" painted in letters six feet high on one of
its walls. It was here that the Schauberger family organized periodic
lectures and seminars devoted to the heretical scientific principles
promulgated by Viktor and his son Walter. Walter had since died, but
his son Joerg continued to push the ideas that his father and grandfather
had promoted for the creation of a better world.
All I knew about the Schaubergers was what I had read; that Viktor,