Everybody says Viktor Schauberger was mentally ill. Probably because he almost certainly was, just like Nickie Tesla. A lot of the stuff he wrote, especially after spending time in German concentrations camps and mental hospitals, looks pretty insane.
But Schauberger (1885-1958) not only went off on some wild tangents that make modern dilution homeopaths look relatively cogent, he also seems to have performed some engineering wonders; devising self-cleaning pipes, log flumes for heavier-than-water wood, and hydro turbines with previously unheard of efficiency. He consulted with Messerschmidt and Henkel on engine and prop designs even while he was confined in an asylum and under constant SS supervision (Schauberger was apparently a little too open about his disapproval of Hitler, but like Porsche simply too valuable to execute). If you google him, you will find he is a darling of Internet perpetual-motion nuts and free energy heretics.
Vortices of radio frequency energy for communications sounds like something straight out of the Schauberger playbook, though, doesn’t it?
Every time I read about Francis turbine design, vortex tubes or the Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion cycle I remember Viktor Schauberger. Vortices are fascinating & beautiful.
(Apologies to Matt Groening for post title.)