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Chapter Four
SKYBUSTERS UNDER SECRECY
Dr. Bernard Eastlund chuckles as he tells about the time that the metaphorical light bulb
clicked between his mind and that of Dr. Simon Ramo.
―He‘s a big guy in military science‖, Eastlund explained to Manning in a telephone
interview. ―He was the founder of TRW and all these big companies. They‘re a big defense
contractor. At the time he was a board member for ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Oil Company)‖.
When Eastlund walked into the meeting room that day in the 1980‘s to give a
presentation, he was aware of the senior scientist‘s presence. Eastlund had a collection of
transparencies ready to slap onto the audiovisual table, to illustrate his new concept for
focusing a powerful beam of radio-frequency or microwave energy onto the ionosphere. He
had several reasons to expect approval.
For one, whoever would fire up electrical generators to power his proposed giant
transmitter could be a big paying customer for ARCO‘s natural gas fields on the North Slope
of Alaska, ―I came in with my viewgraphs‖, Eastlund recalls. ―I showed one viewgraph on the
location of the North Slope of Alaska. Where the earth‘s magnetic field is, where Russia is,
and everything. Then I had another slide where I showed taking the gas, having an antenna
and beaming it up‖.
Eastlund didn‘t have to show the next slide. The idea clicked and the military contractor
apparently wanted to just think about it for a minute.
―(Ramo) basically told me to shut up, and sat there and said, 'such a great idea!'. I didn't
have to show any of the detail‖, Eastlund said with obvious pride. ―It‘s that kind of a concept.
In fact, dealing with knowledgeable people, I never made it beyond the third view graph.
Then they all started inventing, themselves‖.
The senior scientist whom Eastlund impressed is an inventor who has patents on
microwave technology, electron optics and guided missiles. Ramo co-authored the book
Fields and Waves in Modern Radio in 1944, and in general he is a knowledgeable engineer.
Eastlund has been described as a soft-spoken, highly-reputable physicist, president of a
technological company in Houston. ―Eastlund is no wire-haired madman‖, Omni magazine
once said, citing his degrees from Massachusetts institute of Technology and Columbia
University. While working for eight years in the Atomic Energy Commission's fusion
program in the early 1970‘s, for example, he co-invented a ―fusion torch‖ that would use
plasma leftovers from fusion reactors in recycling solid waste.
Some time after the meeting where Ramo heard Eastlund‘s beam focusing ideas, the two
worked together on a patent that they filed in early 1985.
Their ―Method and Apparatus for Creating an Artificial Electron Cyclotron Heating
Region of Plasma‖ was the second of a series of three patents that Eastlund assigned to a
subsidiary of ARCO - Arco Power Technologies Inc. (APTI). Ramo‘s contribution to the
concept was to use a large superconducting coil on the ground to modify earth's magnetic
field at a high altitude, Eastlund said.
It had been a good time for Eastlund. The controversy over ―the Eastlund patents‖ had
not yet begun. No physicist had yet warned that experimenting with his patents could turn
into ―an act of global vandalism‖.
Eastlund had been hired by ARCO as a consultant, to come up with uses for the 30
trillion cubic feet of natural gas in ARCO‘s reserves on the North Slope of Alaska. ARCO‘s
problem was the remote location of the gas. Building a pipeline and shunting the gas to
industrial centers was no answer; that pipeline megaproject had been on the oil industry