Repulsine

This article is about the Schauberger implosion-based disc device. For the inventor, see

Viktor Schauberger

. For the underlying principle in Schauberger's broader work, see

Schauberger physics

.

The Repulsine was a disc-shaped vorticular implosion device developed by Austrian naturalist and inventor Viktor Schauberger during World War II under SS supervision, in two principal forms: an earlier turbine prototype (sometimes retrospectively designated Model A) and a later flying-disc assembly (Model B), both operating on Schauberger's implosion principle, by which inward-spiralling air motion creates anomalous levitational force through interaction with vacuum energy. The device achieved sufficient lift in at least two documented test incidents to strike the roofs of the test facilities in which it was operating, and its wartime Reich Patent Office filings subsequently disappeared without trace, their current whereabouts unknown.

Implosion principle

The Repulsine's operating principle derived from Schauberger's foundational insight — developed over decades of observing alpine water systems — that nature generates and transmits energy through centripetal, inward-spiralling motion ("implosion") rather than the centrifugal, notable forces underlying conventional technology. When applied to air rather than water, the inward vortex motion caused rapid cooling and densification of the medium in a whorl-shaped gap between the Repulsine's turbine plate and its similarly moulded base plate — a geometry mimicking the corkscrew spiral of a kudu's antler.

When rotated to approximately 15,000–20,000 rpm, the starter motor was cut and the device became self-sustaining, at which point it could be configured either to generate electricity via a gear shaft or to fly under the anomalous levitational force produced by the vortex–vacuum interaction. Researcher Callum Coats, whose Living Energies documented Schauberger's principles in detail, described the anti-gravity effect at those rotation speeds as a molecular-nuclear annihilation process: "A point is reached where a large number of electrons and protons with opposite charges and directions of spin are forced into collision and annihilate with one another... they are upwardly extruded as it were out of the physical and into virtual states."

Mechanical description

The Repulsine's core geometry was described by Stevens — drawing on Callum Coats — as a saucer composed of a number of copper plates bolted together. An electric motor spun the entire saucer body to the target speed; as the saucer rotated, air was drawn in at the top and spun rapidly over channels formed by ridged upper and lower copper plates whose alternating ridges and depressions kept the air moving in snake-like wave forms toward the periphery. The rapid spin caused the laterally moving air to fold over upon itself as many individual tornado-like vortices, each rotating on its own axis while also moving around the saucer's main axis — a double-spiral motion. This inward-compressing double spiral produced the anomalous energetic release and levitational effect at the rim. Schauberger's calculations, based on earlier prototype tests, indicated that a 20-centimetre diameter device at 20,000 rpm would exert levitational force sufficient to lift 228 tonnes.

Development history

Schauberger first commissioned a prototype of the Repulsine — at his own expense — from the Kertl company in Vienna in early 1941, describing it as intended both to investigate "free energy production" and to validate his theories of "levitational flight." In March 1941, during an unauthorised test run conducted in Schauberger's absence, the Kertl machine generated a levitational force strong enough to smash it against the roof of the hangar — the first documented flight demonstration of the device. Stevens' account, drawing on Alexandersson, notes that a craftsman named Aloys Kokaly had been delivering hard-to-obtain parts to the Kertl Works "on higher authority" for Schauberger, and was told on his arrival that one of the strange devices "had already flown" — this was in 1940, suggesting the first inadvertent flight may have preceded the 1941 Kertl tests by a year.

From 1941 Schauberger conducted further secret development work in occupied Czechoslovakia, including at a weapons factory at Gablonz and later at Messerschmitt's prototype works at Augsburg, before the SS imposed direct oversight on his programme in April 1944.

SS Mauthausen programme

In April 1944, the 59-year-old Schauberger was summoned before a Waffen-SS draft panel and subsequently ordered to Mauthausen concentration camp to personally select a team of prisoner engineers — between twenty and thirty specialists — to move from prototype work to production-scale construction of his devices. Schauberger, acting under duress, successfully demanded that his selected prisoners be removed from the camp, properly fed, clothed in civilian clothes, and housed in civilian accommodation — all of which the SS agreed to, in a pattern Farrell identifies as a signature of Hans Kammler's "think tank" operations.

Schauberger set up design offices at the SS technical engineering school in Vienna's Rosenhügel district, shuttling between there and Mauthausen as components were manufactured. Preproduction drawings of the Repulsine — including a cone-shaped air intake designated Schaufelentwurf — were signed off by October 1944. Work continued through Christmas 1944 and into the new year, interrupted repeatedly by power cuts and Allied bombing raids.

In February 1945, Schauberger relocated operations to the village of Leonstein in Upper Austria — a decision that placed him in what would become the American zone of occupation rather than the Soviet zone, a fact that would prove significant days after the German surrender. Final assembly of the Repulsine at Leonstein was underway by April 5, 1945. On the morning of May 6, 1945 — when the first test run had been scheduled — Schauberger found that the SS officers overseeing the project had fled in the night; the team stopped work on May 8, hours before Germany's surrender.

Prague test account

A separate earlier test — conducted at some point during the war at a facility near Prague — produced the most dramatic documented result: a 1.5-metre, 135-kilogram disc-shaped device reportedly rose toward the ceiling of the test building, "trailing a blue-green and then a silver-colored glow," before breaking loose from its test anchor and striking the roof. Farrell notes that this account circulated in postwar reports of the Nazi disc programmes and was confirmed in outline by at least one scientist who worked with Schauberger at the time.

Postwar fate

Stevens' account adds that in May 1945, just after a successful test flight of the Leonstein Repulsine, it was seized by a U.S. intelligence unit that "appeared to be well informed about it" — suggesting advance knowledge of the device's location and capabilities rather than a chance discovery. Callum Coats subsequently located a surviving example of a Schauberger saucer model — with photographs appearing in his Living Energies — though it is unclear whether this was from the 1940 Kertl series or the 1945 Leonstein production.

Within days of Germany's surrender, U.S. Counterintelligence Corps agents arrived at Leonstein and took Schauberger into custody, debriefing him extensively for nine months on his wartime work and warning him never again to involve himself in "atomic" science. Simultaneously, Soviet intelligence agents entered his Vienna apartment, removed all materials of value, and destroyed the premises. All of Schauberger's wartime German patents — including those covering the Repulsine — subsequently vanished from the Reich Patent Office records and have never been located.

In 1958, Schauberger — then 72 and in failing health — was approached by an American consortium connected to U.S. intelligence through intermediary Karl Gerchsheimer and financier Robert Donner, who brought him to Sherman, Texas, to collaborate on implosion research. Before he could return home, Schauberger signed a contract — without fully reading or translating its terms — that transferred all his models, prototypes, reports, and intellectual property to the Donner-Gerchsheimer consortium, and committed him permanently to silence on implosion technology. He died on 25 September 1958, five days after returning to Linz, Austria — reportedly saying only "They took everything from me. Everything," without specifying whether he meant the Nazis or the Americans.

Contemporary discussion of Schauberger's centripetal principle

In a 2025 American Alchemy discussion, researcher Jesse Michels described Schauberger's implosion principle to historian Peter Levenda as "centripetal, not centrifugal force — it wasn't outward moving, it was inward moving and it would cause sort of thrust as a result," naming the device as "an impeller" and noting that Schauberger's "alleged zero-point energy machines" were "sort of saucer shaped." Michels further noted that Eric Henry Wang — who later became head of special projects at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — had attended school with Schauberger before the war, placing Schauberger's implosion research within the network of scientists who transitioned from wartime Nazi programs into U.S. advanced research facilities under Operation Paperclip and its extensions.

Contemporary recognition of Schauberger's implosion principle

In a 2022 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with Graham Hancock, researcher Randall Carlson identified Viktor Schauberger alongside Nikola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich as pioneers of a suppressed alternative technology path "based on implosion rather than explosion," noting that all three researchers had suffered similar fates of suppression and confiscation of their work. Carlson described Schauberger as having "did the work with water and discovered" the principles now being developed in a secret laboratory in the Maldives, operating beyond the reach of government interference, where over a hundred patents had been filed on implosion-based technologies that Mazda was preparing to test for $25 million. Hancock, in the same conversation, framed Schauberger's work as potentially representing "a rediscovery of a technology from the past" — an alternative technological path to which conventional archaeologists and scientists were blind because "they're looking for us in the past and they're not open to the possibility that there are a whole other kinds of technology that could be used."

Connection to Haunebu and Vril mercury vortex technology

Consciousness scientist and physicist Dan Winter identifies the Repulsine's vorticular implosion principle as one element of a broader German program in which the same counter-rotating mercury vortex mechanism was applied across multiple platforms. Winter describes the Haunebu as originating in the Vril Society's research, using a counter-rotating mercury vortex in which the mercury was "doped with a wetting agent that made a fine powder mercury soluble" — creating what he terms a magnetic phase-conjugation effect at the vortex tip. The combination of the vortex's mechanical inertia and the magnetic phase conjugation was claimed to produce a directional gravity wave at the vortex center. Where Schauberger's Repulsine used air as the working medium through vorticular implosion, the Vril/Haunebu lineage used mercury — both approaches seeking the same anomalous levitational output through centripetal compression of their respective working fluids.

Winter further describes Schauberger's water vortex as operating through what he terms a "piezoelectric-doped" mechanism — Schauberger's work with rock powders added to water created voltage differentials between the widest and narrowest parts of the vortex, the compression wave producing a potential difference that amplified the anomalous energy output. According to Winter, both Schauberger's and the Vril/Haunebu programs were working toward the same physics: making a gravity wave by imploding charge from transverse to longitudinal at the vortex focus, a general principle he identifies as underlying all vorticular anti-gravity and alleged free energy devices.

See also

• Kammlerstab
• Nazi flying discs
• Viktor Schauberger
• Schauberger physics
• Implosion
• Electrogravitics
• History of electrogravitics
• Anti-gravity
• Suppression of exotic physics
• Heim theory

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