Here’s a detailed pass on Kenneth R. “Ken” Shoulders, his energy / EVO work, and how people like Bob Greenyer and Judy Wood connect that to Hutchison-style anomalies and 9/11.
1. Who Ken Shoulders was
- Background & career
- U.S. experimental engineer / inventor, active from the 1950s through the 2000s.
- Worked at MIT and then at SRI International, where he helped pioneer vacuum nanoelectronics (field-emission microelectronics) and early unmanned flying vehicles.(Science History Institute)
- Later ran his own lab under Jupiter Technologies and then a privately funded lab in Freestone, California, focusing on “charge clusters” as a potential new energy technology.(Science History Institute)
- Turned down an MIT PhD offer on principle, which hurt his mainstream credibility later.
- Eccentric network
- Close to Harold (Hal) Puthoff, known for remote-viewing and zero-point energy work.
- Interacted with John Hutchison, the Canadian experimenter behind the “Hutchison Effect.”(lenr-canr.org)
- This “frontier science” circle is exactly where later connections among EVOs, Hutchison effects, and exotic energy / weapons claims were stitched together.
2. Core of Shoulders’ research: EVs / EVOs
2.1 What are EVs / EVOs?
Shoulders’ main claim: he discovered and controlled small, extremely dense packets of electrons he first called Electrum Validum (EV) (“strong electron”) and later Exotic Vacuum Objects (EVOs) or charge clusters.(Google Patents)
Key properties described in his patents, monographs, and later technical summaries:
- Micron-scale objects, typically a few micrometers across.
- Carry 10¹¹–10¹³ electrons in a very compact state (huge charge density).(laloadrianmorales.com)
- Behave like coherent “pellets” or soliton-like entities rather than a diffuse plasma.
- Travel along tracks, leaving distinctive micro-craters and “etched” holes when they hit metal surfaces.(altpropulsion.com)
A later heuristic paper by Graham Hubler (University of Missouri) summarizes Shoulders’ claims like this: EVOs are highly organized, micron-sized charge clusters with electron densities so high that, if interpreted thermally, the local energy equivalent would correspond to absurdly high temperatures (tens of thousands of °C per micrometer) when they disrupt solid matter.
2.2 Patents & energy-conversion ideas
One key patent is US 5,018,180 – “Energy conversion using high charge density”.(Google Patents)
- He describes a discrete, self-contained, negative charge entity produced by high electric fields between a cathode and anode, named Electrum Validum.
- Claimed that when these EVs strike matter, they can:
- Punch tiny holes.
- Remove material in an explosive, low-thermal way.
- Convert potential energy in the electric field into other forms (heat, light, mechanical disruption).
In his self-published book “EV: A Tale of Discovery” he explicitly frames EV/EVO technology as a possible basis for a new energy industry.(lenr-canr.org)
2.3 How “real” is this in mainstream terms?
- There is independent recognition that electron clusters or non-neutral plasmas can exist under some conditions; Richard Feynman even wrote a letter acknowledging such clusters are possible after initially dismissing Shoulders’ claim.(Vacuum Nanoelectronics)
- However, the jump from “electron clusters exist” to “they explain cold fusion, Hutchison effects, UFO propulsion, and weaponized ‘matter dustification’” is speculative and not accepted by mainstream physics.
3. How Bob Greenyer picks up Shoulders’ EVO thread
Bob Greenyer (Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project, MFMP) has aggressively modernized and popularized Shoulders’ EVO story:
- In talks and videos on “Exotic Vacuum Objects & Propulsion Engineering”, Greenyer describes EVOs as high-density charge clusters capable of:
- Transmuting elements.
- Boring through materials, leaving characteristic damage tracks.
- Generating magnetic fields possibly exceeding 1,000 Tesla.
- Acting as the active agent behind many LENR and “weird materials” phenomena.(altpropulsion.com)
- Greenyer explicitly credits Ken Shoulders as the originator of the EVO model and frames his own work as extending Shoulders to:
- LENR reactors.
- Hutchison-style anomalies.
- Speculative applications in propulsion and advanced technology.(altpropulsion.com)
So in Greenyer’s narrative:
EVOs are the underlying agent behind a broad class of “exotic” effects—including those reported by John Hutchison and others—and could in principle be harnessed for both energy production and “extreme” materials / environmental effects.
4. The Hutchison Effect in brief
The Hutchison Effect comes from John Hutchison’s 1970s–80s experiments with overlapping RF fields, Tesla coils, and high-voltage gear in a cluttered lab:
Reported phenomena (from supporters’ accounts and footage):
- Levitation of heavy objects.
- “Jellification” or softening of metals; warped and fractured metal without obvious thermal burn patterns.
- Fusion of dissimilar materials (metal embedded in wood).
- Localized heating of metal without nearby materials burning.
- Spontaneous cracking, fragmentation, or apparent “vanishing” of parts of samples.(Custom Electronics)
These claims are extremely controversial:
- Replication by independent, controlled labs has been poor to nonexistent.
- Skeptics argue the effects can be explained by mundane issues (vibration, arcing, misinterpretation of damaged samples, or outright misrepresentation).
- Nevertheless, the visuals of bent and “melted” metal have made Hutchison’s samples important to Judy Wood and others looking for mechanisms behind “anomalous” destruction events.
5. Judy Wood’s 9/11–Hutchison–Shoulders linkage
On her site, Judy Wood explicitly compares alleged Hutchison samples to odd pieces of 9/11 debris and introduces Ken Shoulders’ charge-cluster work as a possible technical bridge:(Dr. Judy Wood)
- She publishes an article “Anomalies at the WTC and the Hutchison Effect,” where:
- Hutchison’s metal jellification, fragmentation, and strange corrosion are presented as analogs for certain WTC steel and rubble anomalies.
- Ken Shoulders’ charge clusters / EVOs are cited as laboratory-scale proof that concentrated electron structures can do highly non-classical damage to materials.
- She writes that Shoulders and his son Steve have been making and studying charge clusters “for about 25 years” in a well-equipped private lab, implying that once you can do it in a lab, scaling to weapon size is “only” an engineering problem.(Dr. Judy Wood)
A separate speculative paper (hosted on viXra) tries to outline how a Hutchison-like field might have contributed to WTC destruction but is highly conjectural and not peer-reviewed.(ViXra)
So the chain, as presented by Wood and some others, is:
- Hutchison supposedly shows anomalous field-induced destruction of matter.
- Shoulders shows that microscopic charged objects (EVOs) can bore holes, disrupt lattices, and transmute elements in a directed way.
- Therefore (in their view) a scaled-up EM system leveraging EVO-like physics could act as a directed energy weapon capable of causing 9/11-style “dustification” of concrete and steel.
This is their argument—not an established fact.
6. Where Bob Greenyer fits into the 9/11 / Hutchison picture
Greenyer’s role is more about unifying the language:
- He treats EVOs / charge clusters / condensed plasmoids as a universal mechanism:
- Active in LENR cells.
- Potentially behind Hutchison’s strange metal samples.
- Possibly connected to other anomalies (he has speculated in talks about MH370, unusual damage in various events, etc., though usually more cautiously than some “DEW” proponents).(altpropulsion.com)
- In one documented 2010 meeting, Ken Shoulders and John Hutchison themselves discussed the “near infinite potential” of charge clusters / EVOs—Greenyer later transcribed and circulated this, helping solidify the narrative that Hutchison effects and EVO physics are joined at the hip.(lenr-canr.org)
So in the Greenyer–Wood–Hutchison ecosystem:
- Shoulders is the experimental physicist who gave a quasi-technical foundation and patents.
- Hutchison is the chaotic lab wizard with sensational metal samples and levitation footage.
- Greenyer is the modern curator tying EVOs to LENR, propulsion, materials anomalies, and (by extension, via Judy Wood’s work) large-scale destruction scenarios.
7. What we can actually say about 9/11 and EVO/Hutchison claims
From the official, evidence-based side:
- The NIST World Trade Center Investigation (43 technical reports, ~11,000 pages) concluded that:
- The twin towers failed due to aircraft impact damage, loss of fireproofing, and multi-floor, long-duration fires leading to thermal weakening and buckling.(Wikipedia)
- WTC 7 failed due to uncontrolled office fires, thermal expansion, and subsequent column failure, without explosives or exotic energy sources.(NIST)
- These reports do not find evidence for directed energy weapons, Hutchison-type anomalies, or EVO-based mechanisms.
From the Shoulders side:
- His patents and monographs talk about lab-scale devices using kilovolt discharges, micron-size EVOs, and micro-damage patterns.
- There is no public, verifiable record of Ken Shoulders himself claiming his technology was used against the WTC, nor of him formally endorsing a 9/11 “EVO weapon” scenario.
- What exists is:
- His technical EVO work.(Google Patents)
- Judy Wood and others invoking that work as a candidate mechanism.(Dr. Judy Wood)
From the Hutchison side:
- The Hutchison Effect remains controversial and poorly replicated, with most of the evidence hinging on Hutchison’s own samples, videos, and sympathetic interpreters.(altpropulsion.com)
So, scientifically:
- EVO-like charge clusters are interesting, partly documented objects in plasma / high-field physics.
- Their extension to planet-scale or skyscraper-scale weapons is speculative and not backed by mainstream structural or forensic analyses of 9/11.
8. If you want to dig deeper (research directions)
If you’re trying to build a coherent picture of “Ken Shoulders ↔ Bob Greenyer ↔ Hutchison ↔ 9/11”, the most grounded route is:
- Primary Shoulders material
- Patents, especially US 5,018,180 (“Energy conversion using high charge density”).(Google Patents)
- His book “EV: A Tale of Discovery” (scans are online).(lenr-canr.org)
- The Kenneth R. Shoulders Papers at the Science History Institute (finding aid + on-site archive).(Science History Institute Archives)
- Serious technical interpretations
- Hubler’s research article / preprint on a heuristic explanation of EVOs (charge clusters).(lenr-canr.org)
- Historical overviews of charge clusters / condensed plasmoids.(Freel Tech)
- Greenyer & MFMP
- Talks and posts on EVOs, propulsion, and LENR (alt-propulsion, E-Cat World, MFMP content).(altpropulsion.com)
- Hutchison & 9/11 framing
- Hutchison-effect technical write-ups and sample analyses.(altpropulsion.com)
- Judy Wood’s “Anomalies at the WTC and the Hutchison Effect” plus associated commentary.(Dr. Judy Wood)
If you’d like, next step I can do is map specific damage signatures described by Shoulders (EVO tracks, micro-craters, transmutation patterns) against the specific 9/11 anomalies Judy Wood highlights (dustification, “vanishing” hardware, odd corrosion)—just as a comparative catalogue, keeping the physics claims and evidence clearly separated.