Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) combined precise observation of nature and intuition with hard science and engineering. He researched into the real nature of water. Natural water, says Schauberger, is a living organism, akin to blood in the human body. It is the most important life-giving and energy-empowering substance on the planet. It nourishes the whole biosphere and, when it becomes corrupted, the ecosystem becomes sick. Through the tireless study of mountain streams and rivers, Schauberger was able to show the importance of energy in water, and how nature uses this to create life. He engaged contemporary scientists in heated debates about where he saw they were going wrong. Sadly, the same extractive and water-management policies which brought devastation in his day have even greater consequences today, and the world will reject at its peril Schauberger's pleas to rediscover how to work with nature. This is the first volume of "Eco-Technology", a series based on the writings and discussions of Viktor Schauberger. The other volumes will cover Schauberger's research on trees, soils and the atmosphere and his practical applications for working with nature. In public, Schauberger

Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive means - by a centripetal inward motion, while our modern culture uses explosive centrifugal (outwards) movement, which is wasteful and many times less powerful and effective. It also uses up the Earth's resources and pollutes her ecosystems. This volume describes different kinds of energy machines which depend on the principle of implosion: a spring water-producing machine a tornado home energy generator a Klimator which produces mountain-quality air the biotechnical submarine a technique for producing power from ocean deeps a flying saucer prototype which rose at fantastic speed to high altitudes and a perpetual motion suction-based implosion machine.

How does Nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things - including rocks and crystals - are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. Schauberger is able to demonstrate how Nature works because he has been able to observe and describe how its energies manifest and produce the material world.

Viktor Schauberger was one of the first genuine environmentalists.

In the 1930s he was predicting ecological catastrophe when no-one else could see it coming. He foresaw:

Global warming and its devastating consequences

Increasing violence and lawlessness as the direct result of destructive methods which block Nature's energies and balance.

The destruction of the world's forests and ecosystems.

This, and the fact that he developed free energy machines through harnessing the magical processes of Nature, has made Viktor Schauberger truly a man of our times.

Nature as Teacher details Schauberger's thinking about environmental catastrophe. It includes correspondence with contemporaries and, in particular, his feelings of frustration at the blindness of those in mainstream science who seemed to him to be more concerned with their own welfare and pride than with the fate of humanity.

This volume gives tremendous insight into what is happening on the Earth today and presents practical solutions on how we may yet save our precious world.