hmmm....Bearden. The same TE Bearden of scalar electromagnetics "fame"? OK, I'll over look that for the moment as otherwise I wouldn't have gone any further.

So, reading the linked web page I run across,

"The trick here is to get the battery to recharge itself, without furnishing
normal power to it, or expending work from the external circuit in the process.
To do this, recall that a charged particle in a "hooking" del-phi river moves
itself."

OK.

What is a "del-phi river"? Much less, a "hooking" one?

Brian