2011年5月15日 – 一位曾經在33年前給邁克爾·傑克遜（Michael Jackson）拍攝照片的洛杉磯發明家希望他的這些照片能夠有助於投產一款電動汽車，他聲稱這款車能夠解決全球能源問題。
雷吉納德·加西亞（Reginald Garcia）將會把出售這130張未公開的傑克遜照片所籌得的資金用來測試這款汽車，他稱這款車會能比以前產生更多電能。加西亞目前正在對這批照片進行評估並準備出售。
這些照片拍攝了19歲的邁克爾·傑克遜和他的兄弟們在1978年3月於一間好萊塢攝影棚內拍攝錄像的情景，當時他還未做手術改變面容。
他的爆炸頭和1970年代的服裝使得人們對傑克遜“尷尬的青春期”時光有了“難得的一瞥”。據一位曾經向歌星出售他的照片的收藏家說，這是歌星後來想要塵封起來的照片。
“如果是一張他不喜歡的照片，他會比那些他喜歡換的照片更願意買下。”科亞·摩根（Keya Morgan）說，“如果他現在還活著，我絕對會去找他，我肯定他會想要買下它們。”但傑克遜已經不在人世，摩根的科亞畫廊打算買下照片版權，並幫助雷吉納德·加西亞出售那些已經遺忘在他家置物架上數十年的幻燈片、沖印照片和聯繫信件。
在接受CNN的採訪時，加西亞說，上個月當他正想法籌集他的“自生動力”汽車測試資金時，從壁櫥裡翻出了這箱照片。
“他是我說過話的最偉大的人。”加西亞談及他和傑克遜一起渡過的時光時說。
加西亞當時是加州理工大學（California Tech）的學生，還是一名專欄攝影師。他姐姐的一位在CBS唱片公司工作的朋友找到他，請他去好萊塢的高爾攝影棚（Gower Studios）拍攝傑克遜一家的照片。
在那些彩色照片上，傑克遜五人組（Jackson 5）穿著藍色禮服，在音響臺上歌唱。
而黑白照片則拍攝於錄像拍攝的休息時間，加西亞說。
“我讓他坐在一面鏡子前拍了一些照片，我說'表現得就像你正在看一封剛剛得到的心上人來信一樣'，他說。結果出來的就是一張傑克遜和他的在更衣室鏡子中的影像照片。加西亞說，他最近才意識到，這與歌星後來的流行曲《鏡中人》（Man in the Mirror）不謀而合。
加西亞和商業夥伴大衛·馬洛尼克（David Marohnic）將他的照片以及發明樣本帶到了CNN在洛杉磯的辦公室，展示他的機器，談他們的機會。
馬洛尼克說：“我們所尋求的是用這些雷吉給邁克爾傑克遜拍攝的照片和他的傳奇籌集資金，讓我們的樣本能夠投產，最終得以清潔環境，使用高效汽車減少溫室氣體。”兩個伏特表測量能源進入， 然後能量流回電池，這個馬達也運行起來。
馬洛尼克說：“它產生出的給電池充電的能量要高於從電池中獲得的能量。”加西亞將一輛普通汽車的電刷進行重組，並重繞了銅線，他說：“這樣就能在它擠扁時捕獲負電磁場，將能量導入電容，給電池充電。
馬洛尼克說，出售傑克遜照片將讓他們得以“證明這個樣本能夠做到我們所說的一切。”加西亞說：“星辰所刻，命中註定，我們要有一個更綠色的地球。現在，一扇門向我們打開了，那會引領我們到達這個清潔的地球。”
Forgotten Michael Jackson photos could power the world, inventor says
By Alan Duke, CNN
May 14, 2011
Reginald Garcia will use cash from the sale of 130 unpublished Jackson photos to fund testing of the motor, which he claims generates more electricity than it uses. Garcia is in the process of getting the photos appraised and prepared for sale.
The photos show a 19-year-old Jackson and his brothers during a video shoot at a Hollywood studio in March 1978, before he began changing his appearance with surgery.
The Afro hair style and 1970s clothing show "a rare glance" of Jackson in an "awkward teenage stage," an image that he personally tried to bury in later years, according to a collector who sold photographs to the singer.
"If it was an image he didn't like, he was more likely to buy them than if they were images he did like," said Keya Morgan. "Were he alive now, I would definitely go to him and I'm sure he would want to buy them."
With Jackson gone, Morgan's Keya Gallery is buying the image copyrights and helping Reginald Garcia sell the original slides, prints and contact sheets that have been forgotten on his shelf for decades.
Garcia pulled the box of photos out of his closet last month when he was looking for ways to finance testing of his "self-generating" motor, Garcia said in a CNN interview this week.
"He was the greatest guy you could ever talk to," Garcia said of his day with Jackson .
Garcia was a student at California Tech and a freelance photographer when a friend of his sister's, who worked for CBS Records, asked him to take pictures of the Jacksons at Gower Studios in Hollywood , he said.
The color photos show the Jackson 5 dressed in blue tuxedos, singing on a soundstage.
The black-and-white images were taken during breaks in the video shoot, Garcia said.
"I sat him in front of a mirror and shot some photos, and I said 'act like you're reading a letter like you just got from your girl,'" he said. The result was a photo showing Jackson and his reflection in a dressing room mirror. Garcia said he only recently realized it echoes the singer's later hit "Man in the Mirror."
Garcia and business partner David Marohnic brought his photos and the prototype of his invention to CNN's Los Angeles bureau to demonstrate the engine and talk about their plans.
"What we're essentially looking for is trying to take the photos that Reggie took of Michael Jackson, his legacy, use those funds to try to take our prototype to the market and ultimately clean up the environment and use less greenhouse gases as a result of a motor that's very highly efficient," Mahronic said.
The motor buzzed as two voltage meters measured the energy going in and the power flowing out, back to the battery.
"It's generating more energy recharging the battery than it actually draws from the battery," Marohnic said.
Garcia reconfigured the brushes and rewound the copper in a standard motor "so it captures the negative electromagnetic field as it collapses, sends energy to a capacitor and recharges the battery," he said.
The sale of the Jackson photographs will allow them "to certify that the prototype does everything that we say it's going to do," Marohnic said.
"It's written in the stars," Garcia said. "We have a destiny of a greener earth, a door opening today that should lead us to this clean earth."
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