I’d like to answer that one, because this question has been going on for many years in france… I provided a ful lreply on my website, but never ahd time to translate it yet into english. Basically the problem is a misconception, the rules of not using aluminium and copper, indeed are true (he recommends only steel and iron for living organisms, Orgone energy bulletin vol1, page 133), but they apply to orgone ACCUMULATORS, which are not the same at all as orgonite, at the time Reich worked orgonite didn’t exist at all.
It’s a long question to answer, but shortly said, the rules for accumulators are not the same as for orgonite, orgonite works with a metal/resin + quartz mix, accumulators work with layers of organic/inorganic matter, there’s no quartz. It’s not the same process at all.
I’ll use an extract of Orgone energy bulletin vol. 5, page 1 (page 70 of the full bulletin):
"The atmospheric orgone radiation is attracted to and absorbed by organic materials, and both attracted to and repelled by the inorganic material, thus setting up a direction of movement of orgone from the atmosphere toward the interior of the enclosure. This accumulated energy within the enclosure is then attracted to the organic matter which constitues the patient’s body. "
I can’t quote the full bulletins because I have no rights to do so, but in one of them, I can’t remember which, it was somehow discovered that aluminium or copper or even lead, did not act as like other inorganic materials (i.e. iron/steel that should attract and repel orgone), copper and aluminium only repelled orgone! That’s why it’s obviously not useful in an accumulator, because you have entire enclosures, if constituent parts of the full enclosure of an accumulator box strictly repel orgone (like aluminium and copper), then obviously it’s not good for an accumulator, the orgone needs to get inside the box…
But in orgonite we have no such things, there’s no enclosure of metal, just scraps, there it’s fine, the resin does the attracting part anyway and it’s not enclosed inside a full metal box that prevents any orgone from ever reaching it.
