Nation of Earth

It's been amazing to me -- though maybe it shouldn't be -- how many viewpoints I've found that match mine, about what the future can hold...

I shouldn't be amazed because it merely backs up gestaldt theory.  We are all part of a greater consciousness, and my own personal vision of the future comes from 'within', you know, deep inside where that connection lives.  I'm not just daydreaming, apparently.

Keys
to Comprehending Abundance-Based Paradigms

...is an essay by Wade Frazier written last August.  His website is something to get lost in, while you find yourself and your place in what's about to happen to (and with) us all.  The entire site is filled with material that should be at the top of everyone's Required Reading list -- and I don't say this lightly.

Wade shares our concerns about the looming ice age, and would probably agree that it is preventable.  In a society based on abundance, made possible by 'free' energy, climate change becomes little more than an engineering challenge.

 

Part of our Transition will necessarily be the act of embracing 'free' energy.  Wade Frazier explains why we haven't already done so, and why it will be so difficult -- but it can and must happen.  Those of us who understand the enormity and complexity of the problem(s) we are faced with need to be getting together to find solutions -- and THAT's what this site is for.

 

Yes, that is a neat site and will have to spend more time there than the quick perusal I just made.  From my research appears a major way so called civilizations collapse is an inability to handle climate change.  Such experiments for which there are records that suggest such are the Anasazi, Rome, Chinese dynasties and the Mayans.  Of course there were also invasions by gangs (maybe more accurate and descriptive than "civilizations") that destroyed the leaders of other gangs as well as large portions of populations.  Sometimes it was a mixture of both as for Rome.  A PBS episode of "Secrets of the Dead" covered a theory that a volcanic eruption cooled the climate in the mid 400s and this led to failure of crops, more rodents, more black plague and a weakening of Rome that led to its easy demise from invading hordes.  I recall a lecture given by a member of a local American Humanists Chapter where he suggested the USA was better than the native Americans because it defeated them, in other words, "might makes right."  What a load of garbage.  I have come to consider "American Humanists" to be a contradiction in terms as humanism comes from science and America is no science based organization but actually more declaration than substance, same goes for all other nations.  It is no wonder that the magazine "Scientific American" promotes misunderstanding and suppression of technologies that would further abundance such as cold fusion ( http://www.lenr-canr.org/ ).  For a bit more on this lunacy see "The Constitution of No Authority" and "A Game Called USA" here: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07.shtml

In 1976 I became a friend of a prolific inventor.  I told him I was working on a wind electricity generation scheme where the vane assemblies would be light weight and capable of being hoisted between trees or hung from existing structures.  I had tentatively adopted a windmill invented in the 1500s that was depicted in a book called "Energy Scrapbook" that came out in the 1970s.  He took a look at that and said it was problematic as it had loosely hinged vanes that would give the whole great vibration and instability as well as requiring a good deal of energy and time for orientation of the vanes.  He then showed me an idea he had come upon.  It is elegant.  I made a model out of Tinkertoys(R) with two sets of vanes and hung it in a tree.  With very low speed wind changing directions constantly, it spun smoothly and quickly.  I made a single vane assembly out of the same materials and posted a video of it on youtube:

.  I named it after the inventor but made a mistake.  As generators have a component called a "rotor" I now refer to it as the "Hotine Vane" assembly.

I didn't really explore it any further for years and am now pursuing it in earnest.  At first I thought stepper motors could be used as generators but they are not designed for such, impedance clamps down on the power they can produce and they waste a lot of power in excess heat production.  So now I consider making the generator out of surplus parts, permanent magnets from old hard drives are one natural as they are plentiful, at least here in Silicon Valley.  Considering what bearings to use, I took apart some old Quantum Bigfoot hard drives and the single platter version is very well suited.  The windings and the ring magnet come out easily and the bearings are sealed so it spins quite freely.  The drive also has a threaded hole that a case screw from the hard drive fits.  I cut off the head of one those and was able to connect two of these bearing assemblies together.  The platters appear to be just the right size for housing stator windings and magnets.  What I have in development is a counter-rotating windmill design, both the stator and rotor spin in opposite directions.  Besides the inherent efficiency of the Hotine vanes, having the counter-rotating components should double power output of common single spinning disc generators.  Wanting to make these things light weight as well as wanting to minimaize the mass needing to be turned, I see connecting the vanes directly to the stator and rotor discs with no spinning verticle axle.  That will also cut down on their size.

Besides cold fusion, another valuable technology that appears to be actively suppressed is competitive power to size ratio Edison alkaline cells.  Thomas Edison's chief money maker was a battery and unlike the batteries of today, the electron transfer took place via hydroxide ions and the electrodes were preserved.  They have been described as being capable of lasting for 10,000 years.  My inventor friend got some that a wood mill was throwing away, made some new electrolyte from some lye and they powered right up.  The chief reason why they were abandoned was their relative large size.  Lead acid batteries carried more punch in smaller sized batteries.  In 1976 my inventer friend showed me a short article in his IEEE Journal that described that the company Westinghouse had created an Edison alkaline cell of greater power to size ratio than ever expected for lead-acid batteries.  That begins to sound like the ultimate battery.  Westinghouse reported that they had no plans to produce the product for commercial sales.  There is a company in China right now making and selling new Edison alkaline batteries with the URL http://www.beutilityfree.com/content/ but they do not appear to incorporate the preferable topology Westinghouse reported.

Hi de Chardin:

 

My first professional mentor’s inventions were legion,

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#funeral

 

and one was very similar to that windmill design that you
demonstrated.  His windmill design had a
vertical axis like yours, and the vane would flatten out on its return stroke,
to go upright when it was needed for resisting the wind.  Think of louvered blinds.  The bottom of each pane of louvers attached
to a track.  One of the killers of
windmills is the inability to control the speed of the windmill arms.  With that louvered design, the louvers could
have been adjusted, as far as how close to vertical they would go, so the wind
would never overpower them. 

 

Of course, free energy technology, which I KNOW exists:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make

 

makes windmills, advanced radiant solar, tidal energy and
geothermal harvesters, heat pumps and heat engines quite obsolete. 

 

Best,

Wade

 

Hi Wade

I went to a presentation by a PG & E spokesman in about 1973 and he stated that breeder reactors created more fuel than they consumed.  At the end I commented that this was false, they only used the available energy from transuranium elements more efficiently, even up to 100% more efficiencently with the "waste" capable of being used again to produce as much thermal energy as produced in the first stage.  I am not for breeder reactors nor any nuclear reactors on Earth, as Bucky Fuller I am content with using fusion energy from a reactor that is contained by the 92 million miles of space afforded to us by the tremendous gift that is our sun.  I see work in the classical sense of physics is funneling energy as it flows either from one state to another or from one level to another through means that produce useful outcomes, useful to serving life's needs.  I do not see that it is reasonable to assume that anything comes from nothing.  In that regard I find the steady-state theories of universe hold more credibility than a singular big bang, with plenty of possible explanations for the red shift and other phenomena that leads to some stating that before it, there was nothing.  The recent explorations into string theory suggest that energy and matter can "pop" into and out of existence from parallel dimensions but still it comes from somewhere and goes somewhere. 

In that regard, I see making energy available to people and life's furtherance means using what we have to ever greater efficiency and utility.  I just found that an old 5 1/4" hard drive provides all of the essentials to make a counter-rotating vertical axis windmill generator and hope to look into other models that exist in great numbers and really have no real use for data storage any more.  My entire windmill design, which is not entirely mine as the vanes are the invention of William Hotine (would love to see that someone else came up with the idea if you have seen it) coupled with old surplus parts that exist in abundance would give electrical energy to very poor people with little need for any expertise. 

In short, I do not believe in "free" as in coming from nowhere.  If it appears that way then I suspect that it is coming from somewhere only it is not readily apparent as to exactly where from.  I will spend time and look at your reference but still think using materials we have on hand to use the energy that is bathing this planet every day to ever greater efficiency and life furtherance is wise.  I do believe in a kind of magic but only that which comes from adhering to a total comprehensive life respecting stance, when one works and lives for the benefit of all, all reciprocates.  Otherwise, I find a world or universe where any kind of magic endures is not inherently one of any morality or universal laws and I choose not to reside in a universe where anything goes. 

I do not like stating what my beliefs are.  I find it a failing as I find it more honest to state that I am working in accordance to my opinions and that they are subject to change with new knowledge.  Beliefs are more sacrosanct and my having them reflects upon the less maleable side of my nature but, when it comes to wanting to be worthy of having unlimited energy, unlimited potentials, unlimited life, I only want that if I do not take without due  regard to the sum total of repercussions, due regard to wanting to be a positive influence to all other life and "balance" my books so to speak so that all may lead the best of all possilbe lives.  Sheesh.  Got to go read that now.  Thanks for rattling my cage.

Does appear that cold fusion is a reality and so far from what I know the energy from fusing elements in the manner that does not involve dangerous radiation could be useful on earth though I wonder about burdening the temperature of the planet.  Nevertheless, I am not personally altogether opposed to their being such reactors on Earth.

After reading some 5/8 of that link, Wade, though I saw one passing reference to questioning the second law of thermodynamics, I suspect by "free" you are essentially considering energy sources that are potentially free of monetary expense, not necessarily free of any contextual relationship to the energy/matter in univese.  Still it sounds like it involves some special materials and expertise to construct.  My hope to help free those from being sequestered eventually by forces that seek to destroy the planet from their alienated and existential perspective is to make available forms of energy that are easily obtainable with little expertise and readily available materials to break the ice.  I hope to have a very preliminary video of the windmill concept I am working on soon that once seen by others will make it possible for them to duplicate and improve upon the efforts without any blueprints being shared or instruction manual.  The video above does not show using old hard drive parts or two vane assemblies on one unit together which really can strike home as holding perhaps more potential than any others I have at least seen to date, me thinks.

Hope to finish that reference by this evening.  Pretty interesting stuff.  That heat pump kind of reminds me of the water heater that was invented that somehow heats water through a specific kind of agitation, needing less power to agitate than is released in heat measured watts.  One can wonder where the matter/energy conversion is happening or maybe there is some magic out there :~)  I'll see if I can find the youtube video of it.

 

 

 

Many find it useful to abbreviate 'free energy' as FE.  This saves us the trouble of placing it in quotes (or deciding not to) and allows for a bit less confusion.  If familiar enough with the concept to use the abbreviation, one likely understands that the energy itself is no more 'free' than solar, wind, or geothermal.  You still need a device with which to harness the energy.

Antigravity is often brought into the conversation, and for good reason.  If you've got AG working properly, you're also generating FE.  This is not to say that FE leads to AG -- but the two are related.  The word 'antigravity' is also thrown around loosely, and can be misleading.  An AG device does not necessarily work in direct opposition to gravity...

 

This site exlores high mileage carburetors with the insight that they actually "cracked" the fuel when incorporating the right metals: http://www.himacresearch.com/

This site is perhaps the most comprehensive in presenting the evidence of cold fusion: http://www.lenr-canr.org/  There is also a video available on it

Here is a short video on the fueless water heater that seems most intriguing:

Hi de Chardin: I have been reading your work.  As you know, I am familiar with Fuller, and Steve Meyers, one of my pals, studied under Bucky
for thirteen years:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#fuller

 

and your social systems theory is familiar to me.  I am also well aware of the debate on ice
ages, global warming, etc.  Although
today is called the Holocene, it is still the Pleistocene, IMO.  Ice ages have punctuated the past couple billion
years of earth’s history:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/timeline.htm#ice1

 

and I am familiar with the many factors cited for the
present ice age that we are in (the Holocene is merely an interglacial blip,
IMO).  From what I have seen, as long as
the Arctic Ocean is virtually landlocked, the
northern hemisphere will continue to have ice ages.  It will take awhile for tectonic plate
movements to liberate the Arctic Ocean.  

 

My concern with ice ages is that with free energy (or “FE,”
as fil says), it does not matter to
human welfare what the ice is doing.  The
venting of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels is
easily measurable, and contributes around 6% to the carbon cycle’s inflow to
the atmosphere, which has accumulated to about a 35% increase in atmospheric
carbon dioxide over the pre-industrial era. 
It is also a “greenhouse gas,” and contributes somewhere around 15% to
the greenhouse effect (with water vapor being most of the remainder), and it is
hard to argue that the measurable increase in carbon dioxide has nothing to do
with global warming.  That is only one of
many side effects.  What is less
debatable is that the hydrocarbon fuel age is acidifying the oceans, with
potentially catastrophic results:

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2202156/posts?page=1

 

With FE, the debate becomes moot.  Adam Trombly, another of Fuller’s pupils:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radio.htm#trombly

 

says that Operation Global Cooling is being carried out
right now:

 

http://www.projectearth.com/HTML/EditorialArchive/global_cooling.html

 

and while I am not privy to his evidence, it is not
surprising.  In the end, the global
warming/global cooling debate is kind of pointless in the face of FE.

 

On windmills and other “first generation” alternative
energy, they are all way too little, too late, IMO.  Again, my introduction to the energy issue,
thirty-five years ago, was technological:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse

 

I was a key player in what is probably history’s most
auspicious attempt to bring alternative energy to the American marketplace:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm

 

And the lessons I learned along the way were many, and one
of the primary ones was this: technology is not really the problem.  I also came to understand that FE technology
has been around since before I was born:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#underground

 

and that you and I will not be invited to one of those
demonstrations anytime soon.  Even though
Sparky Sweet

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#sweet

 

called it something from nothing:

 

http://www.rexresearch.com/sweet/1nothing.htm

 

what everybody involved in that field says is that what
Sparky and others were doing is tapping into the Zero Point Field.  On Trombly’s site, he discusses the
interaction between Jupiter and Io that helped him gain the insights needed to build
his homopolar generator:
 

http://www.projectearth.com/HTML/EditorialArchive/Tesla.html

 

That stuff is very real, and makes the first generation
alternative energy technologies seem quaint.  However, a technological effort is not what is
needed, but an awakening of enough humans, which is what I am attempting to
assist with my work.  FE is a conundrum
like no other:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#conundrum

 

with denial, conspiracism, structuralism,

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism

 

and other psychological pitfalls

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#potholes

 

preventing the productive understanding of the issue for the
vast majority of the population:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#peeling

 

I am looking for the few that have enough personal integrity
to pursue the truth.  Personal integrity,
as I discovered the hard way:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn

 

is earth’s scarcest and most precious commodity, and I am
attempting to round up enough of it to focus on the key issue of the human journey, energy, to see if it can make a
difference.  I am not going for prime
time, because prime time is not ready for the message.  Prime time today is (and arguably always has
been) about herd management. 

 

Debating FE physics is not my bag, but there are forums
where it can be discussed:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#physics

 

Hi fil:

 

“Evil” is a word that I use sparingly and carefully.  People who are “evil” are “merely” playing
the game of making self-servingness a science:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving

 

and they are making a dark bed for themselves:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hell

 

Unless earth ascends into the fourth dimension or has some
similar cleansing, the dark path folks will be here.  They cannot be fought:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#expose

 

all we can do is stop being such easy meat.  Neither retreating to idealistic naïveté nor
taking them on will work, as far as I have seen:

 

http://www.nofadz.com/~serendip/fe/minefields.htm

 

and even trying conflicts with my understanding of how the
universe works. 

 

I remember, long ago, reading Seth

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth

 

describing “mongoloids” as emotional geniuses, and that they
are more prevalent in the industrialized societies, to remind us all of our
emotional heritage.  To be able to be
happy and loving 24/7 is quite a trick.  I
wish I was there.  I have a close relative whose
I.Q. is at about the Forrest Gump level, and he has achieved understandings of
how the world really works that puts many academic pundits to shame.  To be a good, decent, loving person is to go straight
to the head of the Creator’s class.  The
hells of the astral plane are filled with brilliant individuals:

 

http://www.afterlife-knowledge.com/maxhell.html

 

they sure are “smart.”  

 

I do not believe that anybody is inherently evil.  Making a science out of self-service is one
of the hazards of having the “gift” of free will, and those on that path are
ultimately the most deluded beings of all:

 

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love

 

Love of the self and
others is the path to mastery. 

 

Gotta go for now and get cracking on my energy essay. 

 

Best,

 

Wade

 

...but if it helps at all, hovering your cursor over the post # will show the real # at the bottom of your browser window (at least in Firefox).  This does indeed get frustrating.  I'd like to be able to see all previous posts in the thread, without having to open another tab...

 

Some points to address:

Not sure how long ago, or where it was, that I first posted about ignorance being evil.  The point of that particular rant was that if evil has a name, it is Ignorance.  Bad things happen when people entities ignore things -- be they the feelings of others, various bits of technology, or ideas.  Active ignorance causes problems, in other words, way beyond what simple lack of awareness can ever do.  The whole notion of good and bad, or good versus evil, is subjective -- but objectively it is quite obvious that when people choose to ignore things, it gets in the way of true progress.

...

While it may be true that 'automobiles' will some day be considered 'quaint'...  Wait, let me rephrase that:  While we may have flying saucers in our future, we'll have uses for 'ground vehicles' for a long time yet (if not forever).  It's not like we'll all be 'handed the keys to' flying saucers one magic day, week, month, year, or even decade -- and there will continue to be a gap between walking and boarding a vehicle that can take you anywhere/when in time/space.  Intermediate forms of transport will evolve, as they must -- since many roadways are bound to become neglected (not to mention destroyed by natural forces).  The tagline for Tellurian Motors is "vehicles for Planet Earth -- and beyond".  My whole (imaginary) line, for now, consists of electric ground vehicles, with wheels and/or Mattracks, powered by FE.

[The song that just came up on my playlist is Red Barchetta by Rush.  How fitting...]

Existing vehicles will be continued to be maintained and used, many being converted to FE electric.  And, we're not just going to throw away our automotive heritage.  Steam power (external combustion) hasn't completely disappeared, and neither will internal combustion.  A lot of passion went into the design and construction of many, many vehicles -- expressions of 'performance art', if you will -- and there will continue to be new expressions.

No seriously, I fully expect there to be a 'rat rod' scene, for instance, a hundred years from now.  Enlightenment doesn't erase culture.

...

...and we have such a rich culture.  We are blessed with it, and for all we know our collection of societies was designed to produce it.

...

 

As to alternative energy such as windmills that anyone with the proper knowledge and resources can build, well, we are in for hard times over the next few years, quite possibly.  Anything that can help will be welcome -- and anything that can help us feel secure has value.  The ease of Humanity's transition may depend on us, right here, right now, and in many ways...

We simply can't depend upon FE devices being delivered to anyone and everyone at the drop of a hat.  The electrical grid may fail any one of us at any time.  Being able to go off-grid may prove to be important to survival, for some.

It's all well and good to dream about a future of abundance (which I myself have been doing for almost as long as I can remember), but there are the practical issues of how we may survive the transition to consider.

...

 

We're in agreement that the populace in general can be described as sheep (for now).  We can see that they are being herded.  No use, in the short run, to try and wake them up to the fact that they are not sheep.  That wakefulness will come in time.  We are, for the moment, not concerned with the 'sheep'.

Our targets are the wolves, and the sheepdogs, and the shepherds themselves.  Perhaps for now we are only looking for the 'black sheep' to recruit for the cause...

...

 

Integrity demands that I admit at this point (it's Friday night, after all), I've had too much beer to continue.  Apologies for any disjointedness above.

 

filsmyth

14Mar09

 

I find we are quite in agreement on many levels, Wade.

"a technological effort is not what is needed, but an awakening of enough humans"

I'm probably just quibbling with semantics here, but, me thinks they go hand in hand: "All is metaphysical" BF

"Love of the self and others is the path to mastery."

Yeah verily, the paramount challenge.

45 record cold temperatures set in Canada 3/9 - 3/12

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=pra...

I don't think it is possible to have objectivity but together, maybe, we can come to a sufficiently viable estimate of truth that leads to fruitful endeavor.

Yes, depending on FE may be a mistake, "eggs in one basket" so to speak.

Black sheep? No. Me thinks we need to find some Homo cognitus, maybe have to create 'em. I've just about had it up to here with the Homo saps, self-proclaimed wise guys.

The reply to specific posts thingy is interesting. I kind of like the idea of at least trying to circumvent the linearity of forum posting but still don't hold out much hope for forums in general. Worth a try at least.