Nation of Earth

What is 'free energy'?

Any energy that you can simply harness is essentially free.  Solar,
wind, hydro and geothermal, when you think about it, are all 'free
energy systems'.  When you find yourself having to convert chemical
energy into heat, thrust, and/or electricity, no matter how 'free' the
source of the chemical energy, this just doesn't fall into the same
category.  It's the difference between sails and a steam engine on a
boat.

Waterwheels, windmills, sails, and even geothermal energy
to a limited extent, have been used for centuries.  The energy is
ready-to-use -- free.  When you burn something, even for a campfire,
you have to gather the fuel -- not free.  Horses and other beasts of
burden are also 'not free'.

And so it is with what people today
are calling 'free energy'.  The energy is there, ready-to-use, all
around us, all the time, everywhere -- but invisible.  Some call it
'zero-point energy'.  It's just as free as the wind, or a river
current, or heat from underground -- but it's everywhere, all the time,
constant;  So, it's more reliable and more reliably available.

First,
someone had to detect it -- then comes to terms with its existence, and
recognize its potential.  THEN came the task of harnessing it.  These
things have been done, many times over.  Because this energy usually
goes unnoticed (unlike the sun, wind, flowing water, and geothermal
heat), it is relatively easy to keep secret -- and because people
'need' energy, and other people have gotten very rich and powerful by
providing it at a price, those other people have done their best to
keep this newfound source of energy secret.  It's natural for them to
do so -- not very nice, but natural.

Of course it's the devices that harness the energy that are the real 'threat', along with the people who invent and promote them and the very idea
that people could own 'power converters' that would produce electricity
out of thin air.  People wouldn't need to buy their electricity from
power companies, and could switch everything else over to electric,
including vehicles (that would have 'power converters' onboard), and no
one would 'need' gasoline, natural gas, fuel oil, diesel or even
ethanol anymore...

What these fatcats seem to be missing is that everyone will still need DEVICES with which to harness this energy, with no end in sight for the DEMAND for the devices.  The potential for profit is enormous...

What WE are missing here, I suppose, is their motivation for cleaving to the status quo (and forcing most of the rest of us to adhere to it as well).  All day long we can ask WHY they themselves don't invest in the manufacture of these devices, and we may remain puzzled.  Apparently it's about control.  Knowing this doesn't make it easy to understand -- I mean, I still don't get it.  My personal inability to relate to those motivations doesn't make them less real, though...

I'll let Wade Frazier explain it:  http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#racket

Perhaps what 'they' are really trying to avoid (and if this is so, maybe I can understand) is the inevitable revolution that will follow the advent of abundant energy.  It will be a great equalizer, and people in general will become much more independent.  While at first the manufacture and availability of these devices will be a boon to the economy, eventually their ubiquity will help transform the economy (and society) into something which 'they' will no longer be able to manipulate.  It's not just a win/win, but a win/win/win/win/win/win/win/win/win et cetera ad infinitum -- no real losers, but 'they' no longer get to be the big 'winners' in the win/lose scenario.  The win/lose scenario of capitalism will be gone forever.  'They' won't get to pull the strings anymore.

Well that's just petty and mean, isn't it?

It seems the way to bring 'free' energy out of the closet will be to convince those keeping it there to let it out.  To do this, our argument will have to be sound.  'They' will need to come around to the understanding that this technology is perhaps THE key to, well, everything.  If they don't let loose their iron grip, the consequences will be dire.  We simply can't keep going the way we have been.

Those instrumental in ending the suppression of this technology will be celebrated and remembered.  Maybe that would be a good point to bring up?

filsmyth, 26Feb09

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