A hot topic on the heels of the 60 Minutes segment last night. Is the Bloombox the long sought solution to cheap clean energy? Is Mr. K.R. Sridhar the modern day Nicola Tesla? At the risk of boring you all I found these bits of history on the search for cheap energy and the conspiracies to stop it.
Free Energy – The Race to Zero-Point
http://www.archive.org/details/FreeEnergy-TheRaceToZero-point
http://www.archive.org/details/Documentary_Tesla_Work
BTW, I am powered by strong coffee. -Jeff Kaplan
Do you realize how much energy goes into making that coffee?
First, you have have to grow the beans, pick the beans, haul the beans by mule, process the beans, fly the beans to a processing house, package the coffee, ship the coffee to a store location, someone buys it brings it home, brewing the hot water, all for a ten minute drink.
I didn’t even mention the energy used to fuel the car, the plane, the mule food, fertalizer, or the cost of making the coffee cup and tea spoon. Phew.
Who pays for the water?
That coffee is worth all of that energy though.. as it takes all the energy it took for the mule, the cars, the brewing machine, etc.. and then puts in your body
I really wish I could “Like” this..
I hate to be “that guy” but I wanted to correct the spelling of Tesla’s name. It’s spelled the Serbo-Croatian way: Nikola, not the Romance language way: Nicola. I should know, my Serbo-Croatian son shares Mr. Tesla’s name.
You named you son Tesla?
Tesla is greatest man at his time, but Mr. K.R. Sridhar is not so!
Well, now. It’s at least 12 years later, and in our green-focussed world, ALL the auto companies are spending billions developing their best-cheapest-managable alternatives to gasoline. It’s worth billions in profits to them. Guaranteed: any would back any inventor or buy any alternative idea that works. The methods in this movie aren’t capable of being harnessed in any useful way. No conspiracy is at work, or necessary to explain their non-use.
you are a fool to think the auto industry is going hyper green, and that they need new ideas to be more efficient. its quite known that the auto industry holds many patents for hyper efficient transportation.
quite simply the fossil fuel infrastructure cannot die overnight, it would collapse the world economy, hence no conspiracy like you say. but they are absolutely hedging their bets for the right time to really go green (electric cars are not green when 40% of the countries electricity is from burning coal). the next planned fuel source is natural gas, with all its controversy over hyrdo frakking. they are in NO rush to become environmentally responsible, the primary motivation is profit.
that being said – i truly believe the small innovators – and they grow by the day here in the US – are going to be the winners – b/c those creative people are not going to wait for GM to get their environmental act together. and why should big companies rush for such a thing, they have no motivation – until smaller companies start putting vehicles on the road which compete. the smaller cars from europe are one indication.
but this goes far beyond what kind of cars we drive. much more will change (in my opinion) as we realize that non-localized economies are what’s hurting us most. then there is much less of a reason to have a car. in the words of the first poster (my kol) – he’s hit the nail on the head – why are we spending so much energy to move all these goods around? take a step back from the energy efficiency debate and look at the WHY we are using so much of it in the first place
A petition has been started on Change.org for the US Government to release electrogravitics to the public.
http://www.change.org/petitions/us-military-release-the-technology-of-electrogravitics
Why This Is Important
My early childhood was defined by My father’s excitement for His work in electrogravitics, then (1950′s) being worked on openly by all major aerospace companies. My father, a CalTech graduate and one of the top electrical engineers at one of these companies, would tell Me about the successes of His experiements (gravity control and overunity (free energy)), and tell Me what the world I would grow up in would look like.
Cars would fly, cities would float, and We would have all the energy We could use.
Then, one night He came home from work late and woke Me up to tell Me We couldn’t talk about the flying cars, the floating cities, the free energy anymore. “They want it secret for now.”
Since My childhood, I have studied economics, coming to the conclusion (later confirmed by Jeremy Rifkin in His book, Entropy) that all money represented was meaningful energy expended. One can grasp this most easily by considering the first hunter, fisherperson, gatherer, farmer, miner. The stuff They gained/used was free: critters, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seed, sun, soil, rain, ores. It was the meaningful energy expended that gave “value” to the stuff: the killing, fishing, picking, tilling, weeding, harvesting, mining, transporting.
Add abundantly what money represents – energy – and the need for money (and the control of others it affords) in all its forms (barter, trade, work exchange, coin, bills, electronic funds…) will dissipate and what is left is free.
Add robots to do all the necessary jobs no One wants to do to free energy, and Humans will be freed to follow Their bliss – within the three Laws:
Do not willfully hurt or kill another Being
Do not willfully take or damage another Being’s property
Do not willfully defraud another Being
(A Being (cap the “B”) is sentient, sapient; animals are beings)
Waste would be virtually eliminated: supermarkets presently throw out hundreds of thousands of tons of food a month! Distributing by need and not profit will end this waste. Products would be made to last instead of being designed to break so as to ensure future sales. Theft-protecting packaging would be unnecessary. And so on.
Organic farming would be prized and GMO (genetically modified organisms) would be eliminated.
Motive for war will be virtually eliminated. With no profit motive for war suppliers and “infrastructure rebuilders,” wars will not be instigated to ensure profits.
Poverty will not exist.
Hunger will be eliminated.
Education (at all levels) will be free for all.
Replace the work “ethic” (a slave’s ethic: enrich the rich with Your Human energy) with a Betterment Ethic and the Humans who better things will be paid in appreciation, status, name-recognition and Self-satisfaction, the new “coin.”
Create a central website where problems can be brought up locally and People can “vote” to bump a problem up, down, show apathy by not voting, and chime in with solutions (which can be cheered and booed). Issues will drop off after the original poster indicates that the problem has been resolved or withdrawn, or there has been no activity after, say, six months (that is not set in stone). Social responsibility will be defined as spending 15 minutes a day examining issues on this site.
Also, issues with some set number of bumps up will be considered issues that need a wider awareness and go to regional sections. From there, continental, perhaps, and then global, as more are needed to be involved in solving the problem. Problems will beget the awareness to solve them.
Without money as a motive, problems will be solved more creatively, directly, harmoniously, and within the three Laws.
Leaders of the moment will emerge from this to solve problems as they arise.
Open-source all public works programming. This allows for many to make suggestions for betterment, and ensures that no one will create outside the three Laws. It also eliminates “back doors,” and other surreptitious software segments that bog down the clean functioning of the program. Without money as a motive, programmers will be proud to offer Their work for scrutinization and use, openly and freely. Status will be gained for creating the best programs.
Though this will not create a utopia, it will be vastly better than what We now have, in this scarcity-defined system, on this planet.
just to point out the obvious… the same reason i’m sure it was shelved was the same reason JP Morgan stopped working with Tesla: there was no profiting in free energy – no way to ‘regulate’ it.
we live in the age of empire. but this country, with all its struggles – I believe, holds the keys to that vision. Its buried deep beneath the massive pile of lobbyist money seething through both houses. when (if) enough people start paying attention, this will change. forget about conspiracies – this is the biggest fear of any powerful interest – public opinion. that’s why i’m glad to live in a democracy. hopefully this will be the century when Tesla’s work comes to light
My Grandfather told me a story my while life about how in the early 40′s his older brother has something inside a shoebox that he lifted an anvil up with and moved across the room. My Grandfather was probably 17 and getting ready to go to war and made a comment about whiping out those Nazis with something like that. His brother said he didn’t want to be responsible for killing anyone and never told him how he did it. He died in the 50′s, so I never met him. He said it had something to do with magnetism and the Earth’s magnetic field, but never could figure out how his brother did it. My Grandfather swore that it was a true story.
Yes, money, a fiction – people – reality-.
Money is just a neat way to control people, as you all easily can see how those who move in the circles of money always get it, and those who don’t….don’t!
Then you make it a crime to have money – that is why the IRSS thugs , and the FBI go after people who ‘launder’ money – tax evasion etc.
What a joke!!
As for the ‘real’ tax laws concerning the average wage-earner – most of us do not legally owe any tax! A whole scheme would fall, all the tax preparers etc.
Ahhh, wouldn’t that be a shame?
@Amaterasu, this can all be summed up with one scripture:
1 Timothy 6:10
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
To reinforce that: Acts 8:20 “But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.” (be mindful that Peter is the proverbial angel at the gates of heaven that is commonly depicted.
There was posted on youtube an electromagnetic generator, can power a house for 100 years. just search for “electromagnetic generator” on youtube. once you start one of these there is no reason for it to stop, or cost anything.
@Jeff, There is indeed a conspiracy, since it is obvious that practical solutions exist and works, and has been known about for a long time. If an electromagnetic generator can power a house, surely it can power a car, so could water as a matter of fact (with a tremendous amount of energy as well).
Let’s just keep seeking solutions to maintain status quo, for a problem that is largely solved already. This is one way modern medicine got corrupted, more money in researching cures than delivering them. So we have found 900 ways to treat a problem, but no way to be done with it.
But, everyone is told not to see it, so they don’t. (justified by the “I got bills to pay routine”) although the bills wouldn’t be the same if we just got wise. To say otherwise is just willful ignorance, and supportive of this primitive society that canibalizes the lives and wellbeing of others for financial gain. (Its the matrix in 3d – your life = the cocoons that society sucks energy from, not energy sources).
All the research into energy has to do with figuring out how to charge people money for something that is more easily delivered for free. Ice to eskimoes, sand to arabs (this actually happens look it up), oh and of course, selling electricity to the so-called “civilized world.” Makes us look primitive and silly now… and for the future!
ok, i’m sorry to ‘spam’ this thread so much, but this is a topic i’m very passionate about.
i’d like to just say one more (hopeful) thing:
Our global society is VERY far out of sync with our knowledge, both scientific and spiritual. The more that one catches up with the other, the more (in my opinion) the will of the populace begins to replace the will of a very small amount of people who are holding onto very outdated ideologies. There is no struggle here, no conflict, its just a natural happening. its called evolution.
peace.