I remember back in the late eighties or early
nineties, that a TV news show, Prime Time Live, had advertised a story for the
next Thursday night about a new invention.
An amateur researcher, a president of a semi-large manufacturing
company, had found that when he added a small electrical current to jars of
water of a certain size filled with water and metal plated glass beads of a
certain size and composition, then the water would break into a rolling boil. The steam energy from the boiling water could
be sent through a dynamo and create hundreds of times more energy than the small
current it had taken to precipitate the reaction. It was effectively ‘free energy’, the heart
of a perpetual motion machine. The
Researcher had packaged up his Experiment and sent five full sets to the best
Universities in America in order to verify his findings. The advertisements for the show ran for a
day, and then they were pulled, and it was like nothing had ever happened.
It was probably before the Internet really took
off. The incident was therefore
relatively more easily delete-able from the Media Record. There is really no hint of it today, except
that a few people like myself remember that they saw an intriguing preview on
TV.
Why the clamp down?
Well, back then, and probably now as well, the American Dollar and the
entire World Economy hinged on the price and availability of Oil. Maintaining or Obstructing the international
flows of oil was a way of keeping a kind of Control on all of the World
Economies and Governments. Also, the
Cost of Oil was a large factor in the Price of almost everything else. If there were suddenly Free Energy, well,
Prices would have collapsed. Economies
previously hampered only by the costs and limitations involved in procuring
Oil, such as Japan, China and India, well, their growth would suddenly be
limitless, given the amount of Labor they could move into the Factories. But given the inevitable Currency Collapses
in the West, and the devaluation of anything denominated or pegged to the
Dollar – a currency which is de facto supported by the Price of Oil, these huge
Asian Producers would no longer have Foreign Markets to export to, but since
they no longer needed Hard Foreign Currencies in order to pay their Energy
Bills, well, they could produce Goods entirely for their own consumption,
become Affluent in their own Terms, and largely ignore the West, that is, the American
Empire.
So the American think tanks that had probably been summoned
together overnight for some emergency meeting, when Prime Time Live was about
to run their story, quickly concluded that Free Energy would be too Globally
destabilizing, and for “National Security” reasons, the Invention would have to
be intercepted, shut down, and its memory deleted from the National
Consciousness. I would guess the World
Media Markets never even heard a peep.
Now it is about 20 years later. We are in a different position now. We have Global Warming. We are witnessing an economic phenomena they
call ‘peak oil’, that is, everybody in the ‘know’ knows that all the big finds
in Oil have already been found, that the large ‘gushers’ are well off their
first blush and now pipes have to be run many times further down to get just a fraction
of what once came from merely punching a hole in the surface, that is, the
World is fast approaching the point where we will all simply run out of gas.
Yes, Free Energy would still be Globally Destabilizing,
but now we are contemplating Complete Ruin from almost every other corner
also. At least the Destabilization that
would come from having Free Energy could possibly come with an eventual happy
ending. Yes, prices would drop, but then
afterward, everything would be that much cheaper.
And what could we do with Free Energy? First we could tackle the Global Climate
Change Thing. No, I think it is already too
late to reverse what will be the almost certain consequences that will follow
from having the Green House Gases in our Atmosphere which are already there –
the Ice Caps melting from the Poles and the Sea Level rising, and all the World
Wide droughts and such. But with Free
Energy we could finally afford to implement Engineering Solutions. We could use vast Engineering Projects to
basically adapt the World to meet the Challenges of Climate Change. First, we could begin to desalinate Sea Water
on a gigantic scale and then pump it Inland – in America, the Euro-Asian Steppe,
Mongolia and China, India, Africa, and Australia. We
would do this for two reasons – one, to irrigate new planted forests in view of
creating vast new Rain Forests, and, secondly, simply to get all that extra water out of the
Oceans and put it in new inland lakes, dug deep to hold a great deal of water and
made broad to add to evaporation which will give us even more rain to support
the new Rain Forests. Of course these
new huge Rain Forest would draw Carbon out of the Atmosphere and turn it into
all that Wood out of which trees are constructed. It might take a Century, but the World’s Climate
could be ‘Re-Normalized’.
Also, with Free Energy, we could begin to build the
necessary Sea Walls, if projections indicate that it would be impossible to
move ‘that much’ water inland. We could also dredge the Oceans themselves,
making them deeper. Heck, with Free
Energy we could build Ice Machines at the Poles and simple stock pile Ice Cubes where there used
to have been sheet ice. Yes, with Free
Energy we could successful meet and survive an encounter with all the
consequences of Global Climate Change.
As it is now, I am not too sure.
With Free Energy, we could really kind of Re-Build
the World.
But, I wonder how those Metal Plated Glass Bead Contraptions
worked. I thought about it. Ordinarily when you run current into water,
you get electrolysis, that is, the water, that is, the Hydrogen and Oxygen
Molecule that we call water, separate into hydrogen and oxygen atoms which bubble up to the surface. I was thinking that perhaps the Metal Plated
Glass Beads somehow interrupt or change the Electrolysis Process somehow
recombining the Hydrogen and Oxygen components, but leaving a great amount of
Energy behind in the process, which boils the water.
It is probably would not be too difficult to
reproduce the same results, even for small nations with enough assets to
reproduce the kind of Metal Plated Glass Beads that were apparently being made
for some kind of industrial purpose back in America some 20 years ago. Maybe they only need an Industrial Catalogue
and could simply have every conceivable kind of Metal Plated Glass Bead FEDEX’d
to them. The Man who first discovered
this process, while being without a doubt very smart, was no nuclear physicist –
he probably had a hunch. My guess is
that he took an order for a new size of plated glass bead, and you know that a
lot of plating is done using vats of liquid plating agent and electrical
current. Well, I am guessing that this
particular vat inexplicably boiled over, and that at first he blamed the
workers, but that some very experienced worker was able to convince him that
all procedures were followed and that there was absolutely no negligence – that
the vat simply kind of exploded all by itself.
So he was intrigued by it all and decided to play around with the
phenomena until he got it down to its simplest terms – a certain kind of a
metal plated glass bead in a jar of plain water. He was probably killed for his bother. This guy is probably the Father of the Next
Great Era of Human Development, and nobody even knows what his name was. Thank you America.
Anyway, now that we have the Internet, I am throwing
this idea up into the Air, and we will see if any developing economy, or even a
Non-American Developed Economy sees it as an opportunity and takes some action.
It would be the Greatest Invention since the Wheel
or the Conquest of Fire. It would
revolutionize Culture and Economics to such an extent that, well, I could see
them starting a New Dating system. We
would have Year One of the Free Energy
Era.
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