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Why are there so many fraudulent and unsubstantiated claims in FE---far more than any other sector? Think about it--has anyone made a fortune selling fake OU devices? It's practically become a fad--YouTube has half a million FE videos. And it's no longer professors who are dismissing FE claims, there are now websites dedicated to debunking them including this one (Farmhand seems to be this site's BS detector).
But is FE about to restore its reputation in the public imagination as it goes mainstream? In a surprising move, Sterling Allan who's been reporting on 'exotic energy' for over a decade has just placed Steorn and Andrea Rossi---subjects of intense ridicule in the past--on his 'Top 5 (closest-to-market) List'. There are already a handful of FE devices commercially available now and I'm sure, unlike Magnacoaster's Vorktex, they wouldn't be shipping if they didn't perform. My guess is that once the public sees these devices in operation, reducing energy costs, the technology will go viral. In the end, it's about money.
Governments under huge debt burdens can no longer afford to be in the power generating business, particularly nuclear--and the ROI for wind and solar only increases that debt burden while adding little to the grid. They may have no choice but to actively encourage distributed FE generation as they decommission aging nuclear power stations and scale back thermal. Heavily dependent on energy imports, Japan may become the first FE economy, having already de-nuked after its devastating tsunami. And China, even more dependent on imported energy, will want its millions of engineers to be on the forefront of such technology, just as they currently are with solar.
And what about the oil-igarchs? Have they been secretly funding some of the many fraudulent FE claims or naysayers on sites such as this and threatening university funding if profs endorse such 'pseudo' science?
Even Wikipedia seems under such control, but to their credit, they make it apparent. 'Free energy', for example redirects to Perpetual Motion Devices but many FE devices have no moving parts. Incidentally, following up on the skepticism on Thane Heins' Wikipedia page is what got me so intrigued by FE. Such skepticism by so-called engineers seemed amateurish at best--it neither denied, disproved, nor adequately explained Hein's apparent results.
Are recent 'advances' in fracking merely a pre-emptive move by the oil industry as they increasingly come under fire? Are they hoping the public will forgive and forget their oil wars, continual pump price-gouging, and enviro-threat now that America has abundant reserves of easy and cheap oil?
Are hybrid EVs a compromise on their part? Zeitgeist Movement founder Peter Joseph claims FE tech already exists to produce virtually unlimited-range EVs (electric vehicles) and some say Henry Ford initially intended to mass produce EVs, not ICEs (internal combustion engines). No doubt, part of Europe's push into green energy is the desire to reduce its Russian energy dependency. Take a look at where Siemens is with EVs. By 2020, ICE production will go the way of the CRT production.
And what about the suppression claim from inventors themselves that 'the world's not ready to responsibly handle such forms of power yet'? Couldn't the same be said for every technology since the flint knife?
I'm with Sterling Allan, Jeremy Rifkin and others on this. We're about to enter a new energy paradigm and it could happen faster than anyone could imagine thanks to the www.
But is FE about to restore its reputation in the public imagination as it goes mainstream? In a surprising move, Sterling Allan who's been reporting on 'exotic energy' for over a decade has just placed Steorn and Andrea Rossi---subjects of intense ridicule in the past--on his 'Top 5 (closest-to-market) List'. There are already a handful of FE devices commercially available now and I'm sure, unlike Magnacoaster's Vorktex, they wouldn't be shipping if they didn't perform. My guess is that once the public sees these devices in operation, reducing energy costs, the technology will go viral. In the end, it's about money.
Governments under huge debt burdens can no longer afford to be in the power generating business, particularly nuclear--and the ROI for wind and solar only increases that debt burden while adding little to the grid. They may have no choice but to actively encourage distributed FE generation as they decommission aging nuclear power stations and scale back thermal. Heavily dependent on energy imports, Japan may become the first FE economy, having already de-nuked after its devastating tsunami. And China, even more dependent on imported energy, will want its millions of engineers to be on the forefront of such technology, just as they currently are with solar.
And what about the oil-igarchs? Have they been secretly funding some of the many fraudulent FE claims or naysayers on sites such as this and threatening university funding if profs endorse such 'pseudo' science?
Even Wikipedia seems under such control, but to their credit, they make it apparent. 'Free energy', for example redirects to Perpetual Motion Devices but many FE devices have no moving parts. Incidentally, following up on the skepticism on Thane Heins' Wikipedia page is what got me so intrigued by FE. Such skepticism by so-called engineers seemed amateurish at best--it neither denied, disproved, nor adequately explained Hein's apparent results.
Are recent 'advances' in fracking merely a pre-emptive move by the oil industry as they increasingly come under fire? Are they hoping the public will forgive and forget their oil wars, continual pump price-gouging, and enviro-threat now that America has abundant reserves of easy and cheap oil?
Are hybrid EVs a compromise on their part? Zeitgeist Movement founder Peter Joseph claims FE tech already exists to produce virtually unlimited-range EVs (electric vehicles) and some say Henry Ford initially intended to mass produce EVs, not ICEs (internal combustion engines). No doubt, part of Europe's push into green energy is the desire to reduce its Russian energy dependency. Take a look at where Siemens is with EVs. By 2020, ICE production will go the way of the CRT production.
And what about the suppression claim from inventors themselves that 'the world's not ready to responsibly handle such forms of power yet'? Couldn't the same be said for every technology since the flint knife?
I'm with Sterling Allan, Jeremy Rifkin and others on this. We're about to enter a new energy paradigm and it could happen faster than anyone could imagine thanks to the www.
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