The electric grid created a certain technological trajectory. Once the grid was up, and houses were wired, it was ‘easier’ to use electricity to make power than other fuels or sources.
Over the past several years my husband and I set up and lived in an off-grid house that uses alternative systems. Nothing exotic like earth batteries, but the house does have an air-powered deep water well. The process of setting these systems up taught us to think more clearly about when electricity is the most efficient source of power (in terms of energy loss) and when it is not.
For instance, a computer is a device formed by electricity. And that is because a computer - all electronics - are part of the electricity technology trajectory. Their form is shaped by the energy source.
What would computing and communications look like with a different primary energy source?
The conspiracy goes like this: dozens of inventors over the years have created Free Energy systems, and the plutocracy/ oligarchy/ global elite has squashed them. This was done in order to maintain the money and power gained by controlling oil or finite natural resources. If these free energy systems were allowed to flourish, we’d have perfect peace and prosperity world-wide.
It’s an appealing narrative. I was reminded of this by reading a post on Welcome to Absurdistan, which has a brief list of the deaths and challenges of independent researchers of the past century. Following that, we watched the movie The Lost Century, which strongly promotes the above described conspiracy.
I’ve been reading about this topic for about five years now. Below is my simplistic summary of how these free energy systems are described.
The dearth of how-to data is perplexing. Because if some farmer in 1902 was able to power his farm from a coil of wire buried in the earth, it seems pretty reasonable that I should be able to do so as well. That’s not tricky tech to build in a world where I have more computing power in my pocket, and the ability to fabricate most any type of component upon demand. I just need a diagram.
The Free Energy Hypothesis is:
Most of our universe is composed of substance that is non-material. If you can get matter to phase shift in or out of the non-material, there will be an enormous quantity of energy produced.
The material states are: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Plasma is the closest to the non-material. It is found in lightning.
A phase shift between water and steam increases the volume of the material 1700x. One gallon of water creates 1700 gallons of steam at standard pressure and temperature. A device to capture that change in volume is a steam engine. Steam engines create kinetic energy. Kinetic energy can be turned into electricity, but it would be more “efficient” to use it directly.
So, the assumption is that if you can design a means to phase shift between plasma and the non-material (what do we call this? Etheric? Dark Matter?) - or better yet, vice versa, then the source of the energy will be limitless, and will present as an over-unity machine (a device that makes more energy than it consumes.)
What do we call the non-material source?
Tesla and Thomas Henry Moray called this source Radiant Energy. I guess people are also calling it Zero Point Energy.
Wilhelm Reich was working with an environmental energy source that he called orgone. His son remembers seeing it captured as blue light in a vacuum tube. (A Book of Dreams, Peter Reich)
More on what people call the stuff in future posts.
What sort of devices are described?
The commonalities are:
Vacuum tubes or components (Vacuum state seems to be necessary for making the phase shift - note, Keely )
No moving parts (Reich’s boxes were insulator/conductor layers)
Resonance (Keely, Moray, Tesla)
Tuning (Most of the inventors seem to describe the need to tune devices to the location)
Unusual Materials (Moray was using a material he picked up from a hillside Sweden that he was unable to identify)
More posts to come.