The Unnecessary Energy Crisis:
How to Solve It Quickly
T. E. Bearden, LTC, U.S. Army (Retired)
CEO, CTEC Inc.
Director, Association of Distinguished American Scientists (ADAS)
Fellow Emeritus, Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study
(AIAS)
June 12, 2000
Introduction
The World Energy Crisis
The world energy crisis is now driving the economies of the world
nations. Presently there is an escalating worldwide demand for
electrical power and transportation, much of which depends on fossil
fuels and particularly oil or oil products. The resulting demand for
oil is expected to increase year by year. Recent sharp rises in some
U.S. metropolitan areas included gasoline at more than $2.50 per
gallon already.
At the same time, it appears that world availability of oil may have
peaked in early 2000, if one factors in the suspected Arab inflation
of reported oil reserves. From now on it appears that oil availability
will steadily decline, slowly at first but then at an increasing pace.
Additives to aid clean burning of gasoline are also required in
several U.S. metropolitan areas, increasing costs and refinery storage
and handling.
The increasing disparity between demand and supply - steadily
increasing demand for electricity using oil products versus decreasing
world supplies of oil, with other factors such as required fuel
additives - produces a dramatically increasing cost of oil and oil
products. Further, newer supplies of oil must be taken by increasingly
more expensive production means.
At the same time, the burgeoning populaces of the major petroleum
producers - and their increasing economic needs -press hard for an
increasing inflation of oil prices in order to fund the economic
benefits.
As an example, it appears that Saudi moderation of OPEC is vanishing
or has already vanished. The increasing demands of the expanding Saudi
Royal Family group and the guaranteed benefits to the expanding
populace have overtaken and surpassed the present Saudi financial
resources unless the price of OPEC oil is raised commensurately.
The Federal Reserve contributes directly to the economic problem in
the U.S., since it interprets the escalating prices of goods and
services (due to escalating energy prices) as evidence of inflation,
and will continue to raise interest rates to damp the economy, further
adding to suppression factors weighing on business, employment, and
trade. The Fed has already increased interest rates six times in one
year as of this date.
International Trade Factors
Under NAFTA, GATT, and other trade agreements, the transfer of
production and manufacturing to the emerging nations is also
increasing and trade barriers are lowered. Some 160 emerging nations
are essentially exempt from environmental pollution controls, under
the Kyoto accords. In these nations, electrical power needs and
transport needs are increasing, and will continue to increase, due to
the increasing production and movement of goods and the building of
factories and assembly plants. Very limited pollution controls - if
any - will be applied to the new electrical plants and transport
capabilities to be built in those exempted nations.
The transfer of manufacturing and production to many of these nations
is a transfer to essentially "slave labor" nations where workers have
few if any benefits, are paid extremely low wages, work long hours,
and have no unions or bargaining rights. The local politicians can
usually be "bought" very cheaply so that there are also no effective
government controls. This has set up a de facto return to the
feudalistic capitalism of an earlier era when enormous profits could
be and were extracted from the backs of impoverished workers, and
government checks and balances were nil.
The personal view of this author is that NAFTA, GATT, and Kyoto were
set in place for this very purpose. As the transfer builds for the
next 50 years, it involves the extraction of perhaps $2 trillion per
year, from the backs of these impoverished laborers. It would not
appear accidental that Kyoto removed the costly pollution control
measures from this giant economic buildup that would otherwise have
been required. The end result will be increased pollution of the
biosphere on a grand scale.
Ironically, the Environmental Community itself was deceived into
supporting the Kyoto accords and helping achieve them, hoping to put
controls on biospheric pollution worldwide. In fact the Kyoto accords
will have exactly the opposite effect.
Resulting World Economic Collapse
Bluntly, we foresee these factors - and others { } not covered -
converging to a catastrophic collapse of the world economy in about
eight years. As the collapse of the Western economies nears, one may
expect catastrophic stress on the 160 developing nations as the
developed nations are forced to dramatically curtail orders.
International Strategic Threat Aspects
History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. Prior
to the final economic collapse, the stress on nations will have
increased the intensity and number of their conflicts, to the point
where the arsenals of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) now possessed
by some 25 nations, are almost certain to be released. As an example,
suppose a starving North Korea { } launches nuclear weapons upon Japan
and South Korea, including U.S. forces there, in a spasmodic suicidal
response. Or suppose a desperate China - whose long range nuclear
missiles can reach the United States - attacks Taiwan. In addition to
immediate responses, the mutual treaties involved in such scenarios
will quickly draw other nations into the conflict, escalating it
significantly.
Strategic nuclear studies have shown for decades that, under such
extreme stress conditions, once a few nukes are launched, adversaries
and potential adversaries are then compelled to launch on perception
of preparations by one's adversary. The real legacy of the MAD concept
is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never discussed. Without
effective defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at all, is
to launch immediate full-bore pre-emptive strikes and try to take out
its perceived foes as rapidly and massively as possible.
As the studies showed, rapid escalation to full WMD exchange occurs,
with a great percent of the WMD arsenals being unleashed . The
resulting great Armageddon will destroy civilization as we know it,
and perhaps most of the biosphere, at least for many decades.
My personal estimate is that, beginning about 2007, on our present
energy course we will have reached an 80% probability of this "final
destruction of civilization itself" scenario occurring at any time,
with the probability slowly increasing as time passes. One may argue
about the timing, slide the dates a year or two, etc., but the basic
premise and general time frame holds. We face not only a world
economic crisis, but also a world destruction crisis.
So unless we dramatically and quickly solve the energy crisis -
rapidly replacing a substantial part of the "electrical power derived
from oil" by "electrical power freely derived from the vacuum" - we
are going to incur the final "Great Armageddon" the nations of the
world have been fearing for so long. I personally regard this as the
greatest strategic threat of all times - to the United States, the
Western World, all the rest of the nations of the world, and
civilization itself { } { }.
What Is Required to Solve the Problem
To avoid the impending collapse of the world economy and/or the
destruction of civilization and the biosphere, we must quickly replace
much of the "electrical energy from oil" heart of the crisis at great
speed, and simultaneously replace a significant part of the
"transportation using oil products" factor also.
The technical basis for that solution and part of the prototype
technology required, are now at hand. We discuss that solution in this
paper.
To finish the task in time, the Government must be galvanized into a
new Manhattan Project { } to rapidly complete the new system hardware
developments and deploy the technology worldwide at an immense pace.
Once the technology hardware solutions are ready for mass production,
even with a massive worldwide deployment effort some five years are
required to deploy the new systems sufficiently to contain the problem
of world economic collapse. This means that, by the end of 2003, those
hardware technology solutions must have been completed, and the
production replacement power systems must be ready to roll off the
assembly lines en masse.
The 2003 date appears to be the critical "point of no return" for the
survival of civilization as we have known it.
Reaching that point, say, in 2005 will not solve the crisis in time,
and the collapse of the world economy as well as the destruction of
civilization and the biosphere will still almost certainly occur, even
with the solutions in hand.
A review of the present scientific and technical energy efforts to
blunt these strategic threat curves, immediately shows that all the
efforts (and indeed the conventional scientific thinking) are far too
little and far too late. Even with a massive effort on all of the
"wish list" of conventional projects and directions, the results would
be totally insufficient to prevent the coming holocaust.
As one example, the entire hot fusion effort has a zero probability of
contributing anything of significance to the energy solution in the
time frame necessary. Neither will windmills, more dams, oil from tar
sands, biofuels, solar cells, fuel cells, methane from the ocean
bottom, ocean-wave-powered generators, more efficient hydrocarbon
combustion, etc. All of those projects are understandable and "nice",
but they have absolutely zero probability of solving the problem and
preventing the coming world economic collapse and Armageddon.
These conventional approaches are all "in the box" thinking, applied
to a completely "out of the box" problem unique in world history.
The conventional energy efforts and thinking are essentially "business
as usual but maybe hurry a little bit." They constitute a major part
of the problem contributing to the final Armageddon that is hurtling
toward us.
If we continue conventionally and with the received scientific view,
even with massively increased efforts and a Manhattan Project, we
almost certainly guarantee the destruction of civilization as we know
it, and much of the biosphere as well.
Bluntly, the only viable option is to develop systems which extract
energy directly from the vacuum and are therefore self-powering, like
a windmill in the wind { }. Fortunately, analogous open electrical
systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium with the active vacuum are
permitted by the laws of physics, electrodynamics { } and
thermodynamics { }. They are also permitted by Maxwell's equations,
prior to the arbitrary curtailment by Lorentz symmetrical regauging.
That little mathematical trick by Lorentz made the mathematics much
easier to solve (for the "subset" of the Maxwell-Heaviside systems
retained).
However, the bad news is that it also just arbitrarily discarded all
EM systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium (i.e., asymmetrical)
with respect to their vacuum energy exchange.
The good news is that we now know how to easily initiate continuous
and powerful "electromagnetic winds" from the vacuum at will. Once
initiated, each free EM energy wind flows continuously so long as the
simple initiator is not deliberately destroyed.
So we have already solved the first half of the energy crisis problem
{ } { }: We can produce the necessary "EM energy wind flow" in any
amount required, whenever and wherever we wish, for peanuts.
A tiny part of the far frontier of the scientific community is also
now pushing hard into catching and using this available EM energy from
the vacuum { }. However, they are completely unfunded and working
under extremely difficult conditions { }. In addition, there are more
than a dozen appropriate processes already available (some are
well-known in the hard literature), which can be developed to produce
the new types of electrical energy systems { }.
What Must Be Done Technically
We have about two and a half years in which to develop several
different types of systems for the several required major applications
- particularly the following:
(1) self-powering open electrical power systems extracting their
electrical energy directly from the active vacuum and readily scalable
in size and output,
(2) burner systems { } to replace the present "heater" elements of
conventional power plants, increasing the coefficient of performance
(COP) { } of those altered systems to COP>1.0, and perhaps to COP =
4.0,
(3) specialized self-powering engines to replace small combustion
engines { },
(4) self-regenerating, battery-powered systems enabling practical
electric automobiles, based on the Bedini { } process,
(5) Kawai COP>1.0 magnetic motors { }with clamped feedback, powering
themselves and their loads,
(6) magnetic Wankel engines { } with small self-powering batteries,
which enable a very practical self-powering automotive engine unit for
direct replacement in present automobiles,
(7) permanent magnet motors such as the Johnson { } approach using
self-initiated exchange force pulses { } in nonlinear magnetic
materials to provide a nonconservative field, hence a self-powering
unit,
(8) iterative retroreflective EM energy flow systems which intercept
and utilize significant amounts of the enormous Heaviside dark energy
{ } which surrounds every electrical circuit but is presently ignored,
(9) Iterative phase conjugate retroreflective systems which passively
recover and reorder the scattered energy dissipated from the load, and
reuse the energy again and again { },
(10) Shoulders' charge cluster devices { } which yield COP>1.0 by
actual measurement,
(11) self-exciting systems using intensely scattering optically active
media and iterative asymmetrical self-regauging { }{ }{ } {56},
(12) true negative resistors such as the Kron { } and Chung { }
negative resistors, the original point-contact transistor { } which
can be made into a negative resistor, and the Fogal negative resistor
semiconductor, and
(13) overunity transformers using a negative resistor bypass across
the secondary, reducing the back-coupling from secondary to primary
and thus lowering the dissipation of energy in the primary { }.
What Must Be Done for Management and Organization
To meet the critical 2003 "point of no return" milestone, the work
must be accomplished under a declared National Emergency and a
Presidential Decision Directive.
The work must be amply funded, with authority - because of the extreme
emergency - to utilize any available patented processes and devices
capable of being developed and deployed in time, with accounting and
compensation of the inventors and owners separately.
As an example, two of the above mentioned devices - the Kawai engine
and the magnetic Wankel engine - can be quickly developed and produced
en masse. However, they have been seized by the Japanese Yakuza { } {
} { } and are being held off the world market. The two devices are
quite practical and can be developed and manufactured with great
rapidity. As an example, two models of the Kawai engine were tested by
Hitachi to exhibit COP = 1.4 and COP = 1.6 respectively. Use of these
two inventions, under U.S. Government auspices, will greatly
contribute to solving a significant portion of the transportation
power problem, at low risk for this part of the solution. Use of them
cannot be obtained by normal civil means, due to the involvement of
the Yakuza.
The technical part of the project to solve the energy crisis is doable
in the required time - but just barely, and only if we move at utmost
speed.
Thanks to more than 20 years work on unconventional solutions to the
problem, much of the required solution is already in hand, and the
project can go forward at top speed from the outset.
The remaining managing and organizing problem is to marshal the
necessary great new Manhattan Project as a U.S. government project
operating under highest national priority and ample funding. The
Project must be a separate Agency, operating directly under the
appropriate Department Secretary and reporting directly to the
President (through the Secretary) and to a designated Joint Committee
of the Senate and the House.
The selection of the managers and directors must be done with utmost
care, else they themselves will become the problem rather than the
solution. We strongly stress that here even the most highly qualified
managerial scientist may have to be disqualified because of his or her
own personal biases and dogmatic beliefs. Leaders and scientists are
required who will run with the COP>1.0 ball on a wide front.
The compelling authority to assign individual tasks to the National
Laboratories and other government agencies is required, but under no
circumstances can the project be placed under the control of the
national laboratories themselves. Those laboratories such as Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are far too committed to their
entrenched Big Science projects and the resulting bias against
electrical energy from the vacuum.
Assigning management of the project to them would be setting the foxes
to minding the hen house, and would guarantee failure. Those agencies
whose favored approaches are responsible for the present energy
crisis, cannot be expected to direct an effective solution to it that
is outside their managerial and scientific ansatz and totally against
their institutional and professional biases. If they are allowed to
direct the project, then implacable scientists who adamantly oppose
electrical energy from the vacuum from the getgo, will hamstring and
destroy the project from its inception.
Not only will they fiddle while Rome burns, but they will help burn
it.
Enormous EM Energy Flow Is Easily Extracted From the Active Vacuum
At any point and at any time, one can freely and inexpensively extract
enormous EM energy flows directly from the active vacuum itself.
There is not now and there never has been a problem in readily
obtaining as much electromagnetic energy flow from the vacuum as we
wish. Anywhere. Anytime. For peanuts.
Every electrical power system and circuit ever built already does
precisely that { }{ }. But almost all the vast EM energy flow that the
present flawed systems extract from the vacuum is unaccounted and
simply wasted. It is wasted by the conventional, seriously flawed
circuits and systems designed and built by our power system scientists
and engineers in accord with a terribly flawed 136-year old set of
electrodynamics concepts and foundations. Specifically, it is wasted
because Lorentz discarded it a century ago {36}, and since then
everyone has blindly followed Lorentz's lead.
Our electrical scientists and engineers have not yet even discovered
how a circuit is powered! They have no valid concept of where the
electrical energy flowing down the power line actually comes from.
They do not model the interaction that provides it { }, in their
theoretical models and equations. This vast scientific "conspiracy of
ignorance" is completely inexplicable, because the actual source of
the EM energy powering the external circuits has been known (and
rigorously proven) in particle physics for nearly half a century! But
it has not yet even been added into the fundamental electrical theory
used in designing and building power systems.
We have a scientific mindset problem of epic proportions, and
scientific negligence and electromagnetics dogma of epic proportions.
I sometimes refer to this as an unwitting "conspiracy of ignorance",
where I use the word "ignorance" technically as meaning "unaware". We
certainly do not intend the phrase to be pejorative.
So we do not have an energy problem per se. We have an unwitting
conspiracy of scientific ignorance problem.
Because of its bias, our electrical scientific community also strongly
resists updating the 136-year old electrodynamics foundations even
though much of it is known to be seriously flawed and even incorrect {
} { }. Indeed, organized science has always fiercely resisted strong
innovation. As Max Planck { } so eloquently put it,
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually
winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul
becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die
out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas
from the beginning."
Arthur C. Clarke { } expressed it succinctly for our more modern
scientific community, as follows:
"If they [quantum fluctuations of vacuum] can be [tapped], the impact
upon our civilization will be incalculable. Oil, coal, nuclear,
hydropower, would become obsolete - and so would many of our worries
about environmental pollution." "Don't sell your oil shares yet - but
don't be surprised if the world again witnesses the four stages of
response to any new and revolutionary development: 1. It's crazy! 2.
It may be possible -so what? 3. I said it was a good idea all along.
4. I thought of it first."
With respect to extracting and using EM energy from the vacuum, our
present scientific community is mostly in Clarke's phase 1, with a few
scientists in phase 2 who surmise that "it may perhaps be the science
of the next century."
We do not have a century remaining. We have two and a half years.
For nearly half a century (i) the active vacuum, (ii) the vacuum's
energetic interaction with every dipole, and (iii) the broken symmetry
of the dipole in that energetic interaction {44} have been known and
proven in particle physics. These proven COP>1.0 vacuum energy
mechanisms have not been incorporated into the electrodynamic theory
used to design and build electrical power and transportation systems.
We are still waiting for the "old scientific opponents" - adamantly
opposed to the very notion of electrical energy from the vacuum - to
"die off and get out of the way."
Hence our universities, the National Science Foundation, the National
Academy of Science, the National Laboratories, etc. have not taken
advantage of the enormous EM energy so universally available from the
active vacuum, and in fact universally and copiously extracted from
the vacuum by every EM system today - and wasted. Indeed, present
organized science will not fund and will not tolerate research which
would violate the presently decreed view of power systems and their
functioning.
So our present organized scientific community will strongly resist
funding of a vigorous program to gather all this proven, known physics
together and rapidly use it to change and update (modernize) the
terribly flawed EM theory and the design of electrical power systems.
Most scientists attempting to do this research have had to proceed on
their own. They have undergone vicious and continual ad hominem
attacks, lost research funds and tenure, been unable to get their
papers published, and in fact risked being destroyed by the scientific
community itself {12}.
The bottom line is this: Left to sweet reason, because of the depth of
its present bias the scientific community is totally incapable of
reacting to the problem in time to prevent the destruction of
civilization. If we wish to survive, government will have to directly
force the scientific community to do the job, over careers and "dead
bodies" (so to speak) if necessary.
But first the government itself must be motivated to do so.
That is a task that only the environmental community can do in the
extremely short time in which it must be accomplished. So it would
seem that the most urgent task of all, is to educate and wake up the
environmental community that it has been "had", and it has been "had"
since the beginning.
Understanding What Powers Electrical Circuits
Let us cut through the scientific errors in how electrical power
systems are presently viewed: Batteries and generators themselves do
not power circuits. They never have, and they never will. They
dissipate their available internal energy { } to do one thing and one
thing only: forcibly separate their own internal charges to form a
"source dipole" { }. Once the dipole has been formed, the dipole
directly extracts electromagnetic energy from the active vacuum { },
pouring the extracted EM energy out from the terminals of the battery
or generator.
Batteries and generators make a dipole, nothing else. All the fuel
every burned, the nuclear fuel rods ever consumed, and chemical energy
ever expended by batteries, did nothing but make dipoles. None of all
that destructive activity, of itself, ever added a single watt to the
power line.
Once made, the dipole then extracts EM energy from the seething
vacuum, and pours it out down the circuit and through all surrounding
space around the circuit {45}. A little bit of that energy flow
strikes the circuit and enters it by being deflected (diverged) into
the wires {46}. That tiny bit of intercepted energy flow that is
diverged into the circuit, then powers the circuit (its loads and
losses) {47}.
All the rest of that huge energy flow around the circuit, just roars
on off into deep space and is wasted.
The Dipole Extracts Enormous Energy from the Vacuum
The outflow of EM energy extracted from the vacuum by a small dipole
is enormous. It fills all space surrounding the attached external
circuit (e.g., surrounding the power lines attached to a power plant
generator) { }. In the attached circuits, the electrical charges on
the surfaces of the wires are struck by the mere edge of the violent
flow of EM energy passing along those surfaces. The resulting tiny
"intercepted" part { } of the EM energy flow is deflected into the
wires, very much like placing one's hand outside a moving automobile
and diverting some of the wind into the car. This deflected energy
that enters the wires is the Poynting component of the energy flow. It
is not the entire EM energy flow by any means, but only a very, very
tiny component of it { }.
Only that tiny bit of the energy flow that is actually diverged into
the wires, is used to power the circuit and the loads. All the rest of
the enormous energy flow that is present and available outside the
circuit, is just ignored and wasted.
A nominal 1-watt generator is actually one whose external circuit can
"catch" only 1 watt of its output. The generator's actual total output
- in the great flow which fills all space around the external circuit
and is not intercepted and used - is something on the order of 10
trillion watts!
Our Scientists and Engineers Design Dipole-Destroying Systems
Here is the most inane thing of all. Precisely half of the small
amount of energy that is actually caught by the circuit, is used to
destroy the dipole! That half of the intercepted energy does not power
the load, nor does it power losses in the external circuit. Instead,
it is used to directly scatter the dipole charges and destroy the
dipole.
Our scientists and engineers have given us the ubiquitous closed
current loop circuit { }, which destroys the dipole faster than it
powers the load. In short, the scientists and engineers design and
build only those electrical power systems that "continuously commit
suicide" by continuously destroying the source dipole that is
extracting the vacuum energy and emitting it out along the circuit to
power everything in the first place.
So now we have the real picture.
Every electrical load ever powered, and every load powered today, has
been and is powered by electromagnetic energy extracted directly from
the seething vacuum by the source dipole in the generator or battery.
But our scientists and engineers design and build electrical power
systems that only intercept and use a tiny fraction of the vast EM
energy flow available. They also only design and build systems that
destroy their source dipole faster than they power their loads.
If one does not destroy the dipole once it is made, it will continue
to freely extract copious EM energy flow from the vacuum,
indefinitely, pouring out a stupendous flow of EM energy.
As an example, some dipoles in the original matter formed in the Big
Bang at the beginning of the universe, have been steadily extracting
EM energy from the vacuum and pouring it out for about 15 billion
years.
The energy problem is not due to nonavailability of copious EM energy
flows at will, as much as one wishes, anywhere, anytime.
The energy problem is in (i) intercepting and utilizing more of the
vast energy flows made available by the common dipole, and (ii) doing
so without using the present inanely designed circuits. These circuits
use half their collected energy to destroy the dipole that is
extracting the energy flow from the vacuum in the first place!
Ignoring the Vacuum as the Source of Electrical Energy in All Circuits
In their conventional theoretical models, our present electrical power
system scientists and engineers do not even include the vacuum
interaction or the dipole's extraction of EM energy from the vacuum.
They simply ignore - and do not model - what is really powering every
electrical system they build.
Consequently, we reiterate that our electrical scientists have never
even discovered how an EM circuit is powered - even though it has been
discovered and known for nearly 50 years in particle physics.
All the hydrocarbons ever burned, all the water over all the dams ever
built, all the nuclear fuel rods ever expended in all the nuclear
power plants, added not a single watt to the power line.
Instead, all that expense, effort, and pollution and destruction of
the biosphere was and is necessary in order to keep adding internal
energy to the generator - so that it can keep continually rebuilding
its source dipole that is continually destroyed by the inane circuits
that the power system scientists and engineers keep designing and
building for us.
It takes as much energy input to the generator to restore the dipole,
as it took the circuit to destroy the dipole. Thus all the systems our
scientists and engineers design and build, require that we continually
input more energy to restore the dipole, than the circuit dissipates
in the load.
Our technical folks thus happily design and give us systems which can
and will only exhibit COP<1.0. - thus continuing to require that we
ourselves steadily provide more energy to the system to continually
rebuild its dipole, than the inane masochistic system uses to power
its load.
In short, we pay the power companies (and their scientists and
engineers) to deliberately engage in a giant wrestling match inside
their generators and lose.
Needless to say, that is not the way to run the railroad! One is
reminded of one of the classic comments by Churchill:
"Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick
themselves up and continue on as if nothing had happened."
Unfortunately, at present it seems that not very many energy system
scientists and engineers have "stumbled over the truth" as to what
really powers their systems, and how inanely they are really designing
them.
Electrical Energy Required from Hydrocarbon Burning Drives the Problem
The heart of the present environmental pollution problem is the
ever-increasing need for electrical energy obtained from burning of
hydrocarbon fuels and/or nuclear power stations.
The increasing production of electrical power to fill the rising
needs, increasingly pollutes the environment including the populace
itself (lungs, bodies, etc.). Almost every species on earth is
affected, and every year some species become extinct as a result.
Environmental pollution includes pollution of the soil, fresh and salt
water, and the atmosphere by a variety of waste products. Given global
warming, it also includes excess heat pollution in addition to
chemical and nuclear residues.
Under present procedures, the electrical energy problem is exacerbated
by decreasing available oil supplies, which are believed to have
peaked this year, with a projected decline from now on.
But really, the electrical energy problem is due to the scientific
community's adamant defense and use of electrical power system models
and theories that are 136 years old { } in their very foundations,
riddled with errors and non sequiturs, and seriously flawed.
The scientific community has not even recognized the problem, much
less the solution. In fact, it does not even intend to recognize the
problem, even though the basis for it has been known in particle
physics for nearly 50 years. As Bunge { } put it some decades ago:
"...it is not usually acknowledged that electrodynamics, both
classical and quantal, are in a sad state."
The scientific community has done little to correct that fundamental
problem since Bunge made his wry statement.
Let us put it very simply: The most modern theory today is modern
gauge field theory. In that theory, freedom of gauge is assumed from
the getgo. Applied to electrodynamics, this means - as all
electrodynamicists have assumed for the last century or longer - that
the potential energy of an EM system can be freely changed at will. In
other words, in theory it costs nothing at all to increase the EM
energy collected in a system; this is merely "changing the voltage",
which does not require power. In other words, we can "excite" the
system with excess energy (actually taken from the vacuum), at will.
For free. And the best science of the day agrees with that statement.
It also follows that we can freely change the excitation energy again,
at will. In short, we can dissipate that excess energy freely and at
will. Without cost.
Well, this means that we are free - by the laws of nature, physics,
thermodynamics, and gauge field theory - to dissipate that free excess
potential energy in an external load, thus doing "free work".
Since none of the systems our energy scientists and engineers build
for us are doing that, it follows a priori that the fault lies
entirely in their own system design and building. It does not lie in
any prohibition by nature or the laws of physics.
A priori, then, the present COP<1.0 performance of our electrical
power systems is a monstrosity and the direct fault of our scientists
and engineers. We cannot blame the laws of nature or the laws of
physics.
The present energy crisis then is due totally to that "conspiracy of
ignorance" we referred to, that is maintained by the scientific
community, and that has been maintained by it for more than 100 years.
This is the real situation that the environmentalists must become
aware of, if they are to see the correct path into which their
energies and efforts should be directed - to solve both the energy
crisis and the problem of gigantic pollution of the biosphere.
Outside Intervention Must Forcibly Move Energy Science Forward
Unless outside intervention occurs forcibly, the scientific
community's lock-up of research funds for "in the box" energy research
may result in the economic collapse of the Western World in perhaps as
little as eight years.
Let us examine the gist of the problem facing us.
Suppose we launch a crash program to develop, manufacture, deploy, and
employ the new "vacuum powered" systems. Once the new self-powering
systems are developed and ready to roll off the production lines en
masse, it will require a minimum of five years worldwide to
sufficiently alter the "electrical energy from oil" demand curve, so
that economic collapse can be averted. In turn, this means that the
new systems must be ready to roll off the manufacturing lines by the
end of 2003. While this is a very tight schedule, it can be done if we
move rapidly.
The necessary scientific corrections along the lines indicated in this
paper can be quickly applied to solve the electrical energy problem
permanently and economically, given a Manhattan type project under a
Presidential Decision Directive together with a Presidential
declaration of a National Energy Emergency.
In a paper { } to be published in Russia in July 2000, this researcher
has proposed some 15 viable methods for developing new "self-powering"
systems powering themselves and their loads with energy extracted from
the vacuum. Several of these systems can be developed very rapidly and
easily mass produced.
A second paper { } will be published in the same proceedings,
revealing the Bedini method for invoking a negative resistor inside a
storage battery. The negative resistor freely extracts vacuum energy
and adds it to both the battery-recharging function and the load
powering function.
In Bedini's negative resistor method, decoupling (dephasing) the ion
current inside the battery from the electron current between the outer
circuit and the external surfaces of the battery plates, allows the
battery to be charged (with increased charging energy) simultaneously
as the load is powered with increased current and voltage.
At my specific request, both papers were thoroughly reviewed by
qualified Russian scientists, and the premises passed with flying
colors.
A third paper { } gives the exact giant negentropy mechanism by which
the dipole extracts such enormous energy from the vacuum. We will
further explain that mechanism below.
Conventional Approaches: Too Little, Too Late
It appears that the Environmental Community itself has finally
realized that the present scientific approaches and research are
simply too little and too late. Further, the conventional approaches
are largely "in the box thinking" applied to an "out of the box
problem." We leave it to others such as Loder { } to succinctly
summarize the shortfalls of these present solutions. Loder, e.g.,
particularly and incisively explains how the problem with automobiles
breaks down.
In fact, no one single COP>1.0 approach will be all-sufficing. Several
solutions, each for a different application, must be developed and
deployed simultaneously.
As an example, it is possible to create certain dipolar phenomena in
plasmas produced in special burners, such that the dipoles extract
substantial excess EM energy from the vacuum and output it as ordinary
excess heat well beyond what the combustion process alone will yield.
Given a Manhattan type project, the inventor of that process (with
already working models and rigorous measurements) could rapidly be
augmented to develop a series of replacement burners (heaters) for
ordinary electrical power plants to use in heating the water to make
the steam for the steam turbines turning the shafts of the generators.
The entire remainder of the power system, grid, etc. could be left
intact. Some fuel would still be burned, but far less would be
consumed in order to furnish the same required heat output.
In short, a rather dramatic reduction in power plant hydrocarbon
combustion could be achieved - in the present electrical power plants
with minimum modification, and in the necessary time frame - while
maintaining or even increasing the electrical energy output of the
power systems. We believe the inventor would fully participate in a
government-backed Manhattan type energy program where a National
Emergency has been declared, given a U.S. government guarantee that
his process, equipment, and inventions will not be confiscated. { }
Another process capable of quick development and enormous application
is the development of point contact transistors as true negative
resistors {30}.
Two other processes that can be developed for massive production in
less than two years are (i) the Kawai process {18}, and (ii) the
magnetic Wankel process {19}. In addition, the Johnson {20} process
can be developed and readied for manufacture in the same time frame,
given a full-bore sophisticated laboratory team.
There are other processes { } {51} {52}which can also be developed
rapidly, to provide major contributions in solving their parts of the
present "electrical energy from hydrocarbon combustion" problem.
Giant Negentropy and a Great New Symmetry Principle
We now summarize some recent technical discoveries by the present
author that bear directly upon the problem of extracting and using
copious EM energy flows from the vacuum.
Any dipole has a scalar potential between its ends, as is well-known.
Extending earlier work by Stoney { }, in 1903 Whittaker { } showed
that the scalar potential decomposes into - and identically is - a
harmonic set of bidirectional longitudinal EM wavepairs. Each wavepair
is comprised of a longitudinal EM wave (LEMW) and its phase conjugate
LEMW replica. Hence the formation of the dipole actually initiates the
ongoing production of a harmonic set of such biwaves in 4-space { }.
We separate the Whittaker waves into two sets: (i) the convergent
phase conjugate set, in the imaginary plane, and (ii) the divergent
real wave set, in 3-space. In 4-space, the 4th dimension may be taken
as -ict. The only variable in -ict is t. Hence the phase conjugate
waveset in the scalar potential's decomposition is a set of harmonic
EM waves converging upon the dipole in the time dimension, as a
time-reversed EM energy flow structure inside the structure of time {
}. Or, one can just think of the waveset as converging upon the dipole
in the imaginary plane { } - a concept similar to the notion of
"reactive power" in electrical engineering.
The divergent real EM waveset in the scalar potential's decomposition
is then a harmonic set of EM waves radiating out from the dipole in
all directions at the speed of light. As can be seen, there is perfect
4-symmetry in the resulting EM energy flow, but there is broken
3-symmetry since there is no observable 3-flow EM energy input to the
dipole.
Our professors have taught us that output energy flow in 3-space from
a source or transducer, must be accompanied by an input energy flow in
3-space. That is not true. It must be accompanied by an input energy
flow, period. That input can be an energy flow in the 4th dimension,
time - or we can consider it as an inflow in the imaginary plane. The
flow of energy must be conserved, not the dimensions in which the flow
exists. There is no requirement by nature that the inflow of energy be
in the same dimension as the outflow of EM energy.
Indeed, nature prefers to do it the other way! Once one unties
nature's foot from the usually enforced extra condition of 3-space
energy flow conservation, nature joyfully and immediately sets up a
giant 4-flow conservation, ongoing, where enormous EM energy is
inflowing from the imaginary plane into the source charge or dipole,
and is flowing out of the source charge or dipole in 3-space, at the
speed of light, and in all directions.
In other words, nature then gladly gives us as much EM energy flow as
we need, indefinitely - just for paying a tiny little bit initially to
"make the little dipole." After that, we never have to pay anything
again, and nature will happily keep on pouring out that 3-flow of EM
energy for us. This is the giant negentropy mechanism I uncovered,
performed in the simplest way imaginable: just make an ordinary little
dipole.
We may interpret the giant negentropy mechanism in electrical
engineering terms { }. The EM energy flow in the imaginary plane is
just incoming "pure reactive power" in the language of electrical
engineering. The outgoing EM energy flow in the real plane (3-space)
is "real power" in the same language. So the dipole is continuously
receiving a steady stream of reactive power, transducing it into real
power, and outputting it as a continuous outflow of real EM power.
Further, there is perfect 1:1 correlation between the convergent
waveset in the imaginary plane and the divergent waveset in 3-space.
This perfect correlation between the two sets of waves and their
dynamics represents a deterministic re-ordering of a fraction of the
4-vacuum energy - a re-ordering initiated by the formation of the
dipole, and spreading radially outward at the speed of light.
This clearly shows that (i) we can initiate reordering of a usable
fraction of the vacuum's energy at any place, anytime, easily and
cheaply (we need only to form a simple dipole), and (ii) the process
continues indefinitely, so long as the dipole exists, without the
operator inputting a single additional watt of power.
And the greatest benefit of all is that, so long as the dipole exists
and this re-ordering continues, a copious flow of observable, usable
EM energy pours from the dipole in all directions at the speed of
light.
This is the full solution to the first half of the energy crisis,
totally solved once and for all.
Ansatz of the Major Players
Scientific Community
For the most part, the organized scientific community varies from
highly resistant to openly hostile toward any mention of extracting
copious EM energy from the active vacuum. The "Big Nuclear" part of
the community is particularly adamant in this respect, as witness its
ferocious onslaught on the fledgling and struggling cold fusion
researchers - a ferocity of scientific attack seldom seen in the
annals of science { } { }.
The scientific community also largely suppresses { } or severely
badgers scientists attempting to advance electrodynamics to a more
modern model, suitable to the needs of the 21st century and the
desperate need for cheap, clean, nonpolluting electrical power
worldwide {12}. The community still applies classical equilibrium
thermodynamics to the electrical part of all its electrical power
systems, even though every EM system is inherently a system far from
equilibrium with the active vacuum environment, and a different
thermodynamics applies. Only if the system is specifically so designed
- e.g., so that during the dissipation of its excitation energy it
enforces the Lorentz symmetrical regauging condition - will the system
behave as a classical equilibrium system.
The thermodynamics of open dissipative systems is well-known { }. Such
systems are permitted to (1) self-order, (2) self-oscillate or
self-rotate, (3) output more energy than the operator inputs (the
excess energy is freely received from the active environment), (4)
power itself and its load simultaneously (all the energy is taken from
the active environment, similar to a windmill's operation), and (5)
exhibit negentropy.
That our present electrical power systems do not do these five things,
even though every one of them is an open system in violent energy
exchange with the vacuum, a priori reveals that it is the scientific
model and the engineering design that are at fault.
It is not any law of nature or principle of physics that prevents
self-powering open electrical power systems. Instead, it is the
scientific community and its prevailing mindset against extracting and
using EM energy from the vacuum.
Environmental Community.
In the past the environmental community has been overly naïve with
respect to physics, and particularly with respect to electrical
physics. Its science advisors have come mostly from the conservative
"in the box" scientific community. Hence the community has failed to
realize that COP>1.0 electrical power systems are normal and permitted
by the laws of nature and the laws of physics. They have no inkling
that Heaviside discovered - in the 1880s! -the enormous unaccounted EM
energy pouring from the terminals of any battery or generator. They
are unaware that Poynting considered only the tiny component of the
energy flow that enters the circuit. They are also unaware that,
completely unable to explain the astounding enormity of the EM energy
flow if the nondiverged (nonintercepted) Heaviside component is
accounted, Lorentz {9} just arbitrarily used a little procedure to
discard that troublesome Heaviside "dark" (unaccounted) component.
Lorentz reasoned that, since the huge dark energy flow component
missed the circuit entirely, it "had no physical significance." This
is like arguing that none of the wind on the ocean has any physical
significance, except for that small portion of the wind that strikes
the sail of one's own sailboat. It ignores the obvious fact that whole
fleets of additional sailboats can also be powered by that "physically
insignificant" wind component that misses one's own sailboat entirely.
Nonetheless, electrodynamicists continue to use Lorentz's little
discard trick, and try to call the feeble Poynting energy flow
component caught by the circuit the entire EM energy flow connected
with it. This is like arguing that the component of wind hitting the
sails of one's own sailboat, is the entire great wind on the ocean.
As a result, the environmental community has failed to grasp the real
reason for the energy crisis and the increasing pollution of the
biosphere. They have been deceived and manipulated into thinking that
conventional organized science is giving them the very best technical
advice possible on electrical power systems. The environmentalists
have been and are further deceived into believing that the
conventional scientific community is advocating and performing the
best possible scientific studies and developments for trying to solve
the energy crisis.
Of major importance, the environmental community itself has been
deceived as to the exact nature of the energy flow in and around a
circuit, the vastness of the unaccounted energy flow (or even that any
of the energy flow is deliberately unaccounted), and the fact that
this present but unaccounted EM energy flow can be intercepted and
captured for use in powering loads and developing self-powering
systems.
Worst of all, the environmental community has been deceived as to what
powers every electrical load and EM circuit, and that burning all
those hydrocarbons, using those nuclear fuel rods, building those dams
and windmills, and putting out solar cell arrays are necessary and the
best that can be done. In short, they have been smoothly diverted from
solving the very problem - the problem of the increasing pollution and
destruction of the biosphere - they are striving to rectify.
However, judging from their continued demonstrations in the street, at
least many environmentalists now suspect that much of the world's
continued policy of "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" in
international trade agreements are deliberately planned and
implemented to the advantage of a favored financial class and the
exploitation of the poorer laboring classes in disadvantaged nations.
Electrical Power Community.
The electrical power community:
(1) ubiquitously uses equilibrium thermodynamics, believing that
COP>1.0 is perpetual motion nonsense and against the laws of physics,
(2) has no notion that the energy flowing down their power lines and
filling all space around them, is extracted directly from the active
vacuum by the source dipole in the generator,
(3) erroneously believes that the hydrocarbons they burn, or the water
through the hydroturbines at the dam, or the nuclear fuel rods they
consume, actually add the power to the transmission lines,
(4) uses half of the tiny component of energy caught by the power
lines, to destroy the source dipoles in their generators, thus
requiring ever more shaft input energy via powering a steam turbine,
hydroturbine, etc.,
(5) believes that energy can be "used" only once, when in fact it can
be used and re-used repeatedly since it cannot be created or
destroyed,
(6) allows only a single pass of the EM energy flow down the power
lines, so that only one tiny interception of energy occurs from the
energy flow and the rest (most) of the energy flow is wasted,
(7) believes that the electrical energy problem translates into more
hydrocarbon combustion or nuclear fuel rod consumption rather than a
totally different way of doing business, and
(8) believes that the theory they apply is correct, when in fact it is
so seriously flawed as to be inane, and has been inane for a century.
Industries also acquire their own hidden agendas, when serious threats
to the industry arises. As an example, a potentially serious problem
arose some decades ago when it became apparent that EM radiation from
power lines might detrimentally affect people or at least some people.
To put it gently, a great deal of fuss and fury resulted, and a great
deal of money was and is spent by the power companies (or through
organizations and foundations funded by them) in EM bioeffects
research. Not too surprisingly, just about the entire output of this
industry-funded research "finds" that there is no problem with
powerline radiation { }. Those scientists such as Robert Becker { } {
} who advocate or show otherwise, usually wind up having all their
funds cut off, hounded from their jobs, and - in the case of Becker -
forced to retire early.
It is no different in the electrical energy science field {12}.
Storage Battery Companies.
Battery companies are primarily of much the same outlook and ansatz as
are the power companies. They have gone to pulse charging of batteries
and improved battery chemistry and materials { }. They have no notion
that batteries do not power circuits, but only make source dipoles -
and it is the source dipole that then extracts EM energy from the
vacuum and pours it out into the external circuit.
Consequently they erroneously believe that chemical energy in the
battery is expended in order to provide power to the external circuit.
Instead, it is expended only to continuously remake the source dipole,
which the closed current loop circuit fiendishly keeps destroying
faster than the load is powered.
They also have not investigated deliberately dephasing and decoupling
the major ion current within the battery and between the plates, from
the electron current between the outside of the plates and the
external circuit. Consequently they have no concept of permissible
Maxwellian COP>1.0 battery-powered systems. Instead, battery
companies, scientists, and engineers still believe - along with the
power companies and most electrodynamicists, and the environmental
community - that applying the Lorentz symmetrical regauging to the
Heaviside-Maxwell equations retains all the Maxwellian systems. It
does not. Instead, it arbitrarily discards all Maxwellian systems
which are permitted by the laws of nature and the laws of physics to
produce COP>1.0!
University Community.
The University community mostly supports the prevailing EM view and
also suffers from the rise of common "greed" in the universities
themselves. The professor now must attract external funding (for his
research, and for his graduate students -and especially for the
lucrative "overhead" part of the funding which goes to the University
itself). The research funds available for "bidding" via submitting
proposals, are already cut into "packages" where the type of research
to be accomplished in each package is rigorously specified and
controlled. Research on COP>1.0 systems is strictly excluded. Dramatic
revision of electrodynamics is excluded.
Unless the professor successfully bids and obtains packages and their
accompanying funding, he is essentially ostracized and soon discharged
or just "parked" by the wayside. Also, if he tries to "go out of the
box" in his papers submitted for publication, his peer reviewers will
annihilate him and his papers will not be published. Shortly he will
effectively be blacklisted and it will be very difficult for him to
have his submitted papers honestly reviewed, much less published.
Again, that means no tenure, no security, and eventual release or
"dead-end parking" by the university.
When one looks at the "innovative" packages so highly touted, they
either (1) are research focused upon some approved thing such as hot
fusion - which has spent billions and has yet to produce a single watt
on the power line, and cannot do so in any reasonable time before the
collapse of the Western economy - or (2) use clever buzzwords for
things which are actually "more of the same" and "in the box thinking"
with just some new words or twists thrown in for spin control.
Meanwhile, all this makes for a self-policing system which rewards
conservatism - conservative publications, conservative research,
conservative thinking, conservative teaching, etc. In short, it
selects and approves electrical power system research that is "too
little, too late" to solve the world energy crisis in time, and
ruthlessly rejects all the rest. It also makes for a self-policing
system which roots out and destroys (or parks on the sidelines) those
professors, graduate students, and post-docs who - given a chance to
be highly innovative and "out of the box" researchers - might upset
the status quo.
In short, the scientific community is itself the greatest arch foe of
high innovation, and the university generally typifies and reflects
that overall attitude because of the control and management of its
outside research funds by the upper echelons of the organized Big
Science community, government, etc.
Government Community - Technical.
The technical part of the U.S. government research community is drawn
from the universities, private industry, etc. and mostly reflects an
even more conservative group than the universities. Again, papers
published and funding are the major requirements, within given and
largely accepted scientific constraints. Further, the managerial
government scientists must compete for funding, annual budgets, etc.
and have their own "channel" constraints from on high. At the top
levels (such as NSF and NAC), cross fertilization by the aims and
perceptions of the conservative scientific community leaders is
achieved.
Hence the government technical community is largely constrained in two
fashions: (1) by its own forced competition for funds, facilities,
positions, programs, etc., and (2) by its strong cross-fertilization
from the top scientific personnel in NSF, NAC, etc. Individual
scientists also face the need to publish or perish, and so are further
constrained by the reviewers etc. of the journals.
Most managers within the government scientific community are striving
to scamper up the managerial ladder, much as managers elsewhere. One's
power and prestige rises as one's position level rises - and
particularly as the part of the government's research budget rises
that one controls. There is a fine tight rope to walk whereby, as one
gains control of more government budget for research, one becomes a
powerful influence on the large research corporations which will
submit very complex and extensive proposals for the funds.
A sort of "common understanding" thus arises between industry leaders,
higher government research leaders and managers, etc. This can be so
profound that the practical result is almost a sort of "collusion by
common understanding" between the government and industrial complexes
and a fusion into one consortium - essentially the
"military-industrial complex" which President Eisenhower warned
Americans against.
The end result is that the government managers in their Request for
Quotations (RFQs) use words such as "out of the box" and "highly
innovative", but rarely will fund such proposals because they simply
cannot obtain approval for such budgets and programs from "higher up
the chain". As witnessed by the ultrawideband (UWB) radar controversy,
the government technical community is even more resistant to
innovation and change than is the civilian technical community.
As an example, the early UWB radar pioneers (Harmuth, Barrett, etc.)
in ultrawideband radar were attacked by entrenched government
scientists and government scientific organizations with a viciousness
rarely seen in the annals of government science. The objection raised
was that sinusoidal EM waves could not do such things - even though
the UWB radar used nonsinusoidal EM waves, and small UWB radar sets
were commercially available and used to detect voids in concrete
structures, the ground, etc. The real reason for the violent attacks
was the prestige and power of the Stealth community at the time - and
because UWB radar had the implication of tracking Stealth vehicles
readily.
Interestingly, the arch foes of UWB at the time, today would have us
believe they are "staunch experts" in the UWB field. To understand
their remarkable metamorphosis, one need only recall Arthur C.
Clarke's words, quoted earlier.
In the COP>1.0 EM energy field, we are still rather much at the stage
where the UWB researchers started. We are still in the "violent
attack, personal insults, character assassination, slander, libel,
etc." stage. Sadly, such ad hominem savagery is by scientists who
themselves have no notion of how electromagnetic circuits are actually
powered, but like ostriches still have their heads buried in the sand
back there in the 1880s when Lorentz discarded the enormous Heaviside
energy flow component.
Government Community - Non Technical.
Here we have a rather mixed situation. The nontechnical person - e.g.,
a Senator or a Congressperson - is operating under a distinct
disadvantage. If he or she takes the stance that much better
electrical power systems can readily be achieved, he or she is in fact
opposing almost the entire set of University, Government Technical,
Power Company, Battery Company, and Organized Science communities.
Further, in most cases his technical advisors are themselves from one
or the other of those communities, and likely to go back into that
community or those communities when the Senator or Congressperson
leaves office, or even before. So the Congress and the non-technical
government community at large operate at a great disadvantage.
As an example, admittedly there are some very misguided unorthodox
energy system inventors and scientists out there, who in the guise of
furthering COP>1.0 systems, actually contribute to the problem rather
than to the solution. A few do not even realize that they cannot
properly measure a "spiky" output with an RMS meter! Some are also
more interested in selling "dealerships" and "stock" than in
furthering the science of COP>1.0 systems. Few have submitted their
purported COP>1 devices to rigorous testing by an independent,
Government-certified test laboratory { }.
This "noise" seriously dilutes the unconventional scientific
community's legitimate efforts in COP>1.0 systems. By highly playing
up such "dilution" and accenting "the crazies", the orthodox
scientific community often convinces government nontechnical managers
and personnel that the entire unorthodox scientific COP>1.0 community
is comprised only of lunatics, charlatans, stock-scam artists and
misguided crank inventors.
Such of course is not the case. A goodly number of reputable, skilled
scientists are seriously struggling with the problems of developing
COP>1.0 EM power systems and devices. A few are also struggling to
develop an adequate theory of such systems. Progress is slowly being
made and has been made, in spite of continuing harassment.
The independent assessments that Congress once enjoyed with the OTA
are no more because the OTA was abolished. Now the committees,
subcommittees, and individual Congresspersons and Senators are largely
on their own, with their own staffs and their own technical advisors.
That said, nonetheless it can be seen by savvy Senators and
Congresspersons that the U.S. Ship of State is headed for a great
economic bust, and probably the greatest one of all time.
The Government Non-Technical community (the Senate and the Congress,
in particular) are in far better shape than the Government Technical
community, to appreciate the world implications of the pending
economic disaster. I am hopeful that both the environmentalists and
the Government Non-Technical community will rapidly unite in a common
goal to get this vacuum energy program launched, under a National
Emergency declaration. If so, then they can solve the energy crisis
and the pending economic crisis, in fairly short order, and
permanently.
In Conclusion
There is an even more ominous specter looming behind the shadow of the
coming great economic collapse. When national economies get strained
to the breaking point - with some of them failing, etc. worldwide as
the price of oil escalates - the conflicts among nations will increase
in number and grow in intensity. About a year or so ahead of the
"Great Collapse" of the world economies, the intensity and desperation
of the resulting national conflicts will have increased to the
breaking point.
Some 25 nations already have weapons of mass destruction (WMD) -
including nuclear warheads; missile, aircraft, boat, and terrorist
delivery systems; biological warfare weaponry; other advanced weapons
{3} {4}, etc.
Any knowledgeable person knows that hostile terrorist agents are
already on site here in the U.S. { }, and some will have smuggled in
their WMDs. It is not too difficult to surmise that some of those
missing Russian "suitcase nukes" probably wound up right here in the
U.S., hidden in our population centers. Or that some of Saddam
Hussein's large stock of anthrax has been spirited into the U.S. as
well. As is well-known, the threat from weapons of mass destruction is
now officially recognized as the greatest strategic threat facing the
U.S. It is not a matter of if the WMD weapons will be unleashed, but
when.
If one transposes that recognized escalating WMD threat onto the
escalating economic pressures worldwide, then another factor comes
into play - the dark side of the Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
concept. We have opted (at least to date) not to defend our populace,
but deliberately have placed U.S. population centers in a situation
where their destruction is "assured" once the WMD balloon really goes
up.
The insanity of the MAD concept is revealed when war preparations by
many nations start to be perceived - as they will be, when the
conflicts intensify sufficiently and the looming economic collapse
tightens the cinch on the nations of the world.
Without any protection of its populace, a defending nation has to fire
on perception of nuclear preparations by its adversaries, if that
nation is to have even the slightest chance of surviving.
In short, at about that 2007 date when a nation sees its adversaries
preparing WMD and nuclear assets for launch or use in ongoing intense
conflicts, at some point that nation must pre-empt and fire massively,
or accept its own "assured destruction".
The only question in MAD is whether or not the assured destruction
shall be mutual or solitary.
So one or more nations will fire, immediately moving all the rest into
the "fire on perception" mode. Very rapidly the situation then
escalates to the all-out world-wide exchange so long dreaded. This
massive exchange means the destruction of civilization itself, and
probably much of the entire biosphere for decades or centuries. Such
escalation from one or more initial nuclear firings has been shown for
decades by all the old strategic nuclear studies. It is common
knowledge to strategic analysts unless one engages in wishful
thinking.
Eerily, this very threat now looms in our not too distant future, due
in large part to the increasing and unbearable stresses that
escalating oil prices will elicit.
So about seven years or so from now, we will enter the period of the
threat of the Final Armageddon, unless we do something very, very
quickly now, to totally and permanently solve the present "electrical
energy from oil" crisis.
This is really why we must have a National Emergency proclamation, and
a Manhattan Project, since mass manufacturing, deployment, and
employment of replacement electrical power systems must begin in early
2004.
In my estimate, the point of no return for developing the
self-powering replacement systems is about the end of 2003. If by
early 2004 we do not have multiple types of vacuum-energy powered
systems rolling off the assembly lines en masse, then we shall
overshoot the point of no return and it matters not whether the
systems then become available or not. They will then be too late to
prevent the great Armageddon and the destruction of civilization
itself.
Personally, the present author regards the increasing energy crisis as
the greatest strategic threat to the United States in its entire
history. I will do anything within my power to help prevent what I
perceive to be the looming economic collapse of the Western world,
preceded or accompanied by a sudden, explosive, all-out and continuing
exchange of the WMD arsenals of most of the world.
We can still meet this early 2004 production deadline. It is
difficult, but it is definitely a doable at this time.
We must do it, and we must do it now. Else the technology for
electrical energy from the vacuum will also be "too little, too late."
In that case, not only the world economy but civilization itself will
likely be destroyed - not 100 years from now, not 50 years from now,
but in less than one decade from now.
In the name of all humanity, let us begin! Else by the time this first
decade of the new millennium ends, much of humanity may not remain to
see the second decade.
"Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one,some bigger than others"
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