Keynote
presentation of this page
"All
truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident."
Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
1)
The
necessity of a new energy
policy
The
modern energy question is one of great
importance. The survival of mankind is at
stake. We cannot, as we clearly see at the
beginning of the 21th century, continue using
fossil fuels. We need to switch over to
sustainable energy sources, partly because of
the fact that the resources of oil, gas and
other fossil fuels are getting depleted, but
also because of the administrative and
military conflicts thereabout that are
associated with the striving for a
new
world order.

A
third factor is formed by the ecosystem which
also seems to reach the limit of what mother
earth may bear. We so realize that the
global
warming
of our climate about 2007 is an indisputable
fact, but also that for the past 50 years the
power of the sunlight e.g., as measured by
the so-called pan-evaporation
which is a kind of meteorological evaporation
index, has decreased with about 15%, probably
because of soot particles and other chemical
substances in the higher layers of the
atmosphere around the earth. One discusses
causes and consequences (see e.g.
the
documentary of the british television
producer Martin
Durkin).
The CO2 level on earth also seems to be
associated with the number of
spots
on the sun.
But whether we have more CO2 because of the
heat or more heat because of the CO2 (the
greenhouse
theory)
is not that clear at all. Whether we owe it
cent percent to our own actions, cannot be
said that easily thus. The warming and the
cooling of the earth as a consequence of
global
dimming
cancel each other out to a reasonble degree
as yet, and hopefully they will also vanish
as gradually as they appeared with the
development of a new energy policy, so that
we are not confronted with unexpected
surprises in changes of temperature and other
weather conditions on earth.
Evidently
must with a lot of influential factors be
counted when we want to switch over to
another way of producing energy and at the
same time want to maintain the natural and
cultural order on our planet. What e.g. is
also associated with the problem of the
climate and the energy question are the
desertification, a possibly with natural
disasters accompanied shifting of the poles
of the earth under the influence of changing
gravitational fields on a galactic and solar
level, the world food problem, water
management, the extinction of marine and land
life and the melting of the polar caps and
the permafrost in Siberia with which huge
amounts of methane gas are released that
extra contribute to the greenhouse effect.
Every angle has, with the measures one takes
with them, its own consequences for the
ecosystem and the culture. An emission
neutral, sustainable
policy
implies e.g. that one maintains the
equilibrium between the greenhouse
effect
and the dimming of the earth, but with only
the prescription of soot filters developing
bio-ethanol and other non-emission-free, less
sustainable technologies, may have
far-reaching consequences for the energy- and
food policy and for the natural balance of
the therewith associated climate.
Temperatures may, with such an unequal course
of purifying the atmosphere, in a couple of
years rise with as much as 5 degrees Celsius
and make the ice melt of the south pole with
catastrophic consequences for all the lower
coastal areas in the world.
So also could next to that, in the search for
alternative energy resources, a renewed
interest for nuclear energy be observed,
which essentially constitutes no sustainable
source of energy because of the fossil
nuclear materials that are needed. And there
is also a serious objection, as is generally
known, against the nuclear waste and the
danger of this method. An alternative
technology for nuclear energy production
would be the technology of nuclear
fusion.
As yet is the most favorable technique for
controlling the immense heat needed for the
nuclear fusion the floating and spinning of
the fusion plasma in a strong magnetic field
in a so-called tokamak.
This technology though delivers no degree of
overunity in 2007: one never achieves more
energy out of the process than one has put
in. The entire project of nuclear fusion
without a fusion-efficient form of fuel just
might turn out to be a terribly expensive
illusion. Helium-3,
a helium atom missing a neutron, would be a
candidate to have a more efficient output
with less input of energy in the fusion
process. The element itself is radioactive
neutral so that less problematic radiation is
released with the nuclear fusion. It offers a
cleaner fusion process, be it that one also
with the He-3 cannot reach an entirely
radiation-free production of energy. The
element which on itself is stable in a
crystalline form and with its special
properties extensively is researched by the
physicist E.R.
Dobbs,
is rare on earth but abundantly available on
the moon as a form of precipitated solar
wind. Even though He-3 can be artificially
created from Tritium-decay and also is known
as a byproduct of nuclear weapons, must it,
to supply the entire world efficiently with
energy, be mined on the moon. An enthused
adherent of the method may, via a handy
website selling options on lunar territory,
in advance reserve
a place
there.
One supposedly could find there enough energy
in the form of Helium-3 for the entire earth
for many centuries. But such a policy of
winning energy will with the moon bases and
space-shuttles required, be such an
economically, culturally and scientifically
extensive operation that, not even
considering that the supply of He-3 at the
moon is also finite - it is a very luxurious
type of fossil fuel thus -, also this option
must be discarded as being too uncertain in
an economic sense, too dangerous in a
geopolitical sense and as technologically too
laborious. Nuclear fusion in other ways, like
the so-called aneutronic
fusion process which is not in need of any
He-3, has itself as yet not unequivocally
proven as being efficient, or even as a
feasible practice. Nuclear fusion seems to be
a beautiful scientific challenge, but whether
it is ever going to be a realistic
alternative source of energy free from
ecological, political and economic
objections, is thus most uncertain, despite
of the enormous scientific efforts and
financial expenses in the previous
decennia.
More
in line with a mechanically easy to control
and economically effective approach in this
respect is the so-called 'cold
fusion',
also called the low energy nuclear reaction
(LENR), which was first in 1989 developed by
the chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin
Fleischmann of the University of Utah in de
U.S.A. They proved how one with just two
electrodes (an anode of platinum, and a
cathode of palladium) in heavy water
(deuterium-oxide) with an overunity of
1:20 can generate heat in a way which can
only be explained from a nuclear process. The
process which produces no harmful radiation,
was not directly that well understood or
controlled, but the fact that one up to two
days and longer managed to maintain this
effect with just a small tank of (heavy)
water, went against all existing scientific
models. Thus was cold fusion received with
skepticism. At the time of 1990 though
confirmed Michael McKubre, the director of
the Energy Research Center of Stanford
Research International, Richard A. Oriani of
the University of
Minnesota,
Robert A. Huggins of Stanford University and
Y. Arata of the University of Osaka in Japan
their findings. In 50% of the trials they
found the same results of extra heat and
other experimental effects. In 1993 conducted
a couple of U.S.
marine researchers of the China Lake Naval
Weapons Center in
California,
led by the chemist Melvin
Miles,
an investigation into the bubbles that were
appearing in the device and concluded they
from the mass spectral measurements that
Helium-4 was present, by which, despite of
the fact that the amounts discovered didn't
add up with the existing theories, they
indeed proved that a kind of atomic fusion at
room temperature had taken place and that
from that result also the heat production
could be explained. In case of fusion do two
heavy H2 atoms melt together into Helium four
with the production of energy. In the hot
fusion process one needs millions of degrees
for that result, but how can such a thing
take place at room temperature as well? Even
though we evidently are dealing with
protoscience here, a science still in
its infancy, speaks one, with al the standard
doubting about each other's research designs,
still often about cold fusion as being a
pseudoscience, or of a form of
selfdeception or bewilderment based on faulty
methods. But it were not the methods that
were faulty considering all the sincere
scientific efforts, it was the ruling
paradigm that was defective. And for
understanding the label of speudo
being attached to cold fusion, for such a
faulty denomination of this all-important
research outcome, are we in need of the
services of the sciences of psychology, of
philosophy and other scientific disciplines,
because with the enigmatic research findings
is one reaching beyond the framework of the
established, classical model of physics.
Natural science is not that easily won of
course with paradoxical results that refer to
unknown processes; a specific group of
scientists like this which is narrowly bound
to conventions can on itself of course not
directly control all the supporting sciences
either which also play a part in such a big
shift in the mind of science.
Despite of the great
number of published investigations that found
an anomalous heat production, concluded the
United
States Department of Energy that in 1989
formed a research
panel
to investigate the case, that no sufficient
proof had been delivered for the reality of
this cold fusion process and that for that
reason no research funds needed to be
provided for further development. Also a
second panel in 2004 arrived at a likewise
conclusion, be it that the argument against
had been watered down. The report of 2004 in
fact constituted a turning point because from
its conclusions the more reputed scientists
and more important commercial magazines
(Time, Scientific American) now dared to pay
some more attention to the subject. But
nevertheless is one in 2007 in the U.S.A.
investing many billions of research grants
for new energy technologies rather in the
much more doubtful hot fusion process which
thus never delivered more energy - and thus
certainly also not more money - than was put
in. In the U.S.A. remains cold fusion a
taboo, while one in Asia e.g. is more
inclined to reward patents in this field.
Also with science can in formal politics a
narrow-minded village mentality be prominent
that, based on ulterior motives and with
surpassing reason, rejects everything which
the establishment of the confided ego of
exercising authority, the usual teachings and
the associated wages earned that way would
endanger.
For if there would be a
formal recognition, the world would be turned
upside down, because we in that case would
have a revolution: all societal and economic
relations would change and also would all
textbooks have to be rewritten and the
educational system be reformed. And who would
stand and sign for that? Ultimately is
progress an egoless process in which each and
everyone has played his part. Now at the
beginning of the 21st century are there with
that process already commercial signs
observable, for also money runs where it
cannot go: Energy
Technologies in
Israel,
D2Fusion
in California, JET
Thermal
Products
in Massachuchets, Mitsubishi
motors and
The
Mastrrr
Company
in Texas are the corporations that 2007 are
engaged in harnessing the process of cold
fusion for the sake of different purposes
like the purification of water, mechanical
propulsion, and the supply of energy. What
thereto for the acceptance of the greater
public still is needed is the entire account
of the paradigm associated with the cultural
change involved. In this pamphlet will the
complete of the paradigmatic question with
everything belonging thereto be discussed at
length. In this study will, based on the
latest experimental and theoretical findings
in this field of free energy as also on the
rest of the testimonies of witnesses
associated with the question of energy, be
attempted to contribute to the further
development of this new paradigm for the 21st
century now emerging in postmodern times. We
are on the way of a renewed scientific
thought model with which we may speak of a
new World Order. It then is about, so it now
appears, an order which is not just based on
the, with of without military means,
preaching of 'democracy' with blotting out of
state borders in a mondial clime in which a
form of free enterprise is allowed to rule
that isn't directly of service to the social
and biological climate of the planet either.
The cards are shuffled differently thus. A
better ecological policy is necessary, we
after all have to survive ourselves too with
each his individual freedom of defending his
material interests.
It is all about a broader
and more responsible concept of world order,
a concept which also reaches beyond the three
pillars of internet communication, hydrogen
storage and the two-way distribution of
energy which as being the essence of a third
industrial revolution lately 2007 was
suggested by the american economist
Jeremy
Rifkin.
His still most expensive solution of 850
billion for an intelligent energy network to
feed back self produced energy into the grid
is a new energy policy all right but is still
based on the old paradigm of science. In the
new model emerging now under the influence of
cold fusion and the other free energy
technologies we will discus later, draws
everybody at every moment of the day as much
'new energy' as he needs with the new
technology, and that can privately be done as
good as by means of a central power plant,
we're after all talking about a truly free
market. Storage is then not needed anymore,
and that is an extra advantage for everyone
on the planet. What Rifkin is defending so
nicely up to date is seen in this light again
already outdated. The progress at this front
is very fast. The hydrogen obsession of
storing energy is not applicable any longer
with the direct, according the need won
energy of e.g. cars that run on cold fusion
generators (see also: Basics;
peswiki-article,
Cold
fusion 18 years and heating
up;
Eugene
Mallove;
News;
ISCMNS
(society);
Naudin
project;
FAQ;
Conferenties).

Culturally
and psychically we have to fear for conflicts
if we do not have a clear notion of the
inevitable question of another policy of
winning energy. Winning energy we are dealing
with nature, nature that gave us our form,
nature that educated us, that conditioned our
genes, that conditioned all of our behavior,
and our culture somehow will have to reflect
that properly. Pragmatically thinking in
favor of a quick result and economic success
this is easily forgotten. Nature operates
upon our genes and we switch with those genes
responding to her with adapting ourselves to
her dynamics. Our genes constitute the
material with which we people, also in our
cultural activities, find ourselves in an
evolution which cannot be stopped at will or
be obstructed. There is as well a cultural as
a natural authority ruling our lives.
Ultimately it is about the question, as we
very well know politically, who the boss
would be, who is leading us, what in our
decision making would come first. It must be
clear in our minds eye whether, and to what
degree, we are formed by pragmatical and
economical dictates, which are also known as
an endless struggle for power over whatever
political grip or whatever advantage would
have the - temporary - right of way. Or else
we admit, like it was proclaimed with the
French Revolution in the beginning, that we
have our footing in nature and find therein
our primary order and harmony (see especially
the works of the philosopher J.J.
Rousseau,
(1712-1778).
When we psychically want to get rid of the
cultural uncertainty and personal misery
which is the consequence of a conflict
between the material interests of the culture
and those of nature, must deeds be done,
deeds which have consequences for the
policies of winning energy and caring for the
environment. Caught between the two fires of
the material, idle, short-sighted profit mind
and the mind in favor of the spirit of the
preservation of nature which demands more
conscience and effort, may we speak of a
conflict situation in which we psychically
are burdened with a tormenting uncertainty
about the question in what exactly we can
find our true certainty and direction, our
control and our confidence. In that area of
tension we keep on searching for harmony and
balance without us, in our from attachments
born indecision, ever finding a collective
solution or enduring form of world peace and
collective righteousness of living.
A
definitive choice has to be made, the
indecision has to be given up before we are
forced to decisions by the occurrence of
cultural or natural disasters. With putting
an end to this nature-culture conflict the
way it for instance lately is happening with
the more environmental friendly and
sustainable Cradle
to Craddle
philosophy
of William McDonough and Michael Braungart in
the field of corporate interests, may the
democracy then be more a reflection of the
order we find in nature in stead of being a
reflection of an everlasting,
power-uncertain, political struggle which is
in fact a neurosis of culture and
destructive. The struggle based upon the
inability to act directly from nature and to
agree about it amongst ourselves, must come
to a stop. That era we have to close. Also in
the sense of our scientific thinking. The
question first of all is thus: in what ways
can we relate to nature when it is about
sustainable energy policies? Next the
question rises what the scientific
consequences would be and how we exactly as
normal people in our educational systems and
in what we personally teach our children have
to consider with the methods and technologies
found. How would such a world order look like
which is based upon the natural order of the
wheelwork of nature, upon the wheelwork of
the clock formed by the sun, the moon and the
stars and not so much anymore is based upon a
division in territories and other concepts of
false oneness from the interest of which we
have to fight each other's ego's? Is such a
thing possible? (see also the article
Sun,
Moon and the new World
Order)