Pamphlet
for a New Energy Policy
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)


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