For the most part people on this board seem to be well educated and it's one of the reasons I enjoy reading here, although usually I like the time or inclination to post. However this is on spot where I think I can make a valuable contribution. The title here may strike you as audacious. It is, but I can back it up.
To give a little relevant background on myself I am an undergraduate university student going into my final year as an applied mathematics major. I am 19 years old.
So let's dive right in then. The problem as simply stated as possible, is finding a cheap, clean energy source. Many people don't appreciate the fact that cheap energy is the limiting factor on solutions for hunger and clean water as well as a necessary component to a generally higher standard of living. Consider that water is available on earth in massive quantities. The problem is the salt content of said water. There exists processes for desalination, however they require tremendous amounts of energy (for example the electrolysis and combustion of water). And if we have access to plenty of pure water then we need not have drought or hunger. I do appreciate that it is not quite so simple as that but bear with me a while longer. So we can all agree that cheap energy is a necessary component for the improvement of the society we live in. But then as if that wasn't enough of a challenge it has to be
clean too! Fair enough. It's ok to dream after all. Now let's leave this line and pick it up again a little later.
Being educated people on the whole (and as someone who peruses Facebook I really appreciate that phenomenon) you're probably somewhat familiar with the Conservation of Energy and the first law of thermodynamics. In short these laws state that energy can not be created or destroyed, it can only change forms. An internal combustion engine takes the potential energy from it's fuel and turns it into a usable form of mechanical energy; a hydroelectric damn converts the mechanical energy of flowing water into electrical energy etc. With that law in place the burden is then on us to
find energy in some stored form and transform it into something useful. Frankly, that method has been done to death and I think it's about time we got something new.
The reality is that these laws are much more permissive than many people seem to realize. In fact there exist numerous motors and other apparatuses which are capable of capturing energy cleanly and efficiently through what is referred to as asymmetrical reguaging.
Here is a partial list:
http://www.cheniere.org/misc/oulist.htm You'll notice that this page is hosted on a site known as the Thomas Bearden Website. Dr. Thomas Bearden is a Nobel Prize Winner and brilliant physicist. I came across his work and that of Jean-Luis Naudin when I was 17. After reading their technical papers and relying heavily on their work I designed my own free energy generator. With luck I will be able to build an industrial grade version and patent it by the end of this next year.
The point I wish to make is simply this and I do hope that as responsible citizens (of the planet) you will take it to heart: There is no reason why we cannot have as much clean free energy as we can consume available in any part of the world. The technology exists; I have seen it and done it with my own two hands. The only two things keeping us from it is the academic dogma which in spite of all evidence to contrary clings to their raft of inefficiency in the name laws of physics (and even Hawking will admit that "laws" is a misnomer) and the financial choke hold that the oil industry has on energy capital and contracts. The problems we face today could be the problems that we conquered yesterday if only people new and believed that this kind of energy extraction is in fact possible.
There's the solution. In fact, there's a dozen incarnations of that solution. What are you gonna do about it?
