Civilization and Beyond
A Metaconscious Mosaic Outline
The free energy myth assumes that energy is not scarce, but abundant, and that it may be harvested and put to human use by those with the know-how to do it. There was a time in human history when nobody knew how to make or use fire. There was a time when nobody knew how to harness the wind to such tasks as grinding grain, or pumping water, or propelling craft across the seas. These, along with many others, are techniques and technologies we humans have acquired in the course of human history. It seems safe to assume – given only that we survive the collapse of civilization – that we may learn some things about energy, and about many other things as well, that are not at present commonly understood, or understood at all; and that among these learnings may be means of gaining access to heretofore "unknown" sources of abundant energy that everywhere saturate the Universe. Following are some reasons for taking this myth seriously.
- The Universe itself is believed alike by scientists, theologians, and philosophers to have originated "out of the vacuum," either through a mythical event called the "Big Bang," or as a continuous process called the "Steady State," or by fiat of a Diety. All these are myths, yet they are given very serious and widespread consideration, and it is difficult to imagine theoretical or mythical alternatives to them. If the entire content of a Universe can credibly emerge "from nothing," why is it so difficult to believe that useful energy can emerge in the same way?
- The most widely known mathematical formula on Earth, particularly outside mathematical circles, is Einstein's formula for the equivalence of matter and energy, "E = mc2." In application, this formula means that a physical mass (expressed in grams) contains a quantity of energy (expressed in energy units called "ergs") equal to the number of grams in the mass multiplied by the speed of light (expressed in centemeters per second) "squared," or multiplied by itself. The math is not complicated, and works out like this:
That is, by the E = mc2 formula, one kilogram, or 2.2 pounds of attoms, contain 24,970,000,000 kilowatt-hours of energy. Quite a package! At the rate I pay for electricity, $0.073 per kWh, that works out to $1,815,067,877 USD worth of energy: 2.2 pounds of atoms.
- The speed of light c = 2.998 × 1010 cm/s;
- c2 = 8.998 × 1020 cm/s;
- × 1000g (1kg) = 8.998 × 1023 ergs;
- = 8.998 × 1016 jouls;
- = 2.497 × 1010 kWh (kilowatt-hours).
The "E = mc2" formula has come to be associated in most people's minds with "atomic energy," the arcane field involving fission and fusion nuclear and thermonuclear reactions in uranium, plutonium, and other rare earth radioactive isotopes – which are decidedly not readily accessible to "Gyro Gearloose" home-shop experimenters. But Einstein's formula is applicable to "atoms" – any atoms, all atoms; and atoms are accessible to everyone, everywhere, all the time. So too, presumably, given the appropriate technology, or know-how, is the energy they contain.
And not only the energy contained in atoms. I understand that Einstein has remarked to the effect that there is enough energy in a teacup of hard vacuum to boil all the oceans on Earth. This energy has since been given the designation, "zero point," because it refers to the limitless energy that exists even in a vacuum, at "absolute zero," the lowest theoretically possible energy state.
- There are numerous reports in circulation, some of which are accessible through the FDL Energy page, of credible experiments and laboratory devices which demonstrate, or are claimed to demonstrate in various ways the viability of free energy. This domain is murky, and the arguments of detractors and skeptics are often as difficult to penetrate or confirm as are the claims they endeavor to "debunk." The jurry is still out on this speculation, yet some of the arguments for free energy are quite persuasive.
- The Taker culture that has dominated human affairs for the past ten thousand years has had the single agenda of control, specifically of the "pyramid builders" by the "pharoahs," in every form and manifestation they have assumed throughout "civilized history." During the past century or so, energy has become an increasingly critical factor to the Taker ("pharonic") agenda, and as new and innovative energy technologies have been discovered, the pharoahs have without exception taken whatever measures have been necessary to maintain an energy monopoly throughout the planet.
Under this regime, the only energy technologies that have ever been developed for widespread use have been technologies that share the property of making energy valvable and meterable for sale in the marketplace. Vital Question: Is this so because existing developed energy technologies are the only energy technologies possible? Or are these the only developed energy technologies because of the incalculably powerful lever of control put thereby into the hands of the pharoahs?
Certainly, the widespread availability of free energy would irrevocably eliminate the pharoahs' energy monopoly and the lever of control said monoply puts into their hands. Therefore, it is not an entirely far-fetched speculation that the pharoahs may have exercised limitless pains to retain their energy monopoly, and may have suppressed by any and all means every free energy technology that has ever emerged – even to the extent of teaching all who attend Taker schools, from kindergarten to graduate school, that such technologies are theoretically and absolutely impossible.
I rest my case. I find the free energy myth credible, for the reason, among others, that a refrigerator magnet never wears out, and does not eventually drop to the floor after the energy that keeps it attached to the refrigerator is "used up." The energy in a permanent magnet is never "used up," and has a perpetual capacity for attracting or repelling other magnets – i.e. doing work. If you do not see it so, you may find the peak oil myth more palatable. One or the other or both of these two myths seem likely to be relevant to the circumstances under which the survivors of the collapse of civilization, if any, undertake the rebuilding of the Leaver world.
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* Source: The Metaconsciousness Myth.
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