our energy future: energy forever · 2014. 7. 19. · power of fire, and to step from wood fire to...
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Our Energy Future:
Energy Forever
Forever is a long time
Human beings have lived on the Earth for over two million years in which the use of
fire was discovered, but the mass-utilization of energy began only a few hundred
years ago. However, the world's resources for the mass-use of energy that our
civilization now depends on in the form of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power, are
being rapidly depleted. Our energy reserves are measured in decades now, up to a
few centuries in some cases, while the next 90,000-year ice age is already looming on
the horizon that we need to prepare for and live through, and aim to live beyond for
millions of years to come.
So far all efforts have failed to develop advanced energy options built on a resource
that cannot be depleted, such as windmills, solar panels and solar energy systems,
which themselves become disabled when the next ice age begins under a diminished
Sun. Are we lost then, when our energy resources are depleted? We cannot exist
without large-scale energy production.
Fortunately we are not lost. In fact our potential future is bright. We have the type
of near infinite energy resources within reach that the most optimistic future
civilization would require. This energy resource exists in cosmic space in the form of
plasma electricity. It surrounds us. We are afloat in it. It is the energy resource
that powers the Sun. This energy resource is enormous. It is so enormous that the
Earth becomes a habitable planet by receiving a mere 45 one-billionth of a percent of
the Sun's radiated energy, through the back door, as it were. And this received solar
energy, through the back door, is nevertheless 150,000 times larger than the entire
global electric energy production, including nuclear power. Can you imagine the kind of
energy depth and density we can have by going directly to the front door of the solar
energy cycle?
Can you imagine the amazingly energy-rich future that humanity is able to create for
itself by simply tapping into the electric supply stream for the Sun, - by going to the
front door, instead of receiving a trickle reflected back to us through the back door
as radiated energy. By tapping into the inflowing solar energy source-stream a
complete breakout is possible for us on earth from the current 'prison' of the
unstoppable energy-depletion.
Our tapping into the cosmic electric energy resource is the greatest step for
humanity that lays before its feet - a step from entropic energy resources to an
anti-entropic energy future that can never be depleted.
Unfortunately this path is being blocked by oligarchic control of science. It is being
wilfully blocked with political processes, even while all other pursuits to
undepleatable energy production for humanity have led us into dead-end situations
and wasted efforts, including genocidal projects for the mass-depopulation of our
planet.
The unblocking of humanity's science and its creative self-discovery, however,
requires a spiritual process of society's self-recognition of its inherent human
potential that develops the power of our humanity, which is ultimately the creative
engine for all power systems. It is the human genius that enabled us to utilize the
power of fire, and to step from wood fire to coal, gas, and oil utilization, and on from
there to nuclear power, with dreams of nuclear fusion power. This has been our path
for growing up as a human society. We have shed the diapers as it were. The time is
now to become adults, to reach beyond the limits of our planet and the small-minded
thinking imposed on us that is unbecoming for adults, and to reach for the cosmic
energy resources that power the universe.
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Do we face a World Energy Crisis, or do we face an endless energy-rich future? The
answer is yes, on both counts. The final answer will be determined by the direction of
our commitment. It determines our action in the present, and with it, our future.
The intentional use of energy to create a civilization has been the hallmark of
humanity from the beginning. The use of fire defines us as being human. No other
form of life on this planet has this capability. Over time, we have learned to use this
capability well. However we have also discovered that the more we use our capability
to use energy, the more we deplete the resources for the production of the energy
that we use.
We have been big energy users for only a few hundred years. In a sense, we have
barely begun on this path, and already a massive depletion of our resources has
occurred. At the current rate of usage, our energy reserves will be gone in short
order. They will be gone in
300 years for Nuclear power,
250 years for Natural gas,
112 years for Coal,
64 years for Oil, and
30 years for solar and wind power.
While solar and wind power do not consume their resource, their resource limit is
determined by how long the Sun remains active. That's the point when the ice age
begins. The point may be reached in 30 years. We face a high probability that the
Sun may go inactive in the near future, possibly 30 years from now. I have explored
the details in my video presentation, "Ice Age of the dimming Sun in 30 years." With
this potential on the horizon, the depletion of our energy resources comes a critical
factor in the present, especially as we need to prepare ourselves for the challenging
times to come.
Are we trapped then by the terminal factors of our energy resources?
The answer depends on us, and it depends on what we regard as the human future.
The human species have lived on the Earth for over two million years, but what we
call civilization is relatively new. It developed during the last 6000 years. The large-
scale use of energy to advance our civilization hasn't really started until just a few
hundred years ago, and already, we see the resources being depleted. The known
reserves might last us for two or three more centuries, or maybe five if extreme
conservation measures are applied. But no matter how we slice the pie, stretch the
reserves, and utilize inefficient reserves, our energy future has a terminal quality, as
energy is presently used. Our most optimistic estimates for available energy
resources won't get us far into the next ice age, much less through the next 90,000
years of deep freeze conditions that cannot be avoided. And beyond that we aim to
survive and prosper through many more successive ice ages, until the epoch of the ice
ages ends, and hope to have an infinite future lasting many millions of years into the
future.
If this is how we see our future, we need to have a new type of energy resource that
is not subject to depletion. That's what the future dictates for the present. This is
what we need to develop, or else we won't have a future all. And this is precisely
what we can develop. The resource exists in space.
All the evidence that stands before us today, that we see and explore, suggests that
a ready-made interface exists between the Earth and the vast cosmic electric
energy resource that surrounds us in space.
The interface exists well within our reach, and exists as a type that is far greater in
scope than our human needs for energy will ever require it to be. And in addition the
amazing promise stands before us even during the coming Ice Age environments.
We are no longer strangers in space. We have developed great space capabilities and
tools for research. What then would hinder us to develop the most critical resource
on which our future existence depends? What is holding us back?
The reason why we haven't developed the cosmic energy resource already, is fairly
simple. We are trapped into a conflict between two schools of perception, regardless
of the evidence, of which the entropic school is dominant. The conflict is one of
perception. The stage is divided between two contrary views of the nature of the
universe. In one view it is actively powered and developing. In the other view it is
self-consuming, with every sun burning by its own fuel towards its depletion and
eventual death. The conflict is artificial. It keeps churning. And keeps the field of
science in the dark.
For numerous reasons the resulting tragic state of darkness is maintained at great
cost to us all.
Ironically, the key-factor in all that, is a conflict of ideology about the nature of the
universe that has large political and economic implications, especially on the energy
front. Thus astrophysics is maintained with two faces in conflict with each other.
Two schools of perception rule the queen of the physical sciences today. One school
of astrophysics regards the physical universe as a sea of electrically interconnected,
and electrically powered, elements. On this platform the most perplexing phenomena
become readily understandable, and explorable in the laboratory.
The other school of astrophysics regards the universe as ruled by gravity, with the
electric force playing no role at all as if it didn't exist. This is the entopic view of
the universe where everything is deemed to be decaying by energy depletion, and is
winding down like a wind-up toy is running down as its energy is spent, towards its
inevitable zero-energy 'death' when it stops.
In the entropic school of astrophysics our sun and every star in the universe is
deemed to be a nuclear fusion furnace that consumes its own resources, whereby it
collapses itself to its death.
In its self-consuming state, while it shines for billions of years and burns its fuel, our
Sun is regarded as a constant factor that is applied to all the climate equations.
While the observable evidence doesn't support the assumption, great epicycles have
been invented to overcome the paradox of the evidence defying the theory without
having to change the theory in compliance with the evidence.
The existence of the ice ages, and of the Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations within
them, for example, is impossible to rationalize on grounds of mechanistic theories
that assume the Sun to be an invariable constant.
Whatever rules the schools of entopic astrophysics stands on a platform of thinking
that is purely imaginary and often irrational. For this reason, it is also inherently
dangerous. It is dangerous, because on this default train of thinking, where reality
doesn't matter in the light of fantasy, the real causative elements become
completely omitted in the conclusions as if they didn't exist.
This scholarly commitment to something that is but a dream, is what keeps humanity
in the dark and latched to diminishing resources as if they were humanity's only
hope.
All this means that the difference between the two schools of thinking, which
appears to be purely philosophic in essence, is far from being trivial in the practical
world. In real terms, the existing difference, which is a difference of opinions, is
central to human living and to the very future of humanity.
If humanity remains trapped inside the school of entropic thinking in astrophysics, so
that it cannot see a sun for what it is, humanity will largely cease to exist in the very
near future, because humanity will die when its entropic energy resources are
consumed and the development of the infinite resources that do exist and can be
utilized - the cosmic, anti-entropic energy resources - remains blocked, as it
presently is.
In the dead-end school where the cosmic-electric energy resources are being denied
to exist, a few irrational attempts are being made to develop 'renewable' energy
resources, as a measure to conserve the dwindling conventional resources. While such
attempts, wise as they seem, like building solar energy collectors, they are too feeble
in energy density to meet the needs of a growing civilization.
Windmills are slightly more-efficient, and they actually do produce a greater share
of the word's electric energy, but they likewise, are far too feeble to meet the
energy needs of a developing civilization.
For operating wind farms, the strength of the wind is a key factor. This factor limits
the placement to a few areas that are marginally useful, which are also prime food
producing areas. The best wind conditions are found off-shore. Of course, off-shore
systems are several-times more expensive to build and maintain.
In spite of the cost, the offshore wind farms have become popular for a number of
reasons. While the power production is relatively low in comparison with nuclear
powered generators, the greatest danger inherent in wind powered systems is that
they foster a dangerous illusion.
Both the wind and solar power systems are built on the theory that the Sun is a
constant factor on the global energy scene at all times.
In reality the solar factor has been a fleeting phenomenon during the last few million
years of the ice ages when the Sun becomes inactive for long periods. When the Sun
turns off, both the wind and solar powered systems become useless junk.
Whenever the cosmic electric input density falls below the minimal threshold level
that is required for the electric-sun system to function, then the active state of the
Sun can no longer be maintained. In such a case the Sun simply turns off. This off-
state has been the normal state of the Sun throughout much of the ice age glaciation
cycles.
The dynamics behind the Sun becoming inactive, has been explored in a previous
exploration video. The evidence is convincing that the next ice age transition will
begin with the Sun turning off, becoming dim yellow spot the size of the moon.
In the face of an inactive Sun, as the Ice Age begins, windmills and solar panels will
simply be of no use.
The danger is that by going the solar-powered path to develop new energy resources,
the cosmic-electric energy resources that have no inherent limits will fall by the
wayside and remain undeveloped.
By the universal nature of cosmic electric energy resources, these resources will
continue to be available to us no matter what the next Ice Age may bring, and
promise to be even stronger then. This is what we should develop, instead of playing
with toys that become a death trap.
No real imperative is forcing humanity to submit itself to the death of energy
starvation that is assured on the current path, when our world is surrounded by
vastly greater energy resources in the cosmic domain than humanity may ever care to
use.
In the school of electric cosmology, every galaxy and its hundreds of billions of stars
within them, including our own solar system, are powered by vast electric-energy
streams. The evidence literally is in the stars, in their string-like formations, as was
already noted. But being electric in nature, the cosmic energy streams are affected
by resonance phenomena. The resonances vary by their interaction , and overlap. At
times they vary dramatically by the particular nature of their resonances. But even
while they vary, they will never vanish completely or become consumed. These
electric energy streams are the lifeblood of the universe - the blood that powers
everything. The electric energy carriers in these streams are likely for this reason,
appropriately, named, 'plasma.' The plasma streams in space, all carry an electric
charge.
The plasma streams consist primarily of electrons and protons, the stuff that atoms
are made of when they are energetically held together into atomic structures. The
difference between atoms and the plasma that forms them, is, that the plasma
particles are 100,000 times smaller themselves than the atoms they created.
The plasma particles, therefore, as small and invisible as they are, furnish the entire
mass of an atom, and by implication the entire mass of the tangible universe. Except,
the tangible universe, the part of the universe that we see, no matter how far we
look, contains only a minuscule fraction of the mass that actually exists, which we
cannot see, but can discern by its effects by reading between the lines.
Plasma scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, developed a revolutionary
concept of the cosmos.
The researchers recognized that 99.999% of the entire mass of the universe exists
in the unbound, invisible, electrically charged form of matter that is called plasma.
This means that our telescopes can only recognize one thousands of a percent of the
mass that actually exists. The rest is in too small a form to be visible. However, this
invisible portion that looks like empty space between the distant galaxies, contains up
to 99.999% of the mass of the universe.
It is this huge invisible part of the cosmos that carries the electric charge that is
the lifeblood of every galaxy, small or large, near of far, and lights up every star in
the universe.
Obviously the plasma streams reach far beyond the limits of what our finest
telescopes can see of the cosmos, like the limits of this view across 500 million light
years of space.
This means that there exists plenty electric energy in space.
A minute portion of the cosmic energy streams also flows into and through our solar
system, fed by the great intergalactic cosmic resources streams.
If the plasma streams that flow through our solar system were dense enough to be
visible we would likely see them in shapes similar to that of the planetary nebula
shown here. While our Sun is just a mediocre star, it evidently attracts enough
plasma to light it up brilliantly, with more than enough plasma flowing through the
solar system unused for meeting our needs too if we care to tap into this readily
available cosmic energy resource that surrounds us. It is a ready-made energy
resource that is available to us as our resource for a boundless energy future.
Without the utilization of the boundless cosmic energy resources, humanity has no
future.
We have tragically limited ourselves, in our small-minded ways, to the use of
consumable resources that diminish by our consumption. However, we don't have to
go this route when other options are available. We have no need to tied ourselves to
diminishing resources that we deplete. We can have a boundless future if we step out
of this trap, a kind of earthbound grave. We have the option to begin today to utilize
the cosmic resources that, unlike oil, nothing in our world can deplete.
The ice age video series that this production is a part of, is designed to demonstrate
that the boundless cosmic electric-energy resources do exist, and that we can have
an inherently bright and rich future with the use of these resources that we have
within our reach right now, and have the capability to develop, even at this 'late'
hour, provided we care enough to reinvigorate our diminishing humanist energy.
If we fail to meet the humanist challenge, the ice age challenge then cannot be met
either. In this case the human presence will diminish from the current seven billion
people, to maybe just a few million.
This means that our meeting the ice age challenge depends entirely on us meeting the
humanist challenge. The ice age challenge is not basically a physical challenge,
because we have the physical and technological resources to make the coming Ice
Age a non-event. But will we do it? This unanswered question renders the ice age
challenge, primarily a human commitment challenge. If we fail to meet the ice age
challenge, we do so purely on the grounds of having lost our qualification to live as
human beings.
I like to believe that we will not fail in the humanist arena. We will get ourselves off
the ground in this arena, and we will fly. We are after all, the highest form of life on
this planet with great capabilities in creative and productive endeavours. We are the
supreme being on this planet. We are in essence 'the hand of God' - the hand of Love
and Truth - the executors of the 'will of God' that cannot be blocked in principle.
We are the discoverers, creators and producers in this world, with a scientific genius
that opens the door to the energies of the universe. We are not born to die on the
default train, but we will die there if we don't get off.
So let us explore almost from the beginning as it were, in this series of videos
related to the dimming Sun ice age, why we are not tied to the ground, but truly have
an open door to infinity before us, and with it the greatest incentive to step away
from the dead-end of energy entropy that would keep us tied to the ground where we
would die in the near future without a resource left for our living.
This particular video, which is focused on our energy future, has been produced as
the first sequel to the video, 'Ice Age of the dimming Sun in 30 years.' The sequel is
needed now in the present, to lift us out of our small-minded thinking, because we
face a huge crisis on the energy front if we don't snap out of our self-denial in the
short term. We face this energy crisis already, even without the Ice Age coming up,
and its consequences. The coming Ice Age only adds a somewhat more-ominous
dimension to the challenge. We have a severe energy crisis looming on the horizon no
matter how we look at it. We are running out of resources on every front on the
spectrum of energy production.
We face a severe crisis when the dwindling oil reserves run out. The world's oil
reserves are presently estimated at about 1.3 trillion barrels. This gigantic-seeming
resource, however, adds up to only 64 years of supply at the present rate of
production.
When the resource is used up, then what will power our economy for the remaining
90,000 years of the coming next Ice Age will be upon us without fail?
In the long sweep of universal history humanity's presence on this planet has been
brief, comparable to a blink of an eye.
In this 'blink of an eye' the development of what we call civilization occurred within
a blink of a blink, spanning the last 6000 years. We learned to use energy in a big
way, in this timeframe, primarily in the last few centuries.
Now we have come to the point were the depletion of the energy resources that we
have learned to use, that civilization depends on, will be upon us in 50 to 200 years.
Where do we go to secure our energy future? We face the task to bring a highly
developed civilization all the way through the next 90,000-years glaciation cycle, and
of course way beyond that too. The power for this absolutely critical feat to be
possible can only be derived from anti-entropic energy resources that do not diminish
with use, which thereby can never be depleted. Not a single energy resource that we
have been using on earth qualifies for that.
Sure, the world has large recoverable oil reserves of a different type that it can
draw on, like oil from oil shale and oil sands. These are large resources sitting on the
ground that have been estimated to yield around to 3 to 4 trillion barrels of oil.
While those resources are somewhat more difficult to recover, whereby the
depletion takes a bit linger, they will nevertheless give us only an additional 200
years of supply. This means that no matter how we look at it, our greatest resources
are nevertheless insignificant in comparison with the 90,000 years of the next Ice
Age that we need increased energy resources for, which may be upon us in possibly
30 years time.
A 200-year supply, even a thousand-years supply, such as nuclear power might offer,
compares as nothing in the long time frame of the coming Ice Age that will last for
90,000 years, which will impose additional energy requirements.
Since we expect our civilization to survive on this planet far beyond just a single ice
age, or even a few of them, and expect to prosper for millions upon millions of years
yet to come, we need to to recognize that our future history stands in the balance
presently, in the shadow of the unfolding energy crisis that has been left
unaddressed, as if closing one's eyelids would cause the challenge to go away.
Do we have no hope then? Is humanity going to fizz out into nothing by the death of
our energy resource depletion? Oh yes, we would fizz out into nothing if we continued
on the present course of doing nothing to develop the necessary higher-level energy
resources that cannot be depleted.
Sure, energy applications from oil and gas can be replaced with electric energy
development. Indeed, enormous amounts of electric energy are already being
produced around the world.
However, while large amounts of electric energy are being produced, the bulk of our
electric energy is derived from oil, gas, and coal, with a small portion coming from
nuclear energy. Since these resources are all of a type that is being depleted by the
utilization of it, the electric energy production that we may hail as the savoir of our
future, especially nuclear power, is nevertheless tied to the same depletion process
that places a finite limit on its availability.
Of all the resource sectors that are presently utilized for electric energy
production, the nuclear power sector has by far the largest resource-base available.
But even nuclear power is ultimately a resource that is limited by depletion.
Uranium for nuclear power is in relatively short supply, of which only half a percent is
actually fissionable for power production. While breeder reactors can activate the
unusable uranium, the process is messy, highly radioactive, and is likewise limited by
the depletion of the resource for it.
Activated thorium is ultimately the world's most abundant nuclear fuel available, of
which up to 90% can be made fissionable. The presently known recoverable resource
base is sufficient for the production of two million gigawatt years of energy,
conservatively. The utilization of this resource would offers us almost a thousand
years of nuclear-powered electricity at the current rate of worldwide electricity
production.
The bottom line, however, remains the same. Even this most gigantic resource for
nuclear power production, stacks up as nothing against the background of the long
sweep of the ice ages and the distant future that we expect humanity to have,
spanning billions of years to come. We simply cannot exist for longer than just a
'blink of eye' in this vast expanse of time on a platform of energy resources that are
depleted by their use, whether they last two hundred years of a thousand years.
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Efforts to overcome the energy resource limits.
On the front of nuclear fusion power, not a single success has been achieved.
The main blocking factor is that it takes a large kinetic force of energy to overcome
the electric repulsion of the nuclei that must fuse for power extraction to become
possible.
The extremely strong electric repulsion between the fuel nuclei prevents their atoms
from merging.
While it is possible to force the fuel atoms to merge, with massive external energy
being applied, the output energy that is achieved from the forced fusion is too
feeble to cover the input energy needs for the fusion to happen, much less to
produce a net energy-gain.
Enormous efforts have been made in recent times to develop a workable process to
actually produce usable nuclear fusion energy. A gigantic experimental device is
presently built in Europe, the ITER, that will stand a quarter as high as the great
pyramid in Egypt, to explore ways to overcome the inhibiting problems.
It is deemed that if the process could be made successful, it would create a new
energy resource of near infinite abundance. The evidence on this front, however,
tells us that this great effort that has been ongoing for decades already, is a dead-
end pursuit.
No naturally occurring nuclear-fusion energy production is happening anywhere in the
universe. The principle for such an energy-production process doesn't exist, nor is it
needed as the universe is flush with electric energy streams.
Natural barriers against nuclear fusion exist instead that protect the universe from
destroying itself. Nuclear fusion is an energy consuming process in the natural world,
by which atoms are formed. Nuclear fusion is not an energy creating process.
The vast flash of energy that is released by a thermonuclear bomb is not the product
of nuclear fusion. It is the product of latent energy being released when two
overbuilt isotopes, deuterium and tritium, are violently forced to fuse in such a
manner that a neutron, which has been previously bound to their nuclei becomes
unbound, because it has no longer a place in the resulting fused product. The energy
that is released in this process is essentially the product of nuclear fission, which
too, merely releases previously invested, talented energy.
Nuclear fusion energy production doesn't work for three reasons. The energy level
of the neutron that is released, which is the usable energy, is 100 times greater than
in normal nuclear reactors. The strong neutron flux destroys the fabric of the
metals that the reactors are made of. It also makes the reactors intensely
radioactive. This hugely damaging effect is great for nuclear bombs that are
designed to kill people, but it makes the process inherently useless for power
reactors.
Also the required fusion-fuel isotopes, deuterium and tritium, are hard to produce.
Deuterium exists in seawater in a highly diluted ratio so that it takes the processing
of 600,000 tons of sea water to extract enough deuterium for one ton of fusion fuel
that would, if the process was workable, power a one-gigawatt reactor for a year. In
order to replicate the current electricity production by this process, 2,500 times as
much water would have to be processed for the needed fuel each year. This would be
a gigantic requirement, if not a prohibitive one.
For tritium, the fuel situation is worse. Tritium doesn't exist naturally at all. It
needs to be bred from lithium-6 in nuclear fission reactors, in an extremely slow
process. Also the numbers don't add up for this process to make sense. It takes 1
tritium atom to produce 1 neutron in a fusion reactor, while it takes 1 neutron,
irradiating lithium-6, to produce 1 tritium atom for the new fuel. This means that no
net energy gain is actually produced in this process. Also, lithium-6 is quite rare. A
mere 7.5% of natural lithium is lithium-6. Attempts are made to breed the needed
tritium directly in the fusion reactor itself, from lithium-7, but if one considers the
shielding required for the project to be workable, a reasonable success is near
impossible. Nor will it ever be possible to capture all the fusion-released neutrons for
self-sustained breeding to be realized.
In addition, it takes more energy input to create the brute force to cause the fusion
to happen, than the fusion process gives back. No net energy gain has yet been
achieved.
While fusion burns have been achieved in some of the largest reactors, the fusion
process itself has an inherent flaw, which all by itself makes fusion power
impractical. The flaw is that the fusion process blows itself out for reasons that the
fusion fuel is being diluted with the resulting fusion product. The longest burn-time
to date that has been achieved, was about 1 second.
A different approach to nuclear fusion power utilizes light to compress a tiny sphere
of fusion fuel (image 1) with such immense power that its atoms begin to fuse. The
fuel is placed inside a small hollow capsule made of gold (image 2). It is irradiated
with 192 beams of light inside the hollow capsule (image 3). The irradiation occurs
inside a 30-foot target chamber (image 5), where the capsule is precisely positioned
relative to the light beams (image 4). 500 trillion watts of light is applied to the
target from 48 directions in a gigantic facility, larger than a sports stadium, named
the National Ignition Facility (image 6). The facility contains 192 large lasers that
are designed to compress the fuel sphere at a velocity of 370 Kilometers per
second.
When fusion will be accomplished, which has not been achieved to date, the fusion
power produced will be roughly one tenth of the power input required to cause the
fusion to happen. Should ignition be achieved in the future, the fusion burn will be
extremely short in duration, in the range of nanoseconds, with a 20 hour cooling-off
period required between shots. Actual commercial power production simply cannot be
achieved on this basis. Nuclear fusion power is a concept that started with a dream
and will remain a dream.
The entire concept will remain a dream forever, because even if all the technical
barriers against the power-production process could be overcome by some magic, the
key element in the process, which is its fuel cycle, makes the concept ultimately an
impossible dream.
The entire nuclear-fusion power development project is built on the neutron-heavy
deuterium-tritium fuel. This neutron-heavy fuel is the only fuel that can be made to
fuse with a reasonable amount of energy input.
Since the tritium isotope is double neutron-heavy, it doesn't exist naturally. It can
be artificially created in a fission reactor that produces free neutrons that can be
applied to fission lithium into in helium and tritium.
It is here where the fuel cycle breaks down. A fusion reactor cannot breed its own
fuel. It can breed some of it by the fissioning of lithium-6, but not enough, because
the fission process to produce the tritium requires as many neutrons for its input
than the tritium in the fusion process generates. Because of neutron capture
inefficiencies, uranium fission reactors will always be required for the supplemental
breeding of the fusion fuel.
Uranium-235 is the only natural element in existence on earth that emits free
neutrons. Every nuclear power reactor on earth utilizes the atomic fission
characteristic of uranium that releases free neutrons. No other efficient natural
source for free neutrons exist other than U233, U235, and U239 as are presently
used in nuclear power production, which has a highly limited fuel resource.
A large nuclear power station with a net electrical capacity of 1,300 MW requires
about 210,000 kg of raw uranium per year as input for the fuel production. At the
current rate of uranium consumption the reserves in presently operating mines will be
exhausted in 20 years. Presently unused economic reserves can extend the uranium
supply for another 80 years. It is assumed that as yet undiscovered resources may
exist that could extend the supply for another 300 years, and it is further assumed
that presently uneconomic ores might extend the supply for possibly as along as
1,500 years. In theory, the uranium supply can never be depleted. The rocks of the
Earth, even sea water contain trace amounts of uranium. But for all practical
purposes, such as for large-scale power production, uranium is a finite resource that
will likely be depleted for practical applications in a hundred years.
While it is possible to fission lithium-7 to produce tritium, shown as Case 2, high-
energy neutrons are required for the fission to be possible. While a fusion reactor
does produce high-energy neutrons that would fission lithium-7, in practice the two
cannot meet. The shielding that is required of the lithium against the high thermal-
flux of fusion reactions exceeding 100 million degrees, requires shielding materials
that block the fast neutrons that the lithium-7 fission requires. Those materials do
not exist at the present. It might be possible to produce them in the future, though
little hope exists.
And on top of all that, the critical lithium is in short supply, that is required in either
case to produce the fusion fuel.
If nuclear-fusion power should miraculously become a practical possibility, its future
would be limited by lithium being inherently a finite resource that is also required for
numerous other applications. At the current production rates to meet the supply for
numerous applications, the known worldwide resource of lithium will likely be depleted
in roughly 400 years.
In order to remove the needed lithium from seawater, for one tonne of fusion fuel
that would produce 1 Gigawatt-year of energy under the most ideal circumstances,
the processing of more than 10 million tonnes of seawater would be required. On the
practical scale, this reads: Impossible!
The bottom line is, that nuclear-fusion energy-production will remain an unrealizable
dream for far too many reasons. On almost all fronts fundamental barriers stand in
its way. So, why would we pursue this dream at all then, especially if we don't need
nuclear-fusion power anyway? We don't need it, even if it could be made workable,
because the available cosmic electric energy that evidently exists, and is within our
reach, exists on a scale in comparison that far supersedes all of our present and
future energy-needs.
Efforts to overcome the energy resource limits.
On the front of nuclear fusion power, not a single success has been achieved.
The main blocking factor is that it takes a large kinetic force of energy to overcome
the electric repulsion of the nuclei that must fuse for power extraction to become
possible.
The extremely strong electric repulsion between the fuel nuclei prevents their atoms
from merging.
While it is possible to force the fuel atoms to merge, with massive external energy
being applied, the output energy that is achieved from the forced fusion is too
feeble to cover the input energy needs for the fusion to happen, much less to
produce a net energy-gain.
Enormous efforts have been made in recent times to develop a workable process to
actually produce usable nuclear fusion energy. A gigantic experimental device is
presently built in Europe, the ITER, that will stand a quarter as high as the great
pyramid in Egypt, to explore ways to overcome the inhibiting problems.
It is deemed that if the process could be made successful, it would create a new
energy resource of near infinite abundance. The evidence on this front, however,
tells us that this great effort that has been ongoing for decades already, is a dead-
end pursuit.
No naturally occurring nuclear-fusion energy production is happening anywhere in the
universe. The principle for such an energy-production process doesn't exist, nor is it
needed as the universe is flush with electric energy streams.
Natural barriers against nuclear fusion exist instead that protect the universe from
destroying itself. Nuclear fusion is an energy consuming process in the natural world,
by which atoms are formed. Nuclear fusion is not an energy creating process.
The vast flash of energy that is released by a thermonuclear bomb is not the product
of nuclear fusion. It is the product of latent energy being released when two
overbuilt isotopes, deuterium and tritium, are violently forced to fuse in such a
manner that a neutron, which has been previously bound to their nuclei becomes
unbound, because it has no longer a place in the resulting fused product. The energy
that is released in this process is essentially the product of nuclear fission, which
too, merely releases previously invested, talented energy.
Nuclear fusion energy production doesn't work for three reasons. The energy level
of the neutron that is released, which is the usable energy, is 100 times greater than
in normal nuclear reactors. The strong neutron flux destroys the fabric of the
metals that the reactors are made of. It also makes the reactors intensely
radioactive. This hugely damaging effect is great for nuclear bombs that are
designed to kill people, but it makes the process inherently useless for power
reactors.
Also the required fusion-fuel isotopes, deuterium and tritium, are hard to produce.
Deuterium exists in seawater in a highly diluted ratio so that it takes the processing
of 600,000 tons of sea water to extract enough deuterium for one ton of fusion fuel
that would, if the process was workable, power a one-gigawatt reactor for a year. In
order to replicate the current electricity production by this process, 2,500 times as
much water would have to be processed for the needed fuel each year. This would be
a gigantic requirement, if not a prohibitive one.
For tritium, the fuel situation is worse. Tritium doesn't exist naturally at all. It
needs to be bred from lithium-6 in nuclear fission reactors, in an extremely slow
process. Also the numbers don't add up for this process to make sense. It takes 1
tritium atom to produce 1 neutron in a fusion reactor, while it takes 1 neutron,
irradiating lithium-6, to produce 1 tritium atom for the new fuel. This means that no
net energy gain is actually produced in this process. Also, lithium-6 is quite rare. A
mere 7.5% of natural lithium is lithium-6. Attempts are made to breed the needed
tritium directly in the fusion reactor itself, from lithium-7, but if one considers the
shielding required for the project to be workable, a reasonable success is near
impossible. Nor will it ever be possible to capture all the fusion-released neutrons for
self-sustained breeding to be realized.
In addition, it takes more energy input to create the brute force to cause the fusion
to happen, than the fusion process gives back. No net energy gain has yet been
achieved.
While fusion burns have been achieved in some of the largest reactors, the fusion
process itself has an inherent flaw, which all by itself makes fusion power
impractical. The flaw is that the fusion process blows itself out for reasons that the
fusion fuel is being diluted with the resulting fusion product. The longest burn-time
to date that has been achieved, was about 1 second.
A different approach to nuclear fusion power utilizes light to compress a tiny sphere
of fusion fuel (image 1) with such immense power that its atoms begin to fuse. The
fuel is placed inside a small hollow capsule made of gold (image 2). It is irradiated
with 192 beams of light inside the hollow capsule (image 3). The irradiation occurs
inside a 30-foot target chamber (image 5), where the capsule is precisely positioned
relative to the light beams (image 4). 500 trillion watts of light is applied to the
target from 48 directions in a gigantic facility, larger than a sports stadium, named
the National Ignition Facility (image 6). The facility contains 192 large lasers that
are designed to compress the fuel sphere at a velocity of 370 Kilometers per
second.
When fusion will be accomplished, which has not been achieved to date, the fusion
power produced will be roughly one tenth of the power input required to cause the
fusion to happen. Should ignition be achieved in the future, the fusion burn will be
extremely short in duration, in the range of nanoseconds, with a 20 hour cooling-off
period required between shots. Actual commercial power production simply cannot be
achieved on this basis. Nuclear fusion power is a concept that started with a dream
and will remain a dream.
The entire concept will remain a dream forever, because even if all the technical
barriers against the power-production process could be overcome by some magic, the
key element in the process, which is its fuel cycle, makes the concept ultimately an
impossible dream.
The entire nuclear-fusion power development project is built on the neutron-heavy
deuterium-tritium fuel. This neutron-heavy fuel is the only fuel that can be made to
fuse with a reasonable amount of energy input.
Since the tritium isotope is double neutron-heavy, it doesn't exist naturally. It can
be artificially created in a fission reactor that produces free neutrons that can be
applied to fission lithium into in helium and tritium.
It is here where the fuel cycle breaks down. A fusion reactor cannot breed its own
fuel. It can breed some of it by the fissioning of lithium-6, but not enough, because
the fission process to produce the tritium requires as many neutrons for its input
than the tritium in the fusion process generates. Because of neutron capture
inefficiencies, uranium fission reactors will always be required for the supplemental
breeding of the fusion fuel.
Uranium-235 is the only natural element in existence on earth that emits free
neutrons. Every nuclear power reactor on earth utilizes the atomic fission
characteristic of uranium that releases free neutrons. No other efficient natural
source for free neutrons exist other than U233, U235, and U239 as are presently
used in nuclear power production, which has a highly limited fuel resource.
A large nuclear power station with a net electrical capacity of 1,300 MW requires
about 210,000 kg of raw uranium per year as input for the fuel production. At the
current rate of uranium consumption the reserves in presently operating mines will be
exhausted in 20 years. Presently unused economic reserves can extend the uranium
supply for another 80 years. It is assumed that as yet undiscovered resources may
exist that could extend the supply for another 300 years, and it is further assumed
that presently uneconomic ores might extend the supply for possibly as along as
1,500 years. In theory, the uranium supply can never be depleted. The rocks of the
Earth, even sea water contain trace amounts of uranium. But for all practical
purposes, such as for large-scale power production, uranium is a finite resource that
will likely be depleted for practical applications in a hundred years.
While it is possible to fission lithium-7 to produce tritium, shown as Case 2, high-
energy neutrons are required for the fission to be possible. While a fusion reactor
does produce high-energy neutrons that would fission lithium-7, in practice the two
cannot meet. The shielding that is required of the lithium against the high thermal-
flux of fusion reactions exceeding 100 million degrees, requires shielding materials
that block the fast neutrons that the lithium-7 fission requires. Those materials do
not exist at the present. It might be possible to produce them in the future, though
little hope exists.
And on top of all that, the critical lithium is in short supply, that is required in either
case to produce the fusion fuel.
If nuclear-fusion power should miraculously become a practical possibility, its future
would be limited by lithium being inherently a finite resource that is also required for
numerous other applications. At the current production rates to meet the supply for
numerous applications, the known worldwide resource of lithium will likely be depleted
in roughly 400 years.
In order to remove the needed lithium from seawater, for one tonne of fusion fuel
that would produce 1 Gigawatt-year of energy under the most ideal circumstances,
the processing of more than 10 million tonnes of seawater would be required. On the
practical scale, this reads: Impossible!
The bottom line is, that nuclear-fusion energy-production will remain an unrealizable
dream for far too many reasons. On almost all fronts fundamental barriers stand in
its way. So, why would we pursue this dream at all then, especially if we don't need
nuclear-fusion power anyway? We don't need it, even if it could be made workable,
because the available cosmic electric energy that evidently exists, and is within our
reach, exists on a scale in comparison that far supersedes all of our present and
future energy-needs.
Biomass fuels as a renewable energy resource?
The answer is NO! Bio fuels, as an energy resource, stand before us in principle as
another unrealizable dream. The dream is essentially a lie.
Bio fuels are typically not a net energy producer. The physical process of distilling
food into a motor fuels, with all the input energy accounted for that goes into the
process, generates no appreciable energy gain, or extremely little, typically when
manual slave type labour is involved.
Biofuels are efficient only in producing genocide.
The biofuels process is in practice an expensive and wastefully energy conversion
process that doesn't even reduce pollution, but doubles CO2 emissions and adds some
substantially dangerous pollution of its own, such as ozone, and a number of
carcinogens that are produced in ethanol combustion. The pollution is killing people in
quiet invisible ways, especially in the cities where the pollution is concentrated.
Of course, the burning of food is also killing people with hunger and starvation.
Bio fuels are highly effective as a tool for inflicting genocide by the mass burning of
food. The amount of food that is presently burnt would normally nourish 220 million
people. Some estimates go as high as 400 million people. By burning vast quantities of
food in a world that has a billion people living in chronic starvation, we are committing
at least a hundred million people to death a year by slow starvation.
We are not creating energy with the biofuels platform. Instead we are destroying
the most valuable form of energy we have, which is the humanist energy that powers
our industries, farming, science, and civilization as a whole.
If we let go of this most precious energy, we loose ourselves - we imprison ourselves
and our future with it, and we impose on us the death sentence of silent starvation.
The crisis is knowable. The facts are tragically plain.
I have produced a video on the subject that explores the details more fully. Its title
is: Mass Murder Biofuels, a Presidential Election Issue.
That the biofuels project is not an energy project, but is a politically motivated
genocide project, is evident by the relentless refusal of the leaders of empire to lift
the biofuels mandate in the face of increasing drought conditions, severe food
shortages, and collapse in the farming and the food supply industries.
Massive protests and petitions have been launched by numerous organization, all
aiming to halt the burning of food to protect human nutrition. The petitions have all
been rebuffed.
Nor has the depopulation policy been lifted, which is designed to reduce the human
presence on the Earth from the current 7 billion, to a mere 1 billion people.
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An artificial energy crisis.
We are allowing an energy crisis to be created by default, by our stupidity, by our
refusal to acknowledge the real world. This tragedy is knowable.
While we are facing the undeniable dead-end of resource depletion on everyone of
the default-energy fronts where we just into the Earth and use what we find, we
staunchly refuse to look at the greatest resource we can possibly have that is
greater than anything we dream about.
It is only by the foolish refusal to look at the real world that we have locked
ourselves into s dead-end game where our energy resources are coming to an end no
matter how we slice the pies up.
With this dead-end being committed to behind the near universal denial of the power
of our humanity, the end of the human future literally does stand before us, because
we refuse to step up to higher ground. Nevertheless the development of our power
to access the cosmic electric energy streams, remains standing before us. It is our
future. We remain doomed only by our smallness in thinking, and only for as long as
we cling to it.
The cosmic solution that we seek and need, is knowable too. The solution stares us in
the face. Our scientific sense as human beings enables us to see what lies outside the
scope of the default visual senses. With the eye of the mind we can see vast streams
of energy surrounding us, even in the small, here on earth. We see evidence of it
every time a lightning bolt strikes, and a tornado revs up, and a hurricane develops.
These are all phenomena powered on earth by cosmic electricity that we can give
ourselves access to.
It has been long believed that lightning and tornadoes are the result of thermal
convection. But the closer one looks, the more it becomes apparent that these
amazingly powerful phenomena, like the hurricanes, result from much more powerful
forces of a magnitude that is typical of the electric force to achieve.
Thermal convection provides the interface for the current-flow from the ionosphere
into the clouds, but the power that unfolds in the giant storms is of a greater
magnitude than simply warm air rising.
Hurricanes are essentially twisters on a larger scale, which require larger resources
to get going. The hurricanes appear in two bands, north and south of the equator, in
the tropical zones. The hurricane bands are most active in areas where the
electrojets in the ionosphere are located overhead. Since the electrojets are tilted
with the tilt of the Earth's magnetic 'pole,' the electro-jet that crosses South
America is tilted too far south to be in range for the tropical air currents to start
hurricanes. Apparently as a consequence, the seas near South America are free of
hurricanes.
When the hurricanes are hooked into the ionospheric currents of the electrojets, a
connection is established that moves with the hurricanes for long distances.
The strongest storms occur where the node points are the strongest, and appear not
at all where the electric currents are out of range, as on both sides of South
America. The lack of hurricanes there adds one more proof to the hypothesis that
hurricanes are electrically powered.
Our cosmic electric energy utilization.
The sad fact is that we have not even begun the kind of serious energy production on
earth that we are capable of. We have played with toys so far.
We have worked our way up the energy-resource ladder. We started with burning
wood. When this became too 'small' for our needs in terms of energy density, we
began to burn coal, then oil and gas, and soon thereafter we learned to use nuclear
fuels. We've advanced up many steps on this ladder. But there remains one last step
to take. This is a giant step that promises to change the entire energy spectrum on
Earth. The step involves the utilization of cosmic energy resources. Those have no
resource depletion limits. They are anti-entropic in nature.
Let's make a comparison. Let's look at the total electric energy production on the
Earth, and consider it in cosmic terms. The total world electricity production flux is
2,500 gigawatts. This adds up to a mere five one-thousands of a watt per square
meter of the Earth.
Now let us compare this minuscule amount of the manmade electric energy, with the
energy of the solar energy that the Earth is receiving , which adds up to 773 watts
per square meter. This means that the cosmic energy flux that is radiated from the
Sun is 150,000 times larger than our current world production of electric energy.
This also means that the cosmic electric energy that powers the Sun itself, is many
times greater again. It is this larger cosmic energy flux that is to a lesser degree
accessible by humanity on Earth. It is the resource for our future, if we care to have
a future.
We gain a glimpse, by the comparison presented here, of the gigantic cosmic energy
resources that lay at our feet, which are presently not utilized, and not even being
seriously considered to become utilized as an energy resource. We close our eyes
instead, to this available energy resource. We close our eyes to it while our future
depends on this very resource that we don't want to see.
We have no need, even today while the sun still shines brightly, to depend on radiated
thermal energy that is coming from the Sun, which ends to a large degree when the
Sun becomes inactive. The sunlight we receive today is a secondary effect of the
cosmic electric-energy being utilized by the Sun, which we have the intelligent
capability to hook ourselves into directly, instead of standing at the back door as
beggars.
This recognition gives us the freedom to step beyond windmill projects and solar
panels, which render us as impotent beggars at the back door, which is itself subject
to closure. We have the scientific resources as human beings that enable us to utilize
the cosmic energy resources directly, which are available to us in the space around
the Earth, which are the same resources that are powering the Sun itself and also
some rather impressive phenomena on earth.
The power that powers the hurricanes doesn't flow from the Sun to us as thermal
energy. Hurricanes and tornadoes are electrically powered. They are a tiny part of
the evidence that our world, together with the Sun, is afloat in a vast sea of cosmic
electric-energy - a resource that can never be exhausted.
Our humanist energy.
While we are running out of many types of 'energy' on this planet, as we consume
their resources, we need to recognize that not all of the energies that we require to
exist as a society, are found in the physical domain.
Civilization is primarily a construct of humanist energy that reflects the power of a
substance that is spiritual. This means that we cannot be running out of energy in the
sphere of our humanity, reflected culturally, economically, and financially.
Our humanity is not consumable. It cannot be used up. But it needs to be nurtured,
especially in the dark places. Where there is no beauty, it can be again. Where there
is no love, it can triumph again.
If a loss in civilization and culture occurs, it doesn't mean that what was once
precious has been used up. It only means that we have closed our eyes to our own
light.
If the loss of our humanist energy occurs in the financial landscape of civilization,
the consequences of keeping our eyes closed come to light with ominous forebodings
and shadows fast falling around covering the landscape with a consuming darkness.
The loss of attention to society's humanist energy was powerfully illustrated by the
2013 financial bail-in process on the island of Cyprus, with which the economy of
Cypress was recently devastated as if an atomic bomb had hit.
The bail-in process is a form of legal confiscation of a large portion of society's
assets that people assume they own in the form of bank deposits. It was that way
once when honour and humanity were held high, but it is no more. It is now an illusion.
Every bank deposit is play money now that rides the roulette wheels on financial
derivatives casino. The winnings are kept by the banks. If the banks loose, your
money is gone with the wind. It is a kind of bank heist by the banks. Your assets
simply get 'bailed in' to pay for the banks losses. What you thought you had exists no
more, unless you bought insurance for your bank deposits and the insurance is sound.
That's how the game is played.
In Cyprus the grand theft was implemented against people's accounts exceeding the
insured limit of 100,000 Euros. The rest was deemed fair game and was largely
confiscated on orders of the rulers of the European Union to save the gambling
banks owned by the rulers of the game.
The bail-in scheme, to pay the gambling debts of the bankers on orders from on high,
now stands before society as the universal template for the future. It marks a
turning point towards the end of civilization and of the productive and creative
development of humanity. It also marks the self-surrender of society's humanity. It
marks the end of human values, of society standing up for itself by protecting one
another.
The great bank heist by the banks, applied in Cyprus, was launched officially from
the highest ranks in Europe, from the European Commission, the European Central
Bank, and the IMF, all ganging up against the people.
The wonderfully 'profitable' game for the masters of it, was designed from the
start to serve as a template to be applied to the rest of Europe, the USA, and the
entire West.
Since the bail-in laws have already been passed in the legislatures of most of the
nations in the West, the template of the great legal bank heist in Cyprus, by the
banks themselves, is now enshrined in law throughout the entire western world. So be
prepared! It's coming soon to the banks near you.
The grand theft that is now legal is designed as a method for paying off the banks
derivatives gambling losses. The bail-in of the depositors' assets is deemed
necessary as a means to keep 'systemically important financial institutions,' which
means all the big gambling banks, from going bankrupt from their gambling losses,
whereby the gambling casino itself is protected so that the gamblers never
loose. This is what society is agreeing with in the shadow of its waning interest in its
self-protection and self-development. That's what gambling fundamentally is, isn't
it?
The now legalized wide-open thievery may seem so insane that many say it will never
happen. The reality is that it has already happened in Cyprus. But even years before
it happened in Cyprus, the laws had already been out in place for the grand thievery
to be implemented throughout the Western world at a moment's notice.
One member of the US Congress protested, saying that this wild scheme will never
pass in the house of Congress. He had to be reminded that it has already passed, and
that he himself voted it up in passing the Dodd- Frank bill. Unless the grand-theft
laws are rescinded, the grand-theft bail-in heist may soon be featured at the banks
near you. This is how deeply our society lost its humanity, its humanist energy, its
power to protect and advance itself.
The bail-in process is an extension of the bailout process. With the bailout process
up to 50 trillion dollars have already been stolen from society by way of the
government 'printing' more money. The increased issuing of currency hyperinflates
the currency. This means that the greater the volume is with which currency is
issued, the less the currency is functionally worth. Society's assets are radically
shrunk by this thievery. It is a hidden kind of theft that is applied with the bailout
process. However, since the bailout process is slow and cumbersome, the bail-in
process has been added to steal another 11 trillion dollars from society in a more
streamlined fashion. In its cultivated small-minded self-centered focus society
utters not as much a whimper, much less the kind of powerful protest that a human
society is capable of.
The cultivated smallness in society appears to be intentional. It is self-evident that
even the greatest grand thievery will not solve any of the underlying ailments of the
world economies, or even the ailments of the banks. The evidence stands glaringly
before us in the ratio of society's assets in the banks in comparison with the size of
the financial-derivatives casino-scams that the banks are running, to which the
depositors' assets are applied to cover the losses.
The ratio is enormous. With just a few trillion dollars in assets, the banks operate a
casino that carries gambling contracts in the range of 1,500 to 1,700 trillions of
dollars in notional values. Since the banks control the game, they rarely ever loose.
They rake in fantastic fees from the gambling orgies. These the banks consume as
profits and pay out to the thieves.
However, if the banks loose, and this applies to nearly all financial institutions in the
modern world, it only takes a few cases from the enormous bulk of risky gambles, for
the banks to gamble away all the assets that they have, which are typically their
depositors assets. In order to save the banks from going under, the taxpayers were
coerced to step up to the plate and bail the banks out, as an 'emergency' measure to
keep the system afloat.
In the modern age of the bail-in game has been added, with which the thievery from
society has been streamlined. The process has become so highly automated that the
'death of civilization' can be inflicted in the space of a single day. Naturally, the bail-
in automation can't solve the underlying problem, because it is simply impossible for
all the money in the world to pay off the gambling losses in the horrifically giant
financial-derivatives casino that has become a monster that dwarves everything. Yes,
the monster will kill you. The killing spree serves the depopulation game. The
depopulation target is to shrink the human society on this planet from the present
seven billion to about one billion, all nicely mired in poverty as in the 'golden age' of
feudalism. The wholesale confiscation of society's bank deposits with the bail-in
game, will invariably kill people in large numbers. When the financial interchange that
enables economic actions, stops, then everything stops. The fuel supply stops.
Transportation stops. The food supply stops. And without food, people don't live long.
The bail-in process is by design a process of genocide. That's what the evidence
indicates.
The deadly 'colour' of the bail-in game may not appear on the surface. It remains
carefully hidden until the day it is unleashed.
In the case of an ice berg, less than 10% of its volume is visible on the surface. In
the case of the derivatives gambling orgy almost nothing is visible on the surface.
Like the infamous Titanic was sunk by colliding it with the invisible ice below the
surface, so society is set up to be sunk by its impending collision with the
derivatives-gambling orgy that becomes dramatically 'visible' only when the ship
sinks.
While the sinking of civilization, and mankind with it, has been prepared to happen,
with or without the ice age ahead, there exists no need for society to follow the
prepared course. Our human energy, which is not a naturally depletable resource, has
been blocked artificially. It has been taken down by political means. It lays useless on
the ground. It has become so lifeless that the entire Western world bows to the
kings of empire and the glitter of its money that has no value in the spiritual heavens
for the fulfillment of the common aims of mankind, which is built on productivity,
creativity, cooperation, good will, care, science, and love.
Every homeless person, unemployed, and desperately in want, stands before us as an
indictment of our humanity, and an indictment of us for having allowed the most
precious we have, to diminish. Society has been dragged into a war against itself.
For example, in the service of real estate speculation, rent gouging, and so on, the
pricing of homes has taken on such catastrophic proportions that the resulting
depressed living conditions in the society at large depress the value of the greatest
asset a society has, which is itself. This insanity opens the flood gates to ever
greater forms of hell.
Everything that has been produced on this Earth has been created by human beings
in intelligent, productive processes. If we trash the human landscape with poverty,
manifest in slum living, unemployment, and harassment instead of care, and so on, we
deplete the spiritual strength of the human being by the tragic process of neglect:
by neglecting the intelligence that powers agriculture, industries, scientific
discoveries, creative cultures, music, literature, health care, education, and so on.
To whatever degree we allow poverty to develop in society, we foster a society that
is destroying itself and is on the path of becoming a terminal society. When the
precious is lost, little but a shell remains.
Poverty, thus isn't a characteristic of the just the poor people and the down-
trodden. Poverty is a symptom of a dying society; a society that is dying at the heart.
It is a measure of the lack of quality in human relationships, and the lack of power in
society to assure its survival.
The polarization of wealth is a typical syndrome on the face of a dying civilization.
The polarization of wealth is the product of the ever-widening circles of thievery
that is the hallmark of the oligarchic system of private imperial monetarism that is
collapsing civilization.
The bail-in process and its tragedy is not an isolated phenomenon then, or a new
invention of our times as were. It is instead merely another further-aggravated
symptom of the same disease in society that has been left to fester for far too long,
instead of it being healed. Naturally the tragedies that flow from this relentless
process of empire become increasingly worse.
There was a time in the past, when a protection had been developed against the
thievery and rampages of empire, which had culminated in 1648 in the Treaty of
Westphalia that ended the scourge of the Thirty Years War. This protection has
been removed in many places. It is said that we are now in the Post Westphalian era.
In the USA, in 1933, the Glass Steagall Act had effectively curbed the wanton
speculation in the banking world. It had protected the nation's currency and
economic development for 60 years. It had protected society quite effectively
against the worst forms of the speculative thievery.
Then, in 1999, in order to get this protection against thievery removed, the financial
oligarchy had put up a $350 million slush fund to bribe the lawmakers and parties to
repeal the Glass Steagall financial protection act.
With this massive kind of bribery corrupting the small group of lawmakers that
number just over 500 people, and the political parties that control them, the repeal
of the Glass Steagall Act promptly happened as ordered, and with it the protection
of society was repealed.
Society hasn't mustered the humanist strength to date to get its self-protection re-
instated, which, if it was voted up again would block the bail-in process that promises
to have nuclear-war type consequences for society. This impotence in society, to
protect itself, is not natural. It has been carefully cultivated over many years.
The 'nuclear' consequences that will ensue in due course are evidently intended
under the long-promoted depopulation program that aims to eliminate much of the
world population, from the seven billion people living today, to about one billion. This
plan is well under way. It will succeed unless society rebuilds it humanist energy and
claims its humanity back.
This is a type of the deadly face, of the poverty in modern society in terms of its
lost humanist power. It is the face of a wilful regression that renders society
increasingly unqualified for survival. The disease in society that fosters its giving up
its humanist power, is deadly. It is chronic and terminal. The threat of nuclear war is
merely a facet of this disease become acute, which now threatens to extinct
humanity altogether.
Fortunately, the humanist energy is not built on a finite resource that can be
depleted, like the resources for oil, gas, and nuclear power are being depleted.
Humanist energy is built on an anti-entropic resource that becomes more abundant
the more it is developed.
The most advanced science of Christianity, Christian Science, defines the human
energy resource as our divine resource, expressed in such profound spiritual qualities
as intelligence, love, truthfulness, honesty, creativity, productivity, honour,
generosity, joy, and so on.
Take love, for example. We cannot see it, weigh it, measure it, but we have learned
from experience that when it is withdrawn from the human landscape civilization
disintegrates. Wars are created that way, and are started for this purpose.
Inversely, when the divine spiritual qualities that are reflected in our humanity are
developed and used as a foundation to build on, a great renaissance unfolds in
civilization. Every renaissance in history was built on this platform and became a
showcase for the spiritual power of humanity and the rich potentials of its culture.
On this front, the divine, spiritual nature of humanity is our infinite resource for
empowering the grandest renaissance of all times. It has been our resource for ages
past and will be that again for times and times to come.
The small-minded sense and supposed beastliness of mankind is a lie. Famines, and
fascism, and all of the empire wars against humanity, are lies, lies against humanity,
lies rooted in society's degraded self-perception that became a people's self-denial
of its native humanist energy and power.
We have seen a number of great achievements in history in which humanity began to
heal itself of the disease of oligarchy, empire, wealth, poverty, monetarism, and
fascism, and its quiescence to them.
Since the human energy in society for its self-revival is not naturally depletable, the
apparent loss of it during the ancient and modern dark ages is a purely artificial
effect that can be reversed. And why shouldn't a similar reversal process start now,
and start on the entire front. The process of humanist re-inflation always begins in
the present.
The development of our humanist energy-resource is an absolutely necessary pre-
condition for the development of the astrophysical electric energy resources that we
require for the survival of civilization.
The technologies that enable us to access the interface to the cosmic energy-
streams up to 100 Km above the surface of the Earth, are not beyond our reach. Just
as hurricanes and tornadoes are routinely powered by the grand cosmic resources,
the economies of humanity can be powered so likewise. Of course the required
infrastructures need to be developed and built. But those too are not beyond our
reach either once we develop our spiritual humanist power more fully that enables us
to step up to the task.
In this context, the world's future energy development is a function of society's
humanist development. The two happen together as an integrated process, or they
don't happen at all.
If we do not begin this process soon, and develop our humanist power on all fronts, in
order to be able to 'fly' at ever higher levels on the wide front of our humanity, we
won't have the humanist power created within us to develop the boundless cosmic
electric-energy resources that are within reach, but which we need as an
infrastructure to be able to fly through the long night of the ice age cycles under an
inactive Sun.
Of course we can also choose to do nothing and remain glued to the easy chair as all
the previous human society apparently have done who have failed to protect their
existence and stopped moving forward.
We, the homosapiens #8 - the only surviving and the shortest lived of all the the
human species, at barely 200,000 years of age - are roughly the eighth major human
species. The previous seven have all become extinct, possibly as the result of the
many Ice Ages.
Homo erectus #4 had existed for 1.5 million years, but it too became extinct. But
now, for the first time in geologic history, we, as the first species ever, have
developed the capacity to steal the sting off the Ice Age and bypass the tragedy
that other species may have suffered as the result of it. Our challenge, this time
around, is to make it through the next ice age with a seven to 10 billion population and
come out richer at the end. We can do this with the power of developed cosmic
resources on hand and not miss a beat as we move forward.
Shouldn't we act then, to protect the little we have still left of our humanity, and
enrich it as never before, and build on it with our eyes focused on the infinite future
that is due to us as the most advanced species of life on the Earth?
Appendix
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1* The Energy Challenge IDX CMB TXT
2* Alternate Energy IDX CMB TXT
3* Humanist Spiritual Energy IDX CMB TXT
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Entry points:
25:10 - nuclear fusion power (2)
37:00 - biofuels (2)
40:20 - artificial energy crisis (3)
44:00 - cosmic electric energy utilization (3)
47:52 - our humanist, spiritual energy (3)
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