The US isn’t inside this bubble, we are in direct competition with all our allies, trade partners and rival empires such as China. One area that is very dangerous in this competition is energy usage and importation of energy products. The US, unlike all our trade rivals, has insisted on very cheap energy costs based on our expectations of the past when we produced all the energy we consumed. The inability to shift gears, importing energy instead of producing enough, is fatal for the US.
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The US can’t afford cheap energy if a lot of this is imported! All our trade rivals tax energy imports via gasoline taxes, etc. So people are accustomed to using much less energy per capita than US residents. One common theme here at my blog is how the US MUST imitate all trade rivals ALL the time. That is, we can’t float along in our bubble for ever. It will pop.
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To change direction, we don’t simply do whatever we wish, we have to study all those nations that are besting us in international production, trade and systems usage and then do the exact same thing or better. When we see data coming in showing the US going into the ‘green’ instead of running in the ‘red’ we will know that we succeeded.
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So far, our success rate is wretched. So, we must look at the latest energy news to understand what is really going on here. That is, there is a lot of dissension about ‘are we at the Hubbert Oil Peak now? Or are we not there, yet?’ This debate reminds me of children whining, ‘Are we there yet?’ while the parents try to drive somewhere distant.
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The truth is, we cannot tell where the peak is until we are well past it and incoming data makes this obvious! So we can’t tell, yet. The real thing here is to recognize, there will be a peak and we will reach it. I still notice that people writing about this peak make the common error of thinking the peak means we run out of oil. No, that is the valley, not the peak. The peak is maximum production.
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Energy body rejects whistleblower allegations of oil cover up – CNN.com
A senior source within the IEA is reported to have told The Guardian newspaper that many within the agency believe the body’s prediction for oil supplies “is much higher than can be justified….
. …”The whistleblower, who reportedly refused to be identified for fear of reprisals, told the newspaper that: “Many inside the organization believe that maintaining oil supplies at even 90 million to 95 million barrels a day would be impossible, but there are fears that panic could spread on the financial markets if the figures were brought down further.” . …Non-OECD countries led by China and India are behind more than 90 percent of predicted rise, along with the Middle East. Despite the push towards renewable energy, the IEA predicts three quarters of the increased demand would be for fossil fuels….
. …Crude oil would be expected to cost as much as $115 per barrel by 2030. This year, the IEA estimates oil prices will average around $60 a barrel. Crude is currently trading around $80 a barrel after a spike earlier this week. The IEA says the worst case scenarios can be avoided if world leaders agree a global climate change treaty at next month’s U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen (COP15)….
. …It acknowledges the challenge is “formidable,” but says the reductions in energy-related CO2 emissions can be achieved through emissions caps, a move to low or zero carbon energy sources and new technologies including carbon capture and storage. The IEA concludes that trillions of dollars in additional investment is needed to avoid the worst case scenario of climate change.
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This article illustrates the schizophrenic belief clashes that cause everyone to seemingly rush from one side of a sinking ship to the other. The fears of global warming are based on the assumption there will be no Hubbert ENERGY peak. The wishful thinking of many humans on this planet is, we can consume infinite energy so we can be happy and comfortable. But there is no infinite energy nor would that be good for us at all. All sane working systems in the realm of reality have limits.
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Judging what these physical as well as mental limits are and living within them is the key to a sane life and a working system. Any time any part of any system suddenly shoots to infinity, this is a danger sign showing impending destruction of the entire system from top to bottom. Even when the thing going to infinity is purely mental such as the Derivatives Beast’s numbers, this can still destroy massive sections of civilization itself.
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The person in the above story that raised a lot of concern today is anonymous. This is typical of our mess we are in: this person didn’t have the guts to stand his or her ground and be public about this matter. The world is coming to an end…and they are too cowardly to stand up and say so, personally! HAHAHA. I am getting sick and tired of this level of non-entity screaming about doom. If what this person says is true, then we will crash into this implacable wall, won’t we?
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And of course, if the Hubbert oil peak hits too early, there will be even more wars and not just those waged by the US against major oil producers like Iran or Iraq. This could trigger WWIII. Right now, the US is content to ship our all our paper money value and let other nations buy oil while we try to steal it via military interventions. Of course, these are going very, very badly for us right now due to religious animosities.
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On Sunday, I was at the town dump throwing out junk when I overheard on of our older WWII vets discussing his son with the other guys there. ’He’s home this month,’ said the dad. ’But he is going back to Iraq soon.’ They then discussed how many times he has cycled in and out. ’I suppose he will be doing this the rest of his life,’ sighed the father. Indeed, until this poor son either goes mad or gets killed or maimed.
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The price of oil is going up again. As Asia revives after the depression, their consumption resumes its radical climb. During all of this stuff, the US has continued to import and consume oil as if there is no economic crisis at all. But the crisis is not just in oil but in the value of the dollar. More about that in a minute. First, news about the US belatedly trying to do what all our trade rivals did long ago:
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Governors commit to offshore wind energy – wtop.com
The governors of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware agreed Tuesday to a partnership to encourage the deployment of offshore wind energy in the region, hoping to capitalize on the Mid-Atlantic’s enormous offshore wind resources….
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…Generating energy from offshore wind turbines would bring Maryland closer to accomplishing the governor’s aggressive environmental initiatives, which include a commitment to producing 20 percent of the state’s energy from renewable sources by 2022….
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…There are currently no offshore wind turbines operating in the United States, so these states expect to face challenges.
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Good grief! The US has excellent access to incredible amounts of seaward energy production and it is at ZERO! None. This is just incredible! In my community, after a lot of howling and shrieking from ‘environmentalists’ who use lots of energy, we are getting windmills in the high hills here. Jimminy Peak, a local ski resort here was the very first to erect a giant windmill. Now, there are dozens more adorning various ridges.
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But try to get these put up off of Cape Cod! Oh, the mercy! Yachting rich were annoyed that they might see these magnificent structures offshore! So it was killed. This is the paradox of environmentalists: their perfect world seems to be ‘have your cake and eat it too’. That is, 100% wishful thinking. Well, we have to make choices! And I pray that all environmentalists prove their true worth by NEVER FLYING VIA JET. Period. No ifs, ands or buts.
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Fat chance! This is why I am not even slightly impressed by their goofy statements, warnings or demands. Either they practice what they preach (I lived off the grid for many years, for example) or shut up.
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Germany OKs Huge Offshore Wind Farms – BusinessWeek
On Wednesday, Germany’s cabinet approved plans to dedicate special zones off its northern coast to house up to 40 offshore windparks that could provide electricity to over eight million households.
. The plan involves setting aside zones between 12 and 200 kilometers (seven and 124 miles) off its northern shores. Of the 40 wind farms, 30 would be in the North Sea and 10 in the Baltic Sea. Of these, 25 have already received approval—22 in the North Sea and three in the Baltic Sea.
. In total, the plan envisions German offshore wind parks holding up to 2,500 wind turbines. German Federal Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee also said that the plan could create about 30,000 jobs.
. According to ministry statements, the wind farms should generate around 12,000 megawatts by 2030. In strong winds, this would be equivalent to the energy generated by 12 medium-sized nuclear plants. “From our planned farms in the North Sea alone, we could provide 6.8 million additional homes with electricity,” Tiefensee told reporters, adding that the farms in the Baltic Sea could provide energy for 1.5 million more households.
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Germany has a higher solar energy panel use per capita than any nation on earth, too! Germany has been very focused on the energy side of imports. That is, Germany imports a lot of energy from say, Russia. And is very keen to cut back on these imports as well as imports from other oil/gas producing nations. Germany also has a strong Green party/belief system which is active and not all about wishful thinking like the US.
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In the US, the ‘green’ parties have been sidetracked by a thousand ideological itches and quirks to the point, it is nearly totally paralyzed here. Faith in the concept of ‘global warming’ is waning fast here due to a refusal of the green groups to admit we can have cold summers due to volcanic dust, for example. Those of us who wish to expand alternative energy production get stymied by ‘green’ people who simply want some sort of Garden of Eden while living with the snake of constant creature comforts.
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So we get nothing much done! And time is running out. When the Hubbert ENERGY peak hits us it will clobber us right smack in the face.
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Japan plans solar power station in space – Telegraph
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) hopes that the ambitious plans will help ease the country’s energy problems as well as providing a solution for global warming. A select group of companies and researchers have been given the task of designing and building the Space Solar Power System (SSPS)….
. …Once collected, the solar energy would be beamed down to a substation on Earth, using laser beams or microwaves….
. ….A test version of the orbital solar panels is expected to be launched in 2020. The final version should be in space in 2030, and will create about one gigawatt of energy – the equivalent of a mid-sized nuclear power plant. If it all goes to plan, the electricity produced will be six times cheaper than current energy costs in Japan.
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If the Japanese system works, you can bet both Germany and China will rush in to imitate it. This is the key: IMITATE SUCCESSES! A harsh lesson. Ultimately, space is great for generating energy. We are surrounded by vast oceans of energy that sweeps silently around us. It is immense and very, very powerful. Now, let us to to the Texas sector of the Federal Reserve for some energy graphs:
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Quarterly Energy Update, Third Quarter 2009 – Economic Research Publications – FRB Dallas
U.S. petroleum inventories remain above their five-year seasonal average but have come down substantially from the levels seen in early May (Chart 4). While the economy and petroleum product consumption appear to be stabilizing, the absolute level of demand remains weak and supplies are plentiful.
Global oil supply declined by almost half a million barrels per day in August as increased cheating from OPEC failed to offset declines in non-OPEC production. Non-OPEC production declined by 450,000 barrels but was still significantly higher than a year ago. OPEC compliance now stands at 66 percent. At the September 9 OPEC meeting, quotas remained unchanged and the discussion focused on increasing compliance levels.
The price of oil is climbing despite all of this data not due to being at the Hubbert Oil Peak but due to two things: the US/Japan/EU ZIRP system that forces everyone to speculate elsewhere. And the dying dollar. Here is a graph from the Fed last year showing clearly that the oil price hikes that savage our economy are actually dollar-driven:
Quarterly Energy Update, Second Quarter 2008 – Economic Research Publications – FRB Dallas
If we calculate the rise in the price of oil against the value of gold, it is actually DECLINING! This is a key leading indicator that currency disruptions, not scarcity, are the ultimate drivers of rising oil prices. I went to a gold site to do some comparisons of currency versus gold price hikes. That is, whose gold prices shot up and whose gold prices were stable. And look! There is a huge differential in this business!
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European gold price charts — gold prices in euros and foreign exchange
1. UK: 220—>670: 3.0
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2. US: 400—>1,116: 2.79
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3. Euro: 300—>742: 2.47
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4. Canada: 500—>1,165: 2.33
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5. Japan: 48,000—>100,293: 2.0
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6. Australia: 600—>peak 1,450 down to 1,198: 1.9
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7. Swiss: 500—>670: 1.34
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I ranked these currencies based on how much the price of gold doubled or tripled over the last 5 years. The first number is 5 years ago and the last number is how much it has jumped over the base price. The UK has seen gold triple in value. But the Swiss have seen it barely budge!
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Buying gold to hold against the Swiss currency is nearly pointless. Buying it to protect wealth from declining in Britain makes perfect sense! The price of gold versus oil has barely moved at all. But the dollar is obviously weak! Look at the data above!
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What is horrifying is Australia: destination of much of the new US dollar carry trade, the price of gold is DROPPING! Still, it has nearly doubled. But the drop is interesting to me. As the carry trade cascades over Australia, this will drop even more and drop faster! This is a leading indicator of huge future troubles not only for Australia but for the US!
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Something is very, very, very wrong and I would suggest it is ZIRP. ZIRP is an evil in itself. It is unnatural. At no time in history has banking systems run on giving out no return on savings. This is because it has NOTHING to do with declining prices and everything to do with capitalizing the production of lending! The inflation/deflation game is modern. That is, central bankers want to have this ’stability’ so they look only at prices, not debt production versus capitalization.
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And this is why we are in so much trouble in so many systems! What is the carry trade doing with gold versus the Aussie currency? This is a thing we should understand better. I can make one secure prediction: this will end very badly in a collapse of the Aussie banking system and economy. As well as possibly in the US, too.
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November 11, 2009 at 4:01 pm
http://www.theoildrum.com
has some good graphs regarding production. Seems to suggest we peaked a year or two ago at somewhere between 85 and 87 mbpd. I suppose time will tell if we will surge past that level of production in a few years, or start the decline.
My prediction is that oil production did peak then.
November 11, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Who cares about finite oil blablayadayada, free energy exists. The elite want to keep control of the energy supply so they have been suppressing this knowledge ever since Tesla first discovered it. Funk finite resources, abundant energy is all around us, in India they call it Prana, in Japan Ki, in China Chi, the Western philosophers of old called it The Aether, time to tap into this infinite source of energy!
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ELAINE; No, they have not been suppressing anything at all in energy. It is just that oil was so very, very cheap for very, very long.
November 11, 2009 at 4:14 pm
We are out of touch with The Aether/Prana/Ki/Chi and live in our heads in this present day and age, what a shame, disconnected from the Universe itself!
November 11, 2009 at 4:15 pm
The correlation of oil prices to gold has been tracked for years and is actually the benchmark standard to measure the RELATIVE price fluxuations vis a vis supply/demand metrics. This is old school and dates back to the original deal struck by KISSINGER in the early 70’s with the Saudi’s when Nixon decoupled the USD from the gold standard. The quid pro quo was that ME oil was sold exclusively in dollars, driving global dollar demand through the roof and allowing profligate US spending for 3 decades. Further, the bulk of the oil earnings had to be deposited in the large US based banks like BOA, Chase and Citibank. In fractional reserve terms (at say 6% reserves) this is massive leverage to create new credits driving economic expansion in the US economy. The same banks would manipulate the gold price using a variety of means to assure the Saudi’s that their dollars were in fact tied to gold indirectly…ie that the dollars could be redeemed in the open market instead of from the US treasury at the agreed ratios…in effect the same outcome. As gold fluxuated, oil trailed up or down. Very tight correlation. The kicker to the deal was that the Saudi’s gained US military protection. Great deal for all! Except now that is unwinding under the weight of massive FRAUD.
The currency ratios you note relative to gold are the same. It reflects the stability of the government, GDP/ability to tax future output (as you noted) as well as the inflation of the money supply. The currency valuation is exactly the same as equities, as most governments are corporations and pay dividends/returns (interest-taxes), appreciate/depreciate based on essentially business fundamentals just as other companies do. Swiss is very stable and fiscally responsible.
Your point that the US should copy everyone else rather than innovate is stupid. This plays against the countries fundamental strengths and goes against the cultural realities of its people. The reason the US is floundering is that the economic fraud and criminal activities have penetrated the highest level of government. Fraud is accepted and normal business today. Things like manipulating the currency valuations and gold suppression schemes as well as outrageous financial fraud are causing this countries demise. Innovation, thrift and education took us to the top and will again once the scum have run their course.
In short, gold is the universal measure
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ELAINE: The flaw in your analysis is simple: the international dollars are not being held by any US banks, they tend to hold debts. Nope, we look to central banks of all our trade rivals and voila! There it is: over $4trillion in cash.
November 11, 2009 at 4:29 pm
A little extra research on the cause of the mortgage meltdown issue here in the good ol USA.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/rosin-prosperity-gospel
If you think it is difficult for a rich man to enter the positive side of whichever afterlife fantasy you believe in, think how much harder it must be for a poor man without even a bribe to offer the gatekeeper.
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ELAINE: Ah, but the clever Chinese people figured out 1,000 years ago, they could cheat the Guardians at the Gates of Death by burning counterfeit money at funerals. See how easy it is?
November 11, 2009 at 5:08 pm
@ Wu Wei –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTir6cISA8
I think Tesla called it etheric energy.
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ELAINE: And it was pretty useless. But fits perfectly in your bizarro universe of up is down and in is out.
November 11, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Thanks for this excellent article. I think you are right on the mark and the consequences of peak oil WILL cause wars, it has already begun.
Besides the poppy business, the U.S. is in Afghanistan to hopefully control energy pipelines (oil & gas). If the Iranian and Eurasian energy starts flowing east – we are in big trouble.
One thing that many miss is the importance of oil. It is not just a form of energy it is a necessary part of agriculture and required for the production of plastics.
Good stuff Elaine.
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ELAINE: 100% correct.
November 11, 2009 at 5:50 pm
”The fears of global warming are based on the assumption there will be no Hubbert ”
Elaine, you really need to do some more research [realclimate.org, these are climate scientists not 'just ' enviromentalists]. Our fear is based on the idea that AGW is already unstoppable, the only question remaining is the severity.
Also ,the report i read on Sinclair’s was that the US had pressured the IEA to falsify the reports.
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ELAINE: Global warming is never ‘unstoppable’. The sun CHANGES all the time. It is a much more variable star than most people imagine. This information is from my father, a man who has studied the sun for more than half a century. I grew up playing around the solar observatory at Kitt Peak.
The sun changes!!! And the continents move. And volcanoes erupt. And all it takes is one major caldera event, one major asteroid event or the sun simply changing its energy generation cycles slightly and we go into the Ice Ages again….we are still in the Ice Age cycle, you know.
My dad loves to say, we are one event away from mile thick ice sheets over North America again.
November 11, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Did you guys read the story about Evergreen Solar of Marlboro Mass ?
Seems like they scammed the Commonwealth of Massachushitts to the tune of 58 Million kahunas of job stimulus money.
And they are now in the process of shuffling off to Chinatown with the job prospects.
All Heil to Most Glorious “Free” Market
November 11, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Elaine,
Did you see the movie “The Changeling”? One character was a preacher who fought tooth and nail against a corrupt LA police force, shouting to the world about their corruption.
If a preacher did that today, he would be fired in a minute. He would flush 20 years of hard work right down the toilet. So todays preachers only talk nice happy talk about Jesus. It is all they are allowed to do. They aren’t allowed to be warriors like Jesus was.
My point is this. I’m not sure “Coward” is the right word for the whistleblower. If he speaks publicly, he gets fired, sacrifices his career, possibly loses all his savings, his home, etc. By staying anonymous he can survive financially while still outing the information to the public. I think it takes some measure of courage and risk to blow the whistle, even if it is done anonymously.
Thanks.
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ELAINE: If I was a liar or shut up, I would have gotten a sweetheart job at the CIA back when I was only 20 years old. Instead, I declared war on the CIA. End of story. I ain’t rich. Heh. Though the CIA did ask me to teach the Maoist Chinese about capitalism. A huge mistake and I warned them about this but no one listens to me.
As for the Hubbert Oil Peak, I made the first speech about this thing way, way back in 1974. And I said, ‘After the year 2000, the window of opportunity to shift to alternative systems will shut on our fingers.’
I also said we would all be slaves except for the dear elites, of course. Did anyone listen?
Nope. So why is this dope so scared to say the obvious again? HAHAHA. Sheesh.
November 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Sorry guys/ gals.
I believe in some conspiracies but this Tesla stuff is waaay too weird.
Reaching for infinity with energy resources ain’t possible anymore than reaching for infinity with leveraged debt.
Hell, we’ve been dicking around with fusion for over 40 ys and nothing has come of it.
Nada.
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ELAINE: The minute anyone talks about infinity, my Libra antennae go boing and I get exceedingly suspicious and downright hostile.
November 11, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I quote Jim Dandy.
“Your point that the US should copy everyone else rather than innovate is stupid. This plays against the countries fundamental strengths and goes against the cultural realities of its people.”
So you bought into that one did you Jim. The fatest and most fckwitted people on the planet are somehow “special”. Collectively, you’ve got no chance.
November 11, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Speaking of free energy, my coworkers recently were talking about “Coral Castle” and one Edward Leedskalnin, who “learned the secrets of the Egyptians” and build amazing stone castle with enormously heavy rocks in Florida all by himself. He claimed to have invented a perpetual motion device to help him.
See http://coralcastle.com/
Ed Leedsalnin wrote a pamphlet on magnetism that was pretty interesting, for a man with no formal education. According to Ed, the “cosmic force” and earth’s magnetic field can be used as a free source of energy, using the flow of magnets, or magnetic monopoles.
See:
http://www.leedskalnin.com/
Scientists may have found something akin to what he was talking about, “magnetricity” or flow of magnetic monopoles:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/10/15/scientists-create-magnetricity%E2%80%94magnetic-charge-that-flows-like-electricity/
Interesting thinking.
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ELAINE: Trump bought the castle and wrecked it. Heh.
I built and designed my own home. But I couldn’t invent a pretend perpetual motion machine. RATS. Otherwise, hoards of gullible people would be trooping to my mountain, begging me for love and affection. Instead, only coyotes and deer come here and make a mess.
November 11, 2009 at 7:00 pm
FWIW, I am finishing butchering a second deer this season (I didn’t kill them). What was very noticable was the lack of fat on the animals. Previous years had animals with handfuls of fat. This may suggest a very warm winter this year. It’s not like the animals weren’t well fed, living off the rich southern PA estates.
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ELAINE: I am afraid this is due not to a warm winter but rather, the dearth of nuts. It rained too much at the wrong times and so the pollination of the nut trees failed. I do lots of work in the woods and believe me, there are no nuts. I didn’t see zillions of nuts falling, either. And the mice and other small creatures are tearing into my house to get food, they are desperate.
This is also reported by scientists who study woodland ecosystems. It isn’t our imagination.
November 11, 2009 at 7:27 pm
“we have to study all those nations that are besting us in international production, trade and systems usage and then do the exact same thing or better…”
PBS had a wonderful program on the comparative study of health care in England, Japan, Switzerland and Taiwan.
Taiwan did exactly as you suggested and studied the health care of various countries and took the best part of each and incorporated it into theirs.
A simple task at problem solving that could also be conducted on the efficient use of energy, sensible conservation and energy production – that is unless your government is completely captured and held hostage by the very industries that the government is trying to control as we have in the US.
This situation leaves the likes of ourselves left out in the vacuous blogosphere with “what if’s” and hope linked to our optimistic imaginations.
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ELAINE: Hell’s bells, China does this all the time. They love to study other systems. This is maybe why they refuse to have our form of democracy, too.
November 11, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Bravo Elaine,
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great article and I agree 100%.
I came to the same conclusion about climate change lately (previously known as global warming, nowdays global colding
IPCC was just plain wrong with their calculations and now they are making a fool of themselves by not admitting their computer models are false. They also “lost” the data of the temperature measurements on which their calculations were based.
So the dog ate the most important research material of our decade.
Just watched a documentary on this subject here a couple of days ago. An older geologist called IPCC “playstation science” and “a hockey stick factory”.
Also they interviewed a scientist whose research on lake sediments had been used on IPCC reports. He said his charts about medieval warm period and old CO2 levels was turned upside down and IPCC findings were opposite to his.
Nobody knows how this planet works yet maybe some day we will.
IPCC should just admit defeat and go back to the drawing board. They have the politicians so deep in this they just cannot admit they are all wrong.
We have had far higher C02 levels and far warmer temperatures just a few hundred years ago and yes those were know as very good years all over Europe.
Wine grew in England for example.
Don´t get me wrong, I think we should protect nature, stop pollution, get away from oil etc. But we should make decisions on the right data not C02 alone.
Golf stream will not stop, it´s not possible, the oceans will not rise and the ice caps will not melt.
We will not all die due to CO2.
We might all die in WWIII though.
Here´s a transcript of the TV show in English called “MOT: Climate catastrophe cancelled”
http://tinyurl.com/yjksxxg
November 11, 2009 at 8:12 pm
John, I think you miss the point. What makes this country special and unique is the cultural diversity resulting from decades of immigration along with the ingenuity of those who have been here longer. This has resulted in countless innovations from which industries have sprung up creating REAL wealth.
Political mandates and a corrupt educational system have damaged this but it can be repaired. Copying others isn’t the way forward…but not to say we can’t learn from others.
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ELAINE: It is pointless to reinvent the wheel.
November 11, 2009 at 8:34 pm
JT where do you get such BS, oh ya, ‘global cooling’, there is an industry turning out this stuff. Like all the other internet ephemera etc.
November 11, 2009 at 9:20 pm
@Wu Wei
The problem with Ether is the EROI. For example, even if Mars consisted of one giant bubble of oil, it wouldn’t do us any good if we had to use ten times more energy to get it.
There will be no call for more fiat paper without more consumption, no increase in consumption without increase in production, and no increase in production without an increase in energy. Energy plateau means goodbye to central banking debt/monetary expansion. Goodbye UK GDP.
We tighten our belts but the kleptocrats have to get a real job. I’m sure some manager at a factory could use a clerk who knows how to shuffle paper and do accounting.
P.S. Did you actually write “yadayadayada”?
November 11, 2009 at 10:30 pm
More crazy thinking which is probably bunk, but thought inspiring none-the-less. I saw it a while ago when I was browsing Richard C. Cook’s site (which PLovering linked to the other day).
Along with the notion that electric current is really produced by magnetic monopole current, it may be possible that there is another kind of light (different than ordinary electromagnetic light), called magneto-electric light, or “SuperLight”:
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/milewski.htm
This SuperLight, according to a “mystic” named OmnaDelight, is God and consciousness. http://www.omnadelight.com/
Craziness, I tell ya, but who knows?
November 11, 2009 at 10:37 pm
OmnaDelight sounds like a stripper.
November 11, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Speaking of oil usage, I just recently returned from a 1,200 mile road trip. As usual, everyone drove faster than me. I tried to cruise along at 60 mph, which is plenty fast for any car or truck. The other drivers acted like I was causing the entire transportation system to collapse.
So, with the speed limit set at 70 mph in some areas, people were going 80 to 90 mph at a time when we are at war over oil. It does not really matter what Americans say. What they do says all, and what it says is that deep down they believe that all oil reserves belong to them and if anyone attempts to interfer with that right, then war is ok to stop them.
Another thing I saw was that there were very few 18 wheelers on the road now. In fact, I did not see a large number of them until I got near Chicago. They used to be bumper to bumper on I-75 and I-70 through Kentucky and Ohio, but it was clear sailing all the way until northern Indiana and Illinois.
I also found out what happened to the “there is no more boat” response I got from the US post office. There is a gigantic fleet of ghost ships sitting off the shore of a remote area of Indonesia not too far from Singapore, I think.
They could be used to transport people overseas instead of using jets, but I am pretty sure they will be turned into scrap metal, or maybe warships.
November 11, 2009 at 11:29 pm
@Elaine: “we would all be slaves except for the dear elites, of course.”
Except the dear elites would rather commit WW3 than let another set of elites, like the Communist Party of China, become TPTB.
And at the expense of me belaboring the obvious and restating what you’ve said before, WW3 would yield 100% die-offs of all things on Earth.
November 11, 2009 at 11:40 pm
@Chipper: the Christians are still allowed to be warriors. So long as they fight for the dear elites’ causes, or wage media wars against sexual minorities like gay men and lesbians or against religious minorities like Muslims. These media wars serve the elites’ existential need to divide the masses and provide scapegoats to divert attention from themselves.
November 11, 2009 at 11:50 pm
@Elaine about the nuts: I’m afraid we (well, probably not us in Fla and on the Gulf Coast and in Calif but everyone else in the US) are going to have another very cold winter. I’m very grateful I’m not a Northeastern or Canadian woodland critter.
November 12, 2009 at 12:04 am
@Jim Dandy, at some point peoplestop being innovative and immigrants stop coming in. Just ask any citizen of the Roman Empire.
Oh, wait! HAHAHA. Where is the Roman Empire today???
November 12, 2009 at 12:06 am
@JT: The real reason global warming is cancelled is because of peak oil. Add some more volcanoes, a supervolcano, or reduced output from the Sun, and Voila! A new Ice Age with mile thick ice sheets in Saint Louis.
November 12, 2009 at 12:16 am
Elaine,
Take some of our nuts please! Eastern MA has a bumper crop of acorns due to a whole lot of rain this year, I guess at the right times. Walking in my yard is literally like walking on ball bearings. I rake them up by the wheelbarrow load. There aren’t nearly enough animals to eat them. Other types of plants have suffered because of the rain. My grass hardly grew at all.
November 12, 2009 at 12:25 am
When (not if) peak oil passes, it will take more and more energy to obtain a certain quantity of energy out of our energy natural resources. Eventually it will be too expensive to get oil out of the ground, let alone coal, natural gas and uranium! THAT is why global warming is a myth.
More at Dimitry Orlov’s blog here: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/06/slope-of-dysfunction.html
November 12, 2009 at 12:44 am
UK Telegraph article notes that world gold supply is running out.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/6546579/Barrick-shuts-hedge-book-as-world-gold-supply-runs-out.html
This is, IMO, one of the two real reasons why oil is cheaper in terms of gold. Reason number two, being that we are at peak oil, is that the planet is awash in oil!
November 12, 2009 at 2:15 am
Google: “War on Terrorism or Oil War? See
the map of the Pipeline!”
Who is fooling Who????????????????????
November 12, 2009 at 2:31 am
@don, I remember that the BBC reported on its website in May, 2001, that BushCo was planning a war against Afghanistan. Yet, being American, I still get snookered by the politicians’ lies and propaganda.
November 12, 2009 at 3:10 am
Elaine , i think i read that it would take 2-3? pinatubo’s a year the offset GW, never mind the negative affects of those. As for betting on the solar flux to save us , that is rather a long shot given the difference in time scales, sun-life vs our lifetimes. At any rate the SF is not considered a significant factor even now at a solar minima. I feel that your otherwise excellent commentaries are being let down by these rather cavalier dismissals of the climate scientists work.
November 12, 2009 at 3:38 am
The truth is, we cannot tell where the peak is until we are well past it and incoming data makes this obvious! So we can’t tell, yet.
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if we have 100 years of natural gas, somewhere theres lots of oil… shale seems loss leading… but if we manage advances in technology could be we have access to reserves equal to or more than the geysers we seek to deplete… the problem is there is nothing sustainable about consumption
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im willing to bet on cheap energy ‘mostly because its a speculators paradise’…. nothing as sure to profit than miscomprehended benefit… so id say we have my lifetimes worth of energy else the run for the exits would be pretty profound and government would pee its pants if word got out…. noones worried about energy, just where it comes from and how green it is
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management is a skill… and promoting incompetent ‘profit mongers’ to mid tier decision making in the name of quality ‘motive’ is pretty asinine… profit is the nature of economic freedom, not a proof of ‘progress’…
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riches still take work…. at least for people that generate ‘wealth’
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so im in favor of government energy policy… some direction tword 50-70% renewables ‘nuclear is 100,000 year fuel at least’ so that we can manage a transitional realization of our incompetent waste
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letting banks rear the economy with huge risk is begging for bigger crisis… a real energy crisis coupled with dollar decoupling with the banks as a proven catalyst is pretty damning… for 2b2f i mean
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lets grow up and pretend our grandparents were not rich
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-53565441845289277&q=nuclear+fision&total=185&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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gods work is never done for goldman
November 12, 2009 at 4:41 am
@nah, the fact that we are awash in more oil then ever (at least from ‘03 to ‘08) and it was a plateau, it appears that the peak has just passed us. But we can overcome that, given enough money. Oh wait! The banksters went through a huge wad that wasn’t theirs and had to be bailed out by future taxpayers and now they won’t lend and we don’t have any money to finance this ourselves!!! Sh!t!! In the future, when oil becomes too expensive to extract, how will we get at the rich mother lodes of nonrenewable resources that you pointed out? We better get crackin’ on building new ways of powering and lubricating our fossil fuel and uranium extraction and mining equipment!
November 12, 2009 at 5:51 am
Not sure where you get your info Elaine…
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/AMBNS
November 12, 2009 at 5:53 am
US Guv paying Taliban hundreds of millions of $$$$$ i bribes to not attack supply
lines.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/11/karl-eikenberry-dissents_n_354657.html
November 12, 2009 at 7:38 am
To all free energy disbelievers, the law of the conservation of energy applies only to a closed system, our universe is NOT a closed system. We are not creating any new energy with, we are merely tapping into energy that is already present. I’ll give you two examples of free energy.
All objects around us, including ourselves, are attracted by the sun, the moon and the stars, basically everything in existence and vice versa. Movements of such objects will have energy exchanges. All you need is an invention which taps into these gravitational energy exchanges and tada you have an infinite source of energy!
Another source of infinite energy besides gravitational energy is electron motion energy. There are electrons present in all atoms. These negatively charged particles are rotating around the nucleus, this gives rise to magnetic fields. We could also tap into these fields for yet another inexhaustible form of energy!
The law of conservation of energy is NEVER violated.
And EMS the elite is not SUPPRESSING KNOWLEDGE? That has to be the most stupid/ignorant thing you have ever said, now knowing you are not stupid and ignorant we can only guess what your real motives are for saying such a thing.
If you people on here truly believe science/mankind knows everything there is to know and we will make no more new discoveries……the earth is FLAT!
November 12, 2009 at 7:41 am
The entire universe is in perpetual motion. Just because we from our small ego’s experience it to be static does not mean the earth is not spinning as we speak, the milky is not moving as we speak, clusters of galaxies are moving as we speak.
Blame your small little EGO!
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ELAINE; No one says there is not immense seas of energy in the universe. But using it to power your air conditioner is a totally different matter. It takes energy to make energy available for use. Even intergalactic energy can’t be used without using energy. There is no system whereby energy can be useable via perpetual motion machines. This is why scientists don’t even bother debunking these perpetual energy claims. It is up to the people making the claims to prove them and obviously, no one has so far.
November 12, 2009 at 7:41 am
*the milky way
November 12, 2009 at 7:50 am
“Anyone who doubts this assertion of an international conspiracy to suppress the freedom of scientific research
in theoretical physics may make a simple test, starting in his own country and continuing at least in two other
countries: asking the most eminent representatives of academic physics why the 3789 critical publications
documented have never been discussed freely and publicly? If he is shown when and where the criticism has
been discussed freely and publicly, and when and where the critical arguments have been answered by arguments
(and not only by calumniations) – then he may be relieved that there is no such thing like an international
conspiracy.”
SOURCE: 95 Years of Criticism of the Special Theory of Relativity (1908-2003)
LINK: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wbabin.net%2Fscience%2Fmueller.pdf&rct=j&q=95+Years+of+Criticism+of+the+Special+Theory+of+Relativity+1908-2003+by+Mueller+and+Kneckebrodt&ei=s737St2GG8jb-Qb_zumSAg&usg=AFQjCNGxg7ISK5pWu_upFFbq7e-cf530aA
November 12, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Within Colorado are the “Un-tapped oil which accumulates its projections at 1 Trillion barrels which would cover the our usage for at least 100 years” ! I have a feeling we will be using some alternative fuel by then, if the carbon Dioxide doesnt kill us by then or destroy the earth. I have always had my fixed on the boys in the pits who regulate the price: Google-”The Global Oil Scam: 50 times bigger than Madoff” !!
By the way, our Exxon boys got a new contract in Iraq for 8.7 billion gallons of oil.
Supply and demand pricing? Peak?
November 12, 2009 at 4:53 pm
wee-wee , You MUST build yourself one of those magnet based ‘perpetual motion machines’ You will have trouble storing all the excess energy!
And even MORE news! E3 Spark Plugs! you will have trouble with the fuel you save overflowing the tank! GET SOME TODAY!
November 12, 2009 at 8:56 pm
@Wu wei, the fact that the Universe is not a closed system is not such a good thing. Eventually, all the energy within must leak out into the Outer Darkness!
November 13, 2009 at 9:42 am
OK, pointless talking physics with economy people. The silence and 2 lame replies speak for itself. This century will be the breakthrough of free energy, they can no longer suppress it.
And remember people: the earth is flat!
November 13, 2009 at 11:55 am
Wu, has it ever occurred to you that all you and your fellow magic believers have to do is, show us your amazing machines?
Why would anyone ignore this? Why is it so difficult to persuade us? All you have to do is do it! But obviously, you and your fellow fantasists can’t do this at all.
Thus, the snide ‘it is a conspiracy’ stuff. Do note that the ‘conspiracy’ thinking is very, very closely connected with the ‘believe in religions’ part of the brain, namely, paranoia parts.
November 13, 2009 at 11:57 am
Ed, the Outer Darkness is inside each of our own brains. It is very useful to understand the ‘darker’ side of our minds, the part the runs all night long while we sleep.
November 13, 2009 at 3:58 pm
@ Elaine- Scientists have been able to replicate only PART of Tesla’s energy results. Without the benefit of the 37 trunks of Tesla’s research papers ,it’s been a hard slog.
Tesla’s research was seized by the USA govt in the 1930’s.And guess where and HOW Tesla’s work is being used today ? Hint : It’s NOT being used to benefit humanity, to put it mildly.
Tesla was the master of frequency. Some scientists have been successful in generating the types of etheric energy he was working with. BUT, what they’re having problems with is in developing RECEIVERS for this energy.Think of radio waves. It took Tesla to develop the receivers for these waves. Yeah, yeah, Marconi initially got the credit for radio ( based on 17 Tesla patents that Marconi stole) , but it was Nikola Tesla’s genius that gave us radio. Tesla was the MASTER of frequency.
Have you heard of ball lightning? Tesla was intrigued by this phenomenon. So he took a couple of months away from his important experiments in order to solve the mystery of this annoying ball lightning . This was back in the 1890’s.It took scientists another 100 years before they came anywhere near to understanding this phenomenon which for Tesla was merely child’s play. A diversion. A lark.
The technology that benefits mankind is fully suppressed by the elites. It’s too funny when people mention electric cars. There were electric cars in 1834.
Ford wanted his vehicles to operate using clean burning biofuels. He wanted the corn growing farmers of the USA to benefit. What happened? Oh ,that would be Rocky and his crew who paid the Christian Women’s Temperance League enormous sums of $$$ to lobby for prohibition.
Prohibition came to be and ALL alcohol was banned ( Ford’s biofuels included of course).
When prohibition was finally repealed, the USA was then dependent on and driving gasoline fueled vehicles. Bye-bye biofuels. Hello enormous $$$$ for Rocky and co.
November 14, 2009 at 12:09 am
See how crazy you sound, Sky? Next, you will probably say we are visited by zillions of aliens who are being kept hidden from us by Rockefeller.
November 14, 2009 at 3:53 am
New study: CO2 levels have remained stable since 1850.
Air is 99% nitrogen and oxygen. 8 other gases make up the remaining 1%, including carbon dioxide at .0314%.
Copenhagen is designed around a global warm-mongering quango, which will further cripple US industry and enrich the Lizards.
http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/44622-co2-levels-stable-since-1850
November 14, 2009 at 8:33 am
@Ed-M:
“The real reason global warming is cancelled is because of peak oil. Add some more volcanoes, a supervolcano, or reduced output from the Sun, and Voila! A new Ice Age with mile thick ice sheets in Saint Louis”
Crap so we will all die again
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Carbon trading is the biggest hoax of the century. It will make GS richer and btw it will accelerate the “giant sucking sound” that Elaine talks about.
But it´s not a conspiracy. IPCC just happened to play with their computers and after trying hard found some hockey sticks. Then the bankers and politicians found it a great way to tax and make revenue. Now they have so much invested in it, they have to go through with it even if nature doesn´t bend to IPCC calculations.
I think China laughs at us behind the curtains. BRIC will not limit carbon and they will be even more competitive.
“An nescis mi fili, quantilla prudentia regitur orbis?”
“Dost thou not know, my son, with what little wisdom the world is governed?”
- Count Oxenstierna in a letter to his son, who was worried on his abilities in Westfalen peace talks -
November 14, 2009 at 10:26 am
EBM machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDeXTXYFKAY
Powered by magnets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCelx7qe_M
Water is free too, Japanese car running on water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jivb7lupDNU
Run by magnetic power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYcjjSfiNNE
Overunity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QD2Whs_LxA
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ELAINE: See how silly all of this is? All the videos pretending to show a magic machine at work never show the entire machine at once. Nor do they simply hike over to the nearest street corner to show this fake miracle machine. Maybe they should, stand next to the three card monty dealers and pretend they have perpetual motion machines.
November 14, 2009 at 10:28 am
Anyone who doubts free energy please read the PDF i posted, Einsteins theory complety gets blown to bits. The status quo wants to keep the current Einstein physics in paradigm because it makes “free energy” impossible.
Time will tell.
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ELAINE: The only thing blown to bits seems to be your own brains.
November 14, 2009 at 10:30 am
Yep Sky, Tesla was the greatest genius of the past century effectively giving our this modern age of robotics, radio, television, ac current, hydro energy, laser etc etc etc.
Yet i never heard the name Tesla once in school, i did get to learn about Edison and Marconi.
How come?
November 14, 2009 at 11:54 am
@ Wu Wei – Ouspensky blew Einstein’s Theory of Relativity out of the water 80 years ago. He recognized that the future was quantum physics. Einstein was never comfortable with quantum physics- He called the nonlocality of matter ” Spooky action at a distance .”
The Smithsonian Institute displays a model of Tesla’s induction motor and beside this motor is a bust of EDISON ! The deception runs deep.
Wu Wei have you read Seifer’s biography of Tesla ? It’s probably the best. It took Seifer 10 years to write this book. The only creepy part in the book is Seifer’s psychoanalysis of Tesla. Seifer himself is a psychologist and he just couldn’t resist, but happily the psychoanalysis is brief. So just take the psychobabble with a pound of salt if you read this otherwise wonderful book.
http://www.netsense.net/tesla/
November 14, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Wu Wei, indeed time will tell. But well, “free energy sources”-solutions have been “just around the corner” for so long, that I am 99% sure they all are hoax.
Not a single one of them has ever produced excess energy in any controlled tests. That is, controlled by someone else than the ones making these claims.
And why would they need scientific proofs anyway? Why don’t they just start making that energy and selling it? That would be adequate proof in itself!
But ALL they can do is to claim to create free energy. If they could do it, proving it would not be a problem at all. But since they can’t, they only will lure occasional investor to pour some money for their pockets.
November 14, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Duski, the conspiracy nuts can’t figure out even the most obvious scams. I would suggest the only way one can be a conspiracy believer is if one is gullible. Sky is a perfect specimen of this sort of gullibility.
November 14, 2009 at 5:07 pm
If anyone has some swampland in Florida to sell wee wee is your man.
November 15, 2009 at 9:00 am
So free energy is not possible? How come the sun can provide my entire house with electricity? How come we can generate enough electricity for an entire city by using windmills? Provide an entire province with power just by damming a river?
Reality is obviously siding with the “conspiracy nuts”.
Reality 1 – EMS and fanboys – 0
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ELAINE; Wind mills and solar panels are NOT free at all. Neither are dams. Try building a dam for free.
November 15, 2009 at 9:02 am
That’s the reason why all the good commentators left this blog ages ago and we’re stuck with all the fanboys………you sound way too much like one of them, them worshippers of Choronzon.
November 15, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Hey Wu Wei – for what its worth (probably not much) — I’m a big fan of Tesla.
Must be something special in the land he was born.
November 16, 2009 at 3:42 am
@ziff house, “If anyone has some swampland in Florida to sell”
Shoot, houses are cheaper than swampland in Florida.
Notice to all vaxinators:
Stock in my Dear Departed Communications Company is dirt cheap at the moment.
November 16, 2009 at 5:50 am
@JT: The hockey sticks have been proven! And nature abhors a hockey stick, just as she hates a vacuum. And she has many, many tricks up her sleeve to offset, or MORE THAN OFFSET, the potential warming caused by humans pumping too much CO2 into the air by our burning fossil fuels literally stolen from the Cave of Wealth and Death.
November 16, 2009 at 5:52 am
And yes, carbon trading IS the hoax of the century. It will only serve to impoverish the masses whilst the elites still get to keep their high-impact, big-footpring lifestyles of the rich and famous.
November 16, 2009 at 11:15 am
Carbon trading is a total rip off.
November 16, 2009 at 2:16 pm
@Ed-M:
. Instead of 7 degrees warming we will get 1 degree. And some places will get worse weather and some places will get more rain and better weather. Climate change fearmongering as are so many other things these days too.
The polar ice cap was supposed to melt last year. And the temperature should have risen 0,6 degrees from 1998-2008. Well now the ice caps getting bigger and the temperature has fallen 0,5 degrees from 1998.
I´m not a scientist but I think IPCC should make some adjustments to their calculations
We just don´t know how this planet works yet and we humans can´t control the climate. CO2 gang is in a big hurry, Copenhagen summit is next month.
November 16, 2009 at 2:49 pm
“So free energy is not possible? How come the sun can provide my entire house with electricity? How come we can generate enough electricity for an entire
city by using windmills? Provide an entire province with power just by damming a river?”
Study some physics. It’s good stuff.
Energy can not be created out of nothing. It can be converted from one form to another. E.G., heat can be used to boil water into steam, and the steam can power a generater, thereby turning the heat energy into electrical energy.
Solar is the same thing, essentially. You’re converting energy radiated from the sun into electrical energy. Windmills: the energy of moving air (kinetic energy) into electricity. Hydroelectric: moving water is slowed down, and the lost energy of motion is turned into electricity — same as a windmill.
Nobody can generate energy from nothing. If you could, you could develop marvelous weapons. That’s the best proof that nobody can do it, perhaps. With free energy global domination would be a sinch.
November 16, 2009 at 5:04 pm
@Steve, have you actually read my posts? I said everything you said. Learn 2 read, it’s good stuff.
Sunlight is just a form of electromagnetic wave, we are immersed in such waves. An invention which could tap into these waves will never violate the law of conservation of energy.
November 16, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@EMS, by free i mean after the initial purchase of your free energy device there will be no more further costs.
The elite want to keep us hooked on finite resources and a source of energy they can control. These inventions i speak of could provide the entire world with power to produce instead of just those who can afford the oil (finite resources).
No wonder they are trying so hard to ridicule anyone who has any interest in this area, they would lose a lot of control over us.
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ELAINE: There is continuing replacement/repair costs. So it is not free, ever. It may be GOOD which is another story.
November 16, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Okay, lets suppose you’re right. Oil is an unnecessary resource because there’s free energy all around us.
Why doesn’t the US military develop this technology, keeping it classified if they like, and use it to power their vehicles? Why do they rely on shipping oil and gas into war zones?
November 17, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Steve said: ” With free energy global domination would be a sinch.”
With free energy, defenses would be so potent that no one could even bother his neighbour. With free energy, there would exist no need for the state, the state and its subsectors ( like your local power distribution company, national energy grid, and all the other state granted and state power supported monopolies) would wither and die quickly. Probably the best evidence there is that any knowledge of free power will be and has been supressed. ( Free energy is a scary thing when you extend the consequences of its existence.)
November 17, 2009 at 1:22 pm
CK, your paranoid logic has way too many flaws in it. First off, all the magic energy creation kooks scream for attention so why would RIVALS of our power (there are many, trust me on this one) be fooled?
Eh? They would latch onto this, wouldn’t they? Especially the Chinese who are not part of this mysterious cabal you fear so much! The Chinese are RIVALS to EU/US power brokers!
So naturally, China would dearly love this magic power systems you claim are being suppressed! So your entire theory collapses in the face of simple logic.
Not that this stops any conspiracy believers.
November 17, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Oh Elaine – that was a good one. Ha. Ha.
There is no such thing as “free energy”, but I am a big believer in good tools that enable us to use our own inherent energy!
Now, you still need government even if you have the best of tools, because, well we are social beings aren’t we? We need each other – mutually is what I think, but of course, I’m a big fan of Kropotkin also, and practically nobody seems to study him anymore.
I hope I spelled that name correctly. 1902 was the year of his incredible publication regarding the most important topic of “Mutual Aid”.
Ken
November 17, 2009 at 4:33 pm
OK – for the fun of it, here is an aspect of Hubbert’s oil pick that makes things a tad tricky – calculus can maybe help with this, but it runs deep.
Anyhow – it used to be that oil under pressure was the easiest to obtain. Just spouted on out by its lonesome. Real easy. Nowadays, it often takes pressure just to push the oil out, BUT, nowadays, the pumps are so much better. That is the “exciting” thing I supppose for some about oil – they think: “we just know its there, we just need to figure out better ways to get it out of the ground”. To an extent they are correct, but eventually all sorts of “other” limits come into play. Tricky. Very tricky.
My thought is, let nature demonstrate the beauty of efficiency…..slow and easy is what it often is. Makes good sense to me.
The reason energy is not “free” is because if it was “free” then it wasn’t even energy in the first play. Energy requires effort to manifest.
Duh.
November 17, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Sorry two typos:
“peak”
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“place”
rather than, pick and play.
(oh jeesh – that is kind of funny too)
December 4, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Great topic “warrior”