Impact of Free Energy Device on humanity

[Silvije]

This seems like important topic.

Please do propose your scenarios.

Will Free Energy Device really bring us all peace or another war?

s.

[FreeEnergy]

Knife is for cutting bread or killing someone (hopefully not)
so who is to blame? The supposed killer or the man who made the knife?

Is knife good or bad thing? Now replace knife with a term "free energy device". will it bring peace or war?

[Silvije]

I know this forum should be only about plans and circuits of such devices but if such device will bring us war than I will think about do I want to be a part of the whole thing.

This is proposal of my first scenario:

Free energy device will not change the world much, and doubtfully for better.
It will maybe take down electricity from the global market but that will not help poor people not to be poor any more. Why I say that? For example we can get electricity almost for free from the sun (there is investment in solar panels in the beginning). So why africa with highest insolation is the most poor continent? Why dont they use solar power and be the most developed part of the world.
Simple answer is who is going to give them solar panels? Exactly the same will happen with free energy device. Who is going to give them this device. Rich people will be able to build it for themself and to become even richer. Nothing else.

s.

[Silvije]

Just one more thought:

I am not really convinced that this device will bring us any peace as long as we
need to collect prize money for it. There I can see gaining profit. The man who discovers
this should give it for free, not for a prize or a profit if we hope it to bring us something other than war.

Personaly I would be satisfied to release something like that in secret, so I could not even get famous. Why?

Fame, money, power, glory... it's a same old story...

s.

[ring_theory]

There is no such a thing as "free energy" It allways comes at a cost. I say that because that even if you was given the plans for such a device you would have to buy components to build it. You would have time and effort put into it. NOTHING IS FREE! even the food you consume while building it must be factored in the cost as your body transforms energy for the work.

The scenario.  Free energy device is released to the general public, manufacturers of electrical appliances, electronics and transportation, the sciences, and academia. they all incorporate it into their products and the world goes cordless, and battery less. fossil fuels would no longer be needed and the price would drop drasticly. Utilities companies would have to close up shop and shut down all the nuke plants. Everything that is manufactured after it would have it's own power supply built into it. Mankinds knowledge would be increased in leaps and bounds as the sciences and academia research the various by-products of the mechanism via design variations.

EVERYTHING can be used for evil intent. We are a warlike bieng and wars will be waged and triumphs and tragedies will allways be the result. to say that oil or nuclear ambitions will suddenly dissapear is a unrealistic expectation.  Good does still out weigh evil IMHO.