Do we need Free Energy at all ?

[rangerover444]

 Sometimes it seems to me that the rush for the free-energy is similar to the
rush for the gold, for the electricity discovery, for cars, for the atomic bomb,
to space. Etc.  What so common about them is that human don’t realize the
consequences of it’s temporary urge to develop a new technology that
eventually will harm nature and human himself……  Evidently every new product
that 7 billion people on earth need - will eventually will cause much damage.

  I’m not sure how many of you are aware of the “Electromagnetic Pollution” we are
currently experiencing worldwide.  All the electric machines that we are exposing
on a daily basis, are radiating magnetic field, power lines, cell phones, computers,
transformers - wherever they are, bar magnets, motors, radar waves, sonar (in the sea),
light bulbs, radio & TV waves, military applications, satellite communication, cars,
even the outlets at your home (when no instrument is connected) and the list is endless.

  Since the fossil fuel age is about to come to a halt in 15 to 20 years, and the rush for
a new energy source is franticly peruses. Naturally electricity seems to be the cleanest
solution……but maybe not so ?

The effect of electromagnetism on human and animals is only little known. Only at
very concentrated quantities, like some cell phones and power lines that close to
residence area - are consider to be harmful. But what about worldwide emission ?
Not necessarily in one area but the sum total ? 

As you know, electromagnetic / magnetic waves are passing non stop through our
bodies, organs and brains, almost wherever we are in our daily lives. Our body itself
works on delicate electromagnetic currents (through the nerve system). Think how little
is needed to interfere and cause an imbalance in such a system.

Unfortunately modern human always “discover” the damage after the fact……after the rush…
So maybe free energy is not really what we need now ?

[Goat]

@ rangerover444

Would it not be better to have free energy small home generators versus HIGH TENSION LINES
crossing our countries in order to deliver electricity to our homes?

Could the free energy small home generators be shielded in order to further minimize electromagnetic pollution?

There's no doubt that Tesla changed the face of the earth by providing us all with a way to centralized the electric distribution model, whether from hydro electric or otherwise.  Now it's up to us to live up to his expectations of free power to all.  As a matter of fact I think if the latter were used 100 years ago we wouldn't have global warming now!

Regards,
Paul

[Goat]

Even better yet rangerover444, if you don't like the OU notion because of scientific laws then what about solar for electricity? 

Daniel Nocera, a professor of chemistry at MIT, has developed a catalyst that can generate oxygen from a glass of water by splitting water molecules. The reaction frees hydrogen ions to make hydrogen gas. The catalyst, which is easy and cheap to make, could be used to generate vast amounts of hydrogen using sunlight to power the reactions. The hydrogen can then be burned or run through a fuel cell to generate electricity whenever it's needed, including when the sun isn't shining.

Where is this technology at now?  According to the video it's open source   

Regards,
Paul

[rangerover444]

  Paul,

  A private OU generator at each home / factory / building / air port / etc. may
reduce the national grid system, but as you know “whatever is free - get consumed
much more” by human….. And the total consumption / emission of electricity may
triple itself in few years. Although technology these days attempt to reduce the
“hunger” for electric machines, but sales of these must grow by the year and the
societies around the globe wants to own washing machines, plasma screen, etc. etc.

  So in any angle you look at it, you switching between problems and what look like
a solution for one issue become a problem on another level……
Maybe there is a way to “recycle” electromagnetic emission ?  Or changing the whole
system of “hungry instruments” to 1/10 of what they currently consuming ?
But even with that, what are we doing about communication, radar, data transmissions
and other waves that are crowding our atmosphere ?

As of now, the focus and the blame are on the fossil fuel, that responsible for our air quality.
No one took it seriously almost 90 years, since it’s begun, and the damage was done
already. Whether it’s the cause or not for global warming, it does not change the damage
it caused to the environment and atmosphere…..  So I wonder if we going to wake up
one day with NASA scientists announcing that we face a new global problem here ?
Also I wonder if there are any serious research about that ?
So looking for OU is an idealistic idea, but needs to consider the consequences as well.

Cheers.

[mscoffman]

A number of years ago at our highschool one particular teacher started
talking about problems of the future, and one was that there would
begin to be problems when human energy usage began to rival
the sun's thermal input in magnitude. He was assuming waste heat was not
convertable back into upgraded energy, which is true from a thermo-
dynamics standpoint. *It is* a a potential future problem, and one that
is much more difficult to solve then where to obtain energy in the first
place. On the other hand if there are Maxwell's Demons then it won't
be a problem. One solution, is to only use solar energy because it produces
an upside limit on available power and trades it off to real estate.
So as Archer Quinn has said; free energy will not eliminate the need for
energy conservation engineering. One problem/solution is to make sure
when free devices are sent to dump at the end of their useful lives that
they turn themselves off automatically so that they don't continue to
generate waste heat. That would be especially true of magnetic motors
which would rather generate constant power independent of load. I would
imagine that electric utilities of the future might then be designed to
distribute "control signals" rather than the energy.

...This is not an uninteresting problem, internet servers are becoming a
larger part of electrical load. I can imagine "free energy" powersupplies
being installed first in computer equipment as the components cannot
to shrunk further and system current goes up to facilitate computer
higher clock rates. Imagine, for instance; wiring a computer server
to a water supply and cooling loop rather then to electricity.

:S:MarkSCoffman