The search for energy is all around us. Scientists are working furiously to find a way to power this world. Will they succeed? Well it all depends, the question should probably be will they be allowed to succeed, not will they succeed. In order for them to find a viable replacement for fossil fuels, somehow the fat cats of this planet will have to be convinced that they can make money out of this discovery. It is not just a question of discovering the technology, it is getting around the people that are behind oil and actually control the energy market. They are really the ones who decide what type of energy is going to be used. For an alternate form of energy to succeed, their wishes would somehow have to be overcome unless a huge profit for them was involved. The only way this could be done, would be by a massive push for an alternate energy source. One of the things that would have to happen would be that the government would have to demand one of these alternate technologies and put it into use. You see right now the big oil companies are running our government. Maybe in the next go around things might be different, although I doubt it since big oil is financing a huge lobbying effort in Congress, but one can always hope. You know what they say, live in hope and die in despair. But for now let's assume that it will be possible for us to get a cheap energy source some day.

A lot of strange new and wonderful things are happening in the search for new power sources. Who would have ever thought that you might find an incredible power source in bubbles? It just so happens that someday bubbles may be powering a lot of devices, because a bursting bubble has an incredible amount of power. The bubbles would have to be tied in some way, with a fusion reactor. There has been a project running for several years now. Groups at Perdue University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, along with the Russian Academy of sciences, have been trying to find a way to create a fusion reactor that puts out more energy than is put into it. This reactor would create oscillations and these oscillations would implode bubbles that will be filled with deuterium vapor. So why would we want to do this, what would be the advantage? Well to answer this question we have to look at the process itself. As I said it uses deuterium. But it is really not a question of what it uses, but of how much it uses.1 gram of deuterium equals about 7000 liters of gasoline. You have to realize that deuterium is one of the most common things that you find in the sea. A cubic kilometer of seawater would be able to supply the electrical needs of this planet for several hundred years. How do you think the oil companies would feel about that? Tiny bubbles filled with deuterium vapor, would be hit with sound waves which would release awesome power and create fusion. At this point in the history of the earth, we would have virtually free energy that would create advanced societies all over the planet.

Another energy possibility is something known as zero point energy. It may have started with the great scientist and electrical engineer Nichola Tesla, who performed many electrical experiments and who's notes and logs had disappeared from his hotel room in New York, upon his death. Today when we think of zero point energy, the name of John Hutchinson comes to mind. He is a Canadian scientist and inventor, who has discovered an antigravity effect that takes many different forms. It has been named the Hutchison effect after him. He uses an apparatus that supplies tremendous amounts of electricity to produce this effect. He claims that this forces two different particles together which create a third and this opens a path to a new dimension that contains zero .energy. He states that he has invented crystalline cells that will produce a steady flow of electricity without ever having to be recharged and he is more than glad to demonstrate them to anyone that is interested. Zero point .energy has been the dream of science for many years. This would be an incredibly powerful power source. Again, the masses would have a source of power that would be practically free, another big oil company no no. There has been a rumor going around the Internet lately and in the news media, that states that a secret meeting was held in Congress and a company was given billions of dollars to develop antigravity and zero point energy. I am sure that if this is true, it was not for the benefit of the average person, but for the benefit of the military. Either way I would be glad to see this come about, because military technology has a way of bleeding into civilian technology.

There are so many things that create energy in our everyday life that we don't even think about. Just the motion of people walking around could be used to create energy. Let me give you an example of that, think of a very large office building. The only way in and out of this building is through revolving doors. Every time somebody revolved the door, they could turn a generator, producing a certain amount of electricity. If the building was very busy, such as those buildings in downtown New York, who knows how much electricity might be recovered by this motion? We could even take this a step further. You know all that traffic that always annoys you? What if that traffic could be used to generate most of the electrical needs of the city? Think of a different kind of road, a road that had pressure plates at or near the surface. These plates could be hooked up to some sort of electrical generating device and every time an automobile went over one, it might turn a generator a couple of revolutions. If you have enough traffic, these generators would be going all day long, recovering energy from all those automobiles. Why not take advantage of annoying traffic and turn it into free energy? I don't know how much electricity could be generated this way, but any reasonable amount would be quite a bonus.

Water Power

Almost every structure in this country has pipes. Water runs through these pipes either coming into the structure or leaving the structure. If small wheels or turbines were installed in these pipes, might we not be able to use them along with small generators and batteries, to recoup the energy from the flowing water? I don't know whether it would be economically feasible to do something like this in a one family home, but it might make sense in a large building. And what about all that wind on top of these large buildings, why couldn't that be used to generate electricity? It certainly wouldn't hurt anybody to mount wind generators on top of tall buildings. Think about this, it is believed that wind was first used as a power source in 5000 B.C. by Egyptians who put sails on boats and cruised the Nile. Wind power is certainly nothing new. What is relatively new is the idea of having it turn a propeller that is hooked to an electrical generator. Some of these generators are very powerful and a lot bigger than they look from a distance. I was shocked to see one up close. At the top of the tower and behind the propeller was a very large room that contained the generated station. From a distance they just don't look that large. It is estimated that 1 MW of electrical power can supply 350 homes. In 2001 the cost of wind generated electricity fell to four cents a kilowatt hour. This opened the door to another energy technology.

The other technology that I am talking about is hydrogen. With electricity costing only four cents per kilowatt hour, it becomes practical to use electricity to separate hydrogen from water. This gives us another viable power source. It is always good to have more than one choice and power is no exception. Some of these technologies can even be combined. Just look at the modern diesel electric locomotive. Have you ever wondered how it works? It does use diesel fuel, it does have diesel engines, but this is not what powers the engine. The engine is powered by electricity, electricity that was generated by the diesel engine. This makes the locomotive far more energy efficient. When you consider its size and weight, it is far more efficient than the average automobile that we drive today. Here is a figure that might surprise you. A diesel electric locomotive can move one ton of freight about 379 miles on one gallon of diesel fuel. Think about this, if this is true, why doesn't your car get much better mileage? It seems that we have most of the technology in place already to make much more efficient cars, but we just poke along making slight improvements as we go. But why is this, could it be because we are not supposed to get too far ahead in this area? Again I just can't help but point to the oil industry. These are the same people that bought out a battery company that supposedly had a revolutionary battery that would have made electric cars much more efficient and commonplace. They didn't buy the battery to put it on the market, you don't see it anywhere do you? Of course not, they purchased the battery company to stop the batteries from getting on the market, just the reverse of what you would expect from a company.

Thermal Source

Maybe it has become time for an honest government to set up a competitive power research unit. Look at Iceland, they now receive most of their power from the Earth. This power comes to them in the form of geothermal energy. It is practically free. Apparently the big oil companies either didn't care about Iceland and its tiny population, wanted to use them so that they could say that they don't control the market, or the country just wouldn't let itself be ruled by big oil. I don't know which of these apply, but I do know that this has to show you that it is possible to be weaned off of oil. If Iceland could do it so can we. It is true that we probably don't have enough thermal energy to supply the whole country but it certainly would help, but it is also true that if we used different types of electrical generation in different areas we probably could supply enough electricity for everybody. As I have said many times, we have over 35,000 dams in this country, let's put electrical generators on all of them. We have areas that are very windy, let's put wind generators in these areas. We have other areas where it is very sunny, let's put solar generators in those areas. Finally we have areas that are near oceans and large lakes. Let's put wave generating devices in the oceans and on any lakes that are active, such as the Great Lakes. Imagine electricity being generated everywhere in this country without using nuclear power. It is time to get the ball rolling.