Free energy

I've just returned from the coal and gas fields of central Queensland.  It is wonderful to see the revitalisation of towns over a wide area but I would be much happier if that activity were directed to something other than extracting and selling Australia's energy resources, ruining productive land and possibly polluting vast underground water supplies that are essential to our agricultural industry. 

As politicians congratulate themselves for taking measures that ensure a "prosperous" Australian economy, we are hell bent on depriving future generations of their inheritance as fast as possible.   This is called "progress".  Instead of spending millions on research designed to sequester coal-generated carbon in an effort to make coal mining "acceptable", we could instead be fostering research and development of free energy.

Development of such technology infers paradigm-shifting breakthroughs that have the potential to restructure the world's economic framework, giving greater independence to individuals.  It has the potential to reduce the power of centralised governments and transfer it to local communities.  It could mean the elimination of poverty.  With unlimited, virtually free, non-polluting energy, the world would be a very different place.  Instead of polluting our air and water by the use of fossil fuels, we would have the energy to clean up the damage that we have already done.  Instead of turning productive farmland into wasteland through mining we could restore it and use it again for productive purposes.

Is cheap, non-polluting energy just a pipe dream?  I don't believe it is and I believe we are closer to actually having it than many would have us believe.

The Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat) is just one example of a technology that has been developed and is now in the testing stage with extremely promising results.  Tests undertaken by Defence and Energy Department bureaucracies show that the technology works.  Developed in Italy by Andrea Rossi the E-Cat uses tiny ((1.5 grams) amounts of nickel powder, hydrogen gas and undisclosed catalysts to produce mini-nuclear reactions from a portable reactor that is about the same size as a cell battery.  Massive releases of heat energy occur in the process: enough to power a home or a car for a raw materials cost of less than $2 per year. Most importantly, it is safe.

What cold fusion promises is something extremely rare: impossible technology that could underpin a more prosperous world because the benefits will be many times as significant as those of cheap oil but without the drawbacks.

Cold fusion isn't the only example of clean, renewal, affordable energy systems being developed.  Paramahansa Tewari, electrical engineering graduate from Banaras Engineering College, India has recently taken out a patent for a Space Power Generator, which generates energy from a vacuum.

The world's situation looks pretty bleak at present, but there are significant signs that things are changing.  The development of free energy technology is just one of the many highly significant breakthroughs that are happening. "Caterpillars into Butterflies" outlines new developments that have occurred in a variety of areas and explains what you can do to help make the world a better place.   "Caterpillars into Butterflies" is available as a downloadable e-book for $7 from www.growinghealthyorganicfood.com

Bev Buckley.