This is just a IMO theory of mine that started as a comment on a post earlier today that subsequently was deleted because it was a duplicate post. I thought the information to be pertinet and the data points worthy of their own post and discussion.... well, I've failed to notice anyone talking about it as of yet. Feel free to chirp, croak, and freely discuss the notion espoused (see title). 🐸
The Iranian conflict (and Ukraine as well) is one big chain reaction set up to merge LNG into the petro dollar and completely dominate the global markets. The following are very easily provable data points leading up to the present day:
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Pre-Ukraine, RUS supplies majority of EURO LNG.
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Nordstream is terror attacked. Now US is primary seller of LNG to EUR.
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Use UKR proxy to attack RUS tankers in the Mediterranean.
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Knock out Venezuela eliminating majority of foreign bought LNG from Western hemisphere.
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Qatari & Saudi production and distribution halted, eliminating 30%+ of China's LNG import sources.
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POTUS signed EO stating by 2029 at least 1% of all GCC LNG must be carried by US made vessels. Forcing everyone to buy US made ships.
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USN now available on rent for security escorts for anyone wanting to pay the vig.
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Next, take control of Greenland which will further hinder RUS Arctic ships.
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Norway is not currently a factor as it is already at max capacity and dealing mostly locally within Scandinavia.
This is why LNG and crude oil is not down, but up in the stock markets. They (ExxonMobil, et al) know exactly what's coming and that's complete US domination of the energy markets. Everyone except for RUS will be forced to either buy US energy, buy US vessels for transport of fuel, and/or pay the USN to insure their cargo. It's a triple threat win and either really damn smart or dastardly extortion depending on how you look at it. This coming winter would be an excellent time to buy into the Euro because I would bet my boots that it will crash to counter buying & investing in USD to purchase their enormous energy requirements.
Just my brain craving crayons while working today. Maybe it's all just dumb luck and coincidence, but I'd guess that's probably not the case. Look for more energy cause/effect habbenings to coalesce in the near future with the data points provided.
We appear to be doing a "quick pivot" to nuclear, but flooding hydrocarbons in the meantime allows quick, reliable energy for rapid economic growth that will be 100% per year in some cases. And hydrocarbon infrastructure being built out as permanent backup to nuclear. Likely sequence is: 1. oil & nat gas (2026-7), 2. new fission plus SMRs (2027-8), 3. fusion tech plus SMRs (2028-9), 4. beamed energy from space (2030).
"free energy devices" will NOT be for the normies and corporations. Only for "woo people" willing to try it out and share with each other to mine "free Bitcoin" and run highly profitable small businesses with "proprietary secret advantage".
I suggest that is false. The problem is, "free energy" has been purposefully and carefully crafted as "a violation of the laws of physics," used as a Conspiracy Theory (CIA/DOD op), to keep people from understanding what Reality is (and what it is not).
The energy that drives the system (our "universe") is infinite (or effectively infinite in scope?). Every piece of physics shows that. Look at QED e.g. Look into "renormalization." Look at what the people who created QED had to say about how shitty of a model it was. Look at the numerous frauds of their experiments (I can find the link if your interested). Look into what Feynman, Dirac, Einstein, or Schrodinger had to say about it (not to mention Tesla, who was on a whole different level entirely).
Look at investigations into extraction of energy from the ground state of the hydrogen atom (which is assumed to be the smallest amount of energy possible in that domain). If you can extract energy from the "ground state" to a lower state (which we know exists, but is "inaccessible" according to the dogma of the model), the electron would immediately go back to the ground filling up the ground state from the vacuum energy, thus, "free energy".
Look into how every single physics model (Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, GR, QM, etc.) sets the "potential" to zero from "negative infinity" to make the models work. What we call "potential energy" is a thing that CAN'T BE MEASURED. We "measure" potential energy ONLY by measuring movement (or "kinetic energy* if you prefer) and then assume what the potential energy HAD TO BE to make the model work.
According to every single experiment or even model, there aren't any "zero energy" states in the universe. We have SET MODELS TO ZERO TO BE USEFUL FOR ENGINEERING, even though everything suggests there is no actual "zero energy" state anywhere.
Actually dig into the evidence of the hidden systems. The world isn't going to go into the plan you suggest because it is based on physics that is purposefully put in a box. That realization is already coming out. It won't be long now.
I'm not saying free energy is not real. I'm saying explaining it to normies is not worth your time. Just build it and ignore them. I'm working on my tower now to power my Bitcoin miner. If I can raise enough money, I will have a tethered balloon with energy capture devices running a factory in 3 years at very low utility cost.
That would be awesome! I need to remember to reach out and see how that is going for you in a couple years.
I have been able to get the concept accepted by many normies when I suggest that everything vibrates & if we could simply get tools sensitive enough to capture those vibrations, we should be able to get energy from those vibrations.
They don't think we will have that ability to harvest for a long time, if ever, but they recognize that the vibrations & energy is there & it acts as a seed to help them wake up.
36 ft tall pole with adapted traditional TV antenna should provide around 1200V capturable potential (enough for a house) depending on your location absolute altitude (you want lots of little metal fingers to capture the energy, preferrably copper or silver wires). A tethered balloon with similar hardware at 1000 feet (AGL) should provide about 30,000V potential. It is roughly 30V per foot (absolute altitude dependent). You can test on a big tree by mounting the collector on the top and running a copper electrical cable down to base of the trunk, where you can mount an electrical receptacle, then test with electrical tester. The trick is conditioning the power to match house needs so it is efficiently used.
Take your test device off the tree when done testing so the tree is not harmed longterm. Trees use the electrical potential to move nutrients up into the highest branches, and if you siphon off too much for too long, you might kill the tree.
What is this below-ground-state of the hydrogen atom that you refer to that is lower in energy than the "1s" ground state solution of quantum mechanics? I have not heard of such a thing before. Does it have a precise emission/absorption frequency that can be located on a diffraction spectrum?
Excellent questions. Unfortunately I haven't dug into this as much as other "fringe" (or "pseudo") science, but I can provide some evidence and/or further digging.
But to get there, I first have to begin with my cold fusion story because it provides important context (in a broader scope).
When I first learned physics, one of my closest teachers was a professor of both my school (a state school) and Stanford. She was well known and was deeply involved in the field of experimental physics. Indeed, she was part of the Gravity Probe B project, not to mention SLAC. Because of that, I got to see Gravity Probe B being made, and I learned a great deal about how "physics" was done, not to mention the specifics of "real" experimental physics.
She was a great teacher (all things considered). Because of my close personal relationship with all the great teachers I had (I was considered a "star pupil," so they bent over backwards for me), and the "real" physics education I had, it provided reasons for me to believe Cold Fusion was "clearly debunked."
This was around 1995/96 (iirc).
Then, around 2010, I revisited Cold Fusion because of the claims of Andrea Rossi. I didn't expect anything more than "research flaws." Instead, I found claims I couldn't discount easily. It was far from certain, and there were reasons to doubt the claims, but for whatever reason, I dug deeper. As it turns out, CF never died. On the contrary, there were thousands of legitimate papers, addressing and experimentally proving false ALL of the "debunkings" on it. There were even numerous working systems from unassailable research institutions (see Peter Hagelstein e.g., though there are many others). The amount of evidence of CF itself (if not Rossi specifically) was absolutely overwhelming.
I couldn't see how "science" could possibly decry CF given all of the evidence. I knew science couldn't possibly be "controlled," it was organic and dynamic, so there must be some other reason. I couldn't understand what that reason was, but it had to be that way, because "science was organic." It wasn't until I found overwhelming other evidence that I realized that our world is controlled on every level. That evidence, and the resulting realization, overcoming my cognitive dissonance, allowed me to dig into why agents (and institutions/systems) in our world had hidden the evidence (on all parts of science, not just CF). That investigation led me to understand how it was done, who had done it, and why.
I had uncovered a system so insidious and so complete, that I realized I had been a True Believer of a purposefully and carefully crafted provably false religion.
That doesn't mean "science is false." On the contrary, mostly it's true (though there are some provable frauds in there that still persist to this day). But the amount left out, or "selectively edited to tell a false story" is overwhelming once you dig in. My teacher had taught me that "CF was debunked" not because she was malicious or stupid, but because she had been taught that herself, by a system designed to craft the Religion through a system of "the highest level of experts." Each Priest gets their marching orders from the Pope, and trains the adoring pupils, who become the next generation of Priest. All false, started, paid for, and controlled by the same entity more than a century before, all made using (mostly) the truth, in a smaller (selective) scope.
It isn't supported by QM, that's the point, but QM is just a model, it isn't Reality itself. Indeed, there are numerous possible mathematical models, some completely divorced from each other (see "pilot wave theory" as just one example of many) that provide all (or nearly all) of the same (within the margin of error) experimental results.
Again, I haven't dug into this enough to support it, or even explain the model sufficiently to make any claims of its validity, but I can show you were to begin.
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The last link is "Chapter 9." I picked that one because when scanning it, it seemed to address the question specifically. I am not a fan of this "book," at least what I've scanned so far. The first two chapters were far too defensive to be useful, and made them look bad (frankly, it looks very "Controlled Opposition"y to me). But I think it may be comprehensive. It might be better to dig into the original work by the author of the papers (Randell L. Mills).
Regardless, the fact that there is a (probably infinite) well of energy "below" the "ground state" isn't really controversial. On the contrary, that is the fundamental premise of QM (and the source of our ideas of "Vacuum Energy"). That well of energy is the reason (from the framework of QM) that the "electron doesn't degrade in it's atomic orbit." That gap, between "ground" and (I guess) fusion (or the Neutron) is potentially usable (and self-fulfilling from the vacuum).
The "Hydrino Theory" suggests that energy is extractible. It also provides a mathematical model and (apparently a lot of) experimental evidence that supports it. There is even a company that suggests it is making such a system broadly available. That company is called Brilliant Light Power. It was formerly BlackLight Power, which suggests (based on unrelated reasons) that it may have been subverted, but who knows.
Edit: I just had a thought.
One of the theories of CF is that an electron (in the Deuterium in a Palladium lattice) turns into a Muon which makes a Muon-proton pair (Deuterium-Muon pair) which reduces the overall size of the pair. This (according to the hypothesis) allows for two D-Mu pairs to fuse to He4 (there becomes enough space in the Palladium lattice, and reduces the required energy for fusion). That would (presumably) also happen if instead of a Mu, it becomes a *smaller" D atom (D-Hydrino pair).
Just a thought.
Thank you for the lengthy write-up, Slyver!
Hmm. I'm feeling myself steered towards a multi-year auto-didactic study of advanced physics, standard and alternative in turn. A daunting yet worthwhile assignment I'd like to imagine. The problem is the older I get the more my brain loses capacity for abstraction. There is good reason why mathematicians and physicists peak in their twenties. Also I am not mechanically adept I'm afraid. So I won't be building free energy devices in my garage any time soon. Just as well I suppose. The actuary tables whisper that such is a quick hobby to a short lifespan.
Regarding claims of "free energy" extracted from the electro-weak (or electro-gravitic?) quantum field, here's what will be forefront in my mind should I ever develop the chops to seriously dive into the topic. It's the distinction between ambient average energy and available useful energy.
To draw an analogy: in classical statistical mechanics a confined uniform hot gas has a high kinetic energy floor. But it has no available useful energy on account of the system entropy being maximal. Connect it to a container of cold gas, or a standard vacuum, then woof, there is energy flow out of the hot chamber. To pick a homey example along a similar vein, to extract energy from a canister of compressed air I must squeeze the handle to open the valve. That blasts the dust away and gives my hand a cold burn.
So the ambient zero-point energy level would have to be a false floor, a pseudo-stable vacuum. Since collapse does not happen spontaneously - thankfully for us! - there must be a subtantial energy barrier. We would need a way to inject enough energy to push over this barrier so that it can fall to a lower background state, whatever that might be. And we'd have to engineer a way to couple to the energy released so that it can be converted to useful work. (If it all got converted into neutrinos, well that would suck.) Same deal as with nuclear fusion.
P.S. I did a quick skim of the Randell L. Mills book. I too get a similar impression, a too-good-to-be-true vibe. A slow serious read would take considerable effort, though, not to mention preparation. Maybe some day. By which point perhaps employing an open source AI Physics Assistant is the way to go.
As an afterword, I'll admit that when the Cold Fusion story broke I was taken in by the cover-up. I went along with the rapidly activated, astro-turfed, consensus. That the paper's results were marginal, within the range of experimental error, failed attempts at being replicated, and was presented without plausible physical mechanism. Not to mention that Fleischmann and Pons had the demerit of not being physicists, only mere chemists.
Instead of thinking hold on a second, these are accomplished academics who cannot be taken lightly, I went along with: well, I guess even a department head can be caught up in self-delusion in the quest for fairy dust.
Like you it was many years later when I caught wind of this underground well of follow-on cold fusion research. That was when I thought huh, there may be something to this after all. I need to revise my thinking.
Then the penny drops and it dawned on me. The order went out to shut it down. And the entire scientific community snapped in line. Curiosity and truth-seeking be damned. When you recognize that it is like catching a glimpse of Dark Energy lying behind surface matter. One cannot help but be awed by the hidden power.
Hmm, that almost sounds like Star Wars Darth Vader dialogue!