Listen to Lt Gen Kwast’s 6 min talk. As far as free or near free and control. Yes. Control must be and always will be relinquished to access any form of energy beyond burning wood, assuming you have access to to wood. Until the day when sucking energy from the atmosphere is common knowledge and within everyone’s capabilities to put into effect there will have to be trade/control of some kind for access. Your argument assumes that free energy would ever be a possibility. That’s a false premise. However, if energy were to be A LOT more free than it is now, well, now you have an attractive proposition that still comes with control. Not to mention all the peripheral societal benefits that come with the technology requiring the huge increases in energy. The abundance of energy is a requirement for the self defense of our nation. Energy will be the weapon. Listen to Major Lowery’s summary of his book Softwar. The sheer abundance of energy that is coming will make it near free albeit with control. So you opt out. You gonna find and chop wood? Become a coal miner and build a steam turbine yourself?

Listen to Lt Gen Kwast’s 6 min talk. As far as free or near free and control. Yes. Control must be relinquished to access. Until the day when sucking energy from the atmosphere is common knowledge and within everyone’s capabilities to put into effect there will have to be trade/control of some kind for access. Your argument assumes that free energy would ever be a possibility. That’s a false premise. However, if energy were to be A LOT more free than it is now, well, now you have an attractive proposition that still comes with control. Not to mention all the peripheral societal benefits that come with the technology requiring the huge increases in energy. The abundance of energy is a requirement for the self defense of our nation. Energy will be the weapon. So the sheer abundance of it will make it near free albeit with control. So you opt out. You gonna become a coal miner and build a steam turbine yourself?