| Alternative energy and the real world by Wade Frazier Saturday August 02, 2003 at 09:31 PM | 
An alternative energy visionary and I talked today about some of the issues we run into on the alternative energy front, as far as making people aware of the issues. This was an email I sent him after our conversation.
 
 This was an exchange I had with a fellow free energy 
  visionary today.  This friend comes at free energy more from the scientific 
  end, while I come more from the political-economic end. Hi: Not that you don’t know this 
  stuff, but let me give you my two cents on my interactions with XXX (a popular 
  “radical” political author) and company, and what I am trying to do with my 
  work. As I quickly discovered with YYY (a popular author 
  on the coming end of the fossil fuel age) his semi-ridicule of free energy stemmed 
  from his ideological position, not a careful consideration of the evidence.  
  He believes that we will quickly destroy our planet with free energy - only 
  looking at a worst-case scenario.  He is into humanity becoming a self-limiting 
  society, and if we grow up first, then we can have something like free energy.  
  When I began taking him to task to get to the nitty-gritty of what a “resource” 
  is and other words that he throws around, I found that he really had not thought 
  very deeply about the issues, and was largely parroting academic texts.  The 
  bizarre part of interacting with YYY was that nothing I have proposed  http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/visions.htm#can1 in any way conflicted with his voiced ideals.  I show 
  how we can have an environmentally harmless society that has a standard of living 
  orders of magnitude higher than today’s and goes way, way beyond conventional 
  ideas of “sustainability,” and it all sailed way over YYY’s head, and I got 
  parrot sounds back from him.  He is into riding bikes and the other austerity 
  solutions that the mainstream environmentalists keep cooking up, very unimaginatively, 
  I might add.  Again, he seems to have done virtually no thinking for himself 
  on these issues, but is just repeating, almost as a tautology, the mainstream 
  stuff.  Then he engaged in circular logic to dismiss free energy, saying that 
  until engineers certify free energy, there is no point in even thinking much 
  about it.  I let him know that history has shown that scientists and engineers 
  are about the last people on earth who will wake up to 
  something like free energy, as the experiences of the Wright brothers,  http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy.htm#wright Edison and his light bulb, 
   http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy.htm#edison Rife  http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/medicine.htm#rife and Naessens and their microscopes, http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/medicine.htm#naessens Brown and his gas,  http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy.htm#yull and others have clearly shown. One of the great ironies of 
  all the “laws of physics” stuff people like XXX throw up is that the greatest 
  physicists were decidedly unimpressed with science as an arbiter of reality, http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy.htm#mystical or that the scientific world really knew all that much 
  about how the universe operated.   Again, I have found that people like XXX are mired 
  in their conventional views, which is bizarre when you consider how “radical” 
  XXX’s political views are.  Again, nothing is new there to you.  I have done 
  some exchanging with XXX in the past, and he seems to play the same game that 
  YYY did (“I do not have the time to look into it – but I also am skeptical”).  
  There is some circular logic for you.  Here is an issue of incredible potential 
  and import to humanity, but they say they have no time to look into it, and 
  voice skepticism that they will find anything anyway.  That is not what any 
  investigator worth two cents does.   The mainstream throws up the walls of conventional 
  physics to play their games of dismissal, and that is really OK with me, but 
  if they stay in their easy chairs and dare people to prove something to them, 
  they are not worth the time to engage, in my experience, because I have always 
  found that attitude to be a cover for their denial.  When I begin laying out 
  a trail of evidence for them, they quickly run away (“I don’t have enough time”) 
  or play rhetorical games (or attack me) to enforce their denial.  I have yet 
  to meet an exception to that dynamic.   What I do with my work is something very different 
  than trying to prove the physics of free energy, because it is just theory.  
  Data is another matter.  What I do, especially when recounting my adventures 
  with Dennis, is show how the real world works in regard to energy and potential 
  revolutions in it.  I have never heard of anybody marketing a more effective 
  heating system (and especially selling very many of them) than the LamCo-style 
  heat pump that Dennis marketed, built and installed in the 1980s.   http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy1.htm#new The high COPs the system got, or why it was a highly 
  superior way to generate space heat, is not controversial in the least, and 
  operates well within the theoretical Carnot limits.   http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy.htm#carnot Dennis’ heat pump was pretty meat and potatoes.  What 
  I show, instead, is what happened to somebody trying to bring that pig to market.  
  Long before Dennis had any ideas about making free energy by marrying his heat 
  pump to heat engines, he had his clock cleaned in Seattle,  http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy1.htm#run which was how he got radicalized.  By laying out Dennis’ 
  and my adventures, I show how the real world of capitalism works.  Not one of 
  Dennis’ public critics that I have seen has any entrepreneurial experience, 
  nor has ever tried bringing any new technology to market, much less something 
  that could impact the energy industry as greatly as Dennis’ heat pump could 
  have.  So their criticisms have almost always been empty exercises.  I lay out 
  the data, an explanation of the economics and physics of Dennis’ heat pump, 
  and none of it is even controversial in those realms, as well as my mentor’s 
  revolutionary engine design.   http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/energy.htm#glimpse The reason I did all that was two-fold.  One was to 
  get people away from the obsession with Dennis’ personality.  He is an incredible human being, but the issue of his heat pump and 
  how he took it to market (and what happened to him) can be understood quite 
  independently from considering Dennis’ personality and other stuff that can 
  really detract from understanding the dynamic of how the real world works.  
  I also do the data, physics and economics stuff to show how Dennis was not selling 
  moonshine, and why they took him out.  Then I say to those who are “skeptical” 
  of the possibility of free energy that whoever offered us at least a billion 
  dollars to stop pursuing free energy sure did not seem skeptical.   http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/advent.htm#offer I do not even get back from 
  them that they do not believe Dennis, or me, or the many other offers I have 
  heard of, from credible sources: http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/advent.htm#make I just receive silence.  Until people begin understanding 
  how the world really works (and want 
  to begin understanding it), all the lectures about free energy physics and other 
  aspects of it will probably fall short.  People need to find the integrity and 
  courage to understand how their world works, not blindly cling to their fantasies 
  about how it works.  In my experience, that is the big hurdle, because whenever 
  I have talked about even the heat pump, much less the esoteric physics behind 
  stuff like Sparky Sweet’s device,  http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/letter.htm#make or the free energy demo that 
  one of my pals once got http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/letter.htm#underground the most common response I have ever received was also 
  the most naïve, and it goes like this, “If it is so great, why can’t I buy it?”  
  That shows that they have no idea how the real world of capitalism and technology 
  operates, especially in the powerful and monopolistic ones.  Even Adam Smith 
  remarked that wiping out the competition was what capitalism was all about: http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/america.htm#smith Until those political-economic dynamics are understood, 
  the rest seems pretty futile to me.  Anyway, that is what I think, and that 
  is my rant for the morning.  : - ) Have a good day. Wade