[LAD] joining the fun...

[Patrick Shirkey]

Pieter Palmers wrote:
> Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
>   
>> hi guys.
>>
>> Pieter Palmers wrote:
>>     
>>>  I'm sorry, but the following statement:
>>>
>>> "Here’s a few vids of the mighty power of hydrogen explosions. Not an 
>>> endorsement of nuclear power but just a reference for anyone who is 
>>> doubting the energy contained in Hydrogen."
>>>
>>> is ridiculous. It's not because that type of atomic bomb is called a 
>>> "hydrogen bomb" that it has anything to do with hydrogen as a power 
>>> source. The former is about splitting the hydrogen atom itself, the 
>>> latter is about splitting the bonds a hydrogen atom has with other 
>>> atoms.
>>>       
>> for the record, there is not much to split in a hydrogen atom (generally 
>> it's just one proton, very rarely accompanied by one or two neutrons). 
>> the principle behind the h bomb is fusion of hydrogen into heavier 
>> elements, where the "activation energy" (i hope the term is applicable 
>> here) comes from a previous nuclear fission explosion.
>>     
> /me crawls in a corner and hides full of shame. Of course the H-bomb is 
> fusion. small atoms -> fusion. large atoms (plutonium) -> fission. 
> Sometimes it's better to shut up.
>
> In any case, my error doesn't invalidate my point. I hope they are not 
> experimenting with fusion nor fission in their backyard.
>   

The reaction I got from some people on this list was quite a shock to 
me. Now that I have had some time to process it here is what I would 
like to add in my defence. This has nothing to do with the technical 
merits of the topic that was discussed. I will leave that up to your 
personal judgement. However I am slightly concerned at the closed 
attitude that I was presented with by people I have worked with for over 
ten years and found in general to be quite open minded about ideas that 
may or may not be mainstream.


    Libre Energy - The Open Source Paradigm
    <http://yeswaterisfuel.com/?p=45>

When people think of free energy they tend to get immediately confused. 
Obviously the first thing that comes to mind for anyone is “I can get 
energy for free!!! That can’t be possible”. The “powers” that be have 
definitely got us up against the wall when it comes to getting access to 
energy resources. The next thing people think of when discussing the 
possibility is that so many people have claimed they could create “free” 
energy and they are always hoaxes or snake oil salesmen or often just 
plain crazy paranoid schizophrenics. The last thing most people think of 
if they even dare is that we have the opportunity to actually create 
“Free” as in speech energy. Energy production and conversion technology 
and resources that are publicly owned and not subject to patents and 
corporate or governmental control.

One of the biggest problems that inventors of so called “Free” as in 
beer energy in the past has been bringing the technology or concept to 
market. There are several cases of gifted inventors and engineers who 
had very credible technology that provided energy at a fraction of the 
cost and greatly increased efficiency of currently widely used 
technologies who were killed, bought off or shutdown and their 
inventions and breakthroughs destroyed or locked away from the public. 
Open source and Libre Energy promises to make it a lot harder for the 
energy oligarchs to shut down and keep from the public the advances that 
are made.

In this modern day and age with the whole world connected via internet 
and mobile phone we see amazing speed of information dissemination. It’s 
very difficult to stop knowledge from being shared once it has been 
released to the public space and internet. There are even laws that make 
it hard for the most powerful forces to have control of public 
information. There are certainly uncountable avenues for sharing 
information in a non public grassroots way as the various illegal 
activities performed by internet citizens has proven.

The great thing about the internet is that they can’t shut us down now. 
So sharing knowledge learned through open research and development is a 
very safe way to make sure the common people of the world have the 
upperhand and not the corporate powers and selfish forces of greed.


-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.