WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Sandy:

We’ll see if I can do this without mucking it up. I’ll just be sketching it over the next few days. The essay will be in a bit more depth.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

I will break Wade's stride a bit, but I've just realized something while reading the latest posts and it has to do with the difference between a hammer and food.

The excessive focus on the exchange side of the economy has led to a focus on the products that get consumed faster and faster, and so you need to do more exchange to get new products! This of course leads to things like planed obsolesce and junk food.

In the case of planed obsolesce the hammer will be of poorer and poorer quality until you will actually get to buy a "use once hammer", that you get to throw away after you've done your job. While exchange is the main focus, no business will survive that makes "super hammers" that last forever. Following the same logic no business will ever try to permanently solve the problem it was created for! (see the medical racket, the environmental movement, and probably most charities).

With food, the focus on exchange leads to creation of food that you need to eat a lot of and you need eat often! So you'll have "empty food" that creates addiction, so you'll need to exchange more and more money for it! What would be the point of creating a smaller portions food that satisfy you for a day (or possibly more?!). That would be bad for business...

[Wade Frazier]

Yes indeed, Ilie. Great observation. In a world of scarcity, the charade is to appear to be other-serving while really being self-serving. The dark path folks do this very consciously,

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving

but most of those who play along need their minds “massaged” a little, which is where those scarcity-based ideologies come in:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant

Once in a while, some keen observation comes along to part the mist, such as Goering’s observation about how nobody really wants to go to war, but nationalism provides a handy rationale:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#goering

Fuller was very frank about scarcity being the motivation of all soldiers:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#soldier

I believe it was John Rockefeller who was once asked how to become rich, and he said the key was to find something that people needed, and often, so you could continuously supply it. What John did not say was that first you needed to wipe out your competitors, because big profits only are made in monopolistic situations (a lesson that Bill Gates learned well), and the other is that like with how the media and indoctrination manufactures consent:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#manufacturing

it helps to create artificial demand, which Madison Avenue specializes in. Consequently, more than any other people in history, Americans are bombarded from the cradle with all the stuff that they just have to have, to live the good life, like Granola Puffs.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#granola

It usually caters to the ego, as with those scarcity-based ideologies. Planned obsolescence became a science in America, and has been taught as one of the basic capitalistic catechisms, which you can see in consumer electronics, for instance. I swear the stuff is designed to break in about a year of steady use. They can make stuff that lasts twenty years and longer, but that is bad for business.

And that all rides on the scarcity issue. Do away with scarcity, which is primarily energy scarcity, and entire edifices of our modern world fade away: money, banks, profit-making corporations, taxes, most government, and so on, which Avalonians that read this thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...by-Free-Energy

know all too well. Nobody is trying to milk the consumer on this reality:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

That reality has no money, banks, corporations, slaughterhouses, prisons, hospitals, clear cuts, weapons, lawyers, and so on.

OK, back to the energy tale. So, four billion years ago, the Hadean Earth was being bombarded with the remnants of the accretion disc. The heat created by that bombardment, along with the radioactivity of the shorter-lived isotopes, kept Earth cooking. The sun was dimmer than it is today. The primordial ocean is thought to have begun to form in that era, and the ocean would get regularly vaporized with big impact events, and settle back in prodigious rains. It must have been a sight to behold, but we could only watch it from a spaceship or other human-friendly environment, because it was scalding hot and the air was not breathable. There was no oxygen in the air. Oxygen is one of the most reactive elements and is never found floating around by itself (as diatomic oxygen – oxygen is practically never found as a single atom, but bonds with another oxygen molecule to form what we breathe today). The atmosphere back then was mostly nitrogen, like it is today, but that 21% oxygen did not yet exist, and the carbon dioxide level was perhaps a thousand times higher than it is today. That provided a super-greenhouse effect that kept Earth scorching hot.

As the solar system was gradually swept clean of comets and asteroids, those huge impacts lessened. The biggest one broke off a chunk of Earth that became the moon, but the others have no trace left today on Earth’s surface. Earth can be likened to a bowl of boiling oatmeal. The fires in the center of the Earth, predominately from radiation from decaying unstable atoms, sets Earth’s dynamo in motion, and rock is continually circulating between the core and the surface. When rock hits the surface, it cools and eventually sinks back into the “oatmeal.” The early Earth was covered by one big ocean, with that oatmeal rarely breaking the water’s surface. The oatmeal formed chunks on the solid surface, and those are called tectonic plates today. Those plates collide and at their edges they run into each another, with one plate, the heavier one, getting shoved beneath the lighter one, in what is called subduction. Subduction “sucks” the plate back into the oatmeal. Those collisions are also how our mountain ranges were built. But, when the oatmeal got exposed to the oceans, the rock became what is called hydrated. Hydrated minerals have water baked into their crystalline structure. It is estimated that about half of the original oceans got sucked below the surface by being hydrated into rock.

Iron is one of the most stable elements in certain kinds of stars, and Earth’s core is primarily iron - the remnant of exploded stars. Lighter elements sit on top of that iron-nickel core, and Earth’s mantle and crust is more than 40% oxygen, by mass. Oxygen is another element that stars create in abundance in their fusion processes. Oxygen and iron comprise most of Earth’s mass. The size of the atoms helps determine how the elements fit together, and certain elements replace others in areas of Earth’s interior. For instance, magnesium is more than 20% of Earth’s mantle, but aluminum, calcium, iron and silicon largely replace it in the basalts that spew from volcanoes in the crust. When the volcanic basalt spewed into the early oceans, it got hydrated and sucked back into the crust. The resulting mix could get thrust out through another volcano. Hydrated rock is lighter than non-hydrated rock, and hydrated rock eventually floated to the surface of the oatmeal, and has been largely floating ever since. The continents are primarily comprised of that hydrated rock, which we call granite.

The dynamic today, and it has been this way for a very long time, is that the mid-ocean volcanic ridges in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans spew basalt, and the crustal plates below the oceans spread toward the continents, at a rate of mere inches per year. The basalt plate cools as it crosses the oceans toward the fringes, and sinks back into the crust, subducting below the lighter granite continental plates, because it is heavier. The subduction zones, where the heavy oceanic plates are getting shoved below the lighter continental plates are the sites of the world’s most violent earthquakes. That subduction is not a smooth process, but the rocks slip past each other, fitfully. Today, it is thought that the continents began getting built in earnest about three billion years ago. The continents only grow, as rock keeps getting hydrated by that rock circulation.

Today, it is thought that life first made its appearance at those volcanic vents on the ocean floor, where a rich brew of chemicals was exposed to water. The current estimate is that it happened about 3.8 billion years ago. Scientists have their theories of how it happened, and they have even identified chemical reactions that swirl in the way that life kind of works, and they think that somehow the reaction became self-sustaining, and life evolved. They have never reproduced life in a White Science lab from inorganic components, so their theories are a kind of faith, and even if they can make life from mixing chemicals together, it says nothing at all about what may be behind that formation. Life could well decide to show up when the conditions are right for it to manifest. On that score, materialist science will never be fully convincing with its theories on the origin of life. Materialist science does not know consciousness at all. That is the big schism between the materialists and the creationists, and all the materialist theory will never bridge that gap, and anybody can seek experiences that easily demonstrate how hollow the materialist theories of consciousness are:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post518761

But this is a story of process and history, at least as far as scientists have been able to determine, so I’ll continue. Early life was chemosynthetic, meaning that it got its energy by exploiting the high energy levels of the atoms that spewed out of the volcanic vents, before they could react with the water and other chemicals. Those early life forms were all single-celled. The so-called tree of life began in those early days, and the first two big branches separated into bacteria and archaea. They are the two oldest branches on the tree of life, and they are still alive and well. Such simple life forms are highly adaptable, and many are able to live in environments that would kill anything else. Archaeans are the extremophile experts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile

The DNA in bacteria, for instance, is single stranded, and bacteria swap DNA all the time, making the notion of a species kind of pointless. Bacteria can prey on each other, but it is a one-level food chain.

I won’t go too far into Fringe Science in this series of posts, but I will a little. There is a level of microbiology happening that is still unexplored by White Science, and it is the pleomorphic world that Rife and Naessens have explored with their microscopes:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post517775

Radical new understandings await White Science, if it can pull its head out of the sand. The medical racketeers have done a fine of job of keeping the false paradigm in place that has decided that the best course for treating cancer is attacking the tumor:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#developing

Naessens has stated that the somatid may be some kind of precursor to DNA. The very spark of life itself may be revealed at the somatidian level, and it can be mind-boggling to realize how blind White Science is to dynamics that people like Rife and Naessens independently discovered, and neither was aware of their professional granddaddy, Béchamp, either, when they began their epochal investigations:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#paradigm

But back to the narrative. So, after a few hundred million years of evolution after life first appeared, some of those single-celled organisms learned to capture the sun’s energy, and photosynthesis was born, around 3.5 billion years ago. The first photosynthesizers did not take carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen. They probably used hydrogen or hydrogen sulfide as the source of the electrons for their photosynthesis. It was not until about 3.5-to-3.0 billion years ago that oxygenic photosynthesis was “invented” by cyanobacteria. The estimated ranges of these events vary.

I do not want to get too far into the chemistry in these posts, but it is not too hard to visualize what happens in photosynthesis. Basically, life learned to capture metals in “catcher’s mitts” called porphyrins:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrin

and those metals provide electrical potential that can be used. If you look at the structure of chlorophyll:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorop...ical_structure

how photosynthesis works is that the chlorophyll molecule is literally an antennae, waiting for a photon to hit it. When a photon does, it is absorbed by an atom, which excited its electrons so that one is shaken loose. It begins a chain reaction that goes down that long chain of atoms, and the vibration becomes enough at the end of the chain that an electron is literally shaken loose. That electron is that energy source that powers virtually all life on Earth.

The shorter the wavelength of light, the more energy it contains. Today, it is thought that the various chlorophylls absorb different wavelengths due to competition for the light. The earliest photosynthesizers seem to have absorbed green light, which was the sweet spot for energy capture, since that wavelength dominates what comes from the sun, and today’s photosynthesizers learned to capture the leftover frequencies of red and blue:

http://www.livescience.com/1398-earl...-suggests.html

The framework of evolution and competition for energy dominated scientific investigation into life processes, for good reason. Seth says that life is not really competitive:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist

and in this world:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

it is not a Darwinian struggle to the death. This is one of many areas where I try to focus my deeper thoughts. It is a paradox that I have yet to resolve in my head, and I may never do so, and that is OK. I think that love can resolve the paradox, but we may never really be able to grok it while living in physical reality.

Back to evolution. When cyanobacteria learned to split water, it set in motion dynamics that led to the world we see today. Early on, life had to learn to create anti-oxidants to protect itself from stray molecules that could destroy it. Molecules with a net charge (usually that has lost an electron, either through ionization or losing its paired electron shell by losing the electron that it shared with a neighboring molecule – called free radicals) will grab an electron from wherever it can, to make itself whole again. Life had to learn to create sacrificial molecules that could absorb those free radicals before they damaged important molecules. Vitamin C is one of those sacrificial molecules that can neutralize free radicals.

With iron being so prevalent in Earth’s composition, it was dissolved in the oceans, making up a great proportion of the dissolved solids. As oxygen was created by the photosynthetic processes of cyanobacteria, one of the first things it did was react with the dissolved iron. It oxidized iron into a non-soluble form of iron, and the iron precipitated out of the ocean and fell to the ocean floor as rust. The process was huge, and it formed what are called banded iron formations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation

Most of the iron ore mined today comes from those banded iron formations, which were created by the oxygen of photosynthesis. Depending on what estimates we work from, somewhere between 3.5 and 3.0 billion years ago, oxygenic photosynthesis began to oxidize Earth’s oceans, and as the granitic continents began to grow, they got oxidized, too. By about 2.4 billion years ago, Earth’s oceans and land masses had been oxidized to the extent where oxygen began building up in the atmosphere. Again, oxygen is very reactive, and was a waste product of those early synthesizers. That increase in oxygen is thought to have initiated Earth’s first mass extinction event, and perhaps its greatest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

Until that time, anaerobic organisms dominated Earth’s incipient ecosystems, but that atmospheric oxygen, even though it was only a few percent of the atmosphere, was deadly to the anaerobes, and they must have virtually all died out, and the survivors sought oxygen-free environments to live in, and that is virtually only underground, where today’s anaerobic organisms make their home today, survivors of that oxygen holocaust. That oxygen event also had other chemical consequences, the most significant being the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, which probably brought on Earth’s first ice age, beginning about 2.4 million years ago and lasting for 300 million years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huronian

When you begin to snoop into these areas, there is still plenty of uncertainty. It is debated whether the increase in oxygen and removal of greenhouse gases was primarily responsible, or a change in the level of volcanism did it. The debates can become heated and bitter, but the timing of the oxygenation event with the beginning of the first ice age is likely no coincidence.

But what is not disputable is that that life began to terraform Earth, and several hundred million years of oxygenic photosynthesis had huge impacts on Earth’s surface. If all photosynthesis stopped today, it would take oxygen-breathing life forms about six thousand years to use up the atmosphere’s oxygen. Of course, fossil-fuel-burning humans would do it much faster.

OK, that is enough for one morning. Off to work.

Best,

Wade

[sandy]

Hi Wade,

Don't want to take you off track but was just wondering about the moon and all it's anomalies. Many theories infer it was not from a collision with Earth due to these anomalies!!

Either way in my mind there is no way that one can honestly believe we evolved by chance when you look at what it takes just to create a life form.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Sandy:

When I was looking into the moon landings, many anomalies came up that people pointed to to support their arguments for faked landings:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#apollo

In every case, the anomaly fell apart on further inspection, as far as supporting faked moon landings claims. Many so-called anomalies are where the moon has failed match certain expectations, but that is true for every solar system body that has been visited. Here is an example. There was speculation that the moon would have deep dust when NASA landed on it. That did not happen. Creationists and others have used the moon dust issue to argue that the moon is only as old as Genesis allegedly says it is. Here is an article by a scientist on the issue:

http://ncse.com/cej/4/3/space-dust-m...ace-age-cosmos

and you can find other accounts on the Internet. Basically, some questionable data was extrapolated and came up with huge figures for how deep the moon dust would be. Better data and more rigorous analysis shows that the moon dust for its lifetime so far may have only accumulated a couple of inches at most, and it also is not going to all fly like talcum powder, but compacts and is baked by sunlight. But on that moon thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...010#post478010

you can see somebody recycle the “moon dust is deep” argument. So, there is an anomaly that simply evaporates upon further inspection. Not to say that there are not anomalies and mysteries. For instance, they keep testing the moon rocks, and keep getting surprises:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...ion-collision/

But scientists are not ready to bag the idea that the moon came from Earth.
You see a bunch of fun moon facts listed here, for instance:

http://usahitman.com/unusal-moon-facts/

but there are bogus ones in there, starting off with 5 billion year old moon rocks. Nobody in the scientific world makes that claim:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rock

There are all sorts of anomaly claims, but I have never seen them amount to much. Are there artifacts of intelligent life and bases on the moon? I consider that very likely, but that has nothing to with the moon’s origin. The evidence is strong that the moon has been in orbit around Earth almost as long as Earth has been around. There is not much evidence, especially of the persuasive kind, which supports arguments that the moon was towed here, etc. Many New Agey claims like that abound, but their substance is thin, very thin. That issue is a good one for people looking into the fringes to examine, where they can see all the claims made for anomalies, and the seeker can find out how real those claims are. There are many tall claims on the fringes with nothing to back them up, or innocent evidence is used to spin all manner of conspiratorial yarn.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Real quickly before I go to bed, the surface of Earth is a highly dynamic system, but it usually moves at what is called the geologic time scale. At mere inches per year, the tectonic plates take a long time to make their journeys. You can see the 80 million year journey of a hot upwelling from the mantle that has carved a range of volcanoes across the floor of the Pacific Ocean, whose terminus is currently the Big Island of Hawaii:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Seamount

Because of the circulation of the basalt-heavy plates beneath the oceans, there are no ocean rocks older than 200 million years. There are four billion year old rocks on the continents, however, because the light granitic continents float the way they do.

Movement within the iron core creates Earth’s magnetic field. That field is thought to shield Earth’s surface from harmful solar radiation, but the issue is somewhat controversial. The rising oxygen in the atmosphere is what created and maintains the ozone layer, which blocks ultraviolet rays. The ozone layer is about 2 billion years old, and shielding Earth's surface from ultraviolet light probably saved Earth’s oceans. Ultraviolet light is not ionizing radiation, but is powerful enough to break molecules apart, like water. The hydrogen in the ocean's water would have escaped to space, if not for all of the oxygen in the atmosphere and the ozone layer. That molecular havoc wrought by ultraviolet light is what damages flesh and DNA. The oxygen/ozone situation is another way that life has terraformed Earth, where Earth has co-evolved with life. If Earth lost its oceans, its surface would be like Venus’s, and none of us would live here.

Scientists have pieced together the movements of the continents, and there is a 500 million year cycle where the continents come together and form a single continent, but the heat that builds up below it breaks it apart, and the pieces fly away across Earth’s surface to collide and rebound back toward each other, and form another single continent. The continents are close to that maximum spread from each other, 200 million years after the last supercontinent broke up, before they begin to come back together.

Today’s continental spread creates ocean currents that circulate amongst the continents like a huge conveyor belt. The conveyer can be tipped so that it runs backwards, which apparently happened several thousand years ago, perhaps from North Atlantic icecap melt off the continents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation

which created climactic havoc. The entirely of the history of civilization is during a brief interglacial period in an ice age that has lasted more than two million years so far and is expected to last for millions more.

The dynamics of tectonic plate movements, ocean currents, rising and falling greenhouse gas concentrations, and other factors, such as the tilt, eccentricity, and elliptical nature of Earth’s orbit around the sun have made Earth’s climate highly variable over the eons, but the past 500 million years have been uncharacteristically stable, both geologically and atmospherically, and it has been the era of animals, and its day in the sun will not last much longer, on the geological scale.

I have a long ways to go to make this sketch of life on Earth before humans appeared, but going to bed now.

Best,

Wade

[Limor]

Originally posted by Wade: "a series of events grew huge brains, leading to the man writing this post"

It is so impressive to become familiar with your sea of knowledge, Wade, and with your unique perspectives that provides such an immense addition to all of this information. I need to use my right side of the brain, but also my left side when 'tapping' into it. I am appreciative to be able to be exposed to what you have to say and present. thank you very much.

[sandy]

Dear Limor,

I'm in total agreement with your last post

Wade: Thank you for your post about the moon which made me realize that I have never seen an explanation or theory for why the planets and moons are circular versus big clumps of misshapen forms?? Would this be due to the torsion/vortex energy that is attributed to source and of course Free energy?

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Limor. I am most concerned about mucking this up. I had a long, strange trip, from being a science prodigy as a child who had a mystical awakening and went the business route and got handed my head when I tried to help bring FE to the world, who survived the experience with my sanity (mostly ) intact, and resumed my science studies in my advancing years, with the radicalized perspective that came with my preposterous journey. I had many awakening experiences on the path of my radicalization, but the moment in the courtroom when the prosecution made faces at me as I was testifying was when my worldview made its big shift, to never be the same again:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#faces

Everything after that has only been a refinement of my radicalized perspective. If I did not have my years with Dennis, I doubt that I would have much worth saying. During our efforts, I saw many pitfalls and deficiencies, but the biggest one that I saw was that the public was oblivious, shuffling along, stumbling through their lives. They paid attention to Dennis when he threatened to pull a quadrillion dollar rabbit out of his hat, but went back to watching the tube when we were wiped out or he failed in his magic act. I slowly came to realize that such an approach of engaging the masses was doomed, or the risk was so insanely high that only Indiana Jones types had any business trying that route. Dennis is the only person on Earth that I know of who can successfully complete this application:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany

I watched or helped Dennis try the capitalist, Christian, and nationalist routes, and saw the huge downsides of those efforts. He was appealing to people’s sense of self-interest, and you can’t out-maneuver Godzilla, who is the master shepherd of the human herd. All of those ideological approaches, I slowly came to realize, had the same basis: they were scarcity-based and egocentric:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant

I really groped toward the approach that I am beginning to try out, coming to it only after many years of playing in these puddles. Yes, people need both sides of their brains engaged, with the heart in charge, if we are going to have a prayer of getting over the hump. What I found is that if people’s hearts were in the right place, they were usually scientifically illiterate and could be weak on the rational/critical thought process. The scientific types usually neglected the other side of their brains, and they are almost universally so naïve that they are no help, either, as Fuller and others have noted:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#nerd

They are almost all Level 3s on the FE front:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3

My target audience will have its heart in the right place above all, but that is only the beginning point. There is plenty of opportunity for the right brain to get involved, but the left brain needs to be engaged, too. Only in that way can people begin to see the big picture and the central role that energy plays in our lives, and then they may begin to understand the ramifications of what environmentally-harmless, abundant energy can do for the human journey:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced

It can look like Heaven on Earth in short order. The big problem is that almost nobody really cares, or those who do fall headlong into the many pitfalls that await. Almost nobody has been able to keep their eye on the ball, as they get caught up in a million distractions that don’t amount to anything. I don’t know what all the pitfalls are, but I am acquainted with many of them:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#potholes

So, this fool is sallying forth with an approach that he has never seen tried before. I am going to try to meet my audience more than halfway, but we are not going to raise our awareness high enough to get over the hump unless we do the work to develop comprehensive perspectives:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing

Nobody is going to do it for us, and the FE effort, so far, has been opposed from almost all corners. Truly, we do most of Godzilla’s work for him. He is only a parasite taking advantage of a situation that humanity has largely created for itself. I am trying to see if the heart-centered sentience path has a prayer. If I fail, maybe others can take the approach further. I am really making this up as I go, and we will see how it turns out.

Best,

Wade

Hi Sandy:

The reason the large bodies (planets, large moons, stars) are spherical is gravity:

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=19

Small moons and asteroids can be “misshapen” because they are not large enough for their gravity to form them into spheres.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-planets-round

A sphere is the most volume-efficient way to contain mass, and is why water makes spherical drops, but it is surface tension (from those hydrogen bonds), not gravity, that makes water drops spherical.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

In my little life-on-Earth narrative, now is a good time for a little more chemistry. As sketched earlier, life likely came into being by exploiting the potential chemical energy at volcanic vents in the oceans. Some single-celled life forms eventually learned to capture sunlight, which freed those organisms from needing to stay where the unexploited chemical energy was. Science by no means has all the answers. Far from it. They have their theories, and the further back in time the events they deal with go, the more uncertain they usually are.

Today’s life forms are largely built from light elements. Metals are rare, and have unique properties that life uses, such as the magnesium in chlorophyll:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorop...ical_structure

the iron in hemoglobin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin#Structure

the calcium and magnesium in bone tissue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osseous_tissue

the cobalt in vitamin B12:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12

and rare metals in enzymes such as molybdenum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenum#Biochemistry

When a body is cremated or wood is burned, the ash is made from the metals in the tissues. Most human ash is from the calcium in the bones. Hardwoods are partly made harder by having more metal in them.

The other elements in the human body - oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and phosphorus in particular (those five elements, along with calcium, comprise 99% of the human body’s mass) – are non-metallic, and carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and phosphorous are pretty rare elements on Earth. Even though nitrogen makes up nearly 80% of Earth’s atmosphere, it is less than one in every four million atoms on Earth. Virtually all of Earth’s nitrogen is in its atmosphere. Nitrogen is triple-bonded to itself in the diatomic gas in the atmosphere, and is very hard to break apart. The energy of thirteen ATP molecules is burned for every atom of nitrogen that bacteria are able to obtain from the atmosphere. Nitrogen is used in DNA and proteins, so is an indispensable element to life, and we have bacteria to thank for making it biologically available for billions of years. Only in the 20th century was an industrial method for “fixing” nitrogen from the atmosphere developed. It led to an explosion in industrialized agriculture, which has been a mixed blessing: good for humanity, but generally bad for the rest of the ecosystems.

Carbon is perhaps the most essential element in the human body. Because its outer electron shell is half-filled, carbon makes marvelously diverse bonds, and all important molecules in life processes have carbon atoms as the backbone. There is an entire branch of chemistry, organic chemistry, devoted to the chemistry of carbon. The human body is essentially made of water and carbon, with carbon making up 18% of the body’s mass. But only one in every 200,000 atoms on Earth is a carbon atom. Life has had to learn to find, capture and keep carbon. All the elements used in biology have a "cycle,” which means how they come and go through Earth's geophysical and biological systems.

All of today’s animals breathe in oxygen and excrete carbon. That process is called respiration, and at the cellular level, the mitochondria generate the energy used by all complex life forms (plants have mitochondria, too). That is a story for later in these posts. This post will be concerned with how carbon is cycled in Earth, as it is a key element in making Earth inhabitable.

Three-atom and larger molecules, if they float in the atmosphere, will absorb infrared radiation. What hits the Earth’s surface from the sun is mostly in the wavelengths of visible light. About a third of the sun’s energy that hits Earth is immediately reflected away, and two-thirds is absorbed by the atmosphere and Earth’s surface. Both radiate away that energy in the infrared wavelengths. Basically, inflows and outflows equal, so Earth has a stable temperature. All mass emits electromagnetic radiation, and Earth’s surface is warmed by absorbing sunlight, and Earth gives off its own light, but it is less powerful (longer wavelength), and is largely in the form of infrared radiation. As infrared radiation flies off of Earth’s surface to space, if three-atom molecules absorb that radiation, that trapped energy heats up the atmosphere. Water traps more of that energy than carbon dioxide does, but water’s freezing point is zero degrees Celsius, while carbon dioxide’s is 78 degrees below zero Celsius, so carbon dioxide is not subject to being removed from the atmosphere by temperatures that would see water freeze out of it. When reconstructing ancient climates, the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere is what scientists are concerned about. Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas. The greenhouse gas effect has warmed Earth’s surface to make it inhabitable. Earth’s surface would be well below the freezing point of water, if not for the greenhouse gas effect.

While life is part of the carbon cycle, most carbon in the atmosphere, oceans, and crust is non-organic, which means that it is not associated with life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle

The primary inorganic parts of the carbon cycle that impact Earth’s surface dynamics, at least until the fossil fuel era, has been the venting of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere from volcanoes, and the weathering of Earth’s surface. When it rains, some carbon dioxide is dissolved in the water, forming a weak acid. When that rain hits the ground, that acid eats at the rock, and the carbon replaces silicon (one of the most abundant elements in Earth’s crust), and the carbon gets locked up in carbonate rocks, removing it from the atmosphere. That carbonate rock usually gets washed to the oceans eventually, and most carbon in Earth’s crust is in the form of what are called sedimentary carbonates. Some of that carbon gets recycled to the atmosphere as the sediments get sucked up into volcanoes, but that weathering cycle has been steadily removing carbon from the atmosphere. That cycle is on the geological timescale, so does not cause sudden climate changes. Also, hard-shelled organisms in the oceans, like these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccolithophores

make their shells out of carbonate, and millions of years of their lives have formed some of the sedimentary rock known as limestone. That carbon cycle, and life forms comprise a significant portion of it, has influenced how much carbon is in the atmosphere, and hence, how warm or cold the atmosphere is. Over the geological timescale, carbon has been getting increasingly sequestered in Earth’s crust. It is thought that the carbon dioxide content of Earth’s atmosphere may have been a thousand times higher than it is today, meaning that it could have been around of a third of the atmosphere. Venus is an example of what carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can do. Its atmosphere is more than 96% carbon dioxide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus

and all of that carbon dioxide is why Venus’s surface is hot enough to melt lead. The carbon dioxide levels have generally fluctuated in the inverse of the oxygen levels, and although scientists are not sure quite why, it is likely no coincidence. Oxygen has its cycle too, and the oxygen provided by photosynthesis is the most important source of atmospheric oxygen in today’s oxygen cycle.

The point of this post is to begin to sketch the chemical cycles. They have had, and continue to have, profound effects on Earth’s climate and the chemical composition of the land and oceans. They formed the dynamics that life had to learn to adapt to, and life in turn created new element flows that in turn dramatically changed Earth’s surface. While James Lovelock formed his Gaia hypothesis to make the case that life makes Earth friendly to life, it is not always the case, and Peter Ward recently formed his Medea hypothesis, which stated that life’s impact has caused most of the mass extinctions by changing Earth’s chemistry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Hypothesis

And energy runs the show!

All of those cycles are run by energy. Without energy to propel it, there would be no cycle. The energy of the sun and the energy of radioactive decay inside Earth (which is really a form of concentrated energy that came from a star’s collapse, after it ran out of energy), is primarily what runs the show of all of those chemical cycles.

Life adapted to those cycles, harvesting energy from the environment, and byproducts of life processes altered Earth’s surface in ways that have been critical to maintaining life. As I have mentioned, life created the oxygen in the atmosphere, the ozone layer that protects us from ultraviolet radiation, and is what prevented the oceans from being blasted into space, as the hydrogen would have floated off if not bound with oxygen in water.

In coming posts will be how life made some of those changes, and what their impact was, on life and the environment. It can be an incredibly complex pageant, and science is a long, long way from figuring it all out, but the findings so far can be enlightening.

What really comes across strong in my scientific studies is that scientists who have spent their careers studying these issues usually come away with a reverence for life. Life really is a miracle, and while that awe of life is what got many of those scientists into the field, it is also something that became impressed on them as their careers progressed. Life is a delicate phenomenon, and all scientists worth listening to all agree that what industrialized man is doing to Earth’s chemical cycles and how it is impacting all other life forms is a very ominous situation. No climate scientist not owned by the hydrocarbon lobby is anything but highly concerned by the effects of venting all of those hydrocarbons to the atmosphere. This industrial era is changing the atmosphere millions of times faster than the Great Oxygenation Event did. The only good news is that we will run out of hydrocarbons to burn before very long, so the hydrocarbon era will end, but the price it may extract from Earth’s ecosystems could be awesome. The hydrocarbon lobby mouthpieces stress the “good news” of digging up and venting that carbon to the atmosphere, reversing the long-term carbon starvation. But real scientists laugh at such idiocy. It is like those hydrocarbon lobby mouthpieces are playing at being doctors, prescribing a dose of carbon for what ails life. So, what is the proper dose? Whatever Exxon says it is?

Already, the oceans are turning acidic, as the oceans are the sink where most of that carbon is ending up, and those little animals discussed above, that form their shells out of carbonate, have a small range of pH that their life’s processes can operate within. Scientists are highly concerned that with much more hydrocarbon burning, the oceans will become too acidic for those organisms to form their shells. Those tiny organisms are the basis of the ocean’s ecosystems, and supply half of the world’s oxygen. The burning of hydrocarbons is threatening the oceanic energy chain and source of half of the oxygen production that makes the air that you and I breathe.

These are the kinds of dire dynamics that FE can make disappear almost overnight.

Upadate: This evening, I got to a bunch of typos and too hasty writing. I am trying to cover a lot of territory in a little space here. The essay will cover it at a more leisurely pace and in more depth and more carefully.

Time to run off to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Ok, to resume the tale of when life was unicellular. One of the first things that life had to do was separate itself from its environment. That is why the membrane was born. Membranes pass in what the cell needs, and pass out what the cell does not. In unicellular, prokaryotic (without a nucleus and organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts) organisms, the membrane is where the energy-generating reactions take place. A spherical cell will increase its volume as the cube of the increase in its diameter. So, there is not enough available energy for a prokaryotic cell to get very large.

There will likely always be lively debate on the issue, but today, it is thought that more than 2.5 billion years ago,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryote

during The Great Oxidation Event, something epochal happened with some unicellular organisms: one ate another, and both survived the experience. Or one invaded another. Scientists have been able to force some prokaryotes into arrangements that they think led to complex cells. Whether it was a case of predation or parasitism, the organism that was absorbed found a home within the other one.

The consequence of that seemingly innocuous situation led to all complex life on Earth. It is currently thought that all complex animal cells descended from an instance of a bacterium, perhaps a hydrogen-producing bacterium, being enveloped in that way:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_ednref2

It is thought that all plants descended from a single instance of a photosynthetic cyanobacterium being similarly enveloped. The possibly hydrogen-producing bacterium became a mitochondrion, and that photosynthetic bacterium became a chloroplast. Scientists think that they know the kind of bacterium that became a mitochondrion, because mitochondria still have the purplish coloring that they think that the original bacterium had. Scientists also think that the organism doing the “swallowing” may have been an Archaean, not a bacterium.

One consequence of that partnership was that energy generation could take place on the membranes of the formerly-independent bacterium. That increased the surface area of where reactions took place, and therefore the volume of a cell could increase, not being constrained by the size of the outer membrane. That is why eukaryotic cells are hundreds, even thousands, of times larger than prokaryotic cells. Distributed energy generation allowed for larger, more complex organisms.

The issue of oxidative stress existed at the beginnings of life on Earth. Early life forms had diverse ways of acquiring their energy, taking advantage of many different chemicals. The extremophiles do so today. They even recently found that some complex life forms have learned to live in oxygen-free environments:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...mediterranean/

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/30

which was a big surprise. The hydrogen hypothesis is that a hydrogen-producing bacterium was the first enveloped one that led to the mitochondria:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_hypothesis

absorbed by an archaean that needed that hydrogen (a methanogen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenic), so finding hydrogen-producing life forms maybe should not have been that big of a surprise. Maybe those ones never stopped producing hydrogen. Meanwhile, those cyanobacteria were merrily producing all of that oxygen waste from their photosynthetic activities. Oxygen is one of the most reactive elements, and can wreak biological havoc. It makes some of the most damaging free radicals known to biologists. So that increasing oxygen in the atmosphere created serious problems, and may have led to the greatest mass extinction event of all time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

There is plenty of controversy around that event, as with all events like that. What there is complete agreement on, however, is that the event happened, and cyanobacteria were responsible for it.

There is plenty of controversy, as in all of these areas, but today it is thought that it took a few hundred million years after the Great Oxygenation Event for the new, complex cells to learn the trick that paved the way for all that followed it: using oxygen for respiration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellula...ic_respiration

Life learned how to turn a poison into a way to supercharge its energy generation process. Aerobic respiration has theoretically eighteen times the energy generation potential of fermentation and anaerobic respiration, although in practice it is “only” about fifteen times.

That great energy generation potential is what made complex life possible. More complex organisms have more moving parts, and it takes energy to move them. Without the great engine of oxygenic respiration, complex life would not exist on Earth, other than those few tiny critters that they recently discovered in an extreme environment. While the “explosion” in the diversity and size of plants and animals was on its way when oxygenic respiration was invented, from a biochemist’s perspective, all the diversity ended when oxygenic respiration appeared. Where the bacteria and archaeans had myriad ways to wrench energy from the environment, when oxygenic respiration was invented, it became a “winner take all” situation, because all of the plants and animals that dominated Earth’s ecosystems ever since all used the same method for generating their energy.

Today, it is thought that eukaryotic organisms first appeared in the fossil record about two billion years ago. But it took another 1.5 billion years for the Cambrian Explosion to occur:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion

When Darwin was positing his case for evolution, the Cambrian Explosion vexed him. It all seemed to come out of nowhere, making a case for the Creationist perspective, which Darwin was avid to undermine. Before complex life developed skeletons, it left a scant fossil record, which was part of the problem. The riddle of complex cells predating the Cambrian Explosion by 1.5 billion years has puzzled scientists for many years, but the gap has been slowly filled, although with the fossil record so scant, and it all happening so long ago, the battles have been fierce over what may have happened. But the discovery of the Ediacaran fossil beds:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacara_biota

and another one in China:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doushantuo_formation

has helped fill in the gap just before the Cambrian Explosion. The 500 million years before the Cambrian Explosion were dominated by ice ages, which are thought to have impacted the evolution of life in that era. The greatest ice ages that Earth ever had were in the era before complex life began its rise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenian

I’ll do a little more later on the pre-Cambrian dynamics, but it is off to work now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have to go rush off to go hiking in a few minutes, so no big post today. Tomorrow, I will write a post on enzymes. Without enzymes, life would not exist. Enzymes make chemical reactions happen faster. The standard enzyme makes a chemical reaction happen millions of times faster than it otherwise would:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme

An enzyme essentially grabs two molecules and fits them together like a lock and key, so that they react in the intended fashion. If enzymes did not speed up reactions by millions of times, there would not be enough energy to power life. Enzymes are highly specific, encouraging only specific reactions. Some enzyme-encouraged reactions happen a billion times as fast as they would without the enzyme. Enzymes are proteins with shapes that make that lock and key fit together. If an enzyme gets “bent” by something like a fluoride ion or heating that breaks the hydrogen bonds that give the protein its shape, then the enzyme won’t work anymore. It would be like trying to put a bent key into the lock.

Best,

Wade

[Limor]

It could have been beneficial to have a special enzyme to encourage our mass awakening on our planet earth to go faster.
We have too many 'free radicals' affecting our society, and the diseases emerge everywhere. In order to fight it, we need as many 'antioxidants' as possible in the form of consciousness and awareness in many of the residents of our body-planet, an essential component to our continued existence.

Originally posted by Wade: "Life learned how to turn a poison into a way to supercharge its energy generation process"

To go through a process like that could be an eventful solution for human beings as well. It is a shame, we don't have a few hundred million years to 'learn the trick' like other organisms did, but we have to work much faster to allow the planet to heal and to reverse our earth situation into a nourishing system that feeds it's cells instead of killing them.

Sorry for taking your explanations on life processes out of context, Wade, I couldn't resist it, but I look forword for your enzyme post and it's role on making processes move faster in what we call 'life'.

Have a nice hike

[sandy]

Happy to hear you are going hiking Wade,

Enjoy and fill those cells with lots of Mother Natures healing properties

[Ernie Nemeth]

Hi Wade.
About the genesis of multicellular lifeforms: there is this great assumption being made that life began on earth. The more evidence gathered, the more it seems likely that life did not begin on earth. Even though that still requires multicellular life to have evolved here, it leaves more time for that to have developed.
Further, there seems to be mounting circumstantial evidence that life was tampered with by other-worldly intelligences. Could it be that it was engineered at various stages? For life to spontaneously erupt on a planet is highly unlikely, with odds against in the billions I'm sure - yet here it is. So another in this sector of the galaxy would be ruled out statistically.
Maybe it is the foundation of the theory itself that needs revision. Maybe life, like existence in general, is universal and works off of some set of archetypes. Maybe life knows where to go next, what molecules to link together for the desired effect. Matbe there is little to do with chance at all...

Just some thoughts.

[Limor]

Hi Ernie,

There is a certain amount of tools at the 3D science tool box, what you are talking about here is A- not proved in any way and B- an assumptions like that, that we were tampered with by inteligent life from out of this world ,can not be made by science, since only recently it was discovered that water is found on the moon, therefore, it might sustain human life...

But we know that you are right

The scientific tool box is lacking, but what it CAN explain is important enough for gathering some pieces of the pazzle.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi All:

Limor: your analogy is a fine one.

Hi Ernie:

On the White Science front, scientists openly admit that their theories for how life originally began are little more than wild guesses. It is a very far cry from the experiments and hypotheses put forth so far to explaining how a working cell came to be. Any honest scientist is going to say something like, “We have no idea how in the heck it happened.” The same goes for speciation, which is one of the most poorly understood areas of evolutionary theory. So, there is plenty of room for speculation. However, I have never heard of a White Scientist making the case for DNA manipulation in humans. On the Fringe Science front, you see stuff like this:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vi...especies02.htm

but it is highly speculative. I have seen a great deal of that alternative anthropology over the years. When I have dug into it, it never really seemed to hold up very well. White Science genetics specialists are not coming up with theories like that guy’s to explain the surprises in mapping the human genome. There is an entire cottage industry of people like him, coming up with all sorts of fringe theories, and they almost always fall apart under closer inspection, and then they come up with new ones, which also fall apart, so they keep selling books. And those who come forward, alleging secret ancient finds and special powers, also never quite measure up to their rhetoric and claimed powers.

And then we get to Black Science. There is nothing on the Black Science front that I am aware of that alleges secret genetic manipulation in our past, but that has also not been the thrust of my life’s work on the Fringe Science work. I played the energy game, and the Black Science stuff that I became aware of was because of the particular game that I played.

I am very open to the idea that life was originally seeded here on the planet, and has had a little help at times. But until the ETs come into the open and provide us the story and evidence, then that field is very vulnerable to all sorts of wild speculation, cottage industries forming to spout all manner of wacky theory, and I consider almost all of it a distraction. Until we solve the energy issue, the rest will not matter.

I will try to get up another post today.

Sandy, my dear, thanks for the wishes, and attached is a photo from yesterday’s hike. It was a blessed one. Small glaciers feed that lake, which contributes to that water’s color.

http://www.summitpost.org/colchuck-glacier/162204



Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

I still can't wrap my mind around the enzymes thing... reactions that happen a billion times faster... Than brings an exploding bomb to mind!

Does the speed of the reaction affects the energy output? Or is it simply the case that energy is faster available? Like instead of having to chew on a rock for 10 years to have my lunch, now I can drink a glass of juice and digest that super fast...

I also find it very very hard to believe that enzymes just happened! That analogy with the wind assembling a Boeing is a good one...

So life on earth has been an energy game, now we seem to have gotten to a plateau, with FE being the super enzyme we have "discovered" but being denied access to.

Wade, you wrote about parasites and invaders, but it may also have been a partnership (as you say later on) or a symbiotic relationship. Just as our bodies are made possible due to the symbiotic relation between our cells. The point is, it may have been a cooperation game, not a competitive game (survival of the fittest) as we are led to believe.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Yes, when you begin to really think about what is happening at the molecular level, and then when you take in the theories that so many of the critical steps to humans being here is allegedly a series of happy accidents, it really becomes hard to swallow the story, and the greats that I have studied and known did not believe the blind chance model espoused by people like Dawkins. Einstein believed that an intelligence far beyond anything that humans have ever hoped to achieve is manifesting through how the universe operates:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#einstein

Einstein chalked up his relativity theory to his “god’s” influence:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash

and all the people that I have respected in the FE field were, to one degree or another, mystics. I think that the frontiers of consciousness that White Science has not begun to explore (but Black Science is way, way ahead of them on that score, although much of their work is evil) are exceedingly subtle. Brian O was a big advocate of scientific testing of that subtle phenomena:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#frontiers

but, really, most of that stuff may always lie beyond the reach of what we call science today. Scientists often do not like hearing it, but science’s methods and findings are only valid within a certain frame of reference. People like Sagan dishonestly dismissed anything not falling within the parameters of gross materialistic White Science,

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#sagan

and that is the great folly of the “skeptics.”

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends

But their limitations do not make the Fringe Science stuff valid, as most of it is not. This is part of what I call the layman’s quandary:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/orthodox.htm

On enzymes and energy, it is estimated that between a third and half of all the energy that an animal uses is just to maintain its metabolism. The rest is used in moving, eating etc. Power in physics is defined as energy generated over time. Basically, without the immense speeding up of reactions by enzymes, life could not happen. The disabling phenomenon of entropy (i.e., disorganization) would quickly overcome whatever organization that focused energy could create – the organization that defines what an organism is. Yes, looking at the structure of enzymes, and believing that they all were “designed” by blind chance sure seems implausible.

Take the pleomorphic dynamics seen by Béchamp, Rife, Naessens, and others. It is really a lack of energy that ends up starving those cells, so that they go off on their own, reverting back to the more “primitive” organization that they had before cooperating in becoming complex life. The same dynamic is seen as being behind the collapse of civilizations:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#tainter

I have not gotten to that part of my little narrative here yet, but that is a central part of the thrust of my energy essay. Human civilization is a macrocosm of what happens in complex organisms. If there is enough energy made available, then everybody is fed and plays along, but when the energy runs out, it is every man – or cell – for himself, and they all revert to simpler organization and behavior in order to survive.

Yes, it could well be that cooperation, not competition, is how it should work and does work, but when the energy becomes relatively scarcer, competition for the dwindling energy resource happens, and then it can get ugly. It also may be true that those who adapted to energy scarcity the best were able to flourish the best when energy was abundant, but that is also controversial. That is coming in my narrative. I am going to be covering a lot of ground in the coming posts, and I think that I will sketch the entire trajectory of my upcoming essay, and it may become clear that the scope of it has daunted me at times, and why it has taken me so long. Energy is the name of the game and always has been, and Godzilla knows this well, which is why disruptive energy technology is by far the most watched area for wiping out upstarts. I may have run out of time today for another big post on my narrative, but I will keep plugging along until I get it done. There are still some areas that I am looking into. I do not have the time to do this material the justice it deserves, and my upcoming essay may be seen as a mere sketch, but my goal is to get people thinking in energy terms. When they do, a lot becomes clear that was previously invisible or not understood. Scientists think almost strictly in matter-and-energy terms when playing the White Science game, whether it is geophysics, cosmology, molecular biology, or evolution. We will see how much success I have with making my point. If I make it the way that I think I can, I will be looking for people who can join the conversation and flesh out the paradigm and visions that I have had since I was a teenager.

Best,

Wade

[Cara]

I have been told that an enzyme is an entity that allows processes to occur much faster than if it was left to chance.

ATP syntase is one of the oldest enzymes on Earth, as I read here: http://www.atpsynthase.info/Basics.html .

This enzyme is the primary source of ATP which is a carrier of energy. The fuel as to speak for all organisms, from the simple bacteria to humans. The structure of this enzyme is rather complex as seen bellow.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjdPTY1wHdQ

I did a little research, and this article http://trueorigin.org/atp.asp , explains well the importance of ATP in the existence of life. Here are some excepts:

ATP is an abbreviation for adenosine triphosphate, a complex molecule that contains the nucleoside adenosine and a tail consisting of three phosphates. As far as known, all organisms from the simplest bacteria to humans use ATP as their primary energy currency. The energy level it carries is just the right amount for most biological reactions. (…)

Energy is usually liberated from the ATP molecule to do work in the cell by a reaction that removes one of the phosphate-oxygen groups, leaving adenosine diphosphate (ADP). When the ATP converts to ADP, the ATP is said to be spent. Then the ADP is usually immediately recycled in the mitochondria where it is recharged and comes out again as ATP. In the words of Trefil (1992, p. 93) “hooking and unhooking that last phosphate [on ATP] is what keeps the whole world operating.” (...)

The total human body content of ATP is only about 50 grams, which must be constantly recycled every day. The ultimate source of energy for constructing ATP is food; ATP is simply the carrier and regulation-storage unit of energy. The average daily intake of 2,500 food calories translates into a turnover of a whopping 180 kg (400 lbs) of ATP (Kornberg, 1989, p. 65). (…)

Without ATP, life as we understand it could not exist. It is a perfectly-designed, intricate molecule that serves a critical role in providing the proper size energy packet for scores of thousands of classes of reactions that occur in all forms of life. Even viruses rely on an ATP molecule identical to that used in humans. The ATP energy system is quick, highly efficient, produces a rapid turnover of ATP, and can rapidly respond to energy demand changes (Goodsell, 1996, p.79).

Furthermore, the ATP molecule is so enormously intricate that we are just now beginning to understand how it works. Each ATP molecule is over 500 atomic mass units (500 AMUs). In manufacturing terms, the ATP molecule is a machine with a level of organization on the order of a research microscope or a standard television (Darnell, Lodish, and Baltimore, 1996). (…)

According to the concept of irreducible complexity, these ATP producing machines must have been manufactured as functioning units and they could not have evolved by Darwinism mechanisms. Anything less than an entire ATP molecule will not function and a manufacturing plant which is less than complete cannot produce a functioning ATP. Some believe that the field of biochemistry which has achieved this understanding has already falsified the Darwinian world view (Behe, 1996).

So our bodies are like very effective combustion vehicles. But wouldn't free energy be an idea to consider within our own bodies?