WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[ulli]

I'm so totally identified with the above accounts of your journey, Wade, as similar things happened to me in my life, especially when I was still designing knitwear. In 1976 the copiers had their production really organized that they were ahead of me. All they had to do was get a photographer from some trade magazine during London fashion week to take a really good close-up of my samples, and immediately starts massproducing their copies. And not only did the Chinese factories do the work they do best, but even the mainstream press, like the huge US trade paper Woman's Wear Daily wrote an article about how I was being influenced by Kenzo (a Paris designer of Japanese origin) when in fact, I had been doing that look already for five years before he picked it up. Paris designers always came to London to get ideas for their collections, as London was far more original than either Milan or Paris.
Knitwear, especially handmade, didn't allow for fast changes, which of course the world of fashion was all about.

Anyway, all I know today is that I always tried to do my best, treated my staff really well, but got ripped off and attacked even by my closest family, who had no understanding or who were envious of my path. They just had no idea of what I was struggling against. Making big bucks was never my aim, although those who came into my orbit would only see that opportunity for money, as all that was needed was a designer with ideas.

Most of the genuine creative people I met had that agonizing path of the biblical Joseph and the multi-colored dream coat.

But I discovered that life's only purpose in the end is to be able to see that there is this connection between consciousness and intent, and making that vision happen. Emotions are the fuel. Loving emotions among friends with a focused vision...

And yes, groups (or choirs), are the only answer. The windfall of free energy, will it do it? Will people really get rid of their habitual behavior patterns? This is still the only question that bugs me.
Because I have witnessed how many people have gotten huge windfalls of money, resulting in unlimited energy, erasing all scarcity paranoia, yet as human beings have zero desire to start integrating their fragmented or split personalities.
In the end it has to be worked towards from both ends; top-down and bottom-up.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ulli. Hail, fellow traveler!

I’ll write more later, as I have to rush off to another crazy day at the office. As I recently wrote, this series of posts in particular comprises a beacon, and those that I seek will recognize their journey in ours. In this world of scarcity and fear, creative ability is mercilessly exploited. Hollywood has the same dynamics that you found in fashion, but they get amplified by a few orders of magnitude in the FE pursuit. FE will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far, and Godzilla pays close attention to all attempts, participants succumb to megalomania, people you knew your entire life turn into Orcs lusting after the One Ring before your eyes, and so on. In a milieu where billions of dollars in bribes are tossed around like confetti before they begin playing rough, nothing else remotely resembles it. That is a reason why all of the usual approaches don’t have a prayer, and why I came up with my approach after 30 years.

Your great post brings up all sorts of meaty topics, and I will write on them in the coming days. For those who have truly played on the high road for long, when I mention my primary lesson, that personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity, the response is “Amen!” You really don’t get to see what people are made of until you get on the high road like that, and then it all comes out, beyond their cheery façade. It is pretty ugly, usually, but for those with the right stuff, they shine their brightest, such as Mr. Professor. He earned his Saint Points.

Will humanity attain instant enlightenment with the arrival of FE? No. But what will happen is that fear and scarcity will no longer be the drumbeat of human existence, and the changes will be the most dramatic in the human journey. FE will be like giving everybody on Earth a billion dollars. No more poverty, no more want. The changes are currently nearly impossible for anybody to even imagine.

As my prized pupil Darren told me one day, imagine coming into the world and all of your food, clothing, shelter, education, transportation, communication, and other needs were a given on day one. No need to struggle for it, or wonder if it goes away. True abundance. The transformative effects of that will be unprecedented in the human journey. We get glimpses of some of it with Westerners (and those rich people that you knew), but only glimpses.

The choir is going to about hitting notes in chorus that have never been heard on Earth before, and who knows what the harmonic effects may be?

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To riff off of Ulli’s post some more, I have had two goals all along:

To help heal:

• Earth
• Humanity

I find it difficult to rank one over the other. If I belonged to any other species, I might choose Earth first.

As I have written plenty, all FE activists always tried to work with environmentalists early in their journeys, thinking that they would be natural allies. Our energy practices are making Earth uninhabitable, plain and simple. And we all suffered dismay when we discovered that not only had the environmental organizations all heard of FE, but they all treated it like the enemy.

It was surreal at first, and there seemed to be at least two aspects of that strange reaction, as nothing could help heal Earth like FE could. The first took many years to finally sink in with me. It was not until encountering Uncle Bucky that I could finally see what the crazed reactions all had in common: people were addicted to scarcity, or more accurately, they were addicted to their survival-based adaptations to scarcity, including their ideological views. That scarcity-addiction explains the vast majority of the denial and fear reactions that we received.

The second was institutional, and dare I say it: conspiratorial. If you read Battling Wall Street, for instance, you will read of the Rockefellers’ founding the modern environmental movements in the USA. They own Amory Lovins, for instance, who nearly soiled himself when Brian O mentioned FE to him, and Brian received so many insane reactions like that, especially from environmentalists, that Brian began to openly wonder if humanity was a sentient species. Since the Rockefellers were involved in efforts to wipe out Dennis’s efforts more than once, as they protected the current energy paradigm of the Industrial Epoch, their “philanthropy” is curious indeed. With Bill Gates being the new king of the “philanthropist” hill, another monopolist with an ill-gotten fortune, like John D. was, isn’t it “interesting” that latest his energy “innovations” are around promoting nuclear fission?

Brian was great at pointing out the irrationalities of scientists, such as their invoking the “laws of physics” to deny FE’s possibility, when the very phrase “laws of physics” invokes religious faith, as there are no laws at all, only theories. It is a great conceit to call our theories laws, which some scientists are honest enough to admit. The so-called law of gravity becomes something different when you watch antigravity technology in action. The greatest minds in physics were far from sure that the so-called “laws of physics” precluded FE, but the priest class of science, led by luminaries such as Carl Sagan, denies FE’s possibility and bolsters the threadbare philosophy of materialism, which virtually all of my FE fellow travelers know is false.

Time for another crazy day at my day job.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Just before I go out the door, I have been marking the views to this page once another 100K are passed, but those Russian bots are making it kind of a pointless exercise. It passed 1.3 million in the past day, but it just means that the Russian bots have been busy lately.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

I just finished reading Moral Origins. It was did not go beyond group norms. But it taught me a lot, I now understand the origins and limits of our sociality better. Our evolutionary journey was in small bands, our intuitions, morals, judgements and predictions are incorrect in a world of 7 billion people. And definitely off when it comes to analysing FE, hurdles to it and its potential.

I finally found one company trying a solar heat pump. https://www.sunpump.solar/

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Freeknowledge:

You have galloped ahead of me!

I have been working seven days a week for a while, so Moral Origins is not getting much reading these days, as is it sits next to my bed, next to the still unread This is your Brain on Parasites. Moral Origins is limited in scope, I agree, but it is brilliant, and will be represented in my essay update. I already cover a lot of the territory in that book, but will go a little deeper. IMO, purely material explanations of a decidedly non-material phenomenon, consciousness, are going to be limited.

But yes indeed, our evolutionary journeys, as well as our economic circumstances, have had deep and profound impacts, and yes, the adaptations of hunting bands are a poor fit with the modern world in significant ways. As one pal said, humanity has evolutionary deficits that make an effort like mine difficult to mount, but I don’t go in for the negative views that I have seen over the years, that humans are hardwired for failure. Virtually none of the progress of the past 50,000 years is due to any changes in human nature. As you read in Moral Origins, humans are primarily egocentric, and in a world of scarcity, that leads directly to that primary lesson of mine: personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity. In a world of scarcity and fear, few humans have an awareness that extends much beyond their immediate self-interest. For more than 99% of humanity, it rarely extends beyond their in-group’s welfare, and by extension, their own.

I’ll see if the author deals with the issue much more by the time I finish the book, but out-groups have always been fair game, and there is nothing “altruistic” about that, even that so-called Christian brotherly love. As Gandhi said, Christians are so unlike their Christ.

I have written it before, that in the Third Epoch, most people were illiterate (and literacy was not even a concept in the Second), with about 95% illiteracy in the cradle of the Industrial Revolution, England, only a couple of centuries before the revolution began. In the Fourth Epoch, about 95% of the population is scientifically illiterate, and as we can see in the Roads world, what I have spent a lifetime learning, children learn by age six or so. Scientific literacy will be to the Fifth Epoch like literacy is to the Fourth Epoch: something that all children learn. That is a big reason why my big essay is a choir prerequisite, as the choir has to be scientifically literate, but no more than the literacy needed to truly digest my big essay, and I am not really asking for much. No need for advanced math or many of the brain-breaking concepts in physics. And scientific literacy is a far cry from the New Age/Conspiracist fringe chatter that abounds in cyberspace, in which authors such as Menzies and friends are taken seriously.

I’ll have more to write about Moral Origins when I finish it.

To go back to Ulli’s post for a moment, while creative people are mercilessly exploited in todays’ world, the delusion that it took the longest for me to shed was that creative people have any more personal integrity than the general population. They don’t, or if they do, it is so little as to be practically meaningless. I left home thinking that inventors were heroes, and it took nearly 20 years for me to finally shed that delusion. Since I am an Artisan soul myself, and creativity is the positive pole of the role, I suppose that my taking so long to shed that delusion is understandable. Every FE inventor that I ever met longed to become rich and famous, not really help the world, when it came down to it.

As Ulli noted, one of the ironies of being stolen from is that people can accuse you of being the thief. God only knows how many times I have been plagiarized on the Internet (and I have been impersonated), but for one time when I was made aware, a professional Hollywood writer plagiarized my writings about Mickey Cohen, which are a trivial part of my work, and I was initially accused as being the plagiarist, but the plagiarism of that author was easy to prove. One reason why I put up chapter drafts of my big essay on this thread as I wrote them was to forestall plagiarism accusations. It is a jungle out there!

I agree with Ulli that working on ourselves is our great task, but when everybody is striving for survival, that work does not get done. Eliminate scarcity and fear as humanity’s primary operating modes, and a lot will change, and dramatically. Rich people today, for all of the benefits that their lifestyles afford them, are only dim glimpses of what the Fifth Epoch will be like, as they are islands of “abundance” in a sea of scarcity, with everybody around them trying to make that island their home, trying to steal it, etc. That is a far cry from true abundance. In a world of abundance, the desire for riches will become nonsensical (as everybody will be richer than Bill Gates), and the desire for fame will also fade to oblivion. You are not going to see striving amongst people. All forms of competition will vanish, as that only makes sense in a world of scarcity. Spectacles such the Olympic Games will disappear, along with nations and cities as we know them. Megalomaniacs and Godzilla will find themselves out of business, trying to play ruler long after thrones became obsolete. Godzilla knows this well, which is why he has been so active in keeping the lid on FE and attendant technologies.

Time for another crazy day in the office, and the hurricane might not be over for a while, but I still hope to get the essay update done this year.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Freeknowledge:

Well, it has only taken 30 years for somebody to again try what Dennis did. Before long, I am going to do a series of physics and economics posts on what we were doing in our FE attempt, a lot deeper than I have so far in this series of posts. One thing that I want to make clear is that the threat that Dennis always presented to TPTB, up to and including Godzilla, really had nothing to do with the energy technologies that he was involved with. Dennis sought societal transformation, and his technologies and businesses were just a means to it. That is what almost nobody understands, or seems to want to, as they fixate on technology and making money. That is largely why the FE field is the state of arrested development that it is.

But not even Dennis understands the true Epochal nature of FE. It took me nearly 30 years to understand myself. When Dennis had his companies stolen by his partners and business associates on the East Coast, they were merely greed-blinded idiots. Dennis’s United Community Services gave a very good preview of what Dennis was trying to do.

When Dennis got going in Seattle, he really began to stir things up, and an entire industry pulled all the stops to wipe him out, and then his greed-blinded idiot buddies stole what was left. But when it was just local industries protecting their turf, with the usual greed infecting his business associates, Godzilla did not need to intervene, or really pay all that much attention. But when Dennis began to play the FE game in Boston, then he began to get Godzilla’s undivided attention, and it really had little or nothing to do with rigging up Dennis’s heat pump with that low-temperature turbine, or with what Mr. Mentor later proposed, or Victor Fischer.

There was plenty of technology out there to do FE. Godzilla developed it to a commercial level probably before I was born. In Ventura, Sparky Sweet lived just down the road from us. FE inventors are a dime a dozen, but there has not been anybody in the FE field like Dennis, not remotely, and that is why Dennis got the attention that he did, and people parrot the disinformation to this day.

Time for another crazy day at work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is my first day off of work in three weeks (I just finished a 70-hour week), and it will be a busy day. This will be a relatively short post, to start off my day. I am going to cut to the chase a little and leap to the end for a moment.

This series of posts is about what I learned from my journey, especially during my years with Dennis, but I will also cover other aspects of my journey, such as carrying Brian’s spears. I certainly learned what won’t work, and I think that I know why.

Epochal change in of itself is a big deal, as big as it gets for the human journey, and the Fifth Epoch will dwarf all that came before it, and humanity may finally become a truly sentient species. Nobody has ever consciously made an Epochal Event happen before. Heck, no Epochal Event was even imagined before it happened. What I am trying to help manifest has never been done before, and my approach, for better or worse, is unique, which is why I am doing it. It is worth trying out, and is like what Bucky Fuller would probably be trying if he was alive today.

As I witnessed our efforts get defeated over and over, with the greatest damage being inflicted by our “allies,” not Godzilla and friends, I came to realize that the people that Dennis attracted did not have the right stuff for the task at hand, and Dennis himself really did not understand the magnitude of what he was chasing. People attracted to the bait of self-interest were more harm than good for efforts like ours, and Dennis played to the three most prominent population management ideologies in the USA, which at their root are based in scarcity and fear. All of them are egocentrically based, as people just join new in-groups, and the out-group can be damned. Christians have the bait of heaven and the fear of hell guiding their actions. Dennis will never relinquish his fervent Christian faith, and he prays for Mr. Professor’s and my souls, non-Christian heathens that we were/are, even though we passed the integrity tests like nobody else ever involved with Dennis did. How can a person believe in an ideology like that? Mr. Professor is doing fine, and I am not going to end up in hell or oblivion.

Those kinds of ideological approaches really limit the effort, and their appeal to egocentrism is the biggest strike against them. I slowly realized that any effort with a prayer had to go far deeper and aspire to be soul-centric, not egocentric. People could not be in it for personal gain (business opportunities, riches and fame, fulfilling social needs, etc.), they had to shed their ideological baggage, all of it, and they had to develop a comprehensive perspective, which necessitates scientific literacy, among other traits. I am well aware that I seek very rare people, and since impatience is my Achilles heel, this is a great opportunity to work on it every day.

Time to start my busy day.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A recent post gave me the occasion to read NDE accounts on a site that my site links to. I began with reading this one (and was charmed by the “don’t try this at home” editorial disclaimer on it), and read several other recent ones. So much of the Internet is rubbish, as anybody can have a platform, but what a wonderful public service that site provides, to give NDE experiencers a way to share their experiences, and give the public easy access to them.

As is evident, while the posts in this series are generally in chronological order, they bounce around a bit, and this one will backtrack again. Mr. Skeptic played that empty game, and I still see people playing it, of attributing anything positive stated about Dennis and his efforts, from those closest to him, such as his business partners, as due to us being under Dennis’s malevolent “spell.” What utter garbage, but it is a tabloid-level “criticism” that has been leveled at people like me for many years, and is a highly irrational stance. I am no Christian, I consider Christianity to be the cult of Jesus (I doubt that he would have wanted to see that cult form), but like Dennis and others, I too had a voice in my head at critical junctures of my life, but unlike those others, for two of the three times, I asked for it. It is just what happened, and not reporting the facts, because they blow people’s stunted worldviews out of the water, is not my game. I don’t seek to reach people in their comfort zones, giving them pabulum that they can digest. My work is anything but that. We can’t get to the truth by catering to people’s beliefs and delusions.

I carried Dennis’s spears for years, as I carried Brian’s, but it had everything to do with my sense of their personal integrity and our shared goals, not being under their “spell.” What bilge, but armchair critics easily heave such potshots our way. It is inane to think that John Spickard would have written his statement, several years after the events, because he was still under Dennis’s “spell.” John lost everything that he spent a lifetime building because he got involved with Dennis, and he was the most credible and reliable witness of the Seattle events, just as Mr. Professor and I were the most credible and reliable witnesses of the Ventura events. We did not just write statements; we testified on the witness stand more than once, and doing so was the turning point of my life.

That was a preamble to a little vignette about Dennis and John. John’s company had already lent Dennis’s $1 million or so when the electric companies began pulling all the stops to wipe out Dennis’s company, and Bill’s visit to John, along with other pressure, did have its intended effect. When Dennis was trying to survive the deathblows raining down on his company, as he raced to get those systems installed by the end of 1985, when the tax credit expired, John had his moment of truth with Dennis. His company was contractually obligated to lend another $1 million to get those systems installed, and he balked. If he did not come through with the promised money, Dennis’s company would be dead in the water. John called Dennis, telling him that his finance company, Selectors, was going to back out on its commitment. Dennis told John that he was legally obligated to provide funding, and that, furthermore, once Dennis got the money, he actually could have purchased his own stock in the company, at a deep discount, and flown to South America with the $1 million, and that John could carry Dennis’s bags to the plane.

John replied that he would pursue Dennis to the ends of Earth if he did that, legal or not, and Dennis said, “John, what’s it going to be? Does our company get the money or not?” John gave it to Dennis’s company, and Dennis naturally spent it all getting those systems built and installed. John thus had his moment of truth with Dennis, and saw how Dennis performed under incredible duress. That was why he wrote that statement, not because he was somehow under Dennis’s “spell,” and I witnessed Dennis perform under an order of magnitude or more greater stress in Ventura and afterward. Only supremely ignorant critics (or patently dishonest ones, such as Mr. Skeptic) can allege that the immense respect that John, Mr. Professor, and I had for Dennis was because we were under his “spell,” but I receive such mindless criticisms to this day.

Time to begin another busy day.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am coming to the physics, technology, and economics posts, but a little more on the Boston days before it started to get “interesting.” When Dennis wore his white tuxedo for his first Greatest Energy Shows, the underwear he was wearing was falling apart. He had gone form a net worth of $50 million to zero in less than a year, from the onslaught of Seattle’s power structure. Our primary transportation for the shows was my 1973 Pinto wagon, and I was looking skinny, as I had just fasted for 45 days, largely because it was cheaper than eating. Soon after our first series of shows, things began happening, including the friendly buyout offer from Godzilla, Dennis’s first White Hat contacts, Jackie Gleason watching our tapes, for reasons that I did not discover until a quarter-century later, a Kennedy scion who just began his political career calling our office to personally tell Dennis that he thought that Dennis was an “a**hole, and my old girlfriend soon began to attack me.

During that spring of 1987, I visited a friend of the family whom I knew since I was four, when my father began his career in Ventura County. He was literally a rocket scientist and mathematician. He lived in Cambridge, close to where I lived in Winchester, and I spent the afternoon with him. During our conversation, he told me that the people on the East Coast had a very different relationship to the police than people on the West Coast did. He said that West Coast cops were seen as societal guardians, making sure that all was well and everybody was safe, while on the East Coast, people were afraid of the police, seeing them more as societal predators, not guardians. I vividly remember my reaction. What he said seemed so strange to me that I really could not digest it. I had this very puzzled look on my face, trying to understand what he said. The people on the East Coast were afraid of the police? Why? The only interactions that I ever had with police were some traffic tickets in LA and Washington (noted for its speed traps, as there is no state income tax), and getting a ride from one after we fixed a cop’s tire when I was a teenager, as we walked home after our car stalled, riding with Mr. Inventor in a police car, as we saw what was left that Dick Southwick and friends had left behind, and a few other innocuous incidents. The idea that the police were enemies of the people was beyond my universe of the possible that spring. It would soon change.

I’ll never saw that family friend again and won’t (but visited with his ex-wife and sons on my 9,000 mile Bucket List road trip in 2013 – I tried to see him, but the stars did not align), but if I saw him, I would remind him of that conversation, which was my first inkling of police corruption, and tell him that it turned out that we suffered more from police corruption on the West Coast than on the East Coast.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This will be a series of physics, thermodynamics, technology, and economics posts about what we were involved with, in a way that I have not done before. As I have stated plenty, scientific literacy is a choir requirement, but no more than is needed to digest my big essay and have productive discussions of the material. It is merely part of developing a comprehensive perspective.

When that voice in my head first spoke up, my studies changed from science to business. Until that moment, I had been raised to be a scientist. I still had my teenage dream of changing the energy industry, but my “friends” sent me on a long, strange journey to get there. All I can say is, “Be careful what you wish for!”

When I chased Dennis out to Boston, I did not even know how his heat pump worked. Before long, Dennis said that I was about the best that he had seen on explaining how his heat pump worked, but it was not until after the catastrophe in Ventura, when I began hitting the books, that I began to understand the science and technology of what we were doing all that well. I spent a few months in the winter of 1990-1991 studying thermodynamics, Mr. Mentor’s and Victor Fischer’s patents, and coming to understand why Dennis’s heat pump was the world’s best heating system. I slowly developed a much deeper understanding of the scientific and technical issues, and I am still learning them to this day.

I know people one heck of a lot smarter than me, and while learning this stuff takes some mental horsepower, I found that the desire to learn is always the most important attribute, by far, not innate talent, which is why I think that most people who really put their minds to it can come to a sufficient understanding of the issues, in order to develop that required comprehensive perspective for my approach to have a chance of working. Few will achieve as comprehensive a perspective as Mr. Mentor’s, for instance, but what they attain will be sufficient to understand the basics, and have no doubt, the basics are what are most important. Most of the disasters that I have witnessed people careen into have been because they disregarded the basics, basics that they understood by age five. The basics never change.

After many years of studying the energy issue, from many sides, I think that the best way to describe energy is motion. A good riposte to that statement might be “Motion of what?” The best scientists happily admit that they don’t know. So, this discussion is best begun by acknowledging that we barely know anything, which, again, the best scientists gleefully admitted. However, scientific literacy is not about knowing all the answers, but learning how to ask the questions, to understand the process of today’s science, and become capable of understanding the answers, at least well enough to converse about them and ask more questions, which is what science is all about.

With what I know exists in the Above Top Secret world, today’s physics textbooks will become doorstops if those technologies ever make into public awareness, but that does not mean that today’s science is useless nattering. I have great respect for the scientific process, however distorted that today’s political-economic influences have made it, and the scientific ideal is like the ideal of free markets, a free press, an objective history, a democratic society, and those other worthy ideals that have yet to be seen in the real world. But what lifetimes of scientists have learned over the centuries provided the heart of today’s corpus of human knowledge. To be scientifically illiterate is to have no idea of how our world really works, and is to the industrial epoch like illiteracy was to the agrarian epoch: a recipe for living in ignorance, doomed to living at the bottom of the economic system. That was why slaves were kept illiterate, or that the only book that African-American slaves were allowed to read, The Bible, justified slavery.

I will have some time over the next several weeks, and we will see how many posts this takes. It will be more than a few.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I will try to not refer too much to my big essay, but it is intended to make the energy issue very clear, including its role in the human journey. The physical universe is solely comprised of energy. The only two things that we know exist are energy and consciousness. Matter is simply slowed down energy. Those elementary particles, in the right conditions, combine to form atoms. Planet Earth is almost solely comprised of atoms (while the Sun is mostly made from nuclei and plasma, and in the cooler regions near the surface, atoms can form) and how the electrons of atoms interact is a key to how Earth works, including those chemical reactions known as life. The journey of life on Earth is an energy journey, first and foremost, and Earth’s life has been on a journey of increasing energetic sophistication, and the apotheosis reached so far has been the human animal.

In photosynthesis, the chlorophyll molecule captures passing photons in order to boost an electron’s energy enough so that it can be stripped off of an atom and used. Most life on Earth (and all complex life) uses that captured photon energy to live, including humans. Bacteria use ATP-powered flagella to move, and muscles operate under the same principle, turning chemical energy (the energy locked up in electron movement) into mechanical energy. After millions of years of making increasingly sophisticated tools, humans began building machines, which merely replaced muscles and other organism parts with human-made ones. The earliest contraptions captured wind energy (later, water energy), or applied muscle energy to tools (including the muscles of domestic animals), to produce new technologies, such as the wheel.

Slavery did not make economic sense until people became sedentary, and when machines began replacing people, slavery no longer made economic sense, and it ended, although forms of forced servitude still exist, even if it is the relatively benign form of coercion known as taxation.

The human journey has been a series of events in which humans reached the technical sophistication and social organization required to tap into a new energy source, and those energy practices formed the foundation of the next Epoch, and each Epoch’s energy-use levels defined the Epoch.

Tapping the energy of fossil fuels, which are all made of the energy captured by ancient photosynthesis, led to the Industrial Revolution, which is humanity’s most prosperous Epoch, by far. England led the way, and was soon surpassed by its descendent, the USA, which is history’s richest and most powerful nation. But only a generation after achieving global hegemony, the USA began to run out of fossil fuel energy. The recent fracking and tar sands booms in North America are merely scraping the dregs. It is simply another energy resource depletion dynamic, no different in kind from how agrarian civilizations declined and collapsed when they ran out of food and wood, as their energy practices were not sustainable, either. The human journey has been one of plundering one energy resource to exhaustion, then moving on to the next one, plundering it to exhaustion, etc. It began with the megafauna and continues to this day, with fossil fuel depletion.

The energy crisis that began the USA’s long decline is what set Dennis, Brian, and I onto our free energy paths, although none of us began our journeys thinking about free energy, which was beyond our wildest imaginations when we started, but we all came to learn that free energy technology is probably older than we are.

This sub-series of posts, before I resume my journey with Dennis, will be about the physics, thermodynamics, and economics of the technologies that we pursued.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I had too much going on yesterday to make a post. On to a little physics and thermodynamics. Bodies of water are energetically far easier to cross than land, which is why virtually all preindustrial cities were situated on or near bodies of water. The founder group that left Africa likely used some of the first boats ever made, and Australia was only reachable by boat. But it was another 40,000 years before the first non-muscle power was used, by sailboats, in the first civilization. It took several thousand more years before waterpower was harnessed, by the ancient Greeks, but it did really not take off for another millennium, when Europeans began putting watermills on every river and stream. A few centuries later, Europeans achieved the technical feat of turning the global ocean into one big low-energy transportation lane, and thereby conquered Earth. Wind power and water power are provided by the Sun’s direct energy. When people learned to control fire, they were using energy that had been captured in the lifetime of the plants burned. To this day, human civilizations primarily run on controlled fire. Only the fuel changed.

The motive power of fire was again first used by the Greeks, but as more of a toy. It took nearly a couple more millennia before anybody put the motive power of fire to practical use, when Newcomen built the first commercial stream engine. Steam engines were not really feasible in wood-burning societies, and it was no accident that coal was first commercially used to smelt metal at almost the exact same time that it was used to power the first commercial steam engine. Those twin events marked the beginning of the industrial epoch that we are still in.

Steam engines were in use for more than a century before the science began to develop to explain how they ran and what their energetic limits were. I have heard physicists wonder if thermodynamics owed more to the steam engine than the other way around. Carnot’s work began to set theoretical limits on steam engine efficiency, which means how much of the energy released by fire was transferred into mechanical energy, and Carnot’s famous equation was formed. When I chased Dennis to Boston, I not only had no idea how his heat pump worked, but I had never heard of Carnot or Tesla.

The Newcomen heat engine had a thermal efficiency of about 1%, which meant that 99% of the fire energy was not translated into work, but was lost as heat. The Watt heat engine was about four times as efficient, or got about a 5% efficiency. Today’s most efficient “one pass” steam engines get about a 40% thermal efficiency, and using the energy for two passes in a “cascading” system has gotten up to 50% efficiency or so.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Back in 1990, when I began to hit the books and studied patents and thermodynamics, I really wanted to know, on a fundamental level, what temperature, pressure, entropy, and other concepts really were. I wanted to understand them at the molecular level, and my studies eventually took me to the atomic and subatomic levels. It was not easy to get an explanation that did not immediately devolve into math, often calculus and the like. I often found such “explanations” to be wanting. I eventually discovered the disquiet that Einstein and Schroedinger had with quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen interpretation, which focused on math and accurate predictions, but avoided grappling with what was really happening. Einstein tried to work without math whenever possible, and said that the more elegant and impressive the math presented to illustrate a theory, the less likely the theory depicted reality.

I have genius-level math ability myself, and have known world-class math geniuses, but I found that math was a great way to make science arcane and obscure, turning it into some kind of priesthood. I crunch numbers for a living, and am keenly aware of their limitations. For all of Stephen Hawking’s irrationalities (such as his confusing materialism with science, as one is a philosophy/religion, while the other is a process, and Hawking somewhat crazily stated that science had supplanted philosophy, when his positions were often philosophical and not scientific), I have to give him points for trying to write to the lay public without presenting streams of equations (such as in his A Brief History of Time).

It took me many years to really understand temperature, as I wondered what it really was. The zeroth law of thermodynamics kind of backed into the definition of it. It was not until I began to think of matter, energy, and temperature at the sub-atomic level that I finally began to really understand temperature. What makes something hot? An electron is a wave that becomes a “particle” when “observed,” according to quantum theory, which has been breaking brains since it was invented, and Einstein ironically began the parade when he explained the photoelectric effect, which nominally won him his Nobel Prize. When thought of that way, temperature does not seem to be some kind of intrinsic property of “matter,” such as color or mass, as matter is only a convenient term for an energy state.

I have seen many definitions of temperature called “hotness,” but what did that really mean? We can feel “hotness,” but what are we feeling? Electrons don’t change at all when matter gets “hotter.” Hotness is simply a measure of the speed that atoms move. The faster that an atom moves, the greater its momentum (a product of mass and velocity), and the greater the energy that the photons it throws off will have (which means that the wavelengths decrease), and if matter gets hot enough, the photons will be in the visible spectrum for humans, and we will see the matter glow (AKA “red hot” and “white hot”). But the matter itself is just moving faster. If you isolated a “cold” and “hot” atom and compared them, the hot atom looked the same, other than the electron “orbiting” farther away from the nucleus, and the atom moving faster, and the “hot” atom throwing off more energetic (lower wavelength) photons as it “cooled” off.

Temperature is essentially an instrumental measure of atomic movement. Pressure is measured when that movement encounters a barrier, such as the inside of a cylinder in an automobile engine. It was then easy to understand why temperature and pressure always had a direct relationship, and why the gas laws that I learned in chemistry classes (1, 2, 3) worked like they did.

After many years, I came to understand that energy is probably best seen as motion, whether it is the motion of an electron, photon, or atom. And like mass, photons, electrons, energy, and gravity, the best scientists say that we really don’t know what any of them ultimately are. So, at the bedrock of our reality, the best scientists all admit that our reality becomes slippery and kind of disappears when we look closely, which are brain-breaking ideas. The best scientific minds fully admit how bizarre and nonsensical quantum physics is, even though it is still one of the two pillars of today’s white science, along with relativity theory. Einstein pursued the elusive unified field for many years, and went to his grave unsatisfied with the state of physics, realizing how far physics was from figuring out our reality, with its hallowed “laws” being little more than educated guesses. The physics classed generally skipped over that part.

If Einstein had witnessed what my friend saw, he might have junked the entire corpus of physics. What is known today in the Black Science world relegates today’s mainstream physics into some kind of kindergarten primer. Try to engage a mainstream scientist on those issues and watch the fear, denial, irrationality, and attacks spring forth. It got so bad, after several years of playing the Paul Revere of Free Energy, that Brian O began openly wondering if humanity was a sentient species. I sadly understood his query.

I am going to have time for writing over the next several weeks, but plan to really get cracking on the big essay update. We’ll see how well I juggle that with making posts.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am between chores, and am going to make a current event post, which is also appropriate for this series of science posts. As I have written plenty, to be scientifically illiterate in the Industrial Epoch is like being illiterate in the Agrarian Epoch: it is a recipe for ignorance. Being scientifically literate has nothing to do with believing that establishment science is some kind of ultimate authority, any more than being literate means believing that the Bible is the one and only Word of God.

For the past few years, when I go grocery shopping, I often pick up a Scientific American magazine, sometimes the current issue, but I often buy special issues, and the issues can be very informative, with scientists on the leading edge of their disciplines writing articles for the lay audience and scientists outside of their field of specialty. The level of scientific literacy needed for my effort is really not much more than being able to read and understand an issue of Scientific American. As organized religion was the overriding ideology of the Agrarian Epoch, materialism is the overriding ideology of the Industrial Epoch, and each issue of Scientific American ends with a materialistic sermon from materialist and “skeptic” Michael Shermer. Like Mr. Skeptic, Shermer was once a Christian zealot, and he seems to be unaware that he only traded religions when he became a “skeptic,” and his article in the issue that I bought this morning, on the future, was classic Shermer, as he reviewed a book of fellow arch-materialist Sean Carroll, a couple of LA residents who rail against anything non-materialist, under the façade of science. They give science a bad name when they do that.

What I have always found strange is that such people think that they are being rational and fair minded when they launch into their flights of “logic” and “investigation.” To name just one of many pieces of evidence that fly in the face of their materialism, Ganzfeld experiments have been performed thousands of times under rigorous conditions, and the chance result is a 25% success rate, while the thousands of experiments usually come in at a success rate of about a third, which is trillions of times greater than chance. But the data calls into question the materialistic theories of consciousness, so the “skeptics” act like the data does not exist or they sic attack dogs like James Randi onto the experimenters, or they concoct numerous and increasingly desperate ad hoc “explanations” of the data, to explain it away. It is really scandalous behavior, not to mention irrational, but they just can’t seem to see it, blinded by their faith.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To go back to temperature, it is simply the motion of atoms and molecules. When a stove is hot and you touch it, what happens? The stovetop’s atoms are in vigorous motion, and when you touch the hot stovetop, those atoms collide with your finger, translating their energy of motion to the atoms in your finger. Your finger heats up, and the stovetop cools down. That energy of collision, if great enough, tears apart the bonds between atoms in your finger, damaging the molecules, and you get what is known as a burn. It is simply the energy of atomic collisions, transferred to your flesh from the stove. When you approach a hot stove, you have developed senses that can detect the hot photons that it gives off. You cannot only see photons in the visible spectrum (red hot), but you have a tactile ability to sense them. That sense was developed because of the benefits it conferred. The first vertebrates that made it onto land likely basked in the sunlight, absorbing the Sun’s energy. Too much photon energy is like touching that hot stove: it damages the bonds between atoms. But the right level of them energizes the atoms to the degree that the chemical reactions that power biology are easier to attain.

The relatively weak hydrogen bonds in DNA are easily damaged by the high-energy photons of ultraviolet light, which is how we get sunburn. Humans have melanin to limit that damage, but when they migrated beyond their natural range in the tropics, some developed lighter skin, as some ultraviolet light is needed to synthesize vitamin D.

Related to the concept of temperature is entropy, which is another concept that can be slippery and controversial. In the end, entropy is about molecular disorder, and is a key concept in thermodynamics. When any kind of work is performed, it is done by ordered molecules transferring their energy to other molecules. What does not get transferred into work is “wasted” in entropy. The human idea of work is really derivative of the physics definition of it. Work is moving things around, and in the USA, machines perform more than 99.9% of all work performed. That is why the USA has long had the world’s highest standard of living, with all of those energy-powered machines doing our bidding, which most Americans not only take for granted, they barely understand how any of it works, in their scientific illiteracy.

If you cook food over a campfire, a tiny fraction of the energy released by the campfire is absorbed by the food, breaking its molecular bonds and making it easier to digest. There are other benefits to that campfire, including providing heat and light to those around it, and protection from predators, which evolved to be wary of fire, for good reason. Humans had to overcome their instinctual fear of fire in order to learn to control it. Darwin called it humanity’s greatest achievement, along with the mastery of language. Those two feats, more than any other, led to the rise of humanity, as behaviorally modern humans easily conquered Earth after leaving Africa.

Using the energy released by fire to do work was first demonstrated by those inventive Greeks, but was not put into practical use until Newcomen, and only 1% of the heat released by burning coal was converted into work. Deforested England could have never industrialized with wood, nor could anyplace else on Earth. The USA completely deforested New England by the American Revolution, which was about when England’s Industrial Revolution really began to take off, and the USA’s East Coast began importing coal after the American Revolution from England, and history’s most spectacular deforestation is what Europeans/Americans did to North America’s Eastern Woodlands.

Of that coal energy liberated to run Newcomen’s engine, the rest went to entropy, or put another way, heating up the environment. A couple of generations later, Watt’s engine improved the efficiency of Newcomen’s steam engine by several times, and became the engine of the Industrial Revolution. But it was still another few generations before steam power overtook wind and water power, the science of energy was only beginning to be developed when that happened, and Carnot was the first on the scene. But as is typical with such developments, it was generations before his work was recognized for its importance, long after he was dead. If the credit was not outright stolen from the pioneer, with the pioneer’s contributions largely unknown to this day, relatively few pioneers of science and technology were recognized for their contributions while still alive. That is the lonely path of the pioneer, and it can be a deadly pursuit in areas where the pioneers run afoul of the medical and energy rackets, for instance.

My intermediate accounting classes were harder than my calculus classes, and I took the calculus classes that scientists and engineers take, not the relatively easy calculus classes that business majors take. As I have taken career breaks and gone up and down the management chain in my career, there have been times when I had to get deep into the numbers and problem-solve them, which I am doing again today. I can still do it, performing at a high level, and it takes all that I have today, for my body to withstand 12-hour days, juggling twenty tasks at once (although I now need brief naps during the day, to rest my brain). I admit that I was kind of surprised that I could still do it, and arguably better than I could when I was younger (a slowing CPU has been compensated by filling that hard drive with the data of experience, and memory to draw on), but to a degree, if you don’t use it, you lose it, and I have not had to crank out a calculus problem since I was a teenager.

When I began to study thermodynamics in 1990, the first textbook that I came upon started in with the calculus on page two. I decided that I needed something more conceptual and less math driven, and found a “thermodynamics for poets” textbook, and like I can still see pages from my intermediate accounting textbook in my mind’s eye, I can still see pages of that textbook. I was reading what is today called popularized science, in which the material is written for either laypeople or scientists reading outside of their field of specialty. Einstein avidly read such popularized science works as a boy, and most of the works that I use in the references to my big essay, for instance, are popularized science, or if they are scientific papers, they are often those published in Nature or Science, and their publishing philosophy is to publish papers that are intelligible to a general science readership and refrain from getting too much into technical jargon and minutia.

Technical jargon and minutia certainly have their place, as specialists do their work. In my life as an accountant, if I presented a transcript of the technical conversations that I have with accounting gurus, it would be largely unintelligible to the lay public. That is just the nature of specialization. But specialization has also become a way to make disciplines into arcane priesthoods, and they often do not serve the public’s interest so much as their own. I have seen in it in my profession, in spades, and it richly extends to science and technology, too. It is naïve to think otherwise, but Fuller noted the naïveté of most scientists regarding the real-world impacts on their disciplines. Believing that scientists are free to pursue the truth, wherever it leads them, is as naïve as thinking that there is a free press, free markets, truly democratic governments, objective histories, and those other ideals, which may look good on paper but do not exist in the real world. Free markets are as plentiful as unicorns, and so is a science that operates free of the distortions of vested interests and human foibles.

The technologies that my pal witnessed blow the corpus of today’s mainstream physics out of the water, but almost no scientists are going to possess the integrity to admit it, just like with nearly all people. Go try to bring disruptive energy technology to market, or become an astronaut and host a UFO conference, and you will enter a reality that almost nobody on Earth can believe even exists. But those are the realities that my fellow travelers and I stumbled into, which were life-risking and life-wrecking, and I had enough of that for one lifetime.

Time to start a busy day.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am taking a brief break from science posts. In my 2,000-book library, several times over the years, I have bought the same book twice, not realizing that I already had it. That is a hazard of having a large library. Sometimes, it was because the book was reissued under a different title, but more often, I just forgot that I had it. Also, at times, I would buy so many books in a short period of time that a book that I bought to read would get relegated to the shelves, unread, and I would forget that I had it.

Sometime in the past week or so, I plucked a book off of my office shelves (most of my library is in my garage, but those I pick for reading soon move up to my office shelves, and books migrating back and forth between my office and garage is a regular parade), not even sure what the book was about, and realized that it was an important book on the JFK assassination, titled Hit List. It is obviously not the work of professional scholars, but the authors, one of which is a comedian, get credit for bringing the information into one recent volume.

Hit List is about all of the people with connections to the JFK assassination who came to untimely ends. The authors “only” looked at what they considered the top 50, not the 300 or so that others have listed. I encountered most of the deaths before in my JFK studies, but bringing them together in that way was a worthy public service.

There were three flurries of untimely deaths:

• Immediately after the JFK assassination, through issuing the Warren Report;
• During Jim Garrison’s investigation;
• During the House Select Committee’s investigation.

To any serious scholar or reader of the JFK literature, what comes through loud and clear is that the most ridiculous theory of all is that Oswald was some kind of lone nut assassin. His military, intelligence, and organized crime connections positively scream covert action operative. But what I found particularly striking was how closely the book hewed to what I have encountered in my own journey, not only during my free energy adventures, but what fellow travelers such as Gary Wean encountered. I’ll cover some of it in this post.

The organized suppression in the free energy field is rarely violent, but when it is, the murderers take great care to make their evil deeds appear to be something else, in spook-style. While reading Hit List, I recognized many of the same techniques that were used on my free energy fellow travelers and others in my circle. Here are some examples.

In Gary’s book, he wrote at length about how expendable people in Ventura County regularly died in plane crashes, primarily planes that took off from Santa Paula airport, and Gary’s prime suspect, William Hetrick, who was arrested in the John DeLorean sting operation, but he worked on behalf of Ventura County’s corrupt judges and knew where too many of the bodies were buried, sometimes literally, so the judges whisked him away and he was never on the witness stand during DeLorean’s trial. Those who died in plane crashes had inexplicable issues, such as highly experienced pilots running out of fuel, or bizarre failures of key aircraft components, leading to the craft coming straight down, bringing the travelers to fiery ends.

One suspicious death relating to the JFK hit was Francis Gary Powers’s. Powers was the infamous U-2 pilot that the Soviet Union shot down, and Oswald worked at the U-2 base at Atsugi (with a crypto clearance), and Oswald lived in the Soviet Union when Powers was shot down, after Oswald’s highly theatrical “defection” to the Soviet Union, as he offered up the USA’s national security secrets. Powers later stated that Oswald was present during Powers’s interrogation. Powers died during the HSCA hearings, which was the last flurry of JFK-related deaths, and Powers, a highly competent pilot, died when his helicopter allegedly ran out of fuel, after taking off from the Burbank airport, right next to Ventura County. Even without fuel, Powers should have been able to land that chopper, but a witness said that the tail rotor came off as he tried to land, and that was the fatal “failure” that lead to his death.

When reading Hit List, almost every other death was familiar, in either their means of death or how “coincidental” it was. The day that Brian returned home after rejecting an “offer” from high-ranking military officials to do classified UFO work, he nearly died of a “heart attack,” which Brian later learned was the military’s response to his rejection of their “offer.” I have long called it “being made an offer than you can’t refuse.” A bunch of odd “heart attacks,” with highly “coincidental” timing, were in Hit List.

Another trick that I have encountered repeatedly is the spooks luring their targets from their homes, murdering them, and then returning to their homes to set up an “accident” or “suicide” scene. Paul Wilcher was one such “suicide.” One free energy inventor in my circle was killed that way, but came back to life as his body (sent back from the astral plane, just like NDE experiencers often report) was being staged to look like he fell down his stairs at home. When he came back to life like that, it blew the staged scenario. The killer will not “double tap” their targets when something like that happens, as it is more important to make it look like something else than it is to be successful with any one attempt, so the killers leave, regroup, and try to stage their crafty murders again, if called upon to do so. That particular inventor has survived dozens of murder attempts. In Hit List were several such “accidents” and “suicides,” including “falling” down the stairs at home.

The clear impression is that the spooks were very busy cleaning up loose ends to the JFK hit, more than a decade after the deed, and they got particularly active when official investigations began, and many people died during the same day or week that the investigators either contacted them or looked for them, or as they were about to testify in the investigations, including several high-ranking CIA officials.

I have also heard of many such sudden CIA-employee deaths, when operations were over, with career CIA employees all suddenly dying. I heard of one of those from a close friend who was approached by a CIA employee who had gone underground when all of his colleagues suddenly died when he was traveling the world as a vagabond upon retirement. He returned home after a couple of years, to find that all of his buddies had died suddenly. As I know, from the experience of my contract agent relative, spooks are expendable.

One defect in Hit List was that it did not even mention Allen Dulles, who had long been the spooks’ puppet master, at least for CIA spooks, and Dulles was the de facto leader of the Warren Commission.

Another thing that came through loud and clear was that The Education Forum is the most formidable online JFK assassination resource, especially John Simkin’s contributions, and I won’t argue against it.

Time to go hiking. Maybe I’ll write some more on this in the future.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

More than a century after Newcomen built his engine, and generations after Watt built his improved engine, Sadi Carnot began to develop the theory of why heat engines worked and what their energetic limits were, and he developed his famed equation. When Carnot wrote, wind and water power were still competitive with steam power. Carnot, like all pioneers, was ahead of his time, and it was not until the mid-19^th century that the science of energy began to develop. Around Carnot’s time, Michael Faraday began making seminal contributions to the study of electricity and magnetism, James Clerk Maxwell made his contributions a generation later, Rudolf Clausius introduced the concept of entropy and more fully elucidated Carnot’s idea, and the man who became Lord Kelvin was doing what became thermodynamic work at the same time. In the last half of the 19^th century, science was galloping along, and people such as Heisenberg later said that scientists began to get too full of themselves, becoming philosophers and losing sight of the inherent limitations of their discipline. Science is a great approach for exploring how our reality works, if the limits of the discipline are recognized, such as the understanding that physical reality is not the only reality. The greatest scientists generally had worldviews that verged on the mystical.

But new horizons of science opened up continually. Even so, when Thomas Edison developed his light bulb in 1879, there was a chorus of derision and statements of “fraud” and “impossible” from the scientific community, as they refused to see for themselves. Every era of the human journey has had its self-satisfied intellectuals who though that they had it all figured out, and Max Planck eventually remarked that scientists almost never see the light in their lifetimes when it appears, but go to their graves rabidly clinging to their invalid pet theories. The new generation grows up familiar with the new theories and does not reject them, and it has been said that science progresses funeral by funeral.

Going back to Newton and onward to Einstein and Heisenberg, the greatest scientific and mathematical minds have generally made their greatest contributions before age 30, and by age 40, a scientist rarely makes great theoretical contributions. I believe that it is due to few reasons, one of which is that the human brain is operating at peak capacity in early adulthood, and another is that people tend to fall victim to their points of view, building their sense of identity on those views, and like those dogmatic scientists, will cling to their points of view until death. As I have written plenty, the only candidates for what I am doing had to be already awakened past their conditioning in some way, and it has always had to be based on their experience, not a received teaching or literature review. My work, for instance, cannot wake anybody up.

The steam engine is a quintessential example of how technology had a long lead on the theory that explained its operation. When the Wright brothers first flew, powered flight was declared “impossible” by the experts, and scientists ridiculed and ignored the Wright brothers for five years after they first flew. That failing of scientists is alive and well today, and not long before he died, Brian O said that mainstream science was even more rigid and dogmatic on that score today than it was when the Wright brothers first flew. Scientists as a whole have still not learned that lesson, and one of the primary objections by scientists to the idea of free energy is that it would be contrary to the “laws of physics,” when the very term betrays how much today’s science resembles a religion. There are no “laws” of physics, only theories, but in the 19^th century, all sorts of scientific musings had the term “law” appended to them, even when there was no experimental evidence for them. Pasteur once came up with an idea and immediately called it a law, named after himself, of course. One of Brian’s “favorite” reactions to the idea of free energy, back when he played the Paul Revere of Free Energy, was the elderly dean of the physics department where Brian once studied pedantically thrusting his finger into the air, as he announced that the idea of free energy was contrary to the “laws of physics.”

All of that scientific egocentrism was little different from European “explorers” naming every landmark they “discovered” after themselves, as they conquered Earth. Africa, the Americas, Australia, and elsewhere are richly labeled with European names

To expect a fully elucidated physics to appear before free energy technology does, which explains it, it is be ignorant of the history of science and technology, but it is the standard reaction of scientists today. What my friend saw turns today’s physics textbooks into doorstops, and the so-called law of gravity becomes something else when you watch antigravity technology in action.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am going to expand on the previous post a little. History’s most successful experiments have often been “failures” that produced unexpected results. The Michelson-Morley experiment was the most sensitive one ever performed on light to its time, and it produced an expected result that was not explained until Einstein’s theory of special relativity, a generation later.

Similarly, experiments discovered phenomena, but they would not be explained by theory for many years. In the 1820s, Joseph Fourier calculated that Earth should be much colder than it is, and hypothesized that atmospheric gases were responsible for insulating Earth, but he had no idea which ones or how. In the 1850s, John Tyndall performed experiments that demonstrated which atmospheric gases absorbed infrared radiation. But it was not until the development of quantum theory in the 20^th century that the reason why certain gases absorbed certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation was understood. So, it took a century from the first observations/calculations to the theory that could explain them.

Natives and Arabs knew how to cure scurvy when Europeans began conquering the world, and arrogant Europeans ignored the cures for centuries, while millions of people died on the sailing ships. Even when British experiments showed that citrus fruit and fresh vegetables cured scurvy, it still took centuries for the British Navy to recognize the findings and provide limes to its sailing crews, and “limeys” ruled the Seven Seas. But it was not until the 20^th century that vitamin C was isolated and understood as the cause and cure of scurvy. Practice predated theory by several centuries, in that instance.

Malaria was prevented by quinine for generations before anybody knew why. The empirics were far ahead of the theorists, and the same holds for free energy inventors today. Sparky Sweet wrote papers on why his FE gizmo worked, but there was still plenty of mystery, and anything that works by making time run backwards is going to strain brains. The physics that can explain why Sparky’s device worked, or explain the mind-boggling technologies that my friend was shown, certainly does not exist in mainstream theorizing, although some of science’s greatest minds thought that there was something “out there” in “empty space” that somebody like Sparky could learn to harness. I have had to receive the “skepticism” and dismissal of Sparky’s experimental results from scientists because there was not a robust physics to explain them (or they did not have one of Sparky’s gizmos delivered to their laboratories for testing). How naïve and ignorant. Although experiments are still performed, nobody is quite sure why Brown’s Gas works or what it actually is. The inventors of Dennis’s heat pump cut their performance data in half so that they would stop being laughed out of engineering offices for their “impossible” data. Microscopes have existed for nearly a century that defy mainstream optical theory, and so on.

The physics textbooks are going to have to be completely rewritten when those technologies not only come in from the shadows and fringes, but we develop some idea for why they work. My current understanding is that much of the exotic technology that my friend was shown was developed by reverse-engineering “captured” ET technology, so even in the Black Science world, their understanding is likely very crude at best, partly because humanity’s understanding of consciousness is so primitive, still relegated by mainstream science to a byproduct of chemical reactions in the brain. Until the religion of this Epoch, materialism, is relinquished, its adherents won’t begin to understand.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

When Carnot produced his seminal paper, he still used the phlogiston concept. It was not until the 1850s that the phlogiston, or caloric, theory was finally replaced with the kinetic one. If we recall the definition of temperature, Carnot’s theory was really about the energy of motion, and how atoms in motion will collide with other atoms and give up their energy. What it really says is that energy always runs “downhill” to lower energy states, and entropy (atomic disorder) always increases, ever since that Big Bang. The Big Bang is challenged in various corners, even by arch-materialists such as Sean Carroll, who argue more for quantum events being the “birth” of the universe, although in his conception, the universe is infinitely old. The idea of a “quantum” birth of the universe is gaining popularity amongst scientists. But however the energy of our universe arrived, the second law of thermodynamics is Carnot’s work dressed up in the kinetic theory, and it essentially says that not all atomic/molecular motion can be directed into useful work (such as pushing a piston in an automobile engine), but is going to be lost to molecular disorder, which is always increasing, similar to the idea of a constantly expanding universe.

Einstein had the most confidence that the so-called second law would survive when all other theories eventually fell by the wayside, including his. But early in my days with Dennis, we encountered scientists who challenged the second law, but that will come later in this series of posts.

About the time that the kinetic theory replaced the caloric theory, heat engines began supplanting wind and water power in industrialization nations, particularly the UK and USA. The basics of heat engines really have not changed since Newcomen (or even Heron). They have just become more efficient. Whereas Newcomen’s engine had a 1% efficiency and Watt’s had a 5% efficiency, today’s steam turbines in electric power plants get about a 40% efficiency, and reusing the exhaust heat to power another heat engine can get up to about 50% efficient in turning heat into work. But just looking at absolute efficiency can be misleading. What I think is more informative is how close to the Carnot ideal a heat engine is, and for that, you need to know the temperatures of the heat sinks that the heat engine operates between. For a steam turbine that achieves 2,000 degree F boiler temperatures, and exhausts its turbine output to a lake, to cool down the working fluid (often water) so that it can be reintroduced to the boiler, it is achieving a 40% absolute efficiency, or about half of the Carnot ideal. The 60% that is not converted to work is lost as heat, or more molecularly, the disorder of molecules in the surrounding environment, which came into contact with the heat engine, or was hit by the photons given off.

Some cities use that waste heat to warm up their buildings and streets, particularly in cold climates such as what Scandinavia and Russia experience. Modern automobile engines get about 25-30% efficiency.

Today, the direction of research in increasing heat engine efficiency is designing electric company turbine components out of ceramics, to achieve 4,000 degree F temperatures, and the components won’t melt, so that perhaps 60% thermal efficiencies can be attained.

I will now come to the first horse in the race, as far as my energy journey went. Mr. Mentor invented his engine in a flash at a stop light in 1968, and went home and sketched it out in a half hour. The federal government brought in a literal rocket scientist to analyze Mr. Mentor’s engine, who soon became that engine’s greatest champion. He was amazed by the engine, but perhaps more so by how Mr. Mentor came up with it. He told Mr. Mentor that it would usually take a team of talented engineers their entire careers to invent what came to Mr. Mentor in an instant at a stop sign. That engine became a huge deal when the USA had the energy crisis that ended the most prosperous era of the human journey so far.

There were several ingenious features of Mr. Mentor’s engine, and the first was what he called the pressure intensifier. The intensifier made the working fluid work on itself, turning a low pressure gas into a high pressure liquid. The drive train was powered by that hydraulic liquid, and another ingenious aspect of his engine was that when the automobile “braked,” the drive train reversed itself and acted as a pump to put the kinetic energy of the car’s motion back into the hydraulic reservoir. It was like recovering the gasoline of combustion and putting it back into the gas tank.

In an internal combustion-driven automobile, the greatest energy losses of that 25-30% that is not wasted to heat is to friction, particularly the friction of the tires on the pavement and wind resistance as the car speeds up. That wind resistance increases as the square of the velocity. Ideally, a car should get far higher MPG in the city, where it is moving relatively slowly, than on the highway as it speeds along, but the opposite is true, as highway MPG is higher than city MPG. That is because of the energy lost to braking. Mr. Mentor’s engine recycled the energy otherwise lost to braking, and the experts who studied that engine estimated that a mail truck, for instance, puttering through neighborhoods, would get about 200 MPG.

In the wake of the energy crisis, a huge federal study was mounted to explore alternatives to internal combustion engines. It quickly focused on Mr. Mentor’s engine and concluded that it was by far the best known engine for powering an automobile. During the hoopla in the federal government, a high-ranking official informed Mr. Mentor that if he thought that his engine would be embraced by Detroit, that he had better make his funeral plans first. As usual, a group (likely related to the industrialist who expressed interest back then) stole Mr. Mentor’s design and drove a prototype in the Rose Parade in the late 1970s. I think that I heard of their fate a decade later, as they were kangarooed into prison, which gave me a preview of how our own energy efforts would fare.

A decade later, Mr. Mentor and a colleague began building their own vapor-injection carburetor, and when they discovered the Detroit owned all of the vapor-injection carburetor patents, they wisely stopped their efforts. Over the next decade, I came upon several instances of vapor-injection carburetors being bought out or wiped out.

That largely concludes my heat engine discussion, and next comes heat pumps, or the other side of Carnot’s seminal equation.

Best,

Wade