William Tucker has written an excellent article about biofuels and solar energy versus nuclear energy (using thorium reactors, which promise no more Three Mile Islands or Fukushimas) at http://tinyurl.com/6nzpbt Everyone should read that article who has the slightest interest in energy or its production.
I wrote a reply, which turns out to be undeliverable, making the case for abandoning solar as too dilute to be really useful and suggesting an alternative:
Great stuff!
The Universe is indeed awash in energy, but the energy from radiation would seem to be only a small bit of it — We’ve observed that most of the energy out there is “dark energy.” Researchers have put dark energy in a fifth dimension because they don’t know where else to put it, but a more intriguing theory is that dark energy is a manifestation of the zero point flux, in which, per quantum theory, the matter present in an object at absolute zero is constantly converting to energy, then back again to mass. What we’re seeing as dark matter could theoretically be the energy and mass (dark matter likewise makes up most of the material in the Universe) resulting from this process.
Of course a theory is only an explanation of something observed; it’s neither true nor false. But there have been some practical results of efforts to extract this energy from the zero point flux: see http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk/ for a “best” explanation of this process, and for a great number of devices that purport to tap it.
I have a business plan at http://wwww.chollybygolly.com for identifying such a device (the “industry” is rife with fraud and outright insanity, which I take to be the mother of invention these days) and actually selling it. It’s like pulling teeth, but I persist.
Take a look at Kelly’s book. This is good stuff!
Charlie Coombs
Irving, Texas
