Will a Revolutionary Energy Breakthrough Help to Kick-Start the Economy?

Once cars, trucks and buses become available that need no fuel, it is logical to expect manufacturers will sell every such vehicle they make. Plants that have been shut down will reopen. Auto workers who have been laid off will have the opportunity to be rehired. Large numbers of new automotive manufacturing jobs will be created.

A revolutionary product this far-reaching has the potential to provide huge numbers of new jobs and opportunities for new enterprise. The economic impact of cars as power plants may prove a surprising way to stimulate the global economy. It can also provide distributed generation wherever the grid is lacking or unreliable. Moreover, cars can wirelessly power homes and businesses. Imagine the advantages following storms and other disasters.

Greenland loses more ice each year than all the ice in the Alps. Elsewhere there is also frightening, massive, melting of ice. The North Pole may be ice-free in summer as soon as 2012. The Observer newspaper, in the UK, stated that in 7 “years nearly all Peru's glaciers will be gone due to global warming and its 27 million people will nearly all lack fresh water, with the likely result being: 'chaos, conflict and mass migration'. Each 1 degree Celsius global temperature rise deprives between 400 million and 1.7 billion people of sufficient water. “A total of 46 nations and 2.7 billion people are now at high risk of being overwhelmed by armed conflict and war because of climate change”. More than 180 nations have coastal areas in peril. The world has twenty megacities. Thirteen of them, including New York, London, Miami, Shanghai and Tokyo, are at hazard. Drastic shifts are happening much more rapidly than earlier predicted.

Energy consumption is at the core of human existence. We must sharply accelerate development of new, cost-effective, sustainable alternatives. Small firms in several countries have explored breakthrough energy conversion technologies for several years. To reverse the dangerous trends mentioned above, let’s envision a commercially developed technological revolution that conserves planetary resources. Some varieties of ZPE magnetic conversion modules are projected to be easy to manufacture and use, as well as inexpensive, thus capable of rapidly achieving global impact. It would seem they may have the potential to catalyze, with a kick start, a global economic recovery.

What better legacy to the legendary life of Arthur Clarke?

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