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December 2, 2007 at 08:30:31

The Conspiracy Against Renewable Energy

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The Conspiracy Against Renewable Energy

By John F. Miglio

I hate to use the “C” word, but there is no other way to say it. There is a national conspiracy to prevent renewable energy from becoming the primary energy source in the United States.

And who are the conspirators? The usual cast of characters: the fossil fuels industry, which continues to rake in exorbitant profits on oil and gas while it refuses to make any significant investment in renewable energy, even in the face of global warming; the members of the mainstream news media, too craven to cross their corporate masters by doing any serious coverage on the viability of renewable energy in today’s market; and the members of Congress, too addicted to the big bucks they receive from Big Oil and other traditional energy sources to create any sweeping renewable energy legislation for the good of the country.

The truth is, if it were not for this unholy trinity of greed, cowardice, and bribery, all of us would already be living in solar or wind powered homes and driving electric cars to and from work.

Here are the facts:

1) According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the amount of solar energy that hits the surface of the earth every hour is greater than the total amount of energy that the entire human population requires in a year. Another way of looking at it is that roughly 100 square miles of solar panels placed in the southwestern U.S. could power the entire country.

2) The Department of Energy also states that all U.S. electrical energy needs could be met by the wind in Texas and the Dakotas alone.

3) In 1977, the Office of Technology Assessment published a nonpartisan report that concluded that if the federal government offered substantial tax credits and incentives to speed up the mass production of renewable energy technologies, these technologies "could be made competitive in markets representing over 40% of U.S. energy demand by the mid-1980s." At that rate, they would be competitive in almost all markets today.

4) The technology to produce photovoltaic panels and modern wind turbines has been around for decades, and thousands of Americans already have installed these renewable technologies on their homes and businesses, cutting their energy bills by significant margins. Recently, a New Jersey resident named Mike Mercurio installed both an array of solar panels on his roof and a wind turbine in his back yard and cut his energy bill from over $300 per month to about $10 per month.

This immediately begs the question: If we have the renewable technology at hand and we know it works, why don’t we use it in place of heavily polluting energy sources like oil, gas or coal? And why have so few people installed solar panels or windmills on their homes and in their backyards?

The primary reason is because the cost of renewable energy is still relatively high compared to fossil fuels, although the gap is closing as the cost of natural gas and oil continues to climb. For example, the price to install an array of photovoltaic panels on the average home-- notwithstanding some modest tax incentives and rebates from the government-- is anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000. At this price, only those who are well off can afford to have solar panels installed on their homes.

Of course, anyone with half a brain knows that once a product is mass produced, its price per unit plummets. But in order to facilitate this process and make it happen over a period of years and not decades, the federal government (with help from the states) needs to institute a massive, full-scale national renewable energy program, something equivalent to the Marshall Plan, something that would transform our entire society within a decade.

It can begin this process with a four-point plan: 1) Mandate tight pollution standards on the fossil fuels industry and stiff penalties for not abiding by them. This will get the carbon-based boys to start thinking about divesting some of their money into renewable energy. 2) Impose high CAFE standards on auto manufacturers and stiff penalties if they don’t implement them post haste. This will get the bright boys at GM to start thinking about electric cars in a big way. 3) Implement a windfall profits tax on oil companies and remove tax incentives to the entire fossil fuels industry. This will create billions of dollars that can be used to promote renewable energy. 4) Offer generous tax credits and incentives to the renewable energy industry to facilitate mass production of its technology and equally generous tax credits and incentives for homeowners to buy it.

If Congress made this four-point plan a reality, it would literally reverse the brain-dead energy policy that has been in effect for the past 27 years, ever since Ronald Reagan, Big Oil’s Bad Boy, strutted into office, decimated Jimmy Carter’s renewable energy program, and created energy bills and tax policies that favored the fossil fuels industry at the expense of renewable technology.

But how much money would it actually cost to institute a full-scale national renewable energy program in the United States? Hundreds of billions, no doubt, which is a lot of money, but not that much when you consider that over the past seven years, the Bush regime has already blown a half trillion dollars on Iraq and another trillion on tax cuts for the rich.

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Len Hart is a Houston based film/video producer specializing in shorts and full-length documentaries. He is a former major market and network correspondent; credits include CBS, ABC-TV and UPI. He maintains the progressive blog: The Existentialist Cowboy
Len HartLen Hart is a Houston based film/video producer specializing in shorts and full-length documentaries. He is a former major market and network correspondent; credits include CBS, ABC-TV and UPI. He maintains the progressive blog: The Existentialist Cowboy

Hooked on oil

"Big Oil" is a gang of crooks. They have NO interest in "green" energy sources. Ruthless bastards all, they will, indeed, conspire to keep the earth hooked and thoroughly screwed.

by Len Hart (131 articles, 173 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 546 comments) on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 10:33:52 AM

I have been working as an Architectural Designer for about 25 years. Because of a life tranformation and an awareness of things going on in our world, I found myself disinchanted with what most of us strives for and that is being successful (making a lot of money and having a lot of stuff).I am now focusing on starting a foundation for the preservation of tribal people and the environment. In the early 90's I developed an appreciation and respect for tribal cutlures and I hope I ca...

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Rick TheileI have been working as an Architectural Designer for about 25 years. Because of a life tranformation and an awareness of things going on in our world, I found myself disinchanted with what most of us strives for and that is being successful (making a lot of money and having a lot of stuff).I am now focusing on starting a foundation for the preservation of tribal people and the environment. In the early 90's I developed an appreciation and respect for tribal cutlures and I hope I ca...

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Americans Responsibility

If all the lazy Americans get off their ass's and become proactive we could stop much of what is going on with the corporatocracy and the politicans that work for them which are probably most of them. We can't expect the greed driven corrupt corporations to do any thing that is the "Right thing to do" nor can we expect our government to do anything because they are sleeping with the corporations. Americans have to make it perfectly clear that this behavior is no longer exceptable with their government representatives.

by Rick Theile (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments) on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 11:05:25 AM

Midwesterner, veteran of VietNam era naval service, I still feel an obligation to defend the Constitution against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."
John Sanchez Jr.Midwesterner, veteran of VietNam era naval service, I still feel an obligation to defend the Constitution against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."

Peak Oil is their Christmas

For more than 150 years oil companies, many of them the nascent Seven Sisters have sold oil for little more than the value of the dirt and rock they extracted it from. As recently as 1973, which was right around the time we hit peak oil production in the United States (see Hubbard's Curve), crude oil's average price was $4.75. Inflation adjustment would make this $22.12 in today's dollars.

Now at $96.00/bbl. (a barrel (bbl.) is 42 gallons) and likely to trend ever upwards, why would you think that these cutthroats would let anyone ruin their party? They have their needs foremost in mind and readily acknowledge that they need us as an important part of the equation, because who else would be enough of a nitwit to pay through the nose to buy a Hummer, so that they could pay through the nose to fuel it (supposing the fuel remains available at any price).

Slow as we ever have been to wake up and realize that we're being mugged, Big Oil has a realistic chance of charming us out of our last dime to pay for the last pint of crude oil that they can extract. Combine that with the fact that our "public servants" see Big Oil as all the public they'll ever need, and you can understand why they busy themselves scrambling for Big Oil's crumbs instead of pursuing alternatives like they would if they weren't traitors.

So, buckle up and sit back, America! It's going to be a terrifying ride!

Tic, tic, tic.

by John Sanchez Jr. (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1173 comments) on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 12:49:52 PM

Author of "The Politics of Extraterrestrials...Connecting the Dots" ISBN 0-9765223-0-6
PatrickAuthor of "The Politics of Extraterrestrials...Connecting the Dots" ISBN 0-9765223-0-6

The Conspiracy against Renewable Humanity

Nikolai Tesla was ‘De-funded” by J.P. Morgan in 1906, this after Tesla had demonstrated the unique ability of extracting energy from the ‘Cosmos.’

Dr Henry Moray produced 50,000(50 Kilowatts-KW) watts of energy from this same source in 1930, what we today refer to as the “Cosmological process.’ In dollars and cents that’s about $120 worth of electricity, per day, from one small unit that he invented.

When Tesla was asked by a reporter, “Where does the energy come from that you are producing?” Tesla responded, “I don’t know, but I am glad that it is there.”

Dr Moray was asked the same question as Tesla, and responded, “I don’t know, but I think that it has something to do with the different size of particles in our universe.”

In 2003 a research project conducted by members of the Russian Academy of sciences, determined beyond the shadow of a doubt, that excess energy had been detected in a cavitation pump, that was manufactured and sold, as a home heater in the Russian Republic of Moldavia.

The team of researchers was headed by physicist, Dr Lev Saporski. After reviewing the results of the team’s work, Dr Saporski commented upon the excess heat produced by the Moldavian heater that; “it may be a demonstration of a device that is somehow accessing and tapping into the ‘Zero point field.’”

In the spring of 2004 Dr Eugene Mallove (1947-2004) announced publicly that “we are now only a few months away from ‘unlimited amounts of clean heat and electricity.’"

As for the “C” word, we are now 100 years and counting from the beginning of the “C” back in 1906, when J.P. Morgan and his cohorts, decided to block research into obtaining what has come to be called “Free Energy.”

The Energy will be Free, though the machines to produce it will range from a few hundred dollars, up to billions of dollars to manufacture, construct and install.

Once installed, we will be able to produce a “Harvest for the world.” All with no negative environmental impact.

The resource starved world of Malthus and Darwin, will become but a quaint reminder of the past. The ‘Master classes’ plans to destroy human populations, can be retired for good. Their plans are not needed.

Zero Point Energy, is here and now. For the techies: The Zero point field is actually the planet’s combined inertial fields.

Though these fields are ‘Static,’ they can be and are accessed by employing the relativistic shift of a particle that is accelerated.

Accessing the 5th Dimension, according to the Kaluza-Klein theorem(1938) allows for the production of ‘Torque’ at the ‘Plane of the Dimension.’

For example; At 60 % the speed of light, the clock rate of an electron or any particle, runs at 80% of it’s original clock rate, or time.

The earth is in motion at 18.5 miles per second. In 1 millionth of a second-1 microsecond(1ms/)-the earth moves at about 1 inch.

For instance, In 5 ms/ the earth moves 5 inches. If only the electron is accelerated to 60% of the speed of light, the clock rate is then 80%. The nucleus of the atom remains operating at it’s original clock rate and has now moved 5 inchs in space.

The accelerated and time contracted relativistically shifted electron has departed out inertial reference frame and now according to Kaluza-Klein, has “Accessed the 5th Dimesion.”

When the electron returns to the 4th Dimesion-because it's high velocity has changed it's clock rate- it has moved only 4 inches, and is now 1 inch away from it’s rest (orbital shell) position located near the nucleus.

The nucleus attempts to ‘Torque,’ due to the destabilization of the nucleus that has been produced from the time shifted electron, and this twisting causes the ‘Static’ zero point field, to pump energy into the nucleus until the field strength level is high enough to return the ‘time shifted’ electron to the 4th Dimension.

The energy is then collected and deposited into the machine in our original inertial frame of reference.

Sounds complicated, and it did take this writer about 50 years to figure it out, yet, it was known to a few scientists many years ago.

John Von Nuemann wanted to investigate this in 1950. He died of brain cancer at the tender age of 53, in 1955.

Gen. MacArthur gave a speech in 1955 and mentioned “tapping in the power of the ‘Cosmos.’”

Much of this; was known at the high levels of this “continuing criminal enterprise,” known as a government. So when we talk about the big “C,” yes it is true.

The supposed resource base struggle that we are in is a phony; like everything else about our elite. Phony, yet more dangerous than most folks can comprehend.

The question you may ask yourself is; “If there is no need for war to gain resources, then ‘Why were nuclear weapons built?’”

In 1946 The insiders in the Bank of England gave the go ahead for a full scale nuclear build up. “They” decided to destroy humanity in total; based upon the notion that “Self sacrifice is a necessary component of survival.”

If you can understand that there is no need for war, it is merely a “Selective strategy” of human predation, then the Extraterrestrial hypothesis makes it’s appearance and is then somewhat easy to understand.

Why are 40,000 nuclear weapons poised to destroy the human race on a moments notice? This is the “C” with a Capitol “C.”

The plan to exterminate us all is still in place. The nuclear “Trigger” has been pulled on us; several times over the decades.

Bush and Cheney have pulled the “Trigger” on us a couple of times already. Once the nuclear threat is ended, if we are still alive, false resource wars will be a thing of the past.

Unlimited clean energy is here and now. The conspiracy against renewable energy, is one part of the overall conspiracy against renewable humanity.

by Patrick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 401 comments) on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 3:00:16 PM

American against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.
Dom JermanoAmerican against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.

I think its not a Conspiracy

I think the prices are high because they are encouraging people to go after renewable alternatives. How else do you make change? You think low oil prices will move the effort along? Not by a long shot. The Oil companies may be getting richer from high gas, but I think they are as much interested in renewables as anyone. The only conspiracy is our own self inflicted imaginations. How can you disprove this?

by Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 930 comments) on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 5:51:55 PM

John F. Miglio is the editor of the Online Review of Books & Current Affairs and author of Sunshine Assassins, a futuristic political thriller.
John F. MiglioJohn F. Miglio is the editor of the Online Review of Books & Current Affairs and author of Sunshine Assassins, a futuristic political thriller.

Just Business

I've been covering this subject for almost 30 years. Back in the late 70s and early 80s, oil companies bought out many of the start-up solar companies and then let them die on the vine.

It's just business to them. They want to keep their monopoly in tact. Why would they want to develop and sell renewable technology when they can make billions year after year selling non-renewable fuel?

by John F. Miglio (22 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments) on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:07:54 AM

Liberal (in favor of liberty) and one who understands that gov.org is not our freind. Former Republican who got sickened when Nixon imposed wage and price controls. Now I only vote for those who promise to make government smaller, not for those who say they want it to grow at a slower pace (GOP candidates)
Mark BennettLiberal (in favor of liberty) and one who understands that gov.org is not our freind. Former Republican who got sickened when Nixon imposed wage and price controls. Now I only vote for those who promise to make government smaller, not for those who say they want it to grow at a slower pace (GOP candidates)

A dose of reality for you.

You wrote:

“The primary reason is because the cost of renewable energy is still relatively high compared to fossil fuels, although the gap is closing as the cost of natural gas and oil continues to climb.”

Well, there you go. If I am offered two prices to get from point A to point B and one method costs me twice as much out-of-pocket money, I’ll choose the less expensive way. That is to be expected. You however do not want me to be able to make that choice. You want to “mandate” that I live according to your set of rules.

If there is a conspiracy keeping renewable energy from us, then you must be a part of it. If solar and wind energy are such good ideas, why are you refusing to get together a bunch of like-thinking individuals, seek venture capitol, and become the richest people on earth?

If your renewable energy is so wonderful, it will be readily accepted in the market and you will make Bill Gates look poor.

The reality is in your own words. Alternative energy is not competitive, therefor there is no place in the market for it, with but few exceptions. Wind energy is costly in terms of all the hardware involved and the high maintenance costs. The turbines are also V E R Y noisy and kill birds. Solar is all right is some parts of the country, however in the Pacific Northwest where we have so much rain and clouds etc., it will be quite a long time before it becomes cost effective.

So many people think that electric cars are so wonderful, without considering that much of the electricity used to charge their batteries is produced by burning “fossil” fuels.

Solar panels on people’s homes would have to be cleaned to keep them operating efficiently. If every home had such an array, my guess is that 1000 people would die each year in the USA falling off their roofs while cleaning them.

The real solution is a technology called magma tapping where water is pumped into a deep hole in the earth and it returns to the surface as steam. The steam is then fed through turbines to turn generators. Large centralized plants could be built and the existing grid of electrical transmission lines could be utilized to distribute the power. That is the future. That is a technology that is doable.

Using force and violence (taxation and mandates) is repulsive to those of us who love liberty and freedom. Perhaps your ancestors did not fight and die in the American Revolution. Mine did and I refuse to kneel down and worship at the altar of large intrusive government. If that is the kind of society in which you want to live, perhaps you can move to North Korea. Please keep your socialistic/fascist schemes away from the USA.

by Mark Bennett (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 47 comments) on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 6:06:47 PM

Fossil Fuels Talking Points

Congratulations, Mark, you have enumerated almost every talking point and piece of propaganda the fossil fuels industry has disseminated over the last 30 years!

Do you get funded by them, or are you so brainwashed you can't see through their propaganda? You say your ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. My question is: Which side did they fight on? Which side do you think Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Father would be on today-- the side of large fossil fuel corporations who monopolize the energy industry, gouge the public, and pollute the atmosphere, or the side of independent renewable energy companies fighting to give individuals clean energy that would break up their monopolies and help the environment?

by John F. Miglio (22 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments) on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:25:12 AM

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we need renewable energy

Limits on carbon footprints and tax incentives for producing renewable energy must be met with the same intensity that putting a man on the moon became in the 1960’s. It will create jobs and help stop global warming.

by Michael Chavers (47 articles, 0 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 174 comments) on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:42:20 AM

Firm believer in ZPE - zero point Energy and Cold Fusion. These are not myths, many Physicists have written articles and even books about these subjects. All proclaiming that these new discoveries will revolutionize science. Google ZPE just to blow your mind. Many meetings attended by distinguished scientists from around the world have taken place. American public is held in the information dark ages by the elite thugs! Wake UP America!
FreeEnergyFirm believer in ZPE - zero point Energy and Cold Fusion. These are not myths, many Physicists have written articles and even books about these subjects. All proclaiming that these new discoveries will revolutionize science. Google ZPE just to blow your mind. Many meetings attended by distinguished scientists from around the world have taken place. American public is held in the information dark ages by the elite thugs! Wake UP America!

Zero Point Energy and Cold Fusion

Thanks Patrick!

Why no other comments about Patrick's comment? I am glad that he has "discovered" the truth. Others are toooooo lazy to get off their duffs and learn a few things. I hope others will discover the truth also. Tesla said that he could deliver free energy to the WORLD - the Moneychangers - read JP Morgan (aided by the "renouned" inventor Edison) - shut him down. Dr. Mallove was pioneering free energy - yes - Cold Fusion which the US Naval Laboratory comfirmed exists as the two Utah physicists reported. These scientists were belittled as was Tesla. Dr. Mallove was executed. With the Cold-Fusion process - and a bit of Palladium, a very small amount of electricity - wallah - hot water. Heating water consumes the most energy in these US states. Hot water => steam cars with no pollution and unbelievable speeds.

There was a large ZPE conference in Switzerland a few years ago. Many distinguished scientists from all over this planet attended. Even those from the USA. ZPE devices were demonstrated! The Japanese won the ZPE contest. Why no report in the controlled MEDIA about this event? Strange!

These was a ZPE developer web site a few years ago in Research Triangle Park, NC which warned that ZPE could be used in small sites - homes, cars, etc. - BUT not in large generating sites like cities, states, governments. If something goes wrong with the electronics at a large generating site - wallah - no more city, state, WORLD. A large site disrupts the ZPE field in the immediate surroundings. Ask the Soviets what happened with one of their HUGE Tesla "over-the-horizon-radar" sites - they were spying on US - and what its collapse did to Chernobyl! Actually, WE were very lucky with Chernobyl as some of the "TESLA" field energy was sucessfully disipated, bled-off, before the final collapse. The vicinity around Kiev is now "hot" but it isn't a crack in the world or a new mountain range or a huge, huge volcano! Scary, huh!

Check Tom Bearden's web site!

http://www.cheniere.org

BTW, Tom Bearden and friends have patented a 100-over-unity MEG (Motionless Energy Generator) zero-point device. 100 times more juice out than in. Patented! It holds a US Patent! See the MEG at the Bearden web site. Any interest in funding its development? The OIL folks along with president Cheney aren't interested either BTW.

Believe what Patrick states! There is a conspiracy involving energy. There is a conspiracy to decimate the population of this world - check out Club of Rome! For the fun of it check this out: http://www.rense.com/general77/chinsec.htm

What a crazy world!

by FreeEnergy (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:38:32 PM