I just read about the possibility of hydrogen cells being used to power homes and businesses to handle the massive demand of power, not that I, among others, have not had a similar idea ever since the power cells were created for space.
A long time ago, a group of people, including me, were speculating on potentially hidden roadblocks behind the scenes of human progress here in America. Mental exercise and masturbation was what it was, but now, in retrospect, decades later, I uneasily have found some of it to be accurate.
We determined that oil, power and automobiles were interlinked to control fuel and transportation prices long before the 70’s oil crunch, and after that happened, we strongly suspected that it was engineered by the same power base to not only increase profits, but to wipe out minor competition by small oil companies, car makers and to break a hold Texas had on prices. Just like what happened years earlier to Nuclear power, which is still proven to be cheaper than anything else around and, properly managed, the safest, which went from solving all of our power woes to being about as popular as baby feces. (See, they made a real big point about disposal of the waste, while ignoring the fact that petrochemical waste was already doing more damage now than the radioactive waste might later on and possibly on a much wider scale.)
When we spotted alternate motors using little or no petrol being ridiculed, junked and discredited (not all of those inventor claims of patent demonstration tinkering designed to cause the motor to fail are false), we took note. In our town a 1970s electric car, made by a local inventor, is still on the road in active service today, unchanged. He was refused a patent for his design as unreliable and unworkable.) We became convinced that various greedy powers were deliberately holding onto the secrets of power saving technology to keep themselves in the Chief Seat, raking in money. When barrel prices for crude dropped, pump prices did not and that caught our attention and then we found that the major banks were investing in Saudi oil, something so volatile as to be a risky investment. How best to destroy the American economy than to get the banks to invest heavily, then bottom out the oil, causing the main banks to crash and start the stock market crashing also, which would trigger a major depression?
All power saving efforts seemed to help little because no matter how much people strove to reduce power, the bills dropped little over all because the costs per unit kept going up. (Like in Florida, where there is a drought. People are ordered to conserve water. They did, too well because now the cities are increasing water bills because too little water is being used.)
The way we look at it is that the Power and Oil consortium have deliberately delayed, fought down, discouraged, discredited and otherwise manipulated the introduction of power saving technology until they already had managed to gain major power bases and capitol in this area to protect their butts and guarantee a smooth switch over into positions of power when the inevitable change comes. They knew that they could not delay us forever because not too long back, a guy built a 100% self sufficient house, which generates its own power, is highly insulated, ecologically friendly and within means of someone else besides the rich to buy. He sells power to the power company from his excess.
A furniture maker took over an old mill and generates enough power for his business and attached home to not pay any charges to the power company, and sells excess power to them.
Colleges are real close to developing not only fast electric cars, but better, smaller batteries.
Independent people are on the verge of sending people into space cheaper and faster than NASA.
Pissed off inventors are reworking solar cells, the solar technology, insulation factors, and even building technology and eventually, with all of this combined, people will use a fraction of the power they use today and used back in the 50s and are not going to tolerate paying even $100 a month for using one-eighth of the current normal power consumption. Power companies cannot justify the costs. Car dealers cannot justify their costs. Oil companies are running out of excuses for high pump prices with low barrel costs.
I think the power base has been in existence ever since WW2 and we have suffered for their greed a great deal and what worries me is that there are signs of other such illegal power consortiums forming. Plus, you think the power cell makers will not have some link to the greed three? That they will either be very costly to offset years of power usage or very cheap and designed to wear out do you’ll need to buy more to keep the cash flowing in and there will be expensive disposal problems that ‘just come up’?
BTW, keep an eye on independent farmers fighting off the big farming groups and take a good look at the seed companies supplying their hybrid seeds. Watch the airline companies now that trains are starting to reappear (France has magnificent passenger train service, cheaper than flying and, at times, driving.) Watch the ‘free’ Internet also, especially e-mail. There was a bill in congress once to start charging a fee for e-mail because of the decrease in profits from snail mail postage cause by it. Others are working to find ways to charge you for free web phone service and using the web in general.
If there is a free, potential money making service around, someone will either try to shut it down and provide you with a paying service or force through laws to change it into a paying one. It has happened several times with the Internet services.
So, how long before independent power sources show up for homes, and, unnoticed, there will be links to power, oil and automobile businesses?
