Gathering 2005 Sun Valley, Part 16

2009-10-22 04:39:00

JJ:

There are a number of potential sources and even though nuclear is the only one we have that would be non-polluting, a lot of people are scared of it. It would be nice if we could find super tall windmills or maybe use currents from the ocean. The ocean has unlimited energy. Or if we could find some new way of separating hydrogen from oxygen because separating them to make hydrogen fuel takes a lot of energy.

They're working on ways of doing this which won't take so much energy and if they have a breakthrough and we could get hydrogen cheaply without having to use nuclear or some power source to do it, that would be better. People are spooked by nuclear even though I believe we are reaching the technological level where we can create safe power plants. We haven't created one for twenty years because anybody who wants to make one is threatened with lawsuits.

Audience:

"I think part of the trouble with nuclear, maybe we have the technology to create safer, cleaner power plants now but we still have all the old plants that we have to somehow deal with even if we transitioned to the new plants. I think that's where a lot of fear comes from."

  

JJ:

Right. Even the old plants are pretty safe. There are several fail-safes among them. Three Mile Island received a lot more negative publicity than it deserved. There were three or four different fail-safes there and it only went through one layer of them and it tripped it. There was about as much nuclear radiation released as on the dial of your watch. But everyone was really spooked over it. But you can't blame them for being spooked when you think of the nuclear bomb. It's very scary for people. If it was possible to produce safe plants the public opinion could change on that eventually. Matter of fact, public opinion was pretty accepting until Three Mile Island and also Chernobyl.

Audience:

"The public not coming to any solutions is one thing but the fact, like, I heard it said that the energy industry generates something like eight trillion dollars per year. So you have a group of people and that's their industry. They aren't going to be willing to let go of that."

  

JJ:

True, that's a big problem we have. Any change in the power industry has to come fairly slowly because if it comes too quickly people with a lot of money are going to fight it. That's something we need to realize and work around to some degree.

It's an interesting thing to contemplate about creating a power source because a cheap power source has to be produced before the New Age can come fully in. Whether it be safe nuclear, tides, some type of wind power but right now alternatives like wind, solar and geothermal can only, according to scientists, produce only 2% of our needs. That's all unless there is some great breakthrough. Not a lot of breakthrough can come from solar because we get so much solar energy we can transmute a certain percentage into electricity and that's it. We can't make the sun give us more power.

Audience:

"How about the magnetic field of the earth? Could that be harnessed and studied?"

  

JJ:

That's a good point. Nikola Tesla had a theory that the earth itself oscillates back and forth and this oscillation produces electrical power that can be tapped into. Some people claim he actually tapped into this. His belief was that with true technology we could put some type of antenna on our roof that would tap into this energy that is already there through the oscillation of the earth. The Earth moves back and forth and wobbles. Just one little wobble would release a tremendous amount of energy and he believed that eventually this could be tapped into and everyone could have an antenna on their roof and bring in the electric power that they want and be completely independent from all the power sources that are out there.

Now the power sources that are out there probably aren't too excited about developing something like this because if we could get the antenna for a couple hundred bucks and charge our cars with it and power our homes and get all of our power from this one little source then they wouldn't be making much money off of us. So probably not too many people wanted to rush into developing this but this is a theory of Nikola Tesla that I found it very interesting. He was quite a guy.

I went to the library one time and read all the old articles about him from really old magazines. I saw this one article I hadn't seen anywhere before. It was in New York City. They kept having a tremor in New York and nobody could trace what it was. It didn't seem to be a normal earthquake or anything. Every other day the whole city would shake slightly and everybody wondered what it was. Someone went to the police and said, "I think Nikola Tesla might have something to do with this." So the police got a warrant and they broke into his laboratory and it was during a time that the city was shaking. His whole building was shaking. He had this great big machine in the center of his laboratory and when he saw the police he took a sledge hammer and he smashed it. As soon as he smashed it, the quaking stopped. Apparently he didn't want anyone to get a hold of it.

He would have parties and he would send hundreds of thousands of volts through his hand and light up stuff. He liked being the life of the party and doing fantastic stuff with electricity. He was a character like we haven't seen on the earth since he died.

I'm going to read to you several interesting things that go contrary to what a lot of people think.

One of my theories is this. If you want to find the truth, find what everybody is thinking then look in the opposite direction. There you will often find the real truth. It's not ironclad, it's not black and white, sometimes what everybody is thinking, they're thinking because it is true. But often times, especially when their beliefs are not documented by science -- that's when I really look at what they believe, then look in the opposite direction. That's why I looked at nuclear energy, because everybody was saying nuclear energy was bad. I decided to look into it and find the true facts. When I found out that right here in Idaho they developed these breeder reactors and the government shut it down because people were afraid, but these breeder reactors can take the waste of Yucca Mountain and eliminate all the waste and create enough energy to power us for a thousand years. Does it make sense to bury that energy source that could power us for a thousand years? It didn't make sense to me once I looked into it. That was the opposite direction that everyone else was looking and I found this interesting piece of information.

I'm going to read you several things then we're going to talk about them later on. What are the changes that are going to happen on the Earth? Is the Earth going to warm up because of global warming and the big greenhouse effect where all the glaciers will melt? Or are we going to have an ice age? 20 or 30 years ago everyone was predicting global cooling. Now they've switched to global warming. They can't make up their minds. Which one is it going to be? Both sides have interesting statistics. Here are some interesting facts.