Usable Insight - An Energy Conspiracy?
I just watched NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, author of Hot, Flat and Crowded.
Call me paranoid, call me too conspiracy/Oliver Stone minded, but…
Do you believe that in order to compete successfully, oil companies, auto companies, etc. have suppressed or bought up competing intellectual property that might have threatened their market dominance and control? If you do believe it, then isn’t it possible that these companies already possess the rudimentary, if not further developed technologies to use alternative sources of energy?
For instance, at the risk of being naive and ill informed, I cannot imagine that there haven’t been already developed theories/technologies to utilize two forces necessary to life and to this planet’s existence, namely solar energy and gravitational pull (look how we depend on the latter to whip explorer missions past planets toward other planets).
In order to compete effectively in the future, if not survive through the present, we might want to have energy companies, auto companies and any other companies that may have suppressed competition (to increase barriers to entry) open their vaults or memories to what they have shredded.
If the above is true, the energy crisis has already been solved, but the solution is being withheld. All the remains is to implement the solution.
Louis Brandeis wrote: “Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant.”
It may turn out to also be the road to our survival and salvation.
I think survival trumps profit. I think calming the fear of the many trumps feeding the greed of the few. Don’t you agree? What do you think?
September 28th, 2008 at 11:16 am
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September 29th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
It is hard for me to believe that the auto companies (which, in the U.S. are struggling mightily to survive) have the money or desire to buy up all the solar solutions. In addition, if I were the inventor of a solar solution, the car industry doesn’t begin to have enough money to pay me what the whole world would pay. In addition, most solar researchers entered the field, in part, because they want to improve the world. I doubt that every single one of them would sell out for money, even if the car companies were to pay them millions.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I fully believe that the love of money is the root of all evil. I sincerely believe that technologies now exist to replace fossil fuels as primary energy sources. I believe that if there is enough money to be made in selling it to the masses, it will be brought to the market at a premium. I whole-heartedly believe, that if any technology is going to take money out of the mouths of the greedy, The greedy will KILL IT DEAD!
I might be dead before it happens, but I’m sure that in the future, those companies that are coming out with the next revolutionary energy sources will be the same companies that now turn a huge profit on fossil fuels.
You can look at the history of the US in particular and the world in general and find that, especially in the information age and in the industrial age, those who are rich and greedy, will do anything to stay rich because they are greedy! A prime example is slavery. If there was no profit in slavery, it would never have existed or lasted as long as it did. If there was no profit in migrating the American Indian away from rich, fertile lands, this land might be a lot ‘redder’ than it is. If there was no advantage given to those who oppress the lower classes in the form or racism, and classism, those ideas or ideals wouldn’t exist or still exist as a talking point.
You can look at any major mob war, turf war, gang war, War of the Roses, price war, or even officially-voted-on-and-approved-by-Congress war, and you will find that the love of money and power, no matter how senseless, is at the root of it all.
Do I believe solutions are being withheld? You’re breathing, aren’t you?