I think there's far too much smoke on that score for there to be 0.000% fire.
The operative word is "essentially" free.
But if, for wild example, someone came out with a power soure that involved workable small scale sustained fusion, or capture and conversion of matter by dumping it into neutronium, etc..etc then whoever controlled such a system would control the World's economy.
It would seem that a country like the FSU, that was having such a high-tech flea market for so many years, would not be able to restrain themselves.
Human nature would not change all that much, no matter how the technology changed.
Imagine what would happen. The entire mideast would collapse within a year into neanderthal barbarity.(Oh, well, THAT was not a good example)
The economic upheaval would be unprecedented and entire industries would disappear overnight. So I agree there is inertia, and there are good human nature reasons for supression.
Consider "Cold Fusion". We still do not know what is going on, except that chemical or electrochemical reactions simple do not produce 10 KeV neutrons, nor do they produce transmuted elements such as helium isotopes from deuterium.
For all the millions spent, such as the Japanese programs in recent years, there does seem to be a shortage of conclusions.
Teller was on our Board, and in a meeting some years ago, we had a chance to ask him what he thought. It was more or less a shrug, and THAT is not like him at all.
"There is SOMETHING going on, but it may not be fusion...but then again, I am not a very good Physical Chemist because my best known reaction involved only one element..."
But he was very Establishment Connected, so who knows?
Thanks.
That was AMAZINGLY WELL PUT. MUCH APPRECIATED.
I think yours is the best knowledgeable response I've had on that issue in . . . more than 30 years.
I do think that the transition could be made a lot EASIER and a lot MORE SUCCESSFULLY with far less destructiveness
than
the transition WILL BE made to the tyrannical global government with far MORE heavy handed bureaucratic control over individual lives . . . and particularly over masses of deaths.
It has been clear to me since the beginning and increasingly with every report that cold fusion could be one viable source of energy depending on a few factors seemingly relatively unknown. It's been clear that it's been held back and folks' lives have been mangled by the controllers.
What's not been clear, to me, is how MUCH energy would be available in the best designed process/systems. Nevertheless, it has appeared to be a productive, workable, worthwhile amount--especially from a projected more mature process/system.
I think Teller has been a co-opted 'good ole boy' for a long time. I see him somewhat as I see Stanton Friedman.
I see Friedman as a very sharp, witty, no nonsense curmudgeonly elderly professor/scientist type who's been connected enough with the controllers to know something of that score. And, to know something of the technologies involved in UFO/ET sorts of goings on.
I don't know if he's a boundary worker or controller stooge in the UFO camp but the latter doesn't seem to fit his personality type. He seems, to me, to be either having some fun at such conferences--earning some added coins with his books etc. and perhaps metering out bits of information over a long period.
Or else, he's trying to insure that there's some rational sanity toward solid disclosure and increased broad based citizen understanding of a field he knows to be serious in it's projected implications for the human race.
It's conceivable he's keeping tabs on the field for the controllers but I still don't think that suits his personality. I doubt he'd do it.
But the pics he showed at the recent Aztec conference of the atomic/nuclear engines he had helped developed and their small size vs power output--the pics and specs were fascinating. If that's what he was allowed to disclose, what must be still under dark wraps must be really incredible--and that's not even getting into the ET/UFO originated stuff, as far as I could tell.