Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

Pieter Palmers wrote:
> Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
>> hi guys.
>>
>> Pieter Palmers wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sorry, but the following statement:
>>>
>>> "Here’s a few vids of the mighty power of hydrogen explosions. Not an
>>> endorsement of nuclear power but just a reference for anyone who is
>>> doubting the energy contained in Hydrogen."
>>>
>>> is ridiculous. It's not because that type of atomic bomb is called a
>>> "hydrogen bomb" that it has anything to do with hydrogen as a power
>>> source. The former is about splitting the hydrogen atom itself, the
>>> latter is about splitting the bonds a hydrogen atom has with other
>>> atoms.
>>>
>> for the record, there is not much to split in a hydrogen atom (generally
>> it's just one proton, very rarely accompanied by one or two neutrons).
>> the principle behind the h bomb is fusion of hydrogen into heavier
>> elements, where the "activation energy" (i hope the term is applicable
>> here) comes from a previous nuclear fission explosion.
>>
> /me crawls in a corner and hides full of shame. Of course the H-bomb is
> fusion. small atoms -> fusion. large atoms (plutonium) -> fission.
> Sometimes it's better to shut up.
>
> In any case, my error doesn't invalidate my point. I hope they are not
> experimenting with fusion nor fission in their backyard.
>

The reaction I got from some people on this list was quite a shock to
me. Now that I have had some time to process it here is what I would
like to add in my defence. This has nothing to do with the technical
merits of the topic that was discussed. I will leave that up to your
personal judgement. However I am slightly concerned at the closed
attitude that I was presented with by people I have worked with for over
ten years and found in general to be quite open minded about ideas that
may or may not be mainstream.

    Libre Energy - The Open Source Paradigm
    <http://yeswaterisfuel.com/?p=45>

When people think of free energy they tend to get immediately confused.
Obviously the first thing that comes to mind for anyone is “I can get
energy for free!!! That can’t be possible”. The “powers” that be have
definitely got us up against the wall when it comes to getting access to
energy resources. The next thing people think of when discussing the
possibility is that so many people have claimed they could create “free”
energy and they are always hoaxes or snake oil salesmen or often just
plain crazy paranoid schizophrenics. The last thing most people think of
if they even dare is that we have the opportunity to actually create
“Free” as in speech energy. Energy production and conversion technology
and resources that are publicly owned and not subject to patents and
corporate or governmental control.

One of the biggest problems that inventors of so called “Free” as in
beer energy in the past has been bringing the technology or concept to
market. There are several cases of gifted inventors and engineers who
had very credible technology that provided energy at a fraction of the
cost and greatly increased efficiency of currently widely used
technologies who were killed, bought off or shutdown and their
inventions and breakthroughs destroyed or locked away from the public.
Open source and Libre Energy promises to make it a lot harder for the
energy oligarchs to shut down and keep from the public the advances that
are made.

In this modern day and age with the whole world connected via internet
and mobile phone we see amazing speed of information dissemination. It’s
very difficult to stop knowledge from being shared once it has been
released to the public space and internet. There are even laws that make
it hard for the most powerful forces to have control of public
information. There are certainly uncountable avenues for sharing
information in a non public grassroots way as the various illegal
activities performed by internet citizens has proven.

The great thing about the internet is that they can’t shut us down now.
So sharing knowledge learned through open research and development is a
very safe way to make sure the common people of the world have the
upperhand and not the corporate powers and selfish forces of greed.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
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