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  1. Orion Bailey

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    Been watching this. Its been great so far. And footage of absolute beauty.

     
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    I need to check that out. David Attenborough is amazing. Hard to believe he's 95.
     
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    The Radioactive Diamond Battery That Will Run For 28,000 Years
    It's powered by nuclear waste, but still safe for humans.

    *Edit*Whoops didn't run into the paywall the first time... Updated link https://outline.com/WJGk7a
     
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    Solar is a current whopping 3% of our energy use.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Terrible. Solar could easily power everything. Big Oil won't allow it to become mainstream
     
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    not easily, though what will be easy?

    we would need to build enough panels to cover the state of Az to power the country.
     
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    This Tiny Nuclear Reactor Can BURN Nuclear Waste
     
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    You don't need it to run everything since there are several other sources. Diversify
     
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    Actually, it would be awesome if we could send the solar power from the light side of the planet to the dark side.

    I think there is too much power loss over that distance, but it would pretty much solve this whole thing.
     
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    THERE IS TOO MUCH POWER LOSS
     
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    The Power of “Free Energy”

    Dr. Steven Greer brilliantly connects the dots by luring viewers in with credible UFO evidence and dizzying information that involves the likes of JFK and Marilyn Monroe, ultimately segueing into a radical shift that gets the audience to consider what would occur if humans had access to the kind of “free energy” that he believes powers alien spacecraft.

    The idea of the disruptive potential of free energy, which could power our world without the use of finite fossil fuels and costly electrical infrastructure makes up the bulk of the third act of the film, “The Lost Century.” And while Greer acknowledges how completely world changing it would be to have access to truly “free” energy, he also notes that it’s not actually a new idea, and gives a major nod to the innovative engineer Nikola Tesla and his potentially world changing work in the 19th century.

    While “Tesla” is now synonymous with innovative CEO Elon Musk and his electric car company (as well as his recent successful launch of a bright red roadster into space), science buffs know that Nikola Tesla was a brilliant and eccentric engineer whose experiments created a powerful form of energy that threatened the very existence of burgeoning electric monopolies. In fact, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students across the world continue to play with Tesla’s ideas — a search for “tesla coil” on video sharing platform YouTube reveals almost half a million results, many of the videos created by amateur and student engineers.

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    So, how does the science behind free energy work? The details in the film are a bit fuzzy, but Greer and other experts refer to “zero point energy,” which Mark McCandlish, military aeronautic illustrator, describes the power of such energy as: “the amount of energy in a cubic meter of space-time is 1026 power. That’s ten with 26 zeros behind it. That’s enough energy in a coffee cup to boil all the oceans of Earth completely away into steam.”

    If humans were able to access such a power source, Greer argues that we would be able to eliminate many of the problems that plague our modern world. While Greer makes clear that he’s a true believer that this energy is already available and being actively hidden by governments as a way of continuing to allow traditional energy companies and defense contractors to profit, he’s also begun work to try to create and harness this energy without waiting for the curtain to be pushed back. His latest project, Sirius Disclosure, focuses on energy technologies, and new ways of perhaps recreating the powerful energy that a few select Americans have already seen in action from top secret, alien spacecraft.

    Meanwhile, Back on Earth

    The desire to access technology from alien life forms is certainly compelling, especially given that the work and time required to take on large scale, high tech projects here on our own humble planet can be staggering at best. As recently reported by Popular Mechanics, Japanese glass makers and scientists based in the ultra dry desert conditions of the American West are hard at work on the large scale, collaborative project of creating the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), a significant feat that could influence our ability to observe and contact other life forms. As PM notes, “the giant telescope will have 10 times the resolving power of the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing distant galaxies, the birth of stars, and the compositions of exoplanet atmosphere…When it all comes together in the 2020s, the GMT will be able to resolve an object the size of a dime at 60 miles away.”

    An exciting project to be sure, but one that we earthlings will have to wait years to achieve. While one solution may be the deus ex machina of technology from outer space, another solution is the one that we’ve already known about for quite some time. Develop stronger, high quality, and accessible STEM programs in classrooms around the world, and increase our own planet’s capacity for the kind of technological innovation that can fundamentally change our society. From reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, to uniting together in unprecedented peace, the problems of our modern time could well be solved by unknown life from a far, or, with commitment and focus, we can work to unlock our own technological potential, right here, right now.

    This article originally appeared in Fort Russ News (FRN): A publication of the Center for Syncretic Studies on March 9th, 2018.
     
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    Elon Musk is an imbecile next to Nikola Tesla who advocated alternating current. Now, Nikola was a true genius.
    The tesla is a measure of magnetic flux density.
     
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    Elon is a genius where Nikola was not, though. Funding his ideas to make them possible.
     
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    Agreed, Nikola knew nothing about handling money but he sure as hell made his mark in electricity. If it weren't for him we might be using direct current for our nation's electrical needs.
     
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    Randomly came across this video that has some interesting wind energy options that are outside the norm.
     
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