Does a Green Energy Policy Require a Next-Generation Mindset?

President-elect Barack Obama has repeatedly and admirably talked about, as part of his overall economic plan, spending 150 billion dollars over ten years to create a green energy economy in the United States. This involves wind, solar, geothermal, bio-fuels and other systems for generating clean energy in addition to conventional sources. The former are first-generation energy alternatives that rely on existing technologies or related modifications like wind turbines, photovoltaics, better batteries, and a redesigned national energy grid that can efficiently distribute solar power. Second-generation clean energy technologies, such as those proposed by the Orion Project, involve so-called “zero-point” technologies that are still under development. These latter technologies work by pulling energy directly from the vacuum of space-time all around us. Unlike mechanistic energy technology, they don’t have any sort of fuel combustion or mechanical motion. Among the proponents of this new technology are retired military scientist Tom Bearden (see his DVD on the subject). We’ve been told that the total amount of energy in a square centimeter of empty space is more than that of all the solid matter, stars, and planets for 20 thousand light years around us in all directions. This has lead me to wonder if creating a new green energy platform for the country also requires us to have a new, green mindset. Will this plan work without enhancing our overall planetary intelligence and understanding of how nature works? At recent presentations, Dr. William Tiller told the audience that he knew of several examples where advanced zero-point energy devices worked fine in a lab of the engineer who built it, but stopped worked when being tested by a group of skeptical technicians from various companies and organizations. Tiller suggested that the device itself was affected by the mind-space of the people around it. Hence, a group of skeptics could actually get the device to stop working by virtue of their doubt or cynicism.