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January/February 2011 Living Now
Quantum-Leap: New Energy Inventions Can Save Our World

by Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon

Break Through Power

A series on alternative sources of energy that can transform how we power the world.

As climate changes and economic upheavals create a rough road ahead, humankind will need extraordinary help. Emerging quantum leap breakthroughs that tap into the free energy around us in the natural world can be powerful instruments for smoothing the road — or at least for improving humankind’s prospects and helping us advance toward a higher civilization.

What does energy have to do with civilization? Everything, according to the many books predicting societal chaos alongside the end of cheap oil. However, ideas and developments show that a saner future is possible as soon as the human family learns to take more responsibility for its actions.

Response-ability

Physicist and mathematician Elizabeth Rauscher earlier in her career as a science consultant was in a meeting with a group of high-ranking generals, none of whom seemed worried about the ramifications of their military decisions on ordinary people or the environment. “Gentlemen,” she finally asked, “don’t you have grandchildren?”

We have similar questions for policymakers. Why is protecting the oil industry considered a matter of national security and of higher priority than the health of the upcoming generation? And who can put a dollar value on clean air?

Fortunately, at the same time that irresponsible and reckless actions are at an extreme, people all over the globe are waking up and learning. Their increasing awareness could encourage honest conversations about the biggest changeover humankind has ever faced. The change from today’s world of power apartheid — a world divided into energy “haves and have-nots” — into a universal abundance of energy resources will be an unprecedented shift.

Don’t Underestimate People Power

We, the people, must make the clean energy revolution happen. If you think that’s impossible, Peter Lindemann, a free energy researcher, suggests looking back on how India won its independence from the British Empire. That revolution started with one man, Mohandas Gandhi, wandering around with a seemingly crazy idea that he was going to be non-cooperative with the British occupation of India. Gandhi wasn’t going to hurt anybody in the meantime — he was going to bypass the situation instead of fighting the British. Over the years he led an entire population to peacefully resist the occupation.

If someone had looked at the beginning of that movement in India and asked what the odds were of it succeeding, all the experts would have said, “Zero percent probability of success.” That is the prognosis given to us here, Lindemann told an audience at Reed College in Portland at the first New Energy Movement (NEM) public conference in 2004. “And they’re wrong, too!”

Physicist Brian O’Leary affirmed that NEM should be a social movement as well as a technological movement, because the problem it addresses is not lack of new energy technology but a combination of widespread ignorance, indifference, closed-mindedness, short-sighted politics and entrenched vested interests. Dr. Steven Greer told the same conference audience that energy breakthroughs are happening in a hundred places and there are thousands of inventors coming up with more energy-converting technologies.

Researchers such as Lindemann and Thomas Valone who have been examining new energy inventions for almost three decades are no longer concerned about whether “scientists who have a political agenda” agree that the new energy technology exists.

“At first thought we tried to prove this to the scientists and show them how the ‘laws’ of thermodynamics don’t really apply. But no matter what you show them, they won’t take it as proof. There’s no level playing field at the science level. So what we need to do is just bypass it,” says Lindemann. “The technology has been here, it has been suppressed, it’s been reinvented and it keeps coming up because the divine forces are constantly infusing the human mind with these solutions. These solutions have to do with cooperating with nature. And living on the planet in a cooperative manner.”

Lindemann concludes that aggression and competition must give way to different attitudes, starting with us as individuals.

Evolution of society must indeed come before — or at least hand-in-hand with — revolutionary energy devices and systems. A weapon-making mentality won’t see the gift of advanced energy as sacred. Instead of the weapons race, we look forward to increased peace-making efforts as humankind’s dominant choice of reaction.

The People’s World

The choice between staying wedded to polluting energy and expensive megaprojects or moving toward local energy independence profoundly affects everyone. And breakthroughs make that move possible.

Former university professor Ted C. Loder III understands the transformative potential of breakthroughs. He retired from teaching science so that he could do something even more meaningful. Much of his time now is spent investigating quantum-leap energy technologies that can change the reigning paradigm and transitional technologies that can be put into use almost immediately.

Most people have no idea of what is out there, Loder says, because all they see in the major media are people talking about solar panels, wind and biodiesel. “I think everybody in their gut realizes we aren’t going to be driving our cars on the road on solar panels or windmills and growing corn to make fuel.”

Participants in the fledgling but fast-growing New Energy Movement are talking about breakthroughs. They see that the brilliance of human inventiveness is sparking an explosion of solutions to global energy problems — solutions that when fully developed can empower local communities and individuals economically and also transform the environment.

How can you help create a welcoming culture for an energy shift? You can:

• Subscribe to a new energy publication or inform yourself online.
• Start a discussion group with positive goals.
• Help organize a New Energy Movement series of informative meetings.

Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon are coauthors of Break Through Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World. Manning is also the author of The Coming Energy Revolution and Garbon is president of the New Energy Movement. Visit www.breakthroughpower.net.