FREE ENERGY - TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
No Free Energy Lunch?
Some days back while surfing YouTube I ran across a video about an unlikely, self-taught African inventor, one Maxwell Chikumbutso, who claims to have invented a device that will convert ambient radio waves (the air around us is full of them) into usable electric energy. Using this device, he has produced and demonstrated supposedly working prototypes of TV’s, refrigerators, automobiles, motorcycles and even power stations capable of supplying power to 300 homes:
Africa’s Energy Secret - The Unlimited Range Car Big Oil Doesn’t Want You to See
I forwarded the links to these videos to a good friend whose judgment I respect, asking, “Too good to be true?”
He responded to say he thought it probably was too good to be true, and suggested that, if there was anything to it, traditional big companies in the energy sector - obviously existentially threatened by such an invention - would be all over it, seeking to buy it out and develop it for themselves. Here is my rejoinder:
I am far more cynical. Rather than watch the entire existing edifice of their worldwide energy empire be disrupted and destroyed and have to begin again from scratch to rebuild their wealth and power based on a radically new technology - a technology actually completely alien and hostile to their traditional energy technology - they would almost certainly seek to suppress this new invention and deny it to the world. The costs to them of doing otherwise would be absolutely, catastrophically too high.
In the same way that Big Pharma had no intention of allowing their vastly lucrative Covid vaccine business to be coopted by a safe, cheap, effective and readily available natural substance - vitamin D - and were prepared to do everything possible to prevent knowledge of and suppress access to this therapy, there is, IMHO, not a snowball’s chance in hell that, similarly, with the same motivations, Big Energy would not do everything possible to protect their vested interests and prevent the development and marketing of an invention that does what Chikumbutso claims his will do and, apparently, is demonstrably doing.
Yes, at first glance, Maxwell Chikumbutso's free energy claims presented in this YouTube video sound fantastic and unlikely - but he is not the first to make claims of the existence of universal ambient energy and the possibility of accessing it for practical purposes. The famous Nickolas Tesla was making similar claims a long time back:
Nikola Tesla’s Vision of Free Energy: A Beacon for Sustainable Living | by Life With Nature | Medium
My first question for Chikumbutso is, what exactly is this power source and how does it work? This is not explained in detail in the video except to say electricity is generated by the conversion of ambient "radio waves" that are everywhere all around us all the time. And, yes, off-hand, it does sound a bit like the grandiose but heretofore failed (but not dead) cold fusion claims of yesteryear.
Chikumbutso says he and his supporters have opted not to get a patent on this technology because that would amount to publishing the details of his invention to world. While this might at first glance seem suspicious, he does have a point. In the face of the unlimited funds of Big Energy, such a patent would be indefensible - especially for a small-scale inventor, who, patent notwithstanding, would simply be steamrollered by the vast money and power of Big Energy. The Big Boys, having stolen the idea, would simply say, “Sue us!” Practically speaking, the patent wouldn’t be worth the paper it was printed on. Instead of a patent, Chikumbutso is opting for the “secret” route. He claims to have built “self-destruct” mechanisms into his devices that would activate to destroy hardware and software should there be an attempt to reverse-engineer them.
What seems to me to set Chikumbutso apart from other proposed and usually dubious free energy schemes is that he, at least according to this video, has for some time now been producing and demonstrating working prototypes using his technology, including such unlikely devices as a high-performance motorcycle and a car with unlimited range. Concerning the car, he claims to have entered into a partnership with a Chinese manufacturer to produce it in that country. In other words, he hasn’t just stumbled out of his garage making unsupported, fantastic claims.
For my part, while the proof must ultimately be in the pudding, I am not prepared to dismiss out of hand any idea just because it seems outlandish compared to the status quo. The idea that there may be other as yet undiscovered sources of energy in the universe - even a virtually free source such as proposed here - is not, IMHO, so radically outside the realm of possibility as to be immediately rejected out of hand.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - William Shakespear in “Hamlet”
Obviously, what the video suggests about the massive, unimaginably disruptive impact such a technology would have on powerful, deeply entrenched existing industries and technologies is indisputably true, as is the assertion of the massive opposition to it that would come from those whose financial, power and other interests would be threatened or even demolished by such an invention. Such multi-faceted warring against new ideas that threaten vested interests is perfectly consistent with what a reasonably intelligent observer knows about the behavior of vast concentrations of wealth in the past whose primary objective has not been the wellbeing of humankind but the preservation of their wealth and privilege, their control over their fellow human beings, no matter what benefits might be denied or costs inflicted upon their victims as a result of their greed and lust for power.
The world has never been presented with a clearer example of this sort of monumental evil - this colossal intellectual, moral and spiritual corruption - than we have witnessed in recent years, continuing to this very day, in the behavior of the pharmaceutical/medical/governmental cabal, first leading up to the Covid pseudo-pandemic - the deliberate man-made creation and dissemination of a novel, highly infective virus, then during that fake pandemic the willful propagandistic terrorizing of the world's populations, the suppression of correct information about the true nature of the contagion (continuing to this very day), the massive effort (continuing to this very day) to discredit readily available, cheap, safe and effective alternative therapies - hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, vitamin D, vitamin C - and foisting and forcing upon the thus terrorized and submissive people (see Dr. Michal Nehls’ “The Indoctrinated Brain”) novel, untested, experimental, toxic and deadly pseudo "vaccines" which have failed to prevent infection or the transmission of infection and have directly killed and injured millions of people around the world.
In terms of the total impact of the Covid pseudo-pandemic, which, by readily available, cheap, safe and effective means, could have been prevented from killing the millions of people it did kill - and the expensive, toxic and deadly - and pathetically ineffective - Covid vaccines which, again, in their own right, have killed and injured millions - the combined unnecessary slaughter resulting from the Covid pseudo-pandemic and the colossal Covid vaccine swindle - along with the unimaginable, incalculable, attendant destruction of the world's wealth and productivity - arguably constitute the greatest, most destructive, best-planned and superbly executed assault on the human family ever in its history.
The perpetrators of this hellish scheme - these demons from hell - have sold their souls for money and power and have on their hands the blood of millions of their fellow beings.
I cite this example not to beat again a dead horse (I have offered such observations on this subject more than once in the past) but only to point out the evil lengths corrupt, Godless people will go to in building and protecting their wealth and power. What is best for their fellow human beings never enters into their calculations. Monsters like this will allow nothing - including any number of human lives - to stand in their way.
This calls again to mind my favorite definition of evil - what some people, in pursuit of their own selfish ends, are willing to have other people suffer.
In the case of Maxwell Chikumbutso and his purported free-energy inventions, the truth will out, just as it is still in process of doing with cold fusion. His claims are dramatic, to say the least, but his prototype devices either work to support those claims or they don't. Putting his technology to the test should be pretty easy. Since, apparently, he does have a number of working prototypes and has gone public with them, some considerable initial assessment of his claims has already taken place.
Does Chikumbutso's technology actually work? After a conclusive answer to that question is obtained, the really important question will be whether this new technology David will be able to stand up to and survive in the face of the mighty old technology Goliath deeply entrenched and arguably terminally threatened Big Energy will bring to the field of battle. Again, these defenders of the status quo will have only one concern, and it won't be the long-term benefit and blessing of their fellow human beings. It will be the preservation of their own wealth and power - whatever it takes.
But back to Chikumbutso's proposition - that the air around us is full of a virtually unlimited power source. Fantastic, to say the least. But wait... rewind the tape of history. Go back, say three hundred years, organize a focus group of citizens of that day, then provide them descriptions (not demonstrations) of the sundry technologies we take for granted today - electricity, computers, wireless, the Internet, air travel, the internal combustion engine, space flight, travel to the moon (maybe soon to Mars), nuclear energy, AI, etc. - and gage their reactions. Would they not have been as incredulous as some who have learned of Chikumbutso's claims?
And what if, in that year 1725, you had shown that focus group actual demonstrations of some of our current run-of-the-mill technologies? How would they have explained what they were seeing? How would they have reacted? They probably would have called it black magic and run screaming from the room.
Now take a leap into the metaphysical. Think for a minute of the Celestial realm many of us believe exists beyond this mortal sphere. Consider the few descriptions in scripture we have of the glorious beings who inhabit that realm - the fearsome power and indescribable glory that attends and radiates from them, their ability to pass through solid objects, walls, as Jesus did when he appeared to his disciples indoors after his resurrection, as He and other celestial beings did at the Kirtland Temple in 1833 (D&C 110) and as the Angel Moroni did when he appeared in young Joseph Smith's bedroom, then ascended out of that room up into heaven.
What technology or power, what energy source enables these exalted beings to be what they are and do what they do? Though obviously of a vastly higher order of things than the realm we inhabit, their realm is certainly not one of inexplicable magic, somehow disassociated from and independent of physical reality, but is clearly a transcendent dimension of reality associated with the knowledge and power of God himself. Describing that reality, as Paul wrote in I Corinthians 2:9, "... as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."
Though beyond our ability even to imagine what awaits those who successfully navigate the "strait and narrow way that leads to life", we believe what is promised is real and we trust in the promise.
So, back within the severe constraints of the mortal world, short of applying the necessary critical investigative processes of science that will either prove or disprove his case, why deny Maxwell Chikumbutso a fair shot and dismiss him out of hand? That, of course, is exactly what Big Energy is certain to do. It already begins. In any case, Maxwell is going to have to prove his stuff. It either works or it doesn't. Personally, I'd be delighted if he's really onto something. What a wonderful world it would be!
"The world perishes for lack of imagination" - Oscar Wilde
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