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Daniella Plasencia

Ms. Dana Rae Vessio

English 110 Section 5BC2

12/1/17

A Fuel Free Energy Economy

The reality of having an economy where energy is free is within reach thanks to fuelless

technological advancements. Some disagree with implementing such technologies in the market

because of their initial investments and its disruptive nature on existing energy production and

distribution systems. However, many benefits can result from replacing current fuel energy

systems with fuelless.

Current energy systems using fuel are impacting the environment negatively leading to

factors that have aggravated global warming. Fuelless systems that produce emission-free energy

would help alleviate this crisis. From an objective point of view, fuelless systems should be

embraced throughout the global market because, though the initial investment to get these

systems running would be great, their long-term benefits would make up for investments by

supplying an unlimited amount of energy that can be incorporated into existing systems. Thus,

working towards making energy fuel free and available for everyone ought to be a world goal,

especially since overall energy consumption is continuously increasing.

           Fuelless energy production and delivery systems can provide unlimited power to existing

electrical systems. Fuel free energy sources utilize forces like electromagnetism to provide thrust

and electron flow, thereby eliminating the need to supply a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma fuel

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while exponentially increasing their amount of work. Yet in today’s energy market where

renewables like wind, solar, and geothermal are buzzwords (even clean nuclear is gaining

ground), fossil fuels still have the majority of control.

Non-renewable fossil fuels originate from oil, coal, and natural gas. They are gathered by

being drilled, mined, burned, or refined to produce energy (“Fossil” 1), the process of which is

destructive and generates pollution. Although we have an abundant supply of fossil fuel reserves

now, eventually they will run out (Shafiee, Shahriar, and Erkan Topal 3). This fact supports the

increase of “research into other reliable energy resources to replace fossil fuel, as they diminish;

this is mainly being driven due to the uncertainty surrounding the future supply of fossil fuels”

(3). Therefore, in the meantime it’s reasonable to work towards developing systems that can

produce energy without needing fuel.

The idea of having an energy production

system that is fuelless and allows energy to be

accessed freely was first brought forth and

proved by Nikola Tesla in the early 1900’s. Mr.

Tesla (Fig.1) invented many innovative

electrical technologies and envisioned a future

where the world would be powered wirelessly.

The Tesla coil is an example of one of his

inventions that demonstrated electricity could

be transmitted wirelessly. Many of the

Fig. 1. Nikola Tesla in front of the spiral coil electronic devices we have today, like the radio

of his high-frequency transformer (Zuzahin). and TV, work because they adapted a similar

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form of technology used in the Tesla coil (Dickerson 1). His ideas and inventions are crucial to

developing, even imagining, a system scientists and engineers can create in which energy would

be as accessible as something similar to the internet.

In recent decades, fuelless energy production and delivery systems are being explored as

a way to produce and supply an unlimited amount of energy and the results are promising. One

example of a device that produces fuelless energy is SEG Magnetics Inc.’s Spatial Effect

Generator. They explain how their fuelless generator can easily provide energy for any need. It is

small enough to fit on a coffee table and is plugged into an existing home’s electric grid to

produce 15 kilowatt hours, enough to power a home and recharge an electric car.

Fig. 2. Spatial Effect Generator.

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It works the same way a hydroelectric power dam as the prime mover with the exception

of replacing water with “free-floating electrons, which exist everywhere in nature” (“Spatial

Effect Generator”). See, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4.

Fig. 3.

   

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   Fig. 4.

Another device called the EM (Electromagnetic) Drive (Fig. 5), otherwise known as a

radio frequency resonant cavity thruster, generates thrust without requiring a propellant (Dom

Galeon 1). Electrical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “developed a simple

equivalent-circuit model for a wireless energy-transfer system via coupled magnetic resonances”

(Sanghoon et al. 1). That device was also written about in an Annals of Physics article which

discussed how this technology was efficient for mid-range energy transfer and would be useful

for many applications today (Aristeidis et al 3).

Fig. 5. Resonant Cavity Thruster.

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A similar application of wireless energy transfer using magnetic resonance is currently

available for charging cars, in a company called WiTricity. Combining the aspects of an energy

system that produces energy fuel free with being transferred wirelessly would enhance the way

we live our lives, and should be the next step for how we power all electrical devices.

Advancements in technology prove that a system can exist where energy can power electrical

devices, homes, transportation, and other means fuel free and wirelessly in the near future.

Fig. 6. WiTricity magnetic resonance energy transfer system.

Larger companies and people who have power over the energy market are against the

view of having fuelless energy systems because they generate less revenue. Nikola Tesla

experienced a similar conflict when trying to get his idea of using alternating current (AC) to

power cities instead of Thomas Edison’s initial plan of having direct current (DC) installed. The

cost of direct current was much higher for the production and transmission of energy, which

meant more money going into the pockets of investors and suppliers of the system. Tesla’s

alternating current system allowed energy to be transferred longer distances safely and cheaper

(Hymel 7). Edison ran a campaign to discourage the alternating current system from being put in

place. Another blow came to Mr. Tesla during his attempt to build a network of massive Tesla

coils that could distribute energy across great distances. Initially the project was funded by J.P.

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Morgan, but once he understood that the energy people pulled from the system could not be

metered, he took back all of the funding and used his media influence to discredit and even

smear Mr. Tesla, thus leading to the demise of the project (Schneider 2-3). Today similar

challenges arise for inventors trying to develop their fuelless technologies. The very same people

who are in the position to invest in a fuelless energy system are the ones trying to halt its

progress because it is not in their best financial interest.

Hampering these new technologies are investors trying to maximize their profits from

existing energy systems, and others challenging new progress by insisting on the complexities

and problems that may arise, such as the large initial investments to build fuelless energy

systems, constructing the new infrastructure to replace our current systems, and power struggles

that may arise if everyone has access to an unlimited supply of energy. Even though these

arguments raise financial concerns for the business tycoons and there being no plausible solution

to instantly provide fuelless energy systems that would address the needs of our planet; a serious

effort should be made to gain true understanding of why effecting this as an environmental goal

is crucial for humanity's long-term survival.

Fuel energy systems should be replaced because they are bad for the environment,

polluting the water and air, negatively impacting all life on the planet. An article from Science

Magazine stated how “annual world carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the consumption and

flaring of fossil fuels” was “implicated as the predominant cause of global climate change”

(Jeffrey et al 5). The article also mentioned how the government can help welcome a new era of

energy, so it would be economically more affordable than our current fuel systems. They

“can adopt a variety of R&D policies (usually in the form of subsidies) that would bring

down the price and improve the performance of renewables in comparison with fossil

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fuels. Second, they can raise the price of fossil fuels through carbon taxes or permits and

thereby tilt the economics toward renewables.” (8)

Even though the article focuses on the benefits of renewables, can you imagine how

much more the world would benefit environmentally and economically from a fuelless system?

Having a fuelless energy system would lead to the improvement of humanity. It would eliminate

the problem of oil spills, water pollution, air pollution, disrupting ecosystems, and hydraulic

fracturing, reduce waste production, and create new jobs. By getting government officials to

agree with the view that a fuelless energy system is better for the world, progress can be made

faster towards a reality with clean, unlimited energy in the near future.

The promotion of having a clean-energy economy was strongly supported and defended

by former president Barack Obama. He stated in an article published in Science Magazine,

“evidence is mounting that any economic strategy that ignores carbon pollution will impose

tremendous costs to the global economy and will result in fewer jobs and less economic growth

over the long term” (Obama 2). This reinforces the view of fuelless clean energy establishing a

prosperous economy for the future. Obama refers to current renewable sources of energy being

used such as solar, wind, and geothermal; a fuelless energy system drawing on electromagnetism

as aforementioned, however, is also clean and would be able to continuously produce an

unlimited amount of energy. With renewable energy, unless we develop better storage supplies,

they are restricted by factors like how strong the wind blows, or only being able to collect energy

from sunlight during the day.

Switching to an energy system that eliminates pollution and emissions is not only

phenomenal for the environment and all life on the planet, it would be a boon on a

macroeconomic level. A system producing fuelless energy would boost the economy into a new

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golden age bringing great wealth to the pockets of inventors, investors, and consumers, a win-

win situation for everyone. Spreading awareness of fuelless technologies being developed should

be taking place to inform people of the benefits that can be available in the near future, and

eliminate the view that a fuelless energy system would be negative. Sooner than later we should

be looking at an economy where energy is free for everyone.

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