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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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