On a discussion forum, opinions are there to be discussed. And when I see some that I think are wrong, I say so. The search for FE cannot be done without searching for truth, at least scientific.
I think the reasons you mention are not. The idea of believing that everything we observe is the result of an intention, of a will, of specific and simple projects of manipulators or exploiters who would like to dominate and shape the world is the basis of conspiracy theories.
Such people exist, of course, and Snowden, whom you mentioned, is one of the useful people who denounce them. But what we observe in the world is, with some exceptions, the result of a multitude of complex causes and effects that no one can control. Assuming simplistic explanations and scapegoats for any event is a refusal to exercise one's intelligence and to do the long work of analysis that is nevertheless indispensable for understanding world events.
The result is that we produce arguments of circumstances, that is to say that we invent one thing or its opposite according to the subject and the intellectual bias of the moment.
For example, one hears that if we do not have FE, it is because there are too many power and financial interests at stake that are opposed to it, inventions would be suppressed, inventors threatened, etc. etc., and not a single brilliant inventor would succeed in making his invention known, not a single brilliant physicist would succeed in making his discovery known, so powerful would be the opposing forces at play.
But why don't we say that a big company which would have a free energy machine and would spread it all over the world, would acquire an enormous power over societies and would obtain financial interests as never before in the history of humanity? We don't say this because we observe that we don't have free energy. So the same reasons with which one would explain that a company would acquire a monopoly and power if it sold free energy are used to explain that it does not sell it and wants to prevent others from selling it. This is all completely arbitrary and inconsistent.
All conspiracy theories invent simplistic causes for complex events or for simple events that have been made complex in order to make them great mysteries that will excite people. The failure of free energy is part of the second case.
Nothing is explained by distorted and oversimplified answers, so that they can be understood even by people with an IQ below 100. But these people are happy to have the impression that they understand what is presented to them as the solution to an intriguing mystery, when they do not understand anything, and they relay everywhere the lies that manipulators (like Putin) or other unintelligent people like them, have produced.
Yet there are far more manipulators around conspiracy theories, than there are in the big companies that want to make money. The free energy movement is particularly affected by this phenomenon. The failure of free energy has a simple but frustrating cause that is therefore rejected: the issue is complex and not yet solved.
- "Science" evidently does not offer the solutions we require for this particular issue so other fields must be searched simultaneously.. Epistemology being the first place to start .. (what exactly is going on with the situation at large)
- I know for a fact that you are not personally able to verify or disprove what I suggested, so why act as an authority, instead of just letting the (valid) points I made stand for others to contemplate?
- I appreciate the elaboration however, what I would suggest is that localized systems are introduced to peoples' homes instead of a centralized producer.. Centralized FE would be worse than what we have currently IMO .. At least as it is now, they need our money to buy the fuel to burn and repeatedly kill the dipole without adding a "single watt" to the power line, so "we" are "needed" in essence (it would appear), were the current infrastructure given the green light on using self oscillating systems, we'd have Orwells' 1984 in no time flat.
This is of course, all speculation, as is your comment, but I don't see another effective path of enquiry beside actually building stuff, given the absurd efforts that have already been made, and the science itself indicating that it's possible, and has been for 100+ years.
- I suspect that Character assassination / real assassination is used as a last resort these days, just about as something is about to take off - who knows to what extent the disinfo agents go to to keep things at bay .. the subliminal messaging we see put out by corporations is probably a large factor .. Myth"busters" ep on the Bedini motor for example, so obviously a plant to convince people it's all a load of Bollox and not worthy of replication ..
- I don't allow myself to be sucked into true lunacy however some of the supposed "conspiracy theories" we see floating about actually have good reason to be investigated; most of them in fact - only they are swept under the rug to be dealt with next year because of the cognitive dissonance they elicit, like the Heaviside component was some 120+ years ago now .. And look what good that did! /s
- The issue most certainly has become complex but if an Over - Unity device is possible to construct and the principles are possible to manifest in a physical design, as many have claimed to have done, then it should be SIMPLE once on paper .. simple enough anyone can build it. I realize this will fly in the face of esteemed researchers reading this, I am familiar with how much time the work takes and how expensive it is, however it is a truth, that we are trying to put screws in with a hammer, using standardized, modern approaches to these subtle and OLD problems.
Stubblefield was literally a farmer and figured out how to use the Ether to communicate with family (reportedly)
Bearden lived a life of poverty on a farm up until adolescence. Dollard lived on the streets for years.
I think if less academic people in this field had their head up their *rses, and would be more content to collaborate with "lesser minds" without acting as an authority force, we would be further ahead in this by now.