Free energy suppression

Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory claiming that there exist functional alternative energy technologies that are vastly more efficient and cost-effective than current methods of power generation; however, these "revolutionary technologies" are being held in secret and suppressed. The suppressors are usually oil companies, but can also be the government or special interest groups. Proponents of this conspiracy may also believe that governments and lobby groups are actively weakening renewable energy technologies like solar, biofuels and geothermal.[2] A mechanism commonly posited for suppressing free energy is the buying up of patents; however, the article on patents gives reasons why that would not work.

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“”What I don't get about Free Energy conspiracy theories: Amazon Would Literally Pay You A Billion Dollars To Run Their Datacenters For Free
—@SwiftOnSecurity[1]

Reasons for suppression

An interesting reason proposed by proponents for the suppression of free energy technologies[3] is that a capitalist system would crumble if the technology were introduced — essentially, because we wouldn't have to pay for oil, coal and power, nobody would ever have to pay for anything.

Even more interesting is how sunlight and air being free has yet to lead to the collapse of the capitalist system.

Cars

One version holds that the big car companies and/or oil companies conspired to promote internal combustion engines (fuelled by gas or diesel) over other better technologies. The modest version of this conspiracy theory relates to electric cars.[4] More extreme versions suggest there are ways of making cars run on water or other essentially free fuels. Inventor Stanley Mayer claimed to have invented a water-powered car and suggested his life was at risk from dark forces, but he died of a brain aneurysm. Another water-powered car inventor, Bob Boyce, supposedly "had cancer-causing agents secretly and forcibly inserted into his body in a small chip". Others ran into legal problems. Genesis World Energy/United Fuel Cell Technology announced a scheme in 2002, but its owner Patrick Kelly was convicted of theft in New Jersey in 2006, ending the scheme. Further proponents include Japanese company Genepax (as yet surviving the assassins), Filipino inventor Daniel Dingel (jailed after defrauding his partners Formosa Plastics Group), and many more. Nikola Tesla, favorite scientist of cranks, apparently had a similar idea long before, and we all know he ended up impoverished and disgraced.[5][6]

In fiction

Science fiction has explored the implications of this, most notably Star Trek and the "Culture" novels of Iain M. Banks. Both deal with societies that simultaneously developed a socialist utopia and did away with money, largely due to the introduction of technology that provided what was essentially limitless, free energy. Such an economic system is called a "post-scarcity economy," and the absence of such technology is the reason why post-scarcity economies remain in the realm of fiction. Edward Bellamy's 1888 novel Looking Backward describes a young man who falls into a deep sleep for over a century. When he awakes, it is the year 2000 and the United States has become a socialist utopia, and numerous leaps forward in technology have been made to allow for this system to flourish.[7]

In Payday 2, one contract involves stealing a fusion device for a Republican senator as the Big Oil companies are supporting the senator [8]

gollark: Some of the time it's actually just an AI designed to occasionally post memes, answer/complain about very simple questions and talk about potatOS.
gollark: Bold of you to assume I actually have a job, let alone one in which I interact with the horrors of Windows.
gollark: Download them in advance, I mean, if I actually needed to use Windows.
gollark: If I particularly wanted to I could just download multiple ISOs and select which one to use when necessary.
gollark: I can just use my phone for that, there are a bunch of apps to allow your (rooted, Android) phone to act as a USB mass storage device.

See also

References
  1. https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/860983169935437825
  2. Paul Ballonoff, Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis.
  3. http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/817102/Alien-free-energy-suppression-cover-up-Dr-Steven-Greer-UFO-disclosure-conspiracy-theory
  4. Are Electric Cars Being Suppressed?, All Time Conspiracies
  5. Nikola Tesla and the Conspiracy Against Water-Powered Cars, Zaron Burnett III, Medium, Mar 21, 2014
  6. The Truth About Water-Powered Cars: Mechanic's Diary, Popular Mechanics
  7. Looking Backward
  8. http://payday.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Oil
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