Sustainable ideas

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Birth of a Renaissance Transition to a free energy economy is vital if we are to have any hope of providing the abundance that encourages collaborative economics. If you have economically free energy, accomplishing anything else becomes far easier. If you don't have to dig up fuel, re ne it, transport it, dispense it, pay for it, carry it in a vehicle, store it in a tank or batteries, get it to the engine, power the engine, dump the polluted remains in the atmosphere, how much simpler does creating motion or electricity become? Imagine the impact of removing the cost of heating a greenhouse in the winter or the cost of transporting food thousands of miles

The true physics of sustainability is not about survival. It is about thriving in partnership with a thriving environment. This then allows us to evolve by creating

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technologies that provide access to unlimited resources and even the stars. If you don't have to carry fuel, where can you go and how fast?


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