Will the Threat to Life Cause Vested Interests to Support Energy Breakthroughs?
Date: Saturday, November 05, 2005 @ 18:00:52 UTC
Topic: General


Rapid melting of the arctic permafrost is an unrecognized time bomb. Huge deposits of methane, a greenhouse gas twenty times more destructive than carbon dioxide, are locked in the permafrost. Within the last five years the surface permafrost in an area in Siberia, the size of France and Germany combined, has started to melt for the first time since the last ice age, 11,000 years ago. Methane, released as "burps", could snuff all mammalian life in the arctic, according to one informed estimate, in as little as 15-25 years.

These clouds would also drift south, threatening all life on earth. Twice before in the history of the planet, roughly 55 million and 251 million years ago, methane threatened to extinguish life on earth. Present and planned efforts to slow Global Warming fall tragically short of what is needed. Every one of us may be facing a little publicized planetary emergency.

Not merely high prices and shortages, but the very hope for the survival of life on planet earth, requires an extremely rapid transition beyond dependence on oil, gas and coal. Vested interests need to recognize their most important interest is life itself, for themselves, their children and grandchildren. During WWII, our nation proved capable of producing aircraft and armament in quantities that would have been considered unbelievable a short time earlier. A similar all out effort, to develop and produce little-known breakthrough systems, such as those based on the conversion of Zero Point Energy; as well as rapid expansion of all carbon free energy technologies that can slow global warming, must become an urgent near-term priority.

Mark Goldes is Chairman & CEO of Magnetic Power Inc. in Sebastopol, California






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