Posts Tagged ‘Consensus’

Six Tiny Utilities Buy “Scientifically Impossible” Energy

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Blacklight Power has signed a contract with Akridge in Maryland, marking the sixth utility to sign up for a mysterious form of energy that defies quantum physics. The company claims that it can create energy by lowering the energy level of hydrogen atoms to below their “ground” state. Most scientists agree that this is impossible.

But that hasn’t stopped “six utilities” from signing on for the theoretical power, (though one of the utilities; Akridge Energy LLC is apparently owned by a property company.)

In an increasingly anti-science culture, scientific consensus doesn’t count for much, but the consensus is that you can’t lower hydrogen atoms below their ground state.

Most scientists agree that this violates the laws of quantum physics.

The six utilities are going out on a limb. Or perhaps they know something we don’t:

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Gideon Rachman: Inability to prevent mass suffering and death a “dilemma for climate activists”

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I want to ask Rachman, and all the pundits who address climate politics: Do you believe the mainstream scientific consensus that climate change poses massive risks for humanity, and that urgent international action is necessary to reduce those risks?  If not, say so, clearly. If so, then it’s your fight too. You cannot stand on the sidelines.