2012 in Review--2013 Free Energy Predictions

In 2012, once again, Andrea Rossi's E-Cat dominated free energy news in volume of coverage, but this year a number of other Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR -- colloquially called "cold fusion", which is probably inaccurate since "transmutation" is the likely mechanism, not "fusion") technologies rose to prominence as well, most notably Defkalion and Brillouin. Though they didn't make it into the news much, Nanospire's story of cavitation being a driver to use Zero Point Energy to facilitate the nuclear event, captured our imagination about a new prime mover for the 21st century.

As I prepared the LENR-Weekly compilation of news from around the world each week over this past year, typically around a third to a half of the 30 to 60 stories each week were about Rossi's E-Cat and Hot-Cat, with an increasing proportion being about other LENR companies, projects, and technologies; or about the field in general.

For me, and I think for the field in general, the most exciting development has been the emergence of the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP) over at http://QuantumHeat.org which seeks to replicate Francesco Celani's open source cell and make a kit that can be distributed to universities around the world to prove to academia once and for all that LENR is real and very exciting as a clean, affordable energy source for mankind. They are still in the stage of replicating, but expect to roll out kits in 2013.

Meanwhile, in academia, the most surprising, consistent news maker has been the Athanor Hydrobetatron LENR Cell of the Leopoldo Pirelli Industrial High School in Rome that has held two conferences and posted replications and improvements in the field since their debut in April. While most universities are ignoring the subject, the Pirelli High School has been showing leadership surpassing nearly anything taking place at any university worldwide, except maybe Bologna, MIT, and the University of Missouri.

2012 Not as Great as I Predicted

(Nearly verbatim repeat of what I said last year, with a few modifications.)

Just as the year prior, once again my predictions for 2012 turned out to be far too optimistic for what would unfold in the world of free energy (devices that harness energy provided freely by the wheelwork of nature), compared to what actually materialized. While there were many great advances toward the marketplace by several exotic free energy technology companies, 2012 was a let-down for me personally because I tend to think things are going to happen sooner than they do.

Progress was indeed made last year, and we definitely got closer to some of these exotic modalities emerging. Bear in mind that much took place behind the scenes -- inventors making significant breakthroughs but not wanting any coverage.

Overall, it seemed to me that some higher guidance system for the planet was saying, "You don't deserve it yet." And I said as much several times in some interview opportunities I had, such as on Gaiam TV and Coast to Coast AM.

With the economies of the world spinning into melt-down mode, I've felt an extreme urgency to help facilitate the emergence of these free energy technologies that make energy so much cheaper, portable and clean; while creating jobs, instilling hope, and fostering independence from the central powers that be.

While the solutions are so close to materializing, something seems to be holding them back.

It's as if mankind needs to go through at least a certain extent of collapse, to experience the consequences of the bad decisions we've made and priorities we've displayed in recent generations.

But like the addict, we don't have to "hit the wall" before we wake up. We can see the handwriting on the wall and wake up before losing everything. The problem is that the "denial" mode of the addict prevents them from admitting their problem until they hit the wall.

We have become addicted to acquiring frivolous stuff while trashing the planet, living for today while building debt for tomorrow, both financially as well as in terms of planetary resources.

We let our kids play violent, greedy, and lascivious computer games; and we let them watch programs that glorify these things as well; role-playing behaviors that we would never support in real life, even while subtly endorsing those behaviors by allowing them in games and entertainment.

The list of grievances against what is good and right is extensive. Does such a degenerate society deserve free energy technology?

The encouraging thing is the awakening that has been happening, both recently as well as over the long haul by the pioneers of enlightenment that have always been with us, pushing the envelope, getting us to realize what is truly important -- eternal values such as love, freedom, hope, seeing the best in each other, repentance, forgiveness, gratitude, etc. -- and promoting higher ways of seeing life: the interconnectedness of all things, the divine potential in each, the value of opposition, the power of positive thinking, not giving in to fear, etc.

Yes, we should continue to do what we can to help free energy technologies emerge, but we also need patience to realize that there is an element of timing to coincide with the maturation or metamorphosis of society.