reviewingthewheel

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Electrolysis is the process of passing an electrical current through water to which has been added a medium to make the water electrically conductive rather than electrically resistant resulting in a degree of separation of the water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen.

The derived hydrogen and oxygen are then available as energy sources.

This has long been known. Almost as long as it has been known that electricity can be used as an energy source. Specifically with regard to an energy source that can drive a motor.

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It has long been known that motors by definition turn things around. Like wheels.

That turning wheels are useful has long been known. Long before the utility of electricity for turning wheels, water was revealed as useful in turning wheels. Wheels with cogs of buckets placed in streams of water were turned by the weight of water filling the buckets. Gravity took it from there. As gravity took the weighted buckets down and emptied them, the emptied buckets were carried aloft to be filled again, to fall again, on and on as long as the stream of water flowed. Some place fitting along the wheel’s axle a tool could be placed to provide a function as long as the function was needed or as long as the stream flowed.

A grinder could be placed on the axle to mill grain. Or run looms. Or run entire textile mills. Or saws.

Instead of a wheel directly turning a tool, one could place another wheel on the axle. A belt on the second wheel could be attached to another wheel higher up stream. If seats were placed on the belt, the belt could be used to actually carry loads, people for example, or bags of ground grain.

Thus, one of the things that gravity could be used for was the opposite of gravity’s nature. Gravity could be fooled into lifting loads. With development of cogs on a wheel system, gravity could be used to carry loads horizontally and in a direction ninety degrees or so from the direction of the falling stream source of gravitational force.

How long must this kind of wheel been used before someone determined how to put four wheels on two axles and suspend a load between the two axles, making a wagon.

The wagon could harness, as it were, the force of gravity and enable loads on the wagon to travel down hill. Look ma, no stream.

How long must people have carried loads down hill exulting in their freedom from the necessity of carrying the loads down hill themselves before someone discovered that an external force such as a mule could be harnessed to carry loads up hill. Hey, look again, ma. No stream.

How long must people have used mules, maybe pulling wagons, to pull loads uphill before someone discovered that a water wheel with a band turning on the water wheel rotor and connected at an upstream, uphill, distant point to another wheel could be persuaded to pull loads upstream with the band strung between the two wheels.

How long must people have used variations on methods of carrying loads in every conceivable direction?

Then, suddenly, well, not quite so suddenly, rivers were dammed and the water wheel became giant pipes of water that turned, not water wheels, well yes, water wheels but the water wheelS were giant turbines whose turning produced not a physical rotation power but, storable, transportable, electricity that could simultaneously power hundreds, even thousands of little systems of loads. Loads of many kinds. Motors, machines, electrical current for heating, cooling, printers, production, automobiles, computers, on and on and on. Cars, trucks, trains, boats could be powered by electricity. Generation plants along the rivers could create the electricity needed to carry loads and light the way.

Then, just as suddenly, falling rivers were not enough. Fossil fuels were used to satisfy the ever growing need for electricity.

Long before we reached that point, however, that point where fossil fuels began to be the source of electricity, the internal combustion engine had known one of its major sources of fuel was fossil fuel and plants indeed that would never live long enough to die to a future of fossildom. Trees have been burned for heat, for steam engines, to the degree that a ravenous and clouding population of greedy humans had depleted a giant portion of american forests for fuel and another great portion had been consumed to write about their conquests over nature.

What might generally be considered a logical progress became an endemic, epidemic, and residual disease of greed for power, power over consumers by business-government and power over nature by the cold and comfort seeking muck makers and muck rakers.

Finally, a few decades into the twentieth century, progress made an unfortunate route change toward a destination, the same destination, consonant with destructive greed and disguised often as philanthropy.

The singular moment of crisis was the destruction of the plans and hopes of Ford and Edison. These inventors wanted to create a light weight car that would continue and expand the popularity of electricity as a driving force for automobiles. The plans, materials, designs, and laboratory were completely demolished by sabotage.

Could this sabotage have been executed by General Motors? Yes, the same avaricious General Motors that a little later managed to remove the electric streetcar from the cities of america and replace them with death dealing buses run on fossil fuels. Yes, GM buses.

This episode in american history is outstanding for polishing the technique of turning good names into bad names and propagandizing the american public further along the dumb down road paved with name calling.

Upton Sinclair was the author of Oil which in 2007 became the movie “There Will Be Blood.” Sinclair was also the runner up in two efforts to become governor of California. In a foretaste of Nixonian dirty tricks, the enemies of Sinclair tried to ensure his name was never used without the tag of ’socialist’ nailed on.

Less than a century later we are facing the destruction of a run amok climate driven mad by the atmosphere’s ingestion of carbon fuels.

Just as we realize we have, without expecting miracles, irreversibly altered our future, we realize that all along we could have been running our cars on water. It is not a pipe dream. It is a reality. It has always been a reality. Curious people would love to know how many discoverers and developers of that reality have been shut up with slaughter or pay off. Knowing now how serious and deadly are the purveyors of poisons we can imagine a lot of cost cutting upped the number of slaughters and diminished the number and amounts of pay offs. We will never know. Who would reveal such statistics?

For years dreams have settled on me of oceans and atmosphere being rapidly destroyed. I have seen in those dreams etch a sketch type patterns of giant oil carriers crossing the oceans laden with oil destined to drive humans crazy with lead intake and driving frenzy. In the dreams the continual and driving question always resounded. Why don’t they use for fuel the ocean they are floating on?

Those dreams now are real. So is the question still resounding. Louder and louder and louder as we dream now of the time when the fruition of frustration comes and, in accordance with the New Testament’s apocalyptic prophecy, life becoming so bad that we cry for the rocks to fall on us and kill us.

We who once amazed ourselves with consideration of the human rise to ruling the planet now cry for the sadness and futility of the human demise. We, those of us not distracted by the silliness of television, the nonsense bleating of the media to trying numb talk us to death, those of us not in a catatonic state of Denial thumbing our rosaries of ill-supposed heroes, we cry over the irony of our demise and we try to save a planet that scientists told us five years ago that we were crossing a line beyond which the planet could not possibly be saved.

So shall we indict for crimes against humanity the governments and corporations that have brought us to ruin concentrating on filling their pockets rather than planning and legislating a healthy populace and future?

No, indict yourself, america. You bought the stock with no concern but a profit. You let yourself be propagandized into early senility by refusing to exercise your brain in learning how to know the truth, by letting statues and icons of lies seed your euphemisms into the inability to remember what the euphemisms originally represented. Certainly you older ‘investors’ remember making large profits on tobacco stocks.