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[If you look at 3 of the biggest employers in America—government, the medical/pharma industry, and the defense industry]

Years ago, I attended a conference hosted at one of the regional feds- imagine that!

They predicted an improving economic forecast for the beleagured area because jobs were increasing-

In the health care industry.

I instantly thought of a concept I'd come across months earlier:

Govt and health care jobs don't really grow the economy, because they don't GENERATE anything of real value.

Right then and there, I realized that the economic decline would continue.

Years later, that's proven true.

Which is why your regular admonitions to develop [rediscover?] your creativity are so important.

Too many people bitching about what's wrong but not doing anything useful.

Too much effort parroting assigned talking points.

Too many people focused on FIXING things that can't be mended.

Too many artificial, arbitrary constraints taken as givens.

The best way to "fix" a byzantine, outdated, mindless institution isn't to fix it.

The solution is to build something NEW.

With an eye towards replacement.

Not repair.

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I've been following you for years and this latest article REALLY struck a TONE... That I THINK you may HEAR as well. You offered two WATER innovations to help fix our economy.

I offer a THIRD.

our economy also has

Health Issues

Fuel Prices Rising

Food Shortages

WHAT IF... There was a technology that helped people seldom get sick, helped body's heal 3x faster, saved 50% fuel, make your OWN fuel and plants grow up to 10x FASTER?

There IS such a technology and it's MADE FROM WATER. I'm an inventor and a worldwide expert in Brown's Gas technology.

Brown's Gas is a mixture of hydrogen, oxygen and electrically expanded water (ExW). ExW is a negatively charged (electron rich) gaseous form of water (a cold plasma).

Brown's Gas can be made in every home that has access to water and electricity. It can help people heal from virtually every ailment known to man, be a catalyst to reduce fuel consumption by at least 25%, help food and medicine plants grow up to 10x faster and MUCH MORE.

Start here to learn more:

https://aquacure.life/faq/

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Another underdeveloped technology. Bucky Fuller was a proponent of this energy storage medium as well.

https://tcpermaculture.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-trompe-almost-forgotten-air.html?m=1

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I agree with all of this. So much so that I volunteer to help do something about it. I have zero expertise in these fields but I do have herculean balls and a masters degree from the machine. Aside from that, I have real self-controlled brains, which is why I'm subscribed.

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I think the water, coarsing across the outer surface of turbine would obviously cause turbine rotation, & place centripetal forces, upon rotational axis of turbine.

Could this directed energy, at axis, be drawn from, reducing any possible frictional loss & wear 'n tear, upon axle ?

Would interior water flow, reduce the rotation, due the opposing centrifugal forces ?

Or, could some balance, be found, such that would smooth out rotation, to a soundless pitch ?

Centrifugal: radial lines of vectored force, at circle periphery, moving towards center.

Centrifugal: opposite.

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Oct 17, 2023·edited Oct 17, 2023

The water wheel idea is flat out stupid.

Innumeracy at its finest.

Forget converting the kinetic energy of natural moving water to electrical energy.

Think converting gravitational potential energy to electrical energy:

We already have the Hoover dam.

Imagine blowing up the dam.

And replacing with a bunch of yahoos with water wheels in the river.

Put enough water wheels across a river, and what do you have?

The worst of both worlds:

A poorly designed dam & water wheels in vastly diminished flow.

At the Bonneville dam, I think they have installed underwater augers.

That probably adds somewhat to the output.

But not the main effect.

Desalination works.

But manufacturing fresh water?

And pumping it uphill to places like AZ?

Energy intensive.

Possibly workable on a limited scale with well run atomic fission.

Emphasis on limited scale.

Yes, a much smaller American population could fend for itself for a long time.

But blow up the population without limit, and you always exceed carrying capacity.

Of course, with the C-19 injections, overpopulation may be moot.

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Jon Rappaport. You are missing the big picture.

The only reason we are not dead is very simply because we are hard drives of the most exclusive collection available. In 1 gram of DNA they can store 7 Petabytes of Data. Data exactly like on Google Drive.

Haha. You are missing a big part of, the lie it seems. They already are using a digital system created in 1995 IEEE 802.15.4 which is the WBAN or the Body Area Network. 2005 it went online and 2012 wireless. No cell Towers required.

Technology has learned how to access the Human Biofield previously called our AURA. Wake up and know you are easily logged into and controlled as a place to store DATA. You are a NODE in their network which is why you are not DEAD yet.

Wake Up and see the truth. Sabrina @ Psienergy is the one who has exposed this.

Do your research Jon. You have not been working hard enough it seems.

Regards,

Doug

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Perhaps a brilliant person with exceptional courage will produce the needed water treatment plants and a pumping system for the good water which also generates power. If it has to be moved through pipelines - why not?

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Jon I agree.. Yes Sir.. this is a Huge Opportunity! these 2 ideas strategically located can Transform not just the physical landscape for the better but just as importantly the Commercial and financial landscape of our Nation.. It Could be Done... Absolutely.. Keep those powerful insights coming! We Can Turn this Nation around...!

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On desalination:

"Relief for Gaza’s people has been bottled up on the Egyptian side of the border as Israeli officials refuse to guarantee their forces will not bomb relief trucks out of concern they are carrying weapons. The U.S. has put strong pressure on Israel to reopen the water supply to Gaza, especially in the southern region since the influx of refugees was already stressing supplies, and today Israel did so, but observers say that without electricity and fuel, the pumping stations and the plants that take salt out of the water don’t work."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2023

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Maybe the biggest obstacles to new technologies is the government and its endless regulations. But is is just the government making regulations? No. It’s usually industry pursuing government reps to create more regulations to stifle competition.

Humans are a pretty brainy bunch overall. Finding workarounds to the human obstacles is likely more challenging than solving some of the other problems. Perhaps we could start with the regulation process. If I were to take a wild guess, it’s the area of most resistance and least enjoyable challenge to undertake.

Has anyone noticed that the term “nuclear energy” has dropped out of people’s vocabulary in the past few years? Cheaper energy is an advantage to the masses but not to TPTB. It was demonized and perhaps regulated to stifle competition to the “renewable energy” stercus tauri. By making energy scarce and expensive, we are rolling logs uphill. Maybe revisiting that mode of energy is something to bring back to the table for discussion.

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The paid for goon squad outnumber the men with brains. As long as they're compensated they will defeat the men with brains because of their numbers. What will it take for the goons to change their minds? No more paycheck.

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Great article! The Pelton Wheel (or Pelton Turbine) has been around since the 1870s. It works well in fast moving water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel

The problem is always with the state and regulations. Water rights are so tight in California and the Western USA that a landowner can't dip his feet into a stream without Fish&Game or some other kind of cop showing up to stop him.

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Jon...you know... adherence to the animal-survival-ego and the promotion of fears of all sorts that cater to that ego are what have kept humanity enslaved for millennia!!

You are very intelligent and well-intentioned!!

But even at that... you have missed some important information!!

"Desalination" is yet another profit driven distraction from the reality of water abundance!!

The earth makes water in much the same way that it makes oil (fossil fuel is bullshit)!!

https://primarywaterinstitute.org/images/index_page/PWI_magazine/Primary%20Water%20Magazine%20FINAL%205-1-23s.pdf

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I'm not an arms enthusiasts, activist yes. But when I go shooting which is rare, afterwards I feel a larger manhood that I wasn't noticing before that I have. Wow peace and power. Whenever I quantum leap like start a small business at a time when I don't even have the way to do it but it happens anyway, same thing.

Your writing has an effect on me.

Sometimes I get myself really trapped. I see no solutions, but gosh, when I can imagine just a tiny bit bigger anway and act on it, something happens. Pretty much every dang time.

I like these Private water solutions. And this whole approach you're broadcasting. There's no real reason that these types of large enterprises won't manifest with this type of excitement and win win stadegy. There are serious gains in this type of approach for everyone, no? We're Americans. We don't ask for permission for life liberty and individual pursuit of happiness. That's old world crap. This is the 21st century the last time I checked. Holy smokes

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