How would you like to create a generator which creates free electric energy? Get rich beyond avarice, win the Pulitzer Prize, be a household name, be richer than the creator of Harry Potter, and never have to turn off the lights.
Just consider carefully. Think of all the well-meaning people who have been ruined by fame and fortune. It is obviously better to struggle along in genteel poverty, dutifully paying utility bills and being a good little citizen. None of us are able to handle unlimited wealth gracefully.
You would be famous overnight, and when you showed the world that it was not another one of the inventions that turn out not to work, you could go on all the talk shows and maybe get invited to the White House. You would have every major manufacturer knocking on your door with bids for the rights to mass produce the handy little gadget; all you would have to do is read the fine print on the contract presented by the highest bidder.
Money can’t buy happiness. All that glitters – or in this case sparks – is not gold. Look before you leap. Better a dry crust in a corner than cake in an all-electric palace, or something like that. You get what you pay for. Nothing is free in this life. A sucker is born every minute. A get-rich scheme only makes the one who invents it rich. All of this good advice can’t be wrong – generations have lived by it, after all.
Of course, in this case you would be the inventor. But do you want to cheat all those who would want the same energy independence? Give them all a skin disease? After all, you are already depriving the electric company, maybe a co-op of your friends and neighbors, of their rightful due for stringing all those wires and building all those majestic pylons across the hills and valleys. Have a little social responsibility, can’t you?
Pretty good either way. Either fame and fortune or fame and the gratitude of the masses. Unless there is some reason that you wouldn’t want to share the discovery with others. Perhaps the brain wave genie swore you to secrecy and you figured, heck, all you had to lose was your utility bill. Of course, then you’d have to hide the electric magic in a secure place and never discuss the details of your budget with anyone. That might be a real stress – you could never drink in public or sleep with anyone in case you talked out of turn.
Of course, we all know there is no free ride. There probably would be a catch or a fatal flaw. Maybe the free electricity is of a different sort than the expensive kind that works light bulbs and appliances. Maybe it is free because, after all, you get what you pay for. Maybe you wouldn’t be able to even give it away. It still would probably get you some media attention that you might be able to exploit in some way or other.
So the answer to the question: How would you like to create a generator which creates free electric energy? may be “I would like it a lot!” or it may be “It would have been great, but…” Like many other things that look good at first, it needs to be understood in all its ramifications.
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