If you've been reading with me for some time, or have found me recently and are just catching up, you'll perhaps have the memory that at the age of 26 I finally escaped my addiction and found a new life. You may also remember me mentioning that I returned to get my High School Diploma. During that time, as graduation neared (it was an Adult High School), our teacher handed out a memo about writing essays for bursaries. There were three categories to enter with each category having two questions. The idea was to pick one question and write an essay about it. When I was sifting through some older files I came across them and re-read them. It is interesting to see the differences and similarities between then and now. I've decided I want to share all three with you. So today we will start the sharing process with one of those essays.
Voice Of The Future
Topic
#2: If you could make one scientific discovery in
your lifetime, what would it be, and why?
If I could make
only one scientific discovery it would be free energy. Free energy would
benefit all of mankind in many different ways. The foremost of which would be
the immediate and drastic reduction in pollution caused by the current usage of
fossil fuels to provide energy. Global warming is continuing to show its effects on a worldwide level and free energy, though not eliminating it, would
bring it to a slow crawl.
Free energy
would also destroy the monopoly that many countries and Multi-National
Corporations currently have on the world over natural gas, oil and other fossil
fuels. On an economic level, countries which formerly had no advantages or
possibilities of advancement would now have a more leveled playing field in
which to participate on a global scale. Third world countries would now be in a
position to enter the world market, creating unthought-of wealth being pumped
into the world economy. Many starving and impoverished people would now be able
to be housed, fed and employed at a much cheaper expense then possibly
imagined.
Helping to end
pollution, poverty and major wealth gaps, although admirable goals, are not the
only reasons I would desire to discover free energy. I would like to make this
discovery in an effort to allow us, as a people, to have more time to dedicate
towards further scientific advancement. To permit more resources and more
capital to be spent in the research and development of new scientific and
technological discoveries which will also, in turn, help to advance the human
race to help ensure our survival and our prosperity.
The discovery of
free energy would become, most likely, one of the greatest scientific
discoveries in history. Many people who might desire to be its discoverer might
use it to amass a large fortune for themselves, whereas I am not interested in become
rich. Rather than attempt to make a profit, I would rather share this discovery
with the whole world; freely as the energy which would be produced. The idea of
free energy has been studied and theorized for hundreds of years and to be the
discoverer would be worth far more than any financial sum.
So, if I could
make any scientific discovery it would be free energy. Not for the money, not
for the fame, not for the recognition but for the possibility to create a world
in which all humanity may have an equal footing and an equal opportunity at
prosperity; to help close the gap between the extremely poor and the extremely
wealthy; but most importantly, so that all of humanity can have a better
foothold on creating a better, more peaceful world for tomorrow.
-John Thibeau, March 1st, 2007
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