You bring up a big point Karl and that is what the hell has the leadership of the US been doing the last 40 years? Make that 100 years. It appears to me they have been intentionally bankrupting the USA with the Federal Reserve and all the international banking outfits, Breton Woods and dragging ass in regard to energy. Hard to charge dead men with treason, but either the guys running things now are continuing the trend or if you kick them in the ass, you are sure to hit them in the back of the neck. The big problem is private industry. If this stuff works, why the hell don't they build it? Is government standing in the way?

Also, I have wondered for years if you could make energy out of air, seeing as a hydrocarbon is composed of the elements in the atmosphere.

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