Water Power

“Electrical charges?”

 “No – you know about D.O.R.?”

 “Deadly Orgone Radiation?”

 “Aye. It can condense around the older equipment. It’s not wise to touch the metal casing while it’s working.” Ram watches images of the reality he describes projecting between the three of them triangulated on the path as laughing festivalgoers flow around them.

 “So the Joe Cell casing can be grounded?” Mech continues.

 “It’s possible – but you can’t shield it from the matrix of belief itself; consciousness pours through everything. To do that you need to build a new matrix of aware beings who are interested enough to focus on the vision. And that’s what’s happening, or beginning to happen, here and now in the Third Millennium.”

 “What about the new Orgone technology?” asks Straw Elf. In answer, Ram takes the tower crystal from his pocket and hands it over, lighting up a smoke and passing it to Mech, who squints at the accumulator. “Beeswax?”

 “Organic resin.”

 “I’ve been working with beeswax. It’s easier with the applications I need it for.”

“Good idea.” They are shielded by a cloud of fragrant smoke as a group of riot police passes, dark glasses flashing in their direction. They smile back.

 “So do you think the Joe Cell’s worthwhile? Does it work?” Straw Elf perseveres.

 “Oh, it works all right, there’s no problem there. If you want to have a tormented life of painful disappointments and reversals, try to make it work now.”

 “What do you mean?” asks Mech.

 “Look – if you treat it as a proof of concept, then there’s no problem. You can use it as a working model from which you can proceed. But Orgone technology won’t be allowed to come to fruition yet.”

 “Why not?”

 “Because this is a primitive civilization of barbarians who are trained to avoid self examination. Without self-examination the human falls to the default setting of biological imperatives – reactive fear and the illusion of protection in the known. Such a society is not only unready for most of the new scientific concepts and technologies, it actively destroys those change-agents attempting to bring them to manifestation.” The Prince’s companions nod their agreement. “You know the saying – you don’t get steam engines until it’s steam engine time. And eye am afraid it’s still steam engine time. Few notice the fact, but even nuclear reactors are just water boiling steam engines. Almost all our functional day-to-day technology is at least half a century old and the concepts go back at least a century.

 “If you want a lot of hassles, try to make Orgone work for such a society. Or pursue, say, cold fusion.”

 “What about cold fusion?”

 “Another example of resonant technology that’s been sat on, one way or another. Do you know what happened in the original experiment that sparked the flurry of interest - that quickly disappeared from the media radar?”

 “No…”

 “That original experiment – the one they say didn’t prove cold fusion existed, that there have been conflicting reports on whether or not it can be replicated? Well – it blew a metre deep crater in the concrete floor of the lab. It worked all right.”

 “What were they trying to do?” asks Straw Elf.

 “You can tune tap water or seawater to produce rare isotopes of hydrogen – deuterium and tritium – that can create what they laughably call ‘nuclear’ fusion at relatively normal temperatures. Limitless power from water.”

 “And it’s possible?”

 “Of course. But it’s not permitted – yet. There are many ways to derive ‘free’ energy from water. Most of them will get you buried deep in shit, my friends. But if you treat them as proofs of concept and proceed from there…”

 “Are there any that we can use?”

 “Well – there is a simple system eye’ve been toying with that uses fully understood, well-known technologies that are already used all over the world. Put together, they work as a free energy device in many of the places where we live,” Ram makes a sweeping gesture that takes in the trio and the hordes around them. “And it’s water based; in the Age of Aquarius – the water bearer - we’ll be moving a lot of water around, doing the job of the natural systems we’re supplanting.

 “You know about ram pumps?” They nod. “Well, with a ram pump you can raise water using the energy of flowing water. They’re water-powered water pumps, right? Well, with new generation ram pumps, like the Glockermann pump, you can raise water from a flowing stream – or pipe – and put it in a dam up the hill or in a raised tank.