5. Energy Production
The inefficiency of modern technology
Why are the accepted methods of producing energy so inefficient?
Far more energy in terms of fuel must be applied than is produced,
in most cases more than twice. This has up to now not been of con-
cern, as fossil fuels have been regarded as unlimited and free for the
taking, and still are by most, though there is more discussion now
of sustainability. The main argument for reducing their use is that
their consumption produces CO 2 , the principal source of global
warming.^1 A power source is now regarded as unsustainable unless,
as for example with solar panels, it is renewable; it does not take
from the Earth without giving back.
To compare the efficiency of modern technology with that of the
human body is illuminating. Walter Schauberger (Viktor's son) cal-
culated that a typical car on a journey of 1000 km (621 miles) con-
sumes as much energy as a human being uses in a whole year. In an
11 hour journey, the car has consumed one human being's annual
oxygen requirement. To replenish the oxygen consumed by the
world's motor vehicles annually requires healthy forest covering
28% of the world's land area, far more forest than our present, and
dwindling, forest cover.^2 There is alarming evidence that the
amount of free oxygen in our atmosphere is actually reducing. This
comes from an analysis of air captured in bubbles in ancient gla-
ciers in Antarctica as well as in amber.
Using the famous Hasenohrl-Einstein equation E=mc^2 , Walter
Schauberger calculated that the amount of energy stored in 1 gram of
material substance (e.g. flesh, wood, water) amounts to 25 million
kWh.^3 The challenge is how to unlock this source of energy. Viktor
Schauberger once said: 'More energy is encapsulated in every drop of
good spring water than an average power station is able to produce.'^4
Schauberger observed that Nature's methods of producing
energy were far more efficient, which led him to design implosion
machines for natural energy production in the belief that they
would solve the crisis of modern technology.
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