I would like to express my thanks to Gail Godwin for her interesting and informative letter in Gympie Today (18 May).
A man named David Adair, who was very involved in rocketry, as a young man, learned that the United States had become involved in thorium nuclear reactor technology during the 1950s.
But when it was found that thorium could not be used to develop nuclear weapons research into this technology was discontinued.
However, David Adair continued to research thorium reactor technology: not so much as a means to generate electricity, but to provide a means of rocket propulsion.
But if thorium reactor technology can provide a safer alternative to uranium-based nuclear fission technology as a means of generating electricity, it would be foolish of us not to look into it.
With regard to solar and wind technology, though, one of the reasons this is being pursed with so much gusto could be that certain people have invested so much money into it, and stand to make so much more if wind and solar continue to be rolled out.
Another person who has contributed greatly to an alternate means of generating and transmitting electricity is Nicola Tesla.
Beginning in 1899, Tesla began his researches in Colorado into grounding the electrical energy of lightning.
He had already developed a gigantic coil which would use the way Earth is a spherical capacitor for the generating of electricity.
Later, with the financial backing of the Warburg banking family, Tesla had a tower constructed at a place called Wardencliff, on Long Island, for the wireless transmission of electricity.
Tesla’s plan was for a network of these town to bring about a potentially world-wide cheap and wireless transmission of abundant electricity.
But because there was no massive profit to be made here, the Warburgs withdrew their funding of Tesla’s initiatives, and began to personally attack Tesla and his work.
Before his death, Tesla took a room in the Hotel New Yorker.
It appears that he was intending to use the building itself as a ground and as a tower, with devices on the ceiling to transmit electricity.
However, operatives of the OSS – forerunner to the CIA – also took rooms at the Hotel New Yorker.
Upon Telsa’s death, these operatives confiscated the suitcases containing the blueprints for all of Tesla’s proposed inventions.
Had these inventions been developed, the world would be a very different and much better place at present.
But nobody would be making huge amounts of money from it.
Once again, thank you Gail, for your letter.
It seems that there are many ways to minimise the harm that is being done to our world, and make our world a better place.
But greed is bringing everything undone.
John Hermann,
Gympie.
