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Grassroots Push for New Energy

How much has changed in ten years?
Reprinted with permission from Atlantis Rising magazine May 2004
by Jeane Manning

One night a decade ago, I was in Calgary’s Centre for Positive Living. The conference room was packed with well-dressed men and women who each cheerfully paid $35 to hear an American space scientist talk about his latest book. The author, Brian O’Leary, had earned a Ph.D. in astronomy and now held their rapt attention with anecdotes of his odyssey. He’d journeyed from the excitement of the NASA astronaut program in the 1960s and teaching physics in Ivy League universities to Exploring Inner and Outer Space – the title of one of his books.

The audience’s mood shifted, however, when O’Leary said that independent inventors and theorists proved it’s possible to tap the underlying “zero-point energy” of the space that surrounds us, for generation of electricity. He asked rhetorically, “Wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have to drill for oil anymore?”

Silence. Bewilderment.
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