This is really interesting, I thought of Alan B.
- But want to share it with everyone, Miniture Tesla Tower for wireless transmission of energy.
It demonstrates a Fluorescent lightbulb, working whilst still in the sealed packet.
Pretty amazing.

http://twitter.com/MeganRi16676384/status/1530322027277860864

This whole world was engineered to keep us slaves.

So, Hasbeen. You think that we're all masters of our own destiny?

My father came home from the army when I was 2.5 years old and deserted us when I was 3.5 years old. My deserted mum got practically no help from state or church apart from minimal child endowment and had to accept work for our keep as an unpaid housekeeper.

A role which took a healthy 10 stone mum down to less than seven and looked for all money as a walking skin and bone POW. We lived in tin shanties with dirt floors or on the street begging for pennies or raiding garbage bins for crusts.

And as you say, we did this to ourselves as masters of our destiny!

I won't say that you are willfully blind or a stupid old fool and one of those who exploit the less well off, as you live in your privileged bubble and have no concept of having to struggle for anything!

I'll leave that to others! Except to say it is blind old fools like you that endorses the current system and the exploitation of the less well off! And as stupid as, given if the average incomes were doubled, then the domestic economy would also double.

Or better yet if the paper shuffling, profit demanding middlemen were removed, the cost of living and doing business would be halved! GFY.
Alan B.

I recently added solar panels to my roof as a 4.2 KWH system that more that keep up with my current power use needs. and helped me meet cost of living needs.

Now it is reduced to a 2.1 system given I unwittingly donated half of it to charity. Were I not housebound and in a wheelchair with no wheelchair ramp, I might not have been so generous as half my panels were removed in broad daylight by a local clearly aware of my circumstances.

I might have recovered the loss via insurance, but a 25% increase in premiums meant I had to choose between making the mortgage payments, eating or the insurance premium! So I stopped paying the insurance.

If we had a more caring society and not so many, I'm all right Jack Hasbeens, the theft would not have occurred or given it has, the local community would have conducted a charity drive to replace the stolen panels. I was forced into early retirement aged 41 by a life changing spinal injury, five fractures in total. But I managed my own rehab and got myself mobile again.

Took a year! But remained unemployable at any occupation! couldn't even get a job as a real estate salesman!

Even so, looked after my aging oldies until high care needs saw them hospitalized! Cooked, cleaned and maintained the yard. drove them to all their appointments and the odd outdoors adventure/riverside picnic. Something we'd always enjoyed doing together.

A fractured hip and a refractured spine, means I'm confined to a wheelchair. I guess that Hasbeen would claim that that's what I decided I wanted? Ditto all the others in deminished circumstances through no fault of their own or indeed, via the exploitation of this nations Hasbeens and rogue employers!
Alan B.

A.C. Energy can be transmitted from tower to tower as aimed microwaves. Or via cling wrap thin superconductor graphene laid under roads and highways.

The latter being 200 times stronger than steel would all but pay for itself with highways that endured without maintenance for many decades, And as a superconductor, reduce the current transmission and distribution losses by as much as 70%. Which currently from power station to you, averages 75%.

SMR MSR thorium could be placed where the power is needed as power for this or that suburb, town or village and reticulated under roadways via cling wrap thin graphene And given this would be much more direct than the convoluted transmission system, vastly reduce power prices for domestic and industrial, users. And for the next 100 years without refueling!

Local councils could administer and maintain the system and collect such once only profit as deemed wise or necessary.
Alan B.

Can I stop crying now Alan? Come on mate, quite a few of us had it tough, but we don't assume others didn't & insult them to make ourselves feel superior.

When I was 9 I flattened out the tin from a couple of hundred of the old square 4 gallon kerosene tins. Dad clad a dirt floor tin shed he built for us to live in for a couple of years with them, while we gathered the money, & equally difficult, the materials to build most of a small house. It was pretty cold in a Bathurst winter, but we were getting somewhere.

We moved into the house at 3 & a half rooms, still waiting for the saw mill to get the timber for cladding the last 2 walls of my room. That was a cold winter, the ice used to crack off the horse rug I used as a top blanket each morning when I first moved. I didn't feel deprived, or hardly done by as most of the folk in the street were doing the same. It was tough, but we were all getting somewhere.

Unfortunately a flood did a lot of harm to quite a few there. Then the business employing dad burnt down, & I had to leave school in march in 5Th year, & get a job. Fortunately I got back the next year, but starting again was very difficult. With out a great math teacher & the Physics teacher I may not have managed it.

Every thing I have had & have now has been earned & payed for by my own effort, I have never had a hand out or assistance, other than the Commonwealth Employment Service finding me a job in the Whitsundays very quickly, when I came back from the Pacific Islands.

So you've has some tough brakes, aren't you lucky we had a welfare system to support you

I like hearing the stories about the olden days.
Makes me realise how the often difficult childhood I had in the late 70s would've been a life of luxury for you blokes.
- But I can't say I don't feel for Alan B.
A fractured hip and refractured spine confined to a wheelchair on your own with the charity mob trying to rob you, must be a tough way to end your shift..
Kinda wish I could do something nice for the bloke to make his time a littler easier.
I've been here long enough to see a few old timers not posting anymore and I'm fairly sure I know what that means.