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Free Energy Community Can Relate to Uphill Fight by Cold Fireฎ Extinguishers
by Sterling D. Allan To my friends in the Free Energy world. (In the pursuit of inexhaustible fuel source tapping devices.) I've recently composed a press release for a fire extinguisher product that can rapidly put out any fire, from oil to grease to coal to tires; and it is non-toxic, biodegradable; and it also neutralizes dangerous hydrocarbon smoke emitted from a fire. It works by an endothermic reaction to pull the heat out of the fire. It also encapsulates the fuel (which also deprives the fuel of oxygen), thus addressing all three legs of the heat-oxygen-fuel triangle. You would think Cold Fire, manufactured by Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc. (www.firefreeze.com) would be an instant success, penetrating the market in a short time. In actuality, it's been on the market ten years, and still most people have not heard of it. A Google News search pulls up just one relevant story on the product -- a TV news feature in Oklahoma on Nov. 14, 2003. Guess who the most difficult opponents are? Firemen and the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) of the United States, who define "code," and who have said Cold Fire "does not meet code." Not all fire departments have been so cold. Some have embraced the product and use it. Truth is, Cold Fire has the potential of drastically reducing the need for Fire Departments and costly fire equipment. Their resistance is about job security, not about fighting fires. It's also rooted in an arrogance that they are the experts on fire-fighting. The status quo is extremely difficult to buck on this one. After a demonstration of the product in California, the fire chief said, "water is free, and it's not my house." I creating a "sock-it-to-'em" press release, exposing the hypocrisy of their opposition. I was even composing a petition people could sign to threaten a class action suit against the NFPA. When I approached Fire Freeze Worldwide, Inc. about the press release and the idea of a possible class action suit, they requested that I tone it down. "You might win the battle but we loose the war," they said. They are close to making some fairly substantial breakthroughs with the NFPA, and do not want to perturb them. Michelin is in process of doing some thorough testing of the product for a potential contract to use the product in their facilities. The results of that will be very helpful in turning the heads of the NFPA. It was hard for me to stand down on this one. I was irate at the number of needless deaths and property damage and reckless endangerment that the NFPA and fire departments. The recent California fires could have been averted. The present "code" does not allow Fire Freeze to sell a home/ business class 10 fire extinguisher. The customer has to buy the concentrate, buy the tank, combine it themselves and pressurize it themselves. And if they are a business, they still have to have the proper number and placement of "approved" extinguishers. Yet Cold Fire is far superior to the other products. No mess, more effective, quicker, non-toxic, neutralizes the hydrocarbons in the smoke, less expensive. Furthermore, the product that the NFPA mandates for restaurants using grease is a class K fire extinguisher that is caustic. You use that extinguisher and you will be closed for days cleaning up the mess, and will have to throw out all your food. With Cold Fire, you could extinguish the grease fire, and even serve the food that the extinguisher mist landed on (though regulations of course would not allow that). The smoke would be knocked down. The customers in the restaurant could go on eating and not even know something had happened. Meanwhile, a terrorist could take the NFPA approved extinguisher and unleash it on the customers inflicting tremendous injury. It is a weapon. Point that at someone and you might as well be pointing a gun. Make you mad? It sure did me when I found out about it. Meanwhile, Fire Freeze takes it all in stride and just keeps plodding forward, making a little advance here, and another advance there. There is a lesson in this for us. First, it is a perfect metaphor to prove that just because something works does not mean people are going to be happy about it -- especially those whose livelihoods are threatened by it. Some people can see this cold fire product demonstrated right in front of them and they will not be convinced. I know of a service station where my wife grew up that burned down last year, and today I learned that they had declined to buy Cold Fire, saying they didn't need it. They could have saved their shop had they had the product on hand. The extinguisher they did have on hand did not put the fire out. Second, I think it illustrates that we are wrong to think that once we can get an awesome free energy product into the marketplace our battle will have ended. Not so. We will just be commencing another battle that will probably go on for many years, similar to what Fire Freeze has seen. Third, I think we can learn from Fire Freeze' example in not getting combative about the resistance we face. Maybe they used to be more aggressive and learned that it does not pay. They certainly are more passive now, and it seems to be paying off. They are on the verge of a major breakthrough with the NFPA. If a house is on fire, panic only makes matters worse. So also, yes, what is at stake here -- lives, property, reckless endangerment -- is as grave as can be pondered; yet a calm approach is far more likely to be productive than a wild-man furor. (???) Still, I do think that the situation calls for more than a half-hearted "excuse me, but I've got an extinguisher that can put this out." Another lesson or analogy here is the benefit of solutions being as local as possible. Cold Fire gives homes and businesses an effective means of combating fire so that they can extinguish their own fires before the fire department has had time to respond. So also, Free Energy technology enables each home or business to have its own energy generating capability, making it independent from the grid and its susceptibilities. The headiness of a fire department in being the "hero" is hard to relinquish. So also is the headiness of the petroleum and power industry in having people so reliant upon them. It's not about what is right. It's about threatening someone's control over another person. That is what is at stake here. That is what the new world we are creating will foster: individual responsibility and empowerment. See also
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