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AOC has been correct in a way that is particularly infuriating to the self-proclaimed academics. She gives them individual little things they like to attack, but the big picture is spot on.

There are some techs that are far more advanced than the market implies and are locked behind patents. It isn't all "cabal" that causes these inhibitors … For example - I am designing a motor that is all air core with no ferromagnetic components. The benefit is that it will never saturate and operates on pure magnetic reflection. Why don't we see them? Because I envision it running off of 500+ volts and being switched in the range of a hundred kilohertz. Even in its small size. It also needs a unique circuit for recovering the unused energy from the coil at collapse.

Even a very basic setup requires a considerable amount of support circuitry compared to the simple cascade counter used to switch brushless DC motors with much lower voltages.

But such a motor is possible and can be particularly useful for very large electromechanical systems where hoop stresses and other such factors begin to work against ferromagnetic materials, or the motor design pushes the core to saturation or hysteresis losses.

There is a lot of stuff out there that is possible or has been done on the small scale, but there has been little push to make these things mainstream or to mobilize the manpower to use existing manufacturing methods to "get er done."

Notably, thorium reactors and other such things. There are possibly some fusion techs much farther along than we realize, but that is just my gut feeling. Dense plasma focus was a very promising field about ten years ago, and it kind of disappeared into a hole after the Navy began research on it.

There are a lot of fun things you can do with megawatt-rated powerplants that don't have any noteworthy emissions and can be fueled without the paper trail of enriched uranium. There were some ticklers that crossed ATS many years ago about underground transport networks. I got a personal anecdote that matched with those claims, and some additional ones.

The UFO sightings in Nevada and Colorado/Washington… Lights in the sky. What happens when you dump the output of a particle accelerator to atmosphere? They are using antimatter for something. The paper trail left suggested large investments into electromagnetic transport systems - which is kinda true. A continental sized particle accelerator is a fun toy.