About this episode
Mark McLaughlin discusses alternative energy technologies and suppression of innovations threatening established energy industries. McLaughlin examines promising energy technologies including hydrogen fuel cells, advanced solar, and unconventional power generation methods. The conversation explores claims that breakthrough energy devices have been suppressed to protect oil and coal industry interests. McLaughlin discusses inventors who claim persecution for developing technologies that could provide clean abundant energy. The discussion addresses the technical feasibility of alternative energy replacing fossil fuels and obstacles beyond mere technical challenges. McLaughlin examines economic interests invested in maintaining current energy paradigms and resistance to disruptive technologies. The broadcast explores specific alternative energy inventions and the evidence regarding their actual performance versus promotional claims. McLaughlin discusses the politics of energy and how entrenched interests shape energy policy and research funding. The conversation addresses whether alternative energy could solve environmental problems and achieve energy independence. McLaughlin examines what it would take to overcome suppression and bring revolutionary energy technologies to market.