And that is not about some murky spiritual spheres. I'm talking literally.

To keep yourself up and running you need energy. Electricity and heat. Seems that there are no way you could obtain normal amount of energy without paying for it to some huge corporations. And usually they are a monopoly. You can't really get another power line from different independent power plant if you are not satisfied with current one.

Do we have a way to become energy independent, say, to pay for some device once and never pay for electricity anymore?

Many could ask - 'how about solar panels or wind turbines? Install one and you will get independent power source'. That's bullshit. All that 'green' stuff will not give you true independency. You will have to pay periodically for new solar panels to replace degraded ones, for degraded batteries, for replacement parts of wind turbines, etc. And you still will not have enough power for all your home appliances. Just because your backyard is not large enough for all that solar panels, wind turbines and all other crap.

But in reality, we have a technology to create a device that will give you enough power, will take no square meter of your backyard and will last long enough to keep you, your children and even grandchildren stuff running paying absolutely nothing. And we have that completely working and proven technology since 60-s.

It is RITEG. RadioIsotope ThermoElectric Generator. Don't panic. That is the most harmless thing you could imagine. Shortly, you take nuclear waste (yes, I said nuclear!), put it into stainless steel container, cover it with very thick layer of lead to stop any radiation and put it in another stainless steel container. That's all. You have a nearly monolith thing that give you heat for hundreds of years without any pollution, need for maintenance and faults. Surround it with TEGs and water pipes, bury it in your backyard, and you got enough electricity and warm water. And they even have to pay you for containing that pesky nuclear waste they constantly ask money from government for.

It could not explode, since there is no critical mass, it could not pollute, since containers will degrade longer than the fuel, it could not leak, because there is nothing to leak, it can't break, because there are no moving parts. And it give you energy constantly, day or night, cloudy or sunny, windy or steady. For centuries.

Don't even try to began whining about nuclear terrorism. First of all, this 'terrorism' thing is complete hoax. Do we know at least one case, when terrorist attack did some profit for anyone except government? No. You have an answer. Even absolutely dumb rebel will never choose this method to get his goal. Second: Do you know, that in nearly any country, if you live in the place out of reach of natural gas network, you can easily order a thing named gasholder. It is a large heavy container, that will be buried on your backyard and filled with LPG. You will have to refill it from time to time ordering a LPG tank truck. This will be the source of fuel for your heaters and stove. There will be enough gas in your gasholder to blow up nearly any building (may be excluding Forth Knox and Pentagon). Do you ever heard about a terrorist who dig out his gasholder, put it on heavy duty track platform and made explosion somwhere? No. So with RITEG. It is large, it is heavy, and unlike gasholder you have to spend months to get to the radioactive core, inevitably exposing yourself to radiation and waking alarm. Things will end even before you will find heavy duty truck platform to move your doomsday device to the target site. If some letter agency want to make dirty bomb explosion, they have a lot of simplier ways to do it.

RITEG's was very popular things for expeditions and arctic outposts. Thousands of RITEG's was made. No any accidends happened ever. In 70-s, however, RITEG production was silently cut down ( damned 70-s ). Do you know, that significant number of produced RITEG's is simply "lost"? Do you ever heard about some 'dirty bomb made from stolen/found RITEG'? No.

So, for a long time we have a technology to make the energetic independecy of individual possible. It could have been made completely safe for wide personal use, since 60-s.

But that not happened. For the reason. Energetic lead is strongest one for population. Even stronger than money. You could grow food and collect rain water, but without electricity you will be immidiately thrown out of society and your living standard will drop hard.

And so it goes.

Happy new year!