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Free energy suppression is a conspiracy theory that claims that energy interests (fuel companies, automotive companies, etc.) are suppressing technology that would either provide extremely cheap energy, or reduce energy usage of various things.
The free energy utopia
If free energy devices were released and sold to the public, people would pay less to nothing on their electric bills, house heating bills, and/or gasoline prices. The world would be a much better place to live.
The cost of living would be lower. This would reduce poverty worldwide. All businesses would be cheaper to start and maintain with less (or no) electric, heating, fuel bills, and low shipping and handling costs.
Greenhouses in cold unarable areas of the world (like parts of Russia) could be warmed cheaply, making farming possible. More food grown would reduce starvation and save lives.
Air pollution would also be reduced, if the free energy devices are theorized to be non-polluting.
The conspiracy
The supporters of the free energy suppression theory claim that the technology to build this utopia exists today, but that it is being suppressed.
The theory is that with free energy available, electric companies, gas heating companies, and oil companies would lose half or more of their profits. Therefore these companies donate millions of dollars to governments, bribing them to make sure the free energy devices stay out of the public market. Other tactics include buying the patent of the free energy device from the inventor or his family, suing the inventor or patent holder, and even murdering the inventor in some cases.
Based on the notion of economic principles, free energy cannot be allowed. The economic system contains three aspects, capital, goods and services. Within the aspect of capital, there are three components, currency, credit, and natural capital. Natural capital comprises of raw material and energy.
Capital is a fully controlled component of economics. Currently, all components are fully monitored and managed. An introduction of free energy into the economic equation would have the same economic effect as giving everyone access to the natural capital, which would be the destruction of the entire basis of the economic system, as currency and credit would be reduced. To theorists, this is why free energy must be suppressed.
Criticism of the theory
The main criticism of the theory is that that "free energy" is simply another name for perpetual motion, which would violate several fundamental laws of physics, in particular the laws of thermodynamics. The absence of such devices from the market is more satisfactorily explained by the fact that they do not and cannot work, and the alleged "persecution" of free energy entrepreneurs is merely the legitimate enforcement of securities laws and anti-fraud statutes.
The claim that a market economy cannot work if free energy is allowed, is contradicted by the fact that air, a necessary raw material in many processes, is already available to everyone at no cost. Furthermore, if energy were, in fact, free, then there would still be charges and costs in delivering that energy to the consumer. Moreover, according to established economic theories, the result of significantly lowered energy costs would be increased economic growth, as the costs of producing goods and services would drop.
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