The Coal-Fired Locomotive

The Coal-Fired Locomotive
Rigorous Analogy of a Coal-Fired Locomotive. Now here's an exact analogy, to assist in
understanding. Imagine a coal-fired train, and a fireman shoveling coal. He has an external
load/scatterer of energy (the fire in the firebox under the boiler). He has a primary source of
potential/energy (the coal car). No fireman in his right mind would ignite the coal in the chute of
the coal bin, to try and get some heat energy into the firebox! [That is, he would not attempt to
extract power from the source. Yet that's exactly what all we engineers are trained to do at
present.] Instead, the fireman takes out (collects) a finite amount (a shovelful) of coal (trapped
energy). Coal per se (the potential gradient) has a certain energy density per unit volume
(trapped joules per unit volume of coal) and the shovel (collector) has a certain volume.
Accordingly, the shovelful of coal contains a certain amount of trapped joules of energy. In the
fireman's shovel (the collector), the energy remains in totally trapped form, as coal not afire and
without its trapped energy being dissipated as work . [He doesn't act like a fool and ignite the
coal in the shovel either!] He then throws that shovel of coal (collected trapped energy) onto the
fire (scatterer), completely separately from the coal bin/source. He continues to repeat his
shoveling cycle, and each shovelful of coal added to the fire dissipates additional energy,
powering the load.
The Free Energy Principle
All potential gradient (trapped excess energy density) is free for the taking.23 The potential
is due to the violent VPF exchange between the vacuum and the separated bipolar charges
furnishing the source potential gradient. The energy of the entire universe is flowing through that
source potential. You can have as much of this internal VPF flux energy (potential) as you wish,
as often as you wish, so long as you don't demand current (which is power, or the rate at which
the energy is being freed and dissipated). It's really simple. You can have all the trapped energy
you wish, from any source. You cannot connect to the source and start to dissipate the energy
as power, however, without starting to close the "gate" from which your free trapped energy is
coming.
In other words, here's the iron rule: If you draw current, you kill the bipolarity gate
furnishing the potential gradient (source of energy density). In that case, you kill the
source. If you do not draw current, you do not kill the bipolarity gate and you do not shut
down the source. In that case, you can continue to "use" it and extract trapped EM
energy from it forever.