Astronomical Energy Resources, Value, and Lifestyles

The author points out that, because we live in a solar system, there are virtually unlimited astronomical sources of power available to us. He predicts that we will eventually have to build enormous mechanisms to gather, store, transform, use, buy, sell, revitalize, and save these cosmological energies. He insists that we will be able to make much more valuable uses of the energies like the heat of our Sun, the tidal forces our Moon produces, and the energies of motion that come from the spinning around of our Earth at 1,000 mph at the Torrid Zone, as examples, when we use these massive mechanisms. Crosby contends that if a "big lie" exists, it is that value is decreasing more and more on the Earth, and we are using up all of our resources. This is simply not true. Not only that, but the opposite is the real truth. We are lucky to have star system resources, capable of providing us with so much energy that we can make the Earth be as we want it to be, with greatly improved lifestyles for people in general. The book is a combination of essays, satires, scientific writings, and poetry. Some parts of it are literal, and some are symbolic. It is sometimes lighthearted, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes funny, and sometimes very serious. It is a call for social action to convince others that unlimited energy resources are really available, and that gigantic mechanisms need to be built, so that we can have lifestyles that are possible because of what we have been given in the form of the cosmos we are part of. Big problems and hopes require big solutions. Size matters when it comes to making terrestrial as well as extraterrestrial forces we receive more useful. Crosby asserts that the writings about scientific theories can be verified using computer models and scientific techniques, and if someone wants to prove it for oneself, one can use the same methods, and will reach the same conclusions ? simple basic engineering, but on a tremendously large scale. The book also confronts the problems and solutions related to "the meaning of value". Simple: using enormous mechanisms, astronomical energy value will be transformed into ?real world? or business energy value as a product which will be represented as monetary value. Having the availability of such a tremendous quantity of such a valuable product will provide working people with a much, much higher quality of life, liberty, happiness, and upward economic opportunity. People in general will use more money and energy to produce many more goods and provide many more services. It describes the impact that so much new wealth will have on things like aging, economics, foreign relations, medicine, disease, mental disorders, qualities of lives, national politics, and social needs, for examples. The poor, the rich, and everyone in between will benefit. There will be a steadily growing economy, without uncontrollable and catastrophic ?ups and downs?, resulting in a steadily growing tax base for governments, providing for more social needs in better ways. It predicts the beginning of a new Age of Reason and Improvement.