Aesop Institute, a California non-profit organization, was created to explore cutting-edge approaches to energy independence, economics and education. Cheap green energy 24/7/365 is the present focus.Little publicized data (Arctic News) indicates human life on earth could face near-term extinction. Tipping points may threaten extermination within 7-15 years. Replacing 80% of fossil fuels as fast as is humanly possible - 5 years at the outside (as unlikely as that seems) may be the key to survival of ourselves and everyone we care about.New science and resulting technologies under development at AESOP Institute, prove that atmospheric heat (a huge reservoir of solar energy exceeding the potential of all of Earth's fossil fuels) can generate electric power 24/7/365 without fuel. "The thermal energy content of the atmosphere, ocean, and upper crust is estimated to be more than 10,000 times that of the world's fossil fuel reserves, making it a potentially inexhaustible reservoir of green energy" Daniel Sheehan Ph.D. University of San DiegoAfter a decade of work by Chris Hunter, Ford and Kia engines ran without fuel. Propane filled the sealed engines, acting as a refrigerant and providing the temperature differential required for the engine to run using atmospheric heat. Hunter's brilliant achievement confirmed an earlier thermodynamic analysis reflected in a U.S. Patent, presentations at four Scientific Conferences, and papers by Ken Rauen. See aesopinstitute.orgAESOP is prototyping engines that could spin generators to provide electricity 24/7/365. Some can air-condition buildings as a bonus.Fuel-free engines could provide unlimited range to hybrid and electric cars. Vehicles can become power plants when suitably parked, selling power to utilities (V2G) or powering buildings. Cars, trucks & buses could eventually pay for themselves. Parking lots can become multi-megawatt power plants.Solar and wind are intermittent. These engines open a fast path to continuous cheap green energy. Engine manufacturers, world-wide, can mass-produce millions of engines of all sizes, rapidly replacing the need for fossil fuels.A paper describing Temporal Wave Mechanics (TWM) an alternative to the Standard Model of particle physics, has been written by Ken Rauen (the inventor of several of AESOP's 24/7 fuel-free engines which modify the Second Law of Thermodynamics). TWM supplements Quantum Mechanics and parallels the 11 dimensions of String Theory through completely different processes, yet confirms Einstein. Nikola Tesla: “In this present world …a revolutionary idea or invention is hampered in its adolescence – by want of means, by selfish interests, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance. It is attacked and stifled, and passes through bitter trials and tribulations. … All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed, only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."