Marc,
I thank you for a serious review of my essay. Your comments below show more than a perfunctory look:
"You seem to put a lot of hope in future scientific breakthroughs based on modifying the natural structure of atoms and subatomic particles: making atoms donate more electrons to boost the conductivity of the electrical grid (p.5), exploiting an hypothetical sub-quark level of structure (p.6), compacting the atoms in an astronaut body to shrink it in order to offer better resistance to cosmic rays in space (p.7), modifying the structure of the H20 molecule to make snow melt in winter on the roads (p.7)... I am a bit skeptical about the likelihood of such breakthroughs, but who knows, maybe a lot of currently held physics will be overturned so that these things become possible... In science, it is always important to keep an open mind."
I did not mean to give the impression that these perceptions are genuine, but only that we need to stray from the orthodox perception with more imaginative thinking, somewhat like Einstein's fancy.
I had trouble rating with my Firefox browser and changed to Opera so I am checking those that I have read. I find that I rated yours on 5/21.
Thanks again for the attention you gave to my essay.
Best of luck.
Jim