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1.Question:
What does it mean to AFFIRM an increase in the production of energy?

We argue that policy makers do not pay attention to the science of energy and held captive to short-term results. 

In response to the paradox of the resolution, we thus ask: Might infinite energy be possible? 

2. Hypothesis

Anna and I affirm the possibility of infinite energy.

Our argument will be that the affirmation of infinite energy is the ONLY TRULY AFFIRMATIVE response to this year’s call for debates about energy policy.  

Butler 9. “Ronell as Gay Scientist,” Reading Ronell, edited by Diane Davis. University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago. 22.
 

3. Prediction

A. A new Gay Science is on the horizon. 

Nietzsche_1882. Beyond Good and Evil. Aphorism 42. 

B. Today, zero-point energy functions as a kind of Gay Science.

C. Debate is our laboratory.
We predict that embracing zero-point energy can foster a new politics that liberates science from the short-term, results-oriented demands of the status quo. We think that debate itself is the best-suited laboratory for our experiment...

4. Procedure

We choose to step outside the monological outlook of traditional science and, rather, to address and AFFIRM the unknown and the yet-to-be-discovered about the world. 

The Gay Science is a FUNDAMENTALLY a thinking of affirmation.

Butler 9. “Ronell as Gay Scientist,” Reading Ronell, edited by Diane Davis. University of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago. 24. 

5. Test

For now, let’s consider what zero-point energy could be. Now, before you pull out your “zero point can’t do that” cards, please remember, this is an EXPERIMENT. 

6. Analysis

A. First, we should resist the temptation to have our craft held hostage to a politics that demands short-term results to assuage the fear of short-term catastrophe; and instead we should embrace a future that remains open and contingent.
Gere2004 (Charlie Gere [School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London]; “Breaking the Time Barrier”, Culture and Organization, 10; 53-60.

B. This politics can radically move us away from the logics of fear and hope that paralyze our current thinking about what can be possible.

McManus2011 (Susan [Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen's University, Belfast]; “Hope, Fear, and the Politics of Affective Agency,” Theory & Event 14.4)

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Framework Cards
Lampert, Laurence 2004 Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Idiana university-Purdue University Indianapolis Nietzsche's Task: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil pgs. 95-6

Section 42 In section 42, Nietzsche “baptizes” the new genus of philosophers
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the German version entitled Versuche and which trace their experimental method by Montaigne.  

And, the Neg’s interpretation of fairness destroys debate – you should reject it
Foucault1984 (“Polemics, Politics, and Problematizations”, Interview with Paul Rabinow, http://foucault.info/foucault/interview.html)

In the serious play of questions and answers, in the work of reciprocal elucidation
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were the real consequences of a polemic attitude whose effects ordinarily remain suspended.

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no ambivalence towards testing leads to the worst atrocities.
Ronell2005 (Avital Ronell Prof of German, comparative lit, and English @ NYU; The Test Drive. 5-7)

Whether you mean to prove that you can do it, or we are driven
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in modern history, a part of the will to scientific knowledge.'