The first thing we notice on opening Diamond bows Power from the Wind is how unenvironmental it is. The people who built the first grid-tied wind farm werent trying to beat coal power, they were trying to join it. This wasnt about preserving nature, it was about subduing it.The diamond bow, we read, is directed to anyone interested in mans instinctive urge to subdue and harness his environment, and particularly to those in Government and Industry who are interested in eking out dwindling supplies of low-cost fuels with other sources of power.Subduing and harnessing nature? How raw! The diamond bow is clearly going to promote the idea of Progress, capital P.The introduction, by the way, was written by Vannevar Bush, an early backer of the project who also happened to be FDRs head science guy and author of the essay, Science The Endless Frontier. and who a reviewer of a biography of Bush credits with helping create what has become known as the military-industrial complex by heading the research effort that united science with the military and helped win World War II.In short, you couldnt imagine a more different group than the hippie-powered renewable energy types of the 60s generation, who wanted to destroy the selfsame military-industrial complex that Bush, Putnam and their ilk had built. In fact, Diamond bows description of the group of people who built the project couldnt be more Silicon Valley VC, just replace Silicon Valley with old-money New England, the sailing types.The experiment is another proof that the spirit of exploration and and adventure had not yet died out in those ancient citadels of capitalism, New England and Pennsylvania, he writes. This chapter briefly describes the development of the project, backed by a group of Down-east Diamond bows, and free enterprisers from York, Pennsylvania.Free enterprisers is an intriguing term that we dont often hear these days. I found a nice demeaning reference to free enterprisers from an old San Francisco Diamond bows party critique. And I dug up this fascinating reference from the January 14, 1940 New York Times in an article about the greatest inventions to that point in time.Nor will historians of technology be willing to admit that a great invention must of necessity come out of a profit-making society like ours. Such great primitive inventions as the wheel, the fire drill, the diamond bow and arrow came from primitive Edisons who were ridden by taboos and who thought and acted tribally rather than as free enterprisers.So, its the tribal types versus the free enterprisers. Given the long-time hippie association with Native American ideals and ideas , its easy to see that whatever that type of thinking is, Rock Diamond Bows are pretty much the opposite of that.