What is science fiction?

As a writer of science fiction stories, I have often wondered what a science fiction story is. Is it pure fiction without any basis in fact, or is it a factual story that is simply ahead of its time? Many science fiction stories have opened doors to inventions and helped pave the way into the future. Of course, not all science fiction stories have become factual happenings, but stories about flying machines, under water ships, and people walking on the moon certainly were factual stories that were long ahead of their time.
I just finished writing a book called Dark Dawning. It depicts that a great earthquake will strike the mid-east nations and destroy 85% of the world’s supply. The story then goes on to show the collapse of the automobile industry,  job loss, riots, martial law, and the ultimate end of freedom in the United States. If all of that seems like fiction, it is, but it does not take a stretch to remember what an earthquake recently did to the island of Japan. 
More importantly the book, Dark Dawning, comes with a report called, The End of the Oil Age. A report was released about ten years ago that stated there was enough oil left in the earth to last about another two hundred years. That report was based on the amount of oil in the ground at the time the report was released. Which means the report is useless today.
China with its immense population of nearly three billion people has slumbered for centuries as a mysterious place with a wall around one side, and a dark foreboding rejection of the rest of the world on the other. This giant is now waking up. Although China is a communist country, it is becoming a more open society with a growing middle class. That middle class could top a billion people in the next ten years. That would give China a middle class that is three times the total population of the entire United States. This growing affluent group of people has shown a hunger for the same items as the west. Walmart and Mcdonalds have now made inroads into the mainstream of this once foreign and secretive society which did not allow such things only a few short years ago. They are now starting to import and build cars for their rising middle class. This explosion of automobiles on China’s roads along with those in the United States and the rest of the world could deplete the world’s oil supply within the next century. Yet no company or government agency is taking the drain on this natural resource seriously.
Whether people will be allowed to have a car or not when the oil runs out is the least of the problems that this will cause.  Factories will close. Airlines and shipping companies will fail. There will be no automobile industry. Unemployment will reach 85 to 90%. Riots will shake the nation like never before. And government will lose control of the country.
But there are answers. Electromagnetic pulsating power units with no moving parts must be developed. It must be an engine that will regenerate and produce electrical power when it is turned on, not use it. The engine must run indefinitely on pulsating electrical current by discharging and recharging capacitors that will energize coils and reproduce electrical current, and never need to be recharged. The weight of the engine must be no more than a few hundred pounds, and have no moving parts.
Everybody who thinks this is impossible raise your hand. The only reason you may feel that way is because it is a thought that is outside habitual thought. When Henry Ford built his first car he was not alone. Other people were trying to do the same thing. The horseless carriage was expected. People accepted the thought as possible. When the Wright brothers built the first airplane they were not alone. There were a couple of French guys that thought they built the first airplane.
A hundred years ago if you told people that it was possible to send pictures through the air, they may have burned you at the stake. For a thought to be accepted it must be first introduced into the mainstream. Then someone will say I can do that. Thomas Edison was a lonely man. Not many people believed he would succeed. He thought he could. The oil is not going to last forever. If fact, the oil is age is not going to last much longer. Electromagnetic pulsating power units with no moving parts must be developed. It is not as difficult as some may think. It simply needs the right group to see the idea and say, I can do that. Go to darkdawning.com. Download a copy of the book and a get a free copy of The End of The Oil Age. It gives some insights into how we think and move forward.