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Kermit,
There should be a roster in city hall ofpeople that wish to buy stock and help
to form such projects.
We tried that here in Ellsworth, ME, USA. The town couldn't handle the
prospect of municipal liability being involved in private projects.
Stephen
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From: Kermit Schlansker <[email protected]>
To: gasification <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 10:05 am
Subject: [Gasification] sustainability
Ideas onSustainability
We have no right to dismiss GlobalWarming. The consequences are so
dire that if the probability of warming occurringwere only .1% we still would
have to act. Furthermore the question really iswhether we have to conserve or
not. As the years go by we will run out of manyresources including fossil fuels
and it is imperative that we conserve them.Still another reason is that by
reducing consumption we can reduce the basiccost of living and that will be
essential at a time where poverty iseverywhere.
It isimperative that we build more nuclear plants because that is
the only source ofenergy large enough to save us from total despair. Solar,
biomass and wind cannever produce enough to satisfy our needs. However energy
sources are onlycompetitive in terms of priority and price. We need all of
them. Some of themare much easier to finance than nuclear and we must proceed
on all fronts. Wemust develop all types of energy conservation and alternate
energy productionin order to keep the cost and number of nuclear plants down to
a manageablelevel.
Geometryis the best tool for conserving energy. Cities must be
designed a square mileat a time. That square mile should be packed with
apartment houses, factories,multi-purpose buildings, a department store, and
anything else that is neededfor every day life. Towns should be so designed
that “walking to work will savethe earth” The construction of single family
houses should be stopped. Thefirst step is to stop subsidizing them in any way.
Apartments will save largeamounts of heating energy and the compactness they
can create will greatlyreduce transportation energy. City and county
governments must assist in theformation of car pools. Apartments are the only
way of saving energy that costsnothing because we need a place to live anyhow.
Energysaving devices such as cogeneration, comanufacturing,
combustion driven heatpumps, and solar mirrors for both power generation and
heating must bedeveloped. Biomass gasifying and biodigestion must be
experimented with. Largeamounts of biomass including fruit trees must be
planted. Cities must plantparks and streets with edible plants. It is essential
that sewage bebiodigested along with other biomass and used to make fertilizer,
fuel gas, andclean water The digestion residues can initially be used for
fertilizing energycrops in order to avoid pollution problems
There shouldbe large farms with apartment houses on them rather than
single family housesthat destroy both cropland and wilderness. Experimental
farming should developboth energy and food crops. Farm apartment buildings are
ideal places toexperiment with heating, cooling, small windmills, and solar
energy.
It isimperative that city, State, and county governments get
involved in initiating largeenergy projects such as an energy farm or
experimental low heat apartments. Auniversal factory would also be a good
project. In order to do this they shouldwork together to start and finance such
projects. It is as essential to make iteasier for ordinary citizens to form
cooperatives and small corporations thatwould do energy or food projects. There
should be a roster in city hall ofpeople that wish to buy stock and help to
form such projects.
Kermit Schlansker PE [email protected]
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