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Seems your German Socialism is showing through. Top down never works. EVER.
It kills ingenuity/inventiveness/incentive. 10,000 individual farmsteads
working solutions for their own particular resource mix provide synergistic
solutions never before would have been considered in the beaurocratic
nightmaare of top down dictates. PYROLYSIS would have been outlawed before the
first puff of smoke was emitted. The Universe of Creativeness depends on
freedom of the individual to do and fail and try again, not to march lockstep
into the doom of conformity to one overlord's idea of the "RIGHT WAY".
On Thursday, January 22, 2015 8:51 AM, Kermit Schlansker
<[email protected]> wrote:
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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