! .... Agreed! The belief system that promotes doom, gloom and chaos is a totalitarian approach and fear mongering. It does not take into account man's intuition and survival skills are bar none. We all have a mind, brain and intellect development potential than even the best scientist can only estimate. The days of "the brain is hard wired" are a thing of the Darwinism bygone era. Neuroplasticity, positive energy and spiritually have made significant gains in the human condition that will mitigate the existential risk to mankind. H.
> On Jan 22, 2015, at 2:38 PM, J. Paul Villella <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 on Sustainability > > We have no right to dismiss Global Warming. The consequences are > so dire that if the probability of warming occurring were only .1% we still > would have to act. Furthermore the question really is whether we have to > conserve or not. As the years go by we will run out of many resources > including fossil fuels and it is imperative that we conserve them. Still > another reason is that by reducing consumption we can reduce the basic cost > of living and that will be essential at a time where poverty is everywhere. > It is imperative that we build more nuclear plants because that > is the only source of energy large enough to save us from total despair. > Solar, biomass and wind can never produce enough to satisfy our needs. > However energy sources are only competitive in terms of priority and price. > We need all of them. Some of them are much easier to finance than nuclear and > we must proceed on all fronts. We must develop all types of energy > conservation and alternate energy production in order to keep the cost and > number of nuclear plants down to a manageable level. > Geometry is the best tool for conserving energy. Cities must be > designed a square mile at a time. That square mile should be packed with > apartment houses, factories, multi-purpose buildings, a department store, and > anything else that is needed for every day life. Towns should be so designed > that “walking to work will save the earth” The construction of single family > houses should be stopped. The first step is to stop subsidizing them in any > way. Apartments will save large amounts of heating energy and the compactness > they can create will greatly reduce transportation energy. City and county > governments must assist in the formation of car pools. Apartments are the > only way of saving energy that costs nothing because we need a place to live > anyhow. > Energy saving devices such as cogeneration, comanufacturing, > combustion driven heat pumps, and solar mirrors for both power generation and > heating must be developed. Biomass gasifying and biodigestion must be > experimented with. Large amounts of biomass including fruit trees must be > planted. Cities must plant parks and streets with edible plants. It is > essential that sewage be biodigested along with other biomass and used to > make fertilizer, fuel gas, and clean water The digestion residues can > initially be used for fertilizing energy crops in order to avoid pollution > problems > There should be large farms with apartment houses on them rather > than single family houses that destroy both cropland and wilderness. > Experimental farming should develop both energy and food crops. Farm > apartment buildings are ideal places to experiment with heating, cooling, > small windmills, and solar energy. > It is imperative that city, State, and county governments get > involved in initiating large energy projects such as an energy farm or > experimental low heat apartments. A universal factory would also be a good > project. In order to do this they should work together to start and finance > such projects. It is as essential to make it easier for ordinary citizens to > form cooperatives and small corporations that would do energy or food > projects. There should be a roster in city hall of people that wish to buy > stock and help to form such projects. > > Kermit Schlansker PE [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ > > On Jan 28, 2015, at 6:47 AM, J. 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