It's okay we can just use the green tech on the secret CIA moonbase. Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 29, 2017, at 7:30 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A frustrating reason why it is difficult to "use green energy" in general > is because of the secret accords between Franklin D. Rosevelt and King Faud > of Saudi Arabia just after the end of WWII, wherein, according to the BBC > documentary "Bitter Lake," the U.S. agreed to uninterrupted purchases of > Saudi oil in return for regional security in the Middle East. The U.S. Navy > has been sending masters' students to MIT to work on shipboard synthesis of > liquid diesel fuel from the carbonate in seawater since the 1970s, and the > U.S. Strategic "Petroleum" reserve stopped announcing purchases in the > 1990s when the number of oilers assigned to carrier groups and their port > fuel purchases both declined sharply. The SPR still frequently announces > sales, however. > > Google recently developed a prototype of liquid transportation fuels > synthesis from the dialysis of carbonate in seawater, which incidentally > produces large quantities of fresh water as a byproduct: > http://x.company/explorations/foghorn > > Other researchers have developed similar ways to recycle the flue exhaust > from natural gas power plants: http://bit.ly/co2-ccr > > Both of these U.S. projects stopped abruptly, supposedly because they were > not economical at the retail cost of power, and the researchers refuse to > discuss the reasons that they did not calculate the cost of their outputs > from off-peak power. I recommend efforts to encourage resumption of these > projects using discounted nighttime wind power (which as per > http://freenights.txu.com is so inexpensive as to be entirely free at > retail in Texas, where some Foundation datacenters are located) as a more > effective means of minimizing environmental impact than merely contracting > for renewable energy. > > Merkel's Germany and her neighbors in Europe have developed a vibrant > power-to-gas research and nascent industrial infrastructure which the U.S. > Department of Energy has never yet touched because of the corrupt U.S. "all > of the above" strategy of catering to fossil fuel producers because of > their political power in this political environment where unlimited amounts > of money from any source can be funneled to politicians' campaigns. If the > Bitter Lake accords are in the way of lessening environmental impact, > another approach would be to encourage national leaders to talk about how > the increasing use of non-supply limited renewables and concordant > continued decline in the price of all energy via power-to-gas and > gas-to-liquids infrastructure which is already built out in Europe and > Qatar (the Pearl GTL plant produces about 10% of Royal Dutch Shell's fuel > output) will effect geopolitical crises. I am convinced that Syria would > not have had a refugee crisis if they were producing their own fresh water > as a byproduct of Project Foghorn-style fuel from the carbon in seawater > instead of having to depend on changing weather patterns. > > The heart of the question is: can alleviating pressure of scarce energy > resources, and in turn alleviating the scarcity all of the goods and > services in the real economy that energy underpins, provide more > geopolitical security than a 70 year old secret agreement to buy peace by > uninterrupted purchases of oil? > > Another important consideration is that recycled carbon can be used for > more than just carbon neutral fuel. Researchers such as those working on > http://co2-chemistry.eu can use recycled carbon as plastic feedstock, > allowing structural plastic fiberglass composite lumber to replace most if > not almost all of the wood timber used in construction, allowing > reforestation. > > Could the Endowment be chartered to ask the same environmental > responsibility of the directors and officers of its investments? > > Best regards, > Jim Salsman > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 8:10 AM María Sefidari <msefid...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Forwading. >> >> ---------- Mensaje reenviado ---------- >> De: "María Sefidari" <msefid...@wikimedia.org> >> Fecha: 29 mar. 2017 15:06 >> Asunto: Wikimedia Foundation's commitment around our environmental impact >> Para: <wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org>, < >> wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org>, >> <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Cc: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Since early 2015, the Wikimedia Foundation has been evaluating efforts >> and engaging in discussions related to the environmental impact of the >> movement, and specifically the Foundation. 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