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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
The Earth As a Planet.
Science has shown that it is highly efficient at doing things when enough people put enough resources behind the right sorts of programs. For example, fission was discovered in 1938 and this resulted in the Manhattan Project in 1942 and the first atomic bombs in 1946. Humanity built a network of nuclear weapons capable of ending modern civilization in an afternoon should we choose to do that. Can we move as quickly to create what Buckminster Fuller called 'livingry' (as opposed to weaponry) to make our world a paradise? The first step toward this goal, should we choose it as something at least as worthwhile as weaponry and armies of death and destruction, we need to ask some simple questions to see where we stand, if our planet has enough resources to meet the needs of 8 billion people living as they please. Do we have enough resources on Earth to create a paradise on Earth in a reasonable time frame? To answer this question we need to have an idea of what's needed, and an idea of what's available. What's needed is easily identified by taking the laundry list of things purchased by the wealthiest people, and what goes into making those things, and adding up the total for 8 billion people consuming products the same way the 10 million millionaires live today. When one does this the answer is; We may have. People need primarily; (1) energy (2) water (3) food (4) wood (5) metals The major wood reserves of the planet re found in Taiga - the coniferous forest encircling the North Pole; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Di...tion_Taiga.png here is Taiga relative to the other biome's on the planet http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/...s/taigamap.gif Energy, is found in the deserts, which is also a natural locale for remotely operated solar powered industry - operated in ways that keep industry isolated from the biomes; http://www.cheshire-innovation.com/World%20Deserts.gif With abundant low cost energy we have the means to turn seawater into fresh water through desalination along with salts and we also have the means to turn fresh water sunlight and certain of the salts obtained from desalination into food using enclosed agriculture in the desert. The oceans appear to have abundant metal in deep ocean rifts http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servle...780-MS&soc=OTC We have technologies developed over the cold war to access these reserves and process them into useful forms. ENERGY The world today uses 12 trillion watts of power primarily through the combustion of 11 billion tons of fossil fuels that produce 40 billion tons of CO2. Collecting sunlight and making hydrogen from deionized water and using hydrogen in place of fossil fuels requires 17 trillion watts of collectors - base load - which means 60 trillion watts peak requiring 100,000 sq km of solar panels be placed within the 11 million sq km of deserts. Less than 1% Looking at the consumption of energy of the world's wealthiest people - the 10 million millionaires - and assuming we have 8 billion people consuming at millionaire rates - we will need 185 trillion watts of collectors located in the deserts baseload - 487 trillion watts peak requiring 810,530 sq km of solar panels. Less than 8% of the total. FOOD By Water 85.7 kg/m3 per 1 m3 of fresh water. By Area (average) 17.1 kg/m2/yr The meat-based diet differs from the vegetarian diet in that 124 kg of meat and 20.3 kg of fish are consumed per year in addition to 995 kg of plant material. For every 1 kg of high-quality animal protein produced, livestock are fed about 6 kg of plant protein. So a high quality meat diet consumes 1,739 kg of plant protien. In the conversion of plant protein to animal protein, there are 2 principal inputs or costs: 1) the direct costs of production of the harvest animal, including its feed; and 2) the indirect costs for maintaining the breeding herds. Energy is expended in livestock production systems. For example, broiler chicken production is the most efficient, with an input of 4 kcal of fuel energy for each 1 kcal of broiler protein produced. The broiler system is primarily dependent on grain. Turkey, also a grain- fed system, is next in efficiency, with a ratio of 10:1. Milk production, based on a mixture of two-thirds grain and one-third forage, is relatively efficient, with a ratio of 14:1. Both pork and egg production also depend on grain. Pork production has a ratio of 14:1, whereas egg production has a 39:1 ratio. This extra energy is included in the larger energy inputs described above. To produce the required 1,795 kg of food each year requires 20.3 m3 of fresh water made from salt water grown on 101.7 m2 per person. A total of 813,567 sq km of desert lands fed with 162.4 billion m3 of fresh water and other inputs provide this. http://www.slideshare.net/ifad/ifad-...ation-27-oct09 http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/78/3/660S WOOD The world today uses about 0.3 m3 of wood products per person per year worldwide, but the wealthiest of us use 20x this amount - 6.0 m3 of wood products per person per year. 8 billion people consuming at this higher rate totals 48 billion m3/yr or 38 billion kg/year - 38 million tons. Taiga occupies 25 million square kilometers of area and each of those square kilometers has a bioenergy conversion factor of 0.83 Joules/m2/ year which translates to 46,000 kg per square kilometer per year. This means that 826,000 sq km of these forests properly managed could provide for everyone's need for wood products to build fine homes, fine furnishings, and provide all paper and other wood products. http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_libra...d_complete.pdf http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-p...6&size=largest HARVESTING TAIGA To access these products in an environmentally sustainable way requires new technology. One approach would be hydrogen filled and fueled neutral buoyancy aircraft that had the ability to retrieve and process in the air via teleoperation from the air individual trees identified by multi-spectral scanning from orbit. HARVESTING THE OCEANS We need to survey the ocean deeps - or more likely make available data already gathered by the world's navies to appropriate geological analysis - to determine the size of the reserves available to us. Large numbers of remotely operated miniature nuclear submarines - developed for sub-surface intelligence operations - adapted to mine and transport to the surface - and partially process ores - to deliver semi-refined ores to the ocean's surface - allows us to produce enough metal ores to sustain 8 billion people at very high living standards aboard floating platforms with minimal environmental impact again using small nuclear reactors aboard these platforms . Such technology already exists http://yachtpals.com/bonhomme-richard-1959 http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/12520/?a=f This approach also makes use of our existing stockpile of nuclear fuels in a very beneficial way as well as our accumulated know-how in the seas. TRANSPORT REQUIREMENTS Each person per yer requires; 2.0 metric tons food products (and packaging) 6.0 metric tons wood products 5.0 metric tons hydrogen fuel 2.0 metric tons metal ores to maintain the lifestyle of a modern millionaire today. With adequate machinery it will take only 1.5 billion people working 60 hours per week to maintain this living standard for 8 billion people. This is nearly 50% of the world's 3.2 billion employed today. Yet nearly 1 billion are subsistence farmers whose jobs will become surperflouous when modern agriculture is applied on a large scale to the desert. Another 600 million will become unemployed in traditional extraction industries as this system grows. So, there are 1.5 billion people with skills and capabilities that can be used far more efficiently with the right investments. It will take this level of effort for five years to build all the infrastructure needed. It will take an additional five years to grow the system from a 1,500 person seed system to full scale operation. It will take five years to design and build the seed system. So, planning and logistics can take this into account as things are switched over to the vastly more efficient system. There are about 40,000 extraction companies affected, and about half a billion subsistence farms affected. The buy-in need not be arduous. A 1,500 person 'productive cell' could partner with 1,500 people employed at a company, or companies, to convert from lower productivity to higher productivity. Change the world in 15 years; +5 - design and build the seed system +5 - grow the seed system to full scale +5 - operate the full scale system to build value With 19.86 people born per 1,000 people 158.8 million are born each year. So, to sustain the working population pay and benefits allow workers to accumulate retirement in 35 years only 10.5% of the world's people need to be recruited into the primary productive system described here. 8 billion people consuming at a $125,000 per person per year rate totals $1 quadrillion per year. This is 18x what the world consumes today. The value of the capital base that makes this possible could reasonably be said to be worth 17x of the world's entire capital base today. The value of this capital base rises with each passing year as everyone accumulates more. This is a measure of the value of investing capital to create 8 billion millionaires by employing the unemployed or under-employed today more efficiently. The sustainable working population is only 10% of the world's youth, which means that 90% of the world's youth are available to exercise additional capital for other purposes organized by those who put in the original capital. Since all nations would have to agree to such wide ranging use of resources and people, we might at first blush say 50% of the benefit goes to those governments and 50% of the benefit goes to those investors who make the change possible. In this case all the world's governments would split something like $450 trillion (the USA federal government collected $2.2 trillion and spent $3.5 trillion in 2010) per year, and all the world's wealthy would collect $450 trillion per year in products and efforts called for by the private markets they create. Another $100 trillion is reinvested in wages and capital to maintain the primary system going. The creation of a highly productive system to efficiently use the world's limited resources to meet everyone's basic needs (at the millionaire level today) need not be anything more difficult to understand the organization of than say the construction of toll roads today to meet the needs of the public. The roads are constructed according to public need and approval, and those who invest in the roads collect tolls as the road is used. Same here. Something like this happened in the past. In 1908 Henry Ford opened his Model T assembly plant and revolutionized the world by simultaneously producing a car for less than $1,000 - while paying his workers $5 per day - 5x the going rate for workers! He called the $4 premium - efficiency premium - for working more efficiently with his mass production method. His workers were enriched, and so was Ford and his investors even while automobiles were made a far less expense than ever before! http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm There is no reason we cannot view the major assets of our planet and organize to use them the same way - without disrupting markets or governments - merely by taking a sane rational approach to the way things are done using the best available technology and information we have today. |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
On Nov 7, 12:22*pm, William Mook wrote:
The Earth As a Planet. Science has shown that it is highly efficient at doing things when enough people put enough resources behind the right sorts of programs. *For example, fission was discovered in 1938 and this resulted in the Manhattan Project in 1942 and the first atomic bombs in 1946. *Humanity built a network of nuclear weapons capable of ending modern civilization in an afternoon should we choose to do that. Can we move as quickly to create what Buckminster Fuller called 'livingry' (as opposed to weaponry) to make our world a paradise? The first step toward this goal, should we choose it as something at least as worthwhile as weaponry and armies of death and destruction, we need to ask some simple questions to see where we stand, if our planet has enough resources to meet the needs of 8 billion people living as they please. Do we have enough resources on Earth to create a paradise on Earth in a reasonable time frame? To answer this question we need to have an idea of what's needed, and an idea of what's available. *What's needed is easily identified by taking the laundry list of things purchased by the wealthiest people, and what goes into making those things, and adding up the total for 8 billion people consuming products the same way the 10 million millionaires live today. When one does this the answer is; We may have. People need primarily; *(1) energy *(2) water *(3) food *(4) wood *(5) metals The major wood reserves of the planet re found in Taiga - the coniferous forest encircling the North Pole; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Di...tion_Taiga.png here is Taiga relative to the other biome's on the planet http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/...iomes/taigamap... Energy, is found in the deserts, which is also a natural locale for remotely operated solar powered industry - operated in ways that keep industry isolated from the biomes; http://www.cheshire-innovation.com/World%20Deserts.gif With abundant low cost energy we have the means to turn seawater into fresh water through desalination along with salts and we also have the means to turn fresh water sunlight and certain of the salts obtained from desalination into food using enclosed agriculture in the desert. The oceans appear to have abundant metal in deep ocean rifts http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servle...d=OTC-4780-MS&.... We have technologies developed over the cold war to access these reserves and process them into useful forms. ENERGY The world today uses 12 trillion watts of power primarily through the combustion of 11 billion tons of fossil fuels that produce 40 billion tons of CO2. Collecting sunlight and making hydrogen from deionized water and using hydrogen in place of fossil fuels requires 17 trillion watts of collectors - base load - which means 60 trillion watts peak requiring 100,000 sq km of solar panels be placed within the 11 million sq km of deserts. *Less than 1% Looking at the consumption of energy of the world's wealthiest people - the 10 million millionaires - and assuming we have 8 billion people consuming at millionaire rates - we will need 185 trillion watts of collectors located in the deserts baseload - 487 trillion watts peak requiring 810,530 sq km of solar panels. *Less than 8% of the total. FOOD By Water 85.7 kg/m3 per 1 m3 of fresh water. By Area (average) 17.1 kg/m2/yr The meat-based diet differs from the vegetarian diet in that 124 kg of meat and 20.3 kg of fish are consumed per year in addition to 995 kg of plant material. *For every 1 kg of high-quality animal protein produced, livestock are fed about 6 kg of plant protein. So a high quality meat diet consumes 1,739 kg of plant protien. In the conversion of plant protein to animal protein, there are 2 principal inputs or costs: 1) the direct costs of production of the harvest animal, including its feed; and 2) the indirect costs for maintaining the breeding herds. Energy is expended in livestock production systems. For example, broiler chicken production is the most efficient, with an input of 4 kcal of fuel energy for each 1 kcal of broiler protein produced. The broiler system is primarily dependent on grain. Turkey, also a grain- fed system, is next in efficiency, with a ratio of 10:1. Milk production, based on a mixture of two-thirds grain and one-third forage, is relatively efficient, with a ratio of 14:1. Both pork and egg production also depend on grain. Pork production has a ratio of 14:1, whereas egg production has a 39:1 ratio. This extra energy is included in the larger energy inputs described above. To produce the required 1,795 kg of food each year requires 20.3 m3 of fresh water made from salt water grown on 101.7 m2 per person. *A total of 813,567 sq km of desert lands fed with 162.4 billion m3 of fresh water and other inputs provide this. http://www.slideshare.net/ifad/ifad-...full/78/3/660S WOOD The world today uses about 0.3 m3 of wood products per person per year worldwide, but the wealthiest of us use 20x this amount - 6.0 m3 of wood products per person per year. *8 billion people consuming at this higher rate totals 48 billion m3/yr or *38 billion kg/year - 38 million tons. Taiga occupies 25 million square kilometers of area and each of those square kilometers has a bioenergy conversion factor of 0.83 Joules/m2/ year which translates to 46,000 kg per square kilometer per year. This means that 826,000 sq km of these forests properly managed could provide for everyone's need for wood products to build fine homes, fine furnishings, and provide all paper and other wood products. http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_libra...20r7752n3w756&... HARVESTING TAIGA To access these products in an environmentally sustainable way requires new technology. *One approach would be hydrogen filled and fueled neutral buoyancy aircraft that had the ability to retrieve and process in the air via teleoperation from the air individual trees identified by multi-spectral scanning from orbit. HARVESTING THE OCEANS We need to survey the ocean deeps - or more likely *make available data already gathered by the world's navies to appropriate geological analysis - to determine the size of the reserves available to us. Large numbers of remotely operated miniature nuclear submarines - developed for sub-surface intelligence operations - adapted to mine and transport to the surface - and partially process ores - to deliver semi-refined ores to the ocean's surface - allows us to produce enough metal ores to sustain 8 billion people at very high living standards aboard floating platforms with minimal environmental impact again using small nuclear reactors aboard these platforms . Such technology already exists http://yachtpals.com/bonhomme-richar...ing/12520/?a=f This approach also makes use of our existing stockpile of nuclear fuels in a very beneficial way as well as our accumulated know-how in the seas. TRANSPORT REQUIREMENTS Each person per yer requires; * *2.0 metric tons food products (and packaging) * *6.0 metric tons wood products * *5.0 metric tons hydrogen fuel * *2.0 metric tons metal ores to maintain the lifestyle of a modern millionaire today. With adequate machinery it will take only 1.5 billion people working 60 hours per week to maintain this living standard for 8 billion people. *This is nearly 50% of the world's 3.2 billion employed today. *Yet nearly 1 billion are subsistence farmers whose jobs will become surperflouous when modern agriculture is applied on a large scale to the desert. *Another 600 million will become unemployed in traditional extraction industries as this system grows. * So, there are 1.5 billion people with skills and capabilities that can be used far more efficiently with the right investments. *It will take this level of effort for five years to build all the infrastructure needed. *It will take an additional five years to grow the system from a 1,500 person seed system to full scale operation. * It will take five years to design and build the seed system. *So, planning and logistics can take this into account as things are switched over to the vastly more efficient system. *There are about 40,000 extraction companies affected, and about half a billion subsistence farms affected. * The buy-in need not be arduous. *A 1,500 person 'productive cell' could partner with 1,500 people employed at a company, or companies, to convert from lower productivity to higher productivity. Change the world in 15 years; * * *+5 - design and build the seed system * * *+5 - grow the seed system to full scale * * *+5 - operate the full scale system to build value With 19.86 people born per 1,000 people 158.8 million are born each year. * So, to sustain the working population pay and benefits allow workers to accumulate retirement in 35 years only 10.5% of the world's people need to be recruited into the primary productive system described here. 8 billion people consuming at a $125,000 per person per year rate totals $1 quadrillion per year. *This is 18x what the world consumes today. *The value of the capital base that makes this possible could reasonably be said to be worth 17x of the world's entire capital base today. * The value of this capital base rises with each passing year as everyone accumulates more. This is a measure of the value of investing capital to create 8 billion millionaires by employing the unemployed or under-employed today more efficiently. *The sustainable working population is only 10% of the world's youth, which means that 90% of the world's youth are available to exercise additional capital for other purposes organized by those who put in the original capital. *Since all nations would have to agree to such wide ranging use of resources and people, we might at first blush say 50% of the benefit goes to those governments and 50% of the benefit goes to those investors who make the change possible. * In this case all the world's governments would split something like $450 trillion (the USA federal government collected $2.2 trillion and spent $3.5 trillion in 2010) per year, and all the world's wealthy would collect *$450 trillion per year in products and efforts called for by the private markets they create. Another $100 trillion is reinvested in wages and capital to maintain the primary system going. The creation of a highly productive system to efficiently use the world's limited resources to meet everyone's basic needs (at the millionaire level today) need not be anything more difficult to understand the organization of than say the construction of toll roads today to meet the needs of the public. *The roads are constructed according to public need and approval, and those who invest in the roads collect tolls as the road is used. *Same here. Something like this happened in the past. *In 1908 Henry Ford opened his Model T assembly plant and revolutionized the world by simultaneously producing a car for less than $1,000 - while paying his workers $5 per day - 5x the going rate for workers! * He called the $4 premium - efficiency premium - for working more efficiently with his mass production method. *His workers were enriched, and so was Ford and his investors even while automobiles were made a far less expense than ever before! http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm There is no reason we cannot view the major assets of our planet and organize to use them the same way - without disrupting markets or governments - merely by taking a sane rational approach to the way things are done using the best available technology and information we have today. (1) energy This "energy" is all important, because without said energy you got nothing to work with anything else. This also needs to be clean energy that's affordable, because it's of little use if the byproduct and any related process as to obtaining, storing and using whatever energy is toxic, lethal or way too spendy. Supposedly you have had multiple solutions for providing this energy, and DoE plus other Big Energy cabals haven't been interested in promoting any of them. So, what's the great all-knowing Mook plan of inaction, this time around? ~ BG |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
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This "energy" is all important, because without said energy you got nothing to work with anything else. This also needs to be clean energy that's affordable, because it's of little use if the byproduct and any related process as to obtaining, storing and using whatever energy is toxic, lethal or way too spendy. Supposedly you have had multiple solutions for providing this energy, and DoE plus other Big Energy cabals haven't been interested in promoting any of them. So, what's the great all-knowing Mook plan of inaction, this time around? In other words; where exactly do we buy this Mook clean and affordable energy, or look forward to getting from wherever? ~ BG On Nov 7, 12:22*pm, William Mook wrote: The Earth As a Planet. Science has shown that it is highly efficient at doing things when enough people put enough resources behind the right sorts of programs. *For example, fission was discovered in 1938 and this resulted in the Manhattan Project in 1942 and the first atomic bombs in 1946. *Humanity built a network of nuclear weapons capable of ending modern civilization in an afternoon should we choose to do that. Can we move as quickly to create what Buckminster Fuller called 'livingry' (as opposed to weaponry) to make our world a paradise? The first step toward this goal, should we choose it as something at least as worthwhile as weaponry and armies of death and destruction, we need to ask some simple questions to see where we stand, if our planet has enough resources to meet the needs of 8 billion people living as they please. Do we have enough resources on Earth to create a paradise on Earth in a reasonable time frame? To answer this question we need to have an idea of what's needed, and an idea of what's available. *What's needed is easily identified by taking the laundry list of things purchased by the wealthiest people, and what goes into making those things, and adding up the total for 8 billion people consuming products the same way the 10 million millionaires live today. When one does this the answer is; We may have. People need primarily; *(1) energy *(2) water *(3) food *(4) wood *(5) metals The major wood reserves of the planet re found in Taiga - the coniferous forest encircling the North Pole; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Di...tion_Taiga.png here is Taiga relative to the other biome's on the planet http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/...iomes/taigamap... Energy, is found in the deserts, which is also a natural locale for remotely operated solar powered industry - operated in ways that keep industry isolated from the biomes; http://www.cheshire-innovation.com/World%20Deserts.gif With abundant low cost energy we have the means to turn seawater into fresh water through desalination along with salts and we also have the means to turn fresh water sunlight and certain of the salts obtained from desalination into food using enclosed agriculture in the desert. The oceans appear to have abundant metal in deep ocean rifts http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servle...d=OTC-4780-MS&.... We have technologies developed over the cold war to access these reserves and process them into useful forms. ENERGY The world today uses 12 trillion watts of power primarily through the combustion of 11 billion tons of fossil fuels that produce 40 billion tons of CO2. Collecting sunlight and making hydrogen from deionized water and using hydrogen in place of fossil fuels requires 17 trillion watts of collectors - base load - which means 60 trillion watts peak requiring 100,000 sq km of solar panels be placed within the 11 million sq km of deserts. *Less than 1% Looking at the consumption of energy of the world's wealthiest people - the 10 million millionaires - and assuming we have 8 billion people consuming at millionaire rates - we will need 185 trillion watts of collectors located in the deserts baseload - 487 trillion watts peak requiring 810,530 sq km of solar panels. *Less than 8% of the total. FOOD By Water 85.7 kg/m3 per 1 m3 of fresh water. By Area (average) 17.1 kg/m2/yr The meat-based diet differs from the vegetarian diet in that 124 kg of meat and 20.3 kg of fish are consumed per year in addition to 995 kg of plant material. *For every 1 kg of high-quality animal protein produced, livestock are fed about 6 kg of plant protein. So a high quality meat diet consumes 1,739 kg of plant protien. In the conversion of plant protein to animal protein, there are 2 principal inputs or costs: 1) the direct costs of production of the harvest animal, including its feed; and 2) the indirect costs for maintaining the breeding herds. Energy is expended in livestock production systems. For example, broiler chicken production is the most efficient, with an input of 4 kcal of fuel energy for each 1 kcal of broiler protein produced. The broiler system is primarily dependent on grain. Turkey, also a grain- fed system, is next in efficiency, with a ratio of 10:1. Milk production, based on a mixture of two-thirds grain and one-third forage, is relatively efficient, with a ratio of 14:1. Both pork and egg production also depend on grain. Pork production has a ratio of 14:1, whereas egg production has a 39:1 ratio. This extra energy is included in the larger energy inputs described above. To produce the required 1,795 kg of food each year requires 20.3 m3 of fresh water made from salt water grown on 101.7 m2 per person. *A total of 813,567 sq km of desert lands fed with 162.4 billion m3 of fresh water and other inputs provide this. http://www.slideshare.net/ifad/ifad-...full/78/3/660S WOOD The world today uses about 0.3 m3 of wood products per person per year worldwide, but the wealthiest of us use 20x this amount - 6.0 m3 of wood products per person per year. *8 billion people consuming at this higher rate totals 48 billion m3/yr or *38 billion kg/year - 38 million tons. Taiga occupies 25 million square kilometers of area and each of those square kilometers has a bioenergy conversion factor of 0.83 Joules/m2/ year which translates to 46,000 kg per square kilometer per year. This means that 826,000 sq km of these forests properly managed could provide for everyone's need for wood products to build fine homes, fine furnishings, and provide all paper and other wood products. http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_libra...20r7752n3w756&... HARVESTING TAIGA To access these products in an environmentally sustainable way requires new technology. *One approach would be hydrogen filled and fueled neutral buoyancy aircraft that had the ability to retrieve and process in the air via teleoperation from the air individual trees identified by multi-spectral scanning from orbit. HARVESTING THE OCEANS We need to survey the ocean deeps - or more likely *make available data already gathered by the world's navies to appropriate geological analysis - to determine the size of the reserves available to us. Large numbers of remotely operated miniature nuclear submarines - developed for sub-surface intelligence operations - adapted to mine and transport to the surface - and partially process ores - to deliver semi-refined ores to the ocean's surface - allows us to produce enough metal ores to sustain 8 billion people at very high living standards aboard floating platforms with minimal environmental impact again using small nuclear reactors aboard these platforms . Such technology already exists http://yachtpals.com/bonhomme-richar...ing/12520/?a=f This approach also makes use of our existing stockpile of nuclear fuels in a very beneficial way as well as our accumulated know-how in the seas. TRANSPORT REQUIREMENTS Each person per yer requires; * *2.0 metric tons food products (and packaging) * *6.0 metric tons wood products * *5.0 metric tons hydrogen fuel * *2.0 metric tons metal ores to maintain the lifestyle of a modern millionaire today. With adequate machinery it will take only 1.5 billion people working 60 hours per week to maintain this living standard for 8 billion people. *This is nearly 50% of the world's 3.2 billion employed today. *Yet nearly 1 billion are subsistence farmers whose jobs will become surperflouous when modern agriculture is applied on a large scale to the desert. *Another 600 million will become unemployed in traditional extraction industries as this system grows. * So, there are 1.5 billion people with skills and capabilities that can be used far more efficiently with the right investments. *It will take this level of effort for five years to build all the infrastructure needed. *It will take an additional five years to grow the system from a 1,500 person seed system to full scale operation. * It will take five years to design and build the seed system. *So, planning and logistics can take this into account as things are switched over to the vastly more efficient system. *There are about 40,000 extraction companies affected, and about half a billion subsistence farms affected. * The buy-in need not be arduous. *A 1,500 person 'productive cell' could partner with 1,500 people employed at a company, or companies, to convert from lower productivity to higher productivity. Change the world in 15 years; * * *+5 - design and build the seed system * * *+5 - grow the seed system to full scale * * *+5 - operate the full scale system to build value With 19.86 people born per 1,000 people 158.8 million are born each year. * So, to sustain the working population pay and benefits allow workers to accumulate retirement in 35 years only 10.5% of the world's people need to be recruited into the primary productive system described here. 8 billion people consuming at a $125,000 per person per year rate totals $1 quadrillion per year. *This is 18x what the world consumes today. *The value of the capital base that makes this possible could reasonably be said to be worth 17x of the world's entire capital base today. * The value of this capital base rises with each passing year as everyone accumulates more. This is a measure of the value of investing capital to create 8 billion millionaires by employing the unemployed or under-employed today more efficiently. *The sustainable working population is only 10% of the world's youth, which means that 90% of the world's youth are available to exercise additional capital for other purposes organized by those who put in the original capital. *Since all nations would have to agree to such wide ranging use of resources and people, we might at first blush say 50% of the benefit goes to those governments and 50% of the benefit goes to those investors who make the change possible. * In this case all the world's governments would split something like $450 trillion (the USA federal government collected $2.2 trillion and spent $3.5 trillion in 2010) per year, and all the world's wealthy would collect *$450 trillion per year in products and efforts called for by the private markets they create. Another $100 trillion is reinvested in wages and capital to maintain the primary system going. The creation of a highly productive system to efficiently use the world's limited resources to meet everyone's basic needs (at the millionaire level today) need not be anything more difficult to understand the organization of than say the construction of toll roads today to meet the needs of the public. *The roads are constructed according to public need and approval, and those who invest in the roads collect tolls as the road is used. *Same here. Something like this happened in the past. *In 1908 Henry Ford opened his Model T assembly plant and revolutionized the world by simultaneously producing a car for less than $1,000 - while paying his workers $5 per day - 5x the going rate for workers! * He called the $4 premium - efficiency premium - for working more efficiently with his mass production method. *His workers were enriched, and so was Ford and his investors even while automobiles were made a far less expense than ever before! http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm There is no reason we cannot view the major assets of our planet and organize to use them the same way - without disrupting markets or governments - merely by taking a sane rational approach to the way things are done using the best available technology and information we have today. |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
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(3) food (4) wood (5) metals No big deal. Just make sure that the rich and powerful always get a minimum of ten fold more than anyone else (regardless if they earned their wealth or simply took it from others), and make darn certain that hording, insider trading, mass consumption, wastefulness and polluting are never illegal or even socially frowned upon. I've told you before that I know of folks that consume 100 KW on average as is, and certainly everything else of that rich and powerful lifestyle is off the hook as well. So, bringing the other 99.9% of humanity up to even 10% of those wealthy standards that you claim are perfectly doable, as such is going to require a great deal of your clean and cheap energy, plus loads of everything else on that list. Are you suggesting that Earth has unlimited resources that everyone can afford, and/or having plenty of time to burn, so to speak? Since you have no intentions of ever directly leading us or even setting up yourself as any example, what exactly is Mook suggesting that we (the poor village idiots of Earth) change for the better that hasn't been proposed at least a thousand times before (including by yours truly)? It seems no matters what the topic, you don't agree with anyone that's still alive, so what's up with that? How can you be the one and only smart guy on Earth? You have not another soul in government, industry or social superiority or equal that's backing anything you've proposed. Is it because you smell funny, having been black-listed or put on their NO FLY list because they think you're a terrorist or some kind of bipolar social subversive? How about you put your Mook green hydrogen on the open market, so that we end-users of energy get to directly benefit and save the environment at the same time. Or is that asking too much? ~ BG On Nov 7, 12:22*pm, William Mook wrote: The Earth As a Planet. Science has shown that it is highly efficient at doing things when enough people put enough resources behind the right sorts of programs. *For example, fission was discovered in 1938 and this resulted in the Manhattan Project in 1942 and the first atomic bombs in 1946. *Humanity built a network of nuclear weapons capable of ending modern civilization in an afternoon should we choose to do that. Can we move as quickly to create what Buckminster Fuller called 'livingry' (as opposed to weaponry) to make our world a paradise? The first step toward this goal, should we choose it as something at least as worthwhile as weaponry and armies of death and destruction, we need to ask some simple questions to see where we stand, if our planet has enough resources to meet the needs of 8 billion people living as they please. Do we have enough resources on Earth to create a paradise on Earth in a reasonable time frame? To answer this question we need to have an idea of what's needed, and an idea of what's available. *What's needed is easily identified by taking the laundry list of things purchased by the wealthiest people, and what goes into making those things, and adding up the total for 8 billion people consuming products the same way the 10 million millionaires live today. When one does this the answer is; We may have. People need primarily; *(1) energy *(2) water *(3) food *(4) wood *(5) metals The major wood reserves of the planet re found in Taiga - the coniferous forest encircling the North Pole; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Di...tion_Taiga.png here is Taiga relative to the other biome's on the planet http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/...iomes/taigamap... Energy, is found in the deserts, which is also a natural locale for remotely operated solar powered industry - operated in ways that keep industry isolated from the biomes; http://www.cheshire-innovation.com/World%20Deserts.gif With abundant low cost energy we have the means to turn seawater into fresh water through desalination along with salts and we also have the means to turn fresh water sunlight and certain of the salts obtained from desalination into food using enclosed agriculture in the desert. The oceans appear to have abundant metal in deep ocean rifts http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/servle...d=OTC-4780-MS&.... We have technologies developed over the cold war to access these reserves and process them into useful forms. ENERGY The world today uses 12 trillion watts of power primarily through the combustion of 11 billion tons of fossil fuels that produce 40 billion tons of CO2. Collecting sunlight and making hydrogen from deionized water and using hydrogen in place of fossil fuels requires 17 trillion watts of collectors - base load - which means 60 trillion watts peak requiring 100,000 sq km of solar panels be placed within the 11 million sq km of deserts. *Less than 1% Looking at the consumption of energy of the world's wealthiest people - the 10 million millionaires - and assuming we have 8 billion people consuming at millionaire rates - we will need 185 trillion watts of collectors located in the deserts baseload - 487 trillion watts peak requiring 810,530 sq km of solar panels. *Less than 8% of the total. FOOD By Water 85.7 kg/m3 per 1 m3 of fresh water. By Area (average) 17.1 kg/m2/yr The meat-based diet differs from the vegetarian diet in that 124 kg of meat and 20.3 kg of fish are consumed per year in addition to 995 kg of plant material. *For every 1 kg of high-quality animal protein produced, livestock are fed about 6 kg of plant protein. So a high quality meat diet consumes 1,739 kg of plant protien. In the conversion of plant protein to animal protein, there are 2 principal inputs or costs: 1) the direct costs of production of the harvest animal, including its feed; and 2) the indirect costs for maintaining the breeding herds. Energy is expended in livestock production systems. For example, broiler chicken production is the most efficient, with an input of 4 kcal of fuel energy for each 1 kcal of broiler protein produced. The broiler system is primarily dependent on grain. Turkey, also a grain- fed system, is next in efficiency, with a ratio of 10:1. Milk production, based on a mixture of two-thirds grain and one-third forage, is relatively efficient, with a ratio of 14:1. Both pork and egg production also depend on grain. Pork production has a ratio of 14:1, whereas egg production has a 39:1 ratio. This extra energy is included in the larger energy inputs described above. To produce the required 1,795 kg of food each year requires 20.3 m3 of fresh water made from salt water grown on 101.7 m2 per person. *A total of 813,567 sq km of desert lands fed with 162.4 billion m3 of fresh water and other inputs provide this. http://www.slideshare.net/ifad/ifad-...full/78/3/660S WOOD The world today uses about 0.3 m3 of wood products per person per year worldwide, but the wealthiest of us use 20x this amount - 6.0 m3 of wood products per person per year. *8 billion people consuming at this higher rate totals 48 billion m3/yr or *38 billion kg/year - 38 million tons. Taiga occupies 25 million square kilometers of area and each of those square kilometers has a bioenergy conversion factor of 0.83 Joules/m2/ year which translates to 46,000 kg per square kilometer per year. This means that 826,000 sq km of these forests properly managed could provide for everyone's need for wood products to build fine homes, fine furnishings, and provide all paper and other wood products. http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_libra...20r7752n3w756&... HARVESTING TAIGA To access these products in an environmentally sustainable way requires new technology. *One approach would be hydrogen filled and fueled neutral buoyancy aircraft that had the ability to retrieve and process in the air via teleoperation from the air individual trees identified by multi-spectral scanning from orbit. HARVESTING THE OCEANS We need to survey the ocean deeps - or more likely *make available data already gathered by the world's navies to appropriate geological analysis - to determine the size of the reserves available to us. Large numbers of remotely operated miniature nuclear submarines - developed for sub-surface intelligence operations - adapted to mine and transport to the surface - and partially process ores - to deliver semi-refined ores to the ocean's surface - allows us to produce enough metal ores to sustain 8 billion people at very high living standards aboard floating platforms with minimal environmental impact again using small nuclear reactors aboard these platforms . Such technology already exists http://yachtpals.com/bonhomme-richar...ing/12520/?a=f This approach also makes use of our existing stockpile of nuclear fuels in a very beneficial way as well as our accumulated know-how in the seas. TRANSPORT REQUIREMENTS Each person per yer requires; * *2.0 metric tons food products (and packaging) * *6.0 metric tons wood products * *5.0 metric tons hydrogen fuel * *2.0 metric tons metal ores to maintain the lifestyle of a modern millionaire today. With adequate machinery it will take only 1.5 billion people working 60 hours per week to maintain this living standard for 8 billion people. *This is nearly 50% of the world's 3.2 billion employed today. *Yet nearly 1 billion are subsistence farmers whose jobs will become surperflouous when modern agriculture is applied on a large scale to the desert. *Another 600 million will become unemployed in traditional extraction industries as this system grows. * So, there are 1.5 billion people with skills and capabilities that can be used far more efficiently with the right investments. *It will take this level of effort for five years to build all the infrastructure needed. *It will take an additional five years to grow the system from a 1,500 person seed system to full scale operation. * It will take five years to design and build the seed system. *So, planning and logistics can take this into account as things are switched over to the vastly more efficient system. *There are about 40,000 extraction companies affected, and about half a billion subsistence farms affected. * The buy-in need not be arduous. *A 1,500 person 'productive cell' could partner with 1,500 people employed at a company, or companies, to convert from lower productivity to higher productivity. Change the world in 15 years; * * *+5 - design and build the seed system * * *+5 - grow the seed system to full scale * * *+5 - operate the full scale system to build value With 19.86 people born per 1,000 people 158.8 million are born each year. * So, to sustain the working population pay and benefits allow workers to accumulate retirement in 35 years only 10.5% of the world's people need to be recruited into the primary productive system described here. 8 billion people consuming at a $125,000 per person per year rate totals $1 quadrillion per year. *This is 18x what the world consumes today. *The value of the capital base that makes this possible could reasonably be said to be worth 17x of the world's entire capital base today. * The value of this capital base rises with each passing year as everyone accumulates more. This is a measure of the value of investing capital to create 8 billion millionaires by employing the unemployed or under-employed today more efficiently. *The sustainable working population is only 10% of the world's youth, which means that 90% of the world's youth are available to exercise additional capital for other purposes organized by those who put in the original capital. *Since all nations would have to agree to such wide ranging use of resources and people, we might at first blush say 50% of the benefit goes to those governments and 50% of the benefit goes to those investors who make the change possible. * In this case all the world's governments would split something like $450 trillion (the USA federal government collected $2.2 trillion and spent $3.5 trillion in 2010) per year, and all the world's wealthy would collect *$450 trillion per year in products and efforts called for by the private markets they create. Another $100 trillion is reinvested in wages and capital to maintain the primary system going. The creation of a highly productive system to efficiently use the world's limited resources to meet everyone's basic needs (at the millionaire level today) need not be anything more difficult to understand the organization of than say the construction of toll roads today to meet the needs of the public. *The roads are constructed according to public need and approval, and those who invest in the roads collect tolls as the road is used. *Same here. Something like this happened in the past. *In 1908 Henry Ford opened his Model T assembly plant and revolutionized the world by simultaneously producing a car for less than $1,000 - while paying his workers $5 per day - 5x the going rate for workers! * He called the $4 premium - efficiency premium - for working more efficiently with his mass production method. *His workers were enriched, and so was Ford and his investors even while automobiles were made a far less expense than ever before! http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ford.htm There is no reason we cannot view the major assets of our planet and organize to use them the same way - without disrupting markets or governments - merely by taking a sane rational approach to the way things are done using the best available technology and information we have today. |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
Brad,
As usual you gripe over nothing. Free Markets engage in voluntary transactions, so, no one engages in a transaction without both benefiting. The real problem is non-market transactions. By providing a basis that gives everyone the ability to consume the basics of life (homes, furnishings, clothing, food, transport, information, etc.) at the same rate as millionaires do today we establish a basis for a free and open market for the first time in history. Under these conditions how profits are allocated when efficiencies improve are determined by social norms. I've described a process that creates $1 quadrillion in wealth each year from existing under-used and under-valued assets. Doing this generates assets worth at least 18x as much as all the assets in the world today. How this vast increase is allocated is a social decision. Giving it all to capital owners or governments, especially if they have no use for it is not likely. For the 10 million millionaires in the world today providing a 20% annualized rate of return to existing capital owners over the 15 year development period provides a 15.4x increase in their valuation - paying a 20% return as income thereafter, gives a revenue rate. Government have historically grown between (-2%) to +4% per year. Providing governments a means to grow at a 10% annualized rate of return over the 15 year development period provides a 4.2x increase in their revenues - when added to existing revenues totals 5.2x what is spent today. So, the $40 trillion in assets among the world's 10 million millionaires increase to $61.6 trillion. Paying 20% rates of return to maintain these values costs $12.3 trillion per year of the total. The $15 trillion per year collected by all governments everywhere increases to $78 trillion per year. This leaves a balance of $919.7 trillion; $1,000 trillion - generated in 2025 $12.3 trillion - collected by investors $78.0 trillion - collected by governments $919.7 trillion - remaining for distribution to buyers or employees This $919.7 trillion per year may be used to reduce the number of hours and number of years worked by the principals involved by increasing pay (efficiency bonus) or distributed as price reductions to buyers or some combination. The point is, with vast increases in productivity and wealth, from $70 trillion today to $1,000 trillion in 15 years the details of how they're allocated doesn't really impact the standard of living that is the basis of this wealth. |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
The data is there.
We know the best when we see it. We want it. Its about time we had it. We can all live at the level of today's millionaires without adverse effects on our environment. There is no physical reason stopping us. There is no political reason stopping us. There is no technical or social reason stopping us. The riches created by the process I've outlined may be allocated in any way to enrich investors, governments, workers, buyers without shortchanging anyone. The riches are created to such a degree that all will be enriched beyond any dream of avarice they have. The heart of this is; ENERGY We can collect sunlight and make hydrogen very cheaply using 800,000 sq km of desert lands displacing fossil fuels. WATER We can use a small portion of that hydrogen to desalinate sea water very cheaply in hydrogen fueled flash evaporators. FOOD We can use that fresh water efficiently with 800,000 sq km of enclosed agriculture in the desert to grow food efficiently. WOOD We can efficiently extract from 800,000 sq km of the Taiga forest all the wood products we need to build all the homes and furnishings we would want and to supply all the paper products required by 8 billion millionaires. METAL We can efficiently extract from the deep sea trenches around the world all the metals we need. ASSEMBLY We can support the production of all we need in remotely operated hydrogen powered factories and refineries located deep in the deserts. TRANSPORT We can move all the material we need with hydrogen lift/hydrogen fuel neutral buoyancy UAVs. LOGISTICS With all these capabilities we know precisely how to fashion the very things that are in highest demand. Because we know what the richest of us buy - in gory detail. The designs to fabricate all in precise detail exists. From that the meterial and energy needs are well defined. There is really nothing stopping us. WHAT WE HAVE DONE For a species that spent $15 trillion since 1960 on devilishly clever weapons of mass destruction and raised armies of billions of people to fight one another to the death, we have the means and the capacity to create clever machinery of living and organize productive armies to fulfill our every need. FIRST PASS AT ITEMS TO MARKET Here is a brief sampling of what we know how to build - and can build in massive quantity; Homes http://www.veranda.com/room-decorati...kson-hole-home http://www.architecturaldigest.com/h...niston_article Transport http://www.boeing.com/commercial/bbj/ Furnishings http://www.studiobhome.com/#/home http://www.sarasotacollection.com/ Clothing http://www.calvinklein.com/home/index.jsp http://www.ralphlauren.com/home/index.jsp?direct Foods http://www.bobbyflay.com/ http://www.barefootcontessa.com/ Accessories http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Defa...&hppromo=SSLV2 Medicine http://www.mayoclinic.org/ http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/ Education http://www.stanford.edu/ http://www.mit.edu/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/ WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT - WE WANT THE BEST - ITS ABOUT TIME WE ORGANIZED OUR AFFAIRS TO OBTAIN IT TODAY. Nothing is static. That's why we develop systems capable of agile response to changes using market driven mechanisms. |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
Earth as a planet means Earth treated as a single entity of production
and consumption. Which stands in marked contrast to treating Earth as a divided and fractious collection of 266 nations each on their own geopolitical position defined by their access or not to resources and defined by their ability to trick, cajole or force others to hand over what they need at the expense of the rest. It is clear that despite well defined limits and options we have not made good decisions related to the development of energy resources on this planet. It is likely we have not made good decisions related to the development of other primary resources as well. So, its worth thinking of a goal and determining if this goal is at all feasible! It turns out that it may be! 8 billion millionaires is one place to start. Its a well defined target. We find that to achieve this goal we need vastly more than is currently being produced in terms of food, energy, wood, metals, and so on. When, we look at what the entire planet has to offer we find that we have enough - surprisingly. In the end, we look at the Earth as we might look at a space colony - and we find that we have plenty of everything to go around - if we trouble ourselves to invest in the most productive infrastructure possible and apply it as broadly as possible leaving no one out. When we do this we find that approximately 800,000 sq km of solar collectors, 800,000 sq km of green houses in the desert, a few large water works programs, and careful management of 800,000 sq km of Taiga forest, combined with the development of a yet to be determined number of deep sea trenches - connected together with space based communications, space based navigation, space based sensing, and a network of hydrogen filled hydrogen fueled UAV - creates a system that achieves the initial target of 8 billion millionaires. From the productivity of this asset we can see how our economy might adopt it as a private public partnership - allocating what Ford calls efficiency bonuses to workers, management, investors, government, and buyers alike. |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
There are about 10,000 large shipping vessels that carry a total of
1.1 billion dead weight tons. This is about 110,000 tons each. At $200 million each this is a total infrastructure cost of $22 trillion. These deliver 15 billion tons of cargo per year taking 45 days to cycle. We are contemplating 16 million airships carrying 40 tons each - 0.64 billion dead weight tons - having a cycle time of 2.25 days delivering delivering 140 billion tons of cargo per year - with far greater flexibility than is possible with sea going ships. If the same $22 trillion is allocated to these 16 million airships, we have a target cost of $1.375 million per ship - in these quantities. |
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The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet
On Nov 7, 4:02*pm, William Mook wrote:
Brad, As usual you gripe over nothing. Free Markets engage in voluntary transactions, so, no one engages in a transaction without both benefiting. *The real problem is non-market transactions. *By providing a basis that gives everyone the ability to consume the basics of life (homes, furnishings, clothing, food, transport, information, etc.) at the same rate as millionaires do today we establish a basis for a free and open market for the first time in history. *Under these conditions how profits are allocated when efficiencies improve are determined by social norms. I've described a process that creates $1 quadrillion in wealth each year from existing under-used and under-valued assets. Doing this generates assets worth at least 18x as much as all the assets in the world today. *How this vast increase is allocated is a social decision. * Giving it all to capital owners or governments, especially if they have no use for it is not likely. For the 10 million millionaires in the world today providing a 20% annualized rate of return to existing capital owners over the 15 year development period provides a 15.4x increase in their valuation - paying a 20% return as income thereafter, gives a revenue rate. Government have historically grown between (-2%) to +4% per year. Providing governments a means to grow at a 10% annualized rate of return over the 15 year development period provides a 4.2x increase in their revenues - when added to existing revenues totals 5.2x what is spent today. So, the $40 trillion in assets among the world's 10 million millionaires increase to $61.6 trillion. *Paying 20% rates of return to maintain these values costs $12.3 trillion per year of the total. The $15 trillion per year collected by all governments everywhere increases to $78 trillion per year. *This leaves a balance of $919.7 trillion; *$1,000 trillion - generated in 2025 * * * $12.3 trillion - collected by investors * * * $78.0 trillion - collected by governments * * $919.7 trillion - remaining for distribution to buyers or employees This $919.7 trillion per year may be used to reduce the number of hours and number of years worked by the principals involved by increasing pay (efficiency bonus) or distributed as price reductions to buyers or some combination. The point is, with vast increases in productivity and wealth, from $70 trillion today to $1,000 trillion in 15 years the details of how they're allocated doesn't really impact the standard of living that is the basis of this wealth. First off, I totally agree with your "The First Step in Creating a Space Age - Treat Earth as a Planet". Secondly, I'd love to help but, it seems nothing that I or anyone else has to offer is up to your standards. Unlike yourself, I can’t print my own wealth on whatever national currency that's least expecting to be snookered. There's no doubt that a world of only wealthy individuals is what Mook requires. Good luck with pulling that off with your “free markets” that are supposedly not rigged or insider traded for profit-taking at the expense and demise of others plus added global inflation that you see nothing wrong with. ~ BG |
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On Nov 7, 4:36*pm, William Mook wrote:
The data is there. We know the best when we see it. * We want it. *Its about time we had it. We can all live at the level of today's millionaires without adverse effects on our environment. There is no physical reason stopping us. *There is no political reason stopping us. *There is no technical or social reason stopping us. The riches created by the process I've outlined may be allocated in any way to enrich investors, governments, workers, buyers without shortchanging anyone. *The riches are created to such a degree that all will be enriched beyond any dream of avarice they have. The heart of this is; ENERGY We can collect sunlight and make hydrogen very cheaply using 800,000 sq km of desert lands displacing fossil fuels. WATER We can use a small portion of that hydrogen to desalinate sea water very cheaply in hydrogen fueled flash evaporators. FOOD We can use that fresh water efficiently with 800,000 sq km of enclosed agriculture in the desert to grow food efficiently. WOOD We can efficiently extract from 800,000 sq km of the Taiga forest all the wood products we need to build all the homes and furnishings we would want and to supply all the paper products required by 8 billion millionaires. METAL We can efficiently extract from the deep sea trenches around the world all the metals we need. ASSEMBLY We can support the production of all we need in remotely operated hydrogen powered factories and refineries located deep in the deserts. TRANSPORT We can move all the material we need with hydrogen lift/hydrogen fuel neutral buoyancy UAVs. LOGISTICS With all these capabilities we know precisely how to fashion the very things that are in highest demand. *Because we know what the richest of us buy - in gory detail. * The designs to fabricate all in precise detail exists. *From that the meterial and energy needs are well defined. There is really nothing stopping us. WHAT WE HAVE DONE For a species that spent $15 trillion since 1960 on devilishly clever weapons of mass destruction and raised armies of billions of people to fight one another to the death, we have the means and the capacity to create clever machinery of living and organize productive armies to fulfill our every need. FIRST PASS AT ITEMS TO MARKET Here is a brief sampling of what we know how to build - and can build in massive quantity; Homeshttp://www.veranda.com/room-decorating/barbara-barry-jackson-hole-homehttp://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/features/2010/03/jennifer_an... Transporthttp://www.boeing.com/commercial/bbj/ Furnishingshttp://www.studiobhome.com/#/homehttp://www.sarasotacollection..com/ Clothinghttp://www.calvinklein.com/home/index.jsphttp://www.ralphlauren.com/home/index.jsp?direct Foodshttp://www.bobbyflay.com/http://www.barefootcontessa.com/ Accessorieshttp://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Default.aspx?mcat=148210&hppromo=SSLV2 Medicinehttp://www.mayoclinic.org/http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/ Educationhttp://www.stanford.edu/http://www.mit.edu/http://www.cam.ac.uk/ WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT - WE WANT THE BEST - ITS ABOUT TIME WE ORGANIZED OUR AFFAIRS TO OBTAIN IT TODAY. Nothing is static. *That's why we develop systems capable of agile response to changes using market driven mechanisms. Yes, the loads of terrific data, and your "Nothing is static". Good for you and other wealthy individuals that never have to worry about the cost of living or fret about the decades of delays for any tangible good to materialize. You should be a motivational speaker for those individuals that are already wealthy and only want to take lots more and living large by investing less, and heaven forbid never pay any kind of excise or other tax to support national and local infrastructure. ~ BG |
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