Together We Can Power The World

Quality of Life Around The World Through Renewable Energy

mike fallwell

Water Energy and Transportation

These are all engineering issues that are treated like political issues.

It can take a very long time to form a political consensus.

If this group can form a solid consensus it may be able to enrich the world by its leadership.

WATER

Water projects generally remove water from wilderness areas reducing habitat and soil biomass.

New large sources of water need to be found to maintain human and bio habitats.

The only significant source of water is rain.

It is usually a given that weather modification is unproductive but recent measurements
of ocean surface conditions point to a mechanism for increasing ocean evaporation.

ENERGY

The most economicly viable source of energy today is coal.

To quickly displace this source on a global scale a requires a cheaper source.

Kite based wind energy has the potential to undercut the coal industry globally.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/03/renewableenergy.energy

TRANSPORTATION

Movement of people and goods is a major element of any economy.

Huge amounts of energy go into production of vehicles, pavement and fuel.

Evacuated tube transportation can reduce these 3 costs by an order of magnitude.
www.et3.com

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David Scott Comment by David Scott on November 8, 2008 at 1:17pm
To me the greatest source of water is the ocean -- not the land. And creating wind farms on the ocean the produce hydrogen for tankers gives us renewable energy that is serviceable -- serves to power most anything. The result of a spill is water. Having said that, this idea of flying kites is incredible. It is another source where possible to enhance output without taking more water.

We have to begin paying more attention to where we use water and conserve especially in areas where water is quite scarce. So we need a myriad of solutions.
mike fallwell Comment by mike fallwell on November 7, 2008 at 7:13pm
The ability to double rain would only just restore water removed from wilderness.
Kathy Comment by Kathy on November 7, 2008 at 7:21am
Ok you missed another huge source of water that most communities could exploit within a year if people would get over their issues with "where that's been". What about recycling waste water instead of allowing it to pollute our environment? Currently, we don't clean it to the point of being usable for drinking water, but we could.
mike fallwell Comment by mike fallwell on October 18, 2008 at 11:38am
The high price of oil in this country has allowed
our mines to raise their prices but that is not the case globally.
mike fallwell Comment by mike fallwell on October 17, 2008 at 4:36pm
The Chinese will have the first system running.
It uses their high temp superconductors.

There is no chance of photovoltaics becoming cheaper than coal.
Harley Orion Comment by Harley Orion on October 17, 2008 at 3:48pm
Dear Mike,
Excellent points. Though I would also like to see community-scale development of solar power, which I believe has the potential to be far cheaper than coal once we have economies of scale in production of panels (or ideally thin-film PV).

The ET3 site is interesting. Just the human cost of auto accidents alone makes this an interesting model. Is there a prototype up and running yet?

~Harley

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