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Against Vertical Farms: 6th November 2009
On URL below:
"The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming."
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/12/farms-as-skyscrapers.html
That it is a mistake to build sky farms within existing large cities, in many cases, is valid. However, new SkyUtopia , shared with farms, live/work residences, and shops and industrial plants, over water or in desert, or deserted, areas is more practical. RDL is working on this.
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How about annual:
See SuperSeaUtopia for new RDL's planned cities to be included in annual rotation.
Contact Us for your comments and suggested alternatives.
Click below to see plans in Korea: 28th October 2009:
Fluid: Amphibious Pavilion For 2012 World Expo That Can Sail Away
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/27/fluid-amphibious-pavilion-for-2012-world-expo/
What you and your children can do in your RDL's Ideal Customers's Utopia home: 17th October 2009
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http://elementsofhumanity.com/#/video/entry/25/
One alternative to increasing land for food production: 14th October 2009
RDL prefers the alternative below this one, for residential-space-in-the-sky as opposed to farmland-in-the-sky. However, some of the ideas for vertical farms can be combined with Project 10 farms to design farms which can be included in Sky and SuperSky Utopia.
"By 2050, the world’s population will have increased by 3 billion people, requiring an additional chunk of arable land the size of Brazil in order to grow enough food. Add to that the potential loss of coastal property from rising sea levels, crop loss from drastic weather related incidents, and the need to reforest large swaths of land to sequester CO2. What we’re left with is a global mess that could be helped by a new agricultural technique – vertical farming. Located in an urban setting, the vertical farm is a win-win idea that automates the production of food in a more sustainable manner, by reducing waste, pollution and carbon emissions."
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/13/smarter-cities-vertical-farming-could-ease-worlds-agricultural-woes/
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Inhabitat
An alternative to 900+ (Masdar equivalents) with 50,000 Ideal Customers/Utopia ]U]: 13 October 2009
Of course, some mix of U, SU and SSU can be considered. RDL's prelimnary proposal is:
GammaSSU in San Fransisco
Bay,
DeltaSSU San Diego
Bay and
EpsilonSSU in Panama
Bay.
These five SSU should be completed by 2015, with a total population of 7.5m.
The overall Utopia Ideal Customer population target of 51+m is raised to ~80+m, with the five classes of Utopian residential homes, the (target) population is divided as follows:
SuperSkyUtopia [SSU], 60%, ie 48m people living in 17.28m homes in 32 cities (0 acres)
SkyUtopia [SU], 20%, ie 16m people living in 5.76m homes in 32 cities (0 acres)
Utopia [U],16%,
ie 12.8m people living in 4.6m homes in 256 cities (1,024 square miles)
MiniUtopiaVillages [MUV], 3%, ie 2.4m people living in 860,000 homes in 8,600 villages (1,680 square miles)
Project 10 Farms
[P10F],1%,
ie 0.8m people living in 288,000 homes in 360,000 farms (141 square miles.
Total of 2,845 square miles (reduced from 5,721for 900 Utopia), housing 80m Ideal Customers reducing their CO2 pollution by 90%/Ideal Customer, ie 160m tons/year.
The requirements for Gavin Hawk (which RDL estimated at 32m over the next 21 year) would be reduced by 40% to 20m, because of reduced travel requirements outside of Utopia. The requirements for personal and public vehicles is also reduced (by 60%) for travel inside SSU and SU as opposed to Utopia [U].
http://www.tvlesson.com/video/23888_extreme-engineering--tokyo-sky-city-part-1-of-5.html
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Many environmentalists argue that it’s important to focus our attention on Earth’s problems before venturing off into space, but the recent discovery of water on the moon means that exploring other planets could be easier than ever. Now that an Indian mission has discovered hydrogen and oxygen molecules on the lunar surface, the planet can be used as an outer space “service station”, prepping astronauts for their journeys into deep space.
In such a scenario, astronauts departing Earth to explore other planets could make a pit stop on the moon, extracting water to drink, oxygen to breathe, and hydrogen to fill up rocket tanks.
There are still some hurdles to overcome, however. The moon water is found inside minerals, and extracting it through heating methods uses a great deal of energy. According to Professor Colin Pillinger of the Open University, “You would need to heat up a lot of lunar soil to 200C to get yourself a glass of water”. And of course, launching a rocket to the moon also uses plenty of energy. But if the net energy cost of extracting hydrogen and oxygen from the moon is lower than the cost of transporting fuel from Earth to other planets, the moon might just have a future as the galaxy’s most remote gas station."
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/28/discovery-of-water-on-moon-means-that-lunar-service-station-is-possible/
Capture of CO2: 4th September 2009
RDL is planning to adopt, as much as possible, the proposals of IME, in connection with Utopia (our Project 1) and the SoF (our Major Project 9), especially with respect to design and development of farms (our Planned Major Project 10). More about this will be announced as soon as possible. Please click on (below) and read their proposals. We will publish our ideas, and you can report your ideas, favorable or not, on our Contact Us page.
From the Instutution of Mechanical Engineers [IME]:
"Approaches to climate change: an overview
Many people believe that we are fast approaching a critical point in dealing with climate change. Our planet is continuing to get hotter due to the release into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases, most worryingly carbon dioxide (CO2), due to human activity. The consensus is that we cannot allow global average temperature to rise by 2oC above pre-industrial levels. If we do - and many predict this will happen within the next few decades - dramatic changes to our climate may occur which could jeopardise modern civilisation. What can be done to prevent this rise? For many years, governments have primarily focused on climate change mitigation: reducing the amount of CO2 each nation emits into the atmosphere. More recently, climate change adaptation has been embraced: an approach which sets out to ensure that critical assets, such as power generation, transport links and the urban environment, are redesigned and rebuilt to protect against future changes in climate. A third, less explored approach, is geo-engineering: where technology is used to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, or where the planet is cooled by reflecting solar radiation back into space. Geo-engineering could be another potential component in our approach to climate change that could provide the world with extra time to decarbonise the global economy."
http://www.imeche.org/about/keythemes/environment/Climate+Change/Geoeng
RDL proposes the following financial setup:
The ZCO2D will organize JVPs and request a total contribution of $50 million [m] to re-organize and launch an even newer NUMMI, to manufacture Gavin Hawks, hydrogen cell powered GaviHas and other Zero-CO2 vehicles, beginning in July 2010. The repayment of the fund to the original contributors (except ZCO2D) will be repaid from the profits, year by year, to each of the JVPs in proportion of 90% their share of contributions.
Once 90%, ie $45m, of the contribution has been repaid, ZCO2D will be paid $5m from subsequent profits until the total profits reach $50m.
Thereafter, the share of profit paid to the original contributors will be raised to 100% of their original JVPs contribution.
If agreed among ZCO2D and all of the original (and any new) contributors, ZCO2D may remain as MJVP for a term of five years, with a fee of 5% of overall future profits of the JVPs.
Otherwise, or after a five year term, ZCO2D may be terminated unilaterally,or by any of the original contributors, By mutual agreement they may elect one of their members as MJVP or agree to any other arrangement they wish.
Initially, ZCO2D will also negotiate with the existing NUMMI for payments for its facilities in Fremont CA (and elsewhere) for that proportion, necessary for the new activities the new version of NUMMI (possibily renamed to ZeroCO2 Motors Manufacturing Inc [ZMMI]) is required.
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Closure of NUMMI --
Electric cars are not a good idea: 4th August 2009
Generation of electricity in conventional power plants still uses fossil fuel [FF] which spews CO2 into the atmosphere, increasing Global Warming.. Generating electricity on your roof in your Utopian House, used to make hydrogen fuel [HF] for your car's and Gavin Hawk's hydrogen fuel cells, does not.
3. Hydrogen Gets More Funding from U.S. Congress
The U.S. Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill (S. 1436), which includes the Dept. of Energy's (DOE) FY10 budget, passed on the floor of the Senate this week by a vote of 85-9. The bill contains hydrogen and fuel cell technologies provisions appropriating $190 million for EERE's Hydrogen program at DOE, as well as $10 million above the budget request for hydrogen from coal research and $4 million above the budget request for fuel cells at DOE's Office of Fossil Energy. These two versions will now be sent to a Senate/House conference committee that will merge them into one bill. The House passed its Energy & Water appropriations bill on July 17, containing $153 million for hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for DOE's EERE program in FY10, plus $25.5 million above the Administration's request "for fuels" which can be used to fund hydrogen from coal research.
Funding
4. European Fuel Cells Call for Proposals
With the aim of putting fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies on the market two-five years sooner than originally touted, the European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative (FCH JTI) has issued a second call for proposals for research. Around EUR 140 million has been allocated for this second call, with the FCH JTI holding a total budget of around EUR 1 billion to be invested in hydrogen and fuel cell research and development by 2014. It is hoped that research can foster the use of hydrogen fuel buses and fuel cell vehicles with the intention of helping to develop hydrogen storage and improve fuel cell durability.
Proposals.
If you want to see why we want these to succeed, in addition to getting support for RDL's participation, look at Gavin Hawks, too.
Especially: these announcements.
"Without a doubt, this problem has emerged as the biggest threat to our economic rebound and banks (especially regional banks).
Says Yellen:
The next area of significant vulnerability for the banking system, particularly for community and regional banks with real estate concentrations, is income-producing office, warehouse and retail commercial property. . . Our biggest concern now is with maturing loans on depreciated commercial properties.
Borrowers seeking to refinance will be expected to provide additional equity and to have underwriting and pricing adjusted to reflect current market conditions. In some cases, borrowers won't have the resources to refinance the loans.
Over the next five months alone, troubled U.S. commercial real estate loans could double to $100 billion, as delinquencies rise and financing remains tough to secure.
"Clearly, times have changed. Take a look...
While the energy needs of today's modern world have changed dramatically from the past..."
Want to think again!? What about building (or buying) from
RDL-JVP's Utopian cities, GaviHas houses and Gavin Hawks? (BTW: This would reduce your CO2 pollution by 90%. If there were 80 million of you, that would reduce Worldwide pollution by 10 to 20%. That would stop Global Warming in its tracks, in 21 years.
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This first Hybrid Solar Plant is ideal for Utopia Villages (up to 70 homes, in each initial phase of each Utopian Village). One of the main advantages of this hybrid unit is to build it first, to support building the homes in the Village, then expanding the electrical and hydrogen production in each home to support up to 150 homes for use 24/7, plus the power requirements of industrial facilities also located in the Villages.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/15/worlds-first-hybrid-solar-plant-almost-complete/
Hydroelectric Power is a good investment: 21 May 2009
This could be a better result of Kaiser Engineers [KE] Arrow Lakes Joint Venture Project in the 1950s.
http://www.greenchipstocks.com/newsletter.php?date=2009-05-21
"While hydroelectric power remains the world's largest utility-scale renewable energy, there's now a better, more efficient way to generate electricity from rushing rivers."
Would this also work at Snow River in Australia, or Hoover Dam, two other KE Projects?
Burning BioMass is more Efficient than Creating Ethanol : 20 May 2009
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"Biomass converted into electricity produced 81 percent more transportation miles and 108 percent more emissions offsets compared to ethanol." Those are some good numbers, and I think we can all agree that, in an ideal world, we would all have electric vehicles. Creating ethanol, by design, is less efficient than burning it for electricity. There are a half-dozen energy-intensive steps necessary to turn cellulose into ethanol. But ethanol is a more convenient fuel than electricity.
Revving up Fuel Cells: 19 May 2009
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i20/8720notw7.html
Development in a new dawn for solar power: 19 May 2009http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=a-new-dawn-for-solar-power-2009-05-15&sc=CAT_SP_20090518
Possible RDL Project 10: 6 May 2009
http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&tab=wm#sent/121175386b2f1c08
16 April 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8001254.stm
Additional quotes:
"Electric cars are only as green as the electricity they run on.
Tony Bosworth, Friends of the Earth"
Jorn Madslien, business reporter, BBC News
"The future of electric motoring is no longer remote. Modern lithium-ion batteries have already been installed in prototype cars, such as the Mini E, which handles like an ordinary car and offers a range of 150 miles. But the batteries are huge, so the car has no back seats.
Plug-in petrol-electric hybrids will soon offer five-seat alternatives. In these, a petrol engine takes over once the battery has run out. This is the solution favoured by Toyota.
Alternatively, a small petrol engine charges the battery whilst driving - the General Motors solution. Either way, in the future motorists will increasingly buy power from electricity companies rather than from the oil industry."
Better than just providing grants, would be tax exemption to:
- buyers
- leasees
- lessors
- producers
- sellers or
- users, of electrical devices or
- use electricity which they buy, or produce, which
do not involve FF.
The simplest and easiest way to control taxation is to:
- tax producers and users of alternating current [AC] in the same ways as is done throughout the World: But,
- exempting pure direct current [DC], and its associated equipment and uses, provided
- no transformer or similar device is used to convert AC to DC.
Typically, electricity produced from FF provides AC, which is cheaply distributed, in up to huge volumes, for any distance over a few miles, and then converted to DC for most uses, except driving synchronus electric motors. DC motors are superior for many applications, and are necessary for most computing applications. Electricity produced from sunlight, (wind and sources of heat) are DC, which is also necessary to make hydrogen from water. This way is possible in homes and nearby, providing all the energy requirements for staying at home or traveling, without creating CO2 pollution.
RDL's planned Utopia, DaviHas vehicles and Gavin Hawk aircraft are all planned to use DC and hydrogen fuel [HF], both produced and used in Utopian homes (and nearby) and to refuel DaviHas and Gavin Hawks. So, they do not involve CO2 pollution, from using FF in homes, cars, aircraft nor to generate AC, nor DC.
In addition, they do not involve hugely expensive, long distance distribution systems for AC or DC electricity, hydrogen or FF.
20 September 2008
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Repower America with wind and solar.
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