Supplementing For Human Control Factors

The Question remains!

No mater how you look at it. Becoming climate neutral is crucial to humanities survival.

What does it matter if “our footprint” as a civilization is contributing to global warming or global cooling? What does it matter if the science is absolute when determining civilizations effect, or the cyclical cycle of increased solar spot activity effect?

Some say empirical evidence,  from both written and geologic records, indicates global temperature modulates in cycles of warming and cooling, with 57 degrees Fahrenheit  as the normal mean temperature throughout a continuing 4500 year cycle. The current conjecture is, we may reach it’s recent past height set in 1100 B.C., again around 2030. There is also conjecture that the many volcano eruptions over past recorded history also played a role in rapid global temperature change.

In our time, a most significant climate control factor is human population .

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“A scientific report commissioned by the US government has concluded there is “clear evidence” of climate change caused by human activities. The report, from the federal Climate Change Science Program, said trends seen over the last 50 years “cannot be explained by natural processes alone”. It found that temperatures have increased in the lower atmosphere as well as at the Earth’s surface.”¹

“The human population growth of the last century has been truly phenomenal. It required only 40 years after 1950 for the population to double from 2.5 billion to 5 billion. This doubling time is less than the average human lifetime. The world population passed 6 billion just before the end of the 20th century. Present estimates are for the population to reach 8-12 billion before the end of the 21st century. During each lecture hour, more than 10,000 new people enter the world, a rate of ~3 per second!

Of the 6 billion people, about half live in poverty and at least one fifth are severely undernourished. The rest live out their lives in comparative comfort and health.

The factors affecting global human population are very simple. They are fertility, mortality, initial population, and time. The current growth rate of ~1.3% per year is smaller than the peak which occurred a few decades ago (~2.1% per year in 1965-1970), but since this rate acts on a much larger population base, the absolute number of new people per year (~90 million) is at an all time high.”²

Hypothetically, If someone were to survive climate collapse, and in retrospect using simple minded deductions, look back and note that population has always been on the increase, and eventually we would be where we are today anyway; who could fault them after every possible stone was turned as first president in the effort to stem the tide.

Nature has it’s own way of maintaining balance.

Species responsibility demands action and movement toward human climate neutrality.

We face the evident melting polar and glacier ice, rising oceans, the real threat of disappearing sovereign nations (The Maldives), disappearing rivers, great rivers no longer reaching the sea, lack of fresh water, over use of non-renewable aquifers, disappearing streams and empty wells, deforestation, dying species both plant and animal, over use of available land, food shortage, homeless starving people, sickness, and death.

“What is really interesting at the moment is what is happening to our oceans. They are the Earth’s great heat stores. Pacific ocean (BBC) In the last few years [the Pacific Ocean] has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down.

According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated. The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO).

For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too. But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down.

These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years.

So could global temperatures follow? The global cooling from 1945 to 1977 coincided with one of these cold Pacific cycles. Professor Easterbrook says: “The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling.”

So what does it all mean? Climate change sceptics argue that this is evidence that they have been right all along. They say there are so many other natural causes for warming and cooling, that even if man is warming the planet, it is a small part compared with nature.

But those scientists who are equally passionate about man’s influence on global warming argue that their science is solid.

The UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre, responsible for future climate predictions, says it incorporates solar variation and ocean cycles into its climate models, and that they are nothing new. In fact, the centre says they are just two of the whole host of known factors that influence global temperatures – all of which are accounted for by its models.

In addition, say Met Office scientists, temperatures have never increased in a straight line, and there will always be periods of slower warming, or even temporary cooling. What is crucial, they say, is the long-term trend in global temperatures. And that, according to the Met office data, is clearly up.

To confuse the issue even further, last month Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) says that we may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years. Iceberg melting (BBC)

The UK Met Office says that warming is set to resume

Professor Latif is based at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany and is one of the world’s top climate modellers. But he makes it clear that he has not become a sceptic; he believes that this cooling will be temporary, before the overwhelming force of man-made global warming reasserts itself.

So what can we expect in the next few years?

Both sides have very different forecasts. The Met Office says that warming is set to resume quickly and strongly. It predicts that from 2010 to 2015 at least half the years will be hotter than the current hottest year on record (1998).

Sceptics disagree. They insist it is unlikely that temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely.

One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.”³

A Possible Small Window of Opportunity…

“Air pollution can affect our health in many ways with both short-term and long-term effects. Different groups of individuals are affected by air pollution in different ways. Some individuals are much more sensitive to pollutants than are others. Young children and elderly people often suffer more from the effects of air pollution. People with health problems such as asthma, heart and lung disease may also suffer more when the air is polluted. The extent to which an individual is harmed by air pollution usually depends on the total exposure to the damaging chemicals, i.e., the duration of exposure and the concentration of the chemicals must be taken into account.

Examples of short-term effects include irritation to the eyes, nose and throat, and upper respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Other symptoms can include headaches, nausea, and allergic reactions. Short-term air pollution can aggravate the medical conditions of individuals with asthma and emphysema. In the great “Smog Disaster” in London in 1952, four thousand people died in a few days due to the high concentrations of pollution.

Long-term health effects can include chronic respiratory disease, lung cancer, heart disease, and even damage to the brain, nerves, liver, or kidneys. Continual exposure to air pollution affects the lungs of growing children and may aggravate or complicate medical conditions in the elderly. It is estimated that half a million people die prematurely every year in the United States as a result of smoking cigarettes.”⁴

Much of  the carbon culture or climate, smells of “dirty business” who’s only aim is turning scarcity into abundance at the expense of the whole. Where is the value in that? …

We have knowledge of known unused, and new developing technologies that can make “Our Energy Climate Change Footprint” a non issue.

Is it not true; the continued development, production, and distribution of  such technologies themselves would produce abundance beyond measure…

Re-write the future…

All anyone needs for growth is food for nourishment, a place of rest and good association.

Do we fade away, or live to give another day?

Climate Change…

The Anatomy Of A Silent Crisis

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For publication I am compiling a  list of past, current, developed, and promising, free energy technologies that could serve to reduce the human climate effect.  Send your list of clean energy technologies for compiling and presentation before Copenhagen to clean@environmentaide.org

Many remember first hearing of the wonders of magnetic propulsion, when The first commercial Maglev “people-mover” became a carrier  in 1984 in Birmingham, England. Other stator driven applications could include automobiles, trucks, and boats… Howard Johnson inventor of Spintronics, a unique magnetic gate which  formed the basis of many of his successful motors, was fond of saying “conventional magnetic theory and the real magnetic theory are about as much alike as a Venetian Blind is to a blind Venetian.”

Maglev Train – complete video presentation

From The Republic of  Georgia, Russian inventor, Tariel Kapanadze and his group have come up with one of many promising devices to aide in our move to clean free energy for all. This one capable of capturing enough zero point energy or free energy from the wheelworks of nature to power 60 homes… Perhaps not very much fun to watch, but proven possible…

Kapanadze’s third-party testing 100 kW free energy device

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This solution was found in a few minutes on the Internet. How many can you find? Combustion technologies can become a thing of the past, and the CO2 from a summer campfire a harmless pastime.

In the words of Author, Scientist, Former Astronaut, and International Speaker Dr. Brian O’Leary…  “Earlier in 2009,  the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) solicited concept papers for funding innovative energy technology research and development.  Some of us who have followed free energy developments were cautiously optimistic about these developments, because, up until now, the DoE has been in denial about anything beyond solar and wind, and even spends a pittance on the traditional renewables compared to the untold hundreds of billions of dollars they spend on research on fossil fuel technologies (hydrocarbons) and nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

So my colleague Wade Frazier and I decided to draft a concept paper to the DoE. Our idea was really quite simple: (1) poll the American public about their attitudes toward the POSSIBILITY of a breakthrough decentralized clean energy economy and making the transition from our current polluting multi-trillion dollar energy mix as painless as possible; and (2) advising the DoE about the most promising R&D options, and safe implementation and transition strategies, free of vested interests.  Part of our philosophy in designing this task was that, by its very nature, if our future energy were to be truly “free,” then our own effort should be of minimal cost for the taxpayer.  We therefore asked for $1 (plus occasional travel, as needed) to support our proposed task.

Needless to say, the proposal was turned down, but we can only hope that some technologies will be supported by the DoE under this program.  Or is this effort just another attempt to cover up the most promising technologies?  Time will tell.”

“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.” ~ Sir John Templeton

“We have come to this Rock, to record here our homage for our Pilgrim fathers; our sympathy in their sufferings; our gratitude for their labors; Our admiration of their virtues; our veneration for their piety; and our attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty, which they encountered, the dangers of the ocean, the storms of heaven, the violence of savages, disease, exile, and famine, to enjoy and establish.

And we would leave here, also, for the generations which are rising up rapidly to fill our places, some proof, that we have endeavored to transmit the great inheritance unimpaired; that in our estimate of public principles, and Private virtue; in our veneration of religion and piety; in our devotion to civil and religious liberty; in our regard to whatever advances human Knowledge, or improves human happiness, we are not altogether unworthy of our origin.” –Daniel Webster

WE CAN IF WE TRY!

YES WE CAN!

Remember

Or is it a Factor of a much bigger problem?

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There is enough free energy available today on the planet to never again have to extract the means of creating power with a price tag…

Alternative energy sources pushed by the establishment such as hydrogen, biomass, and even nuclear are highly inefficient, dangerous and exist only to perpetuate the profit structure the industry has created. When we look beyond the propaganda and self serving solutions put forth by the energy companies we find a seemingly endless stream of clean abundant and renewable energy for generating power.

Solar and wind energy are well known to the public but the potential of these mediums remains unexpressed.

Solar energy derived from the sun has such abundance that one hour of light at high noon contains more energy than what the whole world consumes in a year. If we can capture one hundredth of one percent of this energy we would never have to use oil, gas, or anything else. The question is not availability but the technology to harness it. There are many advanced mediums today that accomplish just that if they were not hindered to compete with market share with the established energy power structures.

Then there is wind energy. Wind energy has long been denounced as weak and due to being location driven impractical. This is simply not true, the US Department of Energy admitted in 2007 that if wind was fully harvested in just three of Americas fifty states it could power the entire nation.

Then there are the rather unknown mediums of tidal and wave power.

Tidal power is derived from tidal shifts in the ocean. Installing turbines that capture this movement generates energy. In the United Kingdom forty two sites are currently noted as available forecasting that thirty four percent of all the UK’s energy could come from tidal power alone.

Wave power that extracts energy from the surface motions of the oceans is estimated to have a potential of 80,000 terawatts a year. This means that 50% of the world’s energy needs could be produced by this means alone.

It is important to note solar, wind, tidal, and wave power requires virtually no preliminary energy to harness , unlike coal, oil, gas, biomass, hydrogen, and all the others.

In combination these four mediums alone could power the world forever.

That being said there happens to be another form of clean renewable energy that trumps them all; geothermal.

Geothermal energy utilizes a process known as heat mining by a simple process using water to create energy. In 2006 an MIT report on geothermal energy found that 13,000 ZJ (zettajoules) are currently available in the Earth with the possibility of 2000 ZJ being easily tappable with available technology. The total energy consumption of all the countries on the planet is approximately 0.5 ZJ a year. This means about 4000 years of planetary power could be harnessed in this medium alone.

When we understand that the Earth’s heat generation is constantly renewed. This energy is really limitless and could be used forever. These energy sources are only a few of the available sources and as time goes on we will discover more.

The grand realization is that we have total energy abundance without the need of pollution, energy conservation, or in fact a price tag.

Today’s economies exist only for profit not the good of the people or the planet. It is only the need for profit and the assumed or created scarcity of resources that keep our current flawed economic system from evolving to the next logical conclusion.

Featured on The Larry King Show three times thirty years ago; The-Venus-Project is still alive and even more salient and timely now.

Thirty years ago entrenched values, a strong sense of security, the political fore scope, and a refusal to consider the future costs of current and ongoing practices on future developments, considered what  Jacque Fresco presented as solutions for humanity novel ideas .It is a direction that entails nothing less than the total redesign of culture, that designs out or eliminates the worlds shortcomings we faced and face today.

Some might say impossible, but on close inspection it’s feasible provided you are willing to give up all preconceived notions and conventional thinking.

Many concerned today with the serious problems facing modern society, unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth’s ecosystems need to re-examine the values of current systems and the stark reality that they don’t work.

The constant cycle of boom and bust is not natural, it is man made for the creation of scarcity and the accumulation of wealth and the debt incurred from the concomitant cycle will eventually lead to an unrecoverable crash.

Jacque Fresco presents plans that resolves all problems that amount to scarcity of any kind, by introducing a never attempted other than during war time, resource based economy actively engaging in the research development and application of workable solutions. Through abundance the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, Jacque Fresco offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.

The answer to the question does the Earth possess enough resources to create abundance without a price tag and without the need of submission to employment is yes.

From the realization that technology frees us and increases our quality of life we can realize the focus of intelligent management of Earth’s resources is our only logical course to long term prosperity into the milleniums to come.

In a monetary system everything has a financial cost or implied value, including you, your children and their children to come who’s contributions can be borrowed upon by the system. In effect they become debt slaves.

Where building blocks or material resources are concerned they only have value if there is an assumed or created scarcity. If everything was plentiful like air and water there would be no reason to sell anything.

With the advancement of automation, machinery, and technology relieving humans of labour the unfolding social aspects would have no reason for money.

A resource based economy is concerned with the well being of the people and their supporting biosphere.

At present we don’t have to burn fossil fuels or use anything that would contaminate the environment

The following is an interview with Venus Project Team Leaders. Following that is a condensed presentation of the tenets, philosophy, and goals, or the  “Activist Orientation Guide” of the Zeitgeist Movement, also known as the activist wing of “The Venus Project”

An Interview With Venus Project Team Leaders

Activist Orientation Guide of the Zeitgeist Movement

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The Big Auto Makers Better Watch Carefully How They Spend Their Bailout Packages, Or Suffer The Fate Of The Dinosaurs…

From two sides of the globe, the French Riviera and Melbourne Australia, we see two companies developing engines that run on air. In Nice France former state of the art formula one engine developer Guy Negre’s company MDI (Motor Development International). In Melbourne Australlia Angelo Di Pietro developer of an amazing air engine remarkable for it’s size.

A Jules Verne Reality

Two Different Yet Working Models

The Magnetic Air Car™

Yet to be seen is the Magnetic Air car a technology being produced by Magnetic Air Cars, Inc. that claims to be renewing the 1932 dream of J.M. Custer of Piggott, Ark. to build a car that runs on air.

Custer built a working model with a motor that filled the air tanks until a pressure of 200 PSI was obtained. As the warm air went through the engine and cooled, it was recovered and drawn into a compressing chamber, where it was reheated again and returned to the tank.  Manual Parks CEO of Magnetic Air Car™ tells us “Our prototype Magnetic Air Car™ is the end result of that first step made more than 75 years ago to provide a clean-tech, low-cost solution for our current energy crisis. We are passionate about fulfilling Custer’s vision”.

“A battery starts a magnetic motor… which in turn drives a small but powerful on-board air compressor. The air flow is then tubocharged and multiplied to where the resulting horse-pressure™ smoothly powers the car to incredible speeds… without ever getting hot and without ever having to be stopped for external recharging or refueling.”

“Our engineers have developed a solution for manufacturing air while the vehicle is in motion which may provide an unlimited driving range.” – Manual Parks, CEO

The Magnetic Air Car allegedly uses three on-board substations to compress air up to “mach-one force airflow”, which is then channeled, modulated, and converted to torque that propels the car. They are using air-bearing turbochargers to create mechanical energy (converting air pressure to car motion), something both NASA and Toyota are also looking at. The car uses a silicon salt battery that has 30% more mass power than a lead acid storage battery and can charge completely within an hour. The 95 percent recyclable battery can also can be used in a temperature range from -40 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius.

According to Magnetic Air Car™ “The “Silicon Energy Storage Battery”, excites a zero point energy Magnetic Motor, builds to max RPM and recharges the battery. A Mag Motor spins and a High-Perf Air Compressor starts the ‘Big Blow.’ The big blow grows throught three specially Modified Direct Drive Turbochargers. It gets ampified BIG-time through ten compressive stages. Then the pressure is entraned into a captive turbine drive that drives an output shaft. ONE BIG BLOW! No Fuel, no pollution, green tech at its finest. We plan on using cleaning technology that will make the air cleaner than when we started using it.”

The process of chemosynthesis delivers a more environmentally friendly, high-capacity, quick-charging (1 hour), 10-year-life battery.

The turbochargers run on cold compressed air. The Air Cycle Machine™ consisting of an air-flow amplifier and air bearing turbochargers. It stirs up the air through convection.

The battery costs less than $70. The battery does not contain acid, it will retain its first charge sitting on a shelf for up to three years, and it can be recycled.

The air tank system design supplies air pressure to the patent pending cold air bearing turbocharger and Air Cycle Machine™. The Magnetic Air Car does not care about air flow since the motor creates enough pressure to drive any load. This is what makes the design a zero pollution solution.

They plan on using a patented water filtration system, which cleans the air entering the car’s motor. The air leaving the vehicle will actually be cleaner than the air entering the vehicle. They believe the filtration design can improve air quality in cities and reduce the effects of global warming.

The car’s exhaust will only increase the outside air temperature by five degrees at approximately 200,000 RPM. The inside of the cabin will be recycled with clean filtered air.

“The frictionless, oil-less bearing have now evolved as air bearings, capable of obtaining revolutions as high as one million RPM. The secret ‘sauce’ that was missing was an advanced air flow device, the Air Cycle Machine™, which our engineers began designing a few years ago.”

Manual Parks CEO states “We are providing a legitimate power source to run our compressor to power our Air Cycle Machine™ consisting of an air-flow amplifier and air bearing turbochargers in a unique way. We believe that the combination will be sufficient to power a modern new vehicle, or retrofit a used vehicle, such as a large SUV or truck. As an example, we have been approached to retrofit a few Hummers with our magnetic air engine. Others have suggested purchasing GM’s entire Hummer fleet.”

Along with great claims come great expectations. We are looking forward to seeing this vision reborn. The company plans to build its first prototype at Club Auto Sport in San Jose soon, and hopes to have it ready for production by 2010. — Download concept flyer Magnetic Air Car™

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We’re Investing So Much In Alternative Fuels, Sometimes We Almost Forget To Pump Oil!

By Tony Hayward

CEO, BP

Ever since we changed our name from British Petroleum to BP (Beyond Petroleum) in 2000, we’ve led the way in developing progressive, environmentally friendly alternatives to gasoline. These last few years of pouring money into biofuels and renewable energy sources have been so great that I can’t for the life of me remember why we used to drill for dirty old oil in the first place! What’s that? You mean we’re still pumping that stuff from hundreds of refineries all over the world?

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