Hi David,
The BlueGreen solution is an outstanding
opportunity to completely eliminate the California Energy Crisis. Buildings can
have conventional air-conditioning systems coupled to cold water district
cooling. They then no longer use their chillers but tap into the infinitely
large (by all standards this is an inexhaustible cold energy sink) offshore
energy resource for cooling. This brings a direct 80 to 90% savings in energy
expended to meet the demand. The next step is to build BlueGreen communities
where buildings and residences use Liquid Cooling resources at the building
envelop and plants to transform solar radiant energy into transpired vapor that
is condensed to generate generous supplies of fresh water - and at the same time
produce biomass to energy and/food and other kinds of plant
products.
The solaroof is a transparent Liquid-Cooled roof
construction. The solaroofgarden places green plants at the roof level, where
they are grown using advanced hydroponic and controlled atmosphere (enriched
CO2) production systems.
Thus far I have absolute silence from public
officials and authorities, while at the GrassRoots level the message is going
out and many are beginning to ask the inevitable questions that reflect poorly
on those in authority and the industrial complex that apparently want us to
continue to expend billions to obtain cooling that is (like solar) FREE and at
hand and can be accessed at a fraction of the cost of the commercial products.
These products and the utilities that power them reap a huge profit at the
expense of the environment.
Wake up! Go stick your toes in the water along any
of the beaches of California! What we have here is a new California Cold
Rush! This Cold Rush will again make California the place of opportunity
and growth but at the same time return to Californians the opportunity to
develop a pristine environment. Below is a request for support to get this
message out. Please let me here back from you and those of your associates who,
from their positions of trust and leadership can do so much to build the coming
BlueGreen revolution.
For you information I have attached these comments
from the source of the BlueGreen revolution:
On July 20, 2001 Dr.Jack R. Davidson CEO of the
Common Heritage Corporation,
Keahole point in Kona, Hawaii wrote, quote:
Richard,
I had time to reread your emails again this morning and to
visit your web site.
It looks like we are on the same track in trying to
build sustainable habitats
and sustainable communities. Common
Heritage Corporation believes the use
of the cold deep ocean water has great
potential for improving lives of people
(particularly the poor) living in
the coastal deserts of the world. Our primary
mission is to get these
innovations utilized for the benefit of such people.
We have put a great
deal of our efforts to this point in demonstrating these
possibilities. As
you know from our web site, we maintain a demonstration
facility at Keahole
point in Kona, Hawaii.
Within the suite of technologies that have
been developed is the capacity to
substitute for large amounts of
electricity used for air conditioning and industrial
cooling at great cost
savings in both developing and developed countries.
To this end I gave
a paper titled "California's Energy Future and Cold Ocean
Water" at the
Pacific Congress on Ocean Science and Technology Conference in
San Francisco
on July 9. I was hoping that the paper might strike up a cord
in line
with California's energy woes. I'd hoped it might get some attention
in the
press. Unfortunately there was no press at the conference sessions.
I
note you have recognized this potential for cooling California communities
in the sidebar items on your web page under "Green Energy" and "energy
solutions".
...The coast down from San Francisco through
Monterey has very cold surface
water (8 to 12 degree C). I was unable
to find any information on temperatures
below the surface for this
area. I had a lot on my plate at the time I was
trying to write the
paper and didn't have the time to research this thoroughly.
Anyway if it is
even a few degrees lower than the surface temperature it would
not be
necessary to go down to 2000 feet or more to get the Arctic water we
can
access in the rest of the ocean. The potential saving of electricity and
environmental costs are enormous even with long cold ocean supply
lines. In
the case of communities like Santa Cruz and Santa Clara it
may be available
at a fraction of the costs since these long pipes would not
be needed.
The state of California is not only one of the
greatest economies in the world,
it is also has one of the greatest
bureaucracies. We could probably spend
the rest of our lives getting
the state to give attention to this opportunity.
On the other hand
California coastal communities are pretty "Green" minded.
Of course they
will panic into non-green energy solutions (perhaps even nuclear)
like any
other group if faced with turning off their amenities. On the other
hand they are probably the most apt to listen if there is a "green
solution."
with major cost and environmental benefits. So a package
with cold ocean water
and your technologies might have a great attraction to
these communities.
It would seem that if Cornell University is
foresighted enough and capable of
moving to a long term green solution these
communities should be. They've
been in operation a year now. So
how do we go about getting their attention?
end quote.
You can see from this authoritative source that the energy
solution for California's
energy problem is close at hand indeed. I estimate
the ultimate reduction of
supply (while serving the same demand) would
conservatively be 20,000 Megawatts
of the peak production that would be
avoided. The blackouts represent a shortage
of about 5,000 Megawatts -
therefore current production need not be expanded.
No massive power plan
construction program is required. This is truly important
and Californians
deserve to be informed at a GrassRoots level. Please help!
