Jobs@100% Sustainability

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Food, Energy, Transportation, Urban Design, Climate for an Eternity without Oil!

Jobs @ 100% SustainabilityGetting out in Front for the Components of our Genes!

We are living in the eye of the hurricane, blessed with all of historys

technologies, and cursed with resources and an environment that we have pushedto their irreversible limits, while supporting unprecedented population levels the

stuff of horror films!What we need now is vision, something to create a much more permanent

global paradigm that can serve all the combinations and recombinations of our

genes, forever! This is very strange language for those who have spent their entire

lives clinging by their fingernails to jobs and the survival that they hope their ever-

changing jobs will bring! What do I mean?

The complexities of energy supply in an eternal universe are beyond the

scope of my intellect, but the longest-term energy source throughout the universe

is the nuclear fusion that occurs in the stars, our sun being one of them. Can wesomehow tap into the nuclear fusion that is occurring in the center of our solar

system?

We had better hope so, as we have been incredibly busy using up the solarenergy, trapped as carbon for hundreds of millions of years, in the coal and

petroleum that we have already burned in the last 200 years! Can we replace that

astonishing rate of energy consumption with the far far more gradual dose of solar

power?

That is a very big question, and one that scientists have begun to turn their

well-focused attention to! But, we also need the attention of both artists and

alchemists, and everyone like you and me, to replace our cars and cell phones,


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earthmovers and skyscrapers, hospitals and schools with an infrastructure that

can survive on what shines onto us every day. Houston, we have a problem!But, humans are designed, no, have evolved to thrive, on similar problems

this is no more serious than survival in the face of snarling lions on the savannahs

of the far yesteryear. So, what can you and I do to thrive when all of our light

switches no longer work, when the car has sat in the drive for over 3 years with aquarter of a very expensive tank of gas, waiting for its last use?

We are not there yet, although all of the recent political and financial market

turmoil can clearly be ascribed to those at the top, with vision beginning to freak

out over the same, and the related global climate chaos certainties. If our

visionaries: financial, scientific, political and spiritual are beginning to freak out,

where does that leave you and me?Most of us have used a paint brush, and the famous admonition, never paint

yourself into a corner has also been passed on to us. How much of a corner do you

all think we have left? There are deniers, of course, who will remain in their

corners!Life is wonderful, manifesting itself in all kinds of forms, colors and

chemistries. It is surprising that some of them, at least, hopand that is what wehave to do now, because we are surrounded by far too many walls!

The only thing in science that relates to a hop is a new paradigm, or

several, and that is what I am proposing now! The problems are as follows:

1. We will be out of petroleum within a generation, and coal within 200years.

2. Burning any more of the above will seriously destroy coastalinfrastructure and cities that arguably took at least the past 500 years to

build, through sea level rises.

3. Petroleum supplies 95% of the inputs that go into global food production,in the form of fuels, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.

4.

The exploitation of petroleum in the last century gave rise to almost all ofthe technologies upon which our current world depends, from

transportation, again sourced 94% in North America on petroleum-based

fuels, to plastics, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.5. Figures do not exist for this category, but I wager that 95% of global

jobs also depend in some part at least, on petroleum. The paint used to

paint oneself into a corner is also very largely derived from petroleum.

It is when those with high salaries at the top begin to panic, and cause stock

market crashes, that the rest of us must put the far-seeing goggles on too, and

look at every detail of our immensely detailed lives to find ways to change them,hopefully by making one single hop toward what will be 100% sustainable! What

does that mean?100% sustainable is what I have iterated above, living every day without

using a single drop of petroleum, a single lump of coal both fossil fuels, theremains of which can only be considered a bank account to be held in reserve for

truly rainy days, or millennia!

Let me briefly discuss time. If a generation is 20 years, then it is only 100generations back to the Year 0, wow, thats few! Furthermore, if we divide those

100 generations by the 5 that we know in our own families, grandparents


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to grandchildren, that multiple is only 20 times those 5 generations back to

the Year 0! So, our history as a species is really very very short!I would like to discuss a time that is only the same multiple forward in time,

in the Year 4000, which will be a very long time without any petroleum or coal of

any kind! What must we do now to assure that the components of our genes, those

parts that combine and recombine with each new generation and are thereforedefinably eternal, can still survive even after 2,980 years without petroleum?

If the horses/tycoons at the top of our species are now all stampeding

toward what they hope will offer them and their families refuge from the above-

mentioned calamities, taking with them most of the worlds resources, what does

that leave for the vast majority of the worlds populations? Where will jobs come

from as industries fold due to skyrocketing price increases in materials and energy?When will we finally see the supermarket shelves truly empty?

Doom and gloom, Ive had enough of that! My heart stopped for 10 minutes

as my forehead was being sutured under a general anesthetic following a caraccident on the Langata Road, just outside of Nairobi, Kenya in 1980. When I

regained consciousness, it took me awhile to realize that I could no longer walk,speak or remember, and that that was in any way unusual. How close is the human

condition globally to a similar predicament, and what ways might we use to find our

way forward in the eternity of time that awaits?

As previously mentioned, the sun will shine for the foreseeable future, andthere are scientists who believe that we have enough solar energy falling on the

Earth daily to power all of

our needs. Furthermore, I

believe that the solar

resources of the past are

valuable bank accounts

that unscrupulous peoplewill inevitably attempt to

gain control of to pay their

way to a more comfortableexistence that is the way

of mankind!

But, the daily dose

of solar radiation is so well

distributed, so predictable,

so eternal that it is much

more difficult for any smallgroup of people to control

and use to extort powerand wealth from the rest of

us! So, lets depend only on that daily dose!What if we were to build Linear Cities, north to south, at right angles to the

prevailing westerly winds in the Northern Hemisphere with ducted wind turbines,

illustrated above, along their roofline to generate power from the cheapest form ofsolar energy, the wind? What if we were to build them across the States, across the


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continents, around the world, especially in areas of high wind speeds, drawn back

from the beaches, which will be subject to the flooding shown above.

The map above shows both the NRELs color-coded estimate for wind

potential, and the approximate positioning of Linear Cities between the major

population centers to best take advantage of this solar resource. The blue linesindicate any number of north to south Linear City designs, as shown at A) and on

the right below, and the red lines the east to west designs as shown at B) below.


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How might we build such a massive undertaking, you laugh! Pleaseremember that, unless we can design and construct an infrastructure before we

reach the end of the Anthropocene Age of Oil, probably only a quarter of us may

survive, or less as we no longer have the 1:5 ratio of horses to humans that we last

had in 1915 as we transitioned from the horses used in agriculture andtransportation to the ubiquitous petroleum-driven infrastructure that we now take

for granted!

The phased construction need be no more complicated than 1-2-3, and will

provide massive numbers of jobs as we transition from fossil fuels to the 100%

sustainable future that the eternal progression of our genes will require to survive,

as below!

1. We can use our existing highway network to install wind turbines alongthe north to south expressways, shown in blue on the map above, and as1 in the illustration above.

2. We can install both high speed, electrified rail near the base of those windturbines, and tracks in the expressway, like slot-car tracks, but buried

several inches under the surface to render them safe to pedestrians andvehicles crossing them. The technology now exists to pick up that current

remotely in the vehicles through induction using coils mounted on the

cars, giving the cars unlimited range on such roads! All of these tracks,


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and the grid that connects them can be made using high-temperature

superconducting technologies, so that electricity generated by windturbines in South Dakota can be used without much loss to power

anything in areas with lower wind speeds.

3. We can build Linear Cities along the same north to south expressways tobring populations back out of the cities, much closer to fields for foodproduction, organically and manually, so that we no longer need

petroleum to support such large populations. Please remember that

before the age of the automobile in 1900, 60.4% of the American

population was classified as rural, and were reasonably able to walk into

fields to cultivate their own food. Now, only 4% of rural residents make

their living farming, the last time most Americans lived on farms was in1880 and the last time the majority lived in rural communities was in

1920. We will have an enormous challenge to feed, clothe, employ and

transport Americans when there is no more oil! We must use the most

energy efficient transportation, trains, the only feasible long-term energysources, the renewables that run from the nuclear fusion in our sun, and

the close proximity of all residents of new buildings to food productionareas, which is only possible using linear-form cities!

4. This is frankly an enormous project, to replace all of this countrys energy,food and transportation infrastructures to those that require no petroleumat all. But, it is also one that is imperative to do and to do quickly. If we

wait until there is no more petroleum, or until petroleum is only double

the price that it is today, how many of our children do you think willsurvive? Just like the above illustrations show how we can progress in

stages, the one immediately above illustrates the installation of the wind

turbines first, followed by a tent-like structure in Kevlar, under which

portable housing/trailers/mobile homes can be placed until we can build

the high-speed rail, the induction tracks, and the Linear Cities.


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5. Can you imagine how many jobs, staged over the next 100 years buildingsuch an infrastructure will create? Can you imagine what will happen topopulation levels without the food, energy and transportation that are

currently supplied by petroleum? We simply must build an infrastructure

that requires no petroleum to function as rapidly as possible, without

which well be fighting neighbor to neighbor for every job, ear of corn,and kilowatt of electricity that will be meagerly available!

6. Contrast that with the scene below, as bucolic as they come, save for thewhisper of the maglev train passing in the orange tunnel:

With the forthcoming certainty of the End of Oil, and a global food crisis

looming, there are more and more who advocate much greater reliance on organic

farming methods. Organic farming methods however are labor intensive, as

mandated by the low-petroleum era, and resolved by the much greater proximity to

the land that Linear Ecocities provide. This is one of the only ways to get the hands

into the fields, as 80% of us now live in cities, far from food production areas! As

Linear Ecocities run through cropland, all hands are either a 10-minute walk from

where they may work for the day, or a short or long train ride from the field and

seasonal crop that must be tended.

The infrastructure paradigm detailed above can move toward supplying all of

our food, energy and transportation needs, but cities do not yet span large bodies

of water, nor filter into the deep countryside. Therefore, we also need new 100%

sustainable technologies to accommodate these 2 situations, and many others,

once there is no more oil! Because of its imminent disappearance, we will be forced

to abandon its combustion and resultant global greenhouse effects, but we must

not replace it with any other fossil fuels, including coal!


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Those in the coal industry especially have long argued for its continuation,

arguing that discontinuing it would result in catastrophic job losses. But, just think

of how many jobs will inevitably be created in the construction of the infrastructure

above, how many will be required to maintain such an infrastructure, while

providing the world with freedom from fossil-fuel poverty and the catastrophe of

global climate change!

The world as it is will surely experience both global climate change and the

end to petroleum extraction. When those who deny the certainty of these two

phenomena pull their heads out of the holes into which they have inserted them,

they may just see that the future does indeed provide for many many jobs!


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100% Sustainable Sea & Land TransportationTherefore, please view below projects to create gas turbine/flywheel/battery

hybrid cars with 4-wheel drive and regenerative braking that will burn practicallyany fuel and protect their occupants much better in

accidents, please see the variety of accident scenarios

below. In head-on collisions, the more rigid, pointed

central chassis is very unlikely to meet point to

point with the opposing car. The front bumpers

act as triggers to detach the front A-arm

on that side, and the front fenders are

also mounted to slide to the rear on the

appropriate side, thereby reducing the

deceleration felt by the occupants ofboth cars.

Similarly, the rear and side

undersides are sloped so that the impacted

car is thrust upwards and its occupants pressed into their seats, with which they

already have contact. This is both automatic and passive, does not depend upon

fallible technologies to work, and can cut the g-forces felt by all occupants, thereby

saving many lives!

The front A pillars on either side of the windshield are greatly reinforced to

keep the roof from collapsing as the impacting car slides under the impacted car!

That still leaves the oceans as poorly crossable once there is no more

petroleum to fly aircraft or power ships. How can global passenger and cargo trips


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continue without petroleum? That may be easier than we currently realize! All we

have to do is to build kite-sail hydrofoil hovercraft ships to rapidly cross the oceans

when we can no longer fly across them.

We mustdesign and build much more rapid sailing ships that get all or

most of their energy from renewable sources, and quickly eliminate the

highly polluting ships burning bunker crude of today that will not be able

to sail due to lack of fuel, in any case, soon.

With the imminent demise of our fossil-fueled economy, we must already develop a

100% sustainable transportation, energy and food producing infrastructure! The

land-based paradigms are discussed above, but we must also consider what to do

about transportation at sea, especially if we are unable to fly conventional aircraft

after the end of petroleum, and to transform what is the dirtiest form of

transportation in terms of high-nitrogen and high-sulfur fuel use, the dumping of

black, grey, and bilge water that can contain invasive species, into much

cleaner and attractive forms of transportation.

Currently, Seagoing vessels are responsible for an estimated 14% of emissions of

nitrogen from fossil fuels and 16% of the emissions of sulfur from petroleum uses

into the atmosphere. In Europe ships make up a large percentage of the sulfur

introduced to the air, as much sulfur as all the cars, trucks and factories in

Europe put together. By 2010, up to 40% of air pollution over land could come

from ships because the fuel used in oil tankers and container ships is high in sulfur

and cheaper to buy compared to the fuel used for domestic land use. A ship lets

out around 50 times more sulfur than a truck per metric tonne of cargo carried.6

1. The Hovercat uses an aluminum,or composite catamaran hull,

with hovercraft capability

between the hulls to lift them out

of the water so that the kites can

pull the ship forward fast

enough to enable the hydrofoils

to work. All the kite sails are

computer controlled and are

attached to domes that double

as elevated air intakes for the hovercraft.

The dark blue tinted glass bridge is movable from port to starboard to permit

more accurate maneuvering in close quarters and small ports. As cargo and

passenger vessels, they are roll on/roll off with fail-safe bow and stern closures,

light weight, high maneuverability and speed, and fun!


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2. The Hexcat again uses the hovercraft and hydrofoil technologies, with a novelkitesail launching & deployment

arrangement that can put many

kites into the sky, both to

increase the traction of the

available wind, and to reach

winds that may be stronger, or in

a more favorable direction

further aloft. As with the

Hovercat above, the hydrofoils

are retractable so that both

ships can launch from and return

to beaches and concrete launching aprons. Both are envisaged for use as cargo

ships, passenger ships, or both at the same time.

3. Why not harness this technologyto make transoceanic journeys even

more efficient by linking many craft

together? Please see the illustration

below for a caterpillar configuration

that may just become the monarch

of the seas!

I don't think that the weight of the

sails/kites and rigs is an issue as kites

now have helium filled bladders in their

leading edges to get them out of the

water and into the air.

This concept has 2 launching

masts in carbon fiber that pull the kites

out of a launching chute at the bow

(orange above, yellow below). The top

illustration shows an existing

hovercraft that is capable of carrying 3

Hummers and substantial containers

with equipment. As existing kite sails

are capable of pulling kite boarders

completely out of the water, see the

illustrations below, one of the


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functions of the hydrofoils is to keep the craft in the water and not launched to

a height where the landing could be damaging!

I am sure that the day of the end of petroleum is coming soon and, even if it is

not soon, we need to keep the maximum amount of petroleum unburned both

to preserve the atmosphere and for use in the production of sails, plastics,pharmaceuticals, fertilizer and pesticides, so that we can continue to eat!

Why not extend this concept to wind-

driven flight using recycled and lightened

aircraft fuselages, after there is no more fuel to

power them? This concept uses tethered wing

keels that also have wheels to roll directly onto

rails for continued trans-continental journeys

once the trans-oceanic part of global voyages

is finished eg. New York to Moscow non-stop!


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PS.The following is a comparison between the number of pagesreferenced by Google for the combination of Wall Street and food

production, and Wall Street and Oil Production, and the Dow Jones

Industrial Averages for the past decade. It seems that there is a reasonably

close correlation between all 4! Lets get some grad students onto this to see

whether we can make Wall Street more transparent, so that fewer people

lose their shirts there!


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What may be interesting in examining the above is that a high occurrence of

sites that mention Wall Street, and oil production and/or food

production in the same article came afterthe crash in 2002-03, whereas it

continued and precededthe crash this time, to rise far higher still after thecrash. So, perhaps Wall Street learned just how important oil productionand/or food production are to world economies, and has done its best to

safeguard its own money, and to transfer others money into their own

accounts to safeguard that as well?

If we can render energy supplies and food production more predictable,

steady, and subject to democratic influence, perhaps the world will be able

to support more people with less waste and volatility, more predictably!

Therefore Linear Ecocities because, in the end, we must imagine how to

manage without a single drop of oil! And, we will more easily reach the goalof 100% sustainability the sooner that we start, and the quicker we

progress!

I have constructed this model as a goal at the end of the first curve in anoval racecourse. I challenge anyone to provide a better, more sustainablemodel! At the same time, I am also happy to predict that all of us will not be

living in Linear Ecocities like those that I illustrate in 1,000 years and 10,000years. Just as car, medical and communications technologies have evolved

rapidly, the Linear Ecocity will also be subject to rapid evolution, including

paradigm change! At least, I hope so!

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