[GJM] Cyber Space Society and, Re: Lower the Planet's Human Footprint Lower the Energy Pollution
W. Curtiss Priest
bmslib at mit.edu
Fri Jul 21 17:22:49 MDT 2006
Dear Cyberspace Society List Member,
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***
I am responding to Rayleigh's recent post on energy. As an
aside, I found that Rayleigh lives close to Boston, and he
joined me and my wife at a "Great Woods" Tom Petty Concert
three weeks ago. If you haven't kept up with Petty, here is
a selected quotation from this month's Esquire, as it appeared
in the Boston Globe:
"Whether you're pro- or con- Bush, you've got to admit it: The
guy lied. And he continues to do so. I can't understand why
he's just not run out on a rail" (July 11, 2006). So, think
about getting the Esquire, or even better, get Zollo's
Conversations with Tom Petty at your favorite bookstore. The
concert, though not as enthralling as the Who in 1969 performing
"Tommy" was terrific. Petty does God's work.
***
Stephen Zarlenga, Director of the American Monetary Institute,
has made a very serious effort to get politicians to focus on
issues of money and finance. The "Science of Money" was
published about five years back, and, he has set up 11 state
chapters, travels widely, and has written model legislation.
His 3rd annual Chicago conference is this September as he recently
posted to the list.
***
Now, as I personally know Raleigh, and I think he is a great
guy, talking about all the serious issues, and I want to publicly
invite Raleigh to draft model, federal (or state) legislation.
Recall, I am author of "Forces that Led to the Laws on Health,
Safety and the Environment," so I was on the tail end of the
"Great US Environmental Movement" of the 60's and 70's. I didn't
draft legislation, I converted legislation to regulations, such
as protecting workers from lead poisoning themselves, and their
children (dust on their clothes) !! The next time you stand
on the "treads" in your bath tub, you can either praise or
curse my name (CPSC, 1973).
***
So, I challenge Rayleigh to draft an "energy bill." Then,
I suggest he look at how Stephen has promoted his "money
bill" -- see http://www.monetary.org.
I say this because I am not confident that much of what we
say gets out. And, blogs, may be a fad, except for already
recognized writers (with a few exceptions).
So, Raleigh, how about posting a draft bill to the list, say,
September 1, 2006?
I think the bill should basically say this:
As all energy resources, fossil or nuclear, are
in limited supply, and as all fossil fuels create excess
CO2, and as all heat, not received by the sun each day, adds
to the temperature burden of the planet, we call for a gradual
introduction of US energy consumption where, ultimately, all
energy expenditures must equal all -- captured -- solar energy,
in the month or year of reckoning.
As this proposal will cause economic burdens and economic
opportunities, we will have a "phased in" requirement:
1. by the year 2015, the country must reduce all
energy consumption to twice what we receive
from the sun in a given year
2. by the year 2025, consumption cannot exceed
50% of the total consumed via solar sources
3. by the year 2035, consumption must exactly
equal, or be less than, the total captured
solar gain in a given year
Aggressive phase-in? Oh, yeah! Realistic? Let the political
system deal with what it can accomplish, or not. The point
is to give a benchmark against which we can compare. With
no benchmark, we, and not signing the Kyoto accord, will squeeze
every last Btu out of fossil fuel and nuclear energy before
we squarely face the issue, and by then, my house, at 500 ft.
elevation, will probably be at 200 ft. elevation from sea level.
Only the upper towers of Boston will be above water.
Sincerely,
Curtiss
Do forward to appropriate lists, folk, etc.
Raleigh Myers wrote:
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> Ra Energy Fdn.
> Raleigh Myers
> Worksheet bio
> http://raenergy.igc.org/ArchitypeOfFairness.html
> Blog
> http://raenergy.blogspot.com/
> Op Ed
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=raenergy&start=0&scoring=d&ie=UTF-8&
>
> If what we are contemplating is not fair to our progeny we have a
> failed event in retrospect
> --Raleigh
>
> Lower the Planet's Human Footprint Lower the Energy Pollution.
>
> We have a fifty to one land discrepancy. We use fifty acres of land
> for a family of five, in the over developed first world, when we
> could easily get along with one acre with some commons and
> technologies made available globally.
> In the over developed fist world we build five cities for each group
> requiring almost the whole population to move from one sub city to
> the next each day using fossil fuel to do it.
> http://raenergy.igc.org/solidarity.html#Cities
>
> In the over developed fist world the production of food takes over a
> hundred calories for every one calory consumed and we transport our
> food on average 1600 miles before consumption.
> http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:hG3wSWUXl6cJ:www.energybulletin.net/5045.html+Fuel+Used+In+Food+Production&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2
>
> In the over developed fist world the production of food takes more
> than it's share of the fresh water on the planet to service 20
> percent of the population. The core investor group is attempting to
> privatize global water resources. Privatization is theft.
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-24,GGLG:en&q=Water+Privatization+is+theft
>
> We can reduce the amount of water needed by consolidation. One family
> of five per acre of land would put over a billion acres under
> cultivation world wide with the water labor and processing done on
> site with some commons and wilds added ala Permaculture. Just the
> lawns in the USA would feed half the population.
> http://raenergy.igc.org/consolidation.html
>
> Food grown at the enduser site with water garnered from Hydrogen used
> to heat cool produce electricity _ the Hydrogen produced from
> polluted water and delivered in one pipe to the end user site
> containing the energy and the water supply. H85 solves the water and
> energy for an energy consolidation strategy to feed an house all on
> Earth who have right to be here.
> http://raenergy.igc.org/stupid.html#Town
>
> We talk of immigration reform when we are enslaving migrants to do
> the work we could do for ourselves while all along we could have
> given empowerment technologies to the migrants as well as ourselves.
> The migrants could stay home and grow their own food instead of
> attempting to get money for food that we supply to them because they
> are here producing food for us rather than tending to business at
> home. WE need to wake up to the fact that our selfishness has been
> our down fall. We need to come back to a synergy that is fair to all
> of the children of the universe who have a right to be here.
> http://raenergy.igc.org/focus.html
>
> VIDEO: What is a Progressive?
> http://cdncon.vo.llnwd.net/o2/fotf/progressiveVideo/swf/index.html
>
> Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can
> change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
> ~Margaret Mead
>
> Select and paste if the URLs are split Google it for more info also
> click on groups example: Solar Hydrogen Economy
>
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>
> Some other lectures leading to solutions
> http://raenergy.igc.org/Googleclick.html
>
> Corporatist - Fascistic factoids
> http://raenergy.igc.org/sig.html
>
> Ra Energy Fdn.
> Raleigh Myers
> Worksheet bio
> http://raenergy.igc.org/bio.html
> Blog
> http://raenergy.blogspot.com/
> Op Ed
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=raenergy&start=0&scoring=d&ie=UTF-8&
>
> Call to Action blog a virtual seminar for change. I may be singing to
> the choir, with these talking points, but there are over six billion
> people who need attitude adjustment as you were in the same need just
> a bit ago. They need this help because many of you did not share your
> newly acquired awareness with them. If you have made your
> contribution please use these points for more outreach_give them a
> piece of your MIND. http://raenergy.igc.org/mindone.html
>
> http://raenergy.igc.org/ArchitypeOfFairness.html#Think
>
> Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and
> governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the
> majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs&
> And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our
> sphere under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one
> system, one design.
> Roger
> Bacon
>
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> Ra Energy Fdn.
> Raleigh Myers
> Worksheet bio
> http://raenergy.igc.org/bio.html
> Blog
> http://raenergy.blogspot.com/
> Op Ed
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=raenergy&start=0&scoring=d&ie=UTF-8&
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