Deposit Laws as a Portion of the Reclamation Process:

Currently, our system for resource reclamation is a mess. During World War Two, US Citizens voluntarily scavenged for scrap metals and glass and recycled them for the war effort. Prior to World War Two and even today, Japan built nearly everything that required metal or glass from recycled materials. Today we have made some strides in to return to recycling materials, and as any foundry owner will tell you, the quality his product is much better when using recycled materials because there are fewer impurities to separate out.

In 1974 the people of the State of Michigan were moved to clean up their roadsides and waterways of recyclable materials, chiefly beverage containers, by placing a ten cent deposit on all soda and beer containers. Passed by a referendum to the States Constitution by the people themselves, the bottling industry fought with all the vigor their advertising dollars could spend. Yet, the reformation passed, and has been an overwhelming success. Deposit laws actually work, while voluntary recycling does not, because the consumer has no monetary motivation to recycle.

In comparison to deposit laws, mandatory recycling methods of handing out fines to those who refuse to recycle seems a draconian solution in comparison. Several states have since passed laws and referendums to mandate deposit laws. In those areas of the country, the less fortunate mow lawns, shovel snow, and scour ditches and trash cans for containers worth ten cents each. My childless elderly aunt used to my cousins and I in empty cans and bottles for chores she needed done.

While sixty cents a six pack may sound like allot of money, it is refunded upon return to any grocery store. Grocery stores gain business because the people returning the empties will usually shop with the money they receive. The bottlers make out well too. While Aluminum is worth far less than ten cents per can, their only investments are material handling equipment for returning the materials back to the bottle and can manufacturers. The trucks hauling the empties back to the bottler actually place less wear upon their rear tires as running empty trucks causes undo wear on the tires which cost more than two hundred dollars a piece. Multiplied by eighteen, times several hundred trucks and the savings can be astounding.

Mandating food and beverage container laws encompassing nearly everything on the grocers shelf would reduce solid waste disposal costs and space by more than thirty percent. The financial incentive to return containers will not negatively affect consumer prices of food as first claimed in Michigan in 1974. What it will do is to cause everyone in the solid waste creation train to work as a presorting team for resource reclamation.

Solar Chimney: The Heart of Resource Reclamation:

While supplying the power to recycle solid waste such as food and beverage containers, using a solar chimney for a heat source would allow the municipality to electrolyze biomass in order to extract useful materials such as polycarbons, trace minerals, and emerging contaminates.

It is not in the scope of this presentation to determine other materials which could be extracted and reused through this process, but lets ponder what else might be possible for those with the proper training and skills to discover from the vast resources which we are presently wasting.

In exchange for running the operations on a contractual basis, domestic oil companies such as Marathon or Sinclair could put their teams of petrochemical engineers to work finding new methods of manufacturing synthetic oils and plastics from this material which would be broken down to their atomic elements. These elements can be recombined into materials difficult to imagine today.

For instance, Teflon was invented quite by accident in 1938 when Du Pont engineers were working with gases related to Freon refrigerants and upon checking a frozen, compressed sample of tetrafluoroethylene, they discovered that the sample had polymerized spontaneously into a white, waxy solid to form polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE. Today, we find Teflon everywhere and inside of products we never give a second thought to.

Solids from biomass are among mankinds most dangerous byproducts, yet, when properly exploited, it can be disposed of inexpensively by selling the elements to manufacturers while generating clean drinking water, electrical energy, and fertile engineered topsoil in the process.

A quick check with any experienced organic gardener shows us that proper crops matched with fertile soils eliminates nearly all need for pesticides. Should the potential of engineered top soils bring on the wrath of a lobbying cabal of pesticide industries? It wouldnt have to if those existing companies were given the potential to create the perfect engineered soil which includes all the necessary nutrients for the specific crop being planted. Many organic farmers put down alfalfa or clover as ground cover to reduce erosion and increase nitrogen in their soil. Imagine commercial topsoil specifically engineered for corn, available to large farms with alfalfa already sowed into it. Additional nutrients are already added according to the specific needs of the farmer according to the soil analysis he sent in via the internet to Dow Organic Corp in the spring. Instead of selling potentially dangerous substances which could be used in an Oklahoma Terror style attack, bags of inert soils takes their place.

By running biomass, or sewage as it is commonly referred to, into a set of pipes capable of attaining high pressure without leaking, once electrolyzed, hydrogen and oxygen can be extracted for burning, recombining the elements to make steam, which in turn is used to generate electricity and clean water which can be sold inexpensively to fuel direct conversion hydrogen cells.

Availability of water is a great concern to municipal systems already. When adding to this the demand for direct conversion hydrogen cell powered automobiles, this concern will grow into a dilemma unless a solution can be readily found. Like Las Vegas, most large cities get their supply of gasoline across miles of pipeline. Pipelines which could just as easily be sending in sea water to the cities to be mixed with biomass to feed the demand for clean engineered water.

By adding sea water to the biomass, we will increase the salinity of the waste water which reduces the temperature needed to electrolyze it. An additional benefit can be realized by reducing the likelihood that leaking pipes will cause irreparable damage to the environment. When viewed from a security standpoint, almost anything can be used by a potential terrorist as a weapon, but a flood of seawater is mush less dangerous than potentially explosive gasoline!

Hydrogen production, used in conjunction with a solar chimney will provide the power to turn turbines both day and night with no need for tracking devices. A better land usage can be realized as well by combining Electrical Generation, Biomass Conversion, Resource Reclamation, and Water Purification all into one centrally located plant. Several plants may be built for each municipality and each of these will attract businesses interested in using the materials reclaimed from the processes.

Conclusion:

This process of combining operations will cause new challenges in the area of mineral rights. Before being implemented it will be necessary for the State, whose responsibility it is to safely dispose of biomass and provide clean water, to claim the mineral rights of all waste water, garbage and sewage. In return for the citizenry surrendering their individual rights to that which they paid to ingest, should realize a reduction in tax burden for its disposal because suddenly the disposal of such human waste will become an asset, instead of a liability. In todays increasingly litigious society, you can be certain that if all the legal loopholes are not proactively closed, similar to the mineral rights the federal government maintains over federal lands, a court battle could have a negative impact upon our desired results.

The combined operations employing solar chimneys with resource reclamation will cause an increase in jobs for even those now living on the socioeconomic margins. It will relieve tax burdens by allowing municipalities to recoup construction costs and cover the cost of operations and maintenance of the facilities.

It is truly a win-win situation for all involved. It addresses and solves environmental concerns, not merely appease them. It allows existing corporations to expand their markets and attract investors who are seeking to ease their minds of what kind of world they are leaving for their heirs. The worlds largest polluters will suddenly be capable of claiming themselves environmentally friendly and green.

Inexpensive power generation is what fueled the temporary carbon based economy. Hydrogen, and Solar Heat being inexhaustible energy stores, will mean the new solar hydrogen civilization will continue into a time in the future which is yet unimagined. Inexpensive electrical power combined with inexhaustible material supplies will ensure that America can once again enjoy the lead in the world manufacturing and export businesses.

The comparison of voluntarily removing our economy from carbon based energy which has a limited supply which is rapidly evaporating, that of Solar/Hydrogen can be compared to removing the US Federal Reserve from the Gold Standard in 1933. The economic recovery wasnt immediate, and wasnt even realized until after World War Two.
America and the rest of the developed world were in a deep depression in 1933. Everything was tried from wage increases to price fixing but each political move seemed to have the reverse of the touch of Midas as a result. Similarly today, the cost of living cannot be adjusted by raising minimum wage to ten or even twelve dollars and hour. The result would be the same except a loaf of bread would increase to four dollars and a gallon of milk would go up to eight. This sort of inflation hurts not only the middle class who get no pay increase, it actually burdens the working poor more because their Progressive Tax Bracket just went up one level while the price of living does as well.

What is needed to reduce the cost of living is to reduce the cost of energy. This cannot be done when the entire global economy is tied directly to the dwindling resources of energy that are based upon carbon. The idea of redistribution of wealth is nothing new. It is as old as mankind itself. When the industrial revolution was young, it was dependent upon inexpensive energy, a formula which has not changed, nor does it need to be changed. What needs to be changed in the formula is the integers which drives economic development and the growth of wealth. Our global economy today is dealing in a set of finite integers we call coal, gas, and oil. A rapid transistion to inexhaustible Solar/Hydrogen power will change that limited dynamic to an unlimited resource. An unlimited resource which will equate in and unlimited potential for continued growth in a global economy.

Closing Statement: still to come....

Post #1 First Paragraph "Today we have made some strides in to return to recycling materials' Try "Today we have made some strides in returning to recycling materials," Post #2 Second Paragraph, second line... "but lets ponder what else might be possible" lets should be let's -Technically, I guess since this is a voice over this one may not really matter but anyway- This is just at first glance. Looks like it is coming along pretty good.

Thanx Japes. I'm really counting on the gracious way you guys correct my mangling of the English language and the support you are giving me.

Even though it is a voice over, it is better for it to be as perfect as possible so that the narrator doesn't look and say to them self "...this guys an idiot for certain."

Little things like proper punctuation can go a long way in the opinion polls. It's hard enough for me to overcome the first impression caused by appearance, "This guy looks like he's better suited to pushing a cart and dumpster diving, than he does pushing an agenda..."

Okay, I'm in deep Kim Chee now! My closing is looking more like a cliamx to a sermon (and I don't mean because of the biblical quotes either) that ends with a Mechevellian Cabal of Byzantine Intrigue. I have this problem that when I get on a roll I don't know how to stop.

The wife even bought me a T-Shirt once that said:

"Help. I'm talking and I can't shut up!"

midrael:(a.k.a. David L), or anyone else for that matter; I really need allot of work on this part man. Please understand, I have some difficulties keeping things straight in my head sometimes and this is one of them.

I'm not wealthy. My father recently passed away and I am using what little life insurance he left to me to pay for this. In return for divulging this solution I ask in return; nothing. I hope to gain enough notoriety to fund my private research in electrical generation. But, if I get not one dime, I have fulfilled the promise I made to God and myself to give one last try, to leave the world a better place than what I was born into.

I have invited Senators, Congresscritters, Engineers of Automotive Industries and Civil Engineers as well to come to this meeting and see this presentation. It even includes a free lunch!

I need some help here. Some, hell, allot! Somebody please bail me out and rewrite this closing so that it doesn't turn out too inflammatory.

All I can promise in return for your services is credits on the DVD/CD that will be produced; under the title of "Writers" and a copy of your own mailed to you.

I'm willing to risk what little I own because, to parody Martin Luther King,

"I have a Pipe Dream!"

Don't forget, you have also invited a Structural Engineer. :) I agree with your comments about Engineers (Imagine that) and it is good to get some respect for a change instead of all the blame from the Lawyers. Your closing does need a lot of work especially since this is suppose to be more of a sales pitch. In our society today if someone decides they want to be offended today they will find a way to be offended. Since you want to reach as many people as possible and your closing statement is what they will remember this definately needs some work. I don't think I will have enough time this weekend to work on it but I am sure someone will. If not I will try to make time next week. Just some tips.. 1. Fewer Biblical references - Some people will start zoning out and miss the rest of your statement. Yes it had a lot to do with the environment but only minimal impact on your project. 2. Product placement - You only mentioned the prject once in the entire closing statement. Make this a conclusion and remind the "viewers" just what they have been watching this for and why your idea is a better solution. 3. Just remember High School English class (if you can, It's only been 12 years for me and I have trouble at times)...Introduction - Tell them what you are going to show them...Conclusion/Closing - Tell them what you showed them. I think if you keep these things in perspective you will do fine.

James, no way I could forget about you. Just remember to read and reply to that last email which asked you for particulars to send the invite to.

You are correct on all counts, of course.

I never suffer from writers block, I suffer, or should I say I'm known to make other suffer from, my bloviating (pack that in your pipe and smoke it Bill O'Riely).

Yes, I recall Highschool English 197? Same year Jumpin'Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones was all we talked about, now all we talk about are The Kidney Stones.

I'll work on this over the weekend and repost James.

Thanks a Million!

Joe

Looks like you're gettng awesome feed back. :) Thank you japes for helping. :) Joe, hows that book helping? I hope you've been able to find it useful. :)

Yes it is Diann, I struggle with some of the terms, but I keep right at it.

Closing Statements:

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Multo Enim Parvus
**##### To Make Much from Little

The innate ability of some people born with aptitude to solve physical problems with the least effort and materials and to overcome seemingly insurmountable difficulties in spite of contemporary logic and reasoning are known as engineers.

Engineers and Mechanics are more than just doers; they are the creative minds by which the rest of society depends upon for the comforts of heating, cooling, food, shelter, and clothing. There is hardly a thing made by man that can be touched, that has not had an engineer involved solving the problem of how to get it from one persons mind, and into the hands of another. The world of Engineers is the bridge between the artist and reality.

Without Engineers and Mechanics, the world reverts back to the Stone Age. Without Engineers and Mechanics to design and build economies fail or never develop. From a time before Armor and Castles until the present times, wars are lost and won dependent upon the genius of Engineers and Mechanics. Before the days of electronic voice messaging, messages to and from the front and between Generals were dependent upon Engineers and Mechanics to ensure a line of communication was open for travel. We call these roads. Often confused by the layman, roads for commerce and battle alike are called lines of communication. Today, without Electronic Engineers, modern civilization itself would cease to exist as economies would crumble at the feet of the monetary giants who control them.

If Engineers and Mechanics ran the world, the world would be a much better place. Energy, food, water, streets, roads and cities would be clean, economical, and make perfect sense to the average human being. Be they chemical, mechanical, structural, or any of the many host of specialties, the grandest economists of all are Engineers. It is their mind set to ensure that no amount of material or energy should go to waste.

Far removed from its original purpose, the organization known as the Masons was originally formed by engineers as a sort of trade union with the loftier goals of creating a peaceful society of both charity and economy that might spread in its movement across the globe into a day of true enlightenment for all of mankind.

Today, if we could unite all the diverse avocations of engineering into a single endeavor which would most benefit our nation and the world at large it would be the very purpose of this presentation. In this case, to make much from little is not the problem, nor is it the reverse.

For instance; how much energy do we expend digging in the earth, firing up electrical power plants, and refining aluminum just to make a single aluminum can which is tossed into the trash and returned to the earth at a solid waste disposal site where it is never to be used again? Aluminum is a semiprecious material which is much cheaper to reuse than it is to dig new from the ground and refine simply to replace. The way aluminum is being disposed of today will make this limited resource much harder and more expensive to replace when the world has run out of geological locations to mine it.

An Energy and Resource Reclamation Plant using a Solar Chimney combined with Hydrogen Power would be a boom to our struggling economy as our nation quickly converts it presently limited carbon based economy to a Solar Hydrogen based Economy.

A Solar Chimney based Energy and Resource Reclamation Plant would be capable of cleaning up our environment. Instead of simply hiding toxic waste we can convert it to useful products at a fraction of the cost conventional methods require. Lowering the cost of refined materials would allow domestic manufacturers to produce finished products for less money than imports which depend upon inexpensive labor.

Combined with inexpensive electrical power, the cost of living for workers would go down and allow manufacturers and business alike to hold down inflationary labor costs. If cost of living costs dropped by as little as five percent workers on the economic margins making ten dollars and hour would realize the equivalent of a thousand dollar per year pay increase.

These economical savings could be studied into non-existence, for surely without the help of the Congress, less scrupulous investors and manufacturers would certainly expect to see increases in their own worth and returns instead of trying to make America more competitive by reducing the cost of living for the workers and laborers living on the margins of the economy.

Using a solar chimney in a power plant operation combined with resource reclamations would allow land bound cities which depend upon coastal areas for importing fuels across pipelines to replace dangerous fossil fuels with seawater which can be converted into potable drinking water, distilled water for industry and direct hydrogen conversion automobiles as well as hydrogen for other power needs such as replacing natural gas in our homes.

With Congressional help, the city of Las Vegas, which is not only land bound but also known for its blistering heat, would make the most logical location point for the first of what will become several Solar Chimney based Energy and Resource Reclamation Plants. The Electric City," as it soon shall be known, would be able to pipe in seawater and sewage from the greater Los Angles area and combine it with its desert heat to send back electrical power in payment. Federal Projects such as cleaning the water in Lake Mede from past contaminations and refilling it with their excess from seawater piped in from California. Instead of piping in gasoline from Southern California, Las Vegas would be able to send back engineered potable drinking water and distilled water to be used as fuel for automobiles.

The ideas presented here are available for everyone to use for good and peaceful means. Dynamic Laboratories of Las Vegas, Nevada seeks no financial payments in the form of royalties for the service of informing Americas Leaders and its citizenry of this development. From our civic leaders we do ask them that they would do more than to consider employing Solar Chimney based Energy and Resource Reclamation Plants. We would ask that they fund these projects as public works.

Dynamic Laboratories of Las Vegas, Nevada wishes to remind the general public that it is your civic duty to demand that your representatives and public servants fund this project in Las Vegas as a national test bed for clean Solar/Hydrogen power. Once our project has become successful, you can be certain that every major metropolis across the country will be demanding similar project in your own home town.

Dynamic Laboratories of Las Vegas, Nevada is a wholly own private research company dedicated to providing clean and efficient energy for Americas future generations. It is an institution which depends upon the generosity of government, businesses, and the general public to make financial contributions for its survival. We hope that this presentation will be payment in advance for the fulfillment of our financial needs.

This is much better. Very easy read compared to what you had before. A few commas and such are missing but Very well done. I will give it an editory look at lunch time.

Sorry Joe, been a busy week I haven't had the time to give it the thorough look it deserves. Nothing stood out glaring to me though. It is much cleaner and crisper than your original closing though. I won't be able to make it to the presentation (I'm in Florida these days) but I would love to see the animation. I will get back to you later.