Hydrogen Transmission Network: Integrated Clean Energy, Clean Water Solution

As most governments are considering harmful solutions like nuclear energy and piecemeal solution like clean coal, there is now an invention that stands to provide both energy and water to everyone, while in the process consuming no irreplaceable resources, generating no waste, and replacing two infrastructures - electric grid and water system - with a single elegant network whose efficiency is significantly greater than that of the electric grid. This solution solves two resource shortages for foreseeable future while significantly reducing their burden on the environment and having the potential to both stimulate the economy in the short term and realize great savings in the long term.

The proposal is on the Climate change website of the Australian government, and it has been introduced to governments worldwide. It is called The Hydrogen Transmission Network (HTN).

Here is a summary of what it does and how it works:

How it Works

Solar energy is to power electrolysis of ocean water. The oxygen is to be released into the air; the hydrogen is to be sent through pipes to every home, every city, every farm, every industrial and commercial installation, to be reacted on the spot with oxygen in the air to produce energy and water at once. The basis of energy will move from the electric grid, with its current mix of coal, nuclear, and hydroelectric sources, to the abundant energy of the sun and the energy of the ocean. Meanwhile water needs will be provided from the oceans, reducing the burden on the freshwater resources in countries where they are inadequate to meet the needs of the growing population.

Environmental Advantages

At the price of one, round the clock, people will get on-demand clean energy and clean water, without destruction of anything that cannot be replaced and without production of any harmful byproducts. More area will become capable of sustaining farms, human habitation, and forests, creating more food and clothing for internal use and export, accommodating the population growth, and creating green area to absorb atmospheric CO2. The sources for energy – currently mostly fossil fuels – and for water – currently freshwater, which is in many places inadequate and running out – will become the sun and the ocean, neither of which are polluting and neither of which are at any risk of running out for centuries. The process will produce as its byproduct only water, which will then go back into the environment to create greenery and replenish the water taken from the ocean.

Economic Advantages

The HTN will create huge numbers of jobs in the short term for its development and construction, putting back to work the people dislocated by industrial flight abroad. It also will lift the economy out of the financial crisis. In the long term, it will save huge amounts of money by replacing two infrastructures – electricity grid and water – with a single efficient network of hydrogen pipes. The fossil fuel resources will last longer and be used for higher-end goods. The greater farmland will be able to sustain greater population, reduce world hunger, and produce more farm products for exports or internal use. More forestland will become possible, creating more area for CO2 absorption and for regeneration of the planet. A sustainable, well-supplied, population will become possible in places such as Australia, Israel, the American Southwest, the Arabian Peninsula, and ultimately the deserts of Central Asia, India, China, and Africa. The deserts will become farmland and forest land, reducing hunger and absorbing the atmospheric CO2, and tipping the balance from disaster toward sustainability.

Technological Feasibility

The technology for all three parts of the HTN exists already. The energy efficiency of the mechanism has been computed at 50% to 70%, which is far more than the current electric grid. The RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) report proposes a special type of pipes – steel pipes with internal glass pipe – to make sure that the hydrogen is delivered safely and on demand. With solar-powered electrolysis plants at the point of input, and fuel cells or special engines at the point of output, this will create a single environmentally clean, economic, elegant and reliable infrastructure to provide for the energy and water needs of houses, cities, towns, offices, and commercial and industrial installations of any country that implements the Hydrogen Transmission Network.

The original proposal was made for Australia and described for Australia, but it can be useful just about anywhere. It is found in greater detail on

http://www.users.bigpond.com/adda1234/HP.htm

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Sustainable Development vs. Artificial Armageddon

In 1998, after observing activities of the Christian Right in California where I was living and working, I predicted what was going to happen. And it did. I knew what they were up to, and I described them as Nazis of America. I knew that they were going to seriously undermine, the country, and they did just that. And now it is time to pick up the pieces.

To be fair, the ideologies of the 1990s that they have replaced were full of hideous error. Political correctness made it impossible for people to say what they thought, resulting in massive hypocrisy and strangulation. The idea that everything is about self-esteem created an inverted value system in which those who have lowest standards for themselves and thus find self-esteem most easy to come by dominated those who have higher standards and thus find it less easy to think as well of themselves. The brain-dead concept of adequacy dating from Alfred Adler, and the perversion of the concept of winners and losers from Eric Berne, turned people into enemies of one another, kept people from doing good to others, and allowed entities to play divide-and-conquer and to ensnare both those who thought themselves winners and those who were seen as losers. The war waged by worst elements among feminists against beauty, love, tenderness, warmth and goodness made the climate so toxic and horrible that people flocked to any ideology that might protect them from it, including ideologies that were completely destructive. The DSM-II psychology with its erroneous concept of what is health - and consequently erroneous concept of what is sickness - aimed to - and, where implemented, did - rob America of its sources of creative thinking, ingenuity, risk-taking, passion and greatness, reducing the productivity of its science, impoverishing people’s minds and relationships, and keeping true innovation from taking place. And the New Age idea that everyone makes their own reality – that no one can either help or injure another – that everyone is in control of everything that others do to them – and that someone to whom bad things have been done caused them and will be bad for everyone else - stopped people from doing good, denied assistance where it was needed, kept people strangulated in bad situations, and supported corruption, cruelty, crookedness, callousness and conmanship all around.

What followed however was not an improvement but degradation. What followed was a totalitarian misogynistic apocalyptic cult that warred, with predictably disastrous results, against human rights, liberty, peace, prosperity, science, reason, women's rights, and democracy itself. What followed was the darkest hour in American history since Second World War, with none of its glory. What followed was a Giant Leap Backwards to 19th century and an undoing of the accomplishments of civilization that took place since then.

There was - and is - another totalitarian misogynistic cult attempting to war with this one and with the rest of the world. And to both of the preceding, it is time to say: You do not have the right values to lead. If you believe that it is OK to conceive - and work toward - a world that ends before your children or grandchildren have reached maturity, and where the bulk of the people wind up in hell, then you do not have the right moral values to lead the great countries of the world. Having gone into one of these cults - and having had close personal relations with people from the other - I have come out having made a moral decision. And the decision is this: I would rather burn in Hell than conceptualize and work toward such a future, or be a part of any entity - secular or religious - that does.

And I hope that more people of goodwill and intellect - and ones of either of the preceding - make the same choice.

It becomes incumbent to move away from both errors - those committed in 1990s and those committed in this decade - and work toward a sustainable, peaceful, beautiful, long-term future. To use high-technology, high-intelligence, high-job-creation abundant clean energy solutions to provide for the world of civilization that man has created while impinging minimally on world of nature that man has not. To fully fund nanotechnology, stem-cell research, and genetic cures for cancer and congenital disease. To create synthetic life-forms to eat the plastics and clean out the landfills - to replant rainforests - to support both public and private space travel, resulting in colonization of Mars and Moon and eventually long-distance space travel. It is time to develop and put to work human brilliance, passion and inspiration and create a long-term beautiful sustainable future for humanity.

It is time to create true family values - values that allow in relationships for men and women to have meaningful roles suitable for who they are; that teach men to respect their wives, and teach all parties to have the attitude, respect and goodwill to negotiate among themselves and work together to better future for both their daughters and their sons. To create beautiful, loving relations between men and women, where women are respected as being women and do not have to act like bad men in order to gain equality or respect. To teach men how to treat their wives nobly and to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law domestic violence and child abuse.

It is time to create better social values - values that celebrate and make room for the fulfilment of beauty, intellect, caring, insight, and benevolence, both in women and in men. It is time to create better psychology - psychology that affirms, accepts, and allows to manifest and constructively implement, human genius, insight, brilliance, greatness, ingenuity and love. And it is time to create better moral values - values that accept life, celebrate life, and reward what adds to it and leads to its richness and continuity.

It is time to create covenants that respect all these things and tap into their endless resources in humanity to avail of their riches and employ them for benefit of the present and ages to come. It is time to sustain such covenants by values and ways affirming and hospitable of the above. It is time to move away from oppressive, destructive, malicious mentalities - secular or religious - and replace them with mindsets affirming of life, in its natural and man-created aspects, allowing a replenishment of nature, continuous prosperity and accomplishment of the civilization, and affirmation and constructive fruition of both natural and creating aspects of human being.

It is time to use intellect not to divide but to create, and to strive for win-win scenarios. It is not nature or civilization, reason or feeling, love or equality, spirit or body, business or government, doing good or doing well; with true use of mind, it is both in every duality. And by being employed to do the tasks necessary to make possible the preceding, intelligence - now a tool of combining and creating instead of dividing - becomes a path to true peace, to constructive sustainable integration, to life being seen and given path to benefit at all levels. At which point intelligence - which has at all times been the true saving grace of humanity - becomes saving grace once again and a basis for a long and beautiful future.

It is time to look at the inherent logic of the beliefs - secular and religious - and trace them to their logical consummation. And by doing so, to predict their effect on the world. Whether a secular belief that claims that creativity, ingenuity, passion, originality, inventiveness, greatness and love are pathological - or a religious belief that claims that women are root of all evil, that nature and physicality is of the Satan, that the only good in the world comes from the belief and that all else is going to hell - can be traced and easily found out for their results. The first being, stagnation and decline and graying of the world - and the second being, a totalitarian misogynistic abusive world-gobbling apocalyptic cult. And then it becomes possible to create better ways, better values, better traditions, that tap into instead of suppressing the genius and beauty and greatness that lives in humanity, and apply them toward creating a beautiful livable sustainable peaceful world.

At this point the choice is really nothing less. Will humanity bring an Armageddon upon itself before the babies born in this baby boomlet have learned how to read, or will the future extend indefinitely and reach ever greater beauty and ever greater accomplishment. These are momentous times in world history, and it is up to us to decide which world will be bequeathed to our children and theirs and ones after them.

This, is the true moral choice facing this generation. And it is a choice that will resonate - on earth or in any conceivable afterlife - for ages to come.

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