The United States of America Can Join the Revolution to Be Carbon Neutral

Continuing the worldwide climate change revolution!

Overture:
Congress has the opportunity, like California, to join the advantages of becoming carbon neutral advancing a worldwide revolution toward Cooling Earth. In some ways this new standard is superior to reducing passenger car emissions, setting renewable energy standards and starting a cap and trade system. However, as described herein, Carbon Neutral is an advanced idea achievable by stopping procrastination and making real changes to keep earth sustainable, including the energy debate, finance and regulation plus reducing natural threats and mitigating numerous others. The proposed cap and trade systems like the one being debated by Congress similar to the Kyoto Protocols and the European System does not give customers choices like a pollution surcharge and progressive consumption tax. Congress must look at the desired outcome of a more stabilized cooler atmosphere yielding cooler ocean temperatures along with geo-engineering projects to remove greenhouse gasses.

Mankind needs energies and fuels that change the way we think and live with multiple beneficial outcomes, and Congress needs to fund these types of research. Physics and chemistry can show that instead of burning fuel generating global heat, bold renewable energies are needed that have the potential to be massively produced at lower prices than fossil fuels. These needed energies and new fuels technologies, that will cool earth, will also create a whole new set of standards, new or renewed industries, and a new and renewed international growing community.

The industrial revolution has put chemicals into the atmosphere like refrigerants, methane and carbon monoxide that are destroying Ozone. The sun emits UV radiation that would kill life on earth as we know it except Ozone blocks some of the UV radiation. Ozone also reflects sun energy back into space consequently reducing Ozone is one of the causes of global warming. Studies show that reducing these chemicals that deplete Ozone, which is what the Montreal Protocol did, is but a first step forward. CoolingEarth.org is proposing mining these chemicals out of the atmosphere yielding a double bang for our money. Yet with the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak natural gas in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, we have no choice but to look into our past and dream of a new future. These changes will bring new jobs, new infrastructure and renewed commitments to make energy reliable and affordable.

Otherwise the exact disasters are only semi predictable. Our Nation must look beyond the big picture, beyond solar, wind, wave, small hydro-electric, geothermal, and beyond nuclear energy. Humans must understand many of mankind’s advancements cause Earth’s surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endangered species, heat cities, and in some ways cause more dramatic destruction:  blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), dust storms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents, including benzene (destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates, cause air pollution), and plastics (clogging landfills, killing fish and birds) while most cars, airplanes, ships and electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases). Mankind has destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain and other forests, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases dust storms. Our determination to increase our fossil fuel production adds to this destruction. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable resource and with increasing demand over the next 30 years, gas will sell for $30 per gallon without major intervention.

To predict these disasters, climate models have been made. As the facts change these models have to be modified to go along with current evidence because there are so many variables. Here are some examples:  adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming which is more prevalent at the poles. Humans are burning 85 million barrels of oil per day and want to burn more. Any physics student can tell you that once heat is made it can only be moved around. Thus the energy from 85 million barrels of oil adds to earths heat gain. Another variable is the amount of water in the atmosphere. Increase that amount of water and it warms earth’s surface, yet when clouds form that cools earth’s surface by reflecting sun energy back into space.  But there are extremes of atmospheric water causing tornados, flooding, hurricanes or droughts. Even other natural events are warming earth adding to the destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes, volcanoes, sun spots and even lighting. A major lighting storm takes oxygen out of the atmosphere and the electric energy forms ozone which rapidly moves to the ozone layer but ozone near earth’s surface raises air pollution levels.

Humans are learning that to solve climate change including saving Earth’s Coral and the ice caps is going to cost a great deal of money, consume massive amounts of energy and take years. As with any investment the sooner we start the less the price tag will rise. Humans know what is cost effective and where better technologies are needed. Education is the first big step. Learning about energy conservation, the wise use of energy plus the right time of usage and energy efficiency, putting the right equipment in that uses the least amount of energy can change the debate. Efficiency is like buying a car that gets 60 miles per gallon, but still having to plan our trips and time of usage to conserve energy. Meanwhile, earth's resource of oil energy, estimated at 3 trillion barrels, is supplied by the Sun to Earth every 2 days. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of our fresh water. With 50 trillion dollars worth of stuff that needs oil, natural gas or coal to operate, it will take a generation to depreciate these assets and cause the shift humans demand for earth to continue to be a living planet. Estimates are that humans need 20 trillion dollars of renewable energy, conservation and new technologies by 2020. That puts our Nation’s share at 10 trillion dollars. Therefore, Congress has to put money where the best return on investments and where we get multiple beneficial outcomes.

Carbon Neutral Solution:
Carbon neutral technologies are being advanced and will continue to be a big part of this century’s greatest technological advancements. Some of these technological breakthroughs mean a new generation of concentrating solar power plants, hydro-electric power plants, wind turbines and wave power plants generators to dramatically increase supply efficiencies. With a new generation of geo-engineering projects combined with carbon neutral solutions, life on earth can continue but it will not be the same.

To give renewable energy, conservation and carbon neutral technologies a competitive advantage, we must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, climate change and cleanup) for oil, natural gas, coal, bio-diesel, ethanol, cigarettes, cooling towers, and fossil fuel burning cars, electrical production (outside of renewable and hydro), trains and airplanes. New homes must meet high standards including evaporative cooling, rain water storage, solar heat and underground sinks. Commercial buildings must upgrade and new buildings meet new standards.

We can not reach stabilization without controlling flooding, and water usage. In fact, moving water and water heating are another part of climate change most people are not aware of. Heating water is the second largest portion of a residential energy bill. It represents roughly 38% of the natural gas used in both residential and commercial applications (in California). The importance of the water conservation is energy conservation. In California, roughly 19% of the state's electricity usage is to move water but more energy is needed from natural gas and diesel to move, treat, pressurize, and heat water. Many states need help in upgrade their water pumping stations to superconductor electric motors enabling a double the pumping capacity of state water works. Congress needs to help regulate ground water and all wells to remove some ground water in lean times and pump additional clean water in to help avoid flooding. Another flood prevention step is to upgrade sewage treatment plants to double storage capacity while mandating all treated water to be recycled keeping it out of ground water, the oceans, rivers and most lakes. Recycled water can be used to water lawns, golf courses, in cooling towers, agriculture and nonhuman consumption live stocks as this water contains ammonia fertilizer and is contaminated with many pharmaceuticals. In green houses this fertilized water plus carbon dioxide is a great way to sequester carbon. This will increase the yield of compost material which with water is the answer to desertification.

Our Nation has to meet the new electrical demands with conservation, new hydro projects, solar and to replace nuclear power plants. Estimates are that 40 gigawatts of concentrating solar steam turbine electric generating power plants are needed. Pushing the limits of heat transmission, new superconductor generators and using new heat recovery, are several breakthrough technologies that will improve solar concentrating power plants from 35 percent efficiencies up to 60 percent.

Hydro electric power plants including small seasonal ones are need all over the Nation. With over 1000 need by 2012; this put us far behind our needs as planning and construction can take 7 years. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy, flood control and cooling earth by evaporation. Our Rivers must be returned to living natural waterways and parks including new wetlands. A vital part of this plan to help earth be more sustainable is to return the water flow to the Colorado River and clean up the Mississippi River to bring life back in the gulfs.

Nationally, we have to move past the “turn it off mode” to conserve large amounts of energy. The debate has move to a smart grid and Energy Management Systems upgrades. Yet we still need to push for higher standards in appliances, new construction and in remodels. Programs like LEED are showing us a new way, but even they need better forecasting models.

One big advancement is a new comprehensive Energy Information Systems (EIS) that can monitor local weather, weather forecasts, building energy meters, and utility prices plus being capable of receiving demand response communications; load shed commands; and with the smart grid could signal in case of a power plant failure, brownout or planned blackout. With real time and forecast data, new systems are capable of saving as never before. And these systems will be available for home use as well as commercially. Your home computer will be able to talk to your programmable thermostat, refrigerator, electric meter, light switches, TV and any other device you want to add. Photo Voltaic  (PV) with a small wind generator are being developed that will do real work like event your attic in the summer and run a small heater in the winter.

Compressed Liquefied Air (CLA) is a promising technology which has more potential energy per gallon than gasoline used by a car, but only because a car uses about 20 percent of the total energy from the gas to move. CLA is a viable form of power that allows the accumulation and transport of energy that can be made cheaper than fossil fuels. One CLA gas is liquid nitrogen; it is cold enough to improve our lives by allowing resistant free electron flow, also know as superconductors. Electric motors run better; generators produce more power, and transmission lines transfer more power. With superconductors supplying power, it is best to go to six phase power generation and transmitting system. CLA could power almost any device powered by gasoline today when used with other types of clean energy like batteries. Pneumatic electric superconductor car engines will end the fuel mileage standards debate.

Because not all good energy locations are good for electric production, CoolingEarth.org is advancing a new direct energy source to CLA. The technology is called Biosphere Cleanup MachinesTM (BCM). Where concentrating solar energy is available but high voltage transmission lines are unavailable, BCM’s can make CLA.

CoolingEarth.org is advancing new low altitude satellites, a cruse ships in the sky that sail endlessly in the jet-stream. These electric airplanes also known as Atmospheric Cleanup MachinesTM (ACM) will use PV Solar power to produce CLA. Beyond giving us laboratory in the sky, these airplanes remove Ozone depleting chemicals while releasing Ozone into the ozone layer. If you think the world is small, take a 7 day cruse around the northern hemisphere while using the jet fuel it would take you to fly from Seattle to LA.

Another CLA gas is hydrogen. If we can find a way to make or mine hydrogen, our lives will change for the better. Hydrogen can be used in a fuel cell for cars and trucks, provide electricity to homes, or generate power where it is needed. A hydrogen economy is one of the big ideas that can change our lives in was we have not thought of.

When CLA is then available, the USA must build a cross country superconductor electric high speed train capable of 250 MPH. CoolingEarth.org hopes California will work with Amtrak to build a high speed route from Mexico City to Anchorage, Alaska, starting with Los Angles to Stockton. Phase two will expand the route to Sacramento in the North and San Diego to the South. Incidentally, California must start by expanding the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) service to San Jose, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Stockton. The best way to take advantage of this extraordinary global warming solution by reducing fossil fuel burning is to expand BART from Sacramento to Monterey Bay through San Jose and link Sacramento Light Rail while expanding it to the Placerville, Roseville and Woodland. Congress must make clean transportation a cornerstone of reducing greenhouses gasses.

With so many good projects like wood recycling from old fences, counter-tops, cabinets, tree pruning, and construction materials, used lamp recycling, recycling concrete, and using engine oil, plastic, bio-waste, cosmetics, and used tires, sewage treatment floaters to make bio-fuels, synthetic gasoline or hydrogen, our problem is a lack of funding for all of them. That is why CoolingEarth.org is advancing a new cooperative where retirement systems, Social Security, Union funds, ETF’s and venture capitol groups can work together toward IPO’s. Profits and Wall  Street will give investors a whole new array of stocks.

Conclusion:
With the peak of fossil fuel, natural events combined with a climate change depression not to mention the refugees, the world is headed for the worst economic downturn in recorded history, far beyond the dark ages and hundreds of times worse that the Great Depression. The bad news is we are using resources that do not yield productive results: America is investing in ethanol and clean coal; Indonesia is investing in palm oil; Canada is investing in tar sands. The plan to fix Social Security is to allow inflation to rise from two percent to four percent and more annually allowing gasoline to sell for $30 per gallon in 30 years.

All public schools must add online classes to conserve energy and many could add solar.

Congress has to have a plan to start the biggest cleanup in history: the atmospheric environment. For real climate change, look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. The good news is humans have started investing: Asia and North America are investing in nuclear; Europe, The Americas, Africa and Asia are investing in solar; China in hydro electric and world wide wind generation is expanding. The technology is available to create a new world with renewable energy, with the mess we made in the past in the atmosphere cleaned up and where we can control earth’s surface temperature. In this way oil could last for 1,000 years and gas will peak about $10 per gallon in 30 years. Clean air, clean water and clean earth are what we want with healthy humans and healthy biodiversity. California must plan where we are going and go where we plan. Humans can have control and can have economic growth.

Congress must give us the right regulations from good standards with excellent finance that advances new business associations with tax incentives and utility incentives including paying people for their intellectual property; moreover, we have the time to get this right, what we do not have is time to do it again. To help pay for these advances the USA needs a new progressive consumption National Sales Tax and a pollution surcharge. If you want to invest in environmental businesses, Congress must give us a tax break. This 10 year plan is comprehensive and one outcome is the USA ends our dependence on foreign oil partly by drilling for oil and natural gas which raises taxes and profits.

This is a grassroots movement that needs your help. CoolingEarth.org is the charity putting this information out. We need many helping minds and hands. We need business support teams and friends working on designs, patents and new technologies. We need help in getting the information out: to newspapers and politicians. We have to tell everyone. Please email me your ideas.

Lawrence Murray
Founder
CoolingEarth.org