On the issues of; Water and Power. The Biden Plan for climate.

 

On the issues of; Water and Power. The Biden Plan for climate.

Now more than ever it is clear that it is time for a continent wide water project. Droughts and floods are now an every month occurrence. A massive water and electricity project big enough to prevent floods or minimize their impact, big enough to move massive water to the west in times of drought, or to the east when needed for agriculture or industry. Integrated with Mini or Micro Hydro or larger to make Electricity to pump water to areas where it is dry.

As yet I have not seen anything in the Biden Plan to deal with the many situations that come from water and climate change. Both drought and floods are becoming much worse.

Water has become a bigger problem consistently over the last few decades. With the advent of climate change getting so much worse lately, the problems have started to increase exponentially. It is definitely looking like we have passed some serious tipping points in the feedback loops of global warming.

The development of a continent wide water and power generation system will be of great importance and indispensable, if we are going to remove enough carbon from the biosphere before it is to late.

There is no better place to store carbon than in the soil. The continued uses of industrial agriculture will only aggravate the problems. It has removed hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon from the soils that were in stable forms, including fungus, plants, insects, and animals in an interconnected web of life that is of benefit to all. It purified the water and helped prevent flooding and erosion.

The chemical mono-culture systems of agribusiness are killing all of us. Our children now have more cancer and other medical maladies related to the production of food in the manner of warfare. Spraying billions of tonnes of Biocides continent and world wide.

We must create large constructed wetlands to purify water of agro-chemical  and industrial chemicals before it returns to the oceans

What is necessary in this situation to start with?

A starting proposal.

Water is dense energy and can accomplish multiple tasks, and remedy several situations; at the same time with the proper, planning and infrastructure.

• Produce Energy; to move water, goods and people.

• Remove carbon from the air, and store it back in the soil, with the help of plants.
  

• Help prevent flooding and large scale damage to infrastructure, and peoples lives.

• Store water in the ground and refill water tables.

• Produce food, fodder and raw materials for the climate and infrastructure projects.

• Clean water of toxins and contaminants as it goes through the systems.

Just as a consideration from some simple systems analyses. We can see that the cost of replacing all the damage done by recent weather disasters, it is worth investing in some long term strategy that will have multiple uses in preventing damages, and at the same time having benefits in the battle to stop much worse disasters from the ongoing global warming.

Do you really care about climate change Mr President?

So Mr President you sounded sincere in your last speech about climate change, you say you care about the issue of climate destabilization?  The remedy is so simple, if we are going to be dealing with solutions and not just problems. The problem of fossil fuel agriculture is destroying or has already destroyed the carbon in the top soil of much of the world. There was ten to twenty feet of top soil over much of North America when the European invaders came across the ocean. 

A return to natural methods of farming like Masanobu Fukuoka or Permaculture based of the principles of founder Bill Mollison can remedy much of the carbon problem in the atmosphere.  Along with the people like Peter Donovan and the soil carbon challenge, or Joel Salatin who was talked about in the Michael pollen book Omnivores Dilemma we can start to remove much of the carbon from the air . The work of  John Liu in the ending of desertification is a very good example of what can be done with natural methods of  agriculture.

This is just a start. We also have to start moving to producing as much energy from non carbon sources. Wind, Solar and of course one of the best of these is Hydroelectric. Not giant dams like the past but hundreds or thousands  of small micro hydro systems in every county and hundreds of thousands in every state in North America. This will not only create energy independence, but millions of jobs. It will also end much of the need for an upgraded smart grid because so much power is created locally. This little ball of wax we call earth was the garden of Eden, and it can and will be again, with a little help from our friends.

Alternative Energy 2B or not too Be that is the Question, or is it?

I will start by asking how you feel about some polluted food. What about water to drink or air to breath?
Since before the time of the testing of the first atomic bombs in New Mexico back during WWII the pollution of the Biosphere in the southwest United States has been ongoing. This story on http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/11/after_decades_of_uranium_mining_navajo  about the vast history of uranium waste blowing around the beautiful sky and land of the southwest with radiation, do we continue to let this happen, or is it time for us all to admit that more nuclear energy is not the answer.  The fukushima disaster has effectively contaminated the whole pacific ocean and the food coming from it for who knows how long. The radiation that has a short half life is  only a few hundred or a few thousand years and the half life for  plutonium 239,  24,000 years and Plutonium-244  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium is 80 million years. Is this something to be feeding our children or grand children? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima disaster

In New Mexico the first nuclear bombs of our age were created and our government has been taken over by a military and industrial complex just like President Eisenhower said in his farewell address to the American people before he left office. In just the ten years since the war started under false pretenses in Iraq and in Afghanistan the US  spent enough money on these wars to make our whole country independent with solar or wind power five to nine times over depending on what mix is used. And another consideration is the loss of so many lives of our young soldiers, and who really knows who many hundreds of thousands of innocent middle eastern people. Just for the control of oil and natural resources? Oh yes and the contamination of more of the middle east with depleted uranium warheads which also have some plutonium in them. If you feel that this is not just a war over oil and natural resources, just check out the Greg Palast Book called Armed Madhouse.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast  Just check it out, Amazon gave this book five stars and that is not very common for such a book. It is not often that a single book can put all of the seemingly crazy conspiracy theory's to rest, but when there is enough evidence to show that something is actually real, this is one of them.

And now for something that is totally new check out the interview with the creator and founder of the "Earthship Biotecture" movement in the the southwest. Watch the end of the Democracy now section at the end of the show listed above for some of the very best examples of  recycling of water, building and original thinking and low impact housing. Do it for all the living things on our little planet. We must take a stand now while we still can. Please help take back our country and our world. And please share this with as many people as you can.

Alternative energy and water #2

So today on http://www.democracynow.org/ , I heard a story about the protests to stop use of tar sands for the production of oil in Utah. So called Clean coal, hydro fracking and tar sand are some of the biggest users and polluters of water and no amount of PR about how good it is will change that.

 There are many better, cleaner ways to produce clean energy that do not destroy our Mother Earth. Here is a you tube video that of just one of many about clean energy.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Ctw3zA2F4&feature=related. This awesome man Sir Charles has been on Coast to Coast am several times, and this is a very simple system to produce electricity and makes hot water as a by product.Very simple and  efficient.

It has come to my attention that the chem-trails that are being sprayed on us and into the environment are full of aluminum, barium, and strontium.  There is a whole forest in the area of MT Shasta in California that the trees are dyeing off.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFpLW_KkQEo . These Metals  in the chemtrails make the PH of the soil wick moisture back out of the plant or slow the uptake in a way that many of them will die. To many of those that say this is a conspiracy theory, I say that it ceases to be a theory if there is enough evidence to support that it is no longer a theory. Let your congressman know that you are tired of this destruction of the land and sky. This not only pollutes the land but also the water and us as well. Please share this information with all your friends if you care about or planet.

We are part of the Biosphere and the Biosphere is part of us. We must take care of the earth if we are to continue to take care of ourselves. 

Alternative energy and water during a time of rapid climate destabilization.

There has been talk of an comprehensive plan for energy in this country since the days of Jimmy Carter. Since the first Arab oil embargo and the first fake oil shortage, and still have seen no real vision of turning the whole country and most of America to a green economy. How do we deflate the carbon Fossil Fuel Bubble  without collapsing the world economy? So I am going to take a stab in that direction and see if we can make some of this stick. This is the single most pressing issue except maybe the corrupt private banking system called the World Bank and the Federal Reserve banking system. Money in Politics and the buying of elected and appointed official must end. Citizen United must be overturned

This might sound like a conspiracy theory to some of the more conservative people who read this, but let me ask one question of everyone before I start on Energy and water.  No one said anything about the vast amount of money going to foreign countries for imported petroleum this past presidential election.

The main and most important reason for moving as fast as possible to a fully green economy for our self in America and the rest of the world too, is that we must preserve the environment. Not only do we live in it but it is in us. We breath it, we eat it through our food and water. We take a bath in it from the air, our skin lets toxins out and also takes them in. Using the best Ideas from Permaculture and Biodynamic agriculture it is still possible to pull this iron out of the fire.

I got to meet Bill Mollison at the First conference on developing a planetary village on Whidbey Island in the early eighty's. He said the most important thing to learning Permaculture is to be observant. I am very encouraged by the young people of our current days. We can do this, it will take participation at every level of participation. Educational, social, political, spiritual, environmental and economic.  Now is the time for all good people to stand up on the right side of history.

 I knew it was bad with record temperatures here in the mid-south all year, but this is not the only one that is saying we are near the tipping point. So please help get this word out to every elected and appointed officials you know and all of your friends that will listen. I care so much about my kids and grand kids, and all my other friends and family, and I hope and pray most all of you do too. I love this world and everyone in it, even the people I am pissed off at. Now is the time to create the Next System.


Wind power and solar are pretty simple and well known and very efficient if the power is not far from the point of use. If it is very far away a lot of energy is lost in transmission to point of use. Same with everything going through a regular power grid. There are some new and very exciting types of solar that are not talked about by the regular corporate media, and that are becoming very cost effective.

Why would I put Water  in the title of this article with energy besides to talk Hydro electric.  We need to start purifying as much water as we can before it gets to the oceans. Small and large passive constructed wetland systems on the way to the ocean or just to refill the water tables and store it underground.The reason is that one of the most important places that greenhouse gases are stored on our planet is in our oceans and seas and they may be dying soon if we do not work fast. How do you feel about seafood? This does not even include the fukushima disaster and the problems that come with it.

Hydroelectric must be set up in as many places as we can do efficiently, and as soon as possible to start moving water to and from the driest and places on the continent. This needs to be a two way system so that when it is flooding in one part of the country it can move water to where it is dry. Thousands in every county starting where it is wettest. We do not have any lack of clean water, we have a lack of water utilization systems. Not giant dams like the one at Glen canyon that created lake Powell or Hoover dam. We must build hundreds or thousands of small micro-hydro systems  or small water wheels, in every county in the country and hundreds of thousands in every state of the union. The Waterotor can be used in the low flow areas or bays and cuts between islands. Giant projects must be avoided. A more decentralized system; but  something like the original North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA). 

  It just falls from the sky; all the water we can use, sometimes too much or too little.  The only places that should be exempt are the places like wet lands that will be damaged by even a small bypass of water for hydro electric.  Even if we end up with a small gain of electricity or even a small loss until we have refilled the water tables. With a nationwide water and hydroelectric system, we preserve lots of good clean water or dirty water we can purify. Thousands of small ponds to store and utilize this water, and to rebuild the tilth and fertility of the soil. There is no better place to store carbon than in good fertile soil. This will help also prevent more destruction and very costly rebuilding or reclamation of large areas. Even if oil and gas pipe lines are still being built, this water system must be built if we are to stop this now very real climate disaster in the making.

We must start planting and replanting trees all over the planet. Trees and vegetation are one of the most efficient ways to sequester and store carbon in a solid form. We must start at the west coast as soon as we can with millions of trees. There is no better way to move water inland than the tree, and it stores CO2 while it does this. When the weather is in a normal summer pattern the prevailing wind is from west to east and moves this water to the east.

Grass fed agriculture. How does this fit with energy and water. When we have a drought, land that has been grown on chemicals die much sooner than land and pasture that is grown with natural fertilizer. Grass fed land, even if it is not from grazing animals, but done with regular grass and leaf compost will store much more carbon than any land fed chemical fertilizer.  Regular NPK fertilizer is one of the major reasons for the fifteen thousand square kilometer dead zone that is killing the Gulf of Mexico now. A major reason to purify as much water as we can before it gets to the coast.(This dead zone has increased over the past few years.)

The creation of vast man made wetlands and bypasses of rivers and streams to clean water before it reaches the ocean will be of utmost importance. Healthy wetlands and ponds can also produce a  lot of food and store nutrition that can be added to other soils for agriculture or even better systems like aquaculture and Permaculture.

So about the fraud of clean coal and so called abundant and cheep natural gas from Hydraulic fracturing.  Coal is not cheep or clean. and even worse if you consider the vast amount of water and land totally destroyed from these processes. Fracking is a disaster and now banned in many areas. I was born and raised in New Mexico and Lived in Kentucky, and I have seen what this has done to these beautiful lands and the water. Check this out on the internet if you do not know, and see if you are mad enough to call your legislators and chew them out; Or ask them nice.

 We must also come up with a plan to Capture as much of the Methane starting to come out of the Permafrost and along the continental shelf. It makes the oceans more acid and has a very bad effect in the atmosphere. Even if we start with something like big upside down umbrella type systems connected to a storage tank with a compressing system or similar type systems on a boat or ship in the ocean. Methane has many uses and just comes out of the ground. For energy in agriculture or other uses. I get a bad feeling that We do not have long to get our act together, so now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of our planet.

Contact your Legislators, local or national.
We can make a difference if we work together!

This was the Garden of Eden once and it can be again!

Hi, My name is Bill.
Just a question to start. How do you feel about the political scene in our country this year.

So a little Info about Me before I start. I have been involved in the activist movement since back in the late Seventies, in the early days of the stop the wipp project.
And 80's when Congressman Ron Paul was the Presidential candidate for the Libertarians. I was part of the Fully Informed Jury Amendment movement then. I have worked with Dem's, Greens, Libertarians, Unions and many issue campaigns. I did the campaign to amend the state Constitution of Colorado with the libertarians  in twenty ten on the issue of Obama Care as it is now called. Three of the last four Green Party of Arkansas campaigns to get ballot access.  I have also worked with Move On, Voter Outreach, and Working America. I have never worked for the Republicans but I might  have this year if they had let Ron Paul or the now libertarian candidate Governor Gary Johnson get up and have a fair voice in the Debates this year.  Gary Johnson Did not even get to talk in any of the Republicon debates. That is enough for now, I will not bore anyone with more past info, but thanks for your checking us out her at progressive political consultants.

Thanks so much.
Bill Bradshaw.