Adiabatic solution
 to the problem of
 Global Warming

the problem of Global Warming

Notice there are no perfectly adiabatic systems so there is no “simple” adiabatic global warming solution: it's an heuristic conception!

Still late   HSGT
High Speed  Ground
Transit & the Airlines.
DAC legacy & future!
these 3 turbines would be about 7 miles from camera to far right wiindmill! Airlines should cooperate to survive!

Thermosis Theory:
More Energy in the Atmosphere means more weather. Computer models may not be able to keep up with changes in climate, because it takes time for humans to interpret data and model results. Which means we must use human judgement to make practical decisions!

Shipping & world Trade:

Atomic 'Nautilus Fleets'

to reduce Greenhouse gasses.

This topic awaits illustration!

DACTIME  ( "Yom"s = cardinal (decimal) days of the civil year )

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Eco Finance/ Gov/ bulletins

For The New Administration

2008,323.00997 Nov 19th Wednesday

Saving the U.S. Domestic Automobile-manufacturing-transportation-Business-Sector)

Quick summary The Auto industry must improve safety, recognize that their future depends on a plentiful supply of electric energy, and that therefore they should help provide such resources. In the future, as we've seen during the “oil age,” energy supply strongly affects both road and vehicle design.

Presently the United States domestic automobile industry is in dire straits due to the fact by the banking industry is incapacitated. While the financial sector has been given an overdose of government support under the theory that the financial system must be supported, meanwhile the plan to enable regular businesses to benefit from the Tarp bailout has failed spectacularly. So while the banks are being propped up, the regular industry which they are expected to support are being left to fail, resulting in continued high rates of home mortgage foreclosures and unprecedented rates of business closures at least with respect to recent decades. This article is intended to provide rationales so that Congress may effectively preserve the significant infrastructure value of the United States automotive industry, which includes not only the major manufacturing concerns such as Chrysler, General Motors, and Ford, but also a diverse and widespread support industry which provides raw materials and parts to these major concerns.

It should be noted that the auto maker's produce not only cars but also trucks, rail cars and military vehicles, and thus this industry is an integral part of the national infrastructure. It does little good to have a road system without vehicles, and it would obviously weaken the United States if military equipment could be bought only from foreign sources. But these positions describe only the present said conditions, and for the purpose here, those serve only as an introduction to the current state of the industry. That was all that there was to be concerned about, then perhaps a normal bankruptcy restructuring would be acceptable solution for the difficulties of these giant corporation's.

Fortunately there is a better approach possible. First of all all vehicles produced by these companies must be safer than they have ever been before. The change in strategy for the operation of automobiles must be aimed at eventually eliminating the necessity for the human driver and deliver truly automatic vehicles. But in the immediate future all new cars should be required at least to have an automatic stop feature that prevents rear end collisions, such as commonly occur at traffic lights and crowded freeways.

There is no decent reason in this third millennium world for cars on our highways to be allowed to drive at high speed

1. into brick wall, or other stationary objects, for example over turned big rigs, or cars stopped at red lights

2. nor crash at low speed into boxes or walls in a garage

3. nor smash headlong through a crowded pedestrian mall because a driver mistakenly pressed the wrong pedal.

I'll allow that this third type of event is a more complicated problem.

But my fellow Americans, you can buy a web cam that has “face detection” for $40 dollars! So it isn't the money, in the sense of additional cost of the cars that is the problem!

These common kinds of accidents could have easily been prevented since the 1970's because a simple stopping technologies is not that complicated ' But instead, there were year after years of congressional squabbling , first over safety belts, and then air bags.

It is again the financial sector, and specifically the life & automobile insurance industry which has established mandatory liability requirements in all 50 U.S States, and the health care industry which cashes in every time an injury accident occurs. You may not know it, but if you are quite healthy if you live to be 100 years old the chances are you are due to die as a result of an automotive accident; that is if nothing else kills you the probability is during 100 years you will have died by a car accident.

On top of that the medical industry has developed a practice that should be called medical cannibalism,

where by those killed in accidents are considered to be dead animals sometimes able to provide live organs to people with diseased organs, and life being so dear, these are generally expensive operations.

So as part of any automotive industry Federal financial support, minimally every new car should be equipped with an automatic stop mechanism. This will save billions annually of dollars in medical costs, and spare much grief, and substantially lower automotive insurance costs. Of course these latter two benefits will help to restore confidence and resiliency to our economy. So this is necessity one helping out the automotive industry, which probably would never add such safety features without Federal mandate.

But that is not all.

There is no doubt that the invention and production of modern trucks and private the automobile have been one of the most important and useful changes in all of human history.

Nevertheless due to many factors including the cost of roads for growing populations, and practical limitations for road vehicles, that there remain necessities for the implementation of other modalities of transport. Presently we have aircraft ,railway , ocean going vessels. It is possible that one day all three of those forms of transportation will be superseded by a high speed network worldwide. Meanwhile that's a long way off. But this is 2008, the eight year of the third millennium and the time is now to begin work on what will eventually be a totally different set of parameters for long distance transit and even cargo transportation. Every current modality is based on burning fossil fuels. Electric freight trains may eventually eliminate the diesel trains of today, but that may take decades.

However passenger traffic using high speed probably magnetic levitation systems (Mag-Lev) will be able to transport people nationwide at speeds equal to supersonic jet fighter planes.

An interesting note about the resistance to Mag-Lev technology may be taken from the fact that the Windows XP dictation

program with which this article was prepared simply refused to allow “Mag-Lev” as a spoken word !

( since then the software misteriously “fixed itself” while I was away and the system was shutdown for the Thanksgiving holidays.)

However in our age wildly varying fuel costs, shrinking numbers of US Airline companies, an effort by the automotive transportation manufacturing corporations, to wit Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler should be seen as an opportunity to bring back loyal engineers to work in other aspects of the transportation industry besides trucks and the personal automobile. Magnetic levitation is going to be one of the biggest industrial products of the 21^st century.

Necessary to the success of many new technologies in the transportation sector is a plentiful supply of electric energy. The present author is convinced that the automotive engineers who have been left without jobs due to changes in the automobile industry are tremendous resource for building the new electric economy. While it is not obvious from its name, the electric industry is just filled with mechanical requirements. Furthermore many new kinds of equipment operating on electric power will be forthcoming and will require engineering such as can be provided by the Automobile-manufacturing-transportation-Business-Sector.

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Since during the 2008 Presidential election both political parties declared their support for wind power and other sustainable energy programs it is clear that Congress should act in concert with the will of the people. The fact that California rejected certain propositions which would have encouraged such kind of effort is a reflection not all of the people to reject efforts to stop global warming, but rather reflect the the extremely poor situation with respect to the housing market in California which was supposed to be fixed by the Tarp program which has done nothing. Right now California is having to exclude qualified students from the California State University system because of a shortage of funds.

So voters, reasonably close races chose not to spend bond money on electricity projects when they knew they were already out of money! I for one believe it was a bad decision, and that greedy private interests defeated plans that would pay for themselves eventually anyway.

Be that that as it may, with or without the support of California's senators the Senate and House should approve support for America's automotive industry, including the provisions mentioned above.

To avert any claims about conflicts of intetrest, let me point out I have recently purchased 14 shares of Ford Motor Company and 16 shares of General Motors, with the expectation that the Federal governmentwould help them, and with the intent that I as a shareholder would work to establish programs at these companies incorporating the ideas above. which have indeed been reduced to half there purchase value. But I'm convinced that those shares are a better investment for America now than any insurance company.

A Federal Department of Telecommunications and Technology (DTT)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has outlasted its role with respect to regulating telecommunications in United States.

Started in the era of Radio only broadcast in AM frequencies and five digit phone numbers, its role as Congress' surrogate for regulating the myriad of modern technologies, should be concluded by replacement agency at the Cabinet level.

There is undoubtedly so much difference in the role of telecommunications, and radio frequency technologies from the time when the commission was first established so as to require a much more vigorous executive department.

For example, the GPS satellite based system should be augmented by requirements for cellphone and wind power towers to be auxiliary sources of location of data which would be used by transportation and other sectors (for example surveying operations).

The advantage of having a cabinet level DTT representative for the executive branch, which could coordinate with the other departments such as Transportation and Energy, Defense, Homeland security, and Education, will be enormous.

And now for the bonus round. FCC has allowed the national telephone network to use overlay structures for area code resulting in the inconvenient requirement for local calls to be placed only when the local area code is included. That is an insult to every American household and business thereby affected. Why is it an insult?

Because clearly there is an alternative mechanism that could be implemented. In ordinary dialing the number symbol ( # ) on the telephone is never used except by antiquated automated answering systems, and that really is not part of ordinary dialing anyway. So I would suggest that could be the first project of the new department. DTT eventually have facilities located not only in GEO Synchronous orbits, but on the Moon as well, and eventually perhaps even on Mars.

Yet, most it will be the coordination with the Energy , Defense, and Transportation and otherDepartments which will be the essential benefit of the establishment of the new Department of Telecommunications and technology.

Some of the technologies which would be involved with this department would include biometric identification services, which if aggressively implemented could be a valuable asset in the prosecution of the 2010 census. The DTT could in fact, working with Homland security produce the nation's long awaited “national Id card” system.

Working with the US Postal Service DTT could be establish permanent email addresses for all Americans independently of volital commercial Internet provider services, which come and go, merge and restructure, which in many respects fail to meet the standards for safety and security that Americans expect with respect to their mail services. DDT also be involved with establishing secure financial transactions that allow Americans to move money from one institution to another without delays based on fears of terrorist interference .

Thank you for your attention

Drew Angel

2008,329.73209 Nov 25th Tuesday @17;34

Two short items here 1. Medical policy 2. Money Policy .

1. Medical policy
   For decades the American Medical Association (AMA) which includes most physicians in America, has opposed expansion of number medical schools in the United States. In fact the Federal Government has paid medical schools to not graduate more doctors in policies akin to farm subsidies.

   The AMA argument has been that training more doctors would reduce the quality of medical care, by reducing salaries, which would discourage top notch students, from entering the field and especially discouraging would be specialists from continuing their educations.

   
   Ultimately the basis of this discouragement is greed, and although of course the AMA as an organization does not take an oath, the result is harm to patients. In fact, this led to changes in medical practice, which not necessarily in themselves are bad, but which have led to a shortage of nurses.

   The reason for this is because of the shortage of doctors, additional tasks and training have been given to nurses. Consequently there are not enough nurses to to the jobs now assigned to that field.
   
   

   There is a somewhat compelling situational argument which indirectly supports the position held by the community of physicians. Not long ago, excluding perhaps CEOs (at term not then even in use) and investment professionals, the members of the U.S. Supreme Court stood as the highest paid professional group in the states. Behind those 9 Justices, was the medical profession, followed then by attorneys. The relative prestige of these professions have have also been affected, and that of course may affect the attitudes of individual members.

   Since that time the legal field became much more lucrative, and is now the highest paid professional non-financial group. I oppose legislation which provides for limits with respect to the total damages or awards which can be set as a result of legal actions, be they federal or state actions, but I so strongly believe in than at least in certain areas of law there definitely should be limits to the percentage, or actual amounts of compensation for the attorneys involved in cases. Malpractice law especially should be handled in this fashion, because there should be no limit to the liability of physicians or HMOs when it comes to debilitating for deadly results due to malpractice.

   But there again, is the reason that the medical profession as a group that through policy they should be allowed to discourage better medical practice, not in terms of individual patients, but by restricting the number of of persons can be compositions physicians by preventing expansion of the medical school system of the United states. In consequence I believe that every State in the Union should be assisted and construction of at least one new medical school, and perhaps in states with larger populations additional such colleges.

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2. Money policy

A neighbor of mine in 2007 said he believed that the U.S. Federal government would pay for the War in Iraq through an inflationary policy by printing money, and even though I didn't want agree then, and now, I don't want to give him credit for his prediction, he was right!

The Federal Reserve is right printing new money in the amount of $700 billion. I am in no position to oppose that production, but I do not think that the present currency should be used.

Because of the amounts that are involved I think $500, bills should be issued, and perhaps even higher denominations. That will to a reduce the inflationary effect to some extent because such bills will mostly be held by banks to maintain required reserve amounts, and thus reduce counterfeiting. While it would take more time I think an even better choice for the creation of this new money would be similarly be denominated serialized coins. Frankly it's hard to imagine having a Secretary of Treasury be allowed to handle such large amounts of money, when he is allowing pennies to be minted at a cost of 150% of the value of the actual coins. I presume that with NAFTA in place pennies are being shipped out of the country in large amounts, since there are people even stealing copper and bronze plaques from cemeteries.

One argument in favor of such coins is that they would hold up in value more effectively than paper money, and could be used to back up the money been printed Federal Reserve. In fact the entire structure of the fractional change in these United States should be revised, because even with the reduced trade enterprise economic environment, a penny is still likely to cost a a vendor more money to process than it is worth. I know of no single hot now available at all for a nickel. A dime does not work in a pay telephone to make even a local call. The only reason these coins have useless at this time is that they fit into machines that recognize their their nominations. Even in the early 90's it was hard to place a long distance call using

nickels because the time allowed for inserting the necessary coins, would elapse before the requisite number of Nichols could be inserted into the phone.

It would be very sensible for the U.S to five, ten, 25, hundred dollar coins. These could replace the silly dollar coins now in circulation, and would be reasonable to have a person's pocket or purse. When going to a Amtrak or Metro Link station, or U.S Post Office one can end up with $15.00 in metal coins in your pocket and frankly actual metal to carry around would only amounts to less than a $20.00 bill. On the other hand having five

$10 coins in your pocket would be 50 bucks, and allow a person to make purchases of a substantial number of common sundries without having to take one's wallet out. All these new coins should be serialized using electronic or other technical inserts to protect against counterfeiting.

Copyright by Drew Angel, 2008,333.40486 Nov 29th Saturday morning.

At the start of August 2008,  the U.S. Congress began a 5 week break just as an economic epiphany came to me. I mentioned it to some staffers, but it was already too late for immediate action before the Conventions: Congress had left the Capital.  Yet there is still potentially time to implement this concept this year when congress reconvenes, to prevent an economic depression rather than try to dig out of one during the entire next decade.  
 The idea is a revolutionary kind of economic stimulus package, that would enable major impact by virtue of reasonable guarantees of repayment to the Treasury from the several States. This formula will provide economic new stimuli, creating jobs, and new wealth, strenthening the economy and supply new revenues to the States, and evenutally to the Federal government, as states could bank their surpluses in part at the U.S.Treasury. 

As I've not set up the fancy menu feature I wanted, just click anywhere in this section to link to the page regarding this new United States of America Economic stimulus concept.

BASE COST OF ADIABATIC SOLUTION TO PROBLEM OF GLOBAL WARMING = $2 trillion see **

8,000,000,000

2,000,000

4000

 not the wrong population value if you
 consider statutory already plans part of U.S. Law to continue  burning fossil fuels until 2050!                          

persons

mega- windturbines *

persons per Megawatt !

priceless!

2 Trillion dollars

$250

per person

*adiabatic solution isn't confined to wind power

250

~ watts/person world wide

** actual total costs will be higher, because of storage and grid requirements and other overhead,
but long term returns on investment will more than compensate for costs, as adiabatic power
production provides cheap energy supplies, without even considering the environmental benefits
due in part to the devaluation of the dollar, the price for the wind power and other energy sources are going to be probably more like 3  to five billion Dollars, but these costs will pay for themselves eventually by providing "Free energy."   llby Drew Angel / 2008,147.43216 May 27th Tuesday @10;22 ---> 2008,147.51958 May 27th Tuesday @12;28

Download Opensource spreadsheet file ADIABATIC SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING.calc.ods 

---- for comparison ----

CASH COST OF USA WAR AGAINST IRAQ PER USA PERSON

$3,333.33

 return on investment: minus more than  $1 trillion ; just no positive return on investment!

Ecos.  The Ecology and the Human Economy are an integrated system, and for practical purposes it has always been that way. 

God Created the World: Heaven and Earth. We are Robots. We live on Planets.

My view is that "God" is the spirit of the universe.  I believe also that the word "God" in English is not only a "name" but  a super pronown which transcends gender.

Further, as moderns, we have resources our ancestors could not have imagined. One concept, infinity, meant only "uncountable." But now we think of it as a non-number,

or a set of numbers, related to the idea of dividing a number by zero. Infinity is a special notion, and used often in science.  I believe the properties of God are infinite.

That makes the God I believe in substantiaily different from the God of my ancestors, even though I would assert that my God existed through all time, and even before time.

We evolved. ALL LIFE depends on available Free Energy (in the thermodynamics sense)!
A robot is a machine controlled by a brain. The definition is recursive.  If the word recursive is not famliar to you please look that up in a dictionary. It is a term mathematical and derives from root words having to do with the verb "to run".

Civilization and humanity as in the sense of “modern man” requires more than just free energy. 

We need electricity! We do not need to burn fossil fuels nor wood (very much longer).

The Earth is in heaven. It is our job to care for it.

It is part of a planetary system, and also the majority partner of a binary planet system, which in English we might call "Terra," from the Latin for Earth. Perhaps as many as 4 or 5 of the planets might sustain permanent human habitats, while all will indubitably become tourist meccas.

Earth and the Moon are tightly bound together in a celestial sense. Our whole planetary system is loosely bound except with respect to the sun and all the objects of the entire solar system (including both the sun itself, and objects beyond the planetary system are in orbit around a position called the Copernicus (equivalent to the relativistic Newtonian solar system center of gravity).

(There are 9 planets in the Earth's Planetary system; there are millions of ssos (Solar System Objects) in the Solar system, and quite a few numskulls in the astronomy business.) The planets have all be been found by either, the Ancients Mercury, Venus, Earth/Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, or by scientific predictions made by astronomers: Hershel (Uranus), Neptune (Possibly discovered by Galileo, but left unpublished for fear of further persecution, and Pluto which was found because of small anomalies detected in the orbits of the known planets. The so called new planets were merely found by computerized searches using very powerful telescopes. The far SSOs are definitely part of the solar system, but they are not planets. The Solar system's planets interact, but those supposedly large SSOs have virtually negligible gravitational effects on any other known objects . They are not part of the planetary system and they clearly are not planets!  Did the members of the Astronomical Union become so lost in their searches for names of obtuse Grecian Deities, forget that the name "planet" came from the concept "wandering star" based on the visible planets and which has been learned by  almost any one who has achieved admission to high school?  KISS. (keep it simple).

Now here is a question for you, especially if your are a either an astronomer or a member of the clergy:   Why is the Universe so large?

Ecos 101

The Human Economy is essentially a segment of the total Human Ecology, which in today's world actually extends beyond the planetary extent of Earth.  The term Ecos refers to this domain as a system, of which every living person is a part, and within every family, and each and every person lives his or her entire life. The economy cannot be rationally segregated from the overall ecology, nor in our time can the ecology be separated from the economy.  There are more humans alive now than any other large animal in the history of Earth.

That such is our domain does not automatically result in complete control of it. Luckily we are  making some progress in that direction.
If we are successful human life should become a happier phenomenon.  In Natural Ecology, success is survival. 

The law of supply and demand.
Fundamentally the law of supply and demand is an ecological equation.  Furthermore analysis of the economy has been linked to the ecology with respect to weather long before Adam Smith actually presented analysis in Wealth of Nations. 

He was able to consider data going back as far as Roman Biblical times, and detailed reports going back hundreds of years. He examined official reports of policy, prices, abundance and scarcity most of which was due to climate, and some of which, as still happens, due to policies of Nations and today also because of corporate and international policies. 

There has been mystery and controversy over the fact that some commodities such as water, which are the most useful have rather low prices compared to far less intrinsically valuable items.  (Thanks to the late John Kenneth Galbraith for noting that.)

Energy, of which there is an extremely abundant supply, should  be in that category. However  it is not. So therefore since it is in general not affected by the climate,  but merely available as consequence only of harvesting and storage, it is evident that its high prices are a  consequence of policy.

The most important elements of the Adiabatic solution to global warming/cooling (Global Thermosis) have become part of the mantra's of all three of the top running U.S. Presidential candidates. The Europeans are way ahead in that philosophically, but still most of us, or really all of us are completely unable to get unhitched from carbon/fossil fuels.

The problem with the three Senators is that they are politicians first and saviors later on. The problem we thus face is the danger of too little too late. They must work together this year to lead the Senate and Congress to create sweeping changes NOW. If these three spend too much time arguing this year, it may be impossible for them to actually do what they want next year. 

(I.E.  THE 2009-2010 BUDGET) . EVEN IN A CRISIS MONEY IS CRITICAL, and IN TODAY's WORLD the amounts available are largely controlled by energy supply. If we build enough power supply this summer (2008) we may turn the tide toward survival.  The first efforts should probably be water based storage which are strategically placed to help fight fight fires, and able to contribute to the grid the rest of the time. Locales would be lakes, rivers, maybe even sea sides especially near forests.  Another application could be water pumping in places like New Orleans and along the Atlantic, and in drought stricken areas where deep water may be found.

The reason is simple. If we do not begin doing the things needed to mow resuscitate the Ecos (which is the Economy in the context of the Ecological environment) then there may well not be enough reasonably priced energy to do the these things at all!

USA PLUGGABLE HYBRIDS MANDATE!

Requiring all new cars sold in America to be pluggable hybrids by 2010 or 2012 would make a great deal of sense.
This would force large scale production and eliminate the up scale badge of doing things the right way with all my money situation which completely hinders progress now.  In other words  halt the lip service policy most auto companies have used advertising excellent hybrid model performance but actually providing only a handful of  vehicles per show room per YEAR!

Any argument against this concept must explain how this would hurt American car makers which have been losing billions of dollars per year almost all of this century! 

The excuse that making all cars hybrid too expensive will be clearly seen as corporate scam in this day and age! 
We've just seen it too many times, with car makers opposing every thing from wind shield wipers, to catalytic converters, and seat belts and gas mileage standards. 

But this time it is not just car accidents we are trying to avoid but rather the loss of entire cities and and possibly even habitable continents! How will car makers make money if if everyone ends up starving?

The reason for making the hybrids "pluggable" is so that presuming we make progress in production of low priced electricity, that new vehicle owners do not have to by new cars because gas is no longer allowed to be used as fuel for new cars!  It also provides incentive for building electric generation facilities.  

Car makers have to deal with stockholders who may own significant amounts of oil stocks, so they can't do the right thing even when management wants to, without a government mandate. Congress has to deal with similar lobbying, but is still in a better position to solve such problems than private enterprise.
 CONGRESS SHOULD TAKE THIS MATTER UP THIS YEAR AND NOT WAIT TILL AFTER THE 2009 Inaugurals!

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Most of the stories about the failing economy are bull.

The ones most true are those of the airlines, most obviously affected by the costs of petroleum fuels.

But the housing industry is also a casualty because presently this entire modern society system is stuck on coal and oil.
News articles focus mainly on "the price at the pump." Costs of heating, and electric appliances are generally ignored, as also are the cost of so many sundries, from plastic coat hangers to packaged cereals. In order to cover up their plans plunder of bankers and their many allies, the Federal reserve removed the prices of food and energy from the consumer price index. This created an artificial economic climate that completely ignore the costs of Global Thermosis.

The housing crisis was created to serve speculators, including all the big banks, and is partly also a foreseeable consequence of the Iraq War spending, which also help to gouge the price of fuel, based on the effects of scare tactics on commodity prices.
Today the stock market closed up 500 points on the Dow Jones Industrials, yet the price of a barrel of oil hit an all time high of over $116 a barrel! (oops! That was a week ago. Last I saw crude oil was up to $126 barrel. But be ready to dump those oil company stocks in a New York Minute.

There is only one way to solve this general problem. It is to initiate heavy spending on adiabatic energy production and storage. In the U.S. this will be an alternative to the "housing" industry.
The many hundreds of thousands of NEW  jobs will bolster the whole economy in REAL ways. This will prevent a "depression.

The idea that we can penalize the Oil producers now is quite stupid. If they are required to pay now for new technology they must be guaranteed substantial compensatory long term benefits. If they quit producing too soon - - - well, let's not go there.

The leader ship can see the writing on the wall. By 2010 it will likely not be legal so sell a non-hybrid car in America. By 2015 it may be illegal so sell gasoline at all!

I like to point out the successes based largely on the work of Edison and Westinghouse in New York and California at the end of the 19th and the start of the 20th centuries. New York harnessed Niagara Falls! They installed electric street cars and subways. California built the  Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, which now handle 40% of U.S. imports and exports, and also the Doheny Aqueduct which supplies about half of the water supply of modern day Los Angeles.

Those were not trivial effort nor results! An amazing wrinkle in this story that I have heard is that it was Thomas Edison who convinced Henry Ford to use gasoline engines instead of electric.  My feeling, not based on direct evidence is that Edison feared the demands of vehicles would darken the cities.

Remember, in those times airplanes, powered by ingenious gasoline engines, were made of wood and cloth. The idea of a 1,000,000 watt, 350 foot windturbine was not yet in the wind.

And speaking of planes, it was partly the available cheap electricity that made California into an aerospace giant in the mid 20th Century. Of course much of that now goes to keeping Las Vegas lit up, and also to keep food fresh and people busy and comfortable in California.


Now it is, and these and other adiabatic technologies are available, and certainly new methods will arise to make this planet a safer place on which to live.

Another comparison to the past, is indeed, the introduction of the automobile. In the cities, the trolleys and trains already had replaced the role of the horse for the most part.  In the rural areas it took a few more decades. No longer was HAY a big deal. People could live without hay deliveries.  Life went on, and smelled better too.

But look:  life it self did not change that much because  there was no longer a large market for hay.
New commodities took over.

Oil will not have quite the same fate. High carbon fossil deposits are going to be the source of building materials for centuries to come. To burn the present supply as gasoline would be a crime against the future of humanity. The U.S. solution for that stuff is government payments to owners of mineral rights;  that is condemnation of their rights to pump oil for use as fuel.

It's not that different from making it illegal to have a dairy farm within city limits.

Now here is how the economy benefits.  The new jobs will take money from investors and government at first. As the new supply of energy grows, the prices will gradually reduce. Here the government will have to cover the investors, in order to not create an energy nobility, which is what the energy giants want. We already have seen some of the not so savory results in other parts of the world.

It is not enough to pump money into the hands of consumers will create only a small multiplier effect on the whole economy. The stimulus checks, one of which I am personally looking forward to receiving, will probably have a small short term inflationary impact on prices in during the early summer, allowing some to send money to Presidential candidates, others to up grade their  computers, TVs and phones, and/or go out to dinner a couple of times. These expenditures can thus be for some pretty advanced technology, or for food, which scales less on the economic grid, but regardless, non of these items can be considered as capital improvements. 

Drew Angel
April 19 2008 (in gnome desktop waiting for  a backup to get done ....and really it never did.

---> 2008,128.98521 May 8th Thursday @23;38

twelve days since I  could work on this --- there were some glitches

But DON'T BE SURPRISED. It was even been published in Vital Speeches (late 1990's) that the oil producing interests want to dominate all information outlets. 

Note about nearly half your newspaper's weight is automobile advertising, and about the same is found in many other print formats and of course on TV. What simpler way to control the internet than make sure that it is very difficult for ordinary people to use computers, especially with respect to emails which would have lengthy reports attached.

Note Microsoft was made big by IBM, which did not want competition with its mainframe business; and that Gates Company never really aimed at making  operating systems for specific purposes (aside from the military): Microsoft focused on the original great idea of making products suited to the chips made by Intel corp.  That is why the Unix based systems have been
reasonably successful: it was designed by a telecommunications giant (AT&T)  for use as a telecommunications tool.

In other words it was developed to actually do something, whereas, despite some quite fine artistic attributes and quite a bit of decent third party software, many folks have simply given up, and now spend their software dollars on better phones.

I almost doubt that anyone, aside from game players, really loves computers like many of us used to; in my view better software was available for "PC" machines in the mid 1990's than even the best tools you can now run, on the chips that were supposed to be compatible with the old chips. Things change: but with cars, TV, and phones for example, they really do seem to get better while computers don't.  

It is no more an accidental situation than the fact we have sent robots to Mars, yet not sent a single telescope to the Moon: had we done so, we would have been far more aware of conditions here on Earth because of the ability to observe the entire atmosphere and almost all the surface in great detail and in context! And the carbon fuel mineral rights holders did not want the general public to understand the damage being done, as it would be bad for their business and extravagant life styles. It should also be noted that the moon presents the most perfect platform for astronomical observatories as well. It could far surpass the Hubble and the Webb scope. And take note that sadly the current administration has forced NASA to develop poor plans to send men to the moon, first by 2010, then 2018, when it would only take 3 years to do just that. But what is George Bush thinking of? We already landed men on the Moon. We need a CITY ON THE MOON! WHERE IS THE POSTER FOR THE PLAN?

Apologies for this rather quick and dirty start for the new DrewAngel.com; I do have some backup files but unhappily a lot has been lost or stolen; allow me to note that significant sections of the old DAC seem to remain, but because of the stupidity of the computer barons there is a rather too short file name limitation on CD data disk files, amongst other problem and so the restoration is going to take a while longer.  I don't think much good has come from that; to the contrary; fuel prices have gone up because the advice of 2005 was ignored, and that partly at least because I was hindered.

Al Gore got a Nobel Prize and an academy award for pointing out what President Carter was trying to prevent 40 years ago, and while awareness of the problem is good, like merely being a candidate  often does not solve problems. This is very especially true in the face of such significant and to a great degree irrational, opposition.

For nearly 3 years I couldn't update Drew Angel.com. Nor was I able to update my "MoonJazz" page at Myspace.com (which disappeared). However, the most important elements respecting the Adiabatic solution to global warming/cooling (Global Thermosis) were available, as were the legacy Dactime scripts from MoonJazz.com which also, very soon after the start of the Iraq war, became inaccessible.  

Recently (mid May 2008) discovered a "New Book" by two authors on the "new book shelf of  the Palmdale Library called "The Hot Topic." On the cover "Nobel prize winner Al Gore" extolled the small paper back. Buried in a list was a statement that it would take 2 million megawatt wind turbines to produce enough energy to run this planet.  They included that in a half page list and did not even bother to suggest taking any action.  I personally am irked to not be given even a footnote!

Based on the Ipcc.2007 report (also sharing the 2007 Nobel Prize) which I began reading last night, that's about one full year's global domestic product.  Considering just the costs of repairing weather related catastrophes likely to come, doesn't it seem only sane to start paying the cost of what we should perhaps be calling remodeling humanity's kitchen! 

It really isn't a very huge job compared to wars, except with respect to cash costs. There will be relatively little damage from the work, compared to the wholesale destruction of, populations, cities and nations in wars. Hasn't anyone in the West recognized that we are never paid back for delivering bombs on other people's habitats?

DrewAngel.com was never intended to be a blog. The reprehensible Hosting service that would not answer calls nor maintain normal business conduct was beyond my control. I am grateful that the 2001-2005 files were maintained on line, as far as I could tell based on periodic checks until recently. Thus my chagrin at not being noted as the source that 2,000,000 megawatt turbines concept. It was just a simple idea in 2005. Now it is surrounded by ideas such as CO2 sequestering which may be useful, but still portends a plan to keep on overdrafting our fossil carbon account.

I don't think I'm dumb, but apparently I'm often easily stymied. After all I live in the USA, which incidentally is located on Planet Earth, Heaven.
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; I continue to hope we can abolish the daylight savings time syndrome which has become more like a religious ceremony than a practical methodology. An amazing number of people seem to think it is daylight savings "time" which makes the days longer, and very few know that the days get longer and then shorter and then longer again til mid summer all in a non-linear way.  There are two orbital factors, both planetary orbital law, <">Kepler's first I think, all> style="font-style: italic;"and also that of earth's tilted spin which also generally governs the hemispheric seasons.

DrewAngel.com 2008  change log/ updates:
Yom 2008,135.58 <= 136th day of year is Thursday
-------2008,135.77931 May 15th Thursday @18;42

rev.---> 2008,137.47878 May 17th Saturday @11;29 added Ecos stuff
rev.---> 2008,139.65731 May 19th Monday @15;46 revisit Adiabatic Processes
rev. ---> 2008,141.66074 May 21st Wed @15;51  Justify  pluggable hybrids mandate. 
---> 2008,143.81934 May 23rd Friday @19;39   water storage for electric power 

---> 2008,146.05810 May 26th Monday @01;23   Hot_Topic

---> 2008,147.97612 May 27th Tuesday @23;25 Added Adiabatic Spreadsheet

---> 2008,225.98230 Aug 13th Wednesday @23;34 & ---> 2008,231.56145 Aug 19th Tuesday @13;28
As I have not gotten the fancy menu system I wanted set up here is a link to a new page explaining the new Eco stimulus  concept.