California Can Be Carbon Neutral

Starting a worldwide climate change revolution!

Introduction:
California can start a worldwide revolution by becoming carbon neutral. In some ways this new standard is superior to the requirements of AB32. Carbon Neutral is only achievable by stopping procrastination and making real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation plus reducing natural threats and mitigating numerous others. A pollution surcharge and progressive consumption tax is far superior to the proposed cap and trade systems under the Kyoto Protocols and the European System. Simply by reducing emissions California does not reach the desired outcome of a more stabilized cooler atmosphere yielding cooling ocean temperatures.

Mankind needs energies and fuels that changes the way we think and live with multiple beneficial outcomes. Instead of burning fuel creating heat, bold renewable energies are needed that have the potential to be massively produced at lower prices than fossil fuel. Mankind needs energies and/or fuels to cool earth; these energies must create a whole new set of standards, new or renewed industries and a new and renewed international growing economy. The industrial revolution has put chemicals into space like refrigerants, methane and carbon monoxide that are destroying Ozone and causing global warming. 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, governments have to change. These changes will bring new jobs, local production, new infrastructure and renewed commitments to make energy reliable and affordable.

Otherwise, the result is:  change is on the way; we just do not know the exact changes, disasters, let alone where and when. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable resource and with increasing demand over the next 30 years, gas will sell for $30 per gallon without major intervention. California, therefore, must look beyond the bigger picture, beyond solar concentrating electric power plants, wind, wave, small hydro-electric, geothermal, and even beyond nuclear energy. Humans must understand many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endangered species, heat cities, and in some way 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.

But adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming which is more prevalent at the poles. Increase the amount of water in the atmosphere (warming earth’s surface) to form clouds (cooling earth’s surface) but sometimes causing tornados and/or flooding. Adding small amounts of water to the atmosphere, then blaming the flood on the droplet is like burning gas in your car and not blaming it on climate change. Humans are burning 85 million barrels of oil per day and want to burn more. Yet with so many variables, the climate models have to be made as we go along with current evidence!

Even other natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (great destruction), sun spots and even lighting (producing ozone near the surface raising air pollution levels) later increasing the size of the ozone layer. Some humans know that to solve climate change including saving Earth’s Coral, a major goal in winning the global warming battle, and saving the ice caps is going to cost a great deal of money, take generations, and consume massive amounts of energy.

As with any investment the sooner we start the less the price tag will rise. Humans know what is cost effective; 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 California’s share at $2,500,000,000,000. Californian’s have to put our money where we get 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 will dramatically increase supply efficiencies.

Compressed Liquefied Air (CLA) is a promising technology which has more potential energy per gallon than gasoline used by a car. 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.

But, not all good solar locations are good for electric production; therefore, new direct thermal solar to CLA, Biosphere Cleanup MachinesTM (BCM), use concentrating solar energy to CLA by taking in and cleaning up hot desert air. Solar power can also be used in new low altitude satellites, cruse ships in the sky that sail endlessly in the jet-stream, these electric airplanes also known as Atmospheric Cleanup MachinesTM (ACM) which produce liquid air and separate out the oxygen and nitrogen while cleaning up the other chemical in the atmosphere.

The CLA is then available for the USA to build a cross country superconductor electric high speed train capable of 200 MPH. California must 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. But California must start by expanding the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) service to San Jose, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Stockton. To best take advantage of this extraordinary global warming solution, California must plan a later expansion from Sacramento to Monterey Bay through San Jose. And Sacramento must expand the Light Rail to Placerville, Roseville and Woodland.

To give renewable energy 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, trains and airplanes. New homes must meet high standards including evaporative cooling, rain water storage, solar heat and underground sinks. California must ban all burning that does not have multiple outcomes.

To control flooding, California must upgrade the pumping stations to superconductor electric motors and double the pumping capacity of state water works. California has to 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 ocean, 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 from ACM’s are a great way to sequester carbon. This will increase the yield of compost material which with water is the answer to desertification.

California has to meet the new electrical demands with conservation, new hydro projects, solar and new and replacement nuclear power plants. Estimates are that California needs 20 gigawatts of concentrating solar steam turbine electric generating power plants. 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.

California has to double output of existing hydro electric power plants and add many small ones all over. California has 1,200 water storage and hydro systems, the state needs 300 more with 5 the size of Shasta. California needs 100 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. California rivers must be returned to living natural waterways and parks. A vital part of this plan to help earth be more sustainable is to return the water flow to the Colorado River, even if we have to move water into this location.

California has to move past the “turn it off mode” to conserve large amounts of energy and to push for higher standards. One 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 here in California, the Independent System Operator (ISO) 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.

The governments of California must take a leading roll in saving our home:  Earth. California can build one nuclear power plant when this proposal is adopted then four by 2020 with ten overall. Funding for many of these projects must be embraced including others like wood recycling from old and used fences, counter-tops, cabinets, and construction materials. Other projects include used lamp recycling, even used engine oil, plastic, bio-waste, cosmetics, used tires, sewage treatment floaters to make bio-fuels and synthetic gasoline. All public schools must add online classes to conserve energy while adding solar. Public schools are to work out plans to end most electric use by 1 PM in the summer--end of May to beginning of September. UC should combine all online classes to form an online campus, same with the CSU system. Students must start their college education at community college, take AP classes in high school, or complete online undergrad classes to become eligible for a university. The California retirement systems must play a big roll in investing in this revolution as well as including all California State Employees' Unions contracts and adding new language for all unions to be able to invest in carbon neutrality and help rebuild California. But if this plan fails, California must plan to build a lock system at SF bay to keep out the raising ocean out of central California.

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 history, far beyond the dark ages. The bad news is we are using resources that do not yield productive results:  Japan investing in Natural Gas Fuel Cells; America is investing in ethanol and clean coal; Indonesia is investing in palm oil; Canada is investing in tar sands. Bush’s 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. If you want to drive a hummer you can, but you will pay under this plan. This big picture approach is what humans need; it will set the example for mankind.

California has to have a plan to start the biggest cleanup in history: the environment including the atmosphere. Look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. The good news is humans have started renewable investments: Asia and North America are investing in nuclear; Europe, The Americas, Africa and Asia are investing in solar; 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.

California must have 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 California needs a new progressive consumption sales tax and a pollution surcharge. If you want to invest in environmental businesses, California must give you a tax break. This 10 year plan is comprehensive and one outcome is California ends our dependence on foreign oil partly by drilling for oil and natural gas.

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