SENSE OF URGENCY

by Michael Douglas Carlin

The war in Vietnam created chaos. A young combat medic arrived to find troops infected with venereal disease, a short supply of antibiotics, and mixed race children often referred to as "Amerasian" being dropped off at his camp on a regular basis. The problems seemed almost overwhelming to Sergeant Edward, but he looked for solutions that would solve every one of them at once. He placed a moratorium on the troops' extracurricular activities with the local women, while the troops were treated and cured. He then had the local women come in for examinations prior to being allowed to socialize with the troops, for which he charged them a tax that they would easily make back in their time with the troops. Everyone was cured and cleared to socialize in a clean and disease-free way.

He took the funding that came in from the examinations and treatment of the women and found families that were taking the often outcast mixed-race children into their homes and financed mini-orphanages to care for the children. This was the beginning of what turned into funding and care for hundreds of children during his tour in Vietnam.

Today, we are on the brink of chaos. America is confronted with daunting problems: unemployment, dependence on foreign oil, environmental catastrophes, soaring food prices, deflation of real estate, record amounts of manure stacking up, credit frozen and climate change. These problems all seem so disconnected. America has been the worst offender in greenhouse gas emissions, and now we are the only reliable nation that is bringing about a solution. America must now take on the entire problem for the rest of the world if climate change is going to be solved, and time is of the essence. A National Security Briefing about climate change is posted on the Century City News website that paints a grim picture of what we can expect from further emissions. Time is of the essence.

I have visited the Salton Sea with my good friend Sir Colin Finlay. He has traveled the world and sees this environmental disaster as one of the worst in the world, and it sits right in our backyard in Southern California. The New River flows in from Mexico with hazardous biological materials from the slaughter houses there. The contaminants are flowing in with no outflow, and the Salton Sea becomes worse each year. We dug down 18 inches on the shore and found nothing but fish bones and scales from all the fish that had washed ashore dead from toxins and lack of oxygen (hypoxia) in the water due to the overgrowth of algae from biotoxins. The Salton Sea is at the juncture of three different counties. The jurisdiction of permitting becomes difficult when three county seats are involved. As the Salton Sea continues to dry up, the toxins are becoming airborne and blowing into populated areas. We must solve this problem. Time is of the essence.

Iran is making progress on developing nuclear material. The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic waterway for the transport of oil. Israel has been threatened by Iran, and it wouldn’t be a stretch for Iran to attack Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons. The supply of our oil will undoubtedly be interrupted at some point in the future. The development of alternative supplies of fuel has come to a point where time is of the essence.

Chickens, pigs and cows are being grown in increasing numbers. They are critical for the food supply of the world. Raising all of these animals is causing an enormous amount of methane gas and manure. The amount of manure far exceeds the manure produced by humans. This manure leeches into the water supply in many places and causes contamination. As the manure piles up, a solution must be found. Agribusiness needs reformation. Here again, time is of the essence.

In many countries and within the United States, food is being diverted into the production of fuel. The prices of grain and corn are skyrocketing. Food supplies are becoming scarce, and the demand to convert food into fuel will intensify if there is any shock to the oil supply.

Much of the electricity produced in the United States is produced from diesel-driven power plants. Electrification of the country has to be a major part of freedom from foreign fossil fuel dependence. Adding to the problem is that most of the power is produced by coal-fired plants, and the pollution from these plants is among the most serious in the nation, and possibly the world.

Because time is of the essence, a concentrated effort must be deployed to solve all of these problems simultaneously. There are no shortage of people who want jobs right now, and this may be an opportunity for employment.

Len Chapman of Environmental BioMass Energy has worked in the development of a process to convert manure into methane and convert manure into syngas, producing steam and electricity. Manure is also nutrient-rich and can be used as an input for growing algae. Algae comes in 3,000 strains, many of which grow in the saltiest of water. The Salton Sea might prove an incredible source of nutrient-rich water to grow algae. Algae only needs blue and red light to grow. That leaves the rest of the light spectrum to produce solar energy. Electric generation creates CO², which can be used to grow algae and be converted into oxygen. An acre of algae produces 50,000 gallons of vegetable oil.

John Jones of John D. Jones Engineering, Inc. has developed a process to convert animal fat or vegetable oil to biodiesel (no sulphur). Picture a process where manure, carbon dioxide, toxic water and sunlight are converted to methane gas, biodiesel, electricity and oxygen. This single process could create jobs, mitigate greenhouse gasses, create biodiesel fuel for the entire trucking industry/power generation, create a purpose for manure, create sequestered methane gas, and clean up one of America’s worst environmental disasters, the Salton Sea. If the process were done on a large enough scale, we could offset all of the greenhouse gasses emitted by the rest of the world and curb climate change. Let’s get started.

The story of Sir Edward is the story of how a young, wide-eyed man came to understand the human spirit through each encounter with situations that seemed unsolvable. This young man found at every juncture of his life that, by studying the problem, he was able to see the solution couched as a riddle within the very nature of what was wrong, and, with minimal effort, he was able to set it right.  Sixty­five years later, it has developed into so much more than a few threads to become the fabric  and philosophy of world peace. Our solutions are always couched in our problems.

SENSE OF URGENCY

by Michael Douglas Carlin

The war in Vietnam created chaos. A young combat medic arrived to find troops infected with venereal disease, a short supply of antibiotics, and mixed race children often referred to as "Amerasian" being dropped off at his camp on a regular basis. The problems seemed almost overwhelming to Sergeant Edward, but he looked for solutions that would solve every one of them at once. He placed a moratorium on the troops' extracurricular activities with the local women, while the troops were treated and cured. He then had the local women come in for examinations prior to being allowed to socialize with the troops, for which he charged them a tax that they would easily make back in their time with the troops. Everyone was cured and cleared to socialize in a clean and disease-free way.

He took the funding that came in from the examinations and treatment of the women and found families that were taking the often outcast mixed-race children into their homes and financed mini-orphanages to care for the children. This was the beginning of what turned into funding and care for hundreds of children during his tour in Vietnam.

Today, we are on the brink of chaos. America is confronted with daunting problems: unemployment, dependence on foreign oil, environmental catastrophes, soaring food prices, deflation of real estate, record amounts of manure stacking up, credit frozen and climate change. These problems all seem so disconnected. America has been the worst offender in greenhouse gas emissions, and now we are the only reliable nation that is bringing about a solution. America must now take on the entire problem for the rest of the world if climate change is going to be solved, and time is of the essence. A National Security Briefing about climate change is posted on the Century City News website that paints a grim picture of what we can expect from further emissions. Time is of the essence.

I have visited the Salton Sea with my good friend Sir Colin Finlay. He has traveled the world and sees this environmental disaster as one of the worst in the world, and it sits right in our backyard in Southern California. The New River flows in from Mexico with hazardous biological materials from the slaughter houses there. The contaminants are flowing in with no outflow, and the Salton Sea becomes worse each year. We dug down 18 inches on the shore and found nothing but fish bones and scales from all the fish that had washed ashore dead from toxins and lack of oxygen (hypoxia) in the water due to the overgrowth of algae from biotoxins. The Salton Sea is at the juncture of three different counties. The jurisdiction of permitting becomes difficult when three county seats are involved. As the Salton Sea continues to dry up, the toxins are becoming airborne and blowing into populated areas. We must solve this problem. Time is of the essence.

Iran is making progress on developing nuclear material. The Strait of Hormuz is a strategic waterway for the transport of oil. Israel has been threatened by Iran, and it wouldn’t be a stretch for Iran to attack Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons. The supply of our oil will undoubtedly be interrupted at some point in the future. The development of alternative supplies of fuel has come to a point where time is of the essence.

Chickens, pigs and cows are being grown in increasing numbers. They are critical for the food supply of the world. Raising all of these animals is causing an enormous amount of methane gas and manure. The amount of manure far exceeds the manure produced by humans. This manure leeches into the water supply in many places and causes contamination. As the manure piles up, a solution must be found. Agribusiness needs reformation. Here again, time is of the essence.

In many countries and within the United States, food is being diverted into the production of fuel. The prices of grain and corn are skyrocketing. Food supplies are becoming scarce, and the demand to convert food into fuel will intensify if there is any shock to the oil supply.

Much of the electricity produced in the United States is produced from diesel-driven power plants. Electrification of the country has to be a major part of freedom from foreign fossil fuel dependence. Adding to the problem is that most of the power is produced by coal-fired plants, and the pollution from these plants is among the most serious in the nation, and possibly the world.

Because time is of the essence, a concentrated effort must be deployed to solve all of these problems simultaneously. There are no shortage of people who want jobs right now, and this may be an opportunity for employment.

Len Chapman of Environmental BioMass Energy has worked in the development of a process to convert manure into methane and convert manure into syngas, producing steam and electricity. Manure is also nutrient-rich and can be used as an input for growing algae. Algae comes in 3,000 strains, many of which grow in the saltiest of water. The Salton Sea might prove an incredible source of nutrient-rich water to grow algae. Algae only needs blue and red light to grow. That leaves the rest of the light spectrum to produce solar energy. Electric generation creates CO², which can be used to grow algae and be converted into oxygen. An acre of algae produces 50,000 gallons of vegetable oil.

John Jones of John D. Jones Engineering, Inc. has developed a process to convert animal fat or vegetable oil to biodiesel (no sulphur). Picture a process where manure, carbon dioxide, toxic water and sunlight are converted to methane gas, biodiesel, electricity and oxygen. This single process could create jobs, mitigate greenhouse gasses, create biodiesel fuel for the entire trucking industry/power generation, create a purpose for manure, create sequestered methane gas, and clean up one of America’s worst environmental disasters, the Salton Sea. If the process were done on a large enough scale, we could offset all of the greenhouse gasses emitted by the rest of the world and curb climate change. Let’s get started.

The story of Sir Edward is the story of how a young, wide-eyed man came to understand the human spirit through each encounter with situations that seemed unsolvable. This young man found at every juncture of his life that, by studying the problem, he was able to see the solution couched as a riddle within the very nature of what was wrong, and, with minimal effort, he was able to set it right.  Sixty­five years later, it has developed into so much more than a few threads to become the fabric  and philosophy of world peace. Our solutions are always couched in our problems.

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