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Preface:
Sunlight & Water: Solar energy has been used for over 2700 years. In 700 BC, glass lenses were used to make fire by magnifying the sun’s rays. In totality, the earth gets 174 Petawatts of incoming solar radiation in the upper atmosphere. About 30% is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed by oceans, clouds and land masses. Terra Firma receives about 1,366 watts of direct solar radiation per square meter. Every square yard of land, if exposed to direct sunlight, receives about 833 watts of solar energy. This can be magnified and harnessed without electricity 24 hours out of the day using concentrated mirror arrays to turn water and other liquids into thermal batteries, essentially for free. Considering the challenges posed by lack of healthy fresh water sources by nearly all of the world's population, this will become very important. Even for the world’s premier power. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledges over 2,000 different chemicals inside of US drinking water. This includes Liquified chlorine, Fluorosilicic acid, Aluminium sulphate, Calcium hydroxide, Sodium silicofluoride, solid Chlorine, Fluorine compounds, Trihalomethanes (THMs), Salts of: arsenic, radium, aluminium, copper, lead, mercury, cadmium, barium, Hormones, Nitrates, and Pesticides. More than 1,500 children were lead poisoned in Detroit in 2014. Eight percent of children who were tested for lead poisoning in Detroit had elevated blood-lead levels in 2013 (≥5 micrograms per deciliter), 16 times the national average (CDC and state health departments). On average, between 1999 and 2004, black children were 1.6 times more likely to test positive for lead in their blood than others. And among children who tested positive for extremely high lead levels (≥10 micrograms per deciliter), black children were nearly three times more likely. In 2018 the rate has risen to 6x’s the national average. In 2013-14, a total of 42 drinking-water-associated outbreaks caused by infectious pathogens, chemicals or toxins were reported to the CDC from 19 states. The reports do not include lead contamination. These outbreaks led to at least 1,006 cases of illness, 124 hospitalizations and 13 deaths across Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The number of drinking water outbreaks has increased from 32 in 2011-2012. This is not including the incidents in Flint, Michigan, or Brooklyn, New York. What’s surprising about this is not that it’s happening in the world's wealthiest country, but that, despite extraordinary infrastructure redevelopment cost estimates, it’s surprisingly easy to solve. In fact, the only costs should include labor. |
Choose any spot on Earth that doesn’t have land use restrictions either human or toxic, yet access to ANY source of consistent water and sunlight and you can yield bountiful harvests. The desire for this business was to be able to generate any type of food source anywhere on the planet under any circumstance. Then, use those intelligently chosen agricultural products to create every product necessary for a first world nations population using solely the fibers that nature has invented and generate a functional self sustained economy and community - All within a six month time span. Extraordinarily, that is now possible as the following methods achieves that and so much more. But to prove it’s solid foundations, the most water hostile environment is being chosen to highlight its efficacy and prove why water scarcity is a thing of the past.
“Water supplies are running out in Nouakchott, the desert capital of Mauritania, where it rains on average six days each year. The Trarza underground lake is not rain-fed, and so its water supply, although once large, is not renewable.”
“In the north east of Mali, irregular rainfall and political instability has meant basics like water are becoming scarce. “
“The dry season in Niger last almost 9 months, contributing to very high instances of water scarcity. Over 17 million of the nearly 20 million people in Niger lack access to adequate sanitation, and 8 million don't have access to safe water, resulting in over 6,000 child deaths per year from waterborne illnesses.”
“Lake Chad is the fourth largest lake and covers the boundary of four states. Since 1963 the Lake has lost about 90% of its size and is under threat of disappearing and causing water scarcity and illnesses such as diarrhea and cholera in Chad.”
The nations of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad are all home to a body of land stretching two thousand two hundred miles from the Atlantic into the interior. The Sahara is three million five hundred thousand square miles or roughly two and a quarter billion acres in total. This is some of the driest soil in one of the largest deserts on Earth. Although the desert itself is occupied by less than two million, this arid hamada hosts a cumulative population distribution of over sixty million people. It also has the least amount of transportation networks, a meager flora and fauna ecosystems, some of the windiest above ground conditions on the continent, and is seated next to a dramatically overfished ocean. To top it all off, It has the world's greatest unbroken sunlight distribution per square meter over both the sand and sea due to low cloud cover caused by the atmospheric circulation processes in this region.
There is no wonder the world is so envious of these rich lands and their incredible people!
At least, they should be...
Despite appearances, the facts laid out above are exactly what makes the growth opportunities so promising. They fit every standard of the criteria explored in turning the non viable, viable. This enormous land mass is greater in size than the United States. It is prime real estate in an area with limited agricultural, commercial, and industrial development, nor any widespread land distribution or exploitation. With all of the necessary ingredients for energy generation, they receive none of the fanfare typical of such a bounty in green, renewable resources, possibly due to the stigmas the region carries. Yet the entire area is ripe for development if husbanded by the right idea. Mother nature was simply waiting for us to develop the technology she perfected millions of years ago.
All of the dramatic water scarcity facts above can be solved in less than a year.
“Water supplies are running out in Nouakchott, the desert capital of Mauritania, where it rains on average six days each year. The Trarza underground lake is not rain-fed, and so its water supply, although once large, is not renewable.”
“In the north east of Mali, irregular rainfall and political instability has meant basics like water are becoming scarce. “
“The dry season in Niger last almost 9 months, contributing to very high instances of water scarcity. Over 17 million of the nearly 20 million people in Niger lack access to adequate sanitation, and 8 million don't have access to safe water, resulting in over 6,000 child deaths per year from waterborne illnesses.”
“Lake Chad is the fourth largest lake and covers the boundary of four states. Since 1963 the Lake has lost about 90% of its size and is under threat of disappearing and causing water scarcity and illnesses such as diarrhea and cholera in Chad.”
The nations of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad are all home to a body of land stretching two thousand two hundred miles from the Atlantic into the interior. The Sahara is three million five hundred thousand square miles or roughly two and a quarter billion acres in total. This is some of the driest soil in one of the largest deserts on Earth. Although the desert itself is occupied by less than two million, this arid hamada hosts a cumulative population distribution of over sixty million people. It also has the least amount of transportation networks, a meager flora and fauna ecosystems, some of the windiest above ground conditions on the continent, and is seated next to a dramatically overfished ocean. To top it all off, It has the world's greatest unbroken sunlight distribution per square meter over both the sand and sea due to low cloud cover caused by the atmospheric circulation processes in this region.
There is no wonder the world is so envious of these rich lands and their incredible people!
At least, they should be...
Despite appearances, the facts laid out above are exactly what makes the growth opportunities so promising. They fit every standard of the criteria explored in turning the non viable, viable. This enormous land mass is greater in size than the United States. It is prime real estate in an area with limited agricultural, commercial, and industrial development, nor any widespread land distribution or exploitation. With all of the necessary ingredients for energy generation, they receive none of the fanfare typical of such a bounty in green, renewable resources, possibly due to the stigmas the region carries. Yet the entire area is ripe for development if husbanded by the right idea. Mother nature was simply waiting for us to develop the technology she perfected millions of years ago.
All of the dramatic water scarcity facts above can be solved in less than a year.
With the Austrian forestry and river engineer Viktor Schaubergers groundbreaking research and technological breakthroughs in structured water, river health, vortexed waters anti microbial properties, his insight into the water cycle, and too many patents to count, the seeds were sown in the development of the subsequent system.
Decades of research on life history strategies of microbial symbionts led to understanding the evolution of cooperation and survival between hosts. This is an aspect of life humans are ill at ease in discussing. There is not just duality, but triality in all things. There is Life derived from water and soil(plants and us) and then their opposites, fungi and also bacteria. Together, these forces have united over millions of years to encompass all aspects of our internal and externalities. Rhizobia are soil bacteria known for fixing nitrogen inside legume root nodules. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are ubiquitous root symbionts that provide plants with nutrients and other benefits. Both kinds of symbionts employ strategies to reproduce during symbiosis using host resources; to repopulate the soil; to survive in the soil between hosts; and to find and infect new hosts. To survive in the soil, symbionts employ sophisticated strategies, such as persister formation for rhizobia and reversal of spore germination by mycorrhizae. Interactions among symbionts, from rhizobial quorum sensing to fusion of genetically distinct fungal hyphae, all increase adaptive plasticity.
Mycorrhizal fungi are tiny, harmless microorganisms that attach themselves to plant roots and actually help plants to make use of water and organic nutrients in the soil. For every human, there is about 3 tons of this fungi. They live on the roots of roughly 95% of all earth’s plant species. In exchange for what they provide the plant, the plant offers the fungi a meal of sugars (fixed carbon) produced by the photosynthesis process. This fungi essentially provide a second set of roots for the plants. Thus, plants, trees, and shrubs with a well established mycorrhizal fungal root system are better able to survive droughts and transplant shock. They also absorb more nutrients from the soil. Plants with mycorrhizal fungi can survive better in their non-native, hostile environments. Mycorrhizal fungi also boost a plant’s immune system, making them resistant to soil-borne pathogens. In addition, they help to keep away parasitic nematodes with a little added help from the Rhizobia bacteria. With green algae, all of these microorganisms allow for survival in harsh ultraviolet intensity environments where there is only sand and clay. They allow for the repurposing of any harsh topsoil in any desert on Earth. All we needed was a consistent water source.
With this in mind, after a thorough accounting of the processes of the world’s costliest and most high tech desalination plants and subsequent investigation of a dozen others it suddenly became clear that costly piping, sanitization, and power processes could be eliminated using a simpler, more elegant and cost effective combination of technologies and designs… If not more labor intensive (to say the least).
Quarrying an artificial river through the depths of the desert from any water source and allowing the sun to separate the ingestible from the indigestible using a sealed dome and water recovery method is the obvious solution. A condensation catchment membrane of activated carbon in the form of coconut shells converted into charcoal and a vortex engine can clear all metal particulates and unwanted microbial elements. No need for pipes, power, or chemicals. With consistent sun and water, all that’s required is to scale way up. Any location on Earth that fits this criteria can utilize the system. For the purposes of this particular exercise, the best location is the one with the least amount of dynamic interference yet with the greatest amount of need. Hence why the Sahara/Sahel region was chosen. While not necessary thanks to paraboloid solar thermal batteries that can be used ANYWHERE, the Sahara is the perfect testing ground thanks to its size and lack of restrictions. Evaporating and storing water is also not the solution, as water devoid of minerals can only provide for a few generations of harvests and makes plants more susceptible to the vagaries of the environment and infections. But no cost water vortexing and mineralization have solved even that.
With the freed up capital and profit margin clearly available, the new design would actually create jobs and generate income all while genuinely improving the lives of the population, ecosystem, and finances of the entire four nation zone of influence almost without cost - but, it must be reiterated again and again, this requires substantial labor and attention to detail.
PROPOSAL: The proposition to the governments of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad are for this small, humble business concern to be granted access of key portions of unoccupied arid land in the sahara and sahel to work towards the largest scale project ever devised at such a low cost profile. With this new concept and with the consent from the governments in question, progress can be made to turn the driest of lands into arable real estate available for agriculture, secure housing, sustainable energy production, and sanitation. It will also dramatically reduce the greatest volume of worldwide carbon emissions than any other project currently taking place on Earth. In fact, upon completion, this endeavor will circumvent the 14,000 year wet to dry Sahara cycle which alternately turns the landmass from moisture deficient into the Tethys sea, blooming with life and back again. The methods that have been developed will permanently change this, ensuring that a permanent, natural, healthy, gravity fed water system will be fed through the key portions of the desert then return back to the ocean in an environmentally conscious loop that is also completely safe for sea life.
With the fresh water source that will become available, the agricultural produce chosen will ensure the creation of a sustainable value chain economy. Weather malleable, adaptable greenhouses will allow the growth of any type of plant or tree species on the planet. Key species have been chosen for the greatest benefits to industrial development and horticultural ease of use. Peanuts, corn, coconuts, spinach, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, bananas, olive trees, Ziziphus jujuba, fig, fungi (ganoderma lucidum & arbuscular mycorrizhal), bacteria (strains of rhizobia: Bradyrhizobium sp. (Vigna), Rhizobium leguminorsarum biovar viceae, Rhizobiumleguminosarum biovar phaseoli, and Bradyrhizobium japonicum.) and green algae (neochloris) will be the main bulk produce that will facilitate this production and all materials will be made on site.
Large-scale algae biofuel production facilities would create new jobs and would generate a total economic stimulus of 77 cents for every dollar invested, compared with just 13 cents to the dollar for traditional crude oil exploration and extraction. Commercial algae biofuel production is, for us, a challenge of scaling up to our maximum output. 5,000 sq miles of renewable, quickly reproducing Algae ponds covering an easily accessible above ground surface area (which can be adapted to below ground or stackable) could satisfy the entire crude oil demand of Australia, so supplying the four Sahel nations and beyond should be much less exacting,
Meanwhile, in our vertical, no tilling farms, the chosen plant and fungi fibers will contribute to concrete products for prefab homes, wood fiber materials made from bamboo, ganoderma, and corn husks, shoes, clothing, environmentally friendly plastic alternatives, solar panels, beds, pillows, blankets, utilities, and sunglasses made from banana by products, roads using salt, as well as plant seed milk and additional nutrient rich food alternatives. Using innovative recycling methods, worldwide landfills could be nearly 100% cannibalized at this facility and a 60ft deep water port has been drafted as well that will create a new revenue stream for the government as every single item of human waste can be recycled in the fabrication of factory facilities. Burning of used or rotten wood and other agricultural goods can be turned into bio charcoal to feed algae that will create up to 5 layers of “blankets” for the most infertile topsoil in this 2 billion acre unrealized oasis. Following this topsoil layering, the fungi, bacteria, seed mixture will allow the planting of any type of plant life. New faux tree, 2d shade artifices and mesh nets will accompany this until no longer necessary.
This humble business concerns focus is creating the world's cleanest freshwater, most nutrient dense food from healthy farmland, the most environmentally efficient, cost effective, and pleasant housing and living products, and comfort of being at one with nature anywhere on Earth. To do this, the cooperation of the local community was necessary. And so, a new method of job recruitment and above average worker compensation was devised utilizing digital payments, voucher credits similar to the tally stick system in medieval England, and social networking to distribute labor appropriately, quickly, and with full transparency.
The intention upon completion of this project is to have created permanently affordable homes, water, and food for the sixty million and growing in the region and enrich the governments so that they can better ensure the people's health, safety, and productivity, then expand. A people with more resources means a government with more revenue. These are already incredibly flexible, resourceful governments, and the ability to provide cost effective stored food options that are more nutritious to their armies and workforce as well as provide a new infrastructure for engineering output and innovation will be an exciting challenge. Using peanut and hamada enhanced concrete, coconut and corn wood fibers, cellulose based windows that are reflective of the brutal Sahara sun, and a new sectional, prefab home building technique as well as techniques borrowed from the binishell dome housing concept, we can construct a minimum of three homes a day, the first to be supplied would be the entire public sector of all the four governments. Of these, there would be no better advertisers of this new technology and the efficiency which will be brought to the rest of the sixty million Sahel and Sahara inhabitants.
Improving the lives of nearly one hundred million and beyond. Providing a local, sustainable goods economy that is highly accountable and highly technological. Increasing the educational infrastructure and technical expertise of the workforce and treating the people with the respect they deserve at a time when this is sorely needed. The people need a massive works project that they can be proud of. This will shine much needed light on these nations for all the world to see.
The infrastructure, ports, roads, traveled thoroughfares and cities have already been mapped out for the most efficient route for this artificial river irrigation source that will provide the least interruption in private and public travel or animal migration. The design was chosen to specifically enrich the aesthetic background of the landscape as the construction process proceeds. In fact, the necessity of terraformation to facilitate its speedy conclusion will result in less sandstorms and an almost immediate end to the encroaching desertification within five years. The ultimate result will be a beneficial ecological transformation for all nations involved.
Rigorous scientific calculations and considerations have gone into the environmental impact of this project, and the net benefit of manmade soda lakes and aquifer tapping will result in a comfort index increase and considerable population expansion. The research that went into determining its efficacy and expense estimates were based strictly on local, at hand resources and recycling all of the available vehicles and earth moving equipment on the continent. The greatest innovation is the elimination of cost barriers.
The bulk of time, energy, and investment expenses will center around generating structured water enriched with calcium, magnesium, sodium, and vortical structuring. This is done to eliminate chemical maintenance costs, plant grow times and pesticides. Algae spraying as used by the Chinese on the Qubqi desert by Chunxiang Hu to neutralize desertification, emulating mountain spring water Phi ratio angular momentum for river design, stepwell air conditioning alternatives, and a combination of zero cost hydraulic ram pumps as a permanent powerless water distribution mechanism to the disparate populations all contribute to reduce financial weights.
The following is not a laughable consideration, but is now on the timetable with a definitive deadline. But first, it should be said that If any proposal stating that this lofty achievement was even borderline possible without Viktor Schauberger, they should be immediately disregarded.
VISION: If granted a charter to undertake this project, by 2030, the entire Sahara will no longer be a desert, circumventing the eleven to fourteen thousand year wet to dry cycle permanently. Therefore a more appropriate name was envisioned: Maisha Tele. This means abundant life, and that will certainly become a reality. No factors have been left out of planning the endeavor, from sea level fluctuations and potential local to wide scale flooding, to global warming and other weather related issues as well as other anomalous factors like violent conflict and WBO-IMF debt obligations restricting access to certain regions, which we intend to help alleviate with the hearth of products we intend to produce and jobs we will generate. With the necessary contractual and legal support and moral blessing of each of the four successive governments, financing can be procured from a nearly inexhaustible number of sources who would benefit in seeing this undertaking occur for a myriad of reasons.
Giving Earth a new lung to combat temperature change and the loss of the Great Coral Reefs is a necessity if humanity hopes to maintain upward economic and technological growth.
Issuing from Arguin Bay, an encampment will be founded to initiate construction of a massive artificial river artery which will flow through the desert. The most impactful and loftiest, yet most affordable engineering project in the world will feature a 2,200 mile long river upon completion. The river artery will consist of 40 entrenched bodies, each with 25 cytes or encampments at each node. Each of these closed water circuits will be 158,400ft in length, 1,000 ft wide, and 30ft deep with another 30ft below that for a stepwell naturally cooling system following Viktor Schaubergers healthy river specifications. These will feed 480 fresh water veins that will extend north to south an average of 325 to 500 miles cumulative.
The size of the first encampment, modeled off of the melanocyte structure inside of the human body will be approximately 2 square miles with a proposed 11 sq. miles to further develop with increased funding. A planned final model of 27.5 miles in diameter just north of Nouakchott will present a legit proof to the four governments that this is possible, profitable, and very good for tourism and other passive or direct income streams.
Each cyte will be a self contained self sufficient enclave centered around the seawater regreening facility. These are designed as ‘deadman systems’ that will function in a natural accord with nature whether the people maintain it or not. Each facility will house a large factory district alongside an agricultural and water husbandry community. Sand will be mined to build solar panels for wind solar hybrids to take advantage of the abundant wind resources. This will be done on site to eventually power the entire operation indefinitely as well as sell excess power to the continent in connection with the turbines in the river.
The seawater will be supplied cheaply, without electricity generation or pipes, using gravity design systems.
Decades of research on life history strategies of microbial symbionts led to understanding the evolution of cooperation and survival between hosts. This is an aspect of life humans are ill at ease in discussing. There is not just duality, but triality in all things. There is Life derived from water and soil(plants and us) and then their opposites, fungi and also bacteria. Together, these forces have united over millions of years to encompass all aspects of our internal and externalities. Rhizobia are soil bacteria known for fixing nitrogen inside legume root nodules. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are ubiquitous root symbionts that provide plants with nutrients and other benefits. Both kinds of symbionts employ strategies to reproduce during symbiosis using host resources; to repopulate the soil; to survive in the soil between hosts; and to find and infect new hosts. To survive in the soil, symbionts employ sophisticated strategies, such as persister formation for rhizobia and reversal of spore germination by mycorrhizae. Interactions among symbionts, from rhizobial quorum sensing to fusion of genetically distinct fungal hyphae, all increase adaptive plasticity.
Mycorrhizal fungi are tiny, harmless microorganisms that attach themselves to plant roots and actually help plants to make use of water and organic nutrients in the soil. For every human, there is about 3 tons of this fungi. They live on the roots of roughly 95% of all earth’s plant species. In exchange for what they provide the plant, the plant offers the fungi a meal of sugars (fixed carbon) produced by the photosynthesis process. This fungi essentially provide a second set of roots for the plants. Thus, plants, trees, and shrubs with a well established mycorrhizal fungal root system are better able to survive droughts and transplant shock. They also absorb more nutrients from the soil. Plants with mycorrhizal fungi can survive better in their non-native, hostile environments. Mycorrhizal fungi also boost a plant’s immune system, making them resistant to soil-borne pathogens. In addition, they help to keep away parasitic nematodes with a little added help from the Rhizobia bacteria. With green algae, all of these microorganisms allow for survival in harsh ultraviolet intensity environments where there is only sand and clay. They allow for the repurposing of any harsh topsoil in any desert on Earth. All we needed was a consistent water source.
With this in mind, after a thorough accounting of the processes of the world’s costliest and most high tech desalination plants and subsequent investigation of a dozen others it suddenly became clear that costly piping, sanitization, and power processes could be eliminated using a simpler, more elegant and cost effective combination of technologies and designs… If not more labor intensive (to say the least).
Quarrying an artificial river through the depths of the desert from any water source and allowing the sun to separate the ingestible from the indigestible using a sealed dome and water recovery method is the obvious solution. A condensation catchment membrane of activated carbon in the form of coconut shells converted into charcoal and a vortex engine can clear all metal particulates and unwanted microbial elements. No need for pipes, power, or chemicals. With consistent sun and water, all that’s required is to scale way up. Any location on Earth that fits this criteria can utilize the system. For the purposes of this particular exercise, the best location is the one with the least amount of dynamic interference yet with the greatest amount of need. Hence why the Sahara/Sahel region was chosen. While not necessary thanks to paraboloid solar thermal batteries that can be used ANYWHERE, the Sahara is the perfect testing ground thanks to its size and lack of restrictions. Evaporating and storing water is also not the solution, as water devoid of minerals can only provide for a few generations of harvests and makes plants more susceptible to the vagaries of the environment and infections. But no cost water vortexing and mineralization have solved even that.
With the freed up capital and profit margin clearly available, the new design would actually create jobs and generate income all while genuinely improving the lives of the population, ecosystem, and finances of the entire four nation zone of influence almost without cost - but, it must be reiterated again and again, this requires substantial labor and attention to detail.
PROPOSAL: The proposition to the governments of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Chad are for this small, humble business concern to be granted access of key portions of unoccupied arid land in the sahara and sahel to work towards the largest scale project ever devised at such a low cost profile. With this new concept and with the consent from the governments in question, progress can be made to turn the driest of lands into arable real estate available for agriculture, secure housing, sustainable energy production, and sanitation. It will also dramatically reduce the greatest volume of worldwide carbon emissions than any other project currently taking place on Earth. In fact, upon completion, this endeavor will circumvent the 14,000 year wet to dry Sahara cycle which alternately turns the landmass from moisture deficient into the Tethys sea, blooming with life and back again. The methods that have been developed will permanently change this, ensuring that a permanent, natural, healthy, gravity fed water system will be fed through the key portions of the desert then return back to the ocean in an environmentally conscious loop that is also completely safe for sea life.
With the fresh water source that will become available, the agricultural produce chosen will ensure the creation of a sustainable value chain economy. Weather malleable, adaptable greenhouses will allow the growth of any type of plant or tree species on the planet. Key species have been chosen for the greatest benefits to industrial development and horticultural ease of use. Peanuts, corn, coconuts, spinach, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, bananas, olive trees, Ziziphus jujuba, fig, fungi (ganoderma lucidum & arbuscular mycorrizhal), bacteria (strains of rhizobia: Bradyrhizobium sp. (Vigna), Rhizobium leguminorsarum biovar viceae, Rhizobiumleguminosarum biovar phaseoli, and Bradyrhizobium japonicum.) and green algae (neochloris) will be the main bulk produce that will facilitate this production and all materials will be made on site.
Large-scale algae biofuel production facilities would create new jobs and would generate a total economic stimulus of 77 cents for every dollar invested, compared with just 13 cents to the dollar for traditional crude oil exploration and extraction. Commercial algae biofuel production is, for us, a challenge of scaling up to our maximum output. 5,000 sq miles of renewable, quickly reproducing Algae ponds covering an easily accessible above ground surface area (which can be adapted to below ground or stackable) could satisfy the entire crude oil demand of Australia, so supplying the four Sahel nations and beyond should be much less exacting,
Meanwhile, in our vertical, no tilling farms, the chosen plant and fungi fibers will contribute to concrete products for prefab homes, wood fiber materials made from bamboo, ganoderma, and corn husks, shoes, clothing, environmentally friendly plastic alternatives, solar panels, beds, pillows, blankets, utilities, and sunglasses made from banana by products, roads using salt, as well as plant seed milk and additional nutrient rich food alternatives. Using innovative recycling methods, worldwide landfills could be nearly 100% cannibalized at this facility and a 60ft deep water port has been drafted as well that will create a new revenue stream for the government as every single item of human waste can be recycled in the fabrication of factory facilities. Burning of used or rotten wood and other agricultural goods can be turned into bio charcoal to feed algae that will create up to 5 layers of “blankets” for the most infertile topsoil in this 2 billion acre unrealized oasis. Following this topsoil layering, the fungi, bacteria, seed mixture will allow the planting of any type of plant life. New faux tree, 2d shade artifices and mesh nets will accompany this until no longer necessary.
This humble business concerns focus is creating the world's cleanest freshwater, most nutrient dense food from healthy farmland, the most environmentally efficient, cost effective, and pleasant housing and living products, and comfort of being at one with nature anywhere on Earth. To do this, the cooperation of the local community was necessary. And so, a new method of job recruitment and above average worker compensation was devised utilizing digital payments, voucher credits similar to the tally stick system in medieval England, and social networking to distribute labor appropriately, quickly, and with full transparency.
The intention upon completion of this project is to have created permanently affordable homes, water, and food for the sixty million and growing in the region and enrich the governments so that they can better ensure the people's health, safety, and productivity, then expand. A people with more resources means a government with more revenue. These are already incredibly flexible, resourceful governments, and the ability to provide cost effective stored food options that are more nutritious to their armies and workforce as well as provide a new infrastructure for engineering output and innovation will be an exciting challenge. Using peanut and hamada enhanced concrete, coconut and corn wood fibers, cellulose based windows that are reflective of the brutal Sahara sun, and a new sectional, prefab home building technique as well as techniques borrowed from the binishell dome housing concept, we can construct a minimum of three homes a day, the first to be supplied would be the entire public sector of all the four governments. Of these, there would be no better advertisers of this new technology and the efficiency which will be brought to the rest of the sixty million Sahel and Sahara inhabitants.
Improving the lives of nearly one hundred million and beyond. Providing a local, sustainable goods economy that is highly accountable and highly technological. Increasing the educational infrastructure and technical expertise of the workforce and treating the people with the respect they deserve at a time when this is sorely needed. The people need a massive works project that they can be proud of. This will shine much needed light on these nations for all the world to see.
The infrastructure, ports, roads, traveled thoroughfares and cities have already been mapped out for the most efficient route for this artificial river irrigation source that will provide the least interruption in private and public travel or animal migration. The design was chosen to specifically enrich the aesthetic background of the landscape as the construction process proceeds. In fact, the necessity of terraformation to facilitate its speedy conclusion will result in less sandstorms and an almost immediate end to the encroaching desertification within five years. The ultimate result will be a beneficial ecological transformation for all nations involved.
Rigorous scientific calculations and considerations have gone into the environmental impact of this project, and the net benefit of manmade soda lakes and aquifer tapping will result in a comfort index increase and considerable population expansion. The research that went into determining its efficacy and expense estimates were based strictly on local, at hand resources and recycling all of the available vehicles and earth moving equipment on the continent. The greatest innovation is the elimination of cost barriers.
The bulk of time, energy, and investment expenses will center around generating structured water enriched with calcium, magnesium, sodium, and vortical structuring. This is done to eliminate chemical maintenance costs, plant grow times and pesticides. Algae spraying as used by the Chinese on the Qubqi desert by Chunxiang Hu to neutralize desertification, emulating mountain spring water Phi ratio angular momentum for river design, stepwell air conditioning alternatives, and a combination of zero cost hydraulic ram pumps as a permanent powerless water distribution mechanism to the disparate populations all contribute to reduce financial weights.
The following is not a laughable consideration, but is now on the timetable with a definitive deadline. But first, it should be said that If any proposal stating that this lofty achievement was even borderline possible without Viktor Schauberger, they should be immediately disregarded.
VISION: If granted a charter to undertake this project, by 2030, the entire Sahara will no longer be a desert, circumventing the eleven to fourteen thousand year wet to dry cycle permanently. Therefore a more appropriate name was envisioned: Maisha Tele. This means abundant life, and that will certainly become a reality. No factors have been left out of planning the endeavor, from sea level fluctuations and potential local to wide scale flooding, to global warming and other weather related issues as well as other anomalous factors like violent conflict and WBO-IMF debt obligations restricting access to certain regions, which we intend to help alleviate with the hearth of products we intend to produce and jobs we will generate. With the necessary contractual and legal support and moral blessing of each of the four successive governments, financing can be procured from a nearly inexhaustible number of sources who would benefit in seeing this undertaking occur for a myriad of reasons.
Giving Earth a new lung to combat temperature change and the loss of the Great Coral Reefs is a necessity if humanity hopes to maintain upward economic and technological growth.
Issuing from Arguin Bay, an encampment will be founded to initiate construction of a massive artificial river artery which will flow through the desert. The most impactful and loftiest, yet most affordable engineering project in the world will feature a 2,200 mile long river upon completion. The river artery will consist of 40 entrenched bodies, each with 25 cytes or encampments at each node. Each of these closed water circuits will be 158,400ft in length, 1,000 ft wide, and 30ft deep with another 30ft below that for a stepwell naturally cooling system following Viktor Schaubergers healthy river specifications. These will feed 480 fresh water veins that will extend north to south an average of 325 to 500 miles cumulative.
The size of the first encampment, modeled off of the melanocyte structure inside of the human body will be approximately 2 square miles with a proposed 11 sq. miles to further develop with increased funding. A planned final model of 27.5 miles in diameter just north of Nouakchott will present a legit proof to the four governments that this is possible, profitable, and very good for tourism and other passive or direct income streams.
Each cyte will be a self contained self sufficient enclave centered around the seawater regreening facility. These are designed as ‘deadman systems’ that will function in a natural accord with nature whether the people maintain it or not. Each facility will house a large factory district alongside an agricultural and water husbandry community. Sand will be mined to build solar panels for wind solar hybrids to take advantage of the abundant wind resources. This will be done on site to eventually power the entire operation indefinitely as well as sell excess power to the continent in connection with the turbines in the river.
The seawater will be supplied cheaply, without electricity generation or pipes, using gravity design systems.
Salt-Tolerant Flowers and Foliage
How do mangroves survive under such hostile conditions? A remarkable set of evolutionary adaptations makes it possible. These amazing trees and shrubs:
For pure water, the boiling point is 100 degrees Celsius (212 Fahrenheit) at one atmosphere of pressure, and the melting point is 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) at one atmosphere of pressure. At at high altitudes the lower pressure makes the boiling point several degrees lower. For example, in Denver, Colorado, the boiling point is about 95°C or 203°F.
For saltwater, the boiling point is raised, and the melting point is lowered. By how much depends on how much salt there is. I’ll assume the salt is sodium chloride, NaCl (table salt). The melting point is lowered by 1.85 degrees Celsius if 29.2 grams of salt are dissolved in each Kg of water (called a "0.5 molal solution" of salt. The Na and Cl dissociate right away when dissolved, and so for a 0.5 molal solution of salt, there is a 1.0 molal concentration of ions). The boiling point is raised by 0.5 degrees Celsius for water with 29.2 grams of salt dissolved in each kg of water.
If your concentrations of salt are different, then you can scale the boiling point elevation and melting point depression predictions directly with the concentration.
These numbers come from the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
OIL SEEDS FOR BIODIESEL
Soybeans. Rapeseed and Canola. Mustard. Camelina. Safflower and Sunflower. Warm Climate Feedstocks. Jatropha. Used and waste oil.
How to Make Bio Diesel
Titration method
Safety first: Wear protective clothing and eyewear. This is a serious activity and it not recomended for a “weekend project”. This process is only for reference as to what skilled biodiesel makers would do.
Measure Free Fatty Acid content of your oil: Mix 1 ml oil with 10 ml Isopropyl alcohol = 2 drops phenolthalian solution (available in a hobby shop chemistry set suppliers). Drop-wise add 0.1% lye solution ( 1 gm lye in one liter water ) until the solution stays pink for 10 seconds. (20 drops = 1 ml) Record the milliliters of 0.1% lye solution used.
Methanol You will need 200 ml of methanol per liter of Seed oil. Methanol may be purchased as Drigas available at most automotive stores, read the label for methanol. Also Methanol is available from racing stores. Avoid hardware store methanol (wood alcohol) as it mat contain excessive water content.
Sodium Methoxide For each liter of seed oil you need one gram of granular solid lye for each ml of 0.1% lye solution used in titration of free fatty acids plus 3.5 grams. Completely dissolve the proper amount of Lye in the methanol (Red Devil Lye can be purchased from the Grocery Store). This combined mixture makes sodium methoxide.
Mixer The type of mixer depends on the size of the batch. An electric drill and paint mixer on an extended shaft works well in a 5 gallon bucket.
Transesterfication: Once the lye catalyst is dissolved completely so that there is no sediment, then the oil may be added to the methanol lye mixture while mixing continuously. At first the mixture becomes thicker, then thinner as the reaction proceeds. Collect samples every 5 minutes with an eye dropper into a test tube or clear container. The Mixture will separate into a light top layer of bio diesel and a darker bottom layer of glycerin, soap and catalyst. Continued mixing 30 – 60 minutes until the yield remains constant. Then stop mixing. Go have lunch. When you come back it will have settled into two distinct layers. You have done it! Let the mixture settle for at least 8 hours. Pour off and save the bio diesel top layer into another container. A clear funnel bottomed container is helpful.
Rinsing: The raw Bio Diesel that you have just produced may have some catalyst, alcohol, and glycerin remaining which could cause engine problems, so for long term engine reliability this raw fuel should be rinsed with water. Gently at first then more vigorously rinse with water until the rinse water is clear and the pH of the rinse water is the same pH as the supply water. Settle, Decant.
Drying: Water in the bio Diesel makes cloudy so it must be carefully heated. At 100 C most of the water coalesces and falls to the bottom. This water must be completely removed from the bottom of the container before heating to higher temperature.
FAILURE TO REMOVE THIS WATER BEFORE FURTHER HEATING CAN CAUSE VIOLENT ERUPTION OF HOT LIQUID!
Once all water has been removed then heat the bio diesel to 300 f (150 c) to complete dryness. Cool, filter, and store bio diesel in a well marked dry closed container. 100% VEGETABLE DIESEL FUEL ( OIL METHYL ESTER – HOME FUEL)
This fuel may be mixed in any ratio with petroleum diesel. Dynamometer tests indicate full power output with up to 75% reduction in soot and particles. No engine modification is needed to burn bio diesel fuel.
STRUCTURING WATER
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- Bee balm
- Ivy geraniums (Pelargonium peltatum), commonly used in hanging baskets.
- Portulaca: Drought-tolerant annual.
- Lantana plants: Treated as an annual in cooler climes, where they are often used in hanging baskets, lantanas are perennials in Florida.
- Coleus blumei: Traditionally used as an annual to provide foliage in the landscape.
- Kalanchoe: Perennial in Florida.
- Daylilies (Hemerocallis spp.): Moderately salt-tolerant plants.
- Prickly pear cactus (Opuntia spp.): Can take a pounding in the sun; also a deer-resistant plant
- Bar Harbor juniper (Juniperus horizontalis 'Bar Harbor')
- English Ivy Plants (Hedera helix): One of the most popular invasive plants
- Lilyturf (Liriope spicata)
- Virginia creeper vines (Parthenocissus quinquefolia): Another aggressive spreader, but indigenous to North America.:
- Three salt-tolerant plants grown in Florida are the following vines:
- Confederate jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)
- Flowering jasmine (Jasminum floridum)
- Bougainvillea
- Rosa rugosa, that hardy, salt-tolerant plant called the "beach rose."
- Sumac, including staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina (hirta))
- Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata)
- Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
- Oleander
- Yucca
- Vanhoutte spirea
- Bayberry shrubs, famous for the candles made from their berries, are best grown in zones 2-8. But the "waxy" equivalent for a salt-tolerant plant in Florida is wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera). Three other salt-tolerant plants grown in Florida are the following shrubs:
- Florida privet (Forestiera segregata)
- Sandankwa viburnum (Viburnum suspensum)
- Yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria)
- Norway maples and Amur maples
- Pin oaks, white oaks and red oaks
- Sunburst honey locusts: tough trees that tolerate a number of other adverse phenomena, as well, including pollution, dry soil and compacted soil
- Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana): salt-tolerant plant commonly grown as far south as Northern Florida.
- Southern red cedar (Juniperus silicicola): salt-tolerant plant grown in Southern Florida
- Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens): One of the types of palm trees that tolerate salt very well. Saw palmetto reaches a height of 10-20 feet.
- Date palm trees (Phoenix dactylifera) are taller palm trees (50 feet) that are cold-hardy to 18 degrees Fahrenheit. The University of Florida Extension lists date palm trees as moderately salt-tolerant.
How do mangroves survive under such hostile conditions? A remarkable set of evolutionary adaptations makes it possible. These amazing trees and shrubs:
- cope with salt: Saltwater can kill plants, so mangroves must extract freshwater from the seawater that surrounds them. Many mangrove species survive by filtering out as much as 90 percent of the salt found in seawater as it enters their roots. Some species excrete salt through glands in their leaves. These leaves, which are covered with dried salt crystals, taste salty if you lick them. A third strategy used by some mangrove species is to concentrate salt in older leaves or bark. When the leaves drop or the bark sheds, the stored salt goes with them.
- hoard fresh water: Like desert plants, mangroves store fresh water in thick succulent leaves. A waxy coating on the leaves of some mangrove species seals in water and minimizes evaporation. Small hairs on the leaves of other species deflect wind and sunlight, which reduces water loss through the tiny openings where gases enter and exit during photosynthesis. On some mangroves species, these tiny openings are below the leaf's surface, away from the drying wind and sun.
- breathe in a variety of ways: Some mangroves grow pencil-like roots that stick up out of the dense, wet ground like snorkels. These breathing tubes, called pneumatophores, allow mangroves to cope with daily flooding by the tides. Pneumatophores take in oxygen from the air unless they're clogged or submerged for too long.
For pure water, the boiling point is 100 degrees Celsius (212 Fahrenheit) at one atmosphere of pressure, and the melting point is 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) at one atmosphere of pressure. At at high altitudes the lower pressure makes the boiling point several degrees lower. For example, in Denver, Colorado, the boiling point is about 95°C or 203°F.
For saltwater, the boiling point is raised, and the melting point is lowered. By how much depends on how much salt there is. I’ll assume the salt is sodium chloride, NaCl (table salt). The melting point is lowered by 1.85 degrees Celsius if 29.2 grams of salt are dissolved in each Kg of water (called a "0.5 molal solution" of salt. The Na and Cl dissociate right away when dissolved, and so for a 0.5 molal solution of salt, there is a 1.0 molal concentration of ions). The boiling point is raised by 0.5 degrees Celsius for water with 29.2 grams of salt dissolved in each kg of water.
If your concentrations of salt are different, then you can scale the boiling point elevation and melting point depression predictions directly with the concentration.
These numbers come from the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
OIL SEEDS FOR BIODIESEL
Soybeans. Rapeseed and Canola. Mustard. Camelina. Safflower and Sunflower. Warm Climate Feedstocks. Jatropha. Used and waste oil.
How to Make Bio Diesel
Titration method
Safety first: Wear protective clothing and eyewear. This is a serious activity and it not recomended for a “weekend project”. This process is only for reference as to what skilled biodiesel makers would do.
Measure Free Fatty Acid content of your oil: Mix 1 ml oil with 10 ml Isopropyl alcohol = 2 drops phenolthalian solution (available in a hobby shop chemistry set suppliers). Drop-wise add 0.1% lye solution ( 1 gm lye in one liter water ) until the solution stays pink for 10 seconds. (20 drops = 1 ml) Record the milliliters of 0.1% lye solution used.
Methanol You will need 200 ml of methanol per liter of Seed oil. Methanol may be purchased as Drigas available at most automotive stores, read the label for methanol. Also Methanol is available from racing stores. Avoid hardware store methanol (wood alcohol) as it mat contain excessive water content.
Sodium Methoxide For each liter of seed oil you need one gram of granular solid lye for each ml of 0.1% lye solution used in titration of free fatty acids plus 3.5 grams. Completely dissolve the proper amount of Lye in the methanol (Red Devil Lye can be purchased from the Grocery Store). This combined mixture makes sodium methoxide.
Mixer The type of mixer depends on the size of the batch. An electric drill and paint mixer on an extended shaft works well in a 5 gallon bucket.
Transesterfication: Once the lye catalyst is dissolved completely so that there is no sediment, then the oil may be added to the methanol lye mixture while mixing continuously. At first the mixture becomes thicker, then thinner as the reaction proceeds. Collect samples every 5 minutes with an eye dropper into a test tube or clear container. The Mixture will separate into a light top layer of bio diesel and a darker bottom layer of glycerin, soap and catalyst. Continued mixing 30 – 60 minutes until the yield remains constant. Then stop mixing. Go have lunch. When you come back it will have settled into two distinct layers. You have done it! Let the mixture settle for at least 8 hours. Pour off and save the bio diesel top layer into another container. A clear funnel bottomed container is helpful.
Rinsing: The raw Bio Diesel that you have just produced may have some catalyst, alcohol, and glycerin remaining which could cause engine problems, so for long term engine reliability this raw fuel should be rinsed with water. Gently at first then more vigorously rinse with water until the rinse water is clear and the pH of the rinse water is the same pH as the supply water. Settle, Decant.
Drying: Water in the bio Diesel makes cloudy so it must be carefully heated. At 100 C most of the water coalesces and falls to the bottom. This water must be completely removed from the bottom of the container before heating to higher temperature.
FAILURE TO REMOVE THIS WATER BEFORE FURTHER HEATING CAN CAUSE VIOLENT ERUPTION OF HOT LIQUID!
Once all water has been removed then heat the bio diesel to 300 f (150 c) to complete dryness. Cool, filter, and store bio diesel in a well marked dry closed container. 100% VEGETABLE DIESEL FUEL ( OIL METHYL ESTER – HOME FUEL)
This fuel may be mixed in any ratio with petroleum diesel. Dynamometer tests indicate full power output with up to 75% reduction in soot and particles. No engine modification is needed to burn bio diesel fuel.
STRUCTURING WATER
Rose quartz — Pink, Jade — Green to white, Green calcite — Semi-precious, Green tourmaline — Semi-precious, Green aventurine — Semi-precious