SUSTAINABLE ENERGY - 100% Solar & Sustainable

Sustainability, is the ability to maintain a standard of living beyond Peak Oil. For humans to live sustainably, the Earth's resources must be used at a rate at which they can be replenished. Source

Supplies of conventional oil peaked in 2005 and that “the game is over”.
Crude oil supplies are currently declining at over 9% per year and that this is structural.
The prospects of finding more oil are negligible.
Peak Oil Will Dwarf Financial Crunch Soon.
This is frightening, there is real urgency to find alternatives and time is short!
We need transition to new sustainable ways of doing business and living.
Governments are ill equipped to respond quickly to achieve changes on such a global scale.
IT MDI – Energy 100% Solar and Sustainable Initiative with their Information, Communication, Energy, Transport (ICET) package
We have less than 10 yrs to implement change enable their rapid transition to sustainable ways of doing business and living before we feel the effect of the energy crisis.

The key Survival Objectives

Zero greenhouse gases emissions (GHG), i.e. phasing out as rapidly as possible all fossil fuels, beginning with coal, then oil then natural gas, and beginning right now;
Bring back CO2e levels in the atmosphere to at least below the 350 ppm level and preferably to pre-Industrial Revolutions level;
Cool the planet by at least 0.3^oC (to compensate for the loss of the present cooling effect of aerosol pollutants that will be eliminated by the above policies);
Achieve high net energy supplies from solar energy sources;
Eliminate waste of material resources and achieve over 90% recycling of all materials; and
Achieve global sustainable farming, forestry and fisheries.

The above objectives do force a transition to new sustainable ways of doing business and living. Right at the forefront they require a complete re-engineering of all information, communications, energy and transport infrastructures in record time.

WHAT IS GREEN ENERGY?

Green energy is the term used to describe sources of energy that are considered to be environmentally friendly and non-polluting, such as geothermal, wind, solar, and hydro.

Green energy sources are often considered "green" because they are perceived to lower carbon emissions and create less pollution.

Green energy is commonly thought of in the context of electricity generation. A fuller picture requires appreciation of efficient energy use as well as mechanical power, heating and cogeneration.

nGEN SYSTEMS - Revolutionary Green Electricity Generation, Supply and Distribution Systems

A new technology emerging will have a huge impact on electricity generation worldwide.
by IndraNet Technologies Ltd

Take one nGen System and you can generate point of use electricity

Link this to an IndraNet Minder and you have an Intelligent Power Network (IPN) with unlimited ability to power a town, a city, a region or a country.

Distributed Power Generation
Think of a PC and what it does stand alone, the connect it to internet and you get distributed computing.

nGen units use compressed air as the energy carrier and energy storage medium.

The first commercial installations are designed to use fuel is natural gas (resulting in over 60% reductions in greenhouse gases emission compared with brown coal in Victoria, Australia). In a number of subsequent installations the heat source will be direct solar heat collected from a solar dish and therefore it can go
100% solar and sustainable at very competitive prices. This is in areas of adequate sunshine hours.

Solar & Compressed Air are both Green and Renewable leaving no carbon footprint making it truly GREEN ENERGY

NEW BUSINESS MODELS
From a social, environmental and financial point of view, this industrial model is the most efficient and meets perfectly today’s sustainability requirements.

From central factory to distributors then dealers

To Small Factories near Markets

The Business As Usual (BAU) model manufacture in centralised plants sending vehicles to distributors worldwide, vehicles are then sent to dealers and eventually the customer. The NEW BUSINESS MODEL - small turnkey factories are set up in areas based on population, using local materials where possible, creating employment, vehicles are sold directly from the factories, thus eliminating the need, for showrooms and dealers. This reduces the carbon footprint as well
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From Conventional

to New Business Model

The New Business Model offers more advantages over the conventional system, as does the decentralised manufacturing. More local jobs, less carbon footprint, close to markets, and environmentally sound. The way of the future............
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Classic plant (Renault Flin)

MDI production concept

                                             LEGACY

Production:                       375,000 Cars
Land:                                2,370,000 m²
Plant Surface:                   880,000 m²
Workforce (2 Shifts):                4,650 p
Total Investment:                  3,000 M€

   1 PLANT        50 PLANTS

   7,500 Cars      375,000 Cars
   15,000 m² 750,000 m²
   4,350 m²          217,500 m²
   120 p                    6,000 p
   12 M€                       600 M€

The MDI MODEL has - 1/3rd of the land area - 1/4th of the Plant area - 1/5th of the investment - 30% more jobs
Mini Factories    -    Less Carbon Footprint    -    Produced close to market    -    No middle man    -    More Jobs
Environmentally sound    -     More profitable    -    Cheaper Cars    -     Win - Win situation
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From Inefficient Centralised Legacy Networks To Distributed Power Generation
iPower scalable point-of-use power generator

Electricity is generated in large centralised facilities, then sent through transmission lines, this is the power grids - about 70% of all power generated is lost before it gets to the consumer. There is evidence worldwide of more blackouts, the electricity supplies struggle to

meet the ever increasing demands - coal, oil, nuclear and gas are all finite and have limited lifespan. The capital involved in infrastructure is enormous.

The New Business Model has power being generated at point of use initially using compressed air and a small amount of gas, bio fuels or other alternative fuels, but eventually (3-5yrs) being fully solar augmented. With the clever use of the IndraNet Minder this can allow the generator to communicated with power grid in both times of high demand and excess generation. This is a more cost effective way of getting cheaper power than is currently available.

Ultimately, the energy-intensive industrial age may be little more than
a blip in the course of human history:

Graph: The Energy Curve of History? Source

Sustainable Energy

Oil is running out and Oil = Energy. Energy is very important for mankind to survive at its current levels of existence. Oil is not renewable but we still need energy to progress. Why is it that when the subject of oil is raised most people just want to put their head in the sand like an ostrich and pretend nothing is happening. Are these the same people that would close their eyes in a plane crash to make it go away?

So what is sustainability? Read more

Looking up the dictionary the best definition I could find was; ‘To keep in existence, maintain’. Now what does that mean to you as an individual? To me this means having a resource available for many generations to use, not just one generation. The best example of this I could think of was ‘timber’. World wide there is a huge demand for timber every year to build houses and other things. What is so good about this resource is you can cut down a forestry plantation to build with and you can replant it again for future generations to use (also known as a renewable resource).

Now that’s a sustainable product. Take a moment and cast your mind back 100 years or so, imagine if our forefathers had no foresight and they cut down all the forests and they never replanted a single tree. Where do you think we would be today? Makes you stop and think! Now take another moment and think hard about this next question. “Do you think oil is a renewable resource”? It’s an interesting question and one that requires further examination. Let’s look at a few facts first to try and make up our minds:

When oil fields in the past have been depleted of oil e.g. Texas, Venezuela, do the holes left in the ground fill back up with oil again or do they remain empty? (if they did fill back up again then that really would be a renewable resource)
When was the last major oil field found in the world? Would you believe over 30 years ago in 1979 in Saudi Arabia?
Did you know that Saudi Arabia will not let any independent scientists in to research how much oil really is left in the ground? They ask the world to take their ‘word’ on just how much is left (when was the last time you saw two people spit in their hands and then shake on it?) So how much oil is really left in the ground, 300years worth, 200, 100, 50, 10, or 1? It’s quite scary when you think about it. No one knows!
The population of the human race has exploded since the discovery of cheap energy especially coal, oil and natural gas. Just 100years ago there was 1.6 billion people on this earth. 80 years later when the last major oil field was discovered there was 4.4 billion people and today there is over 6.7 billion. So we have found no new deposits of oil (oil = energy) for over 30 years and yet the population of earth has grown by over 2.3billion people. Does this sound sustainable to you?
Scientists worldwide agree that for the world to sustain this huge population growth we are going to have to find 6 new oil fields the same size as the one found back in 1979 in Saudi Arabia.
Let me ask you another question. How stupid do you think the oil company’s research and exploration teams are? Do you believe that in the last 30 years all the major oil company’s have missed finding six major oil fields the size of the Saudi field let alone one? Maybe this oil that everyone thinks is down there actually isn’t? Don’t forget to these guys oil equals money (they don’t call it black gold for nothing) Now after reading those few very basic facts and figures and realizing that Oil = Energy how do you think mankind is going for a sustainable future using oil as our primary energy source? I think we have buried our heads in the sand for far too long hoping the problem will go away (e.g. find six new Saudi size oil fields) but time has run out for this ostrich because the lion has snuck up on him while his head has been in the hole.

TIME HAS RUN OUT. The time for change is now.

There is an abundance of energy around us all the time with the sun being a prime example of this. If it wasn’t for the sun in the first place then nothing on this earth would survive. The sun provides us with more energy each day than the earth uses in a year and yet we do not tap this valuable energy rich resource at all yet. We just keep pumping black crude out of the ground and burning it like there’s no tomorrow (which there won’t be if we keep doing it).

The North American car industry… (Comment on Article about GM)

So, you’re saying that the only way that US auto industry can sustain itself is to continuously pedal over sized SUV’s and 4X4’s? If that’s the case, the “big 3″ are already dead and in the ground… All that’s left to do is shovel the dirt on the casket and stick some PVC flowers on the mound. Do we really expect to be able to infinitely expand industrial manufacturing in a fixed resource, fixed area planet?

The first thing that we should do is define “sustainability” and then seriously look at pursuing that avenue, otherwise the future will look like alot of revamped 50’s automobile marketing rhetoric.

Better go have a look at “The Story of Stuff” with Annie Leonard and then spout us some more rhetoric about increasing output to increase profitability. People are getting tired of working 60+ hours a week just to buy junk and watch it fall apart before the payments are even done… Source

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