Sustainability

It’s no longer us against ‘Nature.’ It’s we who decide what nature is what it will be.

To accommodate the Western lifestyle for 9 billion people, we’d need several more planets.

We must build a culture that grows with Earth’s biological wealth instead of depleting it.
 

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 0.3oC (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.

Compressed Air Units using nGEN SYSTEMS technology
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
 
From Inefficient Centralised Legacy Networks To Distributed Power Generation with Compressed Air Systems 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

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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