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Sustainable Cities
By: AGelbert Date: July 11, 2021, 11:31 am
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[center]How America Bankrupted its Cities - The Growth
💰😈 Ponzi Scheme
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599,928 views Premiered Jan 11, 2021
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Not Just Bikes
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Watch the rest of this series here:
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This is the 3rd video in the Strong Towns series, and is
probably the most important core topic: the fact that American
car-dependant cities are financially insolvent, and function
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This video is a summary of the "Growth Ponzi Scheme" articles,
published by Strong Towns.
Strong Towns publishes a lot of cases studies of American
municipal insolvency.
There is a lot more to read, too! Strong Towns has a library of
articles
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Puerto Rico COULD EASILY be 100% Renewable Energy Powered
By: AGelbert Date: July 23, 2021, 12:15 pm
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[center]Puerto Rico has the geographic position and Renewable
Energy resources that could make it the envy of the
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Though it has been 25 years since I moved from Puerto Rico to
Vermont, I understand the situation down there rather well, so
let me explain why this is so.
Besides day length and lack of winter, there are other
advantages to the latitude (i.e. tropics) where Puerto Rico is
located.
Humans need clean air, clean water, food and shelter to have a
viable society. I will list ways that Puerto Rico can provide
these basic needs affordably AND Renewably.
The main disadvantage of an island economy is the cost of
transporting needed supplies from outside the island. And after
said supplies get to the few ports, another cost of transporting
from the ports to the homes and businesses is added.
Also, centralized water and electrical power systems further add
to the cost of getting potable water and power to the homes and
businesses.
Yes, the island is only is only 35 miles by 100 miles. But, it
is mountainous. So the claim that a network of water pipes and
electrical power lines within the island provides the most
efficient way to provide those services is simply not true.
The goal must be to have as much distributed infrastructure as
possible in order to reduce any and all costs of moving
absolutely anything from point A to point B.
WHY? Because you want to have the smallest islandwide energy
demand footprint.
WHY? Because the smaller the footprint, the cheaper it is to
power with Renewable Energy. Another benefit is that there is
less backup power that you need to store.
The procedure to set up this efficient Renewable Energy based
system should go something like this:
1) The relative humidity is never below about 60%. That means
that a solar power water generator in every home can cost
effectively replace the entire water distribution pipe and pump
system, which is costly to maintain. The island's water system
would then be dedicated to the matter of collecting the sewage
and possibly using it to manufacture fertilizer, instead of
having a network of costly septic treatment plants using
chemicals.
Water generators can, due to the relative humidity there, easily
provide all the potable water that is, unlike the present
system, not questionable for drinking. All the massive cost of
energy now routinely paid by the average Puerto Rican to buy
bottled water, plus the waste from bottle plastic, would not
exist. Any tank the size of an 80 gallon water heater could hold
the water cleanly. Of course people might want to have a large
cistern for more water, but the average family would certainly
not need one. No hurricane or earthquake would ever interrupt
access to clean water to anyone who's home was not utterly
destroyed. Clean water from solar powered water generators is
old technology. This is a must for an island subject to
calamities like hurricanes and earthquaqes.
2) With the average family never suffering clean water
shortages, the population becomes extremely resilient after a
calamity. Disease vectors are stopped in their tracks because
the people can bathe with, cook with and drink clean water 24/7.
The next need is electrical energy. Since the island is
relatively small, the promotion of 100% EV vehicles would mean
billions (with a B) of dollars not spent on annually on fossil
fuels. So, the best approach here is to solarize al the
buildings.
Here, I wish to point something out that everybody seems to have
missed. Puerto Rico is at around 18 degrees north latitude. Any
solar installer will immediately realize that, for a large
portion of the year, solar panels can be nearly flat against a
flat roof, and still get nearly 100% efficiency. Beyond the fact
that insolation values down there are superior to anywhere in
the continental U.S., a flat solar panel, properly secured, will
withstand category 5 hurricane winds, unlike a panel in Vermont
that sits at about 40 degrees. There are time periods of the
year in Puerto Rico that the sun is directly above!
That's right, you stand and your shadow is directly beneath you
at noon. Most of the roofs in Puerto Rico are flat concrete so
solarizing them and strongly securing the panels to them is
easily done. After the island is solarized, even if 20% are
damaged from a hurricane, most homes will have enough power to
help their neighbors. This is what a resilient economy is like.
3) The centralized electrical grid should still exist for large
cities like San Juan and Ponce, but the high voltage
transmission lines and the towers vulnerable to hurricanes would
no longer be needed over most of the island. That is one less
part of the infrastructure to maintain.
4) Unlike the mainland USA, where the grid to EV network should
be used as backup and smoothing and storage eventually, I think
Puerto Rico should work to subsidize an EV for gasoline
polluting clunkers program where a person's EV is charged
fmostly from their home. Remember, a round trip to work in
Puerto Rico NEVER exceeds the range of a [b]Leaf, so the EV can
become, for all practical purposes, a zero fuel cost vehicle for
Puerto Ricans.[/b]
5) The powerwall systems will have their place too. The
government should also subsidize them simply to provide
resilience and grid smoothing on a 24/7 basis, plus a massive
program to train the average Puerto Rican homeowner on how to
best care for the system.
6) There is another HUGE advantage that Puerto Rico has that I
wish to mention. Puerto Rico has the trade winds. They blow 5 to
15 mph 24/7 continuously (ALL YEAR).
NASA put an experimental wind turbine up on Culebra Island way
back in the 1970's. It worked fine. It never stopped generating
electricity. Do you know why it was dismantled?
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I'm glad you asked. NASA wanted to give it to the power
authority of Puerto Rico FREE on the condition that they
maintain it. The power authority refused because their "business
model" relied on fossil fuels. Here is a link to that story
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/>The stranglehold of the 🦖 fossil fuel 😈
interests in Puerto Rico has fostered tremendous costs,
inefficency and pollution on that benighted island. It's time to
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7) The island, once it is running on over 50% Renewable Energy,
can concentrate on using the advantage of not having winter to
grow organic vegetables all year round. The greenhouses can be
made to withstand hurricanes. Producing more of its own food
will reduce the shipping costs for food coming to the island,
which will, in turn, help the citizens prosper sustainably.
Puerto Rico needs fossil fuel powered infrastructure and
vehicles like a hole in the head.
Puerto Rico has the geographic position and Renewable Energy
resources that can make it the envy of the world. Even the ocean
currents are a potential massive source of energy at the level
of Japan and Scotland.
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BE a Green Leaf Star American!
By: AGelbert Date: July 26, 2021, 11:51 am
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[move][I][font=impact]The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon
👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy
Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting,
human health depleting CRIME. Since [Color=Brown]they have
ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are
trying to AVOID [/color]DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!
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Gas-Free ⚡ Houses & Solar Powered Electric Car Sharing
By: AGelbert Date: December 16, 2021, 4:01 pm
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Fully ⚡ Charged Show 849K subscribers
Robert visits the Wisselspoor Buildings Project in the city of
Utrecht to see how this dense housing development is completely
gas-free as well as offering an extensive solar powered electric
car sharing scheme. Utrecht is a truly inspirational city, one
that is 10 years into the future and a worthy winner of our
first ever Fully Charged Cities award.
Fully Charged LIVE is BACK! Get your tickets now
Amsterdam - 18th, 19th & 20th March 2022:
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In the final of our Dutch episodes Robert is reunited with his
Nissan Leaf which has had a serious battery upgrade.
[move]Catch up the other episodes here:[/move]
The City Built on Bikes:
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Largest Vehicle-To-Grid Project?:
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How to balance renewable grids WITHOUT energy storage!
By: AGelbert Date: March 3, 2022, 2:01 pm
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Feb 27, 2022 67,803 views
[center]How to balance renewable ⚡ grids WITHOUT energy
storage!
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Just Have a Think 382K subscribers
Balancing renewable power sources on modern electricity grids is
becoming one of the greatest logistical challenges of our time.
Battery storage helps, but it's incredibly expensive. Now a team
from Vermont University has taken inspiration from the internet
to build a system that could save gigawatts of power each day.
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