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House the People

The standardization of greenhouse components could also help in housing people.  If given proper UV protection people could actually live in mass produced greenhouse like structures.  Many plants actually prefer the same temperature ranges as humans do.  It's the standardization that allows the easy construction and makes ordering all the necessary parts simple. You can buy almost anything at Ikea why not a greenhouse home?

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Moving forward with Carbon Negative Energy

I previously discussed if we require all consumer waste to be hemp we could then burn that for electricity. It is feasible and we could easily sort trash by all hemp products go into green cans and green bags. That hemp took carbon out of the atmosphere to grow. If it is later burned for electricity after it becomes consumer waste and we capture the carbon before it is all released back into the atmosphere we will have achieved carbon negative electricity. This is one of the only ways I know that we can meet climate goals without dramatically affecting lifestyle. Combined with solar and other renewables we can greenly power all homes and businesses and even electric cars. Future electric cars should be required to have solar panels on them so they are energy independent. We could possibly even convert some of the current electric cars to being mostly independent via a solar dash cover or solar sun visor. That then leaves us with gas and diesel operated heavy equipment, vehicles, planes, and ships. These can all be run on carbon neutral biodiesel and biogas. We should move to phase out personal transportation requiring hydrocarbon fuel immediately. The other option is to require the production of hydrocarbon fuel using solar power. Then it would at least be carbon neutral. Any excess power produced during the day such as solar should be put into an auxiliary function that further reduces carbon from atmosphere. We have mechanical devices that help scrub carbon from the air but they do require energy. So we shouldn't let energy go to waste we should always redirect excess to perform a function such as carbon scrubbing. We can still meet climate goals, but we must also aggressively continue tree planting around the world to function as a natural way to scrub carbon from the atmosphere. These trees will also help support wildlife that is threatened by climate change. Happy 4/20 from Ko Hawaii Pae Aina! #gnd #greennewdeal #carbonnegativeelectricity #carbonnegativeenergy #cne

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Carbon Negative Electricity

The average person in San Francisco uses 1,755 kilowatt hours of electricity every year. That 1,755 kWh/365 days in a year is approximately 4.8 kWh/day. Each kilogram of wood has approximately 5 kWh of potential energy. I'm going to use that number because I couldn't find exact number for hemp products. That comes out to approximately .96 kg of hemp trash per day per person needed to electrify San Francisco. Not to mention so much of the electrical power used can be solar during the day. This is feasible we all create some trash everyday. If the majority of that paper and cardboard waste was made from hemp we could burn it safely and all the electricity provided would be carbon neutral. In fact, if we found a green way to filter the carbon out of the exhaust then the electricity produced would actually be carbon negative. We could easily collect hemp waste in green garbage cans and in green trash bags. Any exhausted heat could also travel along a long exhaust pipe snaked up an embankment with thermoelectric film on it. That may require incenerators placed below ground. That would increase the efficiency as less overall heat would go to waste. The US could easily have the supply side of hemp products. There's not enough fresh water in places like China to grow hemp in large scale operations. Controlling the supply side in the US also makes it advantageous to American businesses that want to produce hemp products in the US because they are close to the source of raw materials. #gnd #greennewdeal #carbonneutral #carbonnegative carbonneutralelectricity #carbonnegativeelectricity #hemp #burnhemp #greenenergy

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Burning Hemp Waste: Green Energy

The average person in San Francisco uses 1,755 kilowatt hours of electricity every year. That 1,755 kWh/365 days in a year is approximately 4.8 kWh/day. Each kilogram of wood has approximately 5 kWh of potential energy. I'm going to use that number because I couldn't find exact number for hemp products. That comes out to approximately .96 kg of hemp trash per day per person needed to electrify San Francisco. Not to mention so much of the electrical power used can be solar during the day. This is feasible we all create some trash everyday. If the majority of that paper and cardboard waste was made from hemp we could burn it safely and all the electricity provided would be carbon neutral. In fact, if we found a green way to filter the carbon out of the exhaust then the electricity produced would actually be carbon negative. We could easily collect hemp waste in green garbage cans and in green trash bags. Any exhausted heat could also travel along a long exhaust pipe snaked up an embankment with thermoelectric film on it. That would increase the efficiency as less overall heat would go to waste. The US could easily have the supply side of hemp products. There's not enough fresh water in places like China to grow hemp in large scale operations. Controlling the supply side in the US also makes it advantageous to American businesses that want to produce hemp products in the US because they are close to the source of raw materials.

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Printed Glass Homes

I've seen where entire concrete homes are printed by a large machine. I've said before even a small glass printer could print so many of everyone's household needs and recycled glass like bottles could be used. Why can't we print an entire home out of glass? We should be able to do that even with solar power located on a truck or in a trailer that opens up and expands when needed. I'm just thinking if it is done properly one house should be able to be printed every sunny day. Whether used glass has already been crushed somewhere else and then put in bags like sand, or is crushed on site that is a great use for the hundreds of thousands of tons of glass we throw away every year. Even if some metal is needed to help support the roof, that can also be made out of recycled material and designed for a quick and easy assembly. I can't think of anything greener than starting the day with a pile of used glass waste destined for the landfill, and by the end of the day using only the sun's power to turn that into a home that can quickly start to provide some basic human needs. There's a small carbon footprint with this essentially only to make the actual printer itself. That small footprint could even easily be offset by planting a few trees. If you combine this recycling of glass into homes with the burning of consumer hemp packing at night (which is carbon neutral) to produce electricity and using regular solar power during day that's a very low waste, green, and modern society. Almost everything could be packaged in hemp or glass.

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Solar Compressed Air Transportation

I've read about a scooter that can go 18 miles on one charge of compressed air and a vehicle that can go 87 miles on one charge of compressed air. Wouldn't it make the most sense in a car such as this to have a solar hood, roof, and trunk with an onboard air compressor like they've done on battery powered solar cars? That seems to make the question of where to recharge mostly irrelevant. On a scooter it may be more difficult to get that amount of surface area but a solar cover could be plugged into it while it is idle. Or a the rider could even be wearing a solar jacket and have it plugged in while driving. When one transforms a scooter or motorcycle into something like a rickshaw there's suddenly almost as much area for solar as on a car. I can't imagine it would be that hard to design a rickshaw that could run all day long as long as the sun is out while constantly refueling itself. Also in something as big as a car wouldn't 2 tanks go almost twice as far? Don't most people drive their cars and then let them sit most of the day anyway? That seems like an excellent opportunity for recharging to me. My guess is the self-contained repressurization would probably meet 90% of most people's needs. Say for example someone makes their living as a night time rickshaw driver. They will probably need to stop at some store with a hose to recharge. Even a well lit taxi staging area could help such vehicles remain charged. A well lit taxi staging area could always sell air as well. In terms of keeping all energy use green. The best way would be to use storage tanks that fill up during the day using solar or other renewables and for that pressure to be dispensed at night. Most individual solar systems have an AUX power supply. A compressor could easily be run off of that. The auxiliary function kicks in when batteries are all charged and there's no place to put the excess charge. Usually people hook up an exhaust fan or a light to use some of this energy that is going to waste. There's no reason a compressor couldn't be run. Not only would it be green but it would be capturing and storing energy that was just going to be wasted anyway.

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Brainwashing America 101

The mechanics of the brainwashing in the USA featuring 2020 examples: Allow one source of news usually Fox News, MSNBC, or any MSM news channel in general. One source of information is controlling the "social constructive". The news narrative pretending everyone should be in agreement with this limited view. Label anyone outside that specific construct with terms like "divisive" or "radical". Anyone discussing adding or altering social programs hounded and beaten into submission with "How are you going to pay for it?" Even if it already has been explained many times. The demonization of questions becomes internalized and people eventually stop asking questions for fear of being socially attacked. Rewarding and the praising of group think like "Vote Blue No Matter Who". Notice how people get angry if anyone questions it? This type of obedience training convinces people to ignore any and all critical thinking. Blind obedience is equated with "loyalty". Any critical thinking is deemed "selfish". Brainwashers often claim others owe them to act in a certain way. For example voters must vote for a candidate instead of candidate must earn votes. Fake reciprocity is promising something one won't deliver to then claim it is only "fair" someone now owes his/her vote.

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Financially Surviving Coronavirus

The US Treasury could always print actual money notes (not bills). Usually they are stamped in red with any restrictions like "Valid only in USA" if we want money to specifically stay in country to circulate and not end up abroad. These notes could be distributed by some place like the post office as people cash a government stimulus check. This marked currency could eventually be removed or recalled from money supply down the road if needed after the emergency is over. This country is running out of options in an emergency after decades of borrowing.

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Margarita Decks Save the Planet!

Work in Progress.......... I wrote the other day about some of the old sustainable ways. The example I discussed involved a flat style roof. That obviously had its limitations to a certain type of climate with a low amount of precipitation. There's a certain wonderful Spanish/Mediterranean lifestyle that allow one to escape to a garden rooftop deck for dining al fresco. Or entertsining and inviting friends over for drinks under the star and moonlight with a few strings of strategically placed patio lights. I was talking to someone today about how if every home had a greenhouse not only would it allow food to be grown but with the proper solar film and thermoelectric film on it, it could actually power the home. Then I started realizing what I'm talking about requires way too specific of weather and required space. I realized way too many people live in northern cities and way too many people don't have the space for a greenhouse. Then I started thing how could someine in a place like Stockholm in a tall row house even begin to replicate such a lifestyle. Then in realized someone there could have a flat roof as long as they had a greenhouse roof over the entire flat roof. The local wealther condition and local architecture would dictate the pitch or said greenhouse roof. The beauty of having a higher roof above a margarita deck is it makes it very easy to catch water and store it on top of the deck. Having the flat deck under a greenhouse allows one to have plenty of garden, dining, and leisure space even in areas where space comes at a premium. Windows that open would allow the climate to be controlled either manually or automatically. It's important to remember thermoelectric film creates power whenever there is a heat differential. It doesn't have to be hotter on one specific side or colder on another specific side. There just has to be a difference in temperature. I've discussed before the future will probably involve burning our consumer trash made of hemp to generate night-time and peak energy. A rooftop deck is an excellent place to have a fireplace that can convert a hemp fire's heat into electricity. The key is filtering it so it burns clean enough to not smoke out the entire area. If hemp waste is shredded and turned into pellets or logs it becomes really obvious what quantity is required to last a set amount of hours. I don't see a professional wanting to take the time to mess around with managing hemp trash. They're probably buy logs or pellets. We throw away so much glass too that could be recycled. We throw away so much metal too that could be recycled into a frame. Glass lasts almost foverever if you don't break.

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The Old Green Way

Before we had all this technology people lived greenly, they figured it out because that was their only option. The old fashioned 2 or 3 story Spanish homes with Arab influence would catch water from the main flat roof to gravity feed water in the house. Another smaller black container could sit on the roof and catch and warm water from the highest roof that covers the staircase. These buildings were often built mostly out of what was locally available whether that be rocks or bricks and then stuccoed over for a nice finish. To me if a house has a solar system it is best to have it in a kitchen. It is best if the living room is adjacent as then one solar system can easily provide power to 2 of the main rooms of the houses. If we use saltwater batteries then no harmful chemicals are being brought into the house. If drinking water/ice is available at a solar central community location to run a cooler and water is naturally heated on a roof a home does not require much energy to live decently comfortably. Solar lamps that can be unhooked can be hung in all the bedrooms or bathrooms. If one really needs more power in a bedroom solar shutters can be put on a bedroom's window and a single cord can run from window into a nightstand that contains a saltwater battery that can provide power. Usually in a bedroom people only need to be able to turn on a light or two and charge some small electromotic devices. It is far easier to put solar shutters and have a seperate small solar systems than to try and run wires all over a house. Almost every bedroom I've ever seen has a window. Granted if someone wants hot water and not warm water there may need to be a seperate inline water heating system, even the kitchen system could possibly power that. The flat roof decks also provide plenty of space to have terra cotta pots to grow vegetables. Once established pots are replenished with household compost or other compost. The most efficient system I've seen is a compost bin is kept in kitchen and when food waste is added it is covered with sawdust to prevent any smell. Then when the can is full the compost is used to refill any terra cotta pots. This also naturally reduces the amount of garbage a household produces. With lack of proper sanitation it is also possible to put human waste in a large terra cotta pot with no hole in the bottom and cover it with sawdust to prevent any smell. Then it must sit covered long enough to heat up and decompose. I'm a firm believer that human waste should never be used to fertilizer food, but it can be used to fertilize plants we don't eat like flowers or trees. This is another issue where a town or village may agree for everyone's safety and sanitation that all waste should be taken out of town. These nutrient rich pots are also great for starting things like trees. By the time a tree is big enough to be planted the sanitation issue no longer exists because everything has been decomposed. I don't pretend what I'm talking about is perfect, but nothing ever is. Like water may run out, and that means periodically someone old or disabled might have to hire someone to bring some water to their roof. These solutions are more available to people with limited resources. Certain environments just lack resources, so trying to earn enough money to buy a comfortable life may be difficult or impossible. It may be easier to create a decent quality of life by using the natural resources one does have exremely efficiently. Hawaii is one of the wealthiest places in the world. There's still plenty of poverty here because we have a system that doesn't give poorer people enough resources to survive. Whether one is in the wealthiest place in the world or the poorest things like hunger feel the exact same.

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Refridgeration in the 3rd World

I'm thrilled solar desalinization and gavity powered reverse osmosis (solar pumped during daylight hours into uphill tank) desalinization have been implemented. I want to discuss another basic necessity: refridgeration. Water comes first, but after that some form or refridgeration comes next. One of the most interesting and important things to know is ancient people thought in terms of cycles. Modern thinking is more like solar refridgeration doesn't work because the sun isn't always out, yet we know exactly what the daily cycle is: 24 hours. We know exactly when the sun will rise tomorrow. If we effectively think about and plan for the entire cycle then that in and of itself is the solution. For example a solar water desalinization station can add extra solar capacity and freeze containers of water during the day. This could be done at the desalinization plant or anywhere along that pipe near where people actually live.They can place that frozen drinking water in a cooler, cabinet or pit and it will cool for 24 to 48 hours. The melted product is also drinkable or safe to use in cooking. Even a thick adobe or brick cabinet with a hinged door gives the convenience of a standard refridgerator. Granted the cooling energy would come from ice in containers that dont drip. Glass can be made very tough, they did it in Roman times. A broken glass container can also be melted down and formed into a new glass container. A more high technology solutions is if someone has a small solar system even as little as 200 watts a small chest freezer/refridgerator with 6 to 8 liters of water in containers in the bottom can keep food cold 24 hours a day running only approimately 4 to 5 hours a day when the sun is out. Obviously we know our current system in designed to just plug everything in and forget about it in the developed world. However, I'm not sure that will be the solution for the undeveloped world. They need functional solutions like refridgeration from getting frozen drinking water every day or two. In the developing world fetching water everyday is usually a part of life. So might as well go fetch ice to kill two birds with one stone. Like I said on the individual household level a small refridgeration system that stores the energy of the sun in water containers and releases it throughout the day (and most importantly doesn't need to be constantly plugged in) does also work. #unfccc #drinkingwater #3rdworldrefridgeration #gnd #greennewdeal

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Basalt Rock, CO2, and Global Cooling

When basalt rock weathers it naturally absorbs carbon dioxide from the air. The more basalt rock we expose to weathering the more carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere. Volcanoes emit carbon dioxide (among other gases like sulfer dioxide) that carbon dioxide makes the earth warmer, but volcanos also release basalt rock in the form of lava. As that rock weathers it removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These are natural counteracting forces to try and keep the climate in balance. #greennewdeal #gnd #bernie #climatechange

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Pulling fuel from the air. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/engineers-build-a-new-kind-of-device-that-effectively-transforms-co2-into-liquid-fuel/amp

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Amazing, turning carbon back into coal! https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190226112429.htm

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'Something in the Middle'

I think we can all agree there's a huge level of toxicity in the Republican Party. It literally has become the party of the toxic, angry naysayers. Democrats come up with a healthcare plan that not only costs less than the current system but will also cover everyone. Medicare for All is essentially a plan that will cover everyone, end needless medical suffering, and end financial ruin from medical expenses. Remember folks our out of control health care costs are expected to become larger than our nation GDP. That's not even possible and demonstrates the large scale of this problem. Highly toxic, naysaying people, are really just manipulative people in disguise. What we need to acknowledge is they will never agree to anything (no matter how well thought out or planned). You are probably asking, how to you deal with people like this? Start by acknowledging that Bernie Sanders' plan does everything we need it to do: Keeps costs reasonable, covers everyone, reduces suffering, prevents medical bankruptcies, adds stability to our social fabric. So now enter the naysayers. They of course want nothing new, like a disgruntled toddler. They will most likely outright reject everything, and they will probably even eventually ask for 'something in the middle'. That is just a manipulators way of saying they want it their way. They may even want insignificant incrementalism that won't even begin to address the scope or the scale of the problem because to them that's almost as good as doing nothing. It's not Democrats job to come up with plan after plan to try and satisfy these toxic vampires. Medicare for All, is a great plan, and if Republicans don't like then they need to present a plan that also does everything that Medicare for All will do and more for it to be "better than Medicare for All" and solve our healthcare crisis. So where's your plan? Oh that's right you don't have a plan and never intended on coming up with a plan ever. In a democracy if someone can't even come up with a plan that helps solve our societal ills then their platform is clearly the broken status quo and they literally bring nothing to the table. It's not Democrats jobs to always come to the Republicans way. Republican never approach problem solving or negotiating in good faith. They just want it their way always which means little or no improvement, no matter who it hurts. They are always insisting others have to come up with more and more ideas and then disregarding them no matter what. Them not even evaluating the merit shows the manipulation and lack of good faith. We need to stop that, we have an excellent plan proposed and Republicans need to either put up something better or shut up.

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Oligarchy

How do you know we are winning? Well, the corporate elite Republicans and the corporate Democrats are losing their minds because they are no longer controlling the narrative in this country? The people of this great country are finally making their voices heard. How do you know we are in an oligarchy? Well, you know you are in an oligarchy when a billionaire finds it "cheaper" to spend 100's of millions of dollars of his own money to run for president rather than actually pay taxes or truly engage with the public in the political process. We shouldn't allow any dead fish to just buy his way onto the main political stage and into the oval office. We the people have a real grassroots movement, while the elite only have Astro Turf. Think about it the voices of billionaires and their narratives should only be a whisper in a truly democratic society compared to that of we the people. The voice of the rest of us should rightfully be a roar. There's a popular meme online I've seen many times that I'd like to read: How do you know you've been propagandized? Other countries have universal healthcare, free college, paid vacations, paid maternity leave & multiple political parties. You've been convinced we can't have the same in the richest & most powerful nation on earth. Of course we can. Now do me a favor, close you eyes, and try and forget all the bold political lies you've been fed. Now please, start talking to you friends, your family, and your neighbors about what needs to happen to make this a better nation for all of us to live in? We need to start interjecting morality back into American politics. Now, open your eyes and help be a part of the process that will give America a new and better vision. Here's just one example, should we let homeless veterans live on the streets, or should we build more affordable housing and help get them back on their feet? They were willing to sacrifice it all for this nation, and it's about damn time we as a nation show some gratitude to them. Thank you all for being so supportive and truly listenting to and understanding my message. We, together will make America a better place to call home for not only us but for future generations.

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The Stages of Truth

According to Arthur Schopenhauer, “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” As I currently see the political scene in the United States, I think Bernie Sanders is entering the third stage of truth. Bernie Sanders was still somewhat in stage 2 during the 2016 election, and he seems to be fully breaking into stage 3 currently as more and more people are finally accepting the truth the Bernie Sanders was in fact right all along. Is that really all that hard to accept? No, it isn't and shouldn't be... Corporate owned media is still doing everything in its power to muddle any of the current results. As someone that thinks logically, listening to some of the mainstream media is absolutely mind-blowing and clearly meant meant as a psychological tool to deceive. When Bernie is in the lead and they announce second place, then third place, then fourth place, then try and sneak Bernie in last BUT at first, and with no mention of the fact that he came in first that is absolutely ridiculous. Some of these networks need to be called out for their deceptive practices and possibly boycotted. We do not need Russian style propaganda in this country, especially when it involves our domestic politics. Everyone knows you list things in order. That's how it's always been done and that is the right way to do it. Listing things in any other way is clearly manipulation, and it's time we start holding these "news outlets" accountable. In Canada they do not allow the airing of propoganda disguised as "news". Another observation of mine is Andrew Yang still seems to be in the first stage. His ideas are possibly too futuristic and too progressive for the majority of the population to currently grasp. That doesn't mean he has a bad message, but it isn't enough for him to just put out a message, people have to be willing to receive that message too. In other words, he's potentially too far ahead of the curve at this moment in time. My message to Andrew Yang would be before you get to stage 3 from stage 1 you will definitely have to go through stage 2, so expect that and prepare for that. Right now people aren't coming at him because not enough people know about him.