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Food, Energy, Transportation, Urban Design & Climate for an Eternity without Oil!

Proximity, Proximity, Proximity

and 100% Sustainability

Our foreparents knew what it took to live on very limited resources, as doboth the Republican and Democratic Parties today! We all know that we will soonhave to support populations that have quadrupled with the use of petroleum in thelast century, on what?


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Some believe that we must stock our own shelves no matter what the cost toothers, and some believe that the possibilities for technological innovations toenhance the survivability of all are unlimited. I am one of the latter, and there aremany just like me cooperation for group welfare seems to have evolutionaryvalue. But, so too does the, grab and run with it mentality. How will our genessurvive the next 20 years in our present numbers, to say nothing of the next2000?!

It can be argued that the components of the genes that make us also madeour foreparents in the Year 0, and will make all of our descendents, just in adifferent combination or recombination of the human pool of those components.Can we not then argue that those genetic components are eternal, that a notionof our own eternity will be carried by our children, grandchildren, etc. off into thewild blue yonder of eternity on this planet?

If it is our children, and the women who produce our children, whoare the bridges to our own personal eternity, why are these 2 groups alsothe most abused on the planet? Are the ways that we treat our ownchildren, and those of others, the crucible of human evolution?

That said, I would like to prime the pump of brilliant designs that can leadthe world toward the only viable conclusion that I have reached about the future spending every minute from now until its creation on the design and construction of the worlds first solar based, 100% sustainable global infrastructure for theprovision of energy, food and transportation! And, I would like to have vigorousdisagreement and contrasting proposals at every step of the way toward that goal!

There is an end to both hydrocarbons and to climates that have provided allthat we have used to prosper scientists are presently measuring how much timewe have left before both become unconducive to human life! So, we can easily seethat, on the present course, humanity will run foul of degrading weather heat,drought, hurricanes, tornados, floods, etc. and of the effects of much steeper

energy prices as the petroleum runs out! What can we do now to enable us to avoidthose convergent trends for the benefit of the components of our genes for the restof eternity?

Lets pump the iron of paradigm change and see what we can find!1. We will have life on Earth for as long as the sun shines as it does now,

so lets build an infrastructure that relies only on solar energy. It is farwiser to understand that most of the energy that we currently use isfrom fossil fuels, meaning from the remains of plants and animals thatlived millions of years ago. We must convert everything that we do tothe direct use of such solar energy, because the millions of years of stored solar energy that fossil fuels represent will soon be absent!In addition, burning fossil fuels returns carbon that was last in theatmosphere 60 100 million years ago to our present atmosphere, withthe consequences for global climate change that we are seeing!

2. Wind is the most powerful and economical form of solar energy, so letsalso base our infrastructure on wind, in areas where its force is bothstrongest and most consistent. The worlds current infrastructure ismuch more based on where explorers first arrived and expanded theirpresence. We now have the quantitative data that can be used to


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optimize where, how and when we can build the worlds first 100%sustainable infrastructure!

3. Food, energy and transportation provision will all have to berevolutionized, as they all depend highly on petroleum, which willdisappear and cease causing the potentially catastrophic global climatechange that is currently running away with the future of the componentsof our genes. What does that revolution look like?

Engineers and designers, throw away your computers, because this future is outside the box! We really cannot imagine using any more petroleum, because itscontinued use will warm the planet catastrophically, and we will very quickly findourselves in the same position as the Easter Islanders, building monuments to ourown extinction!

I have had my own outside the box experience when my heart stopped for10 minutes while I was under a general anesthetic to have my forehead suturedfollowing a car accident in Kenya in 1980. Wow! Imagine waking up to find that youhad no more memory, and that you couldnt do any of the things that you had

learned as an infant, including walk, speak, play tennis, etc.! Its been a long roadback from there!

Let me take a very short detour and recommend that all those who sufferhead injury and brain anoxia undertake as much vigorous physical activity asquickly as possible, as the 3.6 miles home from the job that I got within 7 monthsof the accident, that I covered 92 times within the first 2 years of the sameaccident, literally put me back on my feet, and gave me tons of ideas for theconstruction of the worlds first 100% sustainable global infrastructure!

There I was, hanging by the tips of my fingers slipping off a narrow wetledge, miles above any safe refuge as I arrived in a new country as an immigrant ina wheelchair in 1980. But, Hope (and Design) Spring Eternal, even in the mostdismal of circumstances, and I rapidly converted my disabilities into the designs fora 100% sustainable future, below, at every step of the way in the 330+ miles that Istaggered, walked and jogged.


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The seas are rising around the north to south Linear City above, built at rightangles to the prevailing westerly winds in the Northern Hemisphere, which is linkedto another one across the straits. People are enjoying some sailing in some vintagecraft as a whale shark glides by, unseen. Optimism builds a much stronger futurethan does greed and pessimism!

Everyone can walk from where they live into fields to grow their own food

without the petroleum that is required for 95% of our current food production, allare served by high-, medium-, and low-speed trains that use only 1/3 of theenergy/passenger mile of modern cars and aircraft, and that can also be poweredby the ducted wind turbines, in green, along the roofline! Please, please, pleasedesign me a more sustainable infrastructure than this one!

It is my belief that,currently, financiers andRepublicans, who are allpaid much more than therest of us, have the toolsto look into this futurethat is bereft of petroleum,with the Sword of

Damocles of ClimateChange hanging over usall. That is why they arecurrently socking away allthat they can grab to


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protect their families laudable, except that it leaves 90% of the population to dieas crops fail and energy costs rise!

Why not consider that we are all subject to the same storm-tossed seas just as the Easter Islanders were, after all? Why not pool our brain-power to createthe worlds first 100% sustainable global infrastructure, and spring off the platformof Linear Cities that can provide all that we need from the eternal supply of solarenergy alone? If any one or two of the people in the lifeboat above tried to savethemselves above all the rest, do you think that the boat could ever make safehaven?

If those 2 lied to convince everyone that they were all working toward thesame end, but slipped off the boat just before it was smashed against the rocks of the shoreline to collect all that every member of the crew had hoped to live on tosurvive, is that much different from the economic situation that America finds itself in today?

If, however, all members understood that the solidarity that worked so wellin the circumstances above could be easily transferred to behavior on land, just as

the Europeans have learned through their tortuous history, more of us could livefree of fear, and able to concentrate on how to make the future work better for allof us!

So, how do Linear Cities work?

They would be built north to south, as indicated by the blue lines on the mapabove, to connect our existing cities, and to supply those cities with food aspetroleum becomes increasingly expensive. As below, we would start 1) with theconstruction of wind turbines along windy stretches of our north to south freeway

network, followed 2) with the installation of high-, medium, and low-speed raillines, and induction tracks in the freeways to overcome the range problem of theelectric vehicles shown. Finally 3) we would construct the Linear Cities themselves,in any number of configurations and designs!


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The illustration at B) above depicts an East West oriented Linear City, inred on the map above, to link the North South cities illustrated. They could bebuilt along waterways to take advantage of sail-powered transportation, below,because we wont be flying anywhere, and will enable all residents to grow theirown food, also below:


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Everyone can walk from where they live to their own fields to grow their ownfood organically and cooperatively:

Transportation without any Petroleum!I have discussed the use of wind turbine driven high-, medium- and low-

speed trains above, but that still leaves most of the country, and most of the worldwithout transportation. What can we do for the children of AD 4000 for more local,and overseas transportation, without the petroleum that currently fuels 95% of ourtransportation needs here in the USA? And, while the solutions are critical for those2000 years from now, will they be any less critical within 20 years?


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The car above uses a gas turbine flywheel hybrid that will burn anygaseous or liquid fuel, that serves as a gimbaled gyroscope to keep the car level,and is equipped with the profile and structure illustrated just above to attenuate theshocks caused in collisions from almost any angle, to save the lives of theoccupants. In addition, the flywheel delivers power to all 4 wheels electrically usingtraction control to avoid any wheel spin, and absorbs that power without locking thewheels (a form of ABS) to make the flywheel turn faster, thus saving energy that islost in almost all cars.


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Transportation over Water!Just as land transportation without petroleum will experience changes in the

paradigms used, transportation over large bodies of water will have to changedramatically! Again, we must optimize our use of the wind, with new and surprisingtechnologies, as below:

The Blimpfoil illustrated at the top has tethered reverse hydrofoils that alsodeploy reverse train bogies that are channeled into/under rail I-beams in port citiesso that the Blimpfoil can fly from Kansas City to Moscow non-stop, for example!

All these craft benefit from both GPS and weather satellites, so that they canbe directed to fly or sail any number of miles to the north or the south to takeadvantage of higher speed and more favorable wind streams. The foils can also be

equipped with sonic alarms and buzzers to encourage whales and large fish to avoidtheir path!


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The history of civilization is perhaps 4000 to 10,000 years old, of which

we are most familiar with the last 2000 years, which is an incredibly shorttime! If you divide that 2000 years by the 20 years that is roughly the period

of the average generation according to the variety of definitions that areavailable, we have 100 generations back to the year 0, a date and year thatwe in the West know well.

Most of us know 5 generations in our own families, from grandparentsto grandchildren, including ourselves. If you divide 100 generations by 5, youget 20, so it is only 20 times the generations that we know personally in ourown families back to the year 0, which is absolutely incredible! It is only 20times the generations that we know in our own families that include almost allof reasonably recorded history.

We have done an incredible amount in a very short time, from the first

sailing ships on the Nile 4000 years ago, the first cuneiform writing inMesopotamia in 3500 BC, and marks on tortoise shells from China dating from6000BC, the last of which makes all of human history only 80 times thegenerations that we know in our own families!

And, if we were to measure in lifetimes of 50 years rather than ingenerations of 20 years, that multiple would drop from 80 to 32, only 32 timesthe lifetimes of those that we know in our own families back to the dawn of civilization, and they didnt even realize what they were starting, just as wedont, as we look forward into a future without petroleum and the start of potentially catastrophic global climate change. Those who cannot dream,cannot advance, cannot survive!

This discussion of generations is important because we can quickly seehow important, how crucial, each of the generations in our families is! If oneperson in that chain had failed to live past the age of 15, we simply wouldntbe here, as are the ghosts of those who failed to reproduce.

We cannot cry over our own history, or that of those who are not here,but we can plan for the success of the generations that will follow ours so thatthey can enjoy life to the full! What can you do for your children andgrandchildren to give them both confidence and joy to face their own futures?What insights can you give them from your life so that, at an early age, theycan make plans to make their lives and those of their children the most fruitfuland enjoyable?

Where will we be when we fall back to the same levels of fossil fuelenergy inputs that prevailed 100 years ago? Where will we be in 2000, 4000,and 10,000 years when we havent had access to petroleum for 99% of thattime? The time to act is now, this very minute. Everyone must look up fromwhat they are doing and consider what their great great great great great


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great great grandchildren might be able to do if we do nothing, in the absenceof any systems to provide for energy, food, jobs, housing, civilization,education, and a future for our genes, every one of them!

PS. The following is a comparison between the number of pages referencedby Google for the combination of Wall Street and food production, andWall Street and Oil Production, and the Dow Jones Industrial Averagesfor the past decade. It seems that there is a reasonably close correlationbetween all 4! Lets get some grad students onto this to see whether wecan make Wall Street more transparent, so that fewer people lose theirshirts there!


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What may be interesting in examining the above is that a high occurrence of sites that mention Wall Street, and oil production and/or food production inthe same article came after the crash in 2002-03, whereas it continued and

preceded the crash this time, to rise far higher still after the crash. So, perhapsWall Street learned just how important oil production and/or food production are to world economies, and has done its best to safeguard its own money, and thetransfer of others money into their own accounts to safeguard that as well?

Many, if not most, observers of stock markets have said that as the oilsupply picture becomes more troubled, market trends will become more volatile. If this is true, then the last 2 very volatile weeks in August, 2011 on Wall Street maybe an indicator that the, lack of new significant oil discoveries confirm that there isan impending oil crisis that will hit the global economy. This would further drive upalready accelerating oil prices making it all the more difficult for the US economy tokeep the stock market from crashing without preamble. Peak oil prices are set tocause the largest tumble down in the history of the economy. (http://www.oil-price.net/en/articles/rising-oil-prices-predict-economic-recession.php).

Inevitably, the world will have to move away from oil as a source foranything. The sooner that we achieve that the easier and least expensive that willbe! What will happen to global populations that quadrupled with the support of oilin the last century if we fail? If we can render energy supplies and food productionmore predictable, steady, and subject to democratic influence, perhaps the worldwill be able to support more people with less waste and volatility, more predictably,forever!

Therefore Linear Ecocities because, in the end, we must imagine how tomanage without a single drop of the oil that accounts for 95%+ of our

transportation fuels and food production! As outlined, Linear Cities can more thanadequately resolve the inevitable supply problems that energy, food andtransportation will very soon see. Do we want to guillotine the prospects that wecan offer to our great grandchildren by doing nothing?

I have constructed this model as a goal at the end of the first curve in anoval racecourse. I challenge anyone to provide a better, more sustainable model! Atthe same time, I am also happy to predict that all of us will not be living in LinearEcocities like those that I illustrate in 1,000 years and 10,000 years. Just as car,medical and communications technologies have evolved rapidly, the Linear Ecocitywill also be subject to rapid evolution, including paradigm change! At least, I hopeso!


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Appendix Further Details

1. Before the age of the automobile in 1900, 60.4% of the American population

was classified as rural, and were reasonably able to walk into fields to cultivatetheir own food. Now, only 4% of rural residents make their living farming, the lasttime most Americans lived on farms was in 1880 and the last time the majoritylived in rural communities was in 1920. We will have an enormous challenge tofeed, clothe, employ and transport Americans when there is no more oil! We mustuse the most energy efficient transportation, trains, the only feasible long-termenergy sources, the renewables that run from the nuclear fusion in our sun, and theclose proximity of all residents of new buildings to food production areas, which isonly possible using linear-form cities!

The No Oil Era is on our doorstep! Without intelligent action on thepart of all who plan the future, we are condemning the babies of tomorrowto an almost certain death, as global populations shrink from their currentlevel of 6.85 billion to the 1.6 billion that existed in 1900, or less with thepresent loss of valuable farmland to over-fertilization, over-salinizationfrom irrigation, over-asphaltization, and the conflicts that inevitably ariseas all populations shrink!

It may be noted that North Africa and the Middle East have witnessedsignificant drying trends in the last 10,000 years the Sahara was once a savannahthat was lush enough to support the workforce that built the pyramids, and whathappened to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Fertile Crescent, thebirthplace of modern agriculture are they the most peaceful areas in the worldtoday?

2. Please see below for more details of the challenges, research and otheractivities that are necessary for this new paradigm to take flight or run along atrack at 250 miles/hour!

o We will see the end of petroleum within 60 years, the most critical fact forthe lives of our grandchildren, which our media has avoided despite itsimportance! It may also be noted that Iraq is the country with the greatestremaining reserves of petroleum. Could our absolute dependence on oil fortransportation (99%) and food production explain why we are there, and whythe president did a U-turn to stay there once elected? We need to face thefuture squarely and design systems that require no oil, before we havenone at all!

o Global climates are very likely to seriously deteriorate, inundating coastlinesdue to rising sea levels and destroying life for more than 50 percent of theAmericans who currently live in 772 coastal counties. By 2025, nearly 75percent of Americans are projected to be living near a coast, with populationdensity doubling in some areas such as Florida and California. Furthermore,globally about 60 million people live within 1 meter of mean sea level, anumber expected to grow to about 130 million by 2100! What will their lives,homes, and jobs look like then?


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o With the end of petroleum, we are very likely to see the end of thecoordinated, efficient and compact food production systems that allowAmericans and global citizens to eat affordably today. In that vacuum, whatare the chances that law and social order can be maintained, especially if thepolice themselves are deprived of petroleum? Even now, the US DefenseDepartment is the worlds largest single consumer of oil! How can acountry that has only 2% of the worlds oil on its territory, butconsumes 20% of the worlds supply continue to live in peace withall other nations!

We must find and develop both a paradigm and an infrastructure for where wecan get plastics (a reduced number, all from plants), energy (all from renewablesexcept, for the time being, from nuclear), food (from 100% organic production) andtransportation (as outlined here and below)!

I. Land, Population, Transportation and Food without Petroleum:World and American populations are dispersed across the continents roughly asindicated in this satellite image of Earthlights at night, bearing in mind that we inthe USA consume about 5 times the energy/person of those in Europe and 22 timesthose in the rest of the world!

The low-lying areas along the East and West Coasts, and Mississippi RiverValley and Gulf Coast could all easily disappear under rising sea levels, to saynothing of European, Asian and Indian populations in low-lying areas!

This is a mathematics problem: how to supply over 4 times the worlds

people on land and energy supplies that are likely to dwindle even more than theyare now, and were in 1900!

There are ways to sail around this problem as sea levels rise, however, usingmodern technologies in novel ways, as follows:


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Why live in a long ribbon, linear city when you can live in something asexciting as the Burj Kalifa, for example? The answer comes down to simple, 7 th grade mathematics: lines have a far greater perimeter than circles, which have theminimum that is mathematically possible.

Please compare the 2 figures below that have roughly the same area butvastly different perimeters - - - - - - :

These differences are compounded when you stack the circles on top of eachother to create the building on the right above, which is superb in the views andsense of power that it creates, but poor when all its inhabitants must walk intofields to grow their own crops because there is no more petroleum to produce thefood and bring it to where people can eat it! Please consider too that all of ourcities are circular, not linear, formsthat give few people access to fieldsto grow crops. Please see the imageof Los Angeles on the right!

Why should this make adifference? After all, technology hasbeen directing us toward theheights for at least a century, thesame century that has beencoincidentally driven largely bypetroleum, and the mobility that ithas given us.


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I therefore propose linear citieslike that on the right, where everyonecan walk from where they live intoopen fields, both to grow their ownfood, and to supply those who are stillstuck in existing cities, and towers likethose above!

The orange tunnel borderingthe fields contains high-speed rail,along with medium and low-speedlines, which are the only form of transportation outside of bicycles,ships and electric cars that can bedriven by wind. Everyone lives within a 10 minute walk of their own field, chickensand fruit trees, and all can very rapidly reach the existing cities using the high-speed rail link, which uses only about 1/3 of the energy/passenger mile that carsand aircraft use.

The wind turbines (below between nos. 2 and 3) along the edge of the northto south linear city capture the energy of the prevailing westerly wind that has beenaccelerated as it passes over its 3 5 stories. Expressways/railways can be used todeliver building materials to build linear cities just alongside, as below, and we canstart by installing conventional wind turbines first 1), followed by both high-speedrail and high temperature superconducting induction tracks in the roadway todrive electric vehicles, giving them unlimited range 2), followed by the constructionof the linear cities themselves 3).

The sketches below show the same process, with the intermediate stage of elevatedplatforms a) for quick-change battery pit stops for autonomous electric vehicles. Allresidents are within walking and cycling distance of fields, as below:


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The Linear Cities follow the expressways in the middle above, and go more directlybetween the existing cities on the right above. They run north to south, at rightangles to prevailing westerly winds as mentioned, except for B) below, and can bebuilt into hillsides, onto land that becomes flooded, and along watercourses as inthe aerial view on the left above.

With the forthcoming certainty of the End of Oil, and a global food crisislooming, there are more and more who advocate much greater reliance on organicfarming methods. Organic farming methods however are labor intensive, asmandated by the low-petroleum era, and resolved by the much greater proximity to


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the land that Linear Ecocities provide. This is one of the only ways to get the handsinto the fields, as 80% of us now live in cities, far from food production areas! AsLinear Ecocities run through cropland, all hands are either a 10-minute walk fromwhere they may work for the day, or a short or long train ride from the field andseasonal crop that must be tended.

There will be many who argue that our current concentrated cities/megalopoli are the engines of economic growth, but that is an old argument fromthe cave-dwelling age before the Internet! Until the Internet, people did indeedneed to meet each other face to face, to do business, to exchange ideas, to initiateromantic exchanges as well.

Currently, we all have circles of acquaintances that we physically contact withsome degree of frequency. But, that will change drastically, both as food suppliesbecome more critical without petroleum, and as we continue to do what we havealways done, make friends with those that we have contact with, either in existingcities, or in Linear Cities.

The infrastructure paradigm detailed above can move toward supplying all of our food, energy and transportation needs, but cities do not yet span large bodiesof water, nor filter into the deep countryside. Therefore, we also need new 100%sustainable technologies to accommodate these 2 situations, and many others,once there is no more oil! Because of its imminent disappearance, we will be forcedto abandon its combustion and resultant global greenhouse effects, but we mustnot replace it with any other fossil fuels/coal!

Therefore, please view below projects to create gas turbine/flywheel/battery

hybrid cars with 4-wheel drive and regenerative braking that will burn practicallyany fuel and protect their occupants much better inaccidents, please see the variety of accident scenariosbelow. In head-on collisions, the more rigid, pointedcentral chassis is very unlikely to meet point topoint with the opposing car. The front bumpersact as triggers to detach the front A-arm on that side, and the front fenders arealso mounted to slide to the rear on theappropriate side, thereby reducing thedeceleration felt by the occupants of both cars.

Similarly, the rear and sideundersides are sloped so that the impactedcar is thrust upwards and its occupants pressed into their seats, with which theyalready have contact. This is both automatic and passive, does not depend upon


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2. Currently, Seagoing vessels are responsible for an estimated 14% of emissionsof nitrogen from fossil fuels and 16% of the emissions of sulfur from petroleumuses into the atmosphere. In Europe ships make up a large percentage of thesulfur introduced to the air, as much sulfur as all the cars, trucks andfactories in Europe put together . By 2010, up to 40% of air pollution overland could come from ships because the fuel used in oil tankers and containerships is high in sulfur and cheaper to buy compared to the fuel used fordomestic land use. A ship lets out around 50 times more sulfur than a truckper metric tonne of cargo carried. 6

3. The Hovercat uses an aluminum,composite or steel catamaranhull, with hovercraft capabilitybetween the hulls to lift them outof the water so that the kites can

pull the ship forward fastenough to enable the hydrofoilsto work. All the kite sails arecomputer controlled and areattached to domes that double

as elevated air intakes for the hovercraft.The dark blue tinted glass bridge is movable from port to starboard to permitmore accurate maneuvering in close quarters and small ports. As cargo andpassenger vessels, they are roll on/roll off with fail-safe bow and stern closures,light weight, high maneuverability and speed, and fun!

4. The Hexcat again uses the hovercraft and hydrofoil technologies, with a novelkitesail launching & deploymentarrangement that can put manykites into the sky, both toincrease the traction of theavailable wind, and to reachwinds that may be stronger, or ina more favorable directionfurther aloft. As with theHovercat above, the hydrofoilsare retractable so that bothships can launch from and return

to beaches and concrete launching aprons. Both are envisaged for use as cargoships, passenger ships, or both at the same time.


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5. Why not harness this technologyto make transoceanic journeys evenmore efficient by linking many crafttogether? Please see the illustrationbelow for a caterpillar configurationthat may just become the monarchof the seas!

I don't think that the weight of the sails/kites and rigs is an issueas kites now have helium filledbladders in their leading edges to getthem out of the water and into the air.


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This concept has 2 launching

masts in carbon fiber that pull the kitesout of a launching chute at the bow(orange above, yellow below). The top

illustration shows an existinghovercraft that is capable of carrying 3Hummers and substantial containerswith equipment. As existing kite sailsare capable of pulling kite boarderscompletely out of the water, see theillustrations below,

one of the functions of the hydrofoils is to keep the craft in the water and notlaunched to a height where the landing could be damaging!

I am sure that the day of the end of petroleum is coming soon and, even if it isnot soon, we need to keep the maximum amount of petroleum unburned bothto preserve the atmosphere and for use in the production of sails, plastics,pharmaceuticals, fertilizer and pesticides, so that we can continue to eat!

Why not extend this concept to wind-driven flight using recycled and lightenedaircraft fuselages, after there is no more fuel topower them? This concept uses tethered wingkeels that also have wheels to roll directly onto

rails for continued trans-continental journeysonce the trans-oceanic part of global voyagesis finished eg. New York to Moscow non-stop!


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The history of civilization is perhaps 4000 to 10,000 years old, of whichwe are most familiar with the last 2000 years, which is an incredibly shorttime! If you divide that 2000 years by the 20 years that is roughly the periodof the average generation according to the variety of definitions that areavailable, we have 100 generations back to the year 0, a date and year thatwe in the West know well.

Most of us know 5 generations in our own families, from grandparentsto grandchildren, including ourselves. If you divide 100 generations by 5, youget 20, so it is only 20 times the generations that we know personally in ourown families back to the year 0, which is absolutely incredible! It is only 20times the generations that we know in our own families that include almost allof reasonably recorded history.

We have done an incredible amount in a very short time, from the firstsailing ships on the Nile 4000 years ago, the first cuneiform writing inMesopotamia in 3500 BC, and marks on tortoise shells from China dating from6000BC, the last of which makes all of human history only 80 times thegenerations that we know in our own families!

And, if we were to measure in lifetimes of 50 years rather than ingenerations of 20 years, that multiple would drop from 80 to 32, only 32 timesthe lifetimes of those that we know in our own families back to the dawn of civilization, and they didnt even realize what they were starting, just as wedont, as we look forward into a future without petroleum and the start of potentially catastrophic global climate change. Those who cannot dream,cannot advance, cannot survive!

This discussion of generations is important because we can quickly seehow important, how crucial, each of the generations in our families is! If oneperson in that chain had failed to live past the age of 15, we simply wouldntbe here, as are the ghosts of those who failed to reproduce.

We cannot cry over our own history, or that of those who are not here,but we can plan for the success of the generations that will follow ours so thatthey can enjoy life to the full! What can you do for your children andgrandchildren to give them both confidence and joy to face their own futures?What insights can you give them from your life so that, at an early age, they

can make plans to make their lives and those of their children the most fruitfuland enjoyable?Where will we be when we fall back to the same levels of fossil fuel

energy inputs that prevailed 100 years ago? Where will we be in 2000, 4000,and 10,000 years when we havent had access to petroleum for 99% of thattime? The time to act is now, this very minute. Everyone must look up fromwhat they are doing and consider what their great great great great greatgreat great grandchildren might be able to do if we do nothing, in the absence


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of any systems to provide for energy, food, jobs, housing, civilization,education, and a future for our genes, every one of them!

This article is dedicated to the components of the genes that we allcarry, and that we have all shared throughout our history. Long may they live,100% sustainably!

Please contact Mr. Kim Gyr at: [email protected] ,231 392 6511, or at 10057-3 Michigan Street, Empire, Michigan 49630-8505,and see many more details both on my website at: www.greenmillennium.eu or in any of the many chapters and essays that I have written by sending arequest to any of the above contacts.


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PS. The following is a comparison between the number of pages referencedby Google for the combination of Wall Street and food production, andWall Street and Oil Production, and the Dow Jones Industrial Averagesfor the past decade. It seems that there is a reasonably close correlation

between all 4! Lets get some grad students onto this to see whether wecan make Wall Street more transparent, so that fewer people lose theirshirts there!

What may be interesting in examining the above is that a high occurrence of sites that mention Wall Street, and oil production and/or food production in the same article came after the crash in 2002-03, whereas itcontinued and preceded the crash this time, to rise far higher still after the crash. So, perhaps Wall Streetlearned just how important oil production and/or food production are to world economies, and has done


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its best to safeguard its own money, and the transfer of others money into their own accounts to safeguardthat as well?

If we can render energy supplies and food production more predictable, steady, and subject to democraticinfluence, perhaps the world will be able to support more people with less waste and volatility, morepredictably!

Therefore Linear Ecocities because, in the end, we must imagine how to manage without a single drop of oil!And, we will more easily reach the goal of 100% sustainability the sooner that we start, and the quicker weprogress!

I have constructed this model as a goal at the end of the first curve in an oval racecourse. I challenge anyoneto provide a better, more sustainable model! At the same time, I am also happy to predict that all of us willnot be living in Linear Ecocities like those that I illustrate in 1,000 years and 10,000 years. Just as car, medical and communications technologies have evolved rapidly, the Linear Ecocity will also be subject torapid evolution, including paradigm change! At least, I hope so!

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