Florida has water on three sides, and yet we drain our aquifer, and Rivers. Whatever happened to the America that solved problems instead of placing Band-aids on them? Kuwait’s water supply is derived from the Persian Gulf, through desalinization plants, all of it. If our leaders had any kind of vision they would see that this is the future. But noo! It is so much easier to just deplete our national resources, and let our children and grand children figure out how to repair all the damage that we created.
This country needs a true vision for the future, not just doing things the way they have always been done because it is easier, and the cheapest way to do it. Our children deserve better than this, and we have the technology to accomplish rebuilding our infrastructure with renewable energy, and supplying this country with all of the fresh water it will need well into the future.
I am truly saddened by Obama’s approach of trying to stimulate the economy, He spent our children’s future, and their children’s future without putting any thought into solving the problems that this nation so badly needs solved. Obama has placed a 17 trillion dollar band-aid on our nation with a plan that is destined to fail. Let me state right here, and now that I AM NOT BASHING OBAMA; there is plenty of fingers that can be pointed at all; from politicians’ too corporate America, and beyond.
Why do we always have to reinvent the wheel to solve the problems of our country? Why not look back in history to find some answers, and adapt. Roosevelt brought this economy back from the great depression by building this counties infrastructure, from dams, to roads, Roosevelt put electrical power into rural America, and by doing this he put a nation back to work.
Our president pissed away the future of this country, and solved none of our most serious problems that we face as a nation. Not only has a plan to fail been put into place, he offers stimulus money to states, and then dictates how the state spends the money. We have fifty governors in this country and odds are one or more of them have a plan of how to solve some type of problem that their state has with this money, and then the federal government dictates how the money is to be spent.
It seems we as nation discourage new ideas and plans to secure our future. We can offer ten million dollars to the person that comes up with the way to fly from earth’s atmosphere into space and back, but we don’t challenge anyone to come up with idea’s for renewable energy, and a viable infrastructure for it. We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t get away from buying fossil fuel from hostile nations. We would rather go to war to protect our national security over oil, than find and alterative energy source.
Let me place some ideas on the table of our future. First let me tell you what I am not, I have no degree; I am not an engineer, a geologist, or professor of science. I do have a twelfth grade education, with a background in refrigeration, and fire science. I know how pumps work, turbines, and generators. To put my plan into action I know how to find the engineers, geologist and technicians to get the job done.
Let’s start with Florida’s water supply, as I stated in the first paragraph desalinization is the way to move forward. Florida has an endless supply of water if we would just use it. We should immediately start building Desalinization plants along our entire coast. Not just your regular plant, let’s take the regular plant into the future. The state already has a pipe line for water all through the state; it is called the Florida Aquifer. Run geological surveys throughout the state and locate the aquifers closest points to the coast. This is where you would place your desalinization plants, taking into account tourist coast and try to avoid those areas.With the plants that are built you would calculate the amount of water that needs to be pumped into the aquifer as to create a surplus based on population growth for the state. You would build the plants to exceed that figure by a large margin.
The plan that I have in my head should be able to make these plants self sufficient, while generating revenue for the state. Kinetic energy; (translational kinetic energy) which an object has depends upon two variables: the mass of the object and the speed of the object. The Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico never stops moving, you have Mass, and speed. Harness the power form the oceans of the world to generate power. Ok getting ahead of myself, let’s just stick with Florida. Use this energy to power the pumps to desalinate the water. This would be on the suction side of the plant. After the water is treated you would send it on its way to the aquifer, this would be the pressure side of the plant. What can be done with water under pressure moving through a pipe? You have mass, and speed; Kinetic energy. On the pressure side of the system you would place a turbine and generate electricity. Now you have a plant that powered by renewable energy, and generates power that can be sold to the power companies.
We have fresh water being pumped into the aquifer with no cost of energy to run the pumps. The cost of running the system will be maintaining it. The cost of maintaining the system should be offset by selling the power generated by the turbines to the power companies. Sounds like a self sufficient system, doesn’t it? Now let’s generate revenue for the state, remember me saying to build the system to have surplus supply of water for our state and then increase the supply by a large margin. The reason, we sell the excess water to other states that need it. State revenue, there is one more commodity that could be sold from the desalinization of the oceans water, and that would be salt you could sell the salt for pennies on the dollar compared to mining it. Northern states would most certainly buy it to place on their frozen roads. There is also a need for sea salt for cooking, it is healthier than regular table salt it has man y more minerals in it than regular table salt. Every living thing on earth needs a certain amount of salt to survive. Salt another revenue for the state.
How many jobs would this new industry create for residents to fill? We could stop stripping our lakes and rivers of the fresh water needed by the wild life in this state. Yes the system would be costly to initiate, but it would also pay for itself over time, and besides can we really afford the alternative? We could start a project like this if the federal government would let our state spend the stimulus money on the essence of life, WATER; instead of a bullet train that we don’t really need. What say you Charlie, sound like a plan.
We as a country have so much energy starring us in the face and we don’t even recognize it is there. It is just too easy to maintain things as they are because that is the way it has always been done.
It takes an unsatisfied person to make things satisfactory: winn1955
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