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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">Kermit,</font></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="padding-left: 3px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;">There should be a roster in city hall of
people that wish to buy stock and help to form such projects.</blockquote></div>
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<div>We tried that here in Ellsworth, ME, USA. The town couldn't handle the prospect of municipal liability being involved in private projects.</div>
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<div>Stephen</div>
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From: Kermit Schlansker <kssustain@gmail.com><br>
To: gasification <gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org><br>
Sent: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 10:05 am<br>
Subject: [Gasification] sustainability<br>
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Sustainability </font></font></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span><span> </span>We have no right to dismiss Global
Warming. The consequences are so dire that if the probability of warming occurring
were only .1% we still would have to act. Furthermore the question really is
whether we have to conserve or not. As the years go by we will run out of many
resources including fossil fuels and it is imperative that we conserve them.
Still another reason is that by reducing consumption we can reduce the basic
cost of living and that will be essential at a time where poverty is
everywhere. </font></font></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>It is
imperative that we build more nuclear plants because that is the only source of
energy large enough to save us from total despair. Solar, biomass and wind can
never produce enough to satisfy our needs. However energy sources are only
competitive in terms of priority and price. We need all of them. Some of them
are much easier to finance than nuclear and we must proceed on all fronts. We
must develop all types of energy conservation and alternate energy production
in order to keep the cost and number of nuclear plants down to a manageable
level.</font></font></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>Geometry
is the best tool for conserving energy. Cities must be designed a square mile
at a time. That square mile should be packed with apartment houses, factories,
multi-purpose buildings, a department store, and anything else that is needed
for every day life. Towns should be so designed that “walking to work will save
the earth” The construction of single family houses should be stopped. The
first step is to stop subsidizing them in any way. Apartments will save large
amounts of heating energy and the compactness they can create will greatly
reduce transportation energy. City and county governments must assist in the
formation of car pools. Apartments are the only way of saving energy that costs
nothing because we need a place to live anyhow. </font></font></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>Energy
saving devices such as cogeneration, comanufacturing, combustion driven heat
pumps, and solar mirrors for both power generation and heating must be
developed. Biomass gasifying and biodigestion must be experimented with. Large
amounts of biomass including fruit trees must be planted. Cities must plant
parks and streets with edible plants. It is essential that sewage be
biodigested along with other biomass and used to make fertilizer, fuel gas, and
clean water The digestion residues can initially be used for fertilizing energy
crops in order to avoid pollution problems</font></font></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span> </span>There should
be large farms with apartment houses on them rather than single family houses
that destroy both cropland and wilderness. Experimental farming should develop
both energy and food crops. Farm apartment buildings are ideal places to
experiment with heating, cooling, small windmills, and solar energy. </font></font></font></div>
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imperative that city, State, and county governments get involved in initiating large
energy projects such as an energy farm or experimental low heat apartments. A
universal factory would also be a good project. In order to do this they should
work together to start and finance such projects. It is as essential to make it
easier for ordinary citizens to form cooperatives and small corporations that
would do energy or food projects. There should be a roster in city hall of
people that wish to buy stock and help to form such projects.</font></font></font></div>
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