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Monday, 8 February 2016

Water Resources - Infrastructure Does Not Grow On Trees, It Helps You Grow The Trees

Arizona and water issues for the future are an interesting issue as the Governor and her Drought task force move into a long-term workable plan. Such a compromise is necessary is AZ is to continue growth without devastating its food processing, farming and distribution and transportation industry in trade for housing and construction.

This issue is on everyone’s mind in AZ as the Bark Beetles is eating up the forests near Prescott, Fires have burned down thousands of acres in Show Lo and outside Tucson. As Yuma explodes in Population, as CA desert farmers use an abundance of water, housing continues to grow in San Diego’s North East County, Eastern side along the 8 and in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. Coupled with the intense growth of Las Vegas in suburbs of Green Valley, Summerlin, Centennial, Seven Hills, North Las Vegas and Anthem. In Tucson seeing housing growth on the West side and also heavy growth in and around the Oro Valley area.

In Phoenix much like Las Vegas the growth is staggering, unbelievable really. More golf courses using up to 10% of the water including Trillium in Queen Creek, Cave Creek Area, Another Anthem, Sun City Expansion, Glendale, Goodyear and surround areas and Awautukee Hills. Growth also in cities bordering the tri-sate area places like Lake Have a Brew, Bullhead City, Laughlin and all the way down river to around Parker, AZ. What do all these areas have in common? They all draw from the Colorado River, which is seeing stresses in it’s availability to supply the growing demand. So what is AZ to do? Well they have the SRP – Salt Water River Project. Which is really a river that is thousands of years old, unpredictable during certain periods of the year. That was until around 300 B.C. yes three hundred B.C., looks like Columbus did not discover anything except a whole bunch of people who were already Natives. In AZ Cortez could have come about 2500 B.C. and found whole civilizations roaming what are now the western United States.

The ancient Hohokam Indians were skilled farmers by that time of 300 B.C. and they over the years had built a series of gravity fed canals all the way from Flagstaff to Tucson if you can imagine that. And why not, Look at the Egyptians, Chinese and Roman and Greeks. They too were well adapted to building canals and aquaducts. All this during the European Feudal system, the tribes continued to modify and adapt their water flow to meet seasonal demand and flow rates needed for farming. The Hohokam like the Indians of the Four Corners regions who vanished around 1200-1350 AD, also left their lands in 1400s. Why? No one knows except maybe the Mountainous Indians might have come down for food and water after warring tribes taxed their infrastructure and they over populated their resources.

Mankind has always tried to manage his resources as the Earth is a hostile planet for any species living in the desert or anywhere on the surface of this little blue Planet. There are flows and cycles and logistical needs which must be met as Maslow would agree in his view of what is needed to reach such a pinnacle of society to find your self and your people self actualized.

The Hohokam had developed such an intricate system of water delivery in canals, dams, reservoirs, it rivaled Mullhollands project in CA, including the Fillmore dam, which has its own story: http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lat021603.htm.

The Chandlers, must have seen this and used these techniques along with Mullholland to assist in the California Acquaduct. The Hohokam had more than 200 miles of irrigation ditches on top of the river system. After they left, a drifter named Jack Swilling revitalized the canal system. Named the dam thing the Swilling Irrigation Canal Company, but folks in the region simply called it the Swilling Ditch. And a ditch it was as it brought water throughout AZ, some 1500 years after the Hohokam had mysteriously vanished. The Company was located in what is now and industrial section of Phoenix, but was once the main downtown area. 1868-1870 the ditch did very well, but Swilling died in a Yuma jail in 1870. The community kept adding canals and miles to the system and eventually it was 42 miles long, which was no real feat compared to the Tribal and ancient Indians.

Water is gold. Look at Saudi Arabia, Kuwait even Baghdad for that matter. Without water you have nothing. Water is gold. I recently talked with the Mayor of San Marcos TX who told me that the Oil of this century in Texas was water. He is not alone in his predictions as Billionaires have been buying up water rights in TX as fast as they can. Enron was trading water futures and why not. The Rio Grande does not have water flow the Gulf of Mexico anymore and TX, NM, NV, CO, MT, AZ all seed the clouds not. Sure beats the ancient ones and their rain dances, which we all ought to learn, after all it worked for them. The Hohokam left the area, why? Were they in periods of long droughts also and being farmers could not do without periods with no water? Without food to grow and animals to hunt on the open desert plain, what could they harvest or trade to live? William Bradford and Edward Winslow found ways to trade with the Indians to get the things they needed for the pilgrims.

Indians in such civilization had big trading needs and were able to get things to make their lives easier from other tribes and cultures. In 1902 many western leaders went to Washington DC to lobby for funds to build the infrastructure and in that year Roosevelt signed the National Reclamation Act. The Valley in PHX immediately worked to secure a loan to take advantage of that legislation and built the first of many larger dams and later reservoirs, The first of which was a huge dam in the Tonto Basin and the locals formed the Salt River Valley Water Users Association. The reason for this was due to the inconsistent problems such as the Flood destroying parts of the canal in 1891.

Then the drought of 1897-1904 brought even more havoc to the region, thus is my view for believing that these droughts are basically the 100 year drought cycles, the Indians without the huge dams and giant reservoirs were marvelous in normal years, but lacking in the drought periods. Coupled with fires from Lightening in Monsoon seasons across the PHX plain. Having water flow like the Colorado River Rapids in the beginning of the year and then dry in the late summers would not support year round life in a desert. About 12 people died building the dam and Apache Indians helped too, but were segregated in tents. This is why the Boeing named the Apache Attack Helicopter since they were the same Indians living in that region previously with ancestors still there today, some running casinos and making much money.

Typhoid swept through the work camp during the years it took to build the dam. The damn dam was completed in 1911 and thus Phoenix was free to grow big. The dam named Roosevelt dam was the first of several reservoirs. Mormon Flats, Horse Mesa, Stewart Mountain all dams and were used to generate electric power, some 53,000 kilowatts. After Tesla proved he could power up the world with water and deliver it via power lines until which time he could figure out a way to deliver it wireless.

During the Depression AZ had found it difficult to make payments on these enormous projects. AZ at one time developed more power than all the other reclamation projects combined. SRP, kept growing and delivering, it was formed as a restructuring move to catch up on payments. By generating electricity the desert has been able to keep water prices lower for the valley to have expotential growth. SRP is the third largest utility in the country. We will discuss some of the others in future studies including, Hoover Dam, nigara Falls, Bonneville Power and the Nuclear Gerators of our country and all the coal driven generation and the power and politics struggle between oil, natural gas, as well as the Tennessee River Valley Authority. SMUD and so many others in our upcoming study. In the case of SRP years of water rights fights continued and was finally settled with 35 original water rights owners claiming some 500 billion gallons which included Indians, farmers, municipalities, families all in Central AZ. SRP has other huge holding such as the Navajo Generating Plant which is coal fired in Four Corners Region.

SRP also has in place a 336 canal system hooking the PHX and Tucson areas to the Colorado River, which is now a large part of the water supply this was only put in recently in the 1980s, but has allowed the growth to continue and become even more strong, thus Maricopa and Pima Counties together rival that of Las Vegas Area growth, and folks that is friggin huge let me tell you, WOW. Today SRP has a 17% stake in Palo Verde, which is operated by APS and has contractors such as Betchel leading the charge in upgrades to make Palo Verde, which was once the largest Nuclear Generator in the Free World, the largest generator by a factor of 2. On Valentines day in 1980 the Roosevelt dam had its spillways running at 180,000 cubic feet PER SECOND, as the area was hit by ten inches of rain in three storms in five days, the level of water was averaging four inches from overflowing for 24 hours. SRP to the rescue. WOW. If that dam overflowed it would have created a waterfall 284 feet high, about twice that of Niagara Falls. No kidding. After that 400 million was spent to renovate and SRP has always been there for Phoenix residents. For information on this project and SRP after they celebrated their 100 year anniversary in Feb. 2003 click here;

Today SRP serves over 800,000 plus customers within a 2900 square mile radius. About 5000 people work for SRP, this is not a little project, this is a big deal for AZ and this is why they have been able to sustain the growth they have over the last many decades. Many issues are critical now with water levels down in the reservoirs ion NV feeding the lower Colorado River and the levels in the Roosevelt dam area, namely fish are more concentrated and less water means higher temperatures and many will die. But the problem is not as bad as many Salmon habitat rivers which are low or the minnows in NM.

The Rio Grande another story in itself. With the cut-throat and Apache trout populations. Mother nature has a way of balancing things out, but with mankind’s need for water and appetite for green lawns in deserts, golf courses and washing cars, it appears we are still going to need San Diego and Los Angeles to De-salinate like Tampa Bay. Jeb Bush and his team were really looking ahead as the drained everglades were threatening eco-system, farming industry and development on the world’s largest sand bar with no mountains, you might call it FL

It is truly amazing. I hope you can appreciate all this great nation has to offer and understand that infrastructure cannot be taken for granted and that it does not grow on trees. Be thankful America, of everything you take for granted. I am thankful of SRP for allowing such a wonderful market to come into existence so we can live well and wash cars. Without water and power you would have no city, no people, no roads and need no cars to drive on thus, washing is irrelevant. Thanks SRP and all those who came before me and made it so. Any one care to comment on the importance of water infrastructure projects, please post below, water is life, without the flow of water, we cannot sustain civilization.

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Robotic Fish, What Will They Think of Next?

As Unmanned Underwater Vehicles become better and use mimicked techniques, which resemble sea life fluidity of motion it will be much easier to disguise them and virtually impossible to tell the difference. Simply paint a couple of eyes on them and paint them to look just like a fish, shark, whale or dolphin and let them swim a few meters away from you and you will not be able to know what is real.

These robotic fish, which Universities, US Navy, Researchers and Oceanographers are making, now will have many uses. They can patrol underwater pipelines, cables, bridge structures, piers, docks, shipyards and Earthquake Faults or perhaps even Underwater Volcanic Activities. They might also be incorporated into underwater sensors for Tsunami, by swimming quickly to the surface to contact the satellite, resting dormant at the bottom of the ocean floor until needed. Then they can return to the oceans floor again to conserve energy. These sensors will also be able to detect and protect our coastlines from underwater threats from hostile nation submarines, which wish us ill or are testing our abilities to catch them and then perhaps saving that information for some devious future endeavor.

Robotic Fish, which mimic sea life, is a helpful technology to blend into the background of our vast oceans so we can better understand the planet, fishing dead zones, needs of other species and protection of the American People.

RoboTuna Project is real and these fish are really here. The future of virtual fish is now.



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Tsunami Mini-Wave Actions to Protect Cruise Ships, Sea Walls, and Floating Cities

Are all Tsunami Waves bad? How can such incredible forces of nature be good after all we have just witnessed the destruction caused by the Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami. The World Think Tanks wants to turn the tables on Mother Nature and invite her to the table for the supper she created.

The World Think Tank believes it is possible to use Tsunami wave action for a defense system against incoming torpedoes for Aircraft carriers, cruise ships or to save Seawalls during Hurricanes. A Wave making machine can be built upon the platform like a seawall or on a floating city or even mounted on an Aircraft Carrier to send a wave at an incoming torpedo at 300 knots under water to intercept it and turn it around. The torpedo might even hit the enemy from whatever vessel fired upon it.

Since Tsunami waves do not stop they just keep going until they hit the surface of the water and slow by transferring the fast moving wave into a large title wave situation rather than a fast moving 4-8 foot high flow of water capable of moving at speeds of 300 knots or more. Generally it does this as it approaches a shoreline.

The Tsunami Wave on a ship would be generated by steam from the Nuclear Carriers generators or on a cruise ship from an outboard generation system and spring that is backed up under dynamic pressure of the relative drag or friction of the water while moving through it. Using a paddle system and crank in a ratcheting action it would wind up again. Once wound up It could also be used to send a wave into a harbor of the enemy or tip over a pirate ship attacking a cruise ship, or turn around a torpedo or terrorist kamikaze bomber boat by capsizing it by a huge wave sent by? Mother Nature, all compliments of the USN. Remember that they can travel 100's of miles or more once launched.

This system could be used to launch rockets, rocks or torpedoes, which have engines, whatever you want? We could launch UAV unmanned aerial vehicles or send Navy Seal Teams to shore at high speed. As a defensive system the ships of our military when a bad guy came to close, just sink them with a huge wave out of the blue, no more USS Cole scenarios. Join the Navy to see the WAVE!!! Think about how environmentally friendly it is to use the motion of the ocean to sink your enemy, who tried to attack you first. This second reciprocal response is instantaneous and ominous, like the ocean.

For a seawall security from Hurricanes, which is very much needed in the case of the New Orleans you could use a system like they are devising in Italy to keep out high tide. The water comes in the weight of the water forces down a spring system or other type of system and then sends an underwater wave which comes to the surface a few miles out and sends a motion of water into the oncoming Hurricane waves approaching the shoreline and thus preserves the integrity of your sea wall from the pounding surf accompanied by large scale Hurricanes.

Now that Mother Nature has shown us the force which can be created using wave action, we need to turn the devastation witnessed into a positive security feature of our civilization.



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Plastic Sheeting to Prevent Evaporation on Rivers and Water Storage Sources

The World Think Tank is solicitating ideas on preventing evaporation and needs you intellectual input. We need High Tech Solution to a Low Tech Problem.

We all know of the serious drought issues in much of our country. We are also half way through the harshest hot weather of summer for many states. New Mexico has problems that are very severe and are in need of greater technology to keep the water supply intact. The Governor's Office has asked for new ideas and concepts.

There is some new technology in Solar Energy which is of value. It is called Copper Indium Diselenide? You say what, come again? Super duper thin solar cells can be made with a thin sheet about 2-3 microns coated with Copper Indium Diselenide. What is that? Exactly what we thought but it is a thin material similar to glass. It reaches conversion percentages as much as 18%. Now we have terrible evaporation problems with water in NM out of rivers and Lales. We can cover those with a thin sheet and on one side hook it to a sheet of this on top. You prevent evaporation and make electricity.

Now this may sound like a really hard thing to do, but if you study Berry Farming, such as Strawberries you see a giant sheet rolling mechanism which can dispense the sheets of plastic with the Solar coated Copper Indium Diselenide. Strawberry Farming is a multi million dollar business and the R and D that they have done is of benefit to all mankind.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/95nov/strawber.htm

Since 95 Strawberries have had some good years thanks to these innovations. It is good to know that because of market hardships strawberry farmers have gotten even more progressive and their hardships can now be our gains. Now then here are some of the plastic sheeting used. We propose we use non-clear plastic sheeting so that algae will not grow underneath the sheets and as long as the water flows it should be fine. There are many a US Company making this plastic sheeting. And by using a non-clear sheeting across the river flows in New Mexico where water is a huge issue we can kept the water from getting too hot and killing fish when it gets too low meaning we can use the water down to a lower level and protect the water from evaporating.

These plastic sheetings have been used in art with one artist using it for five miles and other large projects have used the plastic sheeting. Farmers of strawberries use these for many reasons, birds will not eat seeds, less pesticides can be used when crops are smaller and growing, which is an issue in any soft skin fruit, keeps moisture in the ground and uses the increase in UV light, you can read about it here;

http://www.aces.edu/department/ipm/soils.htm

There are many ways to use such sheeting to protect our water levels during the summer months and drought years. We need your help to solve these problems. The World Think Tank needs you.



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Municipal Water Conservation and New Designs in Bus Stop Rain Water Collectors

New Bus stops, which turn into water retention collectors are being looked at as a way to mitigate the drought situations and help conserve water. With some many Western States at a complete drought crisis, we should be looking at ways to further conserve our water supplies. One concept being which came out of the World Think Tank was to have bus stops collect water on the roofs and within the frames of the booths.

The water will be collected in the roof, which would slightly expand on top to create more surface area for collection of rainwater. The roof will be a box shape with an “X” shaped box as the top of the bus stop and incorporated into the roof with holes in the center where the “X” comes together with a membrane in it to keep it clean from the bird droppings on the roof. The posts of the bus stop will also be part of the containers with a garden hose fixture on them, this will be used to water nearby plants and water shrubbery. The collected water will also used to power wash or steam clean the bus stops to keep them free of disease and clean for patrons to make people feel comfortable so they want to ride the bus and thus save natural resources.

We know that street-sweepers cleaning up paper, trash or debris, which can fill up near drains and cause flooding during rains require consistent street sweeping services. Street sweepers must fill up water to adequately do this effectively, this is a huge usage of water. Cities, which own these bus stops can use the free-water supplies collected during rains by the bus stop concept collection system to fill up street sweepers, thus meaning they do not need to hook up to fire hydrants along the route to fill them up, which promotes spillage and waste due to the cumbersome nature of that operation.

A very interesting concept along this line of thinking is a company promoting green roofs on buildings, upon contacting this company on another project we now see they have been thinking transportation issues, the more of us using buses the less emissions of hydrocarbons and thus cleaner environments. Here is the company’s information on the Green roof bus stop roof with shrubbery;

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We believe that conservation is important to water supplies through out the world and by conserving water we can make it through the drought until additional infrastructure can be built like desalination plants, pipelines, strategic canals, dams and other tools to keep up with our needs and thirst for water as our population and the populations of the world increase.

If you have innovative ideas on water conservation, dual use transportation ideas, bus stop designs or things of this nature please spread the word, we must conserve our fresh water supplies.



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Making Rain, Weather Control and Predicting Wind Patterns

Wind is a sophisticated pattern and in linear mathematics appears to be a complex system, however the patterns of wind within an atmosphere while taking into consideration ambient temperatures and land formations, may not be as complex as we believe. As a matter of fact we have knowledge of many patterns in nature, which start from very simplistic formulas. It appears that simplicity breeds complexity and that complexity can reverse the same process in many instances where those systems have tendencies and characteristics which promote change or chaos.

As we learned how to unlock the mathematics, which can solve the factoring of prime numbers within computational complexity of algorithms in systems of cryptonics, we may find that this is in fact relatively easy using multiple level equations in a slight modification of our current understanding and usage of mathematics. Soon, we will then discover how simple such patterns in nature actually are.

The patterns of wind are interesting and take on the appearance of being so complex that they many simply throw up their hands give up in trying to mathematically predict it. Yet, we can predict it since we have formulas for much of what we know as fluid dynamics physics, we have laws and rules which are taught in higher math and physics classes through linear sets of equations, yet when we add additional variables and stack the data sets, somehow our minds having been taught a certain methodology of problem solving, rendering us to a conclusion that it is impossible to predict. Not so, since currently with the use of computers, XML data bases, ESRI software and a better understanding of other complex systems and patterns which we have broken through, we now know it is not only possible, but known that we can predict wind patterns and depending on the number of variables taken into consideration we can be so accurate that we would know wind.

If you are to break down the wind within each three-dimensional grid in virtual space (in an atmosphere) signifying a cubic dimensions (or any 3-D shape) and you know the characteristics that are pre-existing within the next volume set of cubic observation, before which time the wind passes through it (such as barometric pressure, temperature, etc. and you know the speed of the wind, its velocity and the air mass behind it), predicting the wind passing through the next grid or volume of space is rather simple. Although the problem seems quite complex adding up all the different volumes of virtual cubic boxes within next space and knowing the flow and direction the way and is completely predictable.

We now have supercomputers, smart dust with mems, ESRI software, as well as a pretty good understanding of wind aloft and a database from the National Weather Service. Predicting patterns of wind, directions of fire, and understanding what occurs win any one condition is changed you seen the sophisticated software of a virtual wind tunnel we know what the weather will do, where it will go, what effect will have on our overall environment and which conditions we will need to change to slow down a storm, stop a storm or have a deliver water onto a fire or into a lake for water supply. Such modeling can help us understand the effects of an asteroid or god, forbid a comet hitting the earth and what will be the most likely outcome of such.

We can use such modeling to predict pollution coming from Fires in CA or China and how they effect the entire Earth Atmosphere Grid and what they will most likely do to the current and near future weather patterns and what such a chain reaction will do to our surface plants and animals long term. We can also understand the global warming effect of burps of Earth through volcanic activity and the extent that space weather, solar flares and our own pollution contribute or take away from the whole of the atmospheric earth system.

Controlling the weather patterns will require some skill, some talent, large collected databases, supercomputer number crunching and lots of trial and error. We will also need to let lose of some of the current mathematics we use to track weather in trade for multi-stacked equational computational analysis or a different type of math based on a new type of science. Which may lead us to the grand unification we seek.

As scientists and researchers will learn there will be places where weather is easily studied and relatively easily controllable using very little energy and using the actual wind currents with minor changes in certain situations which are made possible by the terrain itself. This brings us to another topic at topic is the patterns of erosion. Anyone was the pilot who has flown over the desert, over a mountain range or even in a glider using the addressing downdrafts understands that the fluid dynamics used by water, pressure or heat, which slowly over time brings mountain into river, into silt.

Some of the best farmland in the world will appear at the bottom of a mountain range where the water has washed the sediment into a valley. Or where a glacier has grinded away rock into fine sand, where a volcano has spread itself out over large area and overtime makes with the dust, dirt and other factors mentioned into a flat plain.

Ocean currents with any crevasse of the ocean may be very simple to study as the earth spins in the water flows it is relatively constant in certain places. Near the surface of the ocean where the water is less dense and more obvious and numerous factors play a part in the direction and flow it will be more difficult to predict, as more factors exist.

However once all those factors are known it will not be as difficult as it once appeared. Now let's take the atmosphere which can change rapidly and has to take into consideration the ocean flow, temperature, height of the waves along with the heat of the land mass which could include; Urban heat, clouds, barometric pressure, precipitation, static electricity, wind, land formations, man-made pollution, man-made structures and many other non suspecting conditions and in many variations. This however should not scare away the scientists, the dreamer or the funds of those with the imagination to take this species to the next step. Controlling our weather is possible once we fully understand how it works. And we are well on our way. Unlike the Federal Reserve Bank's options for controlling the flow of money, in the Earth System there are countless levers which can be used in the control of the weather.

Any one of those levers will set off a chain reaction since everything effects everything else. All patterns in the earth system running together, similarly all waves from all sources running together. Waves of light, waves containing energy and/or heat, waves of sound, waves of radiation no matter what the origin all run together. By controlling a single factor such as in ELF or VLF of the earth at 8.5 Hz you can control weather. By changing the heat with any of virtual three-dimensional grid in any place within the atmosphere you can control the wind, thus control the weather. By changing the temperature of the surface water of the Pacific Ocean by one degree, you can change the level an altitude and speed of the jetstream, and thus changing the entire flow of weather.

Since everything is a wave you can change to a wave of UV, gamma or very low frequency, which in fact can change the surface of the water in the ocean, or at any altitude up to and beyond the Ionosphere. If you take a spherical fruit out of your refrigerator and placed it in a box and stuck a straw into the middle, the coolness from within the fruit will escape and will change the temperature within that box, a few degrees. But as we have learned and are learning from the global warming effect we are witnessing today which threatens to change the earth system, and somewhat disrupt human life upon the land we can see that we do have options. Different percentages of gas in the atmosphere will act differently under different temperatures. They will interact differently and you'll change weather patterns, a volcanic vent on the floor of the Pacific Ocean will impact the surface temperature of the water and therefore the weather patterns. This could lead to more severe weather, which will appear to us to be unpredictable, but actually it will be more predictable, we may not like the prediction but we can know the outcome.

By modifying our weather and categorizing its anomalies, we may find that we can use certain areas with highly predictable conditions as places to slightly modify those conditions to create desired weather patterns which can deliver water to crops, to help keep the world, to fill up lakes, and to provide clean and safe drinking water to the populations of the world. Let me give you an example of how this can be done. Next paragraph. Let's take Bernoulli's principal and apply it to a mountainous canyon at a higher altitude. In certain times of the year the air will be cold, moist, and the wind will blow through the canyon. If you pick such a location you can provide a chemical laser-beam from the ground and from the canyon, which will superheat the air coming through and make huge thunderclouds, similar out comes can be witnessed by kids blowing bubbles on a micro scale.

Now then, if there is a basin created by an old Lake that was filled up by an ancient glacier or water running down through the canyon where the air now flows, and if you pick a location that is boxed in by other mountains which also fed into and surround the lower ground of the old lake, then you will have clouds unable due to their denseness to make it over the second mountain range thus they will accumulate and eventually downpour rain in the location or on the foot hills or against the leeward side of the mountain range, thus filling up the old lake. There are many such locations and since we already now based on our ESRI-GIS mapping where these locations exist completing this scenario is relatively easy. As a matter of fact it is so easy, it is hard to believe with all the brainpower, meteorologists, scientists, innovators and imagination of the diehard individuals, which make up this great nation that no one had ever thought of this before.

We must be proactive with weather research, control and slight manipulations with our weather is the answer to the problem, which face us now and in the future. One could say that instead of manipulating and controlling our environment it is best to conserve and not touch those things that we do not understand yet. I hear this argument and I understand basis. That basis comes from a basic flaw in thinking starting with our belief in the belief that has been adopted by most human beings on the planet towards a certain religion of their choosing which indicates that a god or gods created everything we see perfectly and that should remain to so. I do not wish to enter such a fundamental debate as no one would change their views and "A person convinced against their will, is of the same opinion still."

I say to this argument that if in fact it is true that a God or Gods did give us such a wonderful gift, then that same god or gods also created a species and within that species a genetic DNA code which allowed us to form in such a way that we had the brainpower to understand these patterns of nature and adapt and create a mathematical system which was similar enough to parallel the original sets of the units used to describe and then build the earth system. So then, in taking this argument to the next level and without debating whether there is one or many gods, which created this system, I say to them, that it was intended for us to have such cranial capacity to move our species to the next step of human evolution and eventually to control such things.

Today we have a problem, although the problem in the ongoing trials and tribulations of humankind's need for chaos in controversy is not completely at crisis yet, it will be soon, if we fail to use that which is in our power to fix the problem. Weather control is possible, just like the airplane was possible, just like man's first trip to the moon was possible, just like ridding the world of smallpox and polio was possible. One could say that those diseases were created by the same god or gods which created the weather, the patterns and nature which include the patterns of the erosion, rain, weather, water, fluidic dynamics, wind, earthquakes, volcanic activity, plate tectonics, etc. why is it that mankind can not see through this logical rationale. It only makes sense that as mankind evolves into a species of higher cognition, that eventually we will become our own god or gods.

Small and relevant modifications of the earth's system in the United States and abroad will save lives, it will allow our farmers to help feed the world, it will allow our citizens to have a higher standard of living and better quality of life and as we take what we've learned and freely give that knowledge to the Third World peoples. We will find that the Third World will look up to us, respect to us and listen to what we have to say above their mythological religious based spiritual witch doctors and voodoo'isms which currently dominate their daily lives, thought process and doom their civilizations from ever getting past the Machiavellian, warlord like world which provides little if modern day human rights. Helping the world and the species using our knowledge to live in global harmony through weather control cannot be debated the debate has been won, I hereby declare victory, there can be no rationale against moving mankind forward.

The current situation throughout the world has put mankind at a standstill to get to the next evolutionary step, to the destiny that awaits us and to the future we deserve. We can not in good faith standby and watch the children of the world die from dysentery, malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, AIDS or any other dreadful disease or virus, due to droughts, fresh water supplies or our failure to modify the environment to support human life properly. We must not fail to act, if we fail to fix the problem when we have the capacity, the wherewithal, the technology to get the job done, then I submit to you that we as stakeholders on this planet, as human beings, as a common species are doing so at the future risk to the ongoing forward progression of mankind and to the detriment of the whole including all those children of the world and the future of the species. There can be no debate; we know what we must do, we should start today and we should finish the program.

The NGOs, the World Bank, and a leadership of the free world understands that something must be done, inaction, lack of a cohesive plan, fighting over methods and means within the context of bureaucracy cannot achieve our common goals. We must do something and that something is now long overdue. Next paragraph the leading thinkers throughout the history of recorded written time, whose words we've read and are grateful for their writings, have discussed what is needed to maintain civilization and now as mankind has procreated to the point where he has spread out across the globe in every quarter of the earth there is no doubt that it is time to connect the civilizations as one global community looking forward to the future in completing the circle. It can be done.

By better understanding the wind currents and our weather we can put ourselves into a position where weather control is completely possible. Let us not pass up this opportunity to make it so. By cataloguing the weather using one's and zeros or a new type of spatial quantum computing bitonic sort and using the supercomputer technology along with our storage capabilities brought to us and at our disposal thanks to the continuation of Moore's Law, we can find anomalies which create severe weather such as tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, hail storms, etc. then we can make sure that when these anomalies exist, we can put in minor changes setting off the chain reaction which will steer such weather situations away from populated areas which might or could experience loss of life, damage to infrastructure, unworthy risks to personal property or hardship to our societies.

The weather and the wind are two things we must get a grip on. If we can set the weather patterns in such away that spread the pollution created by mankind evenly around the earth as we work to lessen the pollution simultaneously, we may find that our percentage of cause to the overall global warming effect will render it insignificant, and perhaps change the trend that is currently occurring. The possibilities for weather control to assist the human race with fresh water supplies, pollution distribution, farming are so significant that they will change human life forever. By controlling the weather and learning from the process mankind will live happier, healthier, longer lives, with a greater abundance then was ever thought possible. We owe to ourselves to push forward, to press on, to persevere and to make those gods or god that humans worship proud of us for taking their creation and making it better.

After all, if your son discovered a vaccine for polio wouldn't you be the proudest parent that has ever walked the earth. I must say, if mankind was able to control the weather during my lifetime in this period and do so in a positive way and for the betterment of the whole and the children of the world, I myself would have a greater appreciation for being a member of the species. I would be proud of the accomplishment of my fellow man and feel a renewed vigor towards my own contributions to humankind and therefore feel positive about our future as inhabitants and viable species of the Planet. Wouldn't you? Of all the negative and all the questionable characteristics of mankind which are currently in play, one would have to ask; Are human beings actually a viable species of this ecosystem in their current form and present period method of organizing?

Weather control is a noble and attainable goal. First we need to learn to predict the wind, map the data and learn from action in modifying various factors, then we will be well on our way. Weather control is possible and it will solve many of the problems mankind now faces.



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Water Supply Research, Ideas and Innovations Using Microencapsulation to Control Algae Bloom

There are huge algae Blooms growing in many waters off the coasts, in the lakes and rivers near where high populations reside. Most of this is from Human use of chemicals to grow crops and fertilizers used in Golf Courses. It is a huge issue and here is a kicker in the drinking water in Las Vegas area Lake Powell;

[http://www.torbay.scric.org/issues/forums.env.html]

The way to cure the drinking water in Lake Powell and the drinking water outside of Wichita KS with a similar problem is to use microencapsulation technologies to allow slow release of bio-sensitive chemicals to reduce the Bloom. It was said that in a problem such as this; High nutrient levels in waterbodies eg pool in waterways with high N levels that the best solution to the issue is this: Trial zeolite application to take out N from water column will allow slow release for plant use. Macrophytes (eg pond biofilter) will use N off the zeolite Zeolite flocculant into water, then add microbes to break down algae blooms. But by using the microencapsulation technologies you can fix it without the complicated problems.

If the encapsulized chemicals are put under a charge they will stick to the bloom and slowly release and solve the problem. This is not saying that the watershed issues or BMPs associated with the local NPDES permits should not also be followed by point source discharges. There have been many very complex and expensive ideas to clean the Lake Powell issue, but I believe the issues are simpler than that, same with The Cheasapeak or even the Gulf Of Mexico off the coast of Naples and Ft Myers FL. Any questions on this issue please post a reply.

There are many companies working on this, here is one we researched in our study;

http://www.microteklabs.com/

Water is important and we must be careful to protect it and to fix these issues in superfund sites and in cases of our past lack of knowledge of the complex factors which make up our eco-system. Think about it.



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