Think, who invented AC power generation technology & induction motors & transformers widely utilized today ? Nikola Tesla & some of his lab assistants. Every major technology, like Amazon.com started with a simple idea that a couple of people or a few people started talking about.
Look at what the amazon website looked like when it was first new back then. Consider the founding Google, Microsoft, Intel, Ford, GM, VW, Porsche, Toyota, Honda, Monsanto, or any large industrial business or profitable commercial business. Usually a genius visionary with a powerful rich mind full of creative ideas starts telling someone else about their thinking.
Sharing Powerful Ideas (Like TED) the Essential Key to Catalyzing Transformative Change
This is why I shared my blog posting about the use of small electrical transducers in a tuned chamber with two tap valves to perform ultrasonic water purification without filters or consumable media, about to be powered by a few LR6 (AA) alkaline batteries, or NiMH rechargeable versions that work well even in cold conditions & last longer than Lithium-Ion in hot conditions, or even super capacitors paired with a small PV panel or hooked up to a bicycle power generator so that people without access to clean water for drinking, cooking or sanitation, can have a cheap water cleaning tech to clean up surface waters polluted with dirt, pathogenic bacteria & other contaminates.
Once people see a really bright idea, more people see & hear about it, investors line up with a profit motif & donate capital & expertise & then boom, you have climate change technologies like carbon capture, negative emissions technologies, advanced emissions controls, low carbon concrete innovations applied & other pragmatic designs to adapt to oil refinery flare units to capture the natural gas, petroleum gases, liquify them into a ship container, bring them back to markets that support higher selling prices of recovered natural gas. Trash dumps can be covered with plastic & soil & then pipes installed to recover the biogas formed from the breakdown of trash. Trash can also be burned for energy & then some of the heat & electricity made can be used to pump those exhaust gases into a water scrubber that pumps the acidic water into calcium rich basalt rock from volcanic depositions to form calcium carbonate, a material that can be also sold to concrete manufactures if its deliberated roller ball milled into high surface area nanoparticles first.
Burning Less Carbon Cheaper Climate Change Solution
Of the many technologies emerging, teaching people how to use less energy & still enjoy life thriving, the really low-cost options to decarbonize rapidly.
Lower carbon diets can be promoted to billions of people to reduce carbon emissions from agriculture.
Low carbon vehicles of all kinds can be used to move people around with fewer emissions
Low carbon electricity from nuclear fission reactors & solar PV, solar thermal, wind turbines, hydro, geothermal can decarbonize grid energy.
Homes upgraded with better windows & better insulation & sealing of the floors, walls, ceilings, roofs: improving the insulation using aluminized mylar or other NASA designs, or something more natural like wool or rock wool, or cellulose / hemp - enhanced to reduce mold or mildew or rotting // there are synthetic & natural insulations, from foams to mushroom mycelium, that can be blown into existing walls, added to existing walls etc.
The ROI or return on investment tends to be quick with insulation upgrades vs other more premium efficiency technologies. Changing incandescent bulbs to LED on motion sensors that turn off automatically when no human or animal motion detected after an adjustable time offset like 5-10-15-20-30-60-90 min // or app controlled by smartphone, tablet or computer through a web interface on laptops or desktops or servers //
Driving less. Living closer to where you work. Drinking water from a reusable bottle that you refill at home or work & not buying engineered fluids in single use bottles. These are other practical ways to reduce our individual footprints on nature.
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