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Powering The Common Wealth (DR David Martin)
Powering The Common Wealth (DR David Martin)
a.k.a
Creativityunplugged!
We burn fossil fuels, enrich and decay uranium, dam rivers, block the wind, layer silica of and mostly burn fossil fuelsfor
Pushing current through filaments and gas for LIGHT Running compressors to create thermal gradients to COOL Pushing current through resistive material to HEAT Transmitting impulses to Transmitting motive forces to simulate resistive fields to
COMMUNICATE TRANSPORT
-21.6% 86.4%
Refining Efficiency
-34.6% 87%
Transport Efficiency
-91.6% 43%
Co-Gen Efficiency
-138.6% 50%
-188.6%
Transmission Efficiency
Appliance Efficiency
and this doesnt count, land/water rights, exploration costs, construction & materials costs for infrastructure, minerals transmission lines and motors, etc. This also fails to account for the fact that the cost-of-capital for steps 1 5 are all charged to the public as long-term debt with a cumulative blended cost of simultaneous financing at about $0.30 per dollar of infrastructure
The 60 hz Addicition Revenue bonds & infrastructure Commodity speculation Colonial conflict / war Utilities Appliances
Thomas Edison led no armies into battle, he conquered no countries, and enslaved no peoples... yet exerted a degree of power the magnitude of which no warrior ever dreamed." tell that to the 20,000 dead at this spot
light, pressure gradients, magneto-motive, and organic chemo-electrical signaling have been around forever USE THEM!