The Big 5
These 5 things are just some of what every human needs to be able to live a happy,
sustainable, healthy and productive life, without
abuse or
waste. Schools can use these
5 subjects
to teach math, science, chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, farming
and social intelligence. The needs of people is
critical infrastructure.
Water -
Food -
Shelter -
Energy -
Education - (Acronym - W.F.S.E.E - We Finally See)
Fundamental Human Needs - Essential Resources
Subsistence is a means of
surviving by
having the minimal amount of
resources
needed to
remain in force
or in effect. The action of
maintaining or
supporting oneself at a
minimum level.
Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being
and social support for all citizens, sometimes referred to as
public aid.
Water
-
Food -
Shelter -
Living Environment -
Social Setting -
Physical
Health -
Mental Health -
Goods
-
Clothes -
Provisions -
Knowledge -
Work -
Rest.
Protection is the activity of
protecting someone or something
from
hazards or
threats. The condition of being protected. Kindly
endorsement and guidance. Defense against financial failure. A covering
that is intend to protect from damage or injury.
Care -
Adaptability -
Autonomy -
Security -
Health Systems -
Work Co-Operate -
Planning -
Help -
Social Environment -
Dwelling -
Loving Parents -
Human Rights -
Human
Values.
Opportunity is having a
favorable combination of circumstances and having some type of
supportive
system that makes it
possible for a person
to have a
chance to
do something beneficial
and to do something of
value or to be someone of value. A
chance to realize your
potential and to
explore the
possibilities.
The American Dream
-
Quality of Life -
Social
Mobility.
Freedom is
being free from
oppression and
coercion, and having immunity from
frivolous
exercise of
authority, as well as the
absence of disabling conditions for
an individual and the fulfillment of enabling conditions.
Autonomy -
Passion -
Self-Esteem -
Open-Mindedness -
Equal Rights -
Dissent
-
Choose -
Run Risks -
Develop -
Awareness -
Peace -
Simplicity -
Cooperation -
Working
Together.
Participation is the act of
sharing in the
activities of a group. The condition of sharing in common with others.
Receptiveness -
Dedication -
Sense of Humor -
Responsibilities -
Duties -
Work
-
Rights Cooperate -
Dissent -
Express Opinions -
Associations -
Parties
-
Churches -
Neighborhoods.
Creation is the human act of
creating and making something or starting something for the first time and
introducing something new.
Imagination -
Boldness -
Inventiveness -
Curiosity -
Abilities -
Skills -
Work -
Techniques -
Invent -
Build -
Design -
Compose -
Interpret -
Spaces for Expression -
Workshops
-
Audiences.
Understanding is the capacity for
rational thought, inference or discrimination.
Understanding based on
comprehension and discernment and
empathy.
Critical
Capacity -
Curiosity - Intuition
Literature -
Teachers -
Policies -
Educational Analyze -
Study -
Meditate -
Investigate -
Schools -
Families
-
Universities -
Communities.
Affection is a positive feeling
of liking.
Respect -
Generosity
-
Sensuality -
Love -
Friendships
-
Family -
Relationships -
Nature -
Sharing -
Responsibility - Expression -
Emotions
-
Privacy -
Spaces of Togetherness.
Leisure is time available for
ease and
relaxation and the freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable
activity.
Imagination -
Tranquility
-
Spontaneity -
Games -
Parties -
Peace of
Mind -
Day-Dream -
Remember -
Relax -
Have Fun
- Landscapes -
Intimate Spaces -
Places to be Alone.
Identity is the
individual
characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known. The
distinct
personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity.
Sense of Belonging -
Self-Esteem - Consistency - Language
-
Religions -
Work -
Customs -
Values -
Norms -
Get to know Oneself -
Grow - Commit
Oneself -
Places one belongs to - Everyday Settings -
Diversity.
Fundamental Human Needs
(wiki) -
Human Values
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Personal
security, Financial security,
Health and well-being, Safety net against accidents/illness and their
adverse impacts, Friendship, Intimacy,
belongingness, love,
family,
physiological, esteem,
self-actualization, and
self-transcendence.
Need is something that is
necessary to
live, things like
clean air, water,
food and shelter. There are also many
other needs that people require in order to
live peacefully, things like
security, freedom,
respect, and love. When peoples needs are not
available, then people will suffer, and when important needs are
unavailable, then people could die.
Second Bill of Rights was proposed by United States President Franklin
D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 11,
1944. In his address, Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to
recognize and should now implement, a second "bill of rights". Roosevelt
argued that the "political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit
of happiness". His remedy was to declare an "
economic
bill of rights" to guarantee these specific rights:
Employment and the right
to work,
food,
clothing and
leisure with
enough income to support them.
Farmers' rights to a fair income.
Freedom from unfair competition and
monopolies.
Housing.
Medical care.
Social security.
Education.
Quality of Life - Standard of Living
Quality of Life
is the general well-being of individuals and societies, outlining negative
and positive features of
life. It observes life satisfaction, including
everything from
physical health, family,
education, employment,
wealth,
religious beliefs,
finance and the environment. QOL has a wide range of
contexts, including the fields of international development,
healthcare,
politics and employment. It is important not to mix up the concept of QOL
with a more recent growing area of health related QOL (HRQOL). An
assessment of HRQOL is effectively an evaluation of QOL and its
relationship with health. Quality of life should not be confused with the
concept of standard of living, which
is based primarily on income. Standard indicators of the quality of life
include not only wealth and employment but also the built environment,
physical and mental health,
education, recreation
and leisure time, and social belonging. According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), quality of life is defined as “the individual’s
perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and
value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals.” In
comparison to WHO's definitions, the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale
defines quality of life as “life quality (in this case, physical pain) at
a precise moment in time.”
Living Wage
-
Human Values -
Developed Country
The Good Life or
Eudaimonia is happiness or
welfare
and human flourishing,
prosperity
and blessedness.
Well-Being is a
general term for the condition of an
individual or
group, for example
their social, economic, psychological, spiritual or medical state; a high
level of well-being means in some sense the
individual or
group's
condition is positive, while low well-being is associated with negative
happenings. In philosophy, the term 'well-being' (and 'welfare',
'utility', etc.) refers to the manner in which an individual's life
manifests desires, objectives, and needs—among myriad more diverse
variables—and how these affect the individual's perspective.
Wellness.
Comfort
is a sense of
physical or psychological
ease, often characterized as a
lack of hardship. Persons who are lacking in comfort are
uncomfortable, or experiencing discomfort. A degree of psychological
comfort can be achieved by recreating experiences that are associated with
pleasant memories, such as engaging in familiar activities, maintaining
the presence of familiar objects, and consumption of healthy foods.
Comfort is a particular concern in
health care, as providing comfort to the sick and injured is one goal
of healthcare, and can facilitate recovery. Persons who are surrounded
with things that provide psychological comfort may be described as "in
their comfort zone". Because of the personal nature of positive
associations, psychological comfort is highly subjective.
Amenities are things that make you
comfortable and at ease and give you a sense of pleasantness resulting
from agreeable conditions.
Refrigeration -
Heat.
Standard of Living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material
goods and
necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a
certain geographic area, usually a country. The standard of living
includes factors such as income, quality and availability of employment,
class disparity,
poverty rate, quality and
affordability of housing, hours
of work required to purchase necessities, gross domestic product,
inflation rate, amount of leisure time every year, affordable (or free)
access to quality healthcare, quality and availability of education,
life
expectancy, incidence of disease, cost of goods and services,
infrastructure, national economic growth, economic and political
stability, political and religious freedom, environmental quality, climate
and
safety. The standard of living is closely related to
Quality of Life. Other measures such as access and
quality of health care, income growth inequality, and educational
standards are also used. Examples are access to certain goods (such as
number of refrigerators per 1000 people), or measurement of health such as
life expectancy. It is the ease by which people living in a time or place
are able to satisfy their needs and/or wants. The main idea of a
'standard' may be contrasted with the quality of life, which takes into
account not only the material standard of living, but also other more
intangible aspects that make up human life, such as leisure, safety,
cultural resources, social life, physical health, environmental quality
issues etc. The means of measuring well-being must be employed to make
such judgments, and these are very often political, thus controversial.
Even between two nations or societies that have similar material standards
of living, quality of life factors may in fact make one of these places
more attractive to a given individual or group.
Livelihood refers to the means of securing the
basic necessities -food, water, shelter and clothing- of
life". Livelihood
is defined as
a set of activities, involving securing water, food, fodder,
medicine, shelter, clothing and the capacity to acquire above necessities
working either individually or as a group by using endowments (both human
and material) for meeting the requirements of the self and his/her
household on a sustainable basis with dignity. The activities are usually
carried out repeatedly. For instance, a fisherman's livelihood depends on
the availability and accessibility of fish.
Life Satisfaction is the way people show their
emotions and
feelings and how they feel about their directions and options for
the future. It is a measure of well-being and may be assessed in terms of
mood, satisfaction with relations with others and with achieved
goals, self-concepts, and
self-perceived
ability to cope with
daily life. It is having a
favorable attitude of
one's life as a whole rather than an assessment of current feelings. Life
satisfaction has been measured in relation to economic standing,
amount of education, experiences, and residence,
as well as many other topics. Life satisfaction is a key part of
subjective wellbeing, which is a self-reported measure of well-being,
typically obtained by questionnaire. Differences in experience can greatly
shape the way that we observe and engage with the world around us. It can
influence the way we speak to people, the way we act in public, and our
general outlook. These experiences which shape the way we think about our
surroundings affect our life-satisfaction. Someone who has the tendency to
see the world in a more negative light may have a completely different
level of satisfaction than someone who is constantly admiring the beauty
of their surroundings. People who engage with more stress on average tend
to have higher levels of stress can contribute to higher levels of
self-report life satisfaction, as long as those who understand how to deal
with their stress in a positive way. It is proposed that overall life
satisfaction comes from within an individual based on the individual's
personal values and what he or she holds important. For some it is family,
for others it is love, and for others, it is money or other material
items; either way, it varies from one person to another.
Happiness Economics is the quantitative and theoretical study of
happiness, positive and negative affect, well-being, quality of life, life
satisfaction and related concepts, typically combining economics with
other fields such as psychology, health and sociology. It typically treats
such happiness-related measures, rather than wealth, income or profit, as
something to be maximized. The field has grown substantially since the
late 20th century, for example by the development of methods, surveys and
indices to measure happiness and related concepts. Its findings have been
described as a challenge to the economics profession.
Happy Planet Index is an index of human well-being and environmental
impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in July
2006. The index is weighted to give progressively higher scores to nations
with lower ecological footprints. The index is designed to challenge
well-established indices of countries’ development, such as the gross
domestic product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI), which are
seen as not taking sustainability into account. In particular, GDP is seen
as inappropriate, as the usual ultimate aim of most people is not to be
rich, but to be happy and healthy. Furthermore, it is believed that the
notion of sustainable development requires a measure of the environmental
costs of pursuing those goals. Out of the 178 countries surveyed in 2006,
the best scoring countries were Vanuatu, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,
and Panama. In 2009, Costa Rica was the best scoring country among the 143
analyzed, followed by the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Guatemala and
Vietnam. Tanzania, Botswana and Zimbabwe were featured at the bottom of
the list. For the 2012 ranking, 151 countries were compared, and the best
scoring country for the second time in a row was Costa Rica, followed by
Vietnam, Colombia, Belize and El Salvador. The lowest ranking countries in
2012 were Botswana, Chad and Qatar. In 2016, out of 140 countries, Costa
Rica topped the index for the third time in a row. It was followed by
Mexico, Colombia, Vanuatu and Vietnam. At the bottom were Chad, Luxembourg
and Togo.
The American Dream -
What is Life Supposed to be like?
Freedom to Explore and Develop
Fulfillment is the
achievement of something
desired, promised, or
predicted. A feeling of satisfaction at having
achieved your desires. The meeting of a requirement or condition.
Opportunity.
Self-Fulfillment is the satisfaction or
happiness as a result of fully
developing one's abilities or character. is
the realizing of one's deepest desires and capacities. actualization.
Social Mobility
or
upward mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households,
or other categories of people within or between social strata in a
society. It is
a change
in social status relative to one's current social location within a
given society.
Economic Freedom Index measures the degree of economic
freedom in
the world's nations and their basic institutions that protects the
liberty
of individuals to
pursue their own economic interests result in greater
prosperity for the larger society.
Democracy Index.
Human Freedom Index are measures that encompass personal, civil, and
economic freedom. The index presents a broad measure of human freedom,
understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 79 distinct
indicators of personal and economic freedom. The index covers the
following areas: Rule of Law, Security and Safety, Movement, Religion,
Association, Assembly, Civil Society, Expression, Relationships, Size of
Government, Legal System and Property Rights, Access to Sound Money,
Freedom to Trade Internationally, and Regulation of Credit, Labor, and
Business.
The American Dream.
Social Progress Index measures the extent to which countries provide
for the social and environmental needs of their citizens. Fifty-four
indicators in the areas of basic human needs, foundations of well-being,
and opportunity to progress show the relative performance of nations. The
index is published by the nonprofit Social Progress Imperative, and is
based on the writings of Amartya Sen, Douglass North, and Joseph Stiglitz.
The SPI measures the well-being of a society by observing social and
environmental outcomes directly rather than the economic factors. The
social and environmental factors include wellness (including health,
shelter and sanitation), equality, inclusion, sustainability and personal
freedom and safety.
Social
Progress.org.
Moral Freedom Index is an international index ranking one hundred and
sixty countries on their performance on five categories of indicators:
religious freedom (taking into account both the freedom to practice any
religion or none, and the situation of religious control on the state);
bioethical freedom (including the legal status of abortion, euthanasia and
other practices pertaining to bioethics, like surrogacy or stem cell
research); drugs freedom (including the legal status of cannabis and the
country's general policy on hard drugs); sexual freedom (including the
legal status of pornography and sex services among consenting adults, and
the country's age of sexual consent), and family and gender freedom
(including women's freedom of movement, the legal status of cohabitation
of unmarried couples, same sex marriage and the situation of transgender
people).
Press Freedom Index.
Per Capita Income measures the
average income earned per person in a
given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is
calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population.
GDP.
Human Development Index is a composite statistic of life expectancy,
education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank
countries into four tiers of human development.
Human Development Index - List of Countries (wiki)
Millennium Development Goals - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
Achieve universal primary education. Promote gender equality and empower
women. Reduce child mortality. Improve maternal health. Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria, and other diseases. Ensure environmental sustainability. Develop
a global partnership for development.
The
Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 -
PDF -
Center
for Global Development
Human Development in humanity is a concept within a field of
international development. It involves studies of the human condition with
its core being the capability approach. The inequality adjusted Human
Development Index is used as a way of measuring actual progress in
human
development by the
United Nations. It is an alternative approach to a single focus on
economic growth, and focused more on social justice, as a way of
understanding progress. Human Development is the process of enlarging
people's
choices, said choices allowing
them to lead a long and healthy life, to be educated, to enjoy a decent
standard of living, as well as political freedom, other guaranteed
human rights and various ingredients of
self-respect.
Human Centered
Design -
Human Values -
Social Knowledge -
DevelopmentTestable Laws of Nature on Planet Earth: Where
Science,
Environment and
Social Development are inseparable.
The End of Ownership (VPRO Backlight, 47:52)
Commons
is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a
society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable
earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.
National Goals of the U.S. President's Commission was organized in
February 1960 as a non-official body whose purpose was to develop a
broad outline of national objectives and programs
for the next decade and longer.
The American Assembly is a think tank at Columbia University, founded
in 1950 by General Dwight Eisenhower. It has become his most enduring
achievement and legacy as president of Columbia. For over 60 years, it has
fostered nonpartisan public-policy discussions by convening, research, and
publication. Over 100 "American Assemblies" have been held on topics
ranging from prison reform to healthcare to nuclear disarmament. In recent
years, Assembly projects have made a wide range of contributions to
economic, urban, and cultural policy, including projects on workforce
development, financial regulation, and the role of the arts in American
universities.
Independent, not
Dependent.
Form Follows Function
Responsibility -
Gross National Product
ALICE is an
acronym that stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. ALICE
represents the households with income above the Federal Poverty Level but
below the basic cost of living.
Poverty -
Income Levels.
A Good Life for All within the Planet’s Means. A study led by the
University of
Leeds has found that no country currently meets its citizens’ basic
needs at a globally sustainable level of resource use.
Pillars of Development
Pillar is a fundamental
principle or
practice.
Five Pillars Development Model: Education, Water, Health, Food,
Opportunity.
Five Pillars Development Model: Education, Clean Water & Sanitation,
Food & Nutrition, Healthcare and Income Training & Empowerment.
4 Pillars of Human Development
Equity refers to making
equal access to
opportunities available to everyone.
Sustainability means
continuity in the availability of
opportunities.
Productivity means human labor
productivity or productivity in terms of
human work.
Empowerment means to have the
power to make
choices.
The New Deal
New Deal
was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great
Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore
prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in
1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the
economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. The
programs focused on what historians refer to as the "3 Rs":
relief for the unemployed and poor,
recovery of the economy back to normal
levels and
reform of the financial system
to prevent a repeat depression.
The
Emergency Conservation Work Act of 1933 mandated that the Civilian
Conservation Corps (
CCC) recruit unemployed
young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the
nation's forests, parks, and fields.
The Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) helps farmers and ranchers to
repair damage to farmlands caused by natural disasters and to help put in
place methods for water conservation during severe drought. The ECP does
this by giving ranchers and farmers funding and assistance to repair the
damaged farmland or to install methods for water conservation.
Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary public work relief program
that operated from
1933 to 1942 in the
United States for unemployed, unmarried men. Originally for young men ages
18–25, it was eventually expanded to ages 17–28. Robert Fechner was the
first director of this agency, succeeded by James McEntee following
Fechner's death. The CCC was a major part of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that provided manual labor
jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in
rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments. The CCC was
designed to provide jobs for young men and to relieve families who had
difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States.
Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000. Through the course of its
nine years in operation, 3 million young men participated in the CCC,
which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a wage
of $30 (equivalent to $590 in 2019) per month ($25 of which had to be sent
home to their families). The American public made the CCC the most popular
of all the New Deal programs. Sources written at the time claimed an
individual's enrollment in the CCC led to improved physical condition,
heightened morale, and increased employability. The CCC also led to a
greater public awareness and appreciation of the outdoors and the nation's
natural resources, and the continued need for a carefully planned,
comprehensive national program for the protection and development of
natural resources. The CCC operated separate programs for veterans and
Native Americans. Approximately 15,000 Native Americans participated in
the program, helping them weather the Great Depression. By 1942, with
World War II and the draft in operation, the need for work relief
declined, and Congress voted to close the program.
Civilian
Conservation Corps (vimeo).
Great Depression began with the
Wall
Street Crash in October 1929. The stock market crash marked the
beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits,
deflation, plunging farm incomes, and
lost opportunities
for economic growth as well as for personal advancement. Altogether, there
was a general loss of confidence in the economic future.
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John
Steinbeck and published in 1939. Set during the Great Depression, the
novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from
their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry
changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to
their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in
the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of
other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future.
Fair
Deal were important proposals to aid education,
universal health insurance,
the Fair Employment Practices Commission, and repeal of the Taft–Hartley
Act. They were all debated at length, then voted down.
Truman administration, from
1945 to
1953.
Green New Deal is a set of proposed economic stimulus programs
on
March 25, 2019 in the
United States that aims to address climate change and economic inequality.
"Guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and
medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of
the United States." "Providing all people of the United States with — (i)
high-quality health care; (ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing;
(iii) economic security; and (iv) access to clean water, clean air,
healthy and affordable food, and nature." "Providing resources, training,
and high-quality education, including higher education, to all people of
the United States." "Meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United
States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources."
"Repairing and upgrading the infrastructure in the United States.
Eliminating pollution and greenhouse gas emissions as much as
technologically feasible." "Building or upgrading to energy-efficient,
distributed, and ‘smart’ power grids, and working to ensure affordable
access to electricity." "Upgrading all existing buildings in the United
States and building new buildings to achieve maximal energy efficiency,
water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability,
including through electrification." "Overhauling transportation systems in
the United States to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from
the transportation sector as much as is technologically feasible,
including through investment in — (i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure
and manufacturing; (ii) clean, affordable, and accessible public
transportation; and (iii) high-speed rail." "Spurring massive growth in
clean manufacturing in the United States and removing pollution and
greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and industry as much as is
technologically feasible." "Working collaboratively with farmers and
ranchers in the United States to eliminate pollution and greenhouse gas
emissions from the agricultural sector as much as is technologically
feasible."
Ocasio
Cortez Green New Deal.
The Big Five - Big Deal
Water -
Food -
Shelter -
Energy -
Education - (Acronym - W.F.S.E.E - We Finally See)
True Cost is determined by the amount of
the number of people it will take to perform any one of the Big
5 Responsibilities.
The time needed to complete the tasks in each category and
subcategory of the Big 5. The
resources needed to complete the task.
Environmental impacts, alternatives and choices. Quantity needed will vary
depending on required
output. Required amounts of Food and Water that are Necessary may vary
depending on the location and region of the planet because of
usable land and rainfall.
Free
Trade.
Create Jobs for Every Man and Women on the Planet (Repair, Restore, Maintain, Manage).
Waste = Food
(video) -
Sustainable, Reusable and Recyclable -
Minerals, Land, Wood, Water, Air,
Technology.
Life Cycle Assessment
-
Reverse Innovation
The Big 5 are common Needs.
Things that we can Measure and
Predict. Things that can be Confirmed and Repeated in Tests using
People, Time and Resources. The first thing we teach is why the Big 5
is extremely important to every Human.
Working Together.
Economic Security – Economic security
requires an
assured basic income for
individuals, usually from productive and remunerative work or, as a last
resort, from a publicly financed safety net. In this sense, only about a
quarter of the world's people are presently economically secure. While the
economic security problem may be more serious in developing countries,
concern also arises in developed countries as well. Unemployment problems
constitute an important factor underlying political tensions and ethnic
violence.
Food Security – Food
security requires that all people at all times have both physical and
economic access to basic food. According to the United Nations, the
overall availability of food is not a problem, rather the problem often is
the poor distribution of food and a lack of purchasing power. In the past,
food security problems have been dealt with at both national and global
levels. However, their impacts are limited. According to UN, the key is to
tackle the problems relating to access to assets, work and assured income
(related to economic security).
Health Security – Health Security aims to guarantee a minimum
protection from diseases and unhealthy lifestyles. In developing
countries, the major causes of death traditionally were infectious and
parasitic diseases, whereas in industrialized countries, the major killers
were diseases of the circulatory system. Today, lifestyle-related chronic
diseases are leading killers worldwide, with 80 percent of deaths from
chronic diseases occurring in low- and middle-income countries.[8]
According to the United Nations, in both developing and industrial
countries, threats to health security are usually greater for poor people
in rural areas, particularly children. This is due to malnutrition and
insufficient access to health services, clean water and other basic
necessities.
Environmental
Security – Environmental security aims to protect people from the
short- and long-term ravages of nature, man-made threats in nature, and
deterioration of the natural environment. In developing countries, lack of
access to clean water resources is one of the greatest environmental
threats. In industrial countries, one of the major threats is air
pollution. Global warming, caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, is
another environmental security issue.
Open
Source Ecology -
Marcin
Jakubowski (youtube).
Personal Security – Personal
security aims to protect people from physical violence, whether from the
state or external states, from violent individuals and sub-state actors,
from domestic abuse, or from predatory adults. For many people, the
greatest source of anxiety is crime, particularly violent crime.
Human Security understanding global vulnerabilities.
Community Security – Community
security aims to protect people from the loss of traditional relationships
and values and from sectarian and ethnic violence. Traditional
communities, particularly minority ethnic groups are often threatened.
About half of the world's states have experienced some inter-ethnic
strife. The United Nations declared 1993 the Year of Indigenous People to
highlight the continuing vulnerability of the 300 million aboriginal
people in 70 countries as they face a widening spiral of violence.
Political Security – Political security is
concerned with whether people live in a society that honors their basic
human rights. According to a survey conducted by Amnesty International,
political repression, systematic torture, ill treatment or disappearance
was still practiced in 110 countries. Human rights violations are most
frequent during periods of political unrest. Along with repressing
individuals and groups, governments may try to exercise control over ideas and information.
The major problem with
our Government is that it's riddled with
incompetence and
corruption. A system that
depends on money and not people, is pure ignorance. And
poverty and abuse is the end
result. The only true way to defend people against a flawed
society is to teach essential knowledge and information to every
human being on this planet. When we fix our education system,
then we will be on are way to a better world for all. One of the first things that every
society needs to do is to provide the big 5,
Food,
Water, Shelter, Energy and Education. All Five are equally
important and all five are connected.
Dichotomy is a
partition of a whole or a set into two
parts or subsets. In other words, this couple of parts must be jointly
exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and mutually
exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts.
Remove any one item and you will diminish life, create suffering
and cause death. Being counter productive and making people vulnerable is not
logical.
Deprivation is
the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic
necessities in a society. The lack or
denial of something considered to be a necessity.
Human Values
Theory of Basic Human Values tries to measure
Universal Values that are recognized
throughout all major cultures. Motivational types of values. The Theory of
Basic Human Values recognize ten universal values,
which can be organized in four higher-order groups. Each of the ten
universal values has a central goal that is the underlying motivator.
Openness to change.
Self-Direction
Independent thought and action—choosing, creating, exploring.
Stimulation Excitement, novelty and challenge in life. Self-enhancement.
Hedonism Pleasure or sensuous gratification for oneself. Achievement
Personal success through demonstrating competence according to social
standards. Power Social status and prestige, control or dominance over
people and resources. Conservation. Security Safety, harmony, and
stability of society, of relationships, and of self. Conformity
Restraint of actions, inclinations, and
impulses likely to upset or harm others and violate social expectations or
norms. Tradition Respect, commitment, and acceptance of the customs and
ideas that one's culture or religion provides. Self-transcendence.
Benevolence Preserving and enhancing the welfare of those with whom one is
in frequent personal contact (the ‘in-group’). Universalism Understanding,
appreciation, tolerance, and protection for the welfare of all people and
for nature. Spirituality was considered as an additional eleventh value,
however, it was found that it did not exist in all
cultures. Although the theory distinguishes ten values, the borders
between the motivators are artificial and one value flows into the next,
which can be seen by the following shared motivational emphases:
Power and Achievement—social superiority and
esteem; Achievement and Hedonism—self-centred satisfaction; Hedonism and
Stimulation—a desire for affectively pleasant arousal; Stimulation and
Self-direction—intrinsic interest in novelty and mastery; Self-direction
and Universalism—reliance upon one's own judgement and comfort with the
diversity of existence; Universalism and Benevolence—enhancement of others
and transcendence of selfish interests; Benevolence and Tradition—devotion
to one's in-group; Benevolence and Conformity—normative behaviour that
promotes close relationships; Conformity and Tradition—subordination of
self in favour of socially imposed expectations; Tradition and
Security—preserving existing social arrangements that give certainty to
life; Conformity and Security—protection of order and harmony in
relations; Security and Power—avoiding or overcoming threats by
controlling relationships and resources. Furthermore, people are still
able to follow opposing values through acting differently in different
settings or at different times. The structure of Schwartz's 10-value type
model (see graph above) has been supported across over 80 countries,
gender, various methods such as importance ratings of values (using the
surveys listed below), direct similarity judgment tasks, pile sorting, and
spatial arrangement, and even for how the values of other people, such as
family members, are perceived.
Universal Value is a
value the
has the
same value or worth
for all people. Spheres of human value
encompass morality, aesthetic preference, human traits, human endeavour,
and social order. Values can be split into two categories, there are
individual values, which pertains to something that we think has worth and
then there are social values. Social values are our desires modified
according to ethical principles or according to the group, we associate
with: friends, family, or co-workers. Norms tell us what people ought to
do in a given situation. Unlike values, norms are enforced externally – or
outside of oneself. A society as a whole determines norms, and they can be
passed down from generation to generation.
Shalom H. Schwartz who is a social psychologist, cross-cultural
researcher, did some research and his results from a series of studies
included surveys of more than 25,000 people in 44 countries with a wide
range of different cultural types suggest that there are fifty-six
specific universal values and ten types of universal
value. Schwartz's ten types of
universal value are: power, achievement, hedonism, stimulation,
self-direction, universalism, benevolence, tradition, conformity, and
security. Below are each of the value types, with the specific related
values alongside: Power: authority; leadership; dominance, social power,
wealth. Achievement: success; capability; ambition; influence;
intelligence; self-respect. Hedonism: pleasure; enjoying life.
Stimulation: daring activities; varied life; exciting life.
Self-direction: creativity; freedom; independence; curiosity; choosing
your own goals. Universalism: broadmindedness; wisdom; social justice;
equality; a world at peace; a world of beauty; unity with nature;
protecting the environment; inner harmony. Benevolence: helpfulness;
honesty; forgiveness; loyalty; responsibility; friendship. Tradition:
accepting one's portion in life; humility; devoutness; respect for
tradition; moderation. Conformity: self-discipline; obedience. Security:
cleanliness; family security; national security; stability of social
order; reciprocation of favours; health; sense of belonging. Schwartz also
tested an eleventh possible universal value, 'spirituality', or 'the goal
of finding meaning in life', but found that it does not seem to be
recognized in all cultures.
World Values Survey is a global research project that explores
people's
values and beliefs, how
they change over time, and what social and political impact they have.
Since 1981 a worldwide network of social scientists have conducted
representative national surveys as part of WVS in almost 100 countries.
The WVS measures, monitors and analyzes: support for democracy, tolerance
of foreigners and ethnic minorities, support for gender equality, the role
of religion and changing levels of religiosity, the impact of
globalization, attitudes toward the environment, work, family, politics,
national identity, culture, diversity, insecurity, and subjective
well-being. The findings provide information for policy makers seeking to
build civil society and democratic institutions in developing countries.
The work is also frequently used by governments around the world,
scholars, students, journalists and international organizations and
institutions such as the World Bank and the United Nations (UNDP and
UN-Habitat). Data from the World Values Survey have (for example) been
used to better understand the motivations behind events such as the Arab
Spring, the 2005 French civil unrest, the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and the
Yugoslav wars and political upheaval in the 1990s. Romano Prodi, former
Prime Minister of Italy and the tenth President of the European
Commission, said about WVS work: The growing globalization of the world
makes it increasingly important to understand ... diversity. People with
varying beliefs and values can live together and work together
productively, but for this to happen it is crucial to understand and
appreciate their distinctive worldviews. Analysis of WVS data made by
political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel asserts that
there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world:
Traditional values versus Secular-rational values and Survival values
versus Self-expression values. The global cultural map shows how scores of
societies are located on these two dimensions. Moving upward on this map
reflects the shift from Traditional values to Secular-rational and moving
rightward reflects the shift from Survival values to Self–expression values.
Huey Long - The King Fish
Huey Long's
Share Our Wealth Speech “
EVERY MAN
A KING” Share Our Wealth Radio Speech by Senator Huey P. Long, of
Louisiana, February 23, 1934. Is that a right of life when the young
children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more
owned by 12 men than it is by 120,000,000 people?” Huey Long unveiled his
“Share Our Wealth” plan, a program designed to provide a decent standard
of living to all Americans by spreading the nation’s wealth among the
people. Long proposed capping personal fortunes at $50 million each
(roughly $600 million in today's dollars) through a restructured,
progressive federal tax code and sharing the resulting revenue with the
public through government benefits and public works. In subsequent
speeches and writings, he revised his graduated tax levy on wealth over $1
million to cap fortunes at $5 - $8 million (or $60 - $96 million today).
Ladies and Gentlemen: —
I have only 30
minutes in which to speak to you this evening, and I, therefore, will not
be able to discuss in detail so much as I can write when I have all of the
time and space that is allowed me for the subjects, but I will undertake
to sketch them very briefly without manuscript or preparation, so that you
can understand them so well as I can tell them to you tonight.
I
contend, my friends, that we have no difficult problem to solve in
America, and that is the view of nearly everyone with whom I have
discussed the matter here in Washington and elsewhere throughout the
United States—that we have no very difficult problem to solve.
It is
not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the
rich people of this country—and by rich people I mean the super-rich—will
not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that
is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is
necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth
to be shared by all of the people.
We have a marvelous love for this
Government of ours; in fact, it is almost a religion, and it is well that
it should be, because we have a splendid form of government and we have a
splendid set of laws. We have everything here that we need, except that we
have neglected the fundamentals upon which the American Government was
principally predicated.
How many of you remember the first thing that
the Declaration of Independence said? It said: "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that there are certain inalienable rights for the people,
and among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" and it
said further, "We hold the view that all men are created equal."
Now,
what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men
are created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit
$10,000,000,000 and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing?
Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without
having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should
be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children
could ever dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a
life of starvation?
That was not the meaning of the Declaration of
Independence when it said that all men are created equal or "That we hold
that all men are created equal."
Nor was it the meaning of the
Declaration of Independence when it said that they held that there were
certain rights that were inalienable—the right of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
Is that right of life, my friends, when the young
children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more
owned by 12 men than it by 120,000,000 people?
Is that, my friends,
giving them a fair shake of the dice or anything like the inalienable
right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, or anything
resembling the fact that all people are created equal; when we have today
in America thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of children on
the verge of starvation in a land that is overflowing with too much to eat
and too much to wear?
I do not think you will contend that, and I do
not think for a moment that they will contend it.
Now let us see if we
cannot return this Government to the Declaration of Independence and see
if we are going to do anything regarding it. Why should we hesitate or why
should we quibble or why should we quarrel with one another to find out
what the difficulty is, when we know that the Lord told us what the
difficulty is, and Moses wrote it out so a blind man could see it, then
Jesus told us all about it, and it was later written in the Book of James,
where everyone could read it?
I refer to the Scriptures, now, my
friends, and give you what it says not for the purpose of convincing you
of the wisdom of myself, not for the purpose, ladies and gentlemen, of
convincing you of the fact that I am quoting the Scriptures means that I
am to be more believed than someone else; but I quote you the Scripture,
or rather refer you to the Scripture, because whatever you see there you
may rely upon will never be disproved so long as you or your children or
anyone may live; and you may further depend upon the fact that not one
historical fact that the Bible has ever contained has ever yet been
disproved by any scientific discovery or by reason of anything that has
been disclosed to man through his own individual mind or through the
wisdom of the Lord which the Lord has allowed him to have.
But the
Scripture says, ladies and gentlemen, that no country can survive, or for
a country to survive it is necessary that we keep the wealth scattered
among the people, that nothing should keep the wealth scattered among the
people, that nothing should be held permanently by any one person, and
that 50 years seems to be the year of jubilee in which all property would
be scattered about and returned to the sources from which it originally
came, and every seventh year debt should be remitted.
Those two things
the Almighty said to be necessary—I should say He knew to be necessary, or
else He would not have so prescribed that the property would be kept among
the general run of the people, and that everyone would continue to share
in it; so that no one man would get half of it and hand it down to a son,
who takes half of what was left, and that son hand it down to another one,
who would take half of what was left, until, like a snowball going
downhill, all of the snow was off of the ground except what the snowball
had.
I believe that was the judgment and the view and the law of the
Lord, that we would have to distribute wealth ever so often, in order that
there could not be people starving to death in a land of plenty, as there
is in America today.
We have in America today more wealth, more goods,
more food, more clothing, more houses than we have ever had. We have
everything in abundance here.
We have the farm problem, my friends,
because we have too much cotton, because we have too much wheat, and have
too much corn, and too much potatoes.
We have a home loan problem,
because we have too many houses, and yet nobody can buy them and live in
them.
We have trouble, my friends, in the country, because we have too
much money owing, the greatest indebtedness that has ever been given to
civilization, where it has been shown that we are incapable of
distributing the actual things that are here, because the people have not
money enough to supply themselves with them, and because the greed of a
few men is such that they think it is necessary that they own everything,
and their pleasure consists in the starvation of the masses, and in their
possessing things they cannot use, and their children cannot use, but who
bask in the splendor of sunlight and wealth, casting darkness and despair
and impressing it on everyone else.
"So, therefore," said the Lord in
effect, "if you see these things that now have occurred and exist in this
and other countries, there must be a constant scattering of wealth in any
country if this country is to survive."
"Then," said the Lord, in
effect, "every seventh year there shall be a remission of debts; there
will be no debts after 7 years." That was the law.
Now, let us take
America today. We have in America today, ladies and gentlemen,
$272,000,000,000 of debt. Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of
dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today.
Why, my friends, that cannot be paid. It is not possible for that kind of
debt to be paid.
The entire currency of the United States is only
$6,000,000,000. That is all of the money that we have got in America
today. All the actual money you have got in all of your banks, all that
you have got in the Government Treasury, is $6,000,000,000; and if you
took all that money and paid it out today you would still owe
$266,000,000,000; and if you took all that money and paid again you would
still owe $260,000,000,000; and if you took it, my friends, 20 times and
paid it you would still owe $150,000,000,000.
You would have to have 45
times the entire money supply of the United States today to pay the debts
of the people of America and then they would just have to start out from
scratch, without a dime to go on with.
So, my friends, it is impossible
to pay all of these debts, and you might as well find out that it cannot
be done. The United States Supreme Court has definitely found out that it
could not be done, because, in a Minnesota case, it held that when a State
has postponed the evil day of collecting a debt it was a valid and
constitutional exercise of legislative power.
Now, ladies and
gentlemen, if I may proceed to give you some other words that I think you
can understand—I am not going to belabor you by quoting tonight—I am going
to tell you what the wise men of all ages and all times, down even to the
present day, have all said: That you must keep the wealth of the country
scattered, and you must limit the amount that any one man can own. You
cannot let any man own §300,000,000,000 or $400,000,000,000. If you do,
one man can own all of the wealth that the United States has in it.
Now, my friends, if you were off on an island where there were 100
lunches, you could not let one man eat up the hundred lunches, or take the
hundred lunches and not let anybody else eat any of them. If you did,
there would not be anything else for the balance of the people to consume.
So, we have in America today, my friends, a condition by which about 10
men dominate the means of activity in at least 85 percent of the
activities that you own. They either own directly everything or they have
got some kind of mortgage on it, with a very small percentage to be
excepted. They own the banks, they own the steel mills, they own the
railroads, they own the bonds, they own the mortgages, they own the
stores, and they have chained the country from one end to the other until
there is not any kind of business that a small, independent man could go
into today and make a living, and there is not any kind of business that
an independent man can go into and make any money to buy an automobile
with; and they have finally and gradually and steadily eliminated
everybody from the fields in which there is a living to be made, and still
they have got little enough sense to think they ought to be able to get
more business out of it anyway.
If you reduce a man to the point where
he is starving to death and bleeding and dying, how do you expect that man
to get hold of any money to spend with you? It is not possible.
Then,
ladies and gentlemen, how do you expect people to live, when the wherewith
cannot be had by the people?
In the beginning I quoted from the
Scriptures. I hope you will understand that I am not quoting Scripture to
you to convince you of my goodness personally, because that is a thing
between me and my Maker; that is something as to how I stand with my Maker
and as to how you stand with your Maker. That is not concerned with this
issue, except and unless there are those of you who would be so good as to
pray for the souls of some of UK. Rut the Lord gave His law, and in the
Book of James they said so, that the rich should weep and howl for the
miseries that had come upon them; and, therefore, it was written that when
the rich hold goods they could not use and could not consume, you will
inflict punishment on them, and nothing but days of woe ahead of them.
Then we have heard of the great Greek philosopher, Socrates, and the
greater Greek philosopher, Plato, and we have read the dialogue between
Plato and Socrates, in which one said that great riches brought on great
poverty, and would be destructive of a country. Read what they said. Read
what Plato said; that you must not let any one man be too poor, and you
must not let any one man be too rich; that the same mill that grinds out
the extra rich is the mill that will grind out the extra poor, because, in
order that the extra rich can become so affluent, they must necessarily
take more of what ordinarily would belong to the average man.
It is a
very simple process of mathematics that you do not have to study, and that
no one is going to discuss with you.
So that was the view of Socrates
and Plato. That was the view of the English statesmen. That was the view
of American statesmen. That was the view of American statesmen like Daniel
Webster, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, and
Theodore Roosevelt, and even as late as Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Both of these men, Mr. Hoover and Mr. Roosevelt, came out
and said there had to be a decentralization of wealth, but neither one of
them did anything about it. But, nevertheless, they recognized the
principle. The fact that neither one of them ever did anything about it is
their own problem that I am not undertaking to criticize; but had Mr.
Hoover carried out what he says ought to be done, he would be retiring
from the President's office, very probably, 8 years from now, instead of 1
year ago; and had Mr. Roosevelt proceeded along the lines that he stated
were necessary for the decentralization of wealth, he would have gone, my
friends, a long way already, and within a few months he would have
probably reached a solution of all of the problems that afflict this
country today.
But I wish to warn you now that nothing that has been
done up to this date has taken one dime away from these big
fortune-holders; they own just as much as they did, and probably a little
bit more; they hold just as many of the debts of the common people as they
ever held, and probably a little bit more; and unless we, my friends, are
going to give the people of this country a fair shake of the dice, by
which they will all get something out of the funds of this land, there is
not a chance on the topside of this God's eternal earth by which we can
rescue this country and rescue the people of this country.
It is
necessary to save the government of the country, but is much more
necessary to save the people of America. We love this country. We love
this Government. It is a religion, I say. It is a kind of religion people
have read of when women, in the name of religion, would take their infant
babes and throw them into the burning flame, where they would be instantly
devoured by the all-consuming fire, in days gone by; and there probably
are some people of the world even today, who, in the name of religion,
throw their own babes to destruction; but in the name of our good
government, people today are seeing their own children hungry, tired,
half-naked, lifting their tear-dimmed eyes into the sad faces of their
fathers and mothers, who cannot give them food and clothing they both
need, and which is necessary to sustain them, and that goes on day after
day, and night after night, when day gets into darkness and blackness,
knowing those children would arise in the morning without being fed, and
probably go to bed at night without being fed.
Yet in the name of our
Government, and all alone, those people undertake and strive as hard as
they can to keep a good government alive, and how long they can stand that
no one knows. If I were in their place tonight, the place where millions
are, I hope that I would have what I might say—I cannot give you the word
to express the kind of fortitude they have; that is the word—I hope that I
might have the fortitude to praise and honor my Government that had
allowed me here in this land, where there is too much to eat and too much
to wear, to starve in order that a handful of men can have so much more
than they can ever eat or they can ever wear.
Now, we have organized a
society, and we call it "Share Our Wealth Society," a society with the
motto "Every Man a King."
Every man a king, so there would be no such
thing as a man or woman who did not have the necessities of life, who
would not be dependent upon the whims and caprices and ipsi dixit of the
financial barons for a living. What do we propose by this society? We
propose to limit the wealth of big men in the country. There is an average
of $15,000 in wealth to every family in America. That is right here today.
We do not propose to divide it up equally. We do not propose a division of
wealth, but we propose to limit poverty that we will allow to be inflicted
upon any man's family. We will not say we are going to try to guarantee
any equality, or $15,000 to a family. No; but we do say that one third of
the average is low enough for any one family to hold, that there should be
a guarantee of a family wealth of around $5,000; enough for a home, an
automobile, a radio, and the ordinary conveniences, and the opportunity to
educate their children; a fair share of the income of this land thereafter
to that family so there will be no such thing as merely the select to have
those things, and so there will be no such thing as a family living in
poverty and distress.
We have to limit fortunes. Our present plan is
that we will allow no one man to own more that $50,000,000. We think that
with that limit we will be able to carry out the balance of the program.
It may be necessary that we limit it to less than $50,000,000. It may be
necessary, in working out of the plans that no man's fortune would be more
than $10,000,000 or $15,000,000. But be that as it may, it will still be
more than any one man, or any one man and his children and their children,
will be able to spend in their lifetimes; and it is not necessary or
reasonable to have wealth piled up beyond that point where we cannot
prevent poverty among the masses.
Another thing we propose is old-age
pension of $30 a month for everyone that is 60 years old. Now, we do not
give this pension to a man making $1,000 a year, and we do not give it to
him if he has $10,000 in property, but outside of that we do.
We will
limit hours of work. There is not any necessity of having overproduction.
I think all you have got to do, ladies and gentlemen, is just limit the
hours of work to such an extent as people will work only so long as it is
necessary to produce enough for all of the people to have what they need.
Why, ladies and gentlemen, let us say that all of these labor-saving
devices reduce hours down to where you do not have to work but 4 hours a
day; that is enough for these people, and then praise be the name of the
Lord, if it gets that good. Let it be good and not a curse, and then we
will have 5 hours a day and 5 days a week-, or even less than that, and we
might give a man a whole month off during a year, or give him 2 months;
and we might do what other countries have seen fit to do, and what I did
in Louisiana, by having schools by which adults could go back and learn
the things that have been discovered since they went to school.
We will
not have any trouble taking care of the agricultural situation. All you
have to do is balance your production with your consumption. You simply
have to abandon a particular crop that you have too much of, and all you
have to do is store the surplus for the next year, and the Government will
take it over.
When you have good crops in the area in which the crops
that have been planted are sufficient for another year, put in your public
works in the particular year when you do not need to raise any more, and
by that means you get everybody employed. When the Government has enough
of any particular crop to take care of all of the people, that will be all
that is necessary; and in order to do all of this, our taxation is going
to be to take the billion-dollar fortunes and strip them down to frying
size, not to exceed $50,000,000, and if it is necessary to come to
$10,000,000, we will come to $10,000,000. We have worked the proposition
out to guarantee a limit upon property (and no man will own less than
one-third the average), and guarantee a reduction of fortunes and a
reduction of hours to spread wealth throughout this country. We would care
for the old people above 60 and take them away from this thriving industry
and give them a chance to enjoy the necessities and live in ease, and
thereby lift from the market the labor which would probably create a
surplus of commodities.
Those are the things we propose to do. "Every
Man a King." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear
something when there is something to wear. That makes us all a sovereign.
You cannot solve these things through these various and sundry
alphabetical codes. You can have the N. R. A. and P. W. A. and C. W. A.
and the U. U. G. and G. I. N. and any other kind of dad-gummed lettered
code. You can wait until doomsday and see 25 more alphabets, but that is
not going to solve this proposition. Why hide? Why quibble? You know what
the trouble is. The man that says he does not know what the trouble is is
just hiding his face to keep from seeing the sunlight.
God told you
what the trouble was. The philosophers told you what the trouble was; and
when you have a country where one man owns more than 100,000 people, or a
million people, and when you have a country where there are four men, as
in America, that have got more control over things than all the
120,000,000 people together, you know what the trouble is.
We had these
great incomes in this country; but the farmer, who plowed from sunup to
sundown, who labored here from sunup to sundown for 6 days a week, wound
up at the end of the time with practically nothing.
And we ought to
take care of the veterans of the wars in this program. That is a small
matter. Suppose it does cost a billion dollars a year—that means that the
money will be scattered throughout this country. We ought to pay them a
bonus. We can do it. We ought to take care of every single one of the sick
and disabled veterans. I do not care whether a man got sick on the
battlefield or did not; every man that wore the uniform of this country is
entitled to be taken care of, and there is money enough to do it; and we
need to spread the wealth of the country, which you did not do in what you
call the N. R. A.
If the N. R. A. has done any good, I can put it all
in my eye without having it hurt. All I can see that the N. R. A. has done
is to put the little man out of business—the little merchant in his store,
the little Italian that is running a fruit stand, or the Greek
shoe-shining stand, who has to take hold of a code of 275 pages and study
it with a spirit level and compass and looking-glass; he has to hire a
Philadelphia lawyer to tell him what is in the code; and by the time he
learns what the code is, he is in jail or out of business; and they have
got a chain code system that has already put him out of business. The N.
R. A. is not worth anything, and I said so when they put it through.
Now, my friends, we have got to hit the root with the ax. Centralized
power in the hands of a few, with centralized credit in the hands of a
few, is the trouble.
Get together in your community tonight or tomorrow
and organize one of our Share Our Wealth Societies. If you do not
understand it, write me and let me send you the platform; let me give you
the proof of it.
This is Huey P. Long talking, United States Senator,
Washington, D. C. Write me and let me send you the data on this
proposition. Enroll with us. Let us make known to the people what we are
going to do. I will send you a button, if I have got enough of them left.
We have got a little button that some of our friends designed, with our
message around the rim of the button, and in the center "Every Man a
King." Many thousands of them are meeting through the United States, and
every day we are getting hundreds and hundreds of letters. Share Our
Wealth Societies are now being organized, and people have it within their
power to relieve themselves from this terrible situation.
Look at what
the Mayo brothers announced this week, these greatest scientists of all
the world today, who are entitled to have more money than all the Morgans
and the Rockefellers, or anyone else, and yet the Mayos turn back their
big fortunes to be used for treating the sick, and said they did not want
to lay up fortunes in this earth, but wanted to turn them back where they
would do some good; but the other big capitalists are not willing to do
that, are not willing to do what these men, 10 times more worthy, have
already done, and it is going to take a law to require them to do it.
Organize your Share Our Wealth Society and get your people to meet with
you, and make known your wishes to your Senators and Representatives in
Congress.
Now, my friends, I am going to stop. I thank you for this
opportunity to talk to you. I am having to talk under the auspices and by
the grace and permission of the National Broadcasting System tonight, and
they are letting me talk free. If I had the money, and I wish I had the
money, I would like to talk to you more often on this line, but I have not
got it, and I cannot expect these people to give it to me free except on
some rare instance. But, my friends, I hope to have the opportunity to
talk with you, and I am writing to you, and I hope that you will get up
and help in the work, because the resolutions and bills are before
Congress, and we hope to have your help in getting together and organizing
your Share Our Wealth Societies.
Now, that I have but a minute left, I
want to say that I suppose my family is listening in on the radio in New
Orleans, and I will say to my wife and three children that I am entirely
well and hope to be home before many more days, and I hope they have
listened to my speech tonight, and I wish them and all of their neighbors
and friends everything good that may be had.
I thank you, my friends,
for your kind attention, and I hope you will enroll with us, take care of
your own work in the work of this Government, and share or help in our
Share Our Wealth Societies.
Huey
Long or Huey Pierce Long Jr. byname "
The
Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th
governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United
States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a populist
member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the
Great Depression for his vocal criticism from the left of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. As the political leader of
Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took
forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist
champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue.
Long was born in the poor north of Louisiana in 1893. After working as a
traveling salesman and attending multiple colleges, Long entered the bar
in Louisiana. Following a brief private legal career in which he
represented poor plaintiffs against corporations, Long was elected to the
Louisiana Public Service Commission. As Commissioner, Long often
prosecuted large corporations. In particular, Long despised the Standard
Oil Company: it later became a common target of his rhetorical attacks.
After Long successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief
Justice William Howard Taft praised him as "the most brilliant lawyer who
ever practiced" before the court. After a failed 1924 campaign, Long used
the sharp economic and class divisions in Louisiana to win the 1928
gubernatorial election. Once in office, Long filled government jobs with
patronage appointments and passed legislation distributing free textbooks
to students, previously a barrier for poor Louisianians seeking an
education. Accused of abuses of power, he was impeached in 1929, but the
proceedings collapsed in the Louisiana Senate. During Long's years in
power, he greatly expanded social programs. He organized massive public
works projects, including a modern highway system and the tallest state
capitol building in the nation. To address low agricultural commodity
prices due to overproduction, Long proposed a cotton holiday. Through
political maneuvering, Long became the political boss of Louisiana. His
opponents argued his policies and methods were unconstitutional and
dictatorial. At its climax, political opposition organized a minor
insurrection. Long successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1930, although
he did not assume his seat until 1932. With an enthusiastic campaign, Long
helped elect Hattie Caraway, the first woman to win a full term in the
United States Senate. Long established himself as an isolationist, arguing
that Standard Oil and Wall Street influenced American foreign policy. He
was integral in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 nomination and was a
supporter through Roosevelt's first 100 days in office. Long split with
Roosevelt in June 1933 and became a prominent critic of his New Deal. As
an alternative, he proposed the Share Our Wealth program in 1934. To
stimulate the economy, he advocated massive federal spending, a wealth
tax, and wealth redistribution. These proposals drew wide support, with
millions joining local Share Our Wealth clubs. Poised for a 1936
presidential bid, a lone assassin mortally wounded Long in 1935. Although
Long's movement faded, Roosevelt adopted many of his proposals in the
Second New Deal. In Louisiana, Long permanently altered the political
landscape. Elections would be organized along anti- or pro-Long factions
until the 1960s. He left behind a political dynasty, which included his
wife, Senator Rose McConnell Long; his son, Senator Russell B. Long; and
his brothers, Governor Earl Long and U.S. Representative George S. Long,
among others. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935).
Water
How many people can the current water supply in your area
sustain? What determining factors could change the water supply
in the future. What are the things that you have to do in order
to maintain safe drinking water?
How much time, people and resources would it take to supply
water for all necessary needs without waste and abuse? How much
time, people and resources would it take to clean our polluted water?
Menus.
Information
Stations should be available in every town, this way everyone can find
needed services using menus like this one.
Water Knowledge
-
Hydrology
Each person should
learn everything there is to know about
Water. How to
manage water supplies and how to keep water clean and plentiful
without waste.
Water Safety -
Clean Water Websites
Life Saver Water Bottle Filter
Systems
Drought
Masters Water Generator
Fresh Water from Air
Dean Kamen SlingShot
(youtube)
Greif Pack: H20 Waterwear BackPackHomes that use 41
gallons or less of hot water daily, tankless water heaters can be 24% to
34% more energy-efficient than storage tank heaters.
Food
How much
Fertile land is available to grow food? How many people
could this land sustain? How much time, people and resources to feed
yourself and others with the recommended daily nutritional requirements
for optimum health? How much time, people and resources would it take to
create more Local Farms Sustainably?
Food Security -
Farming Knowledge -
Food Programs
Food Cooking - Stoves - Ovens - Heating
Stove is
an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to heat either the space in
which the stove is situated, or items placed on the heated stove itself.
There are many types of stoves such as the
Kitchen Stove which is used to
Cook Food, and the
Wood-Burning
Stove or a coal stove which is typically used for heating a dwelling. Due
to concerns about air pollution, efforts have been made to improve the
stove design over the years. Pellet stoves, for example, are a type of
clean-burning stove, and air-tight stoves are another type that combust
the wood more completely and therefore reduce the amount of the resulted
combustion by-products. In the U.S. since 1992, all wood stoves being
manufactured are required to limit particulate emission.
Ovens.
Volcano Collapsible Multi-Fuel Cooking Stove
G-Stove compact, efficient and upgradable.
Earth Spark.
Efficient Cooking Stoves -
Reduce Charcoal Use.
Clean Cooking Alliance -
Affordable-Cookstoves
Newly Discovered 'Blue Whirl' Fire Tornado Burns Cleaner for Reduced Emissions
Rocket Stove is
an efficient and hot burning stove using small-diameter wood fuel. Fuel is
burned in a simple combustion chamber containing an insulated vertical
chimney, which ensures almost complete combustion prior to the flames'
reaching the cooking surface. It uses the same principle as the Dakota
fire pit. Rocket stove designs are most often used for portable stoves for
cooking but the design is also used to make rocket mass heaters for
heating. Like the beverage-can stove, it is made from found materials, but
generally uses wood rather than alcohol. In field tests in India, rocket
stoves used 18 to 35 per cent less fuel compared to the traditional stoves
and reduced fuel used 39-47 per cent compared to the three-stone fire, as
well as a large reduction in emissions. A precursor of the rocket stove
was the Argand lamp. The idea has been commercialized as the Kelly Kettle
and the InStove.
Rocketstove -
How to Make a Tin Can
Rocket Stove (youtube) -
Solar Cooking - Rocket Stove -
Solar Heat.
Solo Stove
Kombuis a portable and efficient rocket stove and cooking set
Electricity Generating Wood Camp Stove (biolite)-
Thermal-Electric
Burn Wise
Biolite
Stove
Biobricks (biopellet)
How to
Make a Swedish Fire Torch (youtube)
Eco Zoom
Stove
Velocity Grill - The Ultimate Wood Fired Grill
Roccbox: The Portable Stone Bake Pizza Oven -
Skinny Pizza
Cooking Skills (ovens,
frying, preperation)
Convection is the heat transfer due to bulk movement of
molecules
within fluids such as gases and liquids, including molten rock (rheid).
Convection takes place through
advection,
diffusion or both.
Boiling Point.
Infrared Heater
is a body with a higher temperature which transfers energy to a body with
a lower temperature through
electromagnetic radiation. Depending on the temperature of the
emitting body, the wavelength of the peak of the infrared radiation ranges
from 780 nm to 1 mm. No contact or medium between the two bodies is needed
for the energy transfer. Infrared heaters can be operated in vacuum or
atmosphere.
Induction Cooking
heats a cooking vessel by
magnetic
induction, instead of by thermal conduction from a flame, or an electrical
heating element. Because inductive heating directly heats the vessel, very
rapid increases in temperature can be achieved.
Induction Heating is the process of heating an electrically conducting
object (usually a metal) by
Electromagnetic Induction, which is the production of an
electromotive force (i.e., voltage) across an electrical conductor due to
its dynamic interaction with a magnetic field, through heat generated in
the object by eddy currents (also called Foucault currents). An induction
heater consists of an electromagnet, and an electronic oscillator that
passes a high-frequency alternating current (AC) through the
electromagnet. The rapidly alternating
magnetic field penetrates the object, generating electric currents
inside the conductor called eddy currents. The eddy currents flowing
through the resistance of the material heat it by Joule heating. In
ferromagnetic (and
ferrimagnetic)
materials like iron, heat may also be generated by magnetic hysteresis
losses. The frequency of current used depends on the object size, material
type, coupling (between the work coil and the object to be heated) and the
penetration depth.
Paragon Induction Cooktop
Cook with Kenyon
First Build
Nuwavepic
Cinder Grill: Cook Perfect Food
Big Boss Induction Cookware
(amazon)
We need to combine an
Intelligent Pan with an intelligent Stove. (
Boil Alert Technology)
SmartyPans: World's First Smart Cooking Pan
Paragon: Smart Cooking System Precisely control pan temperature or
liquid temperature to make perfect dishes every time.
Cast Iron Skillets Marquette Castings Skillets made by combining a
superior casting process with an unparalleled seasoning process.
Potential Energy, The Darfur Stoves Project
New
Invention: SMILE - Low-cost solar concentrator technology for
the developing world (youtube)
Wonderbag
is a simple but revolutionary,
non-electric portable slow
cooker. It continues to cook food which has been brought to the
boil by conventional methods for up to 8 hours without the use of additional electricity or fuel.
Wood Burning Stoves
Wood-Burning Stove is a
Heating Appliance capable of
burning wood fuel and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as wood pellets.
Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal (usually cast iron or
steel) closed
Fire chamber, a fire brick base and an adjustable air
control. The stove is connected by ventilating stove pipes to a suitable
chimney or flue, which will fill with hot combustion gases once the fuel
is ignited. The chimney or flue gases must be hotter than the outside
temperature to ensure combustion gases are drawn out of the fire
chamber and up the chimney. (secondary combustion) Many wood-burning stoves are engineered such
that they can be converted to multi-fuel stoves with the addition of a
grate.
Cooking with wood or coal is linked to
increased risk of
respiratory illness and death. About three billion people around the
world live in households that regularly burn wood.
Researchers tested three types of wood-burning stoves: Traditional
stoves; natural-draft stoves; and forced-draft stoves, which use
battery-powered fans to improve combustion. While traditional stoves
emitted an average of 6 grams of PM per kilogram of fuel burned (g/kg),
that number jumps to an average of 14 g/kg when you include the PM that
the emissions form over time, due to chemical reactions that take place in
the atmosphere.
Thermal Electric
Generators -
Passive EnergyWood Burning Stoves can also make
Pyrolysis Oil,
sometimes also known as biocrude or biooil, is a synthetic fuel under
investigation as substitute for petroleum. It is extracted by biomass to
liquid technology of destructive distillation from dried biomass in a
reactor at temperature of about 500 °C with subsequent cooling. Pyrolytic
oil (or bio-oil) is a kind of tar and normally contains too high levels of
oxygen to be a hydrocarbon. As such it is distinctly different from
similar petroleum products.
Wood Stove can also make
Syn Gas for cooking or
Running Machines.
Tula 8190 Wood stove: TULA 8190 / Efficiency: 88% LHV / Heats up
to: 1,200 sq ft / Firebox Capacity: 1.4 cu ft / Size: Up to 30,000 BTUs /
EPA Certified: 2.6 gph / Efficiency: 88% LHV / Burn Time: Up to 6 hours /
Maximum Log Length: 17" (
loaded vertically).
Kimberly Wood Stove is a highly efficient small wood stove, needing
only 6 inches of clearance on sides, weighs just 56 pounds, cook top
surface, optional accessories will generate electricity, bake, and heat
water. Produces just 3.2 grams/hour emissions because of
dual combustion and double walled stove pipe. Also takes air from
outside. 3 inch exhaust pipe.
Heating
Efficiently: Rocket Mass Heater (youtube) -
Rocket Mass Heater (wiki)
Soot is a
mass of
impure carbon
particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It
is more properly restricted to the product of the gas-phase combustion
process but is commonly extended to include the residual pyrolysed fuel
particles such as coal, cenospheres, charred wood, and petroleum coke that
may become airborne during pyrolysis and that are more properly identified
as cokes or chars. Soot causes
cancer
and lung disease, and is theorized to be the second-biggest human cause of
global warming.
Comparing Particle Emissions from Traffic, Cigarettes and Heating.
Wood Stove Decathlon -
Woodstove Thermometer (amazon)
Wood Stove Operation Tips: Open both front
dampers completely before starting a fire. Place wood in the firebox and
light the fire. Allow the fire to burn for between 10 to 30 minutes before
adjusting the dampers. Close the front damper
slowly and observe the smoke escaping from the chimney.
Ovens
Oven is a thermally
insulated chamber used for the
Heating
, baking, or drying of a substance,
and most commonly used for cooking. Kilns and furnaces are special-purpose
ovens used in pottery and metalworking, respectively.
Earth Oven is one of the simplest and most ancient cooking
structures. At its most basic, an earth oven is a pit in the ground used
to trap heat and bake, smoke, or steam food. Earth ovens have been used in
many places and cultures in the past, and the presence of such cooking
pits is a key sign of human settlement often sought by archaeologists.
Earth ovens remain a common tool for cooking large quantities of food
where no equipment is available. They have been used in various
civilizations around the world and are still commonly found in the Pacific
region to date.
Solar Ovens
(cooking using sun energy)
How to
make a Mesolithic Pit Oven (youtube)
Hawaiian Underground OvenOoni
Pizza Oven
Energy Needs -
Egloo Candle Powered Heater -
Toilets -
Waste Energy
Compost Heating System
regenerative soil-building
compost
heat recovery systems.
Pachamanca is a traditional Peruvian dish based on the
baking, with the aid of hot stones (the earthen oven is known as a huatia),
of lamb, mutton, pork, chicken or guinea pig, marinated in spices.
Refrigeration - Food Preservation
Standard
freezers and
refrigerators can use
3,000 watt hours each day.
Refrigeration is a process of moving
heat from
one location to another in controlled conditions. The idea of
preserving food dates back to at least
the ancient Roman and Chinese empires. Refrigeration has reduced stomach
cancer and other diseases.
The
history of artificial refrigeration began when Scottish professor William
Cullen designed a small
refrigerating machine in 1755, In 1913,
refrigerators for home and domestic use were invented by Fred W. Wolf of
Fort Wayne, Indiana with models consisting of a unit that was mounted on
top of an ice box. The first refrigerator to see widespread use was the
General Electric "Monitor-Top" refrigerator introduced in 1927.
Air Conditioning.
Refrigerator is a
popular household appliance that consists of a thermally insulated
compartment and a
heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that
transfers heat from the inside of the fridge to its external environment
so that the inside of the fridge is cooled to a
temperature below the ambient
temperature of the room. Refrigeration is an essential
food storage
technique in developed countries. The lower temperature lowers the
reproduction rate of bacteria, so the refrigerator reduces the rate of
spoilage. A refrigerator maintains a temperature a few degrees above the
freezing point of water. Optimum temperature range for perishable food
storage is 3 to 5 °C (37 to 41 °F). A similar device that maintains a
temperature below the freezing point of water is called a freezer. The
refrigerator replaced the icebox, which had been a common household
appliance for almost a century and a half. For this reason, a refrigerator
is sometimes referred to as an icebox in American usage.
Pot-in-Pot Refrigerator
(wiki) -
Refrigerator
made of Clay
Any
Where Fridge -
IYCL (amazon)
-
Fenik Off Grid
Refrigeration
Refrigerant is a
substance or mixture, usually a fluid, used in a heat pump and
refrigeration cycle. In most cycles it undergoes phase transitions from a
liquid to a gas and back again. Many working fluids have been used for
such purposes. Fluorocarbons, especially chlorofluorocarbons, became
commonplace in the 20th century, but they are being phased out because of
their ozone depletion effects. Other common refrigerants used in various
applications are ammonia, sulfur dioxide, and non-halogenated hydrocarbons
such as propane. Under Section 608 of the
United States' Clean
Air Act it is illegal to knowingly release
refrigerants into the atmosphere. SNAP approved hydrocarbon
substitutes (isobutane and propane: R600a, R441a and R290), ammonia and
CO2 are exempt from the venting prohibition. Emissions from automobile air
conditioning are a growing concern because of their impact on climate
change. When refrigerants are removed they should be recycled to clean out
any contaminants and return them to a usable condition.
Natural Refrigerant are
natural substances
that serve as refrigerants in refrigeration systems (including
refrigerators, HVAC, and air conditioning). They are alternatives to
hydrofluorocarbon (HFC), hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) and
chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) based refrigerants. Unlike other refrigerants,
they are not synthetic chemicals and can sometimes be found in nature.
They are not only used due to
environmental
sustainability as some applications are better suited to a particular
natural refrigerant. HFC, HCFC, CFC classes of chemicals are all potent
greenhouse gases. HCFC and CFC classes of chemicals are damaging to the
ozone layer, with CFCs being a primary culprit.
Natural refrigerants like
CO2 and
HC do not deplete the ozone layer and
have a much lower impact on the environment. Though they may exist in
nature, they are not entirely harmless or nontoxic but aside from
Ammonia
are generally less harmful in the event of refrigerant release, although
most are highly flammable.
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) organic compounds that contain fluorine and
hydrogen atoms, are the most common type of organofluorine compounds. They
are commonly used in air conditioning and as refrigerants in place
of the older chlorofluorocarbons such as R-12 and hydrochlorofluorocarbons
such as R-21. They
do not harm the ozone layer
as much as the compounds they replace; however,
they do contribute to global
warming. Their atmospheric concentrations and contribution to
anthropogenic
greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly increasing, causing
international concern about their
radiative forcing.
HFCs are hundreds to thousands of times more potent a greenhouse gas than
carbon dioxide.
Chlorofluorocarbon (CFCs) are fully halogenated paraffin hydrocarbons
that contain only
carbon (С), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as
volatile derivative of methane, ethane, and propane. They are also
commonly known by the DuPont brand name
Freon,
which
harms the ozone layer.
Vast
majority of refrigerators and air conditioners hydrofluorocarbons and
hydrocarbons (HFCs and HCs) are toxic and flammable. When they leak into
the air, they also contribute to global warming. Refrigeration and air
conditioning currently devour a fifth of the energy produced worldwide,
and demand for cooling is only going up.
Colossal Barocaloric effects in a plastic crystal of neopentylglycol (NPG)
and other related organic compounds has leveled the playfield. Plastic
Crystals refers not to its chemical composition but rather to its
malleability. Plastic crystals lie at the boundary between solids and
liquids. Compressing NPG yields unprecedentedly large thermal changes due
to molecular reconfiguration.
Neopentyl Glycol is an organic chemical compound. It is used in the
synthesis of polyesters, paints, lubricants, and plasticizers. When used
in the manufacture of polyesters, it enhances the stability of the product
towards heat, light, and water. By esterification reaction with fatty or
carboxylic acids, synthetic lubricating esters with reduced potential for
oxidation or hydrolysis, compared to natural esters, can be produced. It
has been reported that plastic crystals of neopentyl glycol exhibit a
colossal barocaloric effect (CBCEs), which is a cooling effect caused by
pressure-induced phase transitions. The obtained entropy changes are about
389 joules per kilogram per kelvin near room temperature. This CBCE
phenomenon is likely to be very useful in future solid-state refrigeration
technologies.
Magnetic Refrigeration
is a cooling technology based on the magnetocaloric effect. This technique
can be used to attain extremely low temperatures, as well as the ranges
used in common refrigerators. Compared to traditional gas-compression
refrigeration, magnetic refrigeration is safer, quieter, more compact, has
a higher cooling efficiency, and is more environmentally friendly because
it does not use harmful, ozone-depleting coolant gases.
Engle Fridge and Freezer with Sawafuji Swing Motor Reciprocating
Compressor that has only one moving part.
Compressor is a
mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its
volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor.
Engines -
Thermo-Electric.
Linear
Compressor is a gas compressor where the piston moves along a linear
track to compress to minimize energy loss during conversion. This
technology has been successfully used in space
cryocooler where oil can not be tolerated. Kun Liang recently reviewed
the linear compressor technologies for
refrigeration.
Propane
Refrigeration is a type of compression refrigerator which uses
combustion of propane to directly drive the compressor, in contrast to
conventional electric refrigerators which use an electrical compressor.
Solar-Powered Refrigerator is a refrigerator which runs on energy
directly provided by sun, and may include photovoltaic or solar thermal
energy. Solar-powered refrigerators are able to keep perishable goods such
as meat and dairy cool in hot climates, and are used to keep much needed
vaccines at their appropriate temperature to avoid spoilage. Solar-powered
refrigerators are typically used in off-the-grid locations where utility
provided AC power is not available.
Thermal Mass Refrigerator is a refrigerator that is foreseen with
thermal mass as well as insulation to decrease the energy use of the
refrigerator.
Heat and sound wave interactions in solids could run engines and
Refrigerators. Thermoacoustics in solids eventually harnessing the
extreme temperature gradient of outer space for electricity on satellites.
A solid can serve as a medium for heat and
sound wave interactions
just like a fluid does for thermoacoustic engines and refrigerators --
resulting in leak-free machines that can stay operating longer.
Heat Pump and Refrigeration Cycle are the conceptual and mathematical
models for heat pumps and refrigerators. A heat pump is a mechanical
system that allows for the transference of heat from one location (the
"source") at a lower temperature to another location (the "sink" or "heat
sink") at a higher temperature. Thus a heat pump may be thought of as a
"heater" if the objective is to warm the heat sink (as when warming the
inside of a home on a cold day), or a "refrigerator" if the objective is
to cool the heat source (as in the normal operation of a freezer). In
either case, the operating principles are identical. Heat is moved from a
cold place to a warm place. According to the
second law of thermodynamics, heat
cannot spontaneously flow from a colder location to a hotter area; work is
required to achieve this. An air conditioner requires work to cool a
living space, moving heat from the cooler interior (the heat source) to
the warmer outdoors (the heat sink). Similarly, a refrigerator moves heat
from inside the cold icebox (the heat source) to the warmer
room-temperature air of the kitchen (the heat sink). The operating
principle of the refrigeration cycle was described mathematically by Sadi
Carnot in 1824 as a heat engine. A heat pump can be thought of as a heat
engine which is operating in reverse.
Phase Transition is most commonly used to describe transitions between
solid, liquid, and gaseous states of matter, as well as plasma in rare
cases. A phase of a thermodynamic system and the states of matter have
uniform physical properties. During a phase transition of a given medium,
certain properties of the medium change, often discontinuously, as a
result of the change of external conditions, such as temperature,
pressure, or others. For example, a liquid may become gas upon heating to
the boiling point, resulting in an abrupt change in volume. The
measurement of the external conditions at which the transformation occurs
is termed the phase transition. Phase transitions commonly occur in nature
and are used today in many technologies.
Phase
Changes include vaporization, condensation, melting, freezing,
sublimation, and deposition. Evaporation, a type of vaporization, occurs
when particles of a liquid reach a high enough energy to leave the surface
of the liquid and change into the gas state. An example of evaporation is
a puddle of water drying out.
Thermal Electric Energy.
Absorption
Refrigerator is a refrigerator that uses a heat source (e.g., solar
energy, a fossil-fueled flame, waste heat from factories, or district
heating systems) to provide the energy needed to drive the cooling
process. The principle can also be used to air-condition buildings using
the waste heat from a gas turbine or water heater. Using waste heat from a
gas turbine makes the turbine very efficient because it first produces
electricity, then hot water, and finally, air-conditioning (called
cogeneration/trigeneration). (
absorption chillers).
Cogeneration is the use of a heat engine or power station to generate
electricity and useful heat at the same time. Trigeneration or combined
cooling, heat and power (CCHP) refers to the simultaneous generation of
electricity and useful heating and cooling from the combustion of a fuel
or a solar heat collector. The terms cogeneration and trigeneration can be
also applied to the power systems generating simultaneously electricity,
heat, and industrial chemicals – e.g., syngas or pure hydrogen (article:
combined cycles, chapter: natural gas integrated power & syngas (hydrogen)
generation cycle).
Thermoacoustics is the interaction between
temperature, density and pressure
variations of acoustic waves. Thermoacoustic heat engines can readily be
driven using solar energy or waste heat and they can be controlled using
proportional control. They can use heat available at low temperatures
which makes it ideal for heat recovery and low power applications. The
components included in thermoacoustic engines are usually very simple
compared to conventional engines. The device can easily be controlled and
maintained.
Thermoacoustic Heat Engine are thermoacoustic devices which use
high-amplitude
sound waves
to pump heat from one place to another, or conversely use a heat
difference to induce high-amplitude sound waves. In general,
thermoacoustic engines can be divided into standing wave and travelling
wave devices. These two types of thermoacoustics devices can again be
divided into two thermodynamic classes, a prime mover (or simply heat
engine), and a heat pump. The prime mover creates work using heat, whereas
a heat pump creates or moves heat using work. Compared to vapor
refrigerators, thermoacoustic refrigerators have no ozone-depleting or
toxic coolant and few or no moving parts therefore require no dynamic
sealing or lubrication.
Principle
of Magnetocaloric Cooling (youtube)
Efficient Appliances
Electrolux Appliances
WindChill - A low cost Food Preservation Unit designed to keep
food cold without electricity
Backwoods Solar
Nipi - the portable solar generator & smart cooler
Wisemotion Linear Compressor (youtube)
High Efficiency Super Insulated Extra thick walled SunDanzer 12
or 24 Volt DCFood
Preservation Methods for Keeping Foods Fresher Longer
Gosun Cooler
Air Conditioners -
Passive Energy
Root
Cellar is a structure built underground or partially underground and
used to store vegetables, fruits, and nuts or other foods. Root cellars
are for keeping food supplies at a low temperature and steady humidity.
They keep food from freezing during the winter and keep food cool during
the summer months to prevent spoilage.
Food
Preserving.
The Ice House was introduced to Britain around 1660, though it was
used by a some people in other areas in the world for over a thousand
years prior.
Ice House
building is made during the winter when ice and snow would be taken into the ice
house and packed with insulation, often straw or sawdust. It would remain
frozen for many months, often until the following winter, and could be
used as a source of ice during summer months. The main application of the
ice was the storage of perishable foods, but it could also be used simply
to cool drinks, or allow ice-cream and sorbet desserts to be prepared.
Granary is a storehouse or room in a barn
for threshed grain or animal feed. Ancient or primitive granaries are most
often made out of pottery. Granaries are often built above the ground to
keep the stored food away from mice and other animals.
Survival Tips
(emergencies)
Camping Gear
Solar Powered Grain Mill
Farm Animals
Livestock (farming)
Sustainable Livestock
Raising Farm Animals
Eating
AnimalsFair
TradeHow to Butcher a Farm Animal to Eat
Man
Expertly Butchers A Cow (youtube)
Victorinox Swiss Army Field Dressing Kit
(amazon)
Outdoor Edge Game Processor PR-1 12-Piece Portable Butcher Kit with Hard Side Carry Case
(amazon)
Weston Butcher Saw with 22 Inch Stainless Steel Blade
(amazon)
Heavy Duty Vinyl Waterproof Apron- Black
(amazon)
Bodog:
The Real Mongolian Barbecue (youtube)
Farming Tools -
Cooking ToolsEach person will learn
everything there is to know about
growing and harvesting Food
including the importance of knowing
Nutritional
Needs.
Nutrition -
Farming -
Land Management
Menu that is similar
like the one above for waterFind
Food......Grow Food.....Nutrition Needs......and so on
Distributive Justice concerns the nature of a socially just
allocation of goods in a society. A society in which incidental
inequalities in outcome do not arise would be considered a society guided
by the principles of distributive justice. The concept includes the
available quantities of goods, the process by which goods are to be
distributed, and the resulting allocation of the goods to the members of
the society.
Simultaneous Subject Teaching
If you can connect learning with food, then
learning will never cease.
"When you teach someone how to grow food, you can also teach them at the same
time about science, math, chemistry, geology, nutrition, energy,
food preparation, weather, soil, water, air, insects and
animals... Earth is the classroom."
Shelter - Housing - Putting a Roof Over Your Head
First determine the
best places to build cities, communities and
homes on the land that is available, based on research from experts who have assed the
Land for its needs as well as the needs of the people who
plan to developed that particular land space? What would be the
max size of these cities and communities to live
sustainable and
provide equal services for each person?
How much time, people and resources would it require to provide
shelter that is sustainable, safe, healthy,
energy efficient and
low in maintenance? How much time, people and resources would it
require to upgrade existing houses and buildings to be healthy,
energy efficient and low in maintenance? Living within the
Parameters that nature allows.
Habitable Shelter should have
clean water, clean energy, fresh air circulation, be
toxic free, have
security and
working locks, have
heat for the winter months,
be insect free and noise free, have working
toilets, and have
fire safety and smoke detectors.
Housing
-
Emergency Shelters -
EnvironmentHome Building Requirements: Every home should be durable, long-lasting and easy to maintain.
Every home should use
sustainable methods and materials.
Every home should have healthy indoor air that is clean from
contaminants.
Every home should produce its own energy.
Every home should use electricity effectively and efficiently.
Every home should use water effectively and efficiently.
Shelter needs to be a quiet
sanctuary so that you may rest and sleep. Shelter must also be a
place for personal entertainment.
Shelter must also be a place to raise a family. Shelter must
also be a place to be
Productive, productive meaning being able to read, write,
communicate, learn and provide a needed service for your
community. Being productive can also be about having
a place to exercise, a place for researching, a place to work on
projects, a place to practice and a place for training.
Factor e Farm Open Source
Tools and Machines
Living Condition or Habitability is the conformance of a
residence or abode to the implied warranty of habitability. A residence
that complies is said to be habitable. It is an implied warranty or
contract, meaning it does not have to be an express contract, covenant, or
provision of a contract. There was no implied warranty of habitability for
tenants at common law and the legal doctrine has since developed in many
jurisdictions through housing laws and regulations. In order to be
habitable, such housing usually: Must provide shelter, with working locks.
Must be heated in the winter months (typically between October 1 and May
31 in the Northeastern United States). Must not be infested with vermin,
roaches, termites, or mold. Requires the landlord to stop other tenants
from making too much noise (as measured by the decibel scale), second-hand
smoke, or from selling narcotics. Must provide potable water. Each
jurisdiction may have various rules.
Architecture -
Green Building (Sustainable Homes) -
Passive Energy
William Mcdonough on Cradle to Cradle
Design (video)
Architecture that's Built to Heal: Michael Murphy (video and
interactive text)
How to Plan a CityBuild Your Own
House -
Home Location -
Tools
(green building)
Each person should
learn everything there is to know about
Shelter. How to
choose the
right land and area to build a shelter. How to choose
the right land and area to
build a city. What materials are
available to build that are safe and sustainable. What is the
best structure for this area that is totally energy efficient?
How to Build a Home. How to utilize existing shelters.
The size of the house is estimated by
its intended purposes and needs. Building no more space then you
need and be energy efficient. A house must provide you with a
healthy environment so that you can be productive and as well as
comfortable.
A house must also be in balance with the
surrounding environment. Be self-sustainable and not be
dependent on other environments in order to maintain itself and
preserve its existence. If the surrounding environment is not
sustainable for a home then you will need
dependable
trade, or relocation options.
Living Condition or Habitability: Must provide shelter,
with working locks. Must be heated in the winter months. Must not be
infested with vermin, roaches, termites, or mold. Requires the landlord to
stop other tenants from making too much noise (as measured by the decibel
scale), second-hand smoke, or from selling narcotics. Must provide potable
water.
Turning Deserts into Forests
Menu
that is similar like the one above for
water...Find Shelter......Build Shelter.....Shelter Maintenance......and so on.
"When you teach someone how to build a
house you can also teach them at the same time about
engineering, science, math, problem solving, sanitation, clean
water, energy uses, energy sources, environment, community and
society...Life is the Classroom."
Castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and
the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility.
Skyscrapers made of Mud
- Homes from Dirt
The world's tallest 70 per cent wood building at 18 storeys (53 metres,
about 174 feet) steel and concrete hybrid. Completed less than 70 days
after the prefabricated components were first delivered to the site. $51.5 million for 400 people.
Energy - Potential - Power
What
energy sources are available that would provide safe and
sustainable energy for every person in the city or community?
How much time, people and resources would it require to provide
you with all your energy needs without waste or abuse?
31 Percent Of U.S. Households Have Trouble Paying Energy Bills. Of the
25 million households that reported
forgoing food and medicine to pay
energy bills, 7 million people in America face that decision nearly every month.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Energy Saving Homes -
Energy
Alternatives -
LED Lights
Refrigeration -
Air Conditioning -
Stoves
-
Heaters -
Smart Home
Power Cube v7 is a modular engine unit that powers all
mechanical machines in the Global Village Construction Set.
The World Energy
Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to deliver
renewable
energy to those who need it most.
The average household in America consumes
10,656
Kilowatt Hours (kWh) per year.
All other households in the world combined consumes less energy per year
then American homes. I use less than 300 KWH a Month, except in the
winter.
Each
person should learn everything there is to know about
Energy. How
energy works and how it is used to increase production. How
energy is used to improve living conditions. What are the energy
producing alternatives that are the most sustainable, produce
minimal waste and have energy input output ratio.
Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio is a rating and a unit of
the
cooling output during a typical cooling-season divided by the total
electric energy input during the same period.
Thermal Efficiency is a dimensionless
performance measure of
a device that uses
thermal energy,
such as an internal combustion engine, a steam turbine or a steam engine,
a boiler, a furnace, or a refrigerator for example. For a power cycle,
thermal efficiency indicates the extent to which the energy added by heat
is converted to net work output. In the case of a
refrigeration or heat pump cycle, thermal efficiency indicates the
extent to which the energy added by work is converted to net heat output.
Coefficient of Performance of a heat pump, refrigerator or
air
conditioning system is a ratio of useful heating or cooling provided to
work required. Higher COPs equate to lower operating costs.
Passive Energy
Net Energy Gain refers to the difference between the energy
expended to harvest an energy source and the amount of energy gained from
that harvest.
Why
are Bio-Fuels to Costly?
Power Cube -
Power Cube VI
Retrofitting
Vehicles with
New TechnologiesCooking Stoves
(efficient stoves saves trees)
Green Turbine
Central
Boiler
Redrok
Stirling Engine Generator
Whispergen Micro chp
Egloo Candle Powered Heater
DIY No Wax
Candle (youtube)
House Needs
Home Appliance
are electrical/mechanical
machines
which accomplish some household functions, such as
cooling/heating,
cooking or cleaning.
Heat (stoves for cooking food)
Major Appliance is a large machine in home appliance used for routine
housekeeping tasks such as cooking,
washing laundry, or food
preservation. An appliance is different from a
plumbing fixture because it uses
electricity or fuel.
Small Appliances are portable or semi-portable machines, generally
used on table-tops, counter-tops, or other platforms, to accomplish a
household task. Examples include microwave ovens, toasters, humidifiers,
and coffee makers. They contrast with major appliances (British "white
goods"), such as the
refrigerator and
washing machine, which
cannot be easily moved and are generally placed on the floor. Small
appliances also contrast with consumer electronics (British "brown goods")
which are for leisure and entertainment rather than purely practical
tasks.
Microwave Appliance usage emits 7.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide
equivalent per year in the EU. This is equivalent to the annual
emissions of 6.8 million cars. Microwave appliance usage across the EU
consumes an estimated
9.4 terawatts per
hour (TWh) of electricity every year. This is equivalent to the annual
electricity generated by three large gas power plants. Efforts to reduce
consumption should focus on improving consumer awareness and behavior to
use appliances more
efficiently.
Consumer Electronics are
electronic or
digital equipment intended for everyday use, typically in private homes.
Consumer electronics include devices used for entertainment (
flatscreen
TVs, DVD players, DVD movies, iPods, video games, remote control cars,
etc.), communications (
telephones,
cell phones, e-mail-capable laptops, etc.), and home-office activities
(e.g., desktop
computers, printers, paper shredders, etc.).
Efficient Appliances
-
Energy Use Monitoring -
Planned Obsolescence
Water Heaters
Homes that use 41 gallons or less of hot water daily,
Tankless Water Heaters can be 24% to
34% more energy-efficient than storage tank heaters.
Tankless Hot Water Heater.
Heat Pump Water Heaters use electricity to
move heat from one place to another instead of generating heat directly.
Therefore, they can be two to three times more energy efficient than
conventional electric resistance water heaters. To move the heat, heat
pumps work like a refrigerator in reverse. While a
refrigerator pulls heat from inside a box and
dumps it into the surrounding room, a stand-alone air-source heat pump
water heater pulls heat from the surrounding air and dumps it -- at a
higher temperature -- into a tank to heat water. You can purchase a
stand-alone heat pump water heating system as an integrated unit with a
built-in water storage tank and back-up resistance heating elements. You
can also retrofit a heat pump to work with an existing conventional
storage water heater. Heat pump water heaters require installation in
locations that remain in the 40º–90ºF (4.4º–32.2ºC) range year-round and
provide at least 1,000 cubic feet (28.3 cubic meters) of air space around
the water heater. Cool exhaust air can be exhausted to the room or
outdoors. Install them in a space with excess heat, such as a furnace
room. Heat pump water heaters will not operate
efficiently in a cold
space. They tend to cool the spaces they are in. You can also install an
air-source heat pump system that combines heating, cooling, and water
heating. These combination systems pull their heat indoors from the
outdoor air in the winter and from the indoor air in the summer. Because
they remove heat from the air, any type of air-source heat pump system
works more efficiently in a warm climate. Homeowners primarily install
geothermal heat pumps -- which draw heat from the ground during the winter
and from the indoor air during the summer -- for heating and cooling their
homes. For water heating, you can add a
desuperheater to a geothermal heat pump system. A desuperheater is a
small, auxiliary heat exchanger that uses superheated gases from the heat
pump's compressor to heat water. This hot water then circulates through a
pipe to the home's storage water heater tank. Desuperheaters are also
available for tankless or demand-type water heaters. In the summer, the
desuperheater uses the excess heat that would otherwise be expelled to the
ground. Therefore, when the geothermal heat pump runs frequently during
the summer, it can heat all of your water. During the fall, winter, and
spring -- when the desuperheater isn't producing as much excess heat --
you'll need to rely more on your storage or demand water heater to heat
the water. Some manufacturers also offer triple-function geothermal heat
pump systems, which provide heating, cooling, and hot water. They use a
separate heat exchanger to meet all of a household's hot water needs.
Electrolux Appliances.
Air Conditioners - Cooling Air
Passive Cooling is a building design approach that focuses
on heat gain control and
heat dissipation in a building in order
to improve the indoor thermal comfort with low or nil energy
consumption. This approach works either by preventing heat from
entering the interior (
heat gain prevention) or by removing heat
from the building (natural cooling). Natural cooling utilizes
on-site energy, available from the natural environment, combined
with the architectural design of building components (e.g.
building envelope), rather than
mechanical systems to dissipate
heat. Therefore, natural cooling depends not only on the
architectural design of the building but on how the site's
natural resources are used as
heat sinks (i.e. everything that
absorbs or dissipates heat). Examples of on-site heat sinks are
the upper atmosphere (night sky), the outdoor air (wind), and
the earth/soil.
Refrigeration.
Passive House Requirements -
Passive House.ca -
Ductless Air Conditioning
Passive House
is a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building,
reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy
buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling.
Passivhaus
standard requires that the building fulfills the following requirements:
Passive solar design and landscape, Superinsulation, Advanced window
technology, Airtightness, Ventilation, Space heating, Lighting and
electrical appliances. The building must be designed to have an annual
heating and cooling demand as calculated with the
Passivhaus
Planning Package of not more than 15 kWh/m2 (4,755 BTU/sq ft; 5.017 MJ/sq
ft) per year in heating or cooling energy OR be designed with a peak heat
load of 10 W/m2 (1.2 hp/1000 sq ft). Total primary energy (source energy
for electricity, etc.) consumption (primary energy for heating, hot water
and electricity) must not be more than 60 kWh/m2 (19,020 BTU/sq ft; 20.07
MJ/sq ft) per year. The building must not leak more air than 0.6 times the
house volume per hour (n50 ≤ 0.6 / hour) at 50 Pa (0.0073 psi) as tested
by a blower door, or alternatively when looked at the surface area of the
enclosure, the leakage rate must be less than 0.05 cubic feet per minute.
Further, the specific heat load for the heating source at design
temperature is recommended, but not required, to be less than 10 W/m²
(3.17 btu/h·ft²). These standards are much higher than houses built to
most normal building codes. For comparisons, see the international
comparisons section below. National partners within the 'consortium for
the Promotion of European Passive Houses' are thought to have some
flexibility to adapt these limits locally.
Greenhouse in
the Snow.
Geothermal Heating and
Cooling
Passive Solar Building Design is using windows, walls, and floors are
made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy in the form
of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called
passive solar design because, unlike active solar heating systems, it does
not involve the use of mechanical and electrical devices. The key to
design a passive solar building is to best take advantage of the local
climate performing an accurate site analysis. Elements to be considered
include window placement and size, and glazing type, thermal insulation,
thermal mass, and shading. Passive solar design techniques can be applied
most easily to new buildings, but existing buildings can be adapted or
"retrofitted".
209.
Solid Wood Passive House - 90% More Energy Efficient (youtube) -
Green Energy
Futures.
Exploring Passive House Design - 90% Energy Savings! (youtube) -
Undecided with Matt Ferrell.
Evaporative
Cooler is a device that cools air through the
evaporation of water. Evaporative cooling
differs from typical air conditioning systems, which use vapor-compression
or absorption refrigeration cycles. Evaporative cooling works by
exploiting water's large enthalpy of vaporization. The temperature of dry
air can be dropped significantly through the phase transition of liquid
water to water vapor (evaporation). This can cool air using
much less energy than refrigeration. In
extremely dry climates, evaporative cooling of air has the added benefit
of conditioning the air with more moisture for the comfort of building
occupants. The cooling potential for evaporative cooling is dependent on
the wet-bulb depression, the difference between dry-bulb
temperature and wet-bulb
temperature. In arid climates, evaporative cooling can reduce energy
consumption and total equipment for conditioning as an alternative to
compressor-based cooling. In climates not considered arid, indirect
evaporative cooling can still take advantage of the evaporative cooling
process without increasing humidity. Passive evaporative cooling
strategies can offer the same benefits of mechanical evaporative cooling
systems without the complexity of equipment and ductwork.
Sweating (exercising).
Homemade "Evaporative Cooling" System (youtube)
Cooling System that works without Electricity. Radiative sky cooling
to passively cool a fluid in a panel.
Solar
Air Conditioning refers to any air conditioning (cooling) system that
uses solar power. This can be done through passive solar, solar thermal
energy conversion and photovoltaic conversion (sunlight to electricity).
Info-Graph (image).
Solar Thermal
Energy s a form of energy and a technology for harnessing
solar energy
to generate
thermal energy or
electrical energy for use in industry, and in the residential and
commercial sectors. There were about 750 cooling systems with solar-driven
heat pumps, and annual market growth was 40 to 70% over the prior seven
years.
Solar Cooling System keeps water at 9 Degrees Celsius for up to 3 Months.
Chest Freezers are
more Energy Efficient.
Electrical Energy
Efficiency Advancements.
Thermal envelope
is one of the key elements of a passive or a low energy house. Most
important parts of thermal envelope include outer walls, roof, foundation,
windows and doors. The purpose of the thermal envelope is to prevent
heat
transfer form interior of a house to its exterior in winter and vice versa
in summer.
Efficiency.
Solar Cooling (refrigeration)
Geothermal Energy -
Heat Pumps -
Heat Exchangers
Homemade Air
Conditioner DIY - The "5 Gallon Bucket" Air Cooler! DIY- can be solar
powered! (youtube)
How to cool your
apartment for free using old plastic bottles, lowers temperature at
least 5 degrees. The faster air moves, the lower pressure it has,
evaporative cooling from the faster stream.
Geizeer - eco friendly ice cooling personal eco- friendly
ice cooling with refrigerant mixtures, which consumes less than
1 cent per day! Rechargeable Battery gives 5 Hours.
Zero-Breeze Portable AC Unit Cools 50 square feet room down to 44
degrees F using a 1100 BTU cooling power to cool down a small closed
space. 12V (DC, AC) input which saves energy. Each interchangeable battery
delivers 5 hours of cooling for keeping your sleep comfortable.
EdenPURE
360º Air Circulation Bladeless Fan is 98% more energy efficient than
air conditioning and whisper quiet.
Stanford engineers develop a plastic clothing material that cools the skin
Bed Covers that help you stay cool
WindAmp Valley Wind Technology provides a safe and natural breeze that's
energy efficient.
Revolutionary Air
Conditioner! (youtube) - Tech Ingredients.
Bio
Balls are small, pegged plastic balls mainly used as the biological
media in ponds. These little plastic bio balls have TONS of surface area
for the growth of bacteria for filtration. Bioballs promote gas exchange
and increase dissolved oxygen levels, then filter the water as the
bio-balls combine with organic waste to dissolve it. Bio balls work best
as wet-dry filters, with moving water passing over them. This allows more
oxygen into the tubing, feeding the growth of the beneficial bacteria
inside the balls.
Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy
consumption has the ability to cool objects even under direct sunlight
with zero energy and water consumption. When applied to a surface, the
metamaterial film cools the object underneath by efficiently reflecting
incoming
solar energy back
into space while simultaneously allowing the surface to shed its own heat
in the form of infrared thermal radiation. glass-polymer hybrid material
measures just 50 micrometers thick — slightly thicker than the aluminum
foil found in a kitchen — and can be manufactured economically on rolls,
making it a potentially viable large-scale technology for both residential
and commercial applications. passive radiative cooling, the process by
which objects naturally shed heat in the form of infrared radiation,
without consuming energy.
Sky Cool Systems improves the
efficiency of all cooling systems by
infrared light that
escapes earth and heads to space, carrying heat along with it.
Thermal Radiation is
electromagnetic
radiation generated by the
thermal motion of charged particles in
matter. All matter with a
temperature greater than absolute zero emits
thermal radiation. When the temperature of a body is greater than absolute
zero, inter-atomic collisions cause the
kinetic energy of the
atoms or
molecules to change. This results in charge-acceleration and/or dipole
oscillation which produces electromagnetic radiation, and the wide
spectrum of radiation reflects the wide spectrum of energies and
accelerations that occur even at a single
temperature. Examples of
thermal radiation include the
visible light and infrared
light emitted by an incandescent light bulb, the infrared radiation
emitted by animals is detectable with an infrared camera, and the cosmic
microwave background radiation. Thermal radiation is different from
thermal convection and thermal conduction—a person near a raging bonfire
feels
radiant heating
from the fire, even if the surrounding air is very cold. Sunlight is part
of thermal radiation generated by the hot plasma of the Sun. The Earth
also emits thermal radiation, but at a much lower intensity and different
spectral distribution (infrared rather than visible) because it is cooler.
The Earth's absorption of solar radiation, followed by its outgoing
thermal radiation are the two most important processes that determine the
temperature and climate of the Earth. If a radiation-emitting object meets
the physical characteristics of a black body in
thermodynamic equilibrium, the
radiation is called blackbody radiation. Planck's law describes the
spectrum of blackbody radiation, which depends only on the object's
temperature. Wien's displacement law determines the most likely frequency
of the emitted radiation, and the Stefan–Boltzmann law gives the radiant
intensity. Thermal radiation is one of the fundamental mechanisms of
heat transfer.
How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource: Aaswath
Raman (video and text)
Radiative Cooling is the process by which a body loses heat by
thermal radiation, which is electromagnetic
radiation generated by the thermal motion of
charged particles in matter.
All
matter with a
temperature greater than absolute
zero emits thermal radiation. Particle
motion results in
charge-acceleration or dipole oscillation which produce electromagnetic
radiation. (Night-Sky Cooling).
Infrared Window is the overall dynamic property of the earth's
atmosphere, taken as a whole at each
place and occasion of interest, that lets some
infrared radiation from
the cloud tops and land-sea surface pass directly to space without
intermediate absorption and re-emission, and thus without heating the
atmosphere. It cannot be defined simply as a part or set of parts of the
electromagnetic spectrum,
because the spectral composition of window radiation varies greatly with
varying local environmental conditions, such as water vapour content and
land-sea surface temperature, and because few or no parts of the spectrum
are simply not absorbed at all, and because some of the diffuse radiation
is passing nearly vertically upwards and some is passing nearly
horizontally. A large gap in the absorption spectrum of water vapor, the
main greenhouse gas, is most important in the dynamics of the window.
Other gases, especially carbon dioxide and ozone, partly block
transmission. An atmospheric window is a dynamic property of the
atmosphere, while the spectral window
is a static characteristic of the electromagnetic radiative absorption
spectra of many greenhouse gases, including
water vapour. The atmospheric window
tells what actually happens in the atmosphere, while the spectral window
tells of one of the several abstract factors that potentially contribute
to the actual concrete happenings in the atmosphere. Window radiation is
radiation that actually passes through the atmospheric window. Non-window
radiation is radiation that actually does not pass through the atmospheric
window. Window wavelength radiation is radiation that, judging only from
its
wavelength, potentially might or might
not, but is likely to pass through the atmospheric window. Non-window
wavelength radiation is radiation that, judging only from its wavelength,
is unlikely to pass through the atmospheric window. The difference between
window radiation and window wavelength radiation is that window radiation
is an actual component of the radiation, determined by the full dynamics
of the atmosphere, taking in all determining factors, while window
wavelength radiation is merely theoretically potential, defined only by
one factor, the wavelength.
Atmospheric
windows is that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be
transmitted through the atmosphere without any distortion or absorption.
Light in certain wavelength regions can penetrate the atmosphere well.
These regions are called atmospheric windows.
Fans - Cool Breeze
Fan
is a powered machine used to create flow within a fluid, typically a gas
such as air. A fan consists of a rotating arrangement of vanes or blades
which act on the air. The
rotating assembly of blades and hub is known as
an impeller, a rotor, or a runner. Usually, it is contained within some
form of housing or case. This may direct the airflow or increase safety by
preventing objects from contacting the fan blades. Most fans are powered
by electric motors, but other sources of power may be used, including
hydraulic motors, handcranks, internal combustion engines, and solar
power. Mechanically, a fan can be any revolving vane or vanes used for
producing currents of air. Fans produce air flows with high volume and low
pressure (although higher than ambient pressure), as opposed to
compressors which produce high pressures at a comparatively low volume. A
fan blade will often rotate when exposed to an air fluid stream, and
devices that take advantage of this, such as anemometers and wind
turbines, often have designs similar to that of a fan.
Turbocharger -
Refrigeration.
Ducted
Fan is an air moving arrangement whereby a mechanical fan, which is a
type of propeller, is mounted within a cylindrical shroud or duct. The
duct reduces losses in thrust from the tips of the propeller blades, and
varying the cross-section of the duct allows the designer to
advantageously affect the velocity and pressure of the airflow according
to Bernoulli's principle. Ducted fan propulsion is used in aircraft,
airships, airboats, hovercraft and fan packs. A jet fan
is a stationary ducted fan used to move air through buildings or tunnels.
Ducted fans normally have more and shorter blades than conventional
propellers and thus can operate at higher rotational speeds.
Axial Fan Design is a type of fan that causes gas to flow through it
in an axial direction, parallel to the shaft about which the blades
rotate. The flow is axial at entry and exit. The fan is designed to
produce a pressure difference, and hence force, to cause a flow through
the fan. Factors which determine the performance of the fan include the
number and shape of the blades. Fans have many applications including in
wind tunnels and cooling towers. Design parameters include power, flow
rate, pressure rise and efficiency. Axial fans generally comprise fewer
blades (two to six) than ducted fans. Axial fans commonly have larger
radius and lower speed (?) than ducted fans (esp. at similar power. Stress
proportional to r^2).
Centrifugal Fan is a mechanical device for moving air or other gases
in a direction at an angle to the incoming fluid. Centrifugal fans often
contain a ducted housing to direct outgoing air in a specific direction or
across a heat sink; such a fan is also called a blower fan, biscuit
blower, or squirrel-cage fan (because it looks like a
hamster wheel). These fans increase the speed and volume of an air
stream with the rotating impellers. Centrifugal fans use the kinetic
energy of the impellers to increase the volume of the air stream, which in
turn moves against the resistance caused by ducts, dampers and other
components. Centrifugal fans displace air radially, changing the direction
(typically by 90°) of the airflow. They are sturdy, quiet, reliable, and
capable of operating over a wide range of conditions. Centrifugal fans are
constant-displacement or constant-volume devices, meaning that, at a
constant fan speed, a centrifugal fan moves a relatively constant volume
of air rather than a constant mass. This means that the air velocity in a
system is fixed even though the mass flow rate through the fan is not.
Centrifugal fans are not positive-displacement devices and centrifugal
fans have certain advantages and disadvantages when contrasted with
positive-displacement blowers: centrifugal fans are more efficient,
whereas positive-displacement blowers may have a lower capital cost. The
centrifugal fan is one of the most widely used fans. Centrifugal fans are
by far the most prevalent type of fan used in the HVAC industry today.
They are often cheaper than axial fans and simpler in construction. They
are used in transporting gas or materials and in ventilation systems for
buildings and vehicles. They are also well-suited for industrial processes
and air pollution control systems. The centrifugal fan has a drum shape
composed of a number of fan blades mounted around a hub. As shown in the
animated figure, the hub turns on a driveshaft mounted in bearings in the
fan housing. The gas enters from the side of the fan wheel, turns 90
degrees and accelerates due to centrifugal force as it flows over the fan
blades and exits the fan housing.
Centrifuge is a piece of equipment that puts an object in rotation
around a fixed axis (spins it in a circle), applying a force perpendicular
to the axis of spin (outward) that can be very strong. The centrifuge
works using the sedimentation principle, where the centrifugal
acceleration causes denser
substances and particles to move outward in the radial direction. At the
same time, objects that are less dense are displaced and move to the
center. In a laboratory centrifuge that uses sample tubes, the radial
acceleration causes denser particles to settle to the bottom of the tube,
while low-density substances rise to the top. There are three types of
centrifuge designed for different applications. Industrial scale
centrifuges are commonly used in manufacturing and waste processing to
sediment suspended solids, or to separate immiscible liquids. An example
is the cream separator found in dairies. Very high speed centrifuges and
ultracentrifuges able to provide very high accelerations can separate fine
particles down to the nano-scale, and molecules of different masses. Large
centrifuges are used to simulate high gravity or acceleration environments
(for example, high-G training for test pilots). Medium-sized centrifuges
are used in washing machines and at some swimming pools to wring water out
of fabrics. Gas centrifuges are used for isotope separation, such as to
enrich nuclear fuel for fissile isotopes.
Centrifugal Pump are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric
work-absorbing turbomachinery. Centrifugal pumps are used to transport
fluids by the conversion of rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic
energy of the fluid flow. The rotational energy typically comes from an
engine or electric motor. The fluid enters the pump
impeller along or
near to the rotating axis and is accelerated by the impeller, flowing
radially outward into a diffuser or volute chamber (casing), from which it
exits. Common uses include water, sewage, agriculture, petroleum and
petrochemical pumping. Centrifugal pumps are often chosen for their high
flow rate capabilities, abrasive solution compatibility, mixing potential,
as well as their relatively simple engineering. A centrifugal fan is
commonly used to implement a
vacuum cleaner. The reverse function of the centrifugal pump is a
water turbine converting potential energy of water pressure into
mechanical rotational energy.
Centrifugal Force is
an
inertial force.
Energy would have a
similar menu like
the one above for
water. Find
Energy Providers.....Energy Needs....Make Energy...and so on.
Education - Informed - Skilled
In order to have a
healthcare system, a
justice system and an
uncorrupted government, you need an Education System that provides
educated citizens who can fill these necessary jobs that society
needs.
People Need to be
Informed.
Everyone needs access to the best and most important
information and
Knowledge
that is up to date at our current level of understanding. Everyone
needs to have access to a
complete
education. To help people in other countries you have to
give people the tools, knowledge and the supplies that would allow them to
help themselves.
Every
child is a student of the world. So every child should have access to the
best tools for learning that are available, and also have all the
important knowledge and information that the world has generated up to
this date.
When you teach someone about learning and teaching, they become
life long learners and they become people who are willing to help and
teach others in need.
Paying
People to Learn is much more than just an
incentive. If
people are given the necessary knowledge and information that they can use
to
improve their lives, then the incentive will be having the power
of knowledge itself and not just the rewards that having knowledge gives
you,
and those rewards will last a lifetime.
Healthcare comes from Education.
You can't have
Doctors without education. You can't build
hospitals without
education. And people can't
live healthy lives
without education. And we can't have
Universal Healthcare if
politicians are ignorant and corrupt, and citizens are not educated enough
to make sure that
competent politicians
are voted into office. This is why improving education is so
extremely important.
Education will also
Include:
Health Care Knowledge,
Community Management Knowledge,
Creating Excellent Teachers,
Identifying and Creating Jobs that are Needed Now and in the
Future,
Creating and Updating Knowledge Bases
and so on...
In order for education and knowledge to be available to everyone, one of the
public utilities would have to
include communications, a public phone system owned and operated by the
public and not by a corrupt corporation like AT&T.
Each person should learn everything there is to know about
Education.
How
knowledge and information is acquired.
How knowledge and
information is shared. How knowledge and information is used to
solve problems. How knowledge and information is used to acquire
more knowledge and information. What knowledge and information
is most important?
Basic Knowledge 101 -
Education Improvement IdeasEducation, Knowledge and Information will have a
Similar Menu
like the one above for water.
Find Knowledge and Information......Make Knowledge.....
Knowledge Needs....