Sunday, February 24, 2008

This article inspired me to start this project.

"In five years, as oil shortages and global warming intensify, car companies may be out of step with drivers' demands for fuel-efficient vehicles. Even worse, degrading stretches of the planet like Fort McMurray will only delay — not prevent — the time when the world must function in a post-peak-petroleum economy.

Canada's oil-sands region may eventually provide a quarter of U.S. crude-oil demand, now at 21.3 million barrels per day, Reinert says. "At that point, the environmental impacts are totally irreversible," he says. "You turn this area into an ecological sacrifice zone."

The oil shale sands of Alberta will be a place that humans will not want to go in 2025.

There is about an 85-89% chance of a nuclear war occurring in the next 20 years on earth. This figure will be updated periodically. After this time we will regroup dramatically and seek to clean up this disaster, and other disasters, and change our major economies to be clean and freer.

A good environmental team prototype should be produced today, to be maintained and updated throughout our disasters. It will need to search for radiological and chemical pollution and be attached to teams that can treat this pollution.

Thanks to alchemy we should be able to use scalable and tunable electromagnetic wave systems to dissolve the majority of pollutants. We could also engineer biological systems in our currently standing laboratories that will clean these pollutants. Even in a nuclear war, cleaning up the remnant pollution on our targets' territory will be a beneficial factor. Producing bacteria or other life that digests depleted uranium or strontium-90 will be valuable. These could be cultivated around nuclear plants or reaminaing disaster sites.

I would equip a team with hazard suits lined with lead and radioactive gas detecting air filtering and oxygen tank systems on a switch and give them geiger counters and sample collection systems, and attach them to a van which counts the same.

We may be able to treat radioactive gas using alchemical wave systems. No filter can process these gasses, but a special wave could harmlessly shift the molecules and atoms into a different path of degradation or a stable path.