Food, energy and water systems - Science Q&A with the MicroFEWS team

MicroFEWS is an interdisciplinary, multi-university project that examines the intersection of food, energy and water. This interview features team members Daniel Sambor, a doctoral student at Stanford University; Richard Wies, faculty member in the UAF College of Engineering and Mines; Justus Karenzi, a graduate student in the UAF College of Engineering and Mines; and Jennifer Schmidt with the University of Alaska Anchorage Institute of Social and Economic Research. #AGU19 #UAFatAGU

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Flip towns off-grid, its magnet motor for 1300hp/1-Mw is small, 2ftx7in/61x17cm, fits -=> cars, trucks, tractors, trains, aeroplanes and ships at sea.

This implies cars without refueling or recharging for the LIFETIME of the owner, eh?

The 1300hp/1-Mw has a *half-century warranty* of 24/7 power with normal upkeep, the magnets are still 90% in 1000-years, it's the only sensible power source to pursue.

So, flip towns off-grid, 1-Mw/1300hp, "50-year no-inputs warranty"; 17yr R&D; Belgian: technokontrol.com/en/current-projects/generator.php, the RF-5000, sparkless for use with explosives, military-spec, ships in a container.

For home farm ranch made to wire panels as the inverter: 10kw•$15k, 5kw•$8k, 20-year wrnty, 1.2-cents/kwh; S. Korean:

The 5kw fits a pickup toolbox, is quiet, no fumes indoors, looks good for construction to me, $35/month + interest for 24x7 power, eh?

These globally are the ONLY machines ready for assembly-line, high-volume design and production I found in trade studies, you try.

SECOND, is using algae to purify wastewater at the treatment plant, or onsite for home•farm•ranch using the same units, this emits O2 and removes CO2, eh?

Then, the oils & biomass can become biodiesel and derivatives, from a pilot study I did for Phoenix, AZ, a 10M-gallon/day plant can produce about 3M-gallon/day of biodiesel, Gov. Jan Brewer and her EPA head were on board, we got shot down by her party, the GOP in the USA.

Too bad, eh? Sound familiar?

THIRD: Have ALL IC-Engine mfg's make replacements with N.Tesla Tailpipes, a one-way air valve with no moving parts that nearly ZEROES emissions for their tailpipes.

If they won't, shut them down, this eliminates soot from biodiesel, can be scaled up to industrial smokestacks, it reduces back-pressure, improves performance.

And, he tied it to IC-Engines for this purpose 80yrs ago, eh?
Also, 24x7 insulated food grower that auto, plant manual harvest worth mentioning, LED, 4x8 modules, a system based on 8x24 for income by a clever Canadian organic farming guy.
Ymmv.