Transcript Energy Ecology and Planetary Engineering

Energy Ecology and
Planetary
Engineering
The Big Picture
Energy: Replace fossil fuels, start now.
Ecology: The Disassembly Principle:
Everything returns to technological or biological cycles.
Planetary Engineering: World treaty organization to
govern molecular manufacturing.
Energy: Replace Fossil Fuels
by Making Solar Competitive
• Current and emerging nanotech can provide solar energy
and storage for most uses competitive with fossil fuels, so
let’s get on with it. MM will multiply that effectiveness.
• This will solve: many political problems by eliminating
dependence on unstable regions, disempowering dictators,
and alleviating many atmospheric problems incl. toxic
particulates and gases, and CO2
• It is not so difficult. We only have to get the price down,
and that is happening now.
Ecology: The Disassembly
Principle
• Start talking about effectiveness instead of just efficiency.
Regulatory agencies focus on waste reduction when nature
is the worst waster but seems to survive. e.g. volcanos,
trees. Technological example: solar paint.
• New rule: The Disassembly Principle. Everything returns to
definable cycles. Biodegrade it, oxidize it cleanly, or
deconstruct the product to base materials for reuse.
• It’s feasible for MM. If we’re smart enough to build desktop
factories we can design each product to be deconstructed.
Planetary Engineering:
Management by World Treaty
Organization
• Local and national management of the ecology will be
rendered impracticable by desalinization, massive material
use, exponential wealth increases, and terraforming that cut
across local and national borders.
• Current IP and regulatory regimes are breaking down and
suffocating innovation so must be replaced.
• The big questions: Who can effectively manage MM and
who owns the MM platforms? The big answers: 1) AIassisted management 2) The world treaty organization owns
and licenses the platforms.