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Inclaimer:

I ain't necessarily behind this thing as any sort of a program, and I ain't necessarily opposed to 't neither... then hey! I got to thinking that somebody went to a lot of time and trouble to put up them stones in Georgia, secret like now, and that means something; that maybe I had better to think about it, and let others know about them too: before it's too late

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Oceans of Energy:

An abundance of Food and Energy, and Practical Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, from Farming the Ocean

 with Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

 The U.S. Department of Energy's own  National Renewable Energy Laboratory reports that "OTEC's greatest potential is to supply a significant fraction of the fuel the world needs by using large, grazing plantships to produce hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol."  - OTEC Markets

( Incredibly,  since that statement was made, the potential energy to be realized from the OTEC plantships has more than doubled because of the discovery of practical photohydrogenfrom biological sources - the editor ):

Just the facts: The oceans cover a little more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. This makes them the world's largest solar energy collector and energy storage system. On an average day, 60 million square kilometers (23 million square miles) of tropical seas absorb an amount of solar radiation equal in heat content
to about 250 billion barrels of oil. If less than one-tenth of one percent of this stored solar energy could be converted into electric power, it would supply more than 20 times the total amount of electricity consumed in the United States on any
given day. 

That's just the tropics.  Incident Solar Energy on the ground is enormous, and just how much is locally available is surprising. For people living in Asia, Europe and the United States the amount of incident solar energy on the ground is amazing:

Consider: ENERGY = POWER x TIME

• 1 Kilowatt Hour = 1KWH = 1000 watts used in one hour = 10 one hundred watt
  light bulbs left on for an hour

•  Average over the entire earth = 164 Watts per square meter over a 24 hour
  day

• On an 8 hour summer day, 40 degree latitude 600 Watts per sq. meter Over this 8 hour day one receives:  8 hours x 600 watts per sq. m = 4800 watt-hours per sq. m which equals 4.8 kilowatt hours per sq. meter.  This is equivalent to 0.13 gallons of gasoline!
  For 1000 square feet of horizontal area (typical roof area) this is equivalent to 12 gallons of gas or about 450 KWH

What is required to get at the abundant energy resources made possible by OTEC, photohydrogen, and open ocean farming are private property rights on the open ocean.  The return from this necessary international innovation and acceptance of the market economy, is the robust expansion of energy resources,  and, literally represents the salvation of the emerging global middle class."

- the Webmaster

Odd Facts File:

• Enough heat from the Sun reaches the surface of the Earth in one year to melt a layer of ice 466 feet thick, almost 200 million square miles of ice.  And yet, all this energy is only a share of the total energy of the Sun’s production. Only about 2 parts per billion of the total energy output of the sun shines on the earth.

• At the  solar surface an area the size of a regular postage stamp constantly emits more energy than 500 standard 60-watt bulbs. The Sun shines into space

PS - for further study:

"Ocean farming is the modification of the ocean surface by the addition of nutrients to greatly enhance the productivity of the resource. When applied to large areas of the barren tropical seas, ocean farming can increase the phytoplankton, the base of the food chain, bringing the productivity up to the level that occurs naturally off of the coast of Peru. This can result in an increase in fish catch by a factor of 400 or more. A 53,000 square mile ocean area might see the fish catch go to 50 million tons per year. The carbon dioxide absorbed initially could exceed the production by the United States from the burning of fossil fuels. While the concept of farming is well accepted on land, the extension to the ocean is new. It requires the investment in the resource to increase productivity so the "commons" approach, which has been the tradition in the ocean fisheries, does not suffice. A measure of private property rights are needed, at least within the national exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the host states.

U.S. Government interest so far has been minimal. Other governments have found it difficult to step up and say "yes" to these activities in their jurisdiction . Environmental regulators consider adding anything to the ocean as "dumping," in which case overriding advantage must be available to move forward. Small tropical Pacific island nations with large EEZ areas have been the most welcoming of all possible host states. Therefore, we intend to concentrate initial commercialization efforts in those areas.

The response of much of the oceanographic community has been negative, but after careful study some key oceanographers have endorsed the validity of the project. Some are on our Advisory Board or have consulting contracts with us. At this point, initial seed capital has been raised, a fertilizer system developed and laboratory testing is underway. Open ocean tests in the Gulf of Mexico are planned for late spring.

Success of the commercialization of ocean farming will increase the fish production and biodiversity of the barren tropical ocean, sequester CO2, and feed our increasing world population with high quality protein from a completely renewable resource."

(Permission pending - Emphasis added editor) 

The Message of the Guide Stones 

• 1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000* in perpetual balance with nature.
  2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
  3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
  4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
  5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
  6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
  7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
  8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
  9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
  10.Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

* 500,000,000 is Five Hundred Million People, fewer than one twelfth of those now living.