USELESS RESEARCH

 

I am disturbed by this RESEARCH from University Funds, which instead of RESTORING BALANCE, HARMONY RYTHEM IN ORGANISED CREATION-NATURE, only makes things worse.  Please see attached news repoerts from IndainExpressMumbai and also from InternationalNewYorkTimes of recent dates.

"Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory", Columbia University, NY, USA ...

Their scientists have done research on Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS) and have succeeded in a pilot project that uses 25Tonnes of water with 1Tonne of CarbonDioxide and injects this acidic mixture deep underground into Basaltic rock rich in Calcium. The fairly quick reaction (two years for the pilot), forms Calcite or CalciumCarbide complex. The news is reported in the International New York Times of 10June2016 on page-14.  It is hoped that major projects could use sea water and reduce the CO2 content in the atmosphere, thereby reducing this 'GreenHouseGas' which causes GlobalWarming and its associated disaster for all living organism including primarily Humans.

Similarly, scientists from Southhampton University, Britain are working on a  similar project in Iceland. They are working on plans to sequester the 37 billion tonnes per year of CO2 released by humans.

I am amazed and astounded.  All Creation and Nature, is inherrantly ORGANISED, BALANCED, HARMONIUS AND IN RYTHEM.  Its us Humams who arrogantly keep disturbing this Organised Balance and Harmony.  Then to restore the lost Balance we keep further disturbing same.

Lets look at what Nature is doing. Trees trap Carbon in cellulose and this is done for FREE without Research and funding and PhDs. The trees fall and get buried over time and due to movement in Earths' crust. The CCS process occurs NATURALLY over long spans of time, mostly millions of years.  Humans dig out the COAL and CRUDE OIL, and burn it in a hurry, mostly centuries. Now if we focus on planting FREE TREES, cut and bury them in the exhausted COAL MINES, we could hurry the CCS a bit. All this needs negligible RESEARCH AND FUNDING.  The areas where trees are cut could be sequentially replanted. Millions of tonnes eqivalent trees could be planted each year, and then buried after five years, in multiple locations annually.

Each nation could be given targets for this process depending on their own contribution to the Carbon problem. Coal exporting nations have benefited from income and must now invest in Nature too. Coal consuming nations have benefited and must also invest in Nature. Simultaneously, Humans must quickly switch to alternative energy sources such as Solar, Wind, GeoThermal, Wind, Tides.

The new pilot plants disturb deep rock strata with unknown future consequences, same as shale oil extraction and even StripMining.

So I am amazed, that this natural solution (needs to be refined no doubt), does not occur to our big brains. 

WHY DO THESE WORTHIES KEEP ON DISTURBING BALANCE, HARMONY AND ORGANIZATION IN CREATION-NATURE.     

PLEASE STOP, EARTH IS OUR ONLY KNOWN HOME.

SHARE WIDELY ... so that we can save our planet from incessant pain.

CURRENT FOCUS FOR #AAP-KARYAKARTA.

#AAP needs to be proactive as its leadership is already doing in Punjab. All others, in various States need to set up Response Teams to SHADOW the key MPs and MLAs of the local ruling coalitions and use PUBLICITY and local PROTESTS to checkmate their shenigans and chicanery. E.g. in Maharashtra the AAP-Karyakarta took up OpenSpaces, gifting of land, farmer issues, health care to sensitise failures of the past and present govt. Similar examples will be there in other States. These must be multiplied many fold to highlight #AamAadmi issues.

P.A.T.D.I. has always been our platform. So we need to use JanSabhas to get Citizens to take Part and seek Accountability from the key MPs and MLAs. A need for Transperency in budgetary spends and in project selection must be prodded in Citizens and a sense of Decentralization and Integrity must be expectation from the local Govt. Failures must be highlighted at EVERY OPPORTUNITY aggressivly in #AAP style. This is the ONLY long term security of our feudal-democracy.  Citizen suggested apt solutions must be broadcast to the ElectedReps.

Better schooling with Ethics, Morality and Integrity as foundation and Skilling for jobs in Junior and Senior collages is a must. The recent unrest in educational institutions comes from certainty that decent progressive jobs are out of reach and escape to foreign lands is not feasible. We cannot export our TalentedYouth yet freely import foreign ConsumerProducts.

Youth can see only closed doors and no future in FREE INDIA, what must they do, roam the streets and steal bananas? They therefore protest and seek to destroy existing setup without having any working alternative in place. Youth need mentoring and channeling of their frustration. #AAP needs to work on this in all Univ. AAP-Mumbai had arranged debates on current issues years ago and got good response from students and faculty. This needs to be the norm for building grass root politics and 'evolvong opinion' of the constructive kind.  This will ensure that our nation moves from feudalism to swaraj democracy.

These are just observations from past five years of our attempts to change 80 Crore Voters of Bharat.  Comments and debate welcome.
JaiHind! 

Recycling Rainwater

It is now widely accepted that Mumbai and Maharashtra, key regions of Bharat-India, are subject to erratic weather Iincluding uncertain 'monsoon' during June-Sept. each year.  The current @MahaBJP CM @Dev_Fadnavis, has accepted this as reported in: The Economic Times, Mumbai, 20151028, p-4, wherein he states "... days of rainfall are becoming fewer with huge dry spells. Agriculture is not sustainable anymore ..." while explaining his new initiative called JalyuktShivar in 6,200 villages of #Maha.

Infact, the 120 million population of Maharashtra are also aware that water resouces via monsoon, are now unpredictable. Then "ground water charging" during monsoon is most CRITICAL.

Mumbai and Suburbs get ~2100mm rain over 450sqKm (1sqKm = 1million sq.Meters), of city land area, other than the traditional Lakes drainage zone. Almost all is run off into the sea via larger and larger StormWaterDrains, since Mumbai is mostly paved with concrete or bitumen.  The Lakes are unable to supply city with water for more than 200 days.

If 50% rain is saved by 'ground water charging' and diverting thru canals and city wide pipe grid, Mumbai would save: (0.50×2.1×450 million cubic meters = ) 470 Billion Liters (1cubic meter = 1,000 Liters). This is assured water supply for over 125 days for Mumbai (since currently Mumbai recieves 3.75 billion Liters of precious Lakes water per day), without using Lakes water supply. Navi Mumbai and Thane Dist are not included in these calculations. Bore wells will provide water year round, to those plots where ground water charging is done. Simple ActivatedCharcoalFilteration columns will give decent water for bathing and washing. The MCGM can continue to supply drinking water, but at much higher cost and in highly reduced quantity.  This alone will extend the Lakes supply of precious water by many months, totalling probably ~250 days.

Each Institution, Building, Housing Society, Entity using/owning/leasing city real estate must be given target to charge the ground in their plot or divert thru pipes to a city pipe grid, a certain target volume of water. Failure should attract punitive water wastage tax. A time line of two years be given and MCGM must aid, inspect and set up water collection pipe grid across city.

When this is done, the excess Lakes water can be diverted to the drought areas of Maha to provide for Citizens there. Similar works can be commenced in the other Nine Smart Cities of Maharashtra.

I request that my blog, written over TEN YEARS AGO, be studied:
http://www.thinkunderstandacceptadapt.blogspot.in/2008/02/ground-water-charging.html

This could be the one single project of LOW COST, improving and securing the lives of 12Crore Maharashtrians. Obviously, it beats all infrastructur projects, since humans cannot survive without water. Failure of water security would lead to mass immigarion to the South and Maha would lose its prime position in my #Bharat.