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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0314.004 2012-2014 UT"TY K COUCo ?CLERAR\! 11 Dan A. Cole P.O. Box 630 20t3 a 22 9� 6 Keaau, HI 96749 July 21, 2013 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEM IN COMMENT to Comm. 314: Presentation by Department of Research and Development relating to current and future energy related matters in the County of Hawaii, on July 23, 2013 before the Hawaii County Council Committee on Agriculture, Water & Energy Sustainably. Aloha County Council Members, As you can see by the attached documentation and emails filed with the County of Hawaii and my Council Representative Greggor Ilagan I have been working independently on proven solutions to the County of Hawaii sustainability for Agriculture, Water and Energy. I have been attempting for the past decade to present theories, designs and time proven solutions to County, State and Federal officials on how to make the Island of Hawaii self- sustainable by eradicating the invasive plant species, reduce the insect infestation, provide alternative and renewal energy throughout the Island but I am being officially ignored in organized and coordinated actions by government officials, such as labeling me "Whacky". I understand from a July 17, 2013 telephone call from Council Member Greggor Ilagan that I am being officially ignored and avoided as I, "scare," people. I must totally agree with my Council Representative for when the people of the County of Hawaii learn of the organized Public Corruption, the Sweet Heart deals and Back Room deals that are being made to keep energy cost sky high then Public Officials should have a reason to be scared. On July 8, 2013 at 1:00PM I attended a meeting arranged and scheduled by Council Member Ilagan's office with a Mr. Christian Anderson, Operations Manager for the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems, PISCES. It is advised that this Council contact PISCES Operations Manager, Christian Anderson to understand the simplicity, viability and practicality of my theories, designs and fabrication processes and you will begin to get a sense of just how upset the people of Hawaii are going to be with the County Council, past and current, when the people learn how they are being exploited for the benefit of a ruling class of government officials, politically influential people and corrupt enterprises that influence, control and/or extort public officials and government employees in Hawaii. oha, Comm. „. 3 Ref. To: • A E L Ref. Date L 3 Dan A. Cole r! f.!1 P.O.Box 630 Keaau,HI 96749 USDA, ARS, PBARC Telephone: 966-9229 64 Nowelo Street Email: Cole hawaii@yahoo.com Hilo, HI 96720 Dr.Eric B.Jang 15 April 2013 Director U.S.Pacific Basin Agriculture Research Center ,7) 64 Nowelo Street . Hilo,Hawaii 96720 Phone: (808) 932-2100 RE: Fuel from P a P a Ya, Project to convert waste into energy. L; _ Aloha Dr.Jang. In reference to the April 11,2013 front page article in the Hawaii Tribune Herald,Fuel from papaya, Project to convert waste into energy, I met with the U.S.Pacific Agriculture Research Center Director's Secretary that afternoon. This correspondence is a follow up to that conversation where I discussed my research and design information for various Tropical Fruit Waste to energy designs and technologies in addition to low cost Polarized Ultra-Violate Light Programmable Pulsed Modulated Field Beacons for pest eradication/mitigation I have been working on for the past several years. My research indicates that it is currently commercially viable to convert waste papayas,and other tropical fruit waste,directly into energy and animal feed with minimal energy or labor cost using current industrial and agriculture equipment and processes: 1. By pulverizing the ripened waste fruit to extract the liquid to heat pasteurize, ferment and distill into ethanol. 2. Using the de-liquefied fruit solids to be pelletized and bagged as high quality animal feed. 3. Blending the de-liquefied fruit solids as a binder to wood chips to be pelletized and bagged into wood fuel. Heating a Mainland Home with Fuel from Hawaiian Woods might be a good Marketing Tool. 4. Yeast produced from the fermentation process could be recovered and processed as a commercial product. ... FILE copy 5. Seeds recovered from the process could be processed and bagged for commercial sales. 6. Sale of excess electricity generated from waste converted fuel sources to power electrical generation for processing operations It is conceived that this recovery and use of waste fruit would make it commercially viable for farmers to recover all fruit from the fields reducing the breeding of insects allowing for the effective deployment of solar powered Pulsed Ultra-Violate Light Beacons for pest control. PROCESSING OPERATIONS The recovery and processing of waste fruit to energy could begin with centrally located facility convenient to producers and farmers where the waste fruit would be deposited into ozone treated water baths after which the fruit would be sorted into various ripening piles to increase sugar content. The ripened fruit would then be pulverized with the liquid going to an ethanol fermentation/distillation process and de-liquidized pulp would be dried and bagged as animal feed or blended with wood chips as a binder for wood pellet fuel processing and bagging. The energy to operate the processing facility and to sell on the electric grid would be derived from engines and generators operating directly on ethanol or on the gasification of wood fuel pellets derived from the processing. ADVANTAGES OF THIS PROPOSAL 1. The advantages of utilizing and processing papaya and other tropical fruit waste feedstock provide an immediate product using existing agriculture processes and equipment which are familiar to both the fruit processors and farmers. Profitable commercial opportunities to make in field harvesting of undesired fruit adds to the farmers profits with minimal cost/labor expenses while at the same time reducing breeding ground for insect pest. 2. The marketing of bagged animal feed and wood fuel pellets is already a well-established worldwide industry. 3. The production and sale of ethanol is well understood and need not be discussed. 4. Grid Tie-In electric sales are already established locally and off the shelf commercial generators could be used in the processing operations. • 5. The reduction of green waste in landfills. • 6. Government/Industry grants and partnership availability. I would like to request a meeting to discuss my research in waste to fuel processes and to discuss various methods of insect control using photobiomodulation/acoustic resonance. Thank you for your attention to this request. Aloha, "14. 'd e‘ Dan A..Cole Cc: Dr. Mike Cole,Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry,Australia Hawaii County Councilman Ilagan Dr Mike Cole yy Deputy Chief Plant Protection Officer Y1 'jam AUSTRALIA,!- ' '"'' " Office of the Chief Plant Protection Officer Department of AGRICULTURE FISHERIES & 1 michael.cole @affa.gov.au FORESTRY - , AUSTRALIA www.affa.gov.au 4. a Ph 02 6272-5399 Fax 02 6272-5835 I i 4F : Edmund Barton Building, Barton ACT <r:"Ea GPO Box 858,Canberra ACT 2601 1 Systems Engineering & Development Division TRW Defense Systems Group One Space Park Dan A. Cole Redondo Beach, CA 90278 Engineer Telex #674476 Systems installation& 213.535.4321 Maintenance kogistics Development& Operations Department Print Page 1 of 3 Subject: Re:Agenda Updates for July 23, 2013 From: Dan Cole(cole_hawaii@yahoo.com) To gilagan @hawaiicounty.gov;mwille @co.hawaii.hi.us;kristinhashimoto @ hawaiicounty.gov;wkenoi @co.hawaii.hi.us; jyoshimoto @co.hawaii.hi.us; Governor.Abercrombie@hawaii.gov;bford @co.hawaii.hi.us; letters @ hawaiitribune-herald.com; OccupyHiloMedia @yahoo.com;kristinhashimoto @hawaiicounty.gov; Cc: aphonolulu @ap.org,wht @aloha.net; editor@hawaiinewsdaily.com; Glenda.Paige @hawaii.gov; rephanohano @capitol.hawaii.gov;tcallis @hawaiitribune-herald.com; apereira @kitv.com;tripcityusa @juno.com; Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:31 PM • Aloha Council Rep. Ilagan, et. al., It would appear that the people and businesses' of the County of Hawaii didn't, and don't, have a clue that there was/is such a County Department as the Department of Research& Development that is involved in Current and Future Energy Related Matters for the County of Hawaii even existed. Did I miss something in my July 8, 2013 three hour presentation to the Pacific International Space Center for Space Exploration Systems, PISCSES, that you arranged where I presented the data, technical and engineering information necessary to eradicate the Albizia Trees, eliminate papaya waste, insect infestation and produce a sterilized Bio-Reactor for high volume Algae-Fuel to use in Cold Start Diesel engines for water pumping and electrical generation for off-grid self-sustained agriculture in addition to providing a number of jobs to local people and the spot payment for Papaya/tropical fruit and Albizia/any woody material to people in the same manor as the current HI-5 recycling program where the people of the County of Hawaii would be paid on the spot for the poundage of woody material placed on the scale further establishing multiple resources to develop a Wood Pellet Fuel Industry on the Island of Hawaii and direct involvement and direct profit to the people? If the UHH Geo-Thermal site, centrally located in the heart of Albizia and Papaya Country, and it's current vacant buildings are used for the location of a wood pellet production facility, and where the facility could use the waste heat of the Geo-Thermal re- injection wells to dry wood chips such a use of waste heat would double the marketable Wood Pellet Fuel output in addition to providing Geo-Thermal a 2.2 cents per kilowatt federal tax deduction for the energy diverted from being pumped back into the ground. Did you understand that the extreme profit from my proposal in relation to the huge demand for Wood Pellet Fuel on World Markets would make helicopter logging of the invasive Albizia Trees profitable when waste papayas were used as a binder, not to mention that helicopter logging would not damage the environment and would allow the economical removal of dangerous flora from private lands with a simple release/authorization from the property owner and where the profit from the wood pellet fuel from the logging/removal operation would pay for the cost of removal of the dangerous flora? https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ssl=1 7/17/2013 Print Page 2 of 3 Rep. Ilagan was that person that showed up late for the July 8, PISCSES meeting somehow related the County of Hawaii Department of Research & Development? FYI I am working on a design that will allow the Hawaii Host MacNut processing plant in Hilo to directly use the waste MacNut shells in a bio-mass gasifier to convert the MacNut shells into electricity to operate the processing equipment, dryer fans and to provide heat to dry Mac Nuts to replace the 5,000 gallons of propane currently used monthly. In addition the resultant product residue from combustion of MacNut shells would be will be high quality charcoal for agriculture use. I have also provided you with the technical and engineering information to convert the Albizia Trees and Waste Papayas into Wood Fuel Pellets that can directly replace the fuel oil used in HELCO steam boilers with commercially available off the shelf burner heads where the HELCO boilers could be converted to use Wood Pellet Fuel made from the Albizia Trees with a Papaya Binder during a normal 24 hour maintenance cycle. The Island of Hawaii could be very close to being self-sufficient within a few months and establish a multi-million dollar export industry of Pelletized Albizia Wood, Strawberry Guava, Christmas Berry, Fire Grass, that thorny thing growing above Hilo that ranchers hate, and any other wood mass growing on the Island into Wood Fuel Pellets to fill a great demand in the Japanese Market during that country's conversion away from nuclear energy. Are these topics going to be discussed during the July 23, 2013 Council meeting, RE: Comm. 314??? Aloha, Dan A. Cole Chief Engineering Officer Earth Ship Puns DAC-1 From: Greggor Ilagan <gilagan @hawaiicounty.gov> To: cole_hawaii @yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 4:50 PM Subject:Agenda Updates for July 23, 2013 Aloha , I would like to keep you informed of committee issues that you may find of interest. The next committee day is July 23, 2013 at the West Hawai'i Civic Center in Kailua-Kona, beginning at 9 a.m. For more information on viewing committees or submitting testimony, visit http://hawaiicounty.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click? u=2234debc0b6c5d74da144637e&id=39e87d841f&e=lda6d4f771. Comm. 306 Planning Committee (PC) https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ssl=1 7/17/2013 Print Page 3 of 3 A presentation to the Council regarding the difference between a Planned Urban Development and a Project District by the Director of Planning, Duane Kanuha. Comm. 314 Agriculture, Water&Energy Sustainability Committee (AWESC) A presentation to the Council regarding the current and future energy related matters in the County of Hawai'i by Laverne Omori, the Director of the Department of Research and Development, and William Rolston, Economic Development Specialist Ill. Comm. 339 (Bill 97) Public Works&Parks and Recreation Committee (PWPRC) A proposal of a 35 mile per hour speed limit to be set on private streets or portions thereof in Hawai'i County; and specifically for the Hawaiian Paradise Park Subdivision, Shower, Kaloli, Paradise and Maku'u Drives. Please feel free to contact me . Mahalo! Greggor Ilagan Council Member, District 4 County of Hawaii (808)965-2713 This email was sent to cole hawaiit7a.yahoo.com why did I pet this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences County of Hawaii • 25 Aupuni Street • Hilo, Hi 96720 https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ssl=1 7/17/2013 BRENDA J. FORD Council Member Phone: (808) 323-4277• District 6- Portion of N.Kona, '•`.:��= ,� fl• Fax (808)329-4786 South Kona,Ka`u, & the Greater .. . H►�'�• Volcano Area E-Mail: bford@co.hawaii.hi.us HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL County of Hawai`i West Hawaii Civic Center 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Hwy. Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 DATE: June 4, 2013 TO: Ms. Laverne Omori, Director Department of Research &Development & FROM: Brenda J. Ford, Council Member RE: PRESENTATION BY DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT AND FUTURE ENERGY RELATED MATTERS IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I. This communication is a request to you as the Director of the Department of Research and Development along with Mr. William Rolston, Economic Development Specialist, for a presentation to the Council relating to the current and future energy related matters in the County of Hawaii. This item is being referred to the appropriate committee that is scheduled to meet on July 23, 2013. BJF/la Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island Hawai`i County Is An Equal Opportunity Provider And Employer BRENDA J. FORD r,0,11 \. Council Member . ,�� \" Phone: (808)323-4277 District 6-Portion of N. Kona, ! - ; Fax (808)329-4786 •South Kona,Ka`u,& the Greater ..�.•."• Volcano Area • E-Mail: bford @co.hawaii.hi.us HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL County of Hawaii West Hawaii Civic Center 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Hwy. Kailua-Kona,Hawaii 96740 g o G N DATE: June 12, 2013 rn cp n= .es o TO: J Yoshimoto,Chairperson, And Members of the Hawaii County Council /�,� FROM: Brenda J. Ford, Council Member ,cj.0` SUBJECT: PRESENTATION BY DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH&DEVELOPMENT TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT AND FUTURE ENERGY RELATED MATTERS. Attached please find copy of communication to Ms. Laverne Omori, Director of the Department of Research and Development, and Mr. William Rolston,Economic Development Specialist,to do a presentation to the Council relating to the current as well as the future energy related matter in the County of Hawaii. An hour should be ample time for this presentation. Please refer this item to the appropriate committee to meet on July 23, 2013. Thank you. BJF/la Comm.No Ref.To: Id�� Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island Ref.Date Hawaii County Is An Equal Opportunity Provider And Employer THE SENATE . R. NO . S.D.TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 S. 1 STATE OF HAWAII SENATE RESOLUTION URGING THE INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCIL TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A COMPREHENSIVE INTERAGENCY PLAN FOR THE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF ALBIZIA THROUGHOUT THE STATE; STARTING WITH THE ISLAND OF HAWAII, AND TO PARTNER TO UTILIZE ALBIZIA TREES THAT ARE REMOVED AND URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO INVESTIGATE BIOCONTROL AGENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF ALBIZIA. 1 WHEREAS, the Falcataria moluccana, commonly known as the 2 Albizia tree, is native to the South Pacific and was introduced 3 to Hawaii in 1917; and 4 5 WHEREAS, Albizia is a fast growing tree with shallow roots, 6 brittle wood, and a weak structure; and 7 8 WHEREAS, Albizia's rapid growth rate and soil-altering 9 roots and foliage pose a threat to lowland native forests, 10 falling Albizia trees and branches pose a safety hazard to 11 homeowners and motorists, and Albizia trees have damaged 12 overhead and underground utilities; and 13 14 WHEREAS, Albizia has proliferated on the island of Hawaii 15 to the point where it has become a significant problem; and 16 17 WHEREAS, the Big Island Invasive Species Committee, a 18 voluntary partnership of private citizens, community 19 organizations, businesses, land owners, and government agencies, 20 has attempted to control and eradicate Albizia but has 21 experienced difficulty doing so because of the extent of 22 Albizia' s proliferation on public and private lands and because 23 the Big Island Invasive Species Committee is significantly 24 underfunded at the policy level; and 25 26 WHEREAS, policy-level direction, coordination, and planning 27 are needed to properly control and eradicate Albizia on the 28 island of Hawaii; now, therefore, 29 30 BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-seventh 31 Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, 2013-2008 SR41 SD1 SMA.doc 8 1 1 1 1 Page 2 SR. NO. S.D.' 1 1 that the Invasive Species Council is urged to develop and 2 implement a comprehensive interagency plan for the control and 3 eradication of Albizia throughout the State, starting with the 4 island of Hawaii, pursuant to chapter 194, Hawaii Revised 5 Statues; and 6 7 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Invasive Species Council is 8 urged to find partners to utilize the Albizia trees that are 9 removed; and 10 11 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Agriculture 12 is urged to investigate biocontrol agents for the control of 13 Albizia; and 14 15 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 16 Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of 17 Agriculture and the Invasive Species Council. 18 2013-2008 SR41 SD1 SMA.doc ! 1 111 1 1 1 Print Page 1 of 2 Subject: S.R. NO. 41 S.D.1 —Albizia Eradication From: Dan Cole(earthshippuna @yahoo.com) gilagan@co.hawaii.hi.us;gilagan @hawaiicounty.gov;letters @hawaiitribune—herald.com; To: OccupyHiloMedia@yahoo.com;mwille @co.hawaii.hi.us;kristinhashimoto @ hawaiicounty.gov;ncook- lauer@westhawaiiitoday.com;Govemor.Abercrombie @hawaii.gov; Date: Sunday,June 23, 2013 11:02 AM Aloha Council Rep. Iiagan, In reference to Hawaii Senate Resolution S.R. NO. 41 S.D. 1 introduced by State Senator Ruderman for the purpose to address the Albizia Trees that are eating Puna and eradication efforts, I would like to point out the obvious prior to the July 8 scheduled meeting identified in the attached email with representatives of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploratory System, PISCES. Please note that by using waste papayas to develop a binder substance to add to wood pellet fuel made from Albizia, in addition to the 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour federal exemption for bio-fuel production, the availability of federal and state funding for alternative energies and invasive species eradication, research funding into alternative energies like growing Algae for bio-fuel, in addition to the huge and growing demand in Asia, Japan, China, and Korea for Wood Pellet Fuels it is obvious that by offering $100 - $150 spot payment per ton for Albizia wood placed on the scale the Albizia Trees in Puna, and elsewhere on the Island would be an endangered species in a short time. In addition by developing a waste papaya wood pellet fuel binder, which in itself is a commercial product in demand world wide, any other invasive species in the Islands could also be eradicated by placing a Bounty Payment in addition for tonnage delivery on scale. To target specific locations on the Island for invasive species eradication, like the Christmas Berries in Kau, the Strawberry Guava in Puna, Fountain Grass in South Point, etc..., a mobile scale and chipper station could be placed in the targeted area and the bulk pre- processed wood material delivered to a central facility to be pelletized, bagged and loaded into containers for shipment. NOTE: 40% or more of a wood fuel pellet process is consumed with drying the raw feed stock to the moisture content required for the mechanical pelletizing process. If the Central Pellet Facility was placed at the old University of Hawaii Geo-Thermal site the heat from the re-injection stream after leaving the Geo-Thermal plant and prior to entering the re-injection wells could be used for the drying process increasing the profit of the Wood Fuel Pellet process and enabling higher spot payment for Albizia and other targeted plants. Also note that due to the exclusion zone around the area any noise or other aspects of Wood Pellet Fuel manufacturing would be minimal if any did exist. Please forward this information to Senator Ruderman and the Invasive Species Council to see if they would want to attend the July 8 PISCES meeting also. https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ss1=1 6/23/2013 Print Page 2 of 2 Aloha, Dan A. Cole Chief Engineering Officer Earth Ship Puna DAC-1 Forwarded Message From: "Palacio, Kimi Li"<kpalacio @co.hawaii.hi.us> To:.cole_hawaii@yahoo.com Cc:earthshippuna @yahoo.com Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:36 AM Subject: Electronic Document Aloha Mr. Cole, We spoke on the phone yesterday in regard to the meeting that is scheduled for Monday, July 8 at 1pm that will include Council Member Hagan, PISCES Representative Christian Andersen and yourself. In regard to this meeting, would it be possible to obtain an electronic version of your proposal in regard to: "Fuel from papaya, Project to convert waste into energy"?This is the proposal that the Council Member would like to discuss during the meeting on July 8 but I don't have an electronic version of it to share with PISCES so that they can read it prior to your meeting. I apologize if this is any inconvenience. Please let me know if this would be possible. Mahalo Mr. Cole. I look forward to hearing from you. Kimi Li Palacio Council Aide-- to Hawai'i County Council Member Greggor Ilagan, District 4 kpalaeio hawwvaiicount ,gov Ph. 965-2712 * Fax 965-2707 -Integrity First-Remember the People-Excellence With Aloha- https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ss1=1 6/23/2013 E ° O = • � p U. 0 0+c.4.1•C '...W c . > c C c ; � EE 8 p¢ w > N rot H y o app O, 0 ^ > a a) a -a O m b0 0 " ti � - . C - ' .4•1•11 R ; P. o ; w a . ° r. 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Z E y � w ° b4 O 3 ° D N h . .! c > R a U p p : flJ9f c . , U.0 w ! 3 y 0 E, O yO v o r N T N ,, s C.n r R d U> 'G w. .'IR O .. c � R ,sC no o , .c R N-O iE-•--E•v .2�N v�° o[ � wc . .d C � � E .c C 4. .''.•'7 �.ti >3 "c �p a >•S.' ` 3p ° .g' R R k °. UN . � 3: , Print Page 1 of 6 Subject: RE: Possible Halth Hazzards for the Crew of NASA's HI-SEAS Mauna Loa Project. From: Greggor Ilagan (gilagan @co.hawaii.hi.us) To: Cole hawaii @yahoo.com; Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 6:43 AM Aloha Mr. Cole, I look forward to the meeting with PICSES and hear what they have to say with all your ideas Greggor Ilagan Council Member, District 4 County of Hawai'i Office: (808) 965-2713 From: Dan Cole [mailto:cole_hawaii @yahoo.com] Sent:Saturday,June 15, 2013 12:58 PM To:Greggor Ilagan Subject: Possible Halth Hazzards for the Crew of NASA's HI-SEAS Mauna Loa Project. Aloha Council Rep Ilagan, I have finished the design of the Heat Engines to operate the Solar Powered Thermodynamic Manifold Engine. Now that NASA has funded an additional $1.2M for 3 additional Mars HI-SEAS long duration habitations I believe the facility on Mauna Loa would be idea to test an operating Solar Powered Earth Ship Engine to provide the drinking/bathing water, heating, cooling and ventilation, refrigeration/freezing for food storage in addition to the thermal energy for the cooking and thermal electric energy for LED lighting of the facility. From the HI-SEAS Crew members blogs I have notices some possible serious health/mental problems that have apparently not been considered. The possible presents of infrasonic https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ss1=1 7/18/2013 . Print Page 2 of 6 oscillations within the Dome created by the reaction of the dome and a nearby lava hill to prevailing winds may be effecting the ability of the crew to achieve sufficient REM sleep by triggering the human flight or fight syndrome due to the bodies reaction to infrasonic pressure differentials. If you contact the County Council Services Staff and ask them about the problem I identified to them about the air conditioner ventilation creating infrasonic pressure waves in their office and how quickly this condition was corrected after I presented them documentation on the subject, you can realize what health/mental problems could exist for the HI-SEAS crew living in such conditions 24/7 for 120 days. I also noticed that there is apparently limited natural ventilation and no active ventilation, air filtering or conditioning systems present which would provide a condition for extensive bacterial/mold growth. I have made recommendations about the use of visible Blue 405nm LED lighting to mitigate this condition and deactivate bacterial pathogens in the HI-SEAS environment. I have made comments on the HI-SEAS.org site to call attention these conditions, however it appears from the viewing of these blogs nobody is really looking at them. In the health/mental interests of the HI-SEAS crew I would be willing to meet with the NASA and PICSES engineers to voice these concerns with supporting research. Aloha, Dan A. Cole Chief Engineering Officer Earth Ship Puna DAC-1 From: Greggor Ilagan <gilagan@co.hawaii.hi.us> To: 'Dan Cole' <cole hawaii @yahoo.com> https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ssl=1 7/18/2013 . Print Page 3 of 6 Sent: Monday, June 3, 2013 7:19 PM Subject: RE: Request for Status of the May 31 PICSEC Meeting. Aloha Mr. Cole, I've talked to Rob Kelso and he is open to hear ideas from the community. I'll schedule a meeting to include you. If there are any new information in regards to your ideas, please send me any related materials. Also, thank you for informing me on the notice of violations. Greggor Ilagan Council Member, District 4 County of Hawai'i Office: (808) 965-2713 • From: Dan Cole [mailto:cole hawaii@yyahoo.com] Sent: Monday,June 3, 2013 1:21 PM To:Greggor Ilagan Subject: Request for Status of the May 31 PICSEC Meeting. Aloha Council Rep. Ilagan, I am curious as to the outcome of your scheduled May 31 meeting with PICSES CEO Bob Kelso. I would like to inform you that I have been contacted by neighbors about their receiving Notices of Violation from the County Planning Department, as I have also received a Notice of Violation. It appears that these Violations in HPP were issued by the Planning Department as the result of "Anonymous" Complaints. I am aware that on January 21 of this year Google Earth published a high resolution satellite images of many Hilo and Puna areas. I am very troubled by the appearance that the People's Constitutional rights described in the 4th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America where the people may have been deprived of their State and Federal Constitutional rights and freedoms while County of Hawaii officials were acting under the color of law. Amendment IV [1791] The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized. In viewing the January 21, 2013 Google satellite image my attention was drawn to a land works, or Stream Diversion Works, structure located at 19* 38' 57.51"N and 155* 08' 22.77" W. From the satellite elevations tools provided by Google Earth it is obvious this is a raised https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ss1=1 7/18/2013 Print Page 4 of 6 roadway and in it's location could be construed as a levee at the end of Delima Way. It appears the land works structure was designed to alter a flood condition of a waterway that flows into navigational costal waters of the United States which is a serious violation of the 1887 Federal Harbors and Rivers act, and numerous State regulations for the approval and construction of Stream Diversion Works. From historical data it is construed that this levee/roadway may have been illegally constructed or augmented by debris removed from the Hilo Stream Beds in a 2001 federal funded contract P-3535 and in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1040 Fraud in connection with a major disaster. I bring this observation, and/or Anonymous Complaint to apparent violations of County, State and Federal ordnances and statutes to your attention as a Sworn Official as the information construed from the Google satellite image would identify that this raise structure or raised roadway would prevent or alter the natural flooding pathway of the stream and create a peril to persons and property down stream which may deprive persons down stream of their State and Federal Constitutional rights and freedoms in deprivation of life and property without due process due to the County's apparent involvement in the construction or hiding of the existence of said structure. Please inform me of you actions on the above items. Aloha, Dan A. Cole From: Greggor Ilagan <gilagan @co.hawaii.hi.us> To: 'Dan Cole' <cole hawaik yahoo.com> Cc: "Pankowski, Michael" <mpankowski @co.hawaii.hi.us>; "Hashimoto, Kristin" <kristinhashimoto co.hawaii.hi.us> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 3:20 PM Subject: RE: 18 USC 241 & 18 USC 242 Violations of the People's Constitutional Rights Aloha Dan, My responds are highlighted Blue below. Greggor Ilagan Council Member, District 4 County of Hawai i Office: (808) 965-2713 From: Dan Cole [mailto:cole hawaii@ yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 3:00 PM To: Greggor Ilagan https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ss1=1 7/18/2013 . Print Page 5 of 6 Cc: glenn.s.hara@courts.state.hi.us; greg.k.nakamura@courts.state.hi.us; ronald.ibarra@courts.state.hi.us; susan mollway @hid.uscourts.gov; hugh.r.jones @hawaii.gov; hilopros @co.hawaii.hi.us; 0ccuoyHiloMedia@yahoo.com; mwille@co.hawaii.hi.us; Kenoi William; Chief Police; Hawaii AG; Lincoln Ashida; ncook-Iauer©westhawaiitoday.com; Glenda.Paige@hawaii.gov ; Governor.Abercrombie@hawaii.gov; rephanohano©acapitol.hawaii.gov; oreilly@foxnews.com; tripcityusa@juno.com Subject: 18 USC 241 & 18 USC 242 Violations of the People's Constitutional Rights Aloha Councilmember Ilagan, What is the status on my request to you I filed with your office and the Hawaii County Council Services Office requesting representation to restore my, the people's, state and federal Constitutional rights and freedoms deprived to the people in a pattern and history of racketeering activity by the Hawaii County Police Dept. in conspiracy with the Hawaii County Mayor's Office, et. at., to deny the people their State and Federal Constitutional rights to petition the government in redress of grievance, ie. to file with documented evidence a Police Complaint against Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi for theft of Public Funds involved in the unauthorized and illegal sale of $10M County of Hawaii Bond Anticipation Notes Series "B", to Bank of Hawaii on.March 2, 2011 for the purpose to purchase a $10M Time Deposit Certificate from First Hawaiian Bank at 1/10 the interest the people of Hawaii County were paying Bank of Hawaii for the $10M loan? I'll forward this to Corp counsel and Finance. If you have been following all the scandals in Washington D.C. you have heard the terms 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 242. The Congressional Investigations want to know who knew what and when about the conspiracy against constitutional rights and deprivation of those rights while government officials of the IRS, DO], EPA, were acting under the color of law. Do these terms and phrases about violations of United States Code and deprivation of Constitutional rights and freedoms sound at all familiar to you? I haven't been following up on any scandals in Washington D.C. , but I would be happy to read them if you enlighten me. What is the status of the PICSES meeting with their CEO you mentioned in your last email to me? I will be meeting with Rob Kelso at the 31St of this month. I haven't yet properly met him and after this meeting I will set up another meeting to introduce you and your idea. What is the status of the information and proposal I submitted to the County and the USAD about using the invasive Albizia tree wood blended with waste papayas to make pelletized wood fuel for a very profitable and in demand Japanese pelletized wood fuel market? I haven't contacted the USDA in a while. When I do I'll let you know. Aloha, https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ss1=1 7/18/2013 Print Page 1 of 2 • Subject: RE: Oasis Engine From: Greggor Ilagan (gilagan @co.hawaii.hi.us) To: earthshippuna@yahoo.com; Cc: kristinhashimoto @hawaiicounty.gov; mpankowski @hawaiicounty.gov; Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:58 AM Aloha Dan, I'll relay this information to a representative of PISCES. Greggor Ilagan Council Member, District 4 County of Hawai'i Office: (808) 965-2713 From: Dan Cole [mailto:earthshippuna @ yahoo.com] Sent:Wednesday,June 19, 2013 8:51 AM To: kristinhashimoto @hawaiicounty.gov;gilagan @co.hawaii.hi.us;gilagan @hawaiicounty.gov Subject:Oasis Engine Aloha, If you Google the You Tube video "Isralift Giant Minto Wheel" you will see a working Rotary Heat Engine that is more that adequate to operate the water and hot oil transfer pumps of a large scale Oasis Engine. If you replace the fastest turning chain sprocket with a blade from a Kansas Windmill water pump and place a ring of magnets around the outside circumference of the fan blade you would have the ventilation and electrical generating systems of an Earth Ship Engine. https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ssl=1 7/18/2013 • Print Page 2 of 2 The Rotary Heat Engine design I am working on has a modified metered vaporizer tube so it can operate at 300*F and use gasoline for the thermal transfer mass instead of the expensive and toxic paint stripper used in the Isralift Wheel. Dan Cole https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?retry_ss1=1 7/18/2013 Atmospheric Condensing: A Prosed Solution to Global Thirst ,,,; Page 1 of 9 Atmospheric Condensing: A Proposed Solution to Global Thirst (Submitted to the San Diego Foundation for consideration in the 1999 Blasker Award for Environmental Science and Engineering http://w` w.blasker. `g/) Patrick G. Salsbury saisburit iiisculptors.com Founder,Reality Sculptors http://realitv.sculptors.com/ First Draft: Oct.21, 1998 Abstract: Approximately one billion people on this planet do not have safe supplies of drinking water. This, coupled with poor sanitation, contributes to approximately eighty percent of the world's sickness-. Forty percent of the world's population face water shortages-2, despite the fact that water covers approximately three-fourths of the planetary surface. It flows around us,through us,and falls from the sky. It is perfectly abundant,yet not always in the form we want, nor in exactly the place we want. Sometimes there's too much, oftentimes too little. This research attempts to outline methods for extracting abundant supplies of fresh, drinkable water from the atmosphere. The ultimate goal is to provide a reliable,renewable, and ecologically friendly source of drinking water at just about any habitable location on the planet. This can be achieved without large centralized systems,without economically costly public-works projects, and without the ecologically costly burning of fossil fuels, if so desired. Most people are familiar with the sight of a glass of ice water. It is cold, cool,refreshing, and covered with condensation on the outside. That condensation is forming due to moisture in the air coming into contact with the cold surface of the glass.As the air cools,the gaseous water molecules slow down, begin to accumulate, liquefy, and drip down the glass. This basic principle of water will be explored in the following text, and ways will be discussed to maximize output of useful water,and turn it to the needs of humankind. First, it's necessary to dispel a prevailing myth about water: There is no shortage of water on this planet. There is,however,a shortage of drinkable water. The oceans and seas provide the largest repository of water, approximately 97% of the total water on earth.'This water is,of course, salt water, and undrinkable by humans, so we must intercept our water from other parts of the hydrological cycle. Unfortunately, most sources of fresh water are rather geographically confined. You can't,for example, easily get water from the Great Lakes if you happen to be in the Sahara Desert. Thus,most regions must rely on their own local geography to catch rainfall,and divert it into streams,rivers and lakes. This water will also be retained in the local soil by plant rootmass and underground aquifers, eventually http://sculptors.com/'salsbury/Articles/atmospheric-condensing.html 12/23/2011 , Atmospheric Condensing: A Proposed Solution to Global Thirst Page 2 of 9 making its way back to the sea. (See Figure 1) • vet Figure 1-The hydrological cycle,showing the Earth's water inventory,annual movements of water through the cycle(black numbers),and amounts of water stored in different parts of the cycle (blue numbers). Note the overwhelming dominance of ocean water in the inventory.All quantities shown are x 10^15 kg. Note also that 10^15 kg water= 10^3 km^3.4 Studying the data in Figure 1, it becomes clear just how much water there actually is in the atmosphere. Each unit in the above graphic represents 1000 cubic kilometers of water. That means that there are approximately 13,000 cubic kilometers of water "resident" in the atmosphere at any given point in time. There's always some evaporating someplace,and falling as rain or snow someplace else, but on average, there is an immense amount just floating around. Looking next at Table 1,we see a breakdown of the water supply on land. These numbers are in the same units of measure as above. To put the atmospheric water supply in perspective, there is thirteen times as much fresh water in the air as there is in all of the rivers and streams of earth. The atmospheric water also totals about one-tenth the total of all freshwater lakes on the planet. And due to the constant shifting of the hydrological cycle, any water that we may draw out of the air in one place will be replaced by evaporation someplace else. Table 1—Water on land(x 10 1'15 kg). Rivers and streams 1 Freshwater lakes 125 Salt lakes and inland 104 seas Total surface water 230 Glaciers and ice- 29,300 caps Soil moisture and 70 seepage Groundwater 8,400 t H I http://sculptors.com/--salsbury/Articles/atmospheric-condensing.html 12/23/2011 .Atmospheric Condensing: A Prpgosed Solution to Global Thirst Page 3 of 9 Total on land 11 38,000 , Extraction: The question,of course,is "How do we get at all that water?" And the answer is, "There are multitudes of ways." Rain is simply water condensing around minute particles in the air. Plants at night catch fog and dew, which drips down to their roots. A mature redwood tree can draw up to 500 gallons of water per night from the foggy coastal air of California.C1 Certainly, if Nature can do this, so can humans. Going back to our glass of ice water, we see the basic principle: Have a cold surface, and a flow of humid air going over it. A glass doesn't have much surface area exposed,yet it still produces a fair amount of condensation. So,to reduce it to basic principles, we want something that's very close to zero degrees Centigrade (the freezing point of water),while allowing the water to remain liquid. (Otherwise, we're left with a defrosting problem.)We want to maximize surface area,just like the giant redwoods do,and to maintain good airflow over and around that surface, so as to keep a flow of fresh molecules that may catch and condense on the apparatus. (See Figure 2) r–f- Basic Flow or an Atmospheric ....., Condeneeig System "n-. letPielrywelir 1.101Mandol.smar One t�aw"o.w € / i r+ Figure 2–Basic Flow of an Atmospheric Condensing System It is also important to keep energy input to a minimum. It's certainly not difficult to make something cold(we've had refrigeration technology for about a century and a half),but it's desirable to do it as efficiently as possible. Energy-intensive systems tend to pollute,are more expensive, and will be less likely to be deployed in poor Third World regions where they're needed most. Ideally, a device can be developed that is small,inexpensive,portable, solar powered(solar-electric and solar heat can both be utilized)and able to be left unattended for weeks,months,or years. The author has built a countertop prototype of such a device. This was a proof-of-concept model,and was by no means self-sufficient or solar powered. However, it was able to draw water out of the air in varying amounts,depending on ambient temperature,humidity,etc. It was built from a discarded heater core(a small radiator with lots of surface area)from an automobile,through which ice water(mean temperature of–1 degree Centigrade)was cycled with a recirculating pump from an adjacent reservoir. For the purposes of this test-run, ice water was chosen as a convenient method of keeping the http://sculptors.com/Isalsbury/Articles/atmospheric-condensing.html 12/23/2011 . Atmospheric Condensing: A Prg osed Solution to Global Thirst Page 4 of 9 temperature in the 0-1 degree Centigrade range. It avoided the problems of frost and freezing, while keeping the metal surface of the radiator well below the dew point. It could certainly be done with conventional refrigerant mixes,but would need to be optimized to prevent freezing. Tests were run on a variety of days during the summer and early fall of 1998, in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. At temperatures ranging from about 15 to 32 degrees Centigrade( -60 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit), and relative humidity of between 40-70%,this prototype was able to condense water at rates from 1 cup to 1 quart of water per hour. The heater core had dimensions of approximately 6"x8"x2", but due to the hundreds of folds in the copper metal,had a surface area calculated at just over 1000 square inches, or about 7 square feet. Initial tests revealed that,while water droplets would readily condense on the cold metal, little to none would drip off into a catch basin. Putting a small DC fan near the apparatus to direct a flow of air across the coils produced copious amounts of water, as noted above. Further research and experimentation will be needed to achieve an optimal balance of airflow,temperature control, insulation, etc. With the results shown by this prototype, it is possible to calculate what scaling could do for the total amount of water collected. Taking only 50%of the observed results,to factor in variations that will arise based on temperature,relative humidity, and the like, we still see a condensation rate of approximately 1-pint per hour or 3 gallons of water per day from the small countertop model. Scaling this by a factor of 10,we get a device smaller than an average microwave oven with 10,000 square inches of surface area, and a fresh water output of approximately 30 gallons per day. Variations: Of course,as with most things, "there's more than one way to do it". The countertop prototype used electricity from the wall socket to run the fan,and ice from the household freezer to keep the reservoir cold. This was done mainly because those resources were readily available. This won't hold true in most places,though, so further refinement is necessary. Ironically, it generally takes heat to make cold. Electric refrigerators use mechanical compressors to compress refrigerant gasses. As those gasses expand,they cool off. The waste heat from the compressor is vented to the surrounding area. Propane refrigerators work slightly differently, doing away with the compressor,and using the heat of burning fuel to induce a phase-change in a refrigerant. Solar powered refrigerators can work on either principle. Solar-electric may use electricity to run a "standard" (compressor-driven)refrigerator or solar-heated pipes and refrigerant materials can be employed in much the same way as a propane refrigerator. Using solar power to generate refrigeration seems like a sensible approach, since there's so much incident solar energy hitting the planet daily. A square meter of the earth's surface receives(on average) up to one kilowatt of power per day., Most of this ends up as heat. There are little to none of the attendant problems of pollution that arise from using petrochemicals, and the areas with the most sunshine are often the hottest and driest,thus likely to have a need for a steady supply of fresh water. The Real Goods Corporation sells a solar-powered icemaker that uses no electricity, gas,or Freon. It uses the Ammonia Absorption Cycle, which has been in use since the 1850's. This ice-making machine uses solar heat to store energy in the form of high-pressure ammonia. At night, water is added to the machine. As the ammonia evaporates back into the main chamber, it provides enough cooling power to make ice. Depending on the model of the machine, it can produce between 10 and 1000 pounds of ice per night. Referring back to Figure 2, this solar powered "cold machine" would be able to keep the http://sculptors.com/Lsalsbury/Articles/atmospheric-condensing.html 12/23/2011 • Atmospheric Condensing: A Prsuposed Solution to Global Thirst Page 5 of 9 water in the insulated tank hovering around 0 degrees C,and this chilled water would be circulated through the radiator manifolds to create cool surface area for water to condense on. Cool,drier air is a by-product of the condensing process. In fact, air-conditioners at work in our homes, offices, and automobiles are running condenser setups, but they don't bother to collect the water. By integrating both of these goals, we can arrive at a device that not only conditions the air,but also provides supplies of fresh drinking water. Large universities and some municipalities use the same schematic as shown in Figure 2, but on a macro-scale. They will have a"chilled water plant" that pipes cold water to the various buildings on a campus, and this water then passes through manifolds to cool the air, and remove moisture. Utilizing solar heat and the Ammonia Absorption Cycle,we can get the best of both worlds, and avoid eating up lots of power generated by fossil fuels. Another surprising example of the results possible with condensing is seen in the work of Professor Carlos Espinoza of the Northern University of Chile. He created a prototype condenser unit consisting of 1300 vertical artificial fiber filaments which provided surface area for water droplets to form on and drip into a holding tank. The area in Chile where he was testing the device is very interesting in that it has a heavy coastal fog coming in from the Pacific Ocean, very similar to the fog in the San Francisco Bay Area which the redwoods use for their condensation. Even more interesting is that this region is one of the driest desert regions on planet earth. The average annual rainfall in this area is less than 3 millimeters.` Professor Espinoza's condenser ran for 2 years,yielding an average of 4 liters(7 pints)of water per day. The device had a condensation surface area of about 1.3 square meters and a.3 square meter"footprint" on the ground. It condensed this 4 liters of water per day without using any power whatsoever. Obviously,this design could be scaled to increase the amount of surface area(and thus water collected), but his results as they stand are quite startling. 4 liters per day in a .3 square meter area comes out to 110 centimeters of water per year. Based on area,this rate is about 41%more than the average world rainfall of 78cm/year. o The "Oasis Machine": By tying together the various power and cooling technologies mentioned above,we could build a machine that just sits in the sun,drawing the heat and power it needs to create the cold necessary to run a condenser. This condenser would be able to draw water from the air at night(when the dew point is lower, and air has a higher moisture density),and possibly during the day,depending on humidity level. Water could be dripping off of it'round the clock, and collecting in a catch basin below. By using a pond-liner,11 1 that catch basin can be very large indeed, and water could be retained for future use, without seeping into the ground and disappearing. In essence, it would be like the fountains that are the centerpieces of plazas and villages around the world,but rather than water being pumped in or simply held there,it would actually be condensing there to be used by the people of the village. Imagine, for a moment, some random spot out in the wilderness. By dropping a large pond-liner into a natural depression, and setting up one or more of these "Oasis Machines" adjacent to it,or on islands in the middle,water would begin to collect, and form a quasi-natural watering hole. Over time, (a few years)this oasis would grow to provide a communal gathering place for people, as well as a resource and habitat for animals, birds, and fish. It would function as its natural counterparts,but with the added http://sculptors.com/—salsbury/Articles/atmospheric-condensing.html 12/23/2011 Atmospheric Condensing: A Prcazosed Solution to Global Thirst Page 6 of 9 benefit of being able to be placed,rather than having to rely on just the right natural circumstances.It could run unattended,drawing water from the air with power from the sun,and provide the steady supplies of water necessary for long-term forest communities to develop. If done with an eye towards aesthetics,the Oasis Machine could be disguised to look like a natural feature. Perhaps it might even appear as a large moss-covered rock that drips water into the pond...constantly. By gaining the ability to create oases where desired,humans will be able to begin moving away from the traditional (and damaging)methods of securing a steady water supply. There will be a decreasing need to dam or divert streams and rivers,to flood valleys to make reservoirs, or to pump water up from underground aquifers at a rate faster than they naturally replenish. (Mexico City is a notable problem area for this, and the land in parts of the city is beginning to subside as the underground water is removed and the aquifer compacts. Damage to surface structures is also apparent. People of Egypt and the Sahara are pumping water out of non-replenishing aquifers)- The Gory Details: As noted,there is still much work to be done. The end goal is to have at least two different classes of condenser. One should be large enough to handle the centralized needs of a Third World village or small rural community,and should have the ability to run from solar power, or some sort of fuel, in case electricity is not available. The other should be small enough for an individual home or family to use. It should priced comparable to other mid-range kitchen appliances, such as microwave ovens or bread machines,and output at least enough water to meet the drinking/cooking needs of a family. A third scale would be on the order of the "chilled water plant" designs already in use in some places,although this would entail a much larger investment in infrastructure. There are many devices that could be used either "off-the-shelf' or with only slight modifications to set up a workable arrangement. The aforementioned ice-making machine from Real Goods has been deployed in African villages where there is no electricity. That machine has coils used to generate extreme amounts of cold in order to make ice. Modifying the coils to increase their surface area, and the ammonia mix in that system(so that it doesn't get quite so cold), should allow the reworked machine to draw of a steady supply of clean water from the atmosphere. Conversely, as noted above and in Figure 2,the machine could be used "as-is" to simply provide ice-cold water that was circulated through the condenser unit. There are plenty of photovoltaic cells available on the market today, as well as windmills for generating power. There are super-insulated refrigerators and freezers. Most of the hard work is already done. What's needed now is integration of these various tools,and a way to deliver them to the people that need them most. Since the people who need fresh water the most are also generally the poorest of the poor, relations with the various local governments in drought-stricken and underdeveloped areas will have to be established. By providing an"appliance", rather than proposing a massive, centralized system,we can sidestep some of the pitfalls inherent in traditional public works projects. Decentralized systems tend to be less prone to overall failure. Should one condenser fail in one house,just that house is out of commission. Should a water main burst in a city,thousands of families may be affected. Using off-the-shelf technology is also desirable to achieve economies of scale. Once the initial research and development is completed, condenser units will need to be produced in quantities numbering in the tens or hundreds of millions, at least. (See the opening line of this article's Abstract.)To this end,having a design that is simple, inexpensive, easily replicable,and durable will be of paramount importance. http://sculptors.com/-salsbury/Articles/atmospheric-condensing.html 12/23/2011 Atmospheric Condensing: A Proposed Solution to Global Thirst Page 7 of 9 It is important to stress the durability aspect. All too often,manufacturers start with a robust product, and over the years begin to "weaken" the design, so that it needs replacement intermittently. This should not be the case with Oasis Machines. As noted earlier,there are currently approximately 1 billion people in desperate need of this technology, and about 2 out of 5 people on Earth at least suffer water shortages. There is no need to go down the road of"planned obsolescence" in this market. Aside from the ethical questions it would raise,there is simply no economic need. There is no shortage of people who can make use of this technology, and the Earth's population is not shrinking. The production of a condenser and reliable supplies of fresh water is a standalone goal that addresses immediate needs, and can help to improve standards of living. It is also one step towards the larger goal of providing comprehensive solutions to the vast numbers of humans who don't have enough to eat, clean and safe water supplies, a roof over their heads, adequate power, enough education, or the other components that make for a healthy life on Earth. The initial tests seem to bear out that the theory is sound. Every cold glass of ice water is a testament to the possibility of drawing water from the air.Now what's needed is more rigorous testing to try and maximize water output, minimize production costs, and package it in a manner that makes it accessible to people with no special training(or even interest) in atmospheric condensing. It needs to be as simple as a toaster: Plug it in,hit the button, and it runs. Water,Water,Everywhere: Once the problem of fresh water supply has been taken care of,there are still many other things to deal with, such as keeping the water pure, free of pathogens, etc. There are various filtration and purification systems that can be incorporated into the design. Most likely these would be in the storage or dispensing stages. Chlorinated water is a familiar solution,but other systems,such as ozone treatment or filtration through a household system are also possible.J' New possibilities open up, too. Once a steady supply of water is available, it becomes much easier to raise one's own supply of food. By incorporating hydroponics,bountiful crops can be raised with a minimal expenditure of water as compared to soil-based agriculture,with its heavy water losses due to evaporation, and topsoil losses due to erosion.!* Even in existing agricultural situations,mid-range condenser units can be placed on farm properties to collect and hold water in local ponds or storage tanks,and fed to the local fields without having to run miles of pipes to connect to a municipal supply. This opens up vast new areas to potential farming,areas that are far from man-made water supplies,and which don't naturally collect enough water to sustain farming. The area that Professor Espinoza was researching in Chile is about 160 miles wide,and 2000 miles long,running most of the length of South America. It is one of the driest desert regions in the world,yet by combining condensation technologies with hydroponics technologies,that area has the potential to become one of the most productive and abundant agricultural areas of the planet.!' As one last point of comparison, the average person in the UK uses 135 liters of water per day,as opposed to 10 liters per day in the Third World. ( Clearly, what is needed is not simply more water, but also a rethinking of how we use it,and devices that help to conserve what we do use. Further Reading/Call for Participants: The Reality Sculptors Project hopes to draw together talented and visionary people from around the world to address pervasive social problems such as food, water, and housing shortages. It is the intent of the Project to develop systems such as atmospheric condenser units that can be deployed around the http://sculptors.coml-salsbury/Articles/atmospheric-condensing.html 12/23/2011 • Atmospheric Condensing: A Proposed Solution to Global Thirst Page 8 of 9 world in individual homes,or in villages and towns,to supply people with renewable supplies of fresh water for drinking and agricultural needs. Skills especially useful towards this end are: • Knowledge or experience in refrigeration technologies, solar-electric, solar-heating or water filtration/purification systems • Product design skills • Manufacturing experience,and the knowledge of what it takes to turn a concept into a product in large volumes • Experience dealing with government or independent aid/relief agencies • Experience working with(or in) disaster relief groups(Red Cross,Peace Corps,Army Corp of Engineers, etc.) • Contract negotiation skills • Business Management skills • Investors • A keen interest,and desire to learn any or all of the above Interested readers are encouraged to join the "clean-water" mailing list or any of the other Design Science lists in the Reality Sculptors Project that appeal to them. Complete instructions are available online at http://reality.scuiptors.comilists.html References and Notes: 1 UN Development Program, as quoted in"Naked Body", Summer 1998.Printed by The Body Shop 2 Friends of the Earth, ibid. 3 The Open University ---"Seawater: Its Composition,Properties and Behaviour" 2nd Edition,©1995 , p. 7 4 Graphic and caption text- ibid.,p. 7 (Originally called Figure 1.3) 5 Table reconstructed from Table 1.3 -ibid.,p. 7 6 The author currently resides in the redwoods of Northern California. This factoid arose from conversation with a local historian and environmentalist. 7 Medard Gabel with the World Game Laboratory - "Energy,Earth and Everyone", © 1975,1980,p. 137 - http://www.worldlaame.orgl 8 John Schaeffer&The Real Goods Staff- "Solar Living Source Book", 8th Edition, ©1994 Real Goods Corporation,p. 259 - httpl/wv,-w.realf200C1s.coml 9 Dr. Allen Cooper- The ABC of NFT(Nutrient Film Technique)", ©1996 Casper Publication Pty Ltd.,p. 88 - hap://cwt droponics.coi7].au/ahe of nft.html 10 ibid.,p. 88 11 The Real Goods Corporation sells pond liners like this. They range in size from very small(bathtub- sized)to hundreds of square yards in area. 12 Lester R. Brown and the Worldwatch Institute- "State of the World- 1996" © 1996 by Worldwatch Institute,p. 42 13 There are household filter systems available that are inexpensive and simple to maintain. They can sit in your refrigerator,on a countertop, or attach directly to your plumbing. 14 Patrick G. Salsbury - "Hydroponics and Housing for the 21st Century", ©1996- http: /realitv.seulptors.con!/—salsbury/Articleslhouse.paper.html Margaret Wile = Karen Eoff,Member t• Chair Brenda Ford Member Greggor Ilagan,Member Dru Mamo Kanuha,Member `,�•.: Zendo Kern,Member Valerie T.Poindexter Dennis"Fresh"Onishi,Member Vice Chair J Yoshimoto, Member HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, WATER& ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY 8th Session DATE: July 23,2013 PLACE: Council Chambers r —t West Hawaii Civic Center — 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Building A Kailua-Kona, Hawaii TIME: 1:45 p.m. w =� (Note: Please turn cell phones,pagers and other mobile communication devices on silent mode.) CALL TO ORDER STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA REFERRALS Comm. 277.6: REQUEST FOR CORPORATION COUNSEL UPDATE ON THE MISSLER RULING, INCLUDING WHETHER OR NOT IT WILL REFRAIN FROM APPEALING SAID RULING AS ADVISED BY RESOLUTION NO. 144-13, ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL ON MAY 15, 2013 From Council Member Margaret Wile,dated July 3, 2013. Comm. 314: PRESENTATION BY DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RELATING TO CURRENT AND FUTURE ENERGY RELATED MATTERS IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII From Council Member Brenda Ford, dated June 12, 2013. Comm. 336: PRESENTATION BY DOUGLAS TEEPLE,FOUNDER OF EVHAWAII.ORG, TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES, INCLUDING THE NEED AND OPPORTUNITY OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE LEVEL-III INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII From Council Member Margaret Wille, dated June 19, 2013. ADJOURNMENT Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island Hawaii County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer AWESC-8 Page 2 July 23, 2013 The meeting place is accessible for persons with disabilities. Persons who need special accommodations for this meeting should call 961-8245 by July 18, 2013. Relay users please call 711(961-8245)to contact our office. Public Attendance via Videoconference is available at the following locations until 4:30 p.m., or later in the event public witness testimony has not been completed: • Council Chambers,Hawaii County Building,25 Aupuni Street,First Floor, Suite 1401; • Pahoa Council Office,Pahoa Marketplace, 15-2660 Pahoa Village Road,Room 304; and • Waimea Council Office,Holomua Center,64-1067 Mamalahoa Highway,Suite 5. Public Attendance via Videoconference is available at the following location until 3:00 p.m., or later in the event public witness testimony has not been completed: • Hawaiian Ocean View Estates Community Center,92-8924 Leilani Circle. If for technical or other unanticipated circumstances the video connection cannot be made and/or is disrupted, the scheduled meeting will continue. Copies of this agenda and items listed on the agenda are available on the County Council-Clerk web page at http://co.hawaii.hi.us/council/agendas_and_actions.htm. For further information, please call 961-8245. Submitting Written Testimony: Those submitting written testimony at the meeting should bring fourteen (14) copies for distribution. Public testimony may also be submitted before 12:00 noon on the business day prior to the meeting(1)by mail to the County Clerk's Office in Hilo at 25 Aupuni St., Hilo, Hawai`i, 96720; (2)by facsimile to(808) 961-8912; or(3)by e-mail to counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us. Please submit separate testimony for each item. Submitting Video Testimony: Those submitting video testimony may email a complete web address(url) to videotestimony @hawaiicounty.gov before 12:00 noon on the business day prior to the meeting. The email shall indicate the appropriate Committee or Council meeting, the meeting date, agenda item (communication, bill, resolution, or report number), and number of testifiers on the video submittal. Each video submittal shall be limited to a single agenda item. Video submittals may contain up to three individual testifiers and shall each be up to three minutes in length. Video testimony will not be played during the meeting; however, it will be distributed to Council Members prior to the meeting. The Office of the County Clerk reserves the right to refuse testimony containing inappropriate content or that is not in compliance with Council Rule 13 (Public Statements and Testimony). Viewing of Meetings on Government Access Television - Channel 55: Public Works and Parks and Recreation, Finance, Governmental Relations and Economic Development, and Environmental Management Committee meetings- Tuesdays, July 30 and August 6 at 7:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Planning; and Agricultural, Water and Energy Sustainability Committee meetings- Thursdays, August 1 and 8 at 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. All Committee meetings- Saturday, August 3 at 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. These airtimes are subject to preemption by broadcasts from the State Legislature, and are subject to change by Na Leo `O Hawai`i. Please check the current legislative broadcast schedule on the Na Leo `O Hawai`i website at http://www.naleo.ty/tv-schedules/channel-55/.