The health crisis

THE ENERGY CRISIS

The world’s energy supply is dwindling. Demand is increasing. In the coming years, oil-rich countries will be in a position to put a stranglehold on energy-starved nations. The global economy will shift. Power struggles will ensue. It is imperative that new energy sources be explored and implemented quickly. The United States alone uses approximately 21 million barrels of oil per day or 7.7 billion barrels of oil per year. Imports provide 12 million barrel per day or approximately 4.5 billion barrels per year. These imports currently represent 58% of domestic use.

Estimates of future supply and demand show declining domestic reserves and increasing demand. To meet these requirements, imports must increase in the short term. The U.S. does have substantial coal reserves, but using current technologies, these resources cannot be utilized as alternative sources to meet our projected shortfall. Future energy requirements need to be given priority and all viable options must be explored, including a real effort to develop and sustain an alternative fuels portfolio.

CWT is giving the world an opportunity to avoid the approaching crisis with a technology that can extend current reserves by reforming carbon-rich industrial waste into renewable sources of energy.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS

The earth is not only getting dirtier, but warmer as well. In fact, the rate of global warming during the past twenty years was eight times greater than that of the past one hundred years.

Many scientists predict devastating results for the ecosystem as we know it. As the polar ice cap continues to melt, and ultimately breaks apart, sea levels will begin to rise dramatically. Weather patterns and precipitation will be altered. Forests, crop yields and water supplies will be depleted. As storms intensify, soil quality will decline and deserts will be formed. Rangelands will become wastelands. This may not be a pretty picture, but it may represent an accurate portrait of Earth’s ecological future, should global warming continue unchecked.

The problem arises as the concentration of greenhouse gases increases. Our industry-driven world is feeding our atmosphere with enormous amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. The accelerated burning of fossil fuels, increased agriculture, advancing deforestation, landfill expansion, expanded industrial production and mining are suspected to be the prime causes. Global warming is the result.

Global warming can be delayed. Controlling the Earth’s carbon cycle is the key. The truth is, carbon exists in most forms of organic matter. Plants absorb it. Animals consume plants. Animals die, decompose and are once again absorbed by plants.

A committed global shift to the Thermal Conversion Process would allow carbon deposits below ground to remain there. All surface objects, both organic and man-made would exist only as temporary carbon carriers. At the end of their usefulness, they would be converted by TCP technology into short-chain fuels, fertilizers and industrial raw materials. People and plants would then reconvert them into temporary carbon carriers once again. Because the only carbon used would be that which exists above ground, the opportunity for CO₂ to further increase and accumulate dangerously in the atmosphere could be virtually eliminated.

TCP technology. A real solution that we can all warm up to.

THE HEALTH CRISIS

Recent outbreaks of Influenza, Mad Cow Disease, Hoof and Mouth contamination and pesticide poisoning underscore the immediate need to re-evaluate food chain issues. Probably the most serious threat is the proliferation of dioxin in the atmosphere. Through food intake alone, Americans are ingesting up to 22 times the daily exposure considered safe by the EPA. The ingestion of this material is unavoidable, since it exists in plants, water and soil, and bioaccumulates in animal fats. These deadly chemicals are highly persistent in the environment and in living organisms. What’s more, their concentrations increase as they biomagnify up the food chain. They cause cancer, inhibit growth, and play havoc with immune systems. Dioxin poisoning is a nasty business, and it’s real.

Who is responsible? Waste incinerators, commercial facilities and individuals (combusting garbage) are primarily responsible for the dispersion of these toxins. Dioxins are produced primarily through the combustion of chlorine-based materials such as PVC plastic, chlorinated solvents and pesticides. The incineration of these products spews deadly dioxin into the atmosphere where it is transported long distances, settling on plants and imbedding itself into soil and water sediment. Because these compounds decompose very slowly, they lay in wait to be consumed and spread throughout the food chain.

While the hysteria over Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease, has proven far greater than the actual risk to humans, BSE and other protein-based diseases still pose a real threat to the food chain. This is especially true of countries lacking sufficient governmental monitoring and testing of livestock. BSE is still a widespread concern on the European continent. Worldwide, the disposal of livestock waste has become more than a health concern. It has become a serious economic and environmental issue, as well.

Toxic chemicals, organic contaminants, and other pathogens don’t have to be dumped, buried or burned anymore. These harmful waste streams can now be transformed into safe, precious fuel, gases and carbon products by utilizing the TCP technology.

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

Globalization, corporate downsizing, offshore outsourcing and productivity quotas have become economic buzzwords, reflecting recent trends in industrial practices. These methods have caused hardship and the loss of manufacturing jobs in the industrialized economies.

One way to reverse the effects of this economic malaise is to encourage the influx of new products and technologies into the marketplace by encouraging companies to reinvest in R&D. During these transitional times, most companies have cut budgets for product development, settling instead to produce known commodities.

The TCP “Waste-to-Oil” technology can be the seed of a new growth industry that could potentially generate numerous industrial job opportunities and produce affordable and plentiful energy streams, while eliminating the major problems of pollution and waste management.

THE TECHNOLOGY CRISIS

 
Fewer Nobel Prizes have been awarded to American scientists. Published research has fallen precipitously. America’s share of industrial patents has fallen steadily in the last 20 years. All of these are signs that American dominance in education, talent and ingenuity is declining. Economic globalization is taking its toll.

A reduction in both government and corporate spending in the areas of research and development is a major cause of this decline. Fewer scientists are being produced by our educational system, and fewer students, particularly from Asia, have opted to study in the United States. As young Americans shun scientific careers, and the present technical workforce ages, the scientific gap will widen. These factors paint a gloomy picture, and will cause technical innovation to be less of a driving force behind the U.S. economy. In particular, breakthroughs in medicine, environmental control and energy innovation will be developed in other countries. The implications for new jobs, industry growth, national security, and our standard of living are ominous.

The United States is entering a lone struggle to retain world leadership in science and technology. It is paramount that both government and corporate America invest in our native talent and encourage a renaissance of research and development. Breakthroughs like the TCP technology will continue to stimulate research into related technologies, as long as companies continue to reinvest in new ideas.