Aerospace Newsletter
Special Edition
Vol 3, October 2007
In this Issue
UCC Graduates
Congrats to all the Officers that graduated from this past weekend Unit Commanders Course. Well done!!!!
SLS Nov 10th & 11
There is still time to register for the SLS this coming November
Articles
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Oil Wells in Our Cities
Oil Wells In Our Cities – by 1Lt Lopez
Wrongs made Right
In your deepest thoughts would you ever imagine that our cities contain oil wells, that they could fuel the needs of our near future without effecting the environment? As matter of fact our environment will he helped by more than 80% from common fossel fuel.
In order to maintain GREEN (environment friendly); humankind is taking steps in correcting the wrongs that were committed in the past. Wrongs like; Carbon emitions, trash all over, materials meant for one use, cutting of trees, crops grown for one use and others. Now, technology has increased our ability to provide products with multi-uses, safeguarding our future. Green Products are now the norm. All products are now eco-friendly…from houses to cars, from corn to clothes, from cities to desserts. Our cities are now built with the same thought.
Now our cities have buildings with roof top gardens with trees, flowers, water fountains, side walks, birds, … Small ecosystems that help the building maintain its heat, air conditioning, light, hot/cold water in all the roof top garden help decrease the energy bill. Less energy used, the less the building impacts the environment, making it Green. And where there was waste is now multi-use. The roof top garden is now providing a place in the cities away from traffic, city noise and people. The rooftop provides a sanctuary for living.
Staying green is now an everyday event. Recycling of trash (waste management), donation of our un-used items (household items to clothes), crushing our cars and appliances for the value of the metals, crushing our computers and monitors for their valuable metals and plastic, crushing of crops to produce fuels and lubricants, use of crops to produce multi-foods has not only helped in trash reduction but has created many different businesses in waste management and control. It is this industry that has developed the entrepreneurial spirit that is helping improve this industry and the creation of jobs. This spirit once set in motion becomes a contagious motivating factor.
Every drop we save is equal to that many trees saved, that much less we need to import, that much less US dollars leaving our country, that much less dependency on many other things. One drop saved is maybe the difference between having a future of our own or having a future that some other country owns. A lot is riding on our dependency. We are long time oil use addicts and getting us off the stuff will require all of us to take one step at a time. We have a good start.
Old Becomes New
You have heard it before, “the more things change the more they stay the same”. While the advent of extracting oil from a plant is nothing new, science is using these methods and improving them to extract the fatty acids in the plants in order to produce fuels from the very same plants that produce our foods. In todays world, changing the future where nothing will go to waste is our goal. Plants have and will continue to provide our clothes. Insects have and will continue to provide the chemicals for clothing and other purposes and science will continue to improve our lives with their help.
Our Cities more and more are establishing laws that will make residences and businesses increase recycling efforts. These efforts are getting better everyday. The trash is being sorted and landfills are receiving more energy generating items (biodegradable). Waste Management is becoming one of the biggest industries in the country. Their skill and knowhow is producing many products out of our trash. Electricity, methane gas and compost are a few of the products that help to run cities and power plants and food production. The landfills are becoming Parks and Golf Country Clubs. Multi-use and renewal is the current rule. There are many topics like this one that can each be a deeply explored individually and can fill volumes.
Our food Industry
Our food industry is one that produces many different types of trash. Each city has thousands of restaurants alone. Multiply them by so many cities in the nation and that will give you an idea of how much waste exists daily from them. Food waste, paper, cans, and glass all would end up at the landfill and our water supply, until laws were established. One of those laws prohibits this, requiring the industry to have this item properly disposed. Grease is a mix of many other chemicals, oils, food items, dishwater, liquids and other things. A hauling company is required to cart away this chemical mess.
Not so long ago, this chemical mess would be sorted out and each by-product would be disposed of individually. This was the beginning of our recycling efforts. Now, science has and continues to invent in ways of working on this mess, producing fuels specially made to support the Aviation industry; fuels that can cost less per gallon to buy, give out less emissions and be cheaper to produce; allowing us to provide more, replacing our addictive need on imported oil, replacing over 40% of our import need. This innovation will also have an impact on other industries.
There’s Oil In Them Thar Hills
Imagine this: you are walking in Any City USA. You walk into a restaurant ask for beacon, eggs, some fries, cup of coffee. You sit without giving any thought to what is going to happen, how they cook your food, or what happens after the day is over for this restaurant or how the law effects their bottom line and the way they operate. What do they do with the greasy mess produced that day?
That day; while you were sitting eating your breakfast a truck pulled in. The truck driver spoke to the restaurant owner and went to the basement, pulled out big hose into the basement turned on the pump. You thought nothing about that. You finished and left.
The truck took away a messy mixture of contaminates that looked like a collection of the worst things you can imagine. This mess now arrives to the processing plant were it is distilled like crude oil. This process separates the oils, waste and other contaminates.
The viable oils are then scientifically processed and it is during this process that a fuel is created especially with the aviation in mind. This fuel is cost effective and high octane. This fuel will allow more mileage per gallon than standard gasoline. 80% of all jet fuel will be composed of this new fuel and as jets become bigger, fuel efficiency becomes even more important. More people per flight, better fuels equal more profits and more jobs. Economics 101.
The oil in our cities is vast. Mini-oil fields exist underneath every restaurant in the USA. Entrepreneurs with vision are all that is needed to advance this new industry to the production levels needed NOW! These oil fields exist NOW!
Group 3 Aerospace Education Officer
1Lt. Ozzie Lopez
215-548-0927
aerospacenuts003@yahoo.com
“Where no one has gone before”
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