NOTE: Audio for this post is accessible at the end
In commemoration of my 100th podcast, I have provided you with introductory threads about the unique attributes of energy efficiency and reforestation as the best means to combat global warming. Last time, I laid out for you the fact that the Interstate Traveler has components of both, including through recent additions to the solar-powered hydrogen rail initiative.
Now, it’s time to hear from Justin Sutton in his own words. As follows is the abridged textual version of my third interview with this genius. At the end of the text, you will find the audio player to hear the telephone exchange in its entirety.
Mister Sustainable: Even under ideal conditions, high-tension wires lose 10% or more of the current flowing through them to heat and other inefficiencies. How efficient will the conduit cluster inside the Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Superhighway be for transmitting high-voltage electrical service?
Justin Sutton: The Hydrogen Super Highway, or HyRail for short, hosts a redundant set of what is known as high-temperature super conductor cables, or HTSCs. They are called “High-Temperature” super conductors because of the unique metallurgy that enables super conducting properties at the temperature of liquid Nitrogen which is about -196 degrees Celsius – pretty is pretty cold stuff – but not nearly as cold as liquid hydrogen which is -252 degrees Celsius. The breakthrough innovation of HTSC was the creation of the unique metal that works at liquid Nitrogen temperatures, which has enabled the development of cables that can be charged with liquid Nitrogen and installed into conduits like our conduit cluster. Until this new metal was developed, the only way a super conduct could be made was in a laboratory using liquid Hydrogen which was next to impossible to make into a cable. These cables have the ability to distribute a massive amount of electrical energy with nearly zero resistance which enables the power companies to save the energy that is lost in traditional high-tension lines. What is more, the use of HTSCs enables the distribution of lower voltage which reduces the coronal discharge, or ambient electromagnetic energy the can light up florescent tubes at a distance.
Mister Sustainable: In his Pickens Plan, noted energy trader T. Boone Pickens advocates the broad adoption of wind power in the United States. Many leading environmental organizations have fallen in behind him but at present, the American electrical grid has several large gaps in areas which are ideal for the construction of wind power. Can construction of the Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Superhighway along all 54,000 miles of Eisenhower expressway alleviate this problem and provide an electrical pipe for the gigawatts of wind energy which will come online in the next decade?
Justin Sutton: Yes! The National HyRail, which refers to the Hydrogen Super Highway built along the Eisenhower Interstate Highway network, can provide more than just the ability to distribute the power from wind farms. The National HyRail can buffer and store the energy produced until it is demanded by the customers our on the national energy grid. Even more beneficial to the Pickens Plan, the Conduit Cluster has the ability to provide a massive pipeline to store and distribute Natural Gas and other viable fuels to feed market demand as we transition away from fossil fuels in the coming decades.
Mister Sustainable: One of the greatest challenges facing the growth of the American economy is the need for new corridors for high-tension power lines through areas which already are populated. Can the Interstate Traveler eliminate the need for new power lines and/or eliminate existing lines?
Justin Sutton: Yes! The HyRail can certainly provide the distribution capacity demand of today’s market on into the future. Even more exiting, the HyRail system of systems creates a financially viable method to replace existing high-tension lines with a safe and resilient elevated rail that can distribute power down the established corridors while enabling the valuable real estate to become safe for public use. This will enable the power distribution companies to not only save money by reducing the energy losses to next-to-nothing, but also reap the benefits of safe and desirable land corridors for housing, shopping and entertainment.
Mister Sustainable: An aspect of the fight against global warming which receives inadequate attention is reforestation, the replanting of trees in order to sequester carbon naturally and help the atmosphere regulate temperature. A leading advocate of reforestation is the United Nations, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Under the auspices of the United Nations, the 10 Billion Acres project has begun to gain traction and its overarching vision includes a concept known as the Grand Arbor. You recently launched the Grand Arbor Carbon Sequestration Program within the Interstate Traveler Company. Would you elaborate on this, please?
Justin Sutton: The Grand Arbor Carbon Sequestration program is a very important program, perhaps the most important for the future of our global climate change issues. It has been known to science and historians that human activity has brought about the destruction of billions of acres of forests world wide over the last 500 years. This has created a terrible imbalance in the carbon/oxygen cycles of the natural ecosystems and, sadly, has destroyed the unique habit of countless species that are now extinct. The Grand Arbor Carbon Sequestration program employs the HyRail to create a constantly flowing supply of water to replant millions and millions of acres of trees in places where they have not stood for hundreds of years.
Beyond that, it is known that desertification has rapidly increased with the Sahara and the Gobi marching forward and relentlessly overwhelming once viable agricultural land. The Grand Arbor will not only enable the sequestration of millions of tons of carbon in the form of natural vegetation, but will also reclaim parched landscapes for future generations of people to enjoy an agricultural system that will work relentlessly for hundreds of years into the future.
Mister Sustainable: Another exciting project of yours is the Hydroponic Traveler. In addition to supplying desolate areas with an agricultural corridor, I understand that the Hydroponic Traveler can sequester about 24 tons of carbon per year for each mile of rail. Wow! How will this be achieved?
Justin Sutton: Yes, the Hydroponic Traveler is the key to halting the terrible desertification of lands that had once supported hundreds of thousands of people. As the core technology of the Grand Arbor Carbon Sequestration program, the ability to deliver Hydroponic grade solutions will enable the fortification of soils, and the creation of new compostable soils in areas that are parched and dry.
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