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 When Moses led his people through the desert, each morning they awoke to find the ground covered with manna. This sustained them while wandering the desert for forty years. Today we trip over a similar abundance and treat it as a nuisance. We are not even aware of its gift, only its annoyance. We pay people to take it from us yet it possesses the power to free us. Each fall we stand in awe. We watch as the forests turn all of the colors of the rainbow. Her leaves drift ever so slowly to earth, landing silently at our feet. Once grounded we rake and blow, bag and burn them. We toss them to the curb, waiting for our community services to cart them away to be burned, buried or disposed of somehow. These hundreds of millions of tons of biomass, wasted! Give a man a fish and he eats but once. Teach him to fish and he eats forever. The tree represents the fisherman and the leaves, the endless supply of food or fuel. The leaves give us an almost inexhaustible fuel supply. We need to harvest nature’s billions of tons of free biomass material and utilize the great power stored within to power our cities, our cars, our homes, and our world. Why cut down the tree when it will provide manna indefinitely, all the while purifying our air at the same time?

We need to better utilize the enormous energy of the sun. We need to build dished solar collectors made of a polished or mirrored material. The design would be such that it follows the sun. Its shape would focus all the reflected rays into a collector, much like that of a radio telescope. Within the collector would be reduction lenses that would compress the rays, over and over, much like a magnifying glass until the rays could be transferred via microscopic glass fibers to an energy production station or projected through the atmosphere like a laser to the end users.

We need to build steam generators on mountaintops as it takes far less energy to produce steam at altitude. The focused energies described above would be sent to the mountaintops to power these steam generators.

We need to build our skyscrapers with solar glass. By utilizing nanotechnology, (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.html) we can build skyscrapers that have the potential to generate more energy than they consume.

We need to cover our residential and commercial rooftops with solar cells and/or wind turbines.

We need to build desalinization tunnels and lakes, transporting saltwater inland through domed glass tunnels filled with three canals. The glass acts like a greenhouse and allows the sun’s energy to heat the tunnel within. As the interior of the tunnel heats up, the water evaporates and rises to meet the inside of the dome where it condenses and runs down to the outer edges. There it falls into the two outer canals leaving only the center canal with saltwater. As the miles go by, the center canal would hold less and less saltwater and the outer canals would be overflowing with fresh. These freshwater canals can irrigate deserts and/or provide fresh water to cities like Las Vegas. The saltwater at the end would empty into drying ponds. These ponds would be set up where on a rotational basis, they would be allowed to dry and the minerals harvested. Once harvested, they would be refilled and another pond would be dried and harvested. There would be more than enough fresh, clean, pure water for the entire world. Built of nano solar glass, these hundred plus mile long tunnels would produce huge amounts of energy.

We need to utilize the enormous power of the tides and currents with bottom anchored and piling supported generators. Piling supported generators could be attached to bridge pilings for example all along the inter-coastal (along the East Coast). These generators would be underwater and would swivel 180 degrees to produce power on both an incoming and outgoing tide. As the eastern seaboard is thousands of miles in length, there would always be a portion generating while others were standing still. The offshore anchored generators would float, deeply submerged in the Gulf Stream and other underwater ocean rivers. Their turbine like blades spinning continuously, powered by these underwater rivers much like the turbines of Niagara but on a far, far larger scale.

All of the ideas presented here can be accomplished within the framework of our capitalistic society. The manna could create a huge financial crop. The solar collectors and generators could produce so much energy and transport it easily. The skyscrapers would set the new elite standards and command real estate fees to match. Our homes and businesses would set new standards of self sufficiency. The tidal and current generators would produce limitless renewable energy. The desalinization plants could literally turn deserts into cities like Las Vegas. This “Brave New World” started out existing only through the combinations of thoughts gathered over many years. As more and more minds see the picture that has been painted here on this page filled only with words, there exists the possibilities of converting these brain waves into that which we can actually see, touch, breathe and feel. Great men like Carnegie and Flagler had visions of new worlds and the wherewithal to make them happen. We need the next great visionary to step forth to build this new world. My gift lies within my words, my thoughts and my ideas. These are my strengths. Couple these with financiers, engineers architects and planners and together we can build it. What we are looking at is a blank canvas, filled only with flowery thoughts. With each stroke of the brush, with each and every added color, we come closer to an everlasting memorial of how beautiful we can leave this planet with which we have been entrusted. Won’t you please join me to help make this happen and become one of your mother earth’s guardian angels?

With All Sincerety,

Steven A. Schnitzer