INTERGOVERNMENTAL HIGHER ACADEMIC COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES WORLD REGISTER OF ELITE SCIENTISTS FIFTH WORLD ANNIVERSARY WORLD SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS Application for Registration as a Scientist for the 5th Anniversary World Scientific Congress 1. Surname: Blake First Names: Charles Arthur 2. Date of Birth: 04-1-1952 Sex: Male 3. Country and Nationality: Australia 4. Institution, Company and Specialty: BLUE OCEAN SENTRA SEJAHTERA LTD, Hong Kong 5. Academic Degrees: Ph.D. 6. Place of Employment: Address: 22A Wing Sing Commercial Centre 12-16 Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong 7. Position: Chief Operating Officer 8. Experience: Environmental Engineering 9. Specialty: Sustainable Economic Structuring of Environmental Management Technology Assessment and Futurist. 10. Home Address: 46 Chisholm RD, Carrara, Queensland, Australia 4211 Home telephone +61755784530 Mobile Telephone: +61(0)408011216 11. E-mail: cblake@onthenet.com.au 12. Suggested Report/Programs: In Absentia: The scientific methodology behind sustainable economic and environmental empowerment. Date: October 25, 2013 Signature: 1 The Fifth World Scientific Congress (WSC) Science - for Humans and Humanity 5th International Congress Saint-Petersburg, Russia. November, 27-29, 2013 "The scientific methodology behind sustainable economic and environmental empowerment” By Dr Charles Arthur Blake “There is no such thing as waste, only misplaced resources” Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) 5th Elite Scientists Conference 2013 Full Name: Dr Charles Arthur Blake Degrees: Positions: Ph.D. BLUE OCEAN SENTRA SEJAHTERA LTD, Chief Operating Officer Contact: Skype: cblake@onthenet.com.au charles.blake4 Report Subject: "The scientific methodology behind sustainable economic and environmental empowerment" Type of participation in the conference (Report "in absentia") 3 "The scientific methodology behind sustainable economic and environmental empowerment" "There is no such thing as an environmental crisis. There is an infrastructure crisis and the infrastructure crisis is caused by an ethical crisis" Charles Blake It is appropriate that the above quote be given some explanation such as to give some understanding as to the gravity of its meaning. This can best be achieved by providing background on what could be described as the Law of Ethical Ends. The Law of Ethical Ends was brought to my attention by Professor Robert Pope, director of the Science Art Research Centre in Australia. Prof. Pope authored a book in the 1980s called "Two Bob's Worth " and having graciously presented me with a copy, he went on to explain the concept of the Law of Ethical Ends. He put it to me in simple terms: The Law of Ethical Ends is an immutable natural law, which was first set down by the Greeks in the third century. The law speaks to the mutual responsibility to accept a "Duty of Care" in respect to life and the Earth and the Cosmos. He went on to say that human beings develop their systems of governance based on their understanding of science. If a community's understanding of science did not include the Law of ethical ends, then the governance resulting would be death producing not life producing. To the extent that a community adheres to the Law of Ethical Ends, the community generates the underpinnings of abundance, civilisation and justice. As a result of further studies conducted by Prof. Pope and the Science Art Foundation, a “SCIENCE-ART DUTY OF CARE OF LIFE PROCLAMATION” (23rd April 2013) was issued. Part of this document explains that the University Library of Cambridge contains the unpublished scientific papers of Isaac Newton (pub.1962). These documents were studied by the Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, Richard Gregory and in his paper, Alchemy of Matter and of Mind, (Nature, Vol. 342, 30 Nov, p.473) in which he proclaimed “...Newton's conviction that mechanical science had to be completed by a more profound natural philosophy...”. Prof. Pope points out that Newton's physics principles for balancing the mechanical world view were the same ones that upheld the atomistic Platonic Science for Ethical Ends, referred to by Sir C P Snow as the Arts." In a document titled "Human Survival Timeline to the 21st Century Renaissance" Pope refers to the book called Interference by Dr Merrick of Texas University. The document goes on to say that scientists proposed that the electromagnetic motor driving the sperm to the ovum is morphed by the female electromagnetic field into a centriol which in turn energises the first bone created in the embryo with the same life forces discovered in the morphogenesis of sea shells as discovered previously by the Science Art Foundation in the 1980's. This resonating electromagnetic Platonic "Music of the Spheres" contains the ethical purpose of the universe and is transmitted to the cerebral and emotional mechanisms within the human metabolism. We see here a direct transference of the immutable laws taking a direct effect on physical manifestation of the body and applying directly to human behaviour. This implies a direct link between the physical and the metaphysical. It is beautifully described by Randy Powell of Marko Rodin's Vortex Based Mathematics that he refers to as "The Finger Print of God". Randy Powell writes, "The number nine lines up in the centre of the Infinity symbol and it is from this centre that the linear emanations we call spirit emanate from the centre of the mass outputs. Spirit is the only thing in the universe that moves in a straight line. Spirit is the inertia aether that Einstein postulated. The perfect number patterns are actually created by this Spirit energy. Without spirit the universe would become destitute and void. Spirit flow is the source of all movement as well is the source of all non-decaying spin on the electron." Many other scientists describe the phenomena which are clearly an interaction between physical and metaphysical that demonstrate unequivocally that reality is balanced between the autopoietic forces of selforganising criticality or neg-entropy and the dissipative dynamics as defined in Nicholas Carnot's (1796-1832) Second Law of Thermodynamics. Nature and common sense demand balance but "Science" appears to favour the realms of dissipation and sciences oriented toward life forces are virtually shunned. Other great researchers and scientists have suffered for engaging in research in the realms of life force. One such researcher is Viktor Shauberger (1885-1958) who spoke of the life creating emanations he referred to as "qualigens'. Viktor Shauberger was vocal in his condemnation of the pathway of western science saying that it derived its energy from the dissipative, combustive, explosive dynamics of dissipation as opposed to the creative life giving energy concentrative forces of implosion which he vigorously espoused. He warned the world that to continue this path would result in self annihilation. This warning has been to no avail. Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) also identified and measured a life creating force created in part by the process of orgasm which he referred to as Orgone Energy. Reich wrote and taught about Orgone, its importance in dissipating fascist inclinations in the domestic, social and political context and even how it could be applied to make it rain. However he was thwarted and harassed in his endeavours with his books being publicly burned in the USA. Wilhelm Reich warned too of the deadly effect atomic radiation could have on Orgone Energy, giving it life destroying characteristics. Again to no avail. Physician, surgeon, scientist and writer, Dr. Charles W. Littlefield is best known for his book, "Man, Minerals, and Masters", in which he gives account for an extraordinary yet apparently true report of a saline solution, " with salt as the basis, saturated with oleo-resin, and exposed for several hours to an atmosphere of free ammonia..." and reduced to a powder, that could resurrect the dead. Numerous accounts are made relating to drowned dogs, cats and monkeys successfully resurrected after having been dead for hours. This occurred in the 1918 and yet nearly one hundred years later his work remains un-replicated or even properly investigated. What could be vital now when Planet Earth is undergoing possibly its biggest extinction event ever. An extraordinary husband and wife team who divined knowledge from "The One" source of life is Dr. Walter and Lao Russell. Dr Russell wrote over a period of seven years a book called "The Universal One" published in 1927 in which he describes a cosmology with significantly greater understanding than the so called "Standard Model". He warned the world about the predicament that we now face in Fukushima in his book "Atomic Suicide" published in 1956. To this day The educational and scientific communities show scant regard for his magnificent work largely because of its divine origins. After twenty four years engaging with heavy industry, as well as federal, state and local government, it is very clear to me that Isaac Newton and all those above mentioned were correct and that the approach being taken in both corporate and public governance is clearly operating without any concept of the Law Of Ethical Ends which recognises that matter and spirit are inseparable. The governance prevailing from the United Nations all the way down through to banks, corporations, national governments and councils, is structured with an outcome that is clearly death producing, not life producing. The processes of centralisation and corporatisation appear to be the methods of contraction of diversity and concentration of power. What is clear, is that entities operating outside of Newton's "more profound natural philosophy" have scant regard for the actual business and well-being of life itself in the face of the need to make a profit and maintain control. Centralisation and corporatisation reduces the possibility of innovation. By restraining the options that corporations and communities can exercise, it inherently limits innovation. Additionally, a heavy toll is paid in terms of the loss of individual, community and national sovereignty. Moreover the toll on the environment is increasingly devastating. In surrendering our power to centralised money, governance, energy, food production, medicine, water management, waste management, communication and the press, education, transportation technology etc, the people no longer have any ability to provide feedback, influence production, generate their own energy or determine how it is that they live. It is not hard to see the evidence of our current death producing systems of commerce and governance: Consider the extraordinary and ever increasing assault on our oceans through overfishing, noise, uncontrolled loss of containment of plastics, pharmaceuticals, soluble and insoluble petroleum products and certainly not last or least, the huge impact on the marine environment occasioned by loss of containment of nuclear waste. On top of this consider the damage to the air and water, agricultural soils are diminishing in volume and nutrition levels, desertification is increasing and there is an unprecedented and never before seen assault by Corporation on the genetic integrity of many foods species in agriculture. It is widely reported that the population of bees has fallen by more than 90%. In addition we have the impact of all manner of electromagnetic radiation, wireless frequencies, Wi-Fi devices and smart meters. 5 If that is not enough, poisons are put in our food in the form of pesticides fungicides herbicides, antibiotics, preservatives, colorants, emulsifiers, and sugar not to mention fluoride and chlorine. These find their way into our bodies, and through our bodies into the earth, the waterways, then into the oceans and even into the air from spraying operations. Consider also the extraordinary and ever increasing assault on our oceans through overfishing, noise, uncontrolled loss of containment of plastics, pharmaceuticals, soluble and insoluble petroleum products and certainly not last or least, the huge impact on the marine environment occasioned by loss of containment of nuclear waste. On top of this is the damage to the air and water, agricultural soils are diminishing in volume and nutrition levels, desertification is increasing and there is an unprecedented and never before seen assault by Corporation on the genetic integrity of many foods species in agriculture. It is widely reported that the population of bees has fallen by more than 90%. In addition we have the impact of all manner of electromagnetic radiation, wireless frequencies, Wi-Fi devices and smart meters. If that is not enough, poisons are put in our food in the form of pesticides fungicides herbicides, antibiotics, preservatives, colorants, emulsifiers, and sugar not to mention fluoride and chlorine. These find their way into our bodies, and through our bodies into the earth, the waterways, then into the oceans and even into the air from spraying operations. If we continue with the constractionist unbalanced approach typicalised by Newtonian physics without its complimentary "More Profound Natural Philosophy" then death awaits most life forms on this planet. A possible Mitigating Factor By what means could it be possible that people in communities might by some means regain their power to self determine? This could be, at the local level, to regain control of the two principal means of their disenfranchisement, namely; through the access to energy and money. Our relationship to rubbish, is frankly “rubbish”. Twenty four years in the waste management industry technology evaluation and alternative energy, has given me rise to the cognisance of the requirement to identify and select technologies that enable the closing of the material and energy loops at a molecular level. My ultimate vision is to close all the material and energy loops that are initiated by the entry of materials into our industrial and domestic cycles and have the value derived vest with the communities who consumed the commodities. Our current consciousness around the subject of waste disposal is constrained by the view that waste is simply “waste” and not misplaced resources as suggested by Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). Our waste management processes are centred squarely on saving money. Not upon regarding waste as a resource and implementing the construction of appropriate infrastructure to recover and refine all the elements received by which they can derive the value from it.. In the process of conducting mass and energy balances of waste management protocols related to technology assessment, I have found the subject of mass and energy balance to have been instructive on a grand scale. Not only for understanding waste and energy management, but also as a means of understanding the natural processes and cycles of life. Getting back to the question of waste, there are many available technologies that are capable of being applied to waste in order to provide a source of revenue and usable commodities. They must however vest with human beings to deliver the required effects. While technology is important, what is more important to humanity is the a vision is created with adherence to natural laws. It is the vision of how we want to manage our industrial lives that informs the selection of technologies. Indeed, there are many pathways that can be used to arrive at the destiny selected by the vision. If we get the vision right, the appropriate technologies can be sourced or developed to meet the objective. The advent of a number of technologies hold the possibility of achieving this by: converting the energy embodied in waste into liquid and gaseous carbon based fuels and polymers converting the solids into high purity commodities: silica, calcium, etc as well as ubiquitous metals such as aluminium, iron and precious metals such as silver, gold and rare earths in the form of high purity commodities converting high purity material commodities into sophisticated consumer products thus closing the loop. The continued evolution of 3D printing is an enabling technology to engage in manufacturing at cottage industry scale with a sophistication previously exclusive to multinational corporations Currently the closure of material and energy cycles is scant, inadequate and ill informed. Ironically, the technologies currently exist to do otherwise. Mass and Energy In order to qualify that this change is possible, it is important to clarify what is meant by mass and energy balances. In the context of this document, which is specific to the evaluation of technologies for the conversion of waste into commodities, let us agree that the definition of mass is: All materials that we gather from mining, extractive industry including coal oil and gas uranium and thorium, agriculture, forestry and fisheries for the purpose of consumption manufacturing and/or supplying the needs of human commerce and sustenance and that the definition of energy is: Imbedded energy within the mass (which is a positive), the energy required to transform and refine waste into molecularly pure raw materials or other useful commodities (which is a negative) In the same way that we consider the energy involved in the "food miles", we could evaluate the energy involved in the provision of materials to the market and energy embodied in the mass and expended on the production, refinement, manufacture, packaging and transportation to market. In the context of waste management, we do not consider the above because generally we will receive waste at the gate of our waste management facilities. That is unless we operate a collection service. Under those circumstances, the collection service would operate as an independent entity to provide waste to the gate of the facility. As such we will consider the embedded energy in the waste feedstock and the energy that it takes to process the waste into the various outputs both mass and energy that we seek to achieve. By that means we can compare the efficacy of different waste management protocols on equal terms. Below is a typical example of a mass balance with figures expressed in percentages for three categories of municipal solid waste production. You will notice that there is provision for carbon by itself. This is because the technology incorporated into the system has the capacity to catalytically crack carbon dioxide into its constituent components of oxygen gas (which is conveyed to the power generation cycle) and elemental nano particulate carbon. The carbon is a valuable commodity for the manufacture of advanced carbon materials such as carbon nano tubes and other high purity carbon products. Carbon dioxide may be derived from the gasification process. Another source is through the combustion of non-condensable gasses as collected from the exhaust from internal combustion power generation equipment. Generally speaking, energy requirements to maintain operation do not exceed 10% of the calorific value of the feedstock depending on the nature of the waste being processed. The implication of the technologies ability to catalyse carbon dioxide are that atmospheric emissions are extremely minimal if any, and that oxygen produced enables further clean production of carbon dioxide through its reaction with the non-condensable gases in the combustion chambers of power generation equipment. Fraction Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) MSW Organic household waste Details midsized community, some sorting Large City, sorted midsized community, Catalyst Water Liquid Gas (%) (%) (%) Synthetic oil (%) Carbon (%) 5% 10.8% 5% 9.6% 29.7% 21.3% 31.2% 39.9% 28.3% 29.2% 5% 32.5% 15.5% 32.0% 20.0% 7 Below is a Mass Diagram of a particular source of Municipal Solid Waste from a township in Europe. The "crack oil" 38% and gas proportions 16.5% of production can be applied to the synthesis of diesel fuel and petrol. A great diversity of waste streams can be processed using existing equipment. For instance, straw can be regarded as a waste material, if it is sufficiently contaminated with weed species rendering the straw unsuitable for the intended purpose as animal feed. Under those circumstances, the straw can be used for the making of liquid drop-in fuels such as diesel and petrol to assist a rural community to remain functional in the event of a fuel supply disruption event while continuing to use existing diesel and petrol driven farming equipment. The illustration below represents a Mass Balance relating to an input material of Straw or biomass and the next diagram depicts the Energy Balance associated with the same material. Mass Balance Energy Balance Illustrations of the Mass and Energy Balances are curtsey of Agency for Green Technology (AGT) The origin of all this mass and energy arises from the processes of primary industry and below we examine the source of the waste streams that can be processed by available technologies. Current Fate of Waste When the mass and energy in the product is finally consumed as a product or "form factor", the question of disposal or containment arises. This is where things currently go very wrong. Vast volumes of waste is dumped into engineered land fill sites at best with other volumes of waste simply being discarded into the environment or dumped into the sea. To this day many ocean outfall exist that disgorge huge volumes of "treated" sewage containing a nightmare cocktail of pharmaceuticals unaffected by the treatment regime into the acquiesce environment. For many decades the city of New York would send sewage sludge to sea in giant barges were it was simply dumped overboard. See below. "In the most detailed study ever conducted related to the impacts of ocean dumping, NURP-funded scientists documented the impact of 42 million tons of wet sewage sludge dumped 2,500 m (8,000 ft) off the Mid-Atlantic coast between 1986 and 1992. One of the most significant environmental impacts detected at the 106-mile Dumpsite, so named because it lies 106 nautical miles southeast of New York Harbour, was the restructuring of a deep-sea community." Reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), US Department of Commerce. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/background/dumping/dumping.html In the last few decades some attempt has been made to become more responsible in the question of waste management with the introduction of recycling and reuse and various flirtations with incineration and waste to energy projects. The results of our waste management efforts still leave an awful lot to be desired. What is required is the closure of the mass and energy loops that are flowing through industry and domestic consumption cycles, as completely as possible. Space however, prohibits a detailed discourse on the characterisation of waste in this paper. Below is a diagram that depicts the current fate of mass and energy. Current practice is seen above the yellow line. Below the yellow line the waste streams are managed according to the vision discussed and applicable technologies are applied in such a manner as to yield liquid fuels and polymers and solid materials are rendered up as pure elemental commodities. 9 RAW MATERIALS & ENERGY Solar -Wind Tide- Photo Voltaic- Solar Thermal Electromagnetic Fossil Fissile (nuclear) Mass Agriculture PRODUCTION & PACKAGING INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION Waste Mgt & Resource Recovery Waste Collection Forestry Mass & Energy Minerals & Metals Energy TRANSPORT, DISTRIBUTION AND SALES Sun Light Water Carbon MANUFACTURE & VALUE ADDING PRIMARY INDUSTRY or Limited Segregation Fisheries Mass & Energy Waste to Mass Limited Recycling Mining Energy Infrastructure Energy Energy LIQUID FUELS, GAS & ELECTRICITY EXHAUST EMMISSIONS & WASTE HEAT TO ATMOSPHERE Landfill & other disposal Fuel Autonomy Green & Wood Waste Forestry Thinning's Energy Weed Control Agricultural Waste Waste Oil, All Plastics, Tyres, Sewage Sludge Economic Resilience Transport & Distribution Local employment Clean Water CO2 Waste to Diesel Municipal Solid Waste & Refuse Derived Fuel Liquid Fuels Mass ASH Aquaponics Jobs and Revenue Food Security Metals & Resources Recovery A new approach Technologies have been available since the 1850s for converting carbonaceous material such as collected and separated waste (referred to as refuse derived fuel or RDF) into gas. Many forms of gasification have evolved since then including updraught and downdraught entertained flow gasification partial oxidation, externally heated pyrolysis, plasma arc gasification and steam reforming Of recent times, more advanced processes have evolved that are not so constrained by economies of scale or the need for a minimum size which have enabled the development of technologies including super critical water gasification, catalytic depolymerisation, thermo-catalytic conversion and bio-catalytic fermentation. So long as this infrastructure is owned by communities or cooperatives of human beings, these technologies can provide local energy and material resilience. . Illustration above Curtsey of the Agency for Green Technology The advantages of the above technologies are that they are much more amenable to the reduced size of operation and volume throughput which are typically encountered in the corporate and municipal waste management scale. Indeed technology exists to convert municipal solid waste and/or green waste into diesel fuel at rates as low as 6 tons per day or 250kg/hr of input material. An illustration of this technology can be seen above. The above plant has a capacity of 250 kg/hr or 6 tons per day with an output of liquid fuel that is a function of the calorific value of the input material which could vary between 30% for green waste and up to 80% for waste oils and plastic. Catalytic depolymerisation is particularly suitable for solid waste streams such as municipal solid waste, refuse derived fuel, green waste, agricultural waste and plastics. Super Critical Water Gasification or Oxidation is of particular value in the treatment of wet wastes such as sewage sludge. This is because the process does not require the influent to be dried saving considerable energy lost to the latent heat involved in phase change. The process occurs at high pressures and temperatures that illicit extremely aggressive characteristics from water which has the effect of destroying all organic compounds and microbiological agencies including prions (mad cow disease) and enabling the ash, to be recovered either as a suspended solids or a soluble solid including metals in the form of dry powder. The resulting water is immensely pure and completely suitable for recycling. An additional advantage of the process is that input material can be up to 30% solids which occasions the possibility of using vacuum toilet systems that collect faecal matter undiluted with water, in other words waterless toilets as can be found in aircraft. If the process is oriented to oxidation, the result will be heat and steam which enable power generation. If the process is oriented to gasification, then the output occurs as synthesis gas, which can be used either as fuel for power generation or as a means to generate liquid fuels either through catalytic depolymerisation, microchannel Fischer Tropsch process or bio fermentation of gas into liquid fuel commodities. Efficacy An input to output ratio of waste to fuel of 3:1 to 4:1 is a viable output. Economic viability is affected by the calorific value of the input, disposal fee payable at the gate and the local price of diesel fuel and or whatever 11 other products the operator may chooses to produce. Examples of return on investment can be seen in the table below. Feedstock Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Biomass Tires Lignite Input (t/h) Energy Output (MW) 6 11 3 3.75 3 16.5 10 27 ROI (year) 6.7 3.6 3.4 6.15 The technologies above can be applied to all carbon-based waste streams including sewage sludge, waste tyres, medical waste, off spec pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other organics, green waste, agricultural waste, textiles, petroleum sludges and coke, manure, abattoir waste and so on. Generally speaking, the moisture contents of feedstock for processes other than Supercritical Water oxidation/gasification should be in the order of 20% or less. This may require some drying, de-sizing in prepreparation of feedstock. It is important to be very clear with the technology and equipment provider to specify accurately the waste feedstocks intended for processing. Under specifying such equipment can represent a significant risk to the continuity of operation of these sorts of plant. Inert residue should not exceed 5% of input. The principal role of the equipment is to convert carbon hydrogen and oxygen into various liquid and gaseous feedstocks which give rise to liquid fuels and/or other industrial commodities such as the precursors of plastic polymers and carbon-based chemicals as well as nanotubes. Once the waste has been gasified and synthesis gas produced, an option exists to use Bio-Catalytic Fermentation using selected bacteria and other microorganisms to metabolise the gases and bio-synthesise gas into very specific desirable molecules to create homogenous single product feedstocks. This process only requires the presence of Carbon Monoxide (CO) to make pure ethanol or Carbon Dioxide (CO 2) to produce the precursor chemical for the synthesis of polypropylene. A number of viable pathways exist for the volatilisation of carbon and hydrogen in waste streams and the conversion of those gases into the desirable commodities such as diesel fuel and synthetic polymers. The residue of this process is the non-volatile inorganic elemental residue we collectively refer to as ash. Ash Management While it may not be immediately evident, the ash component that is the residue of the removal of all volatile materials contain significantly valuable materials. Generally speaking the largest proportion of the composition of ash is alumina silicate. However the contents of the ash will be a direct reflection of the contents of the waste that entered the process at the front end. That is to say, that if there were precious metals in the waste going in, then it's likely that those precious metals will be present in the ash coming out. The question of how to access and separate these various constituents now arises. There are two technological processors known to the author that will effectively enable the separation and recovery of all of the constituents materials in the ash as independent elements of high purity. Both of these processes proprietary at this time and both have the capacity to convert ash into a collection of all the materials contained in that ash as separate, molecularly pure industrial resources and at a very low cost. For instance, according to the technology developer, aluminium metal can be made for about one tenth of the cost (with no electricity required) of making aluminium from bauxite by the current electricity intensive methods. The implications of this are very significant particularly when interfaced with the emerging technology of 3D printing. The Implications of Closing Mass and Energy Loops The path to having a major impact in reducing damage to the environment is by closing the material and energy loops as this path inherently has the capacity to generate wealth at the local level. Our evaluations of these technologies indicate payback periods of between three and six years and are easily achievable. We would point out that these financial results do not include the value of the metals and other materials such as high purity silicon not to mention precious metals that are likely to be found in the ash phase at least in some proportion. I would invite the reader to consider the following points: The volume of resources currently engaged in the industrial and domestic consumption cycle are indeed very significant. Waste will be regarded as it should be and that is to be regarded and valued as a resource worthy of collection, concentration transport processing and value adding. Ownership of these (waste) resources vests with the purchaser of the commodity who generally dispose of the items when they cease to be of value for the purpose which they were purchased. People have been conditioned to then dispose of the articles that they purchase as useless when in fact the materials of which they are made generally have significant mass and or energy resource value which must be appropriately recovered. The volume of resources that reside in tip sites and disposal facilities is the result of a large percentage of industrial activity that has continued for something in the order of 100 years in developed countries. Access to the energy in this material and the recoverable elements embodied in the waste would rival the mining industry but ownership could vest with communities who own the waste. If communities and/or cooperatives owned the appropriate infrastructure to recover the energy and the materials with a high level of purity and efficiency, it is conceivable that such communities could become energy and material self-sufficient. This would significantly reduce the risk of international centralised disruptive influences such as a fuel shock, financial crisis, rapid increases in interest rates and or other maladies associated with centralised control. The value accrued in the communities or cooperatives would enable the communities to fund their own infrastructure and ultimately create their own negotiable instruments secured by the energy they generate and the accrued industrial resources and precious metals they recover. This could then be applied to renewal of old infrastructure with more energy efficient technologies and the investment into learning facilities, health and recreation facilities and other amenities. Applying the evolving Three Dimensional Printing technology to the pure materials coming out of the waste resource recovery system could combine to make the manufacture of industrial commodities possible at virtually cottage industry scale further decreasing centralisation. Engaging in waste management in the manner described in this paper as well as recovering materials already disposed of in landfills will provide a huge material and energy buffer and contribute significantly to the resilience of any community that adopts this approach. The duplication of this system throughout a country would improve the resiliency of the country against external disruptive influences such as military or fiscal attack immeasurably compared to a country wedded to centralised systems. The promulgation of this approach would ascribe value to waste so that it would be in the financial interest of a community to collect and manage all waste streams and have a measurable reduction on the loss of containment of materials into the environment. Power generation could occur with little or no atmospheric emissions. Ultimately the only thing that really matters is that these technologies will be of benefit to human beings and the environment in which we live. To be completely clear, all the other things we regard with such gravity such as governments, empires, legal structures and systems, corporate structures and even money itself, is merely a legal fiction. Based on general consensus and nothing else. This is a game of artificial scarcity, invented by men, making a grave breach of the Natural Law of Ethical Ends and in contravention of the workings of life and the environment on planet earth. These legal fictions are only given credence by the collective consensus of the people; the very people who are currently being destroyed by centralisation in the very many forms as described at the beginning of this paper. It is urgently time to give serious thought to what really matters to live on this planet effectively before it is too late. The words of sagely souls, who are men of ethics, have given clear warning and have made it crystal clear that we must adopt a "more profound natural philosophy" or destroy the life support systems on planet Earth It is simply critical to love and nurture the planet back into health and full life expression. 13