The primary task has always been to make this new green design concept both cost effective, & green jobs oriented.
People require a working wage. If your green design doesn’t talk about putting people to work
what real long term benefit is it for the people. It must be People, Plant, Profit,
NOT…
Planet, People.
That Green Jobs, Profit Oriented,
Sustainable Model required a total Energy redesign, making all old plants outdated and obsolete.
Old energy profit operations will not seek a slow phase out, via remodel, or restructure.
These old energy profit plants & properties are very much a major part of the current job market.
This fact makes older energy core assets very much a part of the present day landscape.
This affords Old Energy both profit and core energy assets, & the luxury of dictating the green design pace, in large part due to much needed jobs.
Only when those jobs are replaced by a green operations that beats old energy in
Price as well as clean sustainable design will any long term green future truly take hold.
Until then most efforts will be regarded as green washing for PR purposes only.
Window dressing to appear the part, & excellent green review of current efforts seen
Here… http://www.greenwashingindex.com/
It is the Green Sciences that will bring real green change, as truly sustainable change might be
Supported & achieved.
That green future can now be seen in it’s first phases.
These first phases will not be viewed by many as being clean or green enough.
Old Energy will own a very large part of the first phases, end results.
What they choose to do with that work, will depend on who is leading, each profit center.
Change is possible even with an old energy mindset, however limited the view.
Will they want to spend the capital needed to phase out their own, old plants?
With time, Perhaps.
With, or Without them, the first phase begins today.
They are no longer needed.
Research Design begins the first phase draft in…
Biology
Green Chemistry
Bioneering
Alt. Energy
Sustainable Architecture
Advanced Building Materials
Advanced Fuels
BTL
GTL
AD Systems
Algae Macro, Micro
Agri Char
Aquatic Farming
Bio AutoGas
Bio Composites
Bio Polymers
FCC Catalysts
Bio Catalysts
Green Building Materials
FSC Lumber
FSC Building Materials
Green Chemistry Raw Materials
CAD/BIM/GIS
CHP
CCSC
Natural Enzymes & Oils
Natural Gas
TES
Water Re
STE
Solar
Wind
Trees
BOP
J.P.
The question will always be how long will it take to build? The answer is impossible to hear and restricted by Major PE, and yet working examples can be seen around the globe. These examples are Rural and found in non-profit paths.
Here the efforts are viewed as for profit, which limits and holds private, both the details and the study, while knowing the final build must be BOP wise.
You can find and assist the non profit working examples but you must know where to look. You must begin to see BOP, as something that matters to you.
The short answer. Far longer than anyone might first guess, simply because their scope will be too small. Only if you begin to see it as a life long dream, will you begin to see the scope of truly sustainable design, much less BOP development on a macro level.
In fact the answer is as difficult to provide as the research work itself.
From research to 1st Phase design, just getting to this day…
Over 20 years and way past first projections. Could we leap forward? As BOP awareness shifts the mindset, YES.
1st Phase Design to model, all subject to major PE and Team Building.
From today to endless studies, searching the globe over, to find, what might become ideal.
Model to development, also subject to both research, redesign, & PE.
From the end of the studies to the end of the models, to the end of design phases.
My own goal. In this lifetime.
To guess the answer then, is to guess longer than you might imagine, & then triple it.
Just to get to this day, over twenty years later, 1st Phase Design,
Feels like a miracle to me.
If you made it here, Think Remediation by Green Chemistry, & BOP working examples.
