Royal
behavior asked ánd given
Let the market speak out
january
2006
The
company
Extra-Terrestrial Life Development (1996) and the related future
community
NewDay.nl live in a reality bigger than life. But we are real enough to
acknowledge that
the
present has to be the basis of what is to come. Today: money and
consuming are society's big boosters. Both organisations plea for using
every
life/behavior for expanding today’s reality. Here
you’ll
find three existing
NewDay.nl-concepts integrated in one. It starts with the Will, the
chances and
the markets of today.
Worldwide
our country is known as: God created
the World, but the Dutch made
Holland.
This perspective combined with the unfolding Climate Change make The
Netherlands a natural leader of all countries with parts below sea
level. A - until now unseen - North/South-coalition with members like
Bangladesh and
states
like Louisiana (US).
Central theme: what kind of measurements
we have got to
take to keep the river in and the sea out AND who is going to pay for
that?
Fossil
energy more expensive
A pure
economic and already accepted principle is: “the polluter
pays”. With the Kyoto
Treaty a large international community accepts the present Climate
Change and that it is at
least partially related to human activity. Is it so deviant to say that
the
costs of preventing land from water have
to be paid by conventional energy producers/users?
On the
international stage there awaits a role for The Netherlands to appoint
towards Global
Chances for
Global Warming and to start
the discussion for
higher prices
of fossil fuels.
Royal
Concentrated Solar Power for Curacao
An
interesting side effect of this is the (relatively) lowering of
renewable
energy prices. A twenty year old economic reliable technique is
Concentrated Solar
Power (CSP).
Mirrors
concentrate sun light and heathen up oil. In the most optimal setting
this oil boils sea water of which the steam empowers a turbine:
electricity. The steam
condensate into water: fresh water. Sunlight and seawater transform
into
electricity and freshwater.
Initially
supporters wanted to show the CSP-benefits with example projects in
countries around
the Mediterranean – and Red Sea. Amongst them one of the
guests
of the marriage
of the Dutch crown prince William-Alexander with princess
Máxima
in
2002: Prince El
Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Unfortunately the costs of building these
plants
and reorganizing the distributing grids were higher than the ever low
prices of
conventional energy production.
However,
the differences in cost prices fade if one puts the CSP-configuration
– i.e. electricity
ánd freshwater – in an overseeable bordered area,
with
rich natural resources, and where
already for the inhabitants the prices of electricity and freshwater
are
skyhigh.
“Our”
Caribbean island, and nationstate to be in 2007, Curacao (50 km east
from
Aruba) has got relatively ánd absolutely the dearest
consumer
electricity in
the world. Next to this, the climate on the Island bursts with
potential: wave
-, wind – and solar energy. A NewDay.nl-survey in 2005
concluded
that many key
players on Curacao are certainly not reluctant towards further
investigation
about CSP-plants for the island.
The
transition towards a renewable electricity production on Curacao which
also
produces freshwater will put this island in a positive way on the world
wide
map for a change (“The first self sufficient renewable energy
economy!”). Next
to this imago and self awareness building, this provides more than in
the
present situation labour for its inhabitants: building and maintaining
the
several production plants. (And later on: exporting
knowledge.)
If
Royal
behaviour meet
The
Palestinian Issue holds mankind for eons in its grip. Since hominids
and modern
men left
Africa, the Middle East is a (violent) intersection between East and
West. The
problem is Religion. They say. The problem is in any case the distance
between
“the haves” and “the have
nots”. One side has
got money, the other don’t. One
side has got freshwater, the others dust.
Backend by
the Curacao experiences, and thus the interested international
community, an
international consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell, Royal Boskalis and
Royal
Ahold super markets, dredge a harbour for Gaza City and desalt seawater
with
Concentrated Solar Power. Proposed CEO: the slightly disgraced sister
in law of
the Dutch crown prince Ms Mabel Wisse Smit, but fore almost former
trustee
of the economic
well doer/businessman Soros. Ambassadors of this initiative are members
of
Royal Dutch Family. Also in The Board the earlier mentioned Jordan
prince and
Dutch Royalty friend: El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Jordan as we know
maintains
rather good relations with the Palestinians, not in the least for this
country hosts
the largest number of refugees since several conflicts starting with
1948 and
on.
The
new
harbour, the SCP electricity and freshwater are partially owned by
the
consortium, partially by the Palestinians.
A great
amount of the desalted water is distributed inland where it is used for
irrigating lemon plantations. These are joint ventures of Palestinian
and Israelian companies. The
latter are brought in for their Jaffa knowledge and irrigation
experience.
The Gaza
Fruits are to be distributed
out of the harbour, into western
supermarkets, Royal Ahold at
first.
The motto: “We
want to be associated with these fruits of
cooperation” [and
what they don't say: “especially because we think our
customers
would
appreciate this and buy more than that”]
The
market
speaks out
Extended
Global Warming, Curacao, the Middle-East, freshwater shortages, energy:
(thé)
big problems “solved” in less than 800 words. Could
it be
this easy? Off course
not, otherwise it would have been done long ago. One should think.
Still,
each part of this little integrated plan ends with... ‘the
market’. The
royal subject market,
the consumer market, the constituents market, listen – and
viewer
ratings
market. You my dear reader and I, we form these markets. It is about
time that
the market really speaks out.
Richard
Reekers
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Background
information
Concentrated Solar Power: www.trec.uk.co
NewDay.nl-survey: www.etld.nl/curacao
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