The People of the Megatower Community: A Solution Undeniably Needed

The possibilities for saving us the suffering of billions of humans are contained within the self contained but fully connected community and network of communities of the megatower people.

Geeez, I wish my community would realize what this could do!
Could save an entire regional economy. Could become an
attraction and genuine lure for constant growth.
 Floors and entire apartments and homes anything within are portable.

Actually, in pure and undeniable deduction of practicality and our future needs; I see that our future depends on this very idea being implemented. Because we are out of land and running out of food and energy and truly cannot afford to be anything but efficient in our existence if Earth (and us wonderful humans) are to survive without a disastrous history of mass suffering and deaths by famine and flood and drought. We must conserve our wild spaces and all life and we must come together as neighbors closer than ever in the history of homo sapiens.

A solution in the category of: why haven’t we begun this? While we expand our population toward twelve billion people by 2050, and while life becomes more expensive and so more challenging and more complex,  we need to build upward and gather together in communities that both conserve and enhance all life, land, earth and sky on Earth:

The self-sufficient megatower is an old idea used by the creators of Simcity in their hit game Cities of Tomorrow. It stands digitally as a reasonable dream in this game, that I play (perhaps) 20 hours per week (lie!).

Magnificent, standing alone and piercing the clouds anywhere, or in fully integrated groups with their similar designs as twins,  triplets, massive artworks of function meets form the  towers can become a city in any city or a shining community in a rural valley, or a formerly barren mountainside grouped together in the middle of an ocean’s gulf or a wide river or the middle of a lake.

One hundred floors, or two-hundred-and-fifty, the sky is not the limit, only the size of the footprint of land conservation space  - relative to stability of height as it can grow with us always.

       Let’s be practical. The most expensive part of this structure should not be it’s frame, but that’s usually the case it getting a thing like this going. The amazingness of it is its enormity and that is it’s efficiency and practicality. We build a portable foundry where iron is in proximity and we might consider building that directly over an iron mine. The foundry is the center of the megatower and is later broken-down and set up again for the next tower. The caustic gasses from the foundry should be bottled and launched into space at the end of construction of the entire building. All garbage from the construction can be in that launch, as well. The footpad for these foundations are not limited to four sides. Better, the hexagonal or pentagonal shape would allow far more freedom of design and more aerodynamic as capturing as much air as possible will be helpful energy and good for hang gliding.

The megatower can be life-saving place to live. Health and all welfare needs are quickly available inside each tower, with medical clinics, spas, gyms, and entertainment theaters and arcades.

The funding and then construction of one of these human life-savers is a boost and any region's economy as tens of thousands personally assemble every tower and the technology of all humanity goes into every tower.

Shopping contained for all necessities of life and if you can’t find it one megatower hop-into one of the magnetic sky bridge cars to another megatower within minutes while you are whisked around the communities as you sit on your ass sipping a mocha latte with your AI sex companion (repair and parts shops in every tower).

Energy as long as the sun shines. Solar arrays that line the building’s height or tower in spectacle from it’s crowned rooftop.

Recycling fully contained for collection, preparation, and shipping of all materials.

Park floors with ceilings of 150 feet and growing exotic and local vegetation, large grassy lawns and holographic beautiful days and starry nights.

Imagine: the boundless energy of an active lava tube deep beneath a megatower community can be channeled for heating and cooling and turbine spinning to our heart's content. We could even burn our solid waste here. After checking carefully for errant droids or drones.  

Farming floors where a large fraction of a tower’s food needs are grown under ideal conditions.

Every tower is in itself an employment place for hundreds or thousands in keeping it running in farming, recycling, retail, restaurant and entertainment, security and social services, teaching and child care.

The wind or rain or floods or flying sharks that eat people, no one in any megatower will be in harm’s way.

Free heating from the sun, and free cooling from the constant cool of the earth beneath it, our comfort conquered.

On earthquake fault zones, it’s inter floor meniscus absorb the damage while it’s giant hydraulic footings allow for calculated absorption of strong quakes and tremors.

An education level that contains all grade levels of education and can accommodate children from 3 towers.

Easy aerial drone delivery and shipping to hundreds of convenient locations along the outer walls of the megatowers.  Including a launch station for personal commuter drones.

Office levels that can employ 5 - 10 thousand per day.

I could go on for days in listing the possibilities of the megatower that could save us:

A zeppelin and or helicopter and lift plane port on the rooftop.

Advertising that presents to the sky big beautiful commercials for diarrhea drugs.

Tower jumping and very long bungee-cord jumping.

Drone catching.

Remote controlled and autopilot delivery and shipping throughout the tower network.  

Hot air balloon and hang gliding launches.

A water slide to the ground.

Personal parachuting to work.

Suction cup tower climbing.

To the credit of the Simcity developers; a super roller coaster on the rooftop that tosses passenger cars into the air and catches them again in a three times looping ride.

The People of the Megatower Community: A Solution Undeniably Needed

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Keystone XL Pipeline Will Deliver WATER for Canada's Economic Surplus - an Unpublished Prediction from 2014

Update 2024; We must quickly begin to collect rapidly melting glacier water from our northern neighbor and pipeline it to hydrate the farming land of the central states, where a significant aquifer is about to run dry, which would cause food prices worldwide to soar.


Short essay from 2015:

Keystone Pipeline is for primarily designed for water, not oil from shale. I'm sorry Canada. You'll get another chance when the Unites State's bread basket aquifer runs dry. That crisis is approaching so just hang-on.

Foolish Americans: The Keystone XL Pipeline is for WATER (to save our asses and make Canada a super power we will bow to by the end of this century).

Just look at the glacier maps of southeast Alberta, where the pipeline begins. The town is called Hardsity, the glaciers are the 3 largest of 5 in all of Alberta, each within 200 klm of Hardsity and flowing toward the east. Strangely, the pipeline branches, to "storage facilities" in Illinois (not tar sands shale refineries).

Shale is incredibly inefficient to process. Not worth it for any nation. "NO SURPLUS EXPECTED!" (Canadian energy dept.) This story coming up. It's the first of many water wars strategies that smart nations are preparing for.

It is unreasonable to introduce a new fossil fuel that is far more costly to produce at this time, when nations are preparing for energy sources other than any fossil fuels.
If the purpose of the Keystone pipeline is to transport a fossil fuel energy commodity, It is unreasonable to think that the United States, where the majority of the of the Keystone pipeline will occupy, will benefit at all from the presence of the pipeline. Additionally, the U.S. has drilled over 20,000 shale oil fracking mines to date.

It is economically unreasonable that the people of Canada will see a surplus of any kind from extraction and refinement of tar sands oil.

The thousands of miles aqueduct just happens to zig zag very well suited as an artery of fluid distribution.

In comparison to current energy markets, it is unreasonable to expect that full production of shale based fossil fuel will ever be a competitive economic advantage for any participant in the global oil or extracted finite resources market.
The United States and many regions of the world can expect drought and water crisis in the decades to follow.
The proposed Keystone pipeline is built and tested with water, as if to transport water.

The locations of the pipeline make an adequate artery for distribution to important agricultural regions in the United States. The final point of the pipeline, in Port Arthur, Texas, is a major export terminal to reach the eastern United States by large tankers, and the rest of the world. This ability is tremendous in scope and prospect and so it is unreasonable that using the pipeline only for shale tar sands oil. The distribution of fresh potable water to the world.

The largest extractor of shale oil in the United States has just announced a 40% reduction in their efforts. They are not fools, it is very inefficient (relative to the cost of normal fuel production for gasoline). As gasoline is used less, its price is dropping, shale becomes even more expensive and foolish business, to extract and refine.

Even makes a detour of several hundred miles to Illinois, for storage purposes.

The Port Arthur, Texas final destination is to eventually be a distribution hub for fresh water for the world's needs.
The pipeline may be remembered as the first of many designed by strategy determined by humans following by nature's deposits of long lasting fresh water that will feed and nourish humanity for many centuries to come and may redistribute water on Earth, both to our agriculture and in our bellies and by distributing glacier born waste water to our localities.

Glacier water requires very little processing. Only first-pass filtration and fluoridation (if wanted).

Shale may be the most inefficient fossil fuel resource mankind might think of to substitute for our now developed manner of extraction, delivery, refinement, and consumer delivery of sources like crude oil, coal, nuclear and wind and solar energy methods of obtainment.

Shale, or Sand Oil, as the Canadian government calls it, has to be refined twice. The first time has to occur near the extraction point, after crushing, and requires importing butane and a mixture of chemicals referred to broadly as "condensates," mixing them just right (highly volatile production method), just to ready sand oil for transport in a liquid form, if that delivery is to be made easy, by fluidic transport using pipe. The second refinement occurs at a refinery no less toxic with no less a huge carbon footprint than crude oil refineries, to make the shale oil ready for market, flammable, liquid able, and make it smell like gasoline or another crude oil product.

Glaciers, as we know them at the surface of the Earth, are made from millions of years of snowflakes, compacting and becoming ice and becoming the fresh water that may save humanity, if we act swiftly now.

What is Canada really saying about the pipeline and their energy needs:


Canada department of energy is NOT forecasting growth in tar sands shale oil. In fact they predict in 2013, only 12% increase in production, from less than .5% of total energy production. It's for water fools. They'll have us over a water barrel. The largest American extractor of shale oil has just announced a 40% reduction in this resource. 

Examine. Decide, all this for tar sands oil? The mid-west will not receive another drought, another dust bowl in the mid-west? It is expected actually. We have not prepared. Americans are champions of denial. First in non preparation for the future. We'll deserve this for our idiocy.

"Megadrought headed for USA." from NPR Science Friday: https://soundcloud.com/scifri/are-decades-long-megadroughts-on-the-horizon

Update 2020, news and and commentary regarding our drying aquifers:

From, Democracy Now

http://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/search/searchResult_e.html 

Canada’s Energy Future 2013 - Energy Supply and Demand Projections to 2035

https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/ftr/2013/index-eng.html#fg5_2 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glaciers_in_Canada

http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk5/bk5ch5.htm

http://www.globalpossibilities.org/obamas-keystone-xl-decision-could-doom-the-tar-sands-or-the-planet-2/

First draft in winter 2014. Unpublished. Effective. Woke them up. [smirk]

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