Here are my ideas on how to develop cities and small countries from the economy to governance.
- The US has about 3 KW peak capacity per person 1,072.46 GW, ~330 million people
- It uses about 4,171 TWh a year divided by 8760
hours in a year is 476 GWh/ hour
- That’s about 1.5 kWh per person
- Capacity Factor of 0.444
- Need about 1 kW capacity per person to start out with capacity factor around 0.444
- Switch over to electric bikes for most travel
- which get 50-100 miles / kWh
- swappable batteries so they charge when solar and wind are up
- state sponsored EV battery charing on their wind grid and if necessary NG
- Have some state owned offshore wind and natural gas baseline
- Then invest in community solar and water where
each house buys 1 kW per person in their home
- At $1 / watt that’s $1,000 per person and it can be financed over 10-20 years
- 1 MW solar farms, 1000 people 300-500 homes
- Make it so the panels can be stored or protected during natural disasters
- Can get aid to allow people to purchase
technology to allow for community grey water recycling, rainwater harvesting,
septic, and wifi, solar, and ebike.
- Have to get them to purchase it to support local manuafcaturing and construction
- 1
kW per person
- $1,000 one time investment
- 1
gallon a day per person treated greywater
- Use Hydraloop for Calc
- 7
gallons rainwater storage per person (gallon per person for a week)
- $0.50 / gal for rainwater tanks plus pumps
- 4
composting toilets per 100 people
- Look up
- 1
WiFi / internet tower per 1000 people
- Look up
- 1
Ebike per household
- $500 for a cheap one
- Create a recycling industry
- Encourage
Reuse
- Have stations where people return unbroken glass, cans, electronics food containers, etc
- Pay by container
- Charge
per ton for trash and per ton by quality for recycle
- Charge really high per ton cost of trash by community then split it
- Separate
recycle charges by type and by ton
- If its high quality no charge
- Have tiers that increase in charge per ton with lower quality
- Construction waste has per ton charge less than trash
- Make them take household ceramics and charge less than trash
- Recycle
plastic (3 kinds)
- Food
grade heavy duty container
- Replaces most food containers
- Also some products will be shipped In this type
- Lids
and Utensils and most product packaging
- Lighter weight but still stronger than most single use types
- This way the utensils and lids can now be recycled
- Plastic
Bags and the small loose plastics
- The plastic bags will be thicker so they can be recycled like HEB
- The other plastics is to keep it out trash and hopefully can be mixed
- Food
grade heavy duty container
- Metals,
Paper, Cardboard, Rubber, and Glass
- Most of this will be from households so same cleaning process
- Should be easy to separate
- Shouldn’t have quality issues, though glass might
- Encourage paper/cardboard based carry out food containers
- Electronics
and Heavier Metals
- These should be higher quality goods not thrown out regularly
- Ceramics
and Construction
- For heavy duty concrete, ceramics, bricks etc.
- Compost
food
- Encourage composting maybe buy dirt high in fertilizer
- Encourage
Reuse
- Manufacture goods when they are hot instead of
cooling them into rods or breaking them down to basic feedstock chemicals
- Make new cans
- Bottles
- Small parts for machines
- Concrete reinforcements
- Strong metal or concrete Poles for turbines or other large structures
- Frames for PVs
- Parts for ebike or the ebikes themselves ebikes themselves
- Furniture
- Food Containers
- Clothes
- Fertilizer
- Etc. (see housing for more ideas)
- Implement regenerative agriculture and crop rotation with cover crops on plots for food
- Aggregate houses so they share water resources
- Rainwater harvesting on each roof
- Hydraloop like tech shared between houses to clean and reuse greywater
- Composting toilet or similar technology to deal with waste
- Housing
- Basic design that can be cheaply built but is reasonably insulated
- Pipes organized for separation of clean, grey, and black water
- Electricity managed by a system for DER integration
- Heat pump can cool and heat entire house, works with grid peak times
- Manufacturing home, but assembled on site and easily customizable
- Variable hot water heater for thermal energy storage
- Stained concrete floors from recycled building materials
- Wood houses from manufactured recycled wood
- Metal roofs from recycled metal
- Pipes and conduit from recycled plastic and metal
- Glass from recycled glass
- Banking
- Lots of Small Loans
- Switch from compound interest model to payment and effective interest model
- Loan statements must show all loan payments including how much goes to principal and how much goes to interest
- At every payment the principal must go down and the amount paid in interest must go down
- The effective interest is calculated after all the above terms are met
- Missed
payments do not add to the principal until the borrower is behind 10% of the
total repayment.
- Then after the next missed or low payment the loan is considered in default
- And the sum of the missed amount is added to the principal
- Otherwise the borrower can keep making payments as normal
- However, at the end of the term any remaining amount must be paid in a year, no additional interest
- If it is not paid in a year, It is added to principal and any other low or non paymens are considered default
- Example: 1,000 loan, for 12 months.
| Principal | Principal Payment | Interest Payment | Principal | Principal Payment | Interest Payment |
| $1000 | 20 | 80 | 585 | 95 | 5 |
| $980 | 25 | 75 | 490 | 96 | 4 |
| $955 | 91 | 9 | 394 | 97 | 3 |
| $864 | 92 | 8 | 297 | 98 | 2 |
| $772 | 93 | 7 | 199 | 99 | 1 |
| $679 | 94 | 6 | 100 | 100 | 0 |
- Total Principal Paid: $1,000, total Interest
Paid: $200, Interest Rate: 20%
- Wouldn’t default until $120 worth of payments were short
- Government for Developing Countries
- A framework that follows traditional systems but introduces some democratic and republican principles and allows for the introduction of common law and a bill of rights, but also allows for quick change and adaptation
- People
elect representatives for local, province, and national
- Smaller countries can ignore province
- Simple digital voting system, where you enter your zipcode and ID and your options are before you with links to candidates websites
- Those representatives appoint a mayor, governor, and president / prime minster from among the party with a plurality, the whole congress gets to approve the appointee but they cannot reject all of members of a party otherwise that party gets to choose no with no restrictions
- Representatives serve for 2 or 4 years, with staggering terms as necessary
- The appointed leader organizes his own bureaucracy as needed with no restrictions from any other member
- The leader brings laws to session and then voting as a legislative body they are then sent to the executive
- The
leader also oversees judge appointments
- Judges serve terms twice as long as the representatives.
- They have to be reappointed or replaced when their terms expire
- The
executive can be elected by the people or be a body like a religious body that
has a moral authority.
- The executive has to review bills within 3 days and either veto, approve, or abstain.
- After 3 days they are said to have abstain and the law goes through.
- Their veto can be overwritten by a simple majority if they are unelected like a religious body or 3/5 if they are elected.
- Their veto is mostly a moral check or to ensure majorities don’t abuse their power
- The
executive is also in charge of appointing the highest court of their power.
- They have to be approved by the legislative body with a simple majority
- They serve lifetime terms
- There have to be an odd number of them and more than 1
- The size is decided by the legislative body
- but it must be more than 10 legislators to 1 judge and
- more than 4 lower judges to 1 high judge.
- If the executive and legislative branch don’t agree on a judge then all cases refer to the lower court and no judges are appointed
- The
elected leader of legislative must at least 5 cabinent members so combination
of the ones below.
- Secretary of State (trade with other countries, foreign policy, not needed for lower levels)
- Treasury (banking, loans, monopolies)
- Defense (military, diaster relief, police, fire, EMS)
- Public Service (police, fire, EMS, doctors, etc.) for local levels
- Infrastructure (airports, roads, bridges, parks, housing)
- Economy (ag,, commerce, labor, manufacturing in one)
- Health and human services (medical, mental, basic needs)
- More can be appointed as necessary
- The extra departments can be shut down but must be done so explicitly
- All appointments, new positions, and the shut down of old ones must be approved by the legislature
- Citizen
App
- Go to registrar where they give you a password and fingerprint access
- You can change password but it can only be reset at the registrar
- You
can also vote for your representatives and refredums via app
- Only if you can verify with password and finger print
- Public
Info
- Name
- City and District Rep
- Owned Businesses
- Government Approved Licenses or Certifications
- If you are of drinking or smoking age
- Private
Info
- Tax and Wage information
- Assets Owned (not businesses)
- Date of Birth, City
- Government
Data
- Your representatives
- The executives
- Your mayor, governor, prime minister
- The cabinets of the legislative and executives
- The budgets of every cabinet member
- What laws were voted on
- Must have description 2 lines or less of the law and what it does
- Has a check mark if your rep voted for it and a thumbs up if the executive approved it and vice versa
- Any local parades or gatherings that have permits
- Establishment in countries Under Unrest
- Take
over cities and isolate them from the countryside
- Start with cities over 1 MM, then 500k, then 100k, so on
- Clear
out one area of the city and starve out the other side
- Jam all telecommunications and cut power and supply lines
- Drop newspapers, propaganda, and surrender instructions off with the aid
- Allow surrendering at certain times where they are subject to search and disarmament
- Ensure international aid is allowed to the non-combatants as required by UN to avoid war crimes
- Melt down all vehicles and weapons as acquired
- Make
a buffer zone that if crossed means termination by drone
- Try to avoid woman and children
- Disarm the town
- Get rid of all vehicles are large or can travel faster than 30 mph
- This is a patient process but inexpensive and allows integration of new system
- Control
roads between cities but ignore rural areas and small villages
- Create buffer zone where anyone in it is fair game for drone strikes
- Declare
travel to the countryside illegal except at certain times
- Subject all travelers through checkpoints
- Separate
woman and children under 15 from men
- Men especially young men are responsible for most crime and unrest and are generally the soldiers
- Middle aged men while generally less violent are also battered but have more power over the woman
- Separating woman from mens influence and giving them power over themselves and their country is a must and it needs time to take
- Let
men vote or choose a body to represent them in the executive branch
- Gives them a say in the process but with limited actual power
- Quickly allow the infirmed and elderly to integrate back with the woman and children
- Jobs
- Woman do all service jobs: teaching, EMT, hold office
- Only woman can vote for 1 year and the second year only woman can hold office
- Woman are also the only ones that can own business and land
- Men are responsible for manufacturing and farming and wage jobs
- Woman
can visit men but only during the day, and first only weekend days
- Allow sporting events for woman, kids, and integrated men woman run the event and are of course allowed to attend
- Introduce Family Planning and woman’s rights
- Create a recycling program for all materials
- Start with local government only
- Then integrate province and national
- The process is over when 2/3 – ¾ of the voting age citizens in a country are given new IDs and have been integrated into the new system
- Take
over cities and isolate them from the countryside
Improve Quality of Life with distributed tech (water, energy, telecom), ebike
End poverty with EITC that is 1/5 to ¼ of poverty line
Make all credits fully refundable and cap deduction amounts