Lecture by Peter Fend part1

Presentation of 'LOCAL ENERGY PRODUCTION, Afgthanistan/Iran' made by Peter Fend during the opening of the exhibition 'LANDSCAPING' in Het Oude Raadhuis, Hoofdweg 675, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands on September 6th 2009.

'Geopolitically, fighting in Afghanistan is about fossil-fuel flows from Central Asia to the world. But geophysically, one sees the context to be inward-draining sea basins. These basins can be "studied" as modeled in a skatepark. They can also become sources of local energy, from renewable sources: direct solar (of course), run-of-the-river waterwheels, up high, and massive harvests of waterplants (e.g., Elodea) to yield.. local, renewable, zero-emissions methane gas. Why fight over fossils?

Afghanistan, with Iran, mostly drains inward. Therein, one can catch fast-flow water energy with waterwheels, and can produce zero-emissions fuel by fermenting the huge amounts of waterplants that absorb the inflowing nutrients. Soldiers can set up "local energy production."

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