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What Will Tomorrow Bring?

Posted December 21, 2010 7:00 AM

The evolution of processing plants over the next ten years will likely focus on improving efficiency, increasing capabilities, reducing energy consumption, and minimizing carbon footprints. What changes do you foresee at manufacturing facility by the year 2020?

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12/21/2010 8:18 PM

How about "improving efficiency, increasing capabilities, reducing energy consumption, and minimizing carbon footprints"?

(Sort of a self-answering question)

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12/22/2010 12:00 PM

Not much would change in 2020. If you consider that invention today takes about 120 years to be commercialize, you should watch inventions disclosed to public and that would tell you about what you could expect.

Now we have 2010 and we were supposed to have time travel and time reverse machines by now, as well as clean energy of Quantum Vacuum running our cars!

Toyota presented a hybrid car in 1954 and hybrids coming to market half century later, bu do not dominate market yet.

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12/22/2010 5:31 PM

I thought the question was what changes do you foresee????? if you have no foresight of changes why post???

1) Insulative properties will change to reduce heating and cooling losses such as Aerogel as the first of many to come.

2) Mini grids will start to emerge first in new property developments and large private facilities - in short why give free green energy to the grid to buy it back at a higher price??? The average quarterly bill in Australia has 90 dollars out of 280 dollars as "services and tax" so one third more even if you paid the same price as you sold it for, it is not economically sound to stay on the primary grids.

3)Local councils will institute laws allowing engineer safety approved privately built electric vehicles to bypass governments holding Back EV technology. As all governments are 30 percent shareholders in the fuel companies - Via their 30 percent company tax, solar charged EV's have no taxable component so the governments will loose trillion with EV's allowed to be mass produced.. Though local Shire councils get none of this, yet a $500 local licence fee for several thousand car is a few million a year. The sate and federal road laws are easily bypassed using private toll road laws, lease the roads to a private firm owned by the council as an asset, and state road laws no longer apply.

4) Hover cars will finally make an entrance into the market, the fuel consumption for travel is the same, but the 26litres of oil used to make each tyre is removed, as is the wear an tear level of road surfaces and the oil in the tar production

The list is endless.

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01/12/2011 2:20 AM

what will tomorrow bring ?

an enthousiastic question which has infinite possibilites of answer.

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