The document discusses solutions to global challenges around food, water, energy, and the biosphere proposed by Alex Lightman. It suggests using ammonia production to address food and fertilizer needs, solar-powered wells and pivots to solve water access issues, replacing streetlights with solar trees to provide renewable energy and electric vehicle charging, and addressing existential threats to the planet from climate change and nuclear war. The overall message is that new technologies can help "bring" solutions to these critical global problems.

1. By Alex Lightman
Chairman, Everblaze, Witkit, GINET
Board, SensorComm and M3
Advisory Board, Natural Machines

2. Previous talks at BIL
“How to Do Cool Things
Around the World”
“30 Ways to Use
Inexpensive Tech and
Citizen-Science for
Nation-Building”
“Expanding Your Mind”
Keynote on Queen Mary
THANK YOU BUILDERS

5. how to NOT BRING IT

6. How to NOT Bring It

7. everblaze.com

8. Bring the Food
• The world has entered an era of “peak
food” production with an array of
staples from corn and rice to wheat
and chicken slowing in growth – with
potentially disastrous consequences for
feeding the planet.
• New research finds that the supply of
21 staples, such as eggs, meat,
vegetables and soybeans is already
beginning to run out of momentum,
while the global population continues to
soar.
• Peak chicken was in 2006, while milk
and wheat both peaked in 2004 and
rice peaked way back in 1988,
according to new research from Yale
University, Michigan State University
and the Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research in Germany.

9. GINET
NH3=Air+Water+Electricity
Ammonia
(NH3)
Current Needs:
Control NOx Emissions
(SCR system - Urea)
Fertilizer
Future Needs:
Ammonia Powered
Vehicles
No Fossil Fuels
Cost=~10x less than Haber-Bosch
Food and
Biofuels
Transportation
Energy
CARBON
EMISSION
• Generators
• Transportation
• HVAC
• Industrial refrigeration
• Irrigation systems
Reduction of off-grid
energy costs
Bring the Clean Green NH3 Fertilizer

10. Bring the Food

11. Bring the Food

12. Bring the Food

13. Bring the Food

14. everblaze.com

15. Bring the Water
• Only 0.6% of Planet Earth is H20
• 97% of H20 is salt and 2% is frozen (melting)
• Brazil has 14% of the world’s fresh water and
only 2% of the world’s population, but biggest
city, Sao Paolo has water rationing, and still
only 60 days supply.
• China has 22% of world’s population but only
7% of the water. Switching to potatoes.

16. It’s time for a revolution.
It’s time for a glass of fresh air.
skywell.com
Bring the Water

17. evrWell™
Solar Powered well pumps
providing rural areas with clean
accessible water.
Bring the Water

18. evrPivot™
Water is the lifeblood of the
agricultural industry. Traditional
water pumping systems can be
very expensive and some
locations do not have electricity
to power the pumps. evrWell
provides a grid-free, 24-hour,
affordable water pumping
system. It’s time to take control of
your water.
Bring the Water

19. everblaze.com

20. • 20% of humanity, over 1.2 billion people, have no
electric light at night.
• Kerosene is toxic carcinogen and causes fires
• Over 80% of global energy is from fossil fuels
• $2 trillion in annual subsides, according to IMF
• Solar photovoltaics, the end product of Albert
Einstein’s 1905 paper that won 1921 Nobel
Prize, have improved price performance 5,300
times since 1973. 12,000x by 2020.
Bring the LIGHT

21. • Simple strategy: replace streetlights with solar
trees, making charging of Tesla and other EV’s,
plus mobile phones and electric scooters, free
and ubiquitous.
• Tony Seba (Stanford) projects a $24,000 self-
driving EV by 2020, or sooner. Each will displace
15 internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Car
market will collapse and shift from 72 M ICE
vehicles to 6-8 million SD EV by 2030. End of oil.
Bring the LIGHT

22. collapse from the right
Bring the LIGHT

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28. everblaze.com

29. Bring the BIOSPHERE

30. Bring the BIOSPHERE

31. • Existential Threats to Earth
A. Gamma ray burst - imagine a giant laser burning away one
half of the earth, including the atmosphere. We would all die.
• B. Giant meteor strike - imagine a rock the size of Texas hitting
earth. We would all die, even if from the smoke.
• C. Nuclear war/nuclear winter: There are still over 30,000 nuclear
warheads in Russia (who think America is evil) and America (who
think Russia, Pakistan, China, and Iran are evil) and if they were
used, just the ashes and smoke from the fires could cool the
earth enough to - you guessed it - kill us all.
• D. Global warming - James Lovelock, the person who coined the
term, "Gaia hypothesis", has said we are terraforming Earth...to
become Venus. The surface temperature of Venus is over 900
degrees. That's enough to, well, kill us all.
Bring the BIOSPHERE

32. Bring the BIOSPHERE

33. Bring the BIOSPHERE

34. “No Bucks, No Buck Rogers”
Golden Age of Crowdsourcing (supply) and Crowdfunding (demand)
Bring the MONEY

35. if you bild it, they will fund

36. the next step in evolution

37. • Alex Lightman
• alex@everblaze.com
• Friend me on Facebook
• https://www.facebook.com/alightman
• Ask Questions and Answer Them on Quora
• Upvotes Welcome
• FB Groups: Solar and The Internet of Energy
• Bitcoin and The Internet of Money
feel free to bring the team
and 3d cookies

38. By Alex Lightman
Chairman, Everblaze, Witkit, GINET
Board, SensorComm and M3
Advisory Board, Natural Machines