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President Joe Biden is overseeing the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. His administration negotiated with and received the historic opportunity from Congress in 2021, after just 10 months in office.
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The $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is the largest investment in America’s physical public assets in decades and the biggest commitment ever by the government of the USA to fight climate change. The bill expands the Buy America requirement for infrastructure materials, which will boost the American manufacturing sector and industries like steel production. Its core is an expansion of the 5-year transportation infrastructure law known as the FAST Act, passed in 2015. 45% of Americans lack access to public transportation and for every $1b spent on transit, 50,000 jobs are created. This bill will provide the largest investment in public transit in American history. Almost 40K people died in motor vehicle-related incidents in 2019, and unsafe road infrastructure is a major risk factor for these fatalities. On top of traditional infrastructure spending, the bill invests an unprecedented $550 billion over five years on dozens of innovative new programs. The bill builds out a national network of 500,000 electric car (EV) chargers to ease range anxiety and accelerate the switchover from gasoline to electric. $500m to electrifying school buses, $5b for zero-emission public transit buses, and $2.5b toward electrifying the many ferries on our extensive waterways. To make sure these vehicles are powered by renewable electricity, the bill makes the largest investment in the energy grid in American history. Hundreds of substations and thousands of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines will bring green electricity to cities as wind and solar are now the lowest-cost sources of electricity. With 45,000 bridges in poor condition throughout the country, a new program will oversee $40b for repairs and rebuilds. The largest investment in Amtrak's history will modernize the passenger rail network for our transportation and economic future. Airport and port delays jeopardize over 1 million jobs. The bill will fund repairs, improve logistics, reduce congestion, and increase electrification to reduce emissions. More than 30 million Americans live in areas with no high-speed internet infrastructure and are still suffering seconds-long waits to load pages and constant video buffering–or they have to go to a library or restaurant just to get something done. This historic investment will guarantee that every American has reliable broadband internet access. 10 million households and 400,000 schools lack access to safe drinking water. The Biden administration detailed its plan to try to replace every underground drinking water pipe in the country in the next ten years. About half of the children in the US have detectable levels of lead in their blood. In 2021, 20 weather disasters of $1b each 688 people no alive. To build resilience to extreme weather, $71b on:
Flood mitigation and waterway management by the Army Corps of Engineers;
Water storage, recycling, and ecosystem restoration to help California and other western states deal with drought.
Wildfire fighting like clearing dry brush and trees fuel blazes.
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President Joe Biden is overseeing the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. His administration negotiated with and received the historic opportunity from Congress in 2021, after just 10 months in office.
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The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name!
The $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is the largest investment in America’s physical public assets in decades and the biggest commitment ever by the government of the USA to fight climate change. The bill expands the Buy America requirement for infrastructure materials, which will boost the American manufacturing sector and industries like steel production. Its core is an expansion of the 5-year transportation infrastructure law known as the FAST Act, passed in 2015. 45% of Americans lack access to public transportation and for every $1b spent on transit, 50,000 jobs are created. This bill will provide the largest investment in public transit in American history. Almost 40K people died in motor vehicle-related incidents in 2019, and unsafe road infrastructure is a major risk factor for these fatalities. On top of traditional infrastructure spending, the bill invests an unprecedented $550 billion over five years on dozens of innovative new programs. The bill builds out a national network of 500,000 electric car (EV) chargers to ease range anxiety and accelerate the switchover from gasoline to electric. $500m to electrifying school buses, $5b for zero-emission public transit buses, and $2.5b toward electrifying the many ferries on our extensive waterways. To make sure these vehicles are powered by renewable electricity, the bill makes the largest investment in the energy grid in American history. Hundreds of substations and thousands of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines will bring green electricity to cities as wind and solar are now the lowest-cost sources of electricity. With 45,000 bridges in poor condition throughout the country, a new program will oversee $40b for repairs and rebuilds. The largest investment in Amtrak's history will modernize the passenger rail network for our transportation and economic future. Airport and port delays jeopardize over 1 million jobs. The bill will fund repairs, improve logistics, reduce congestion, and increase electrification to reduce emissions. More than 30 million Americans live in areas with no high-speed internet infrastructure and are still suffering seconds-long waits to load pages and constant video buffering–or they have to go to a library or restaurant just to get something done. This historic investment will guarantee that every American has reliable broadband internet access. 10 million households and 400,000 schools lack access to safe drinking water. The Biden administration detailed its plan to try to replace every underground drinking water pipe in the country in the next ten years. About half of the children in the US have detectable levels of lead in their blood. In 2021, 20 weather disasters of $1b each 688 people no alive. To build resilience to extreme weather, $71b on:
Flood mitigation and waterway management by the Army Corps of Engineers;
Water storage, recycling, and ecosystem restoration to help California and other western states deal with drought.
Wildfire fighting like clearing dry brush and trees fuel blazes.
Inside the $1.2 TRILLION Plan to Modernize US Infrastructure
Megacities of the World (Season 2 Complete)
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Megacities of the World (Season 1 - Complete) youtube.com/watch?v=0ULzxD3w_c8
PARIS: Europe's MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=bdObzSwVAw4
SAO PAULO: South America's MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=sNEeY_gXFBc
DHAKA: Fastest Growing MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=vKGITvyWMH0
DELHI: India's Capital youtube.com/watch?v=OUPTGDrXDy4
SHANGHAI: China's Largest MEGACITY youtube.com/watch?v=N6XZekbQ0SE
Obama Makes Baby Stop Crying youtube.com/watch?v=uqhzWlqN3uc
President Obama's Anger Translator at White House Correspondent's Dinner youtube.com/watch?v=G6NfRMv-4OY
Greatest Recorded Speeches in American History (1933-2008) youtube.com/watch?v=vnVwvPpdFeY
Bill Nye Destroys Noah's Ark youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc
President Obama Walks The Streets of Washington youtube.com/watch?v=nEEtBVPiI44
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![Enhanced Geothermal: A Groundbreaking Energy Source
Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) has the potential to provide limitless clean energy by harnessing the heat constantly emanating from our planet’s 9,000 degree core.
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Energy Dept | Enhanced Geothermal Shot | [Article] https://www.energy.gov/topics/enhanced-geothermal-shot
DOE | Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) [Article] https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/enhanced-geothermal-systems#:~:text=In%20those%20cases%2C%20an%20enhanced,re%2Dopen%2C%20creating%20permeability.
Geothermal power is vying to be a major player | Nature [Article]
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How fracking could unlock a clean energy future | WaPo [Article]
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Utah’s Renewable Energy Corridor https://utahforge.com/2022/10/02/did-you-know-that-renewable-energy-corridors-can-be-the-future-of-energy-production/
Fervo Showed Fractured Geothermal Works, Now Must Do It Bigger… | Journal of Petroleum Engineers [Article] https://jpt.spe.org/fervo-showed-fractured-geothermal-works-now-must-do-it-bigger-cheaper-and-soon-restricted
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Power of Advanced Geothermal Systems | DOE [Video] https://youtu.be/4S3aiMxfwhY?si=mthppZXIQZjce67s
Until very recently, we could only capture geothermal in the few places it rises as steam from natural hot springs, like the Geysers in the Mayacamas Mountains of Northern California, the world’s largest complex of geothermal stations.
wise government investments and scientific breakthroughs have dramatically lowered the costs of efficiently drilling way down to tap this 24/7 power source that’s available in pretty much every state in America.
This is a look at Enhanced Geothermal Systems, or EGS.
A sparsely populated valley in Utah 200 miles south of Salt Lake City is becoming a hotbed of renewable energy development. Biofuel digesters turn the manure from the many pig farms into electricity. Hydrogen storage facilities lie among growing wind and solar arrays. But the most promising work is happening at FORGE, a first-of-its kind geothermal laboratory. The team there is led by Dr. Joseph Moore.
Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy is a Department of Energy Project funded to generate electricity anywhere in the world. We can drill anywhere and find enough heat. But unfortunately those rocks don’t have the permeability - the cracks - that allow for water to circulate through them and extract the heat. So the goal of this project is to create a reservoir, a fractured volume that we can inject water into and then extract the water after it’s heated up. It’s the first time a project like this is being developed to learn how to make a reservoir where none existed naturally.
When we’re stimulating a well like this by injecting water and sand we’re trying to open fractures by doing just enough pressurization at that stage to where you propagate that fracture where you want it to go, but you don’t get fractures going in directions you don’t want to go. And you also know where your fractures are so you have sort of information about how you’ve changed this geothermal field with your activities.
This is the current state of the technology. Whereas conventional geothermal generation needs underground reservoirs in contact with hot rocks to send steam to the surface, Enhanced Geothermal Systems create their own by boring thousands of feet deep to their target: the rock layer that is constantly as hot as an oven, between 300 and 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Once at this target depth, engineers inject fluid at high pressure to create a network of fractures–which essentially act as a reservoir into which they inject a constant flow of water, which rapidly heats up and rises through the second well as steam, spinning a turbine and generating electricity.
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![Africas Mega-City: Future MEGAPROJECTS
LAGOS, NIGERIA — population 22 million — is Africas largest city. This mini-documentary examines the multiple mega-projects under construction, the leadership of state Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, and — briefly — the history of Nigeria.
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Script:
This is Lagos, Nigeria the largest city in Africa.
Home to more than 22 million people, it’s facing a perfect storm of challenges.
So let’s look at how this megacity is trying to modernize.
The biggest challenge Nigeria faces is a population pyramid that’s overwhelmingly bottom heavy. 61% are younger than 25—that’s a lot of jobs to create and houses to build in the coming years.
This problem is made worse by the extremely poor condition of the city’s infrastructure. Badly designed and maintained motorways cause people to endure agonizing commute times, and interrupted access to electricity causes regular blackouts.
Add in the threat of a rising ocean that’s steadily eroding the coastline, and the future of this place looks bleak.
But perspective is relative, so let’s gain some.
165 years ago Lagos was an island fortress and one of the principal roots of the slave trade, until the British navy bombarded it into submission and abolished the practice. But slavery wasn’t outlawed in Northern Nigeria until 1936. That means any Nigerian older than 85 can probably still remember slavery, or was a slave themselves.
In 1960, Nigeria gained independence from the British. But, the country quickly became engulfed in a civil war that killed as many as 3 million people. In the dark aftermath of this bloody conflict the country had one thing going for it: oil, which provided a consistent source of income. But the temptation of controlling all that black gold attracted deeply corrupt men, and Nigeria endured decades of violent struggles between power-mad dictators and military officers.
With just two legitimate presidential elections under its belt, in 2011 and 2015, Nigeria has only had six years of truly peaceful, independent — not completely corrupt — democratic rule in its entire history.
All this upheaval was amplified by strong ethnic and religious divisions throughout the country. So for the federal government to appear legitimate, the capital had to move away from Lagos to a more centralized, neutral part of the country. Following in the footsteps of Brazil’s master-planned capital, Brasilia, the Nigerians built an entire city from scratch during the 1980’s. The relocation of thousands of government workers drove migration to this new capital, Abuja, the fastest growing city in the world from 2000 to 2010.
Unfortunately, while Abuja thrived, Lagos languished. With the city far away now it became even easier for deeply corrupt federal officials to neglect the megacity’s needs.
But the its downward spiral is quickly changing direction thanks — largely — to one man, the current governor of the state of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode.
Ambode earned his Master’s in accounting from the University of Lagos and studied abroad in England, Switzerland, Singapore, and at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Boston.
[Osoba]: “Everything about this man is outstanding, everything about him… He is someone who does not leave a place without changing it for the better.”
Now 53 — with a long career serving the people of Lagos under his belt — Ambode hit the ground running upon his election in 2015. He immediately began holding regular town hall meetings. This helped him tailor his plans to best affect positive change for citizens that they could see and feel.
He installed a team of competent deputies who’ve helped him implement his mega-master plan of targeted micro projects to drastically improve conditions throughout the city. Lagosians are already feeling the benefits of his less than two years in office.
[Citizen of Lagos]: “Today we are happy because the government have done a perfect job here. Now we can have a good access roads to get to our homes. And you can see business around this area, they are doing very well.”
By making road fixes his first major task, Ambode wisely accomplished several important things that any new leader should immediately set out to do.
The other half of this modernization equation rests largely on the success of two key mega-projects under construction in Lagos and Abuja: Eko Atlantic, a financial hub that’s being built on reclaimed land along the coast; and Centenary City. Africas Mega-City: Future MEGAPROJECTS](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n8TKlpIyHn4/mqdefault.jpg)


