Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Sustainability Checklist

Sustainability amounts to providing a sustainable renewable energy technology, a technology that harvests energy (corrected for entropy) from the sun in real time and that returns more energy than is consumed to manufacture it, install it, operate it, maintain it, maintain its storehouses of natural material capital, prevent or repair environmental damage including aesthetic damage, uninstall it when its life cycle ends, restore the plant site, and support the community that serves the renewable energy installation both directly and indirectly throughout its life cycle.  If the technology must pay the energy cost of a substitute technology in cases where a substitute technology is necessary to satisfy contractual obligations, this cost must be added to the energy invested.  I reserve the right and privilege to add to this list if appropriate or necessary.

Renewable energy technology

manufacture
installation
operate
maintain
maintain steady-state storehouses with 1000-year-half-life residuals
prevent or repair environmental damage
uninstall
support community of stakeholders
overcome space and time contractual failures