The Philippines has 4.2 billion metric tons of copper reserves. Mined and processed, the copper ores may be converted into copper wire of various sizes which may become the major parts of electric motors of all sizes and capacities. Copper wire and parts likewise form major parts of power generators, transformers, power distribution equipment, electric and electronic gadgets, computers, battery chargers, etc. All such products may be made thru use of electric furnaces to melt copper concentrates, refine them thru electrolysis equipment, and draw out the resultant ingots into copper wire, or form the ingots (using molds and machine tools) into copper parts for various products. Alloyed with tin or zinc and other metals, copper forms various types of bronze or brass ingots which are raw material bases for thousands of product types.
Development of Philippine hydroelectric and geothermal power resources as described in the previous topics will facilitate establishment of such copper products manufacturing industries. Cheap power from such sources plus copper from local ores can make Philippine copper-based products highly competitive in world markets. Such products may include bronze and brass parts of machinery and equipment as well as ship propellers, furniture parts, house furnishings, building decor, coins and medals, etc.
One significant role that a Philippine copper industry may play involves manufacture of electric motors for battery-powered bicycles and tri-wheelers, cars, buses and coasters. Mega co-ops' joint venture companies may install recharged-batteries replacement stations in strategic roadways to enable electric vehicles to run 24/7 despite their installed batteries' limited running time. Bike/trike roadways for their part should be elevated and sited in the middle of wide avenues or on side streets, all forming networks that provide access to all the cities' residential, commercial, and business districts as well as parks and recreational areas. Constructed all at the same time by scores of mega co-op joint venture companies, the elevated roads should very soon re-position 70 to 80% of commuters away from sooty public transports, enabling city populations to breathe fresher air while greatly reducing ground traffic and people's travel costs.
Philippine cities currently need millions of battery-powered transports of all types due to the following reasons: a) Greater Manila (15 cities) is overwhelmed by some 13 million employees, students and publics, all needing private and public transports to get around, resulting to monstrous traffic jams along main avenues and even side streets. Other results: urban haze, smelly soot, and thousands of tons of CO2, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide spewed out of vehicle exhausts each working day. Worst polluters are buses and jeepneys with 10 to 20 year old engines that exude smelly smoke, ash, and the noxious gases mentioned; b) Other major Philippine cities and even towns are just a tad less crowded and sooty.
How may we address the transport and pollution problems all at the same time? Almost all city road users are commuters, so mega co-op joint ventures equipping them with bikes, electric bikes and tri-wheelers will cut their back-and-forth travel time by bus, car or jeepneys from current 2-3 hours per trip to just 20 minutes or so. That is, if elevated streets above appropriate city thoroughfares and side streets are built for commuters' use. More joint ventures should establish re-charged batteries replacement (bartering) stations in strategic points of the elevated road networks, thereby enabling electric bikes and trikes to run 24/7 as needed.
Similarly, ground-level traffic and pollution may be greatly minimized if mega co-op joint ventures with 1st World companies manufacture electric cars and coasters concurrent with establishing charged-batteries replacement stations in strategic city points. As in the elevated streets, said stations should enable all battery-powered transports to run 24/7 despite their batteries' limited power range. The scheme may even be adapted for provincial travel using large battery sets and engine transmissions for sloped roadways. Battery recharging costs are just a tiny percentage of equivalent gasoline or diesel filling-up costs, so the entire country benefits.
The great cost savings (which all commuters desire) should add to other benefits: a) All ground-level roads get de-clogged of public transports to a great degree, reducing travel time to a tenth or so of current rates; b) Travel time thus reduced prevents the current wastage of employees' productive time estimated at billions of hours of idleness per day; c) Deaths and illnesses caused by air pollution get to be greatly reduced; d) A Philippine bike, electric bike and trike manufacturing industry should create hundreds of new companies that manufacture steel and alloy parts, parts-making machines, tires, batteries, electric motors, chargers, lights, rainwear, headgear, cargo baskets, and accessories. Even more jobs should be created by the electric four-wheelers manufacturing industries. Millions of bottom poor thereby get to be employed; e) The electric transports should greatly reduce current ground-level roads' hours-long bumper to bumper traffic, thereby cutting CO2 emissions by as much as 80% due to greatly reduced travel time aside from zero emissions from the battery-powered transports.
How may our Movement build a Philippine electric vehicles manufacturing industry? 1st World CSR companies have to lead thru partnerships with electric transports manufacturing companies in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, USA or Europe. The companies should thereafter engage in joint ventures with Philippine mega co-ops. More joint ventures may be set up to manufacture electric motors, batteries and the thousands of parts and accessories required by electric transports assembly plants. The world's Green Funds, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and 1st World State Aid agencies may provide 75% of project costs by directly lending to the joint ventures thru such lenders' retailing outfits in the Philippines. Purchase of Philippine sovereign bonds for the projects should be avoided to prevent bureaucratic delays and minimize inflationary effects. Resultant interest income should add to the said international lenders' climate change funding budgets.
How may we multiply the CO2 mitigating model? Once operational, other traffic-plagued Asian cities will likely shift to 'me too' mode. Hundreds of cities in India and other Asian countries suffer the same traffic problems as in Philippine cities or even worse. The Philippines may create even more jobs by exporting electric transports and related products and even elevated streets construction companies at low prices due to the country's low costs of financing, construction materials, power and manufacturing. CO2 mitigation and creation of sweet oxygen may thus be multiplied a thousand times Philippine rates, thereby helping prevent the grave dangers posed by uncontrolled global warming.
Development of Philippine hydroelectric and geothermal power resources as described in the previous topics will facilitate establishment of such copper products manufacturing industries. Cheap power from such sources plus copper from local ores can make Philippine copper-based products highly competitive in world markets. Such products may include bronze and brass parts of machinery and equipment as well as ship propellers, furniture parts, house furnishings, building decor, coins and medals, etc.
One significant role that a Philippine copper industry may play involves manufacture of electric motors for battery-powered bicycles and tri-wheelers, cars, buses and coasters. Mega co-ops' joint venture companies may install recharged-batteries replacement stations in strategic roadways to enable electric vehicles to run 24/7 despite their installed batteries' limited running time. Bike/trike roadways for their part should be elevated and sited in the middle of wide avenues or on side streets, all forming networks that provide access to all the cities' residential, commercial, and business districts as well as parks and recreational areas. Constructed all at the same time by scores of mega co-op joint venture companies, the elevated roads should very soon re-position 70 to 80% of commuters away from sooty public transports, enabling city populations to breathe fresher air while greatly reducing ground traffic and people's travel costs.
Philippine cities currently need millions of battery-powered transports of all types due to the following reasons: a) Greater Manila (15 cities) is overwhelmed by some 13 million employees, students and publics, all needing private and public transports to get around, resulting to monstrous traffic jams along main avenues and even side streets. Other results: urban haze, smelly soot, and thousands of tons of CO2, carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide spewed out of vehicle exhausts each working day. Worst polluters are buses and jeepneys with 10 to 20 year old engines that exude smelly smoke, ash, and the noxious gases mentioned; b) Other major Philippine cities and even towns are just a tad less crowded and sooty.
How may we address the transport and pollution problems all at the same time? Almost all city road users are commuters, so mega co-op joint ventures equipping them with bikes, electric bikes and tri-wheelers will cut their back-and-forth travel time by bus, car or jeepneys from current 2-3 hours per trip to just 20 minutes or so. That is, if elevated streets above appropriate city thoroughfares and side streets are built for commuters' use. More joint ventures should establish re-charged batteries replacement (bartering) stations in strategic points of the elevated road networks, thereby enabling electric bikes and trikes to run 24/7 as needed.
Similarly, ground-level traffic and pollution may be greatly minimized if mega co-op joint ventures with 1st World companies manufacture electric cars and coasters concurrent with establishing charged-batteries replacement stations in strategic city points. As in the elevated streets, said stations should enable all battery-powered transports to run 24/7 despite their batteries' limited power range. The scheme may even be adapted for provincial travel using large battery sets and engine transmissions for sloped roadways. Battery recharging costs are just a tiny percentage of equivalent gasoline or diesel filling-up costs, so the entire country benefits.
The great cost savings (which all commuters desire) should add to other benefits: a) All ground-level roads get de-clogged of public transports to a great degree, reducing travel time to a tenth or so of current rates; b) Travel time thus reduced prevents the current wastage of employees' productive time estimated at billions of hours of idleness per day; c) Deaths and illnesses caused by air pollution get to be greatly reduced; d) A Philippine bike, electric bike and trike manufacturing industry should create hundreds of new companies that manufacture steel and alloy parts, parts-making machines, tires, batteries, electric motors, chargers, lights, rainwear, headgear, cargo baskets, and accessories. Even more jobs should be created by the electric four-wheelers manufacturing industries. Millions of bottom poor thereby get to be employed; e) The electric transports should greatly reduce current ground-level roads' hours-long bumper to bumper traffic, thereby cutting CO2 emissions by as much as 80% due to greatly reduced travel time aside from zero emissions from the battery-powered transports.
How may our Movement build a Philippine electric vehicles manufacturing industry? 1st World CSR companies have to lead thru partnerships with electric transports manufacturing companies in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, USA or Europe. The companies should thereafter engage in joint ventures with Philippine mega co-ops. More joint ventures may be set up to manufacture electric motors, batteries and the thousands of parts and accessories required by electric transports assembly plants. The world's Green Funds, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and 1st World State Aid agencies may provide 75% of project costs by directly lending to the joint ventures thru such lenders' retailing outfits in the Philippines. Purchase of Philippine sovereign bonds for the projects should be avoided to prevent bureaucratic delays and minimize inflationary effects. Resultant interest income should add to the said international lenders' climate change funding budgets.
How may we multiply the CO2 mitigating model? Once operational, other traffic-plagued Asian cities will likely shift to 'me too' mode. Hundreds of cities in India and other Asian countries suffer the same traffic problems as in Philippine cities or even worse. The Philippines may create even more jobs by exporting electric transports and related products and even elevated streets construction companies at low prices due to the country's low costs of financing, construction materials, power and manufacturing. CO2 mitigation and creation of sweet oxygen may thus be multiplied a thousand times Philippine rates, thereby helping prevent the grave dangers posed by uncontrolled global warming.
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