Imperative 41: 20th vision: 1st World 'dirty power' factories expansion to 'clean power' Philippines!
Millions of companies in the Americas, Europe, and Asia rely on coal-fed power plants to run their factory machinery. Coal is considered the 'dirtiest' fuel for power plants, creating noxious smoke and exuding thousands of tons of CO2 per plant each year. Happily as fortune may have decreed, current 'non-industrial' Philippines has potential clean energy alternatives: hundreds of potential sites for mini hydropower and geothermal plants. As described in previous posts, 1st World CSR companies aided by Climate Change Funds, World Aid and Development Banks may develop said clean energy potentials to the fullest thru build-operate-transfer contracts, mega co-ops as final transferee-owners. The aiding Funds and CSR companies may earn enormous profits and interest income out of the 10 to 15-year BOT exercises, while the Philippines gains perpetual power sources at trillion-watt level combined, priced at low rates due to 'free' water and steam used by the hydro and geo plants as 'fuel'.
All factories run on electricity; thus power becomes a major factory cost anywhere. Therefore, even at planning and promotion stages, our Movement has to popularize a vision of 1st World factories powered by 'dirty' coal plants setting up profitable satellite versions of their production units in the Philippines with its cheap, copious and clean power. Considering Asia's three billion or so consumer-buyers (some 600 million in ASEAN alone) such satellite factories may become great Asian profit centers for their mother companies in the 1st World.
The advantages for 1st World 'dirty power' factories setting up Philippine clones (under a full mega co-op economy) are just too great to ignore: a) low power costs translating to high operational profits; b) great contributions to atmospheric CO2 mitigation; c) low Philippine salary rates (30% or less of 1st World equivalents) and high foreign exchange rates (over P50 per dollar); d) easily trainable, English speaking employees; e) a plethora of investment incentives, such as low taxes on equipment imports, tax holidays, low cost industrial zones, etc.; f) highly developed marketing networks built by local and foreign companies over decades that reach large swaths of world markets; g) Asean Festival Malls worldwide to sell almost all product lines from the Philippines; h) elite and mass entrepreneurs (mega co-op shareholders) all business-savvy and protective of local-foreign joint ventures; i) economic, political, cultural and religious systems patterned after democracy-based US and European equivalents; j) political stability due to economic democracy created by mega co-ops and their government; k) Filipino employees known worldwide as being industrious, patient, skilled, easy to train, have a knack for temporary fixes when machines conk out, and able to socialize or get along well with all races thru their sense of humor.
What profit-making industries may 1st World 'dirty power' companies set up in 'clean power' Philippines? Here are some: a) original equipment manufacturing plants; b) mini steel mills and metal alloys factories; c) foundries and parts-making factories for all kinds of machinery and metal-based products; d) chemical and drug factories; e) ethanol distilleries; f) plants that manufacture ethanol-fueled (E85) vehicles; g) solar cell, glass and ceramic works; h) boat and ship yards; i) aircraft and defense equipment manufacture; j) factories that produce all manner of consumer goods; k) hand tractor and farm tools manufacturing plants; l) factories to commercialize saleable technologies out of the world's over 24 million patented inventions; m) thousands of other product and service lines.
How will 'clean industries' Philippines impact climate change? Once 1st World factories find more profit in their Philippine clones, they may whittle down their 1st World 'dirty power' operations in favor of production expansions in the Philippines. Millions of tons out of the current 40+ million tons of CO2 currently exuded by world industries and transports each year will be pared off despite all such factories' production expansions. The end of global warming will become reality within a much shortened period.
All factories run on electricity; thus power becomes a major factory cost anywhere. Therefore, even at planning and promotion stages, our Movement has to popularize a vision of 1st World factories powered by 'dirty' coal plants setting up profitable satellite versions of their production units in the Philippines with its cheap, copious and clean power. Considering Asia's three billion or so consumer-buyers (some 600 million in ASEAN alone) such satellite factories may become great Asian profit centers for their mother companies in the 1st World.
The advantages for 1st World 'dirty power' factories setting up Philippine clones (under a full mega co-op economy) are just too great to ignore: a) low power costs translating to high operational profits; b) great contributions to atmospheric CO2 mitigation; c) low Philippine salary rates (30% or less of 1st World equivalents) and high foreign exchange rates (over P50 per dollar); d) easily trainable, English speaking employees; e) a plethora of investment incentives, such as low taxes on equipment imports, tax holidays, low cost industrial zones, etc.; f) highly developed marketing networks built by local and foreign companies over decades that reach large swaths of world markets; g) Asean Festival Malls worldwide to sell almost all product lines from the Philippines; h) elite and mass entrepreneurs (mega co-op shareholders) all business-savvy and protective of local-foreign joint ventures; i) economic, political, cultural and religious systems patterned after democracy-based US and European equivalents; j) political stability due to economic democracy created by mega co-ops and their government; k) Filipino employees known worldwide as being industrious, patient, skilled, easy to train, have a knack for temporary fixes when machines conk out, and able to socialize or get along well with all races thru their sense of humor.
What profit-making industries may 1st World 'dirty power' companies set up in 'clean power' Philippines? Here are some: a) original equipment manufacturing plants; b) mini steel mills and metal alloys factories; c) foundries and parts-making factories for all kinds of machinery and metal-based products; d) chemical and drug factories; e) ethanol distilleries; f) plants that manufacture ethanol-fueled (E85) vehicles; g) solar cell, glass and ceramic works; h) boat and ship yards; i) aircraft and defense equipment manufacture; j) factories that produce all manner of consumer goods; k) hand tractor and farm tools manufacturing plants; l) factories to commercialize saleable technologies out of the world's over 24 million patented inventions; m) thousands of other product and service lines.
How will 'clean industries' Philippines impact climate change? Once 1st World factories find more profit in their Philippine clones, they may whittle down their 1st World 'dirty power' operations in favor of production expansions in the Philippines. Millions of tons out of the current 40+ million tons of CO2 currently exuded by world industries and transports each year will be pared off despite all such factories' production expansions. The end of global warming will become reality within a much shortened period.
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