Sustainable Construction of Single Stage Panama Canal

To travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, ships must bridge a 26-metre height difference. The ships go through 3 locks: the Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun locks. 82km long Panama Canal transit can be completed in approximately 8-10 hours. I propose the swarm construction robots to enlarge the canal and decrease the lock stage count to one. 26-meter water level difference can be high for a single lock but I suppose engineers would find a clever way of solving it. The locks can be built in the lake section of the canal to allow more than two locks to be built to speed up the canal transit. Wind farms would be built to power the all-electric construction robots. After the canal construction finishes, they would power the cities nearby.

Sustainable Construction of Dual Lane Suez Canal

Suez Canal is a long narrow and single lane canal. I propose an extension of the canal using autonomous robots. The robots will be all electric and their batteries will be charged from the wind farm build on the banks of the canal. The enlarged canal will be separated with floating walls to make it dual lane. The robot based construction will allow 7/24 work with minimum number of workers required. No need to supply fuel, water and food. No need to construct temporary housing for the workers. The construction rate can be increased gradually by increasing the number of robots and wind turbines. Once the canal is finished the wind turbines would power the cities nearby.

Haughton Mars Project EcoSphere

Haughton Mars Project (HMP) is an international research project carried out near the Haughton impact crater on Canada's northern Devon Island. The project's goal is to utilize the Mars-like features of Devon Island to study the human dynamics which result from extended contact in close quarters. I propose an extension to this project to build large EcoSpheres. An EcoSphere, is a sealed glass aquarium in which a self-sustaining ecosystem exists which by definition means energy is free to leave and enter but matter must remain confined within. Basic EcoSpheres do not accommodate humans but the large one should be optimized for humans as well. One step closer to colonizing the other planets.

Wildfire Avoidance Using Golden Eye

Hot "hairdryer" winds that whip down mountainsides play a role in devastating heatwaves and wildfires. Previously I had proposed a global consortium to deploy and control solar concentrators on geostationary orbit to stop the formation of hurricanes before they turn into Category 5. Namely Golden Eye, can also be used to divert the hairdryer winds so they have less impact on the wildfire formation.

Sustainable Military and Civil Marine Patrol

I had previously proposed an air patrol network using wind turbine posts. This idea can be extended to marine patrolling as well. Offshore wind turbines can be utilized to recharge the patrolling all electric boats. The wind turbines don't need to be that close to each other like in the picture but cover the whole coast of the country. Wind turbine posts would also be used to recharge the patrolling all electric submarines. Additionally posts allow high speed network connection to dump in the data acquired during patrolling. This network would allow 7/24 patrolling of the coasts with renewable energy.

Finally, I propose these patrolling boats and submarines to incorporate sensors to monitor the life under the sea. These data collected would allow the scientists to monitor the countries valuable marine life.  Develop system to serve both military and civil. Scientists should not try utilize other robots to monitor mineral levels at sea, just at those sensors to the military bots.

Sustainable Military and Civil Patrol

Patrolling is a necessity for all countries. Patrolling over air is quite effective due to larger are coverage. I propose the use of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) planes for patrolling (they don't need to be that small like in the picture). The VTOL posts would be vertical wind turbines. Vertical turbine design allows the poles to have a safe docking nest for the VTOLs. The wind turbine posts would charge the VTOLs and allow high speed network connection to dump in the data acquired during patrolling. This network would allow 7/24 country wide patrolling with renewable energy.

Waste Recycling using Renewable Energy

Garbage collected within a city are dumbed in a waste management facility. Sorting them is usually very expensive. I propose the garbage to be shredded into very fine pieces in multiple stages. As the particle size goes down, automatic systems can make the sorting very effective. As always, I propose these processes to be conducted using automated robots. We should stop using diesel work machines and operators seated in a cabin. We should start using fully automated robots that can be instructed remotely. The goal is to fully automate the process of recycling and use only electricity as energy source. Then renewable energy sources can be used to power the whole system. The process rate would depend on the electric available at that time. No need to store the energy.