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Multiple Use Mid-River Highway: More Economical & Beneficial

Than The Proposed Riverside Project. Potential For Renewable

Power Generator, Aquaponic Farming & Flood Control System.

by BK Lim & FASEI ( Jan 2013, revised 18 June 2014 i!" s#e$ia% em#"asis n !"e '"a "raya )id*+iver #re$!-

Duped into Oil Addiction when cheaper & cleaner alternatives are available

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2enerating supercritical steam, an ultra/hot, ultra/pressuri3ed steam that-s used to drive the world-s most advanced power plant turbines, has

previously only been possible using fossil fuels, such as coal or gas. The '&56 is touting its generation using solar technology as a breakthrough for

solar energy production, with 7r "le* !onhas, '&568s (nergy 7irector, seeing it as a potential revolution for the renewable energy industry.

9&t8s like breaking the sound barrier: this step change proves solar has the potential to compete with the peak performance capabilities of fossil fuel

sources,9 7r !onhas said. 9&nstead of relying on burning fossil fuels to produce supercritical steam, this breakthrough demonstrates that the power

plants of the future could instead be using the free, 3ero emission energy of the sun to achieve the same result.9

'ommercial solar thermal power plants that currently e*ist use subcritical steam that is generated at similar temperatures to the '&56 e*periment,

but at lower pressures. The difference between subcritical and supercritical power plants is that the former operate at lower pressures, which allowsbubbles to form when heating takes place, leading to inefficiencies.

;owever, by increasing the pressure, the boiling temperature also increases and the latent heat of vapori3ation decreases. upercritical steam

powerplants operate at such high pressure that the latent heat of vapori3ation is 3ero: in other words, liquid water is converted directly to steam.

$odifying subcritical plants to operate on supercritical steam would vastly increase their efficiency and could help significantly lower the cost of

generating solar electricity while negating the need to use fossil fuels to achieve the same result.

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way, however, that will soon change. Today the

company officially introduced its 0 percent of the ma*imum that is theoretically

feasible.9 That8s quite the assertion, given that most

conventional wind turbines average around ?1 to 10

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Flood Control, Underground Water Transfer And Storage System.

;ydro/dams can only control water when the water is still in the catchment area and not after the flood waters had reached the flood plains. $osttyphoons, like esat and algae dumped much of their rain load on the fluvial plains outside the control of hydro dams. $ost e*isting drainage

systems converge and drain into the main fluvial channels. This is like causing a massive traffic jam during peak flows and they all flow southwards

towards Bangkok. !ith low elevation, there is not much gradient to speed up the water flow. (ven if there is, the flood water will accumulate at the

ne*t flat 3one. 6ur present surface drainage system is thus like a serial, linear system: never suitable to cater for peak flows during floods.

To solve our flooding woes, our fundamental concept of a converging system must radically change to a divergent distributed system )a complete

reversal+. &n order to do that

a. there need to be alternative water outlets, not just the sea.

b. any e*cess water above the optimum flow level of the main channels must be automatically removed so that the volume of water can never reach the

danger level of flooding )tackling the problem at root level before it gets too massive to handle+

c. water in the alternative outlet can be stored for e*traction during the dry period or channel out to areas in need of water.

ature has already provided us with a ready made solution. "ll we need to do is to harness the enormous potential of our natural resources, hundreds

to thousands of metres below us. 7rill large deep wells into the highly fractured fault 3ones to act as vertical and inclined channels to the suitable

porous rock formations for massive storage. (ach country will need to design their own distributed network of underground channels )a combination

of connecting tunnels and suitable fault 3ones+ to interconnect the aquifers and deeper formations based on their respective geological structures and

stratigraphy.

"t m flood height over an area sq km, the volume of flood water is million cu.metres. " sandstone bed 0 m thick with ?0K porosity over sq km

area, has the capacity to store an equivalent of million cu.metres of water assuming 10K impermeability. &n addition a highly permeable fault 3one

with just J0K porosity )00m wide * km length * km depth+ could store as much as J0 million cu.metres of water. "s these regional fault 3ones run

for miles into the interior of the continental mass, their storage and transport capacity is potentially enormous. 'learly suitable geologic conditions

can be utili3ed as deep underground resource )water store+ with the appropriate adaptations. ee illustrations in figures I@00a to c.

&f e*cess water is continually removed as soon as it rises above the optimum main channel level, there is no need to actively pump the water into the

wells. There can be various contraptions to generate electricity as the water flows downwards under gravity. These wells can have triple purposes:

drain e*cess water into the underground store, generate electricity and provide fresh water sources during droughts.

"s contingency )in the event of an unforeseen accidental flood outside the main channels: depending on the setup+ water from the flooded area can be

pumped into the nearest series of wells. !ith 1 wells per sq km and a conservative discharge rate of ?0,000 cu m DdayDwell, it would take 0 days to

clear million cu.metres of water by pumping the water into the wells. The discharge rate can be improved by various means such as increasing the

diameter and depth of the wells. The money to be spent on building more irrigation canals and flood control dams )now proven to be ineffective+, can

be better spent on these vertical dual purpose deep wells. !ith faster construction periods )than dam construction+ and the immediate availability of

the natural geological resources, a system of vertical wells can be installed progressively to prevent the ne*t catastrophic flooding. !ith the

unpredictable climate change following the gulf-s mega oil spill disaster, the ne*t flood in your neighborhood could be just around the corner.

Hrevention is definitely better and less costly than cure. Those who had e*perienced the floods first hand and had suffered personal losses of loved

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ones L irreplaceable valuables, the aftermath clean/up of the disaster is as traumatic as the tragedies themselves.

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