Ciudad Sinergia: a production and research facility in the southwestern United States for electrical power and fresh water, and for processing burnable waste, without the use of nuclear fission, coal or oil

Abstract

This invention provides for a production and research facility, which can be known as Ciudad Sinergia, for solving three problems confronting the United States: the need for safe, clean sources of electrical power; the need for adequate supplies of fresh water in arid regions; and the need to dispose of combustible waste in a responsible manner. A synergistic solution to these problems is provided, without the use of nuclear fission, coal or oil. Electrical power is produced by a variety of methods concurrently, including steam turbine-generators, wind turbines, solar cells and collectors, biomass, geothermal and other sources. Burnable trash is provided by cities. Fresh water is produced from desalination plants on the coasts powered by the facility and piped to a man-made lake located at the facility and into the Colorado River. Ciudad Sinergia provides for an emergency source of electrical power and fresh water to California in the event of a major earthquake.

I claim that: 
     
         1 . This invention provides for a production and research facility, which can be known as Ciudad Sinergia, to help solve three problems confronting the United States: the need for fresh water in arid regions to replenish rivers and aquifers now being rapidly depleted; the need for electrical power produced from environmentally safe sources; and the need to dispose of burnable trash from our cities in a productive and environmentally safe manner; without the use of nuclear fission, coal or oil. 
     
     
         2 . This invention further provides that the facility of claim ( 1 ) is comprised of various means for producing electrical power, including solar cells and solar collectors, wind turbines, steam-generator turbines, biomass and geothermal sources, as well as other sources which may be developed from research programs, in order to provide power to desalination plants located on the coast of California or the Gulf of California to supply fresh water to Ciudad Sinergia for its civic functions, to maintain a proper level for a lake created in Ciudad Sinergia to act as a reservoir and for recreational purposes for the engineers, scientists, technicians and their families who will operate and maintain the facilities to have a healthy environment in which to live and work, and to provide flow into the Colorado River to replenish its flow. 
     
     
         3 . This invention further provides that the facility of claims ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) also provide for an emergency source of electrical power and fresh water to the State of California in the event that a major earthquake, predicted to occur with almost certainty, disrupts that state's water and electrical power sources.