Energy, Environment, the Economy

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Energy, Environment, the Economy

• A Legal Playground ?

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Resource Management Responsibilities

• Question Of what value is that experience and
  professional discipline
• in addressing macro-level challenges?
• Is it not a control on the opium of careless
  spending of OPM?

• Engineers deal with managing energy use
• with environmental care
• and fiscal discipline with an eye to making
  viable investment-- routinely on a micro-level
  level

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Goals for a Civically Minded Engineer

• Responsible care

• Renaissance mentality
• a. Analytical Discipline
• b. Design for a Specific Goal
• Taking the law in your own hands

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ABET Expectations

• 3f Understanding professional and ethical
  responsibility
• 3h Understand impact of engineering in a global
  and societal context
• 3i Recognition of the need to engage in
  lifelong learning
• 3j A knowledge of contemporary issues

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A Triple Focus in Resource Management

• Intellectual underpinnings for a technological
  renaissance man
• Practical challenges in the interface with the
  public and government
• A pair of contemporary issues begging for more
  disciplined scientific input

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One Engineers Odyssey

• Research
• NSF Multicomponent Diffusion
• NSF Interactive Control
• US CoE Lake Pontchartrain Hydraulic Simulation
• US DoA Simulation of Cotton
• Plant Through Harvest
• VA Medical Center Mid-Brain Control of the
  Circulatory System
• Entergy Forecasting Power Demand
• US DoE Forecasting Oil Pricing 1978-1985
• Kidney Fdn The Resilience of Proximal
  Reabsorption

• Government
• Vapor recovery caught between agencies
• Discriminatory fee increases
• Mid-course suspension of a bioremediation effort
• Dredging frailty of male worms
• Effluent compliance and certified laboratories

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Research Project Productivity

• Academic
• 74 technical papers
• 17 PhDs 23 MS theses
• (11 professorial careers)
• Financial support

• Intellectural
• Multivariate control using system-specific
  feedforward and self-correcting feedback action
• Elucidation of quantum jumps in elasticity and
  investment
• Debunking the florigen mythology coupling
  morphology to physiology
• A resilient mechanism for metabolically driven
  active transport
• A physical basis for saltatory and FM modulation
  of neural signals

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Analysis Courtesy of Isaac NewtonThree Laws

• Can your analysis defy the conservation of mass,
  energy,momentum?
• Can one defy natural gradients without the
  external application of work?
• Are there not limited degrees of freedom in the
  properties exhibited by materials?
• (Molecules do not exhibit temperature except
  in clusters.)

• There is no free lunch
• Without work, there is mediocrity and chaos
• Individuals exhibit different properties than do
  groups

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The Discipline for Design

• A clear and comprehensive objective
• (weighting of competing goals)
• Defined constraints

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Elements of a Dynamic Econometric Model on World
Oil Supply
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       Exploration
Production Undeveloped
reserves
Ready reserves

Supply  
Consumer Decisions
Demand    
Fuel Inventory  

Pricing    
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One Engineers Odyssey

• Research
• NSF Multicomponent Diffusion
• NSF Interactive Control
• US CoE Lake Pontchartrain Hydraulic Simulation
• US DoA Simulation of Cotton
• Plant Through Harvest
• VA Medical Center Mid-Brain Control of the
  Circulatory System
• Entergy Forecasting Power Demand
• US DoE Forecasting Oil Pricing 1978-1985
• Kidney Fdn The Resilience of Proximal
  Reabsorption

• Government
• Vapor recovery caught between agencies
• Discriminatory fee increases
• Mid-course suspension of a bioremediation effort
• Dredging frailty of male worms
• Effluent compliance and certified laboratories

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Prototype Water Treatment Facility
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The Law(s) in Your Own Hands the Constraints

• Self-preservation professional and personal
  risk
• Statutory Law legal procedure, contracts, torts
• (Business Law)
• Administrative Law
• (Responsibility for compliance with changing
  regulations)
• Physical reality (the bigger Law)

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Tracking Statutes and Regulations

• U.S.Code
• Federal Register
• Code of Fed.Regs
• Permits, Compliance Plans

• Federal
• Statute
• Proposed Regs
• Regs in place
• State Regulations

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Annotated Contents Code of Federal
RegulationsEnvironmental Regulations (40 CFR)
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Contemporary Issues

• Leave to the experts?
• Leave to the politicians?
• The new vehicles of communication open fertile
  intellectual horizons!

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Global Warming and Kyoto

• Uncalibrated Models lack of disaggregation (the
  BOMEX lesson)
• Contradictory NASA evidence
• No Discipline for Largest Areas of Emissions
  Growth makes Kyoto a wealth-distribution program
  not a climate-control effort
• And then, even the models show negligible effect
  of Kyoto Controls

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ANWR Petroleum Development

• Impact is on 0.3 of the Total Reserve
• Caribou herd at Prudhoe Bay grew 8-fold over 20
  years
• Inupiat Indians and 75 of Alaskans support the
  development
• Democrat leadership in the Senate will not even
  allow a vote!
• 50 billion of royalties are denied the Federal
  Treasury while imports from Iraq are feeding
  terrorist activity
• ANWR contribution represents 6 years of ALL
  imports

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Prospective contribution of the Engineering
Mentality

• Intellectual discipline at both the micro and
  macro levels
• a. Analytical structure for the relevant
  data library
• b. Forced enunciation of a specific goal
  within defined and just constraints
• Being part of the system aggressively and
  politically
• If timid, consider the credentials of those who
  would fill the void we leave.