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WAPS4 is a nonprofit organization that wants to bring together all people of the world
to help create a cleaner environment by providing the knowledge everyone needs to better the
life of the world and future generations. This project has many inventions that can help supply
clean water and energy to every country as well as help create jobs and better food sources.
CONSIDER WAPS4
GREEN ENERGY PROJECT: WATER, AIR,
POWER, AND SAND
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CONSIDER WAPS4
GREEN ENERGY PROJECT
HISTORY
The idea of this project was brought about by a man named,
Yaser Barakat. He lived in a world of love, war, and hate with
overbearing fresh water shortage and limited food supply. The Gaza
strip, where he lived, once flourished with life and life’s pleasures that
later was taken by war which brought hunger and water shortage. He
moved to America under occupation by Israel. He is an inventor, artist,
and musician. He is looking to help the world for future generations so
that people can live a better life.
LOSING WATER
People generally do not want to do much of anything to prevent
something from happening, but once something happens people want to
take action and by then it’s too late. Our water supply is quickly
diminishing. We have many lakes and rivers that are becoming polluted
and the underground water supply called the “Ogallala Aquifer” is
quickly depleting.
2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation and 1.1 billion live
without clean drinking water period. 75% of the planet is water but only
three percent of water is fresh. In Central Asia the Aril Sea or “Sea of
Islands” 1,534 islands once existed now it is down 10% of its original
size. In Central and South Asia water sources are so low that a bill was
passed called “Avoiding Water Wars.” Water shortage has already
caused aggravated demand for agriculture and power generation.
According to FutureMoneyTrends.com some places in Africa so much
water has been pulled out of the ecosystem in order to bottle it and send
it around the world and because of that some towns became desserts.
In the U.S. the largest body of freshwater, called the Ogallala
Aquifer, extends from the Colorado Rockies and South Dakota down to
the Texas Pan Handle with a 50 to 300 ft. of depth. This body of water
made America’s plains the breadbasket of the world. The average depth
was about 240 ft. today it is now 80 ft. In Texas a town named Happy
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completely ran out of water for its farms. The average depth there ran from 0-80 ft. The USDA (U.S.
Department of Agriculture) reports, “The supply is going to run out and the plains will become
uneconomical to farm.” The USDA gives our water supply 60 years. We built cities and farms on
something that is unsustainable. FutureMoneyTrends.com states they have no doubt this has a tie to
rising food prices.
The Colorado River used to run into the Pacific Ocean, but not anymore. By the time the water is
pulled to fill the pools of Vegas, irrigates, and provides drinking water throughout the West, not a drop
makes it to the ocean. In California according to NASA four years of drought and record-setting high
temperatures have combined to drop California’s reservoirs to critically low levels to where an estimated
one year is left. Therefore the Colorado River does end in California and doesn’t make it to the Ocean.
According to the consulting company, Mckinsey & Company, “In just 20 years, this report shows
demands for water will be 40% higher than it is today.
There is already a few solutions to obtaining clean water but are these solutions temporary or
safe? One solution is a desalinization plant. It cost too much for a desalinization plant. It make about 50
million gallon per day which supplies 112 thousand households of water for a year. It isn’t a perfect
process because it only converts 50 percent of salt water into fresh water so for every two gallons it
makes one gallon of fresh water. The bad part to making all this fresh water is that it leaves behind a
substance called brine, which is nothing but the salt and minerals left over. Brine cannot be dumped
directly back into the ocean because it is so dense it will kill all vegetation and sea life it encounters. To
get rid of the brine it is diluted in more ocean water and spread over a wide area of the ocean which is
another costly process.
PAYING TOO MUCH FOR ENERGY?
There are many desalinization plants that use many different kinds of energy: coal, nuclear,
natural gas, or oil. These plants cost so much money to sustain because it takes so much power to
operate. For the average desalinization plant, it takes 2 kilowatt hours of energy to produce 1 cubic
meter of fresh water. Although that translates to a cost of under $2 on many power grids, the true cost of
production comes from the expenditures of fossil fuels that are necessary to create that electricity. The
desalinization plant has to be paired with a power plant.
Power plants use enormous amounts of water to cool all the components that it takes to make the
power so the water that is pulled from the ocean and evaporated by the power plant which wastes water.
Power plants use a lot of power to create power so they pass large amounts of greenhouse gasses
amongst other bad side effects. Energy investors figure out how much they need to spend on a new
utility, power plant, or desalinization plant based on the expected return over the next 30 years, but there
is no way that could be properly calculated. The power plant also costs half a billion to 2-4 billion to
build.
Power plants are being replaced by distributed solar systems which can be paired with
desalinization plants but there are a few problems with that. The solar power is not as strong as a power
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plant so to get the same effective results of clean water the water would have to be cycled through a few
more times than it would if it were to be a regular power plant. The materials to create solar panels are
exotic materials which certain solar cells require materials that are expensive and rare in nature. The
production of these solar panels are associated with pollution because some of the manufacturing
processes are associated with greenhouse gases such as nitrogen trifluroide and sulfur hexafluoride.
Energy storage is also expensive and takes up lots of space. In the end solar energy is not comparable to
oil, gas, and nuclear power.
SOLUTION
The solution to the power and water crisis is an invention called WAPS1. WAPS1 is a
hydroelectric reservoir that within is installed thousands of turbines to create energy. The more energy
that is needed the more turbines can be installed. These turbines are called farm of water turbines. The
reservoir can be placed inland or anywhere it is needed. If it is to be placed inland than a pipeline or
canal should be built for easy water access.
WAPS1 would benefit the desalinization plant because it can provide an abundance amount of
cheap power. This cheap power is strong and will never run short like solar and wind power. This power
is cheaper than other fossil fuels and natural gases because it is abundant, self-sustaining, and clean.
This will reduce the cost of making water thus reducing the cost of irrigating lands and food prices. Poor
countries will then be able to afford the desalinization plant because the cost will drop dramatically.
WAPS1 does not only provide power to the desalinization plants but also to cities. The size of
this plant will take up only enough room for a football field. This project will provide many jobs and the
idea is solid. The reservoir will also sustain a fish farm for easy access to fish. Sand will be put around it
to keep it safe from earthquakes to prevent much damage. With all the brine that desalinization plants
leave behind instead of letting them put it back into the ocean we will turn it into ways of helping people
by using it. Instead of the Dead Sea being between Jerusalem and Jordan, we can make it here in
America making man-made lakes with it to provide people with the same healing and skin rejuvenating
power without the travel. We can make salt caves that helps people with asthma breath better. We can
also use the salt in swimming pools instead of using harsh chemicals.
OTHER IDEAS
There are many more ideas in this project. One idea relates to peace. Another idea is about
extraction of carbon dioxide from the air. Another idea is about improving indoor air quality. All these
ideas are followed by inventions. Our organization sells t-shirts, art, and posters to get people to support
our inventions so we can make it a reality.
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WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
Like WAPS4 on facebook and show your support for our project. We are already being noticed by
NASA and other organizations that deal with green energy. Thank you for your time.
