Introduction:
America is in a state of denial that the middle class income and
way of life is in jeopardy. We have such an allowed so much corruption and
unethical decisions and our government to bring our nation on the brink of
chaos and disaster. Our failure at global project management of our world
resources has come to a head. We need to take corporate project management
philosophy and implement it at a national governmental level. Then the
distribution of project objectives will be delegated to the appropriate
companies. Just as a large corporation chooses vendors to manufacture and
create parts and services for a corporation, delegation of the following
Infrastructure projects will be delegated to states for state/national project
management. There shall be national project managers who overseas state project
leaders with the progress and problems encountered with these projects.
National
Rebuilding America Infrastructure Project:
A. Power
Generation Job Generation
1.
Energy production and management within its impact on
the Infrastructure
a. Solar
Panels production and deployment on all new homes and businesses, Arizona, and
New Mexico to be designated solar states. The immediate hiring of thousands of
people in different disciplines of engineering, manufacturing, and installation
of thousands of solar panels to the Silicon Solar panel project. There will be
the need to hire concrete workers, electricians, electric company
sub-contractors to integrate the solar panels into the national grid. There
also needs to be built a maintenance building to monitor the input of solar
panels from the array of 100 mile by 100 miles of solar panels in Arizona, New
Mexico, and Death Valley California. Areas of high heat and sunlight are ideal
for the production of electricity.
b. An
array of solar thermal collectors would be constructed in all area of Arizona,
New Mexico, Texas, and deserts of California that have the most days of
sunlight a year and the highest temperature averages. These would also be
deployed for mass production and sale for home use in all cities that have at
least 100 day plus of sunshine to provide heated water for all new homes and
any home would have to have solar panels and solar thermal heating before they
are sold. The land used would be the most uninhabitable land in the United
States, ideal for use for power generation. This project would involve the team
diversity of people from all different disciplines. Immediate interviewing and
hiring of people would be necessary with a one year deployment date. Aggressive
scheduling is essential to insure these are actually built with no cost
overruns.
c. Geothermal
generation, magma heat extraction from volcanos for energy are vast resources
for energy generation for the United States. Technologies include dry steam
power plants, flash steam power plants and binary power plants. Geothermal
heating is use in over 70 countries. (Fridleifsson, Bertani, Huenges,
Lund, Ragnarsson, & Rybach) (Alison Holm,
2010 May)
This would supply unlimited geothermal power all year around. By tapping into
the volcanic and geothermal power which provides 55,709 GWh per year in 24
countries.
We currently have 77 power plants and first will pick the top ten sites
that currently don’t have geothermal generators built then allocate 20% of the
Infrastructure funds to hire personnel to work on these projects. The CO2 produced by the geothermal power plants would
be injected back into the earth in the form of carbon capture and storage. (Bertani & Thain, retrieved 2009-05-13) (US Department
of Energy Geothermal Technologies Program. May 2010. () These are long term
energy solutions that have no nuclear fallout, infinite earth resource, and
good for millions of years. Project managers would utilize the resources form
the Geothermal Energy Association to coordinate the deployment and construction
of geothermal plant that would employee thousands, even after construction is
completed, to monitor output and maintenance of said plant. (Ghassemi,
2010)
We have the capacity of producing over 35 to 2000 Gigawatts of power for the
United States. This potential for low energy cost would allow the United States
to compete in the manufacturing sector. (Rybach, retrieved 2009-05-09)
Areas for the power production of geothermal energy has been thoroughly
mapped to determine the appropriate locations in the Imperial Valley, Canby,
the geysers, and Yellowstone park, which is the world’s large volcano and
source of geothermal and magma power.
The planning of these projects would take methodical efforts due to the
scope and scale of such endeavors. If there is too much management, decisions
made would take too long to implement. Speed of implementation is critical to
the success of getting people to work to create this phase of energy production
and the elimination of natural gas power plants.
d. Tidal
Power from the energy generated by waves and thermal differential of cold water
versus warm water. The first tidal power station facility was built in France
in 1966. It produces 240 megawatts, generated by 24 turbines. It is interesting
how Canada, China, Russia, France, South Korea, United Kingdom, and South Korea
have tidal power plants, but the United States doesn’t have one power station.
Russia, United Kingdom, Philippines, India, England, and Wales are all
proposing to build additional tidal power plants. The feasibility and viability
of any energy project must be researched as to the profitability of deployment
of any energy production facilities. (R.H. Charlier, 2009)
The production of tidal power through the harnessing of wave power will
involve the creation of teams hired from the engineering, civil engineer,
physics, and power generation fields. Fujita Research for example has already
created horizontal and vertical axis tidal power turbines. (R.H.
Charlier, 2009)
pg. 20. We don’t realize that 70% of the earth is water and there is an
incredible amount of energy generation potential in the oceans. This series of
projects for infrastructure power integration will call about hundreds of
people to be employed in the building, manning, and maintenance of the power
facilities. OTEC plants would be analogist to underwater hydro-electric power
plants, without the impacts on the land environment that hydro-electric power
generation power plants currently have on the landscape. The Golden Gate Bridge
is an ideal area for tidal power due the massive amounts of water that flow
through the area of the Golden Gate Bridge from the ocean into the Bay Area.
There has been extensive tidal and harmonic analysis of the idea locations to
locate tidal generation plants along the West Coast and East Coast of the
United States and the Gulf States. China is proposing over 128 tidal plants to
be built; their project management philosophy is continual growth and
expansion, never stopping, ever changing economy.
Effective communications is essential to integrate the tidal power, solar
power into the national power transmission grid. We shall have school millions
of people for these new energy production fields. As we make the transition
from an agriculture to industrial economy as occurred in the 1930’s and 1940’s,
we are once again making a transition from an industrial or manufacturing based
economy to a technological and scientifically based economy. This time we
didn’t focus on training through the public and university school system to
prepare the millions of people who need training in the computer, science, and
technology fields. Decisions for expansion must be in concert with all the
stakeholders and those with the technological skills, communications, and
organizational skills to make these projects successful.
The electrical or power grid is a vast, interconnecting network for
delivering electricity from suppliers to consumers. (Kaplan, 2009) There is the
electricity generation, from hydro-electric, solar, geothermal, tidal, coal,
natural gas, biomass, wind, and nuclear power. Then the power has to be
transported from its source to the electricity distribution substation which
steps down the electricity to be sent to the homes and businesses in the
various cities around the United States.
B. Electrical
Power Grid Distribution Project
The
electrical power distribution system is almost a hundred years old, and in
desperate need of maintenance and upgrading. The development of upgrade
projects will be structured based upon areas of the United States with the
highest degree of growth, and oldest power lines in need of replacement. Hiring
and training of power distribution management will take years to accomplish.
The hiring of workers and project managers to implement this plan will involve
the input of every major city and state in the country. By upgrading and integrating all the power
grids we can insure no more power failures, power outages, or brown outs during
the hottest days of the summer, or the coldest days in the winter time.
Effective leadership skills in the development and implementation of this phase
of the national infrastructure plan will help reduce the cost to all Americans
and American business’s for lower energy costs for domestic production of
goods, and farming energy costs to be competitive with the global manufacturing
network. We produce so much in manufacturing and energy production, but haven’t
improved our water, waste, and garbage management system.
C. Water
, Waste, and Garbage Treatment Management Job Generation
a. Through
the expansion and rebuilding of our water treatment plants in those cities that
have had the highest growth over the last 30 years. We have neglected their
maintenance, with that the use of chroamine, which is ammonia and chlorine to
purify our water supply is strained to the breaking limit. Many of the cities
that process our waste water have to dump a large portion of it into the ocean
during a rainstorm due to the mismanagement of the water treatment system.
Civil and chemical engineers would be hired to formulate a plan in coordination
with all city leaders to establish the top cities that need water treatment
expansion. Team leaders of each city would coordinate their efforts for the
need of ordered materials to replace and expand current fresh water supplies
coming from a wide variety of sources to meet the ever growing American need
for fresh, clean water and its equivalent need in waste treatment.
b. Repair
and replacements of all water and waste treatment pipes nationally that have
the highest degree of neglect and potential for breakage and failure during a
hurricane, heavy rain storm, and in areas of larges population. The
manufacturing and development of all the piping needed to replacing our aging
national pipeline network will be an ominous task taking the efforts and
expertise of thousands of workers. Hiring the type of worker that worked on the
Alaskan pipeline and training the thousands of needed pipeline workers needed
to dig up and replace the hundred year old pipes in such areas as Boston, New
York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and other large cities.
2. De-Salination
Plant Construction
a. Examine
the need for additional water reservoirs for free water for every major city in
the United States. A map of potential water reservoirs needs to be drawn up and
then constructed in areas where there is the greatest need until de-Salination
plants come online. (Schorr, 2011) There are many studies project managers
can draw upon relative to what type of de-Salination plants should be
constructed around the United States.
b. The
applications of electro dialysis technology are an essential component of
demineralization of brackish salt water during the production of fresh water.
c. Map
the locations for De-Salination Plants in the United States to generate fresh
water for every major city in the United States. From the deployment of De-Salination
and water treatment plants from the Great Lakes, East Coast, West Coast, and
the Gulf States. (Schorr, 2011) By integrating wind,
solar, geothermal, and nuclear power to generate the electricity needed for all
the new water desalination plants, this would appease the environmental need of
using environmentally friendly, renewable energy to generate fresh water for
every man, woman, and child in the United States, with excess to be exported to
other countries. China is currently developing massive number of de-Salination
plants for the ever increasing masses in China.
Small decentralized water treatment plants will be connected to wind,
solar, and geothermal plants near each de-Salination plant established along
the West Coast, East Coast, and Gulf Coast. The cost of each de-Salination
plant is $110 million, not including the infrastructure integration into the
national energy grid. The creation of solar desalination plants would utilize southern
California, eastern Texas Coasts, Florida, and all the coastal areas of East
Coast in the summer months, due to their abundance in solar energy and southern
proximity to the oceans. The project managers for de-Salination plant
deployment would have to make sure that this new fresh water would reach all
the farming areas and cities of the United States. This would require the
construction of pumping stations and electrical grid integration as the water
has to be pumped like electricity to all of the necessary area of the United
States, North, South, East, and West. The system has to be balanced with
computer and human monitoring to insure that when there are rain storms,
hurricanes, and snow storms that the water grid can handle the entire sewer run
off that would normally be directed to a water treatment plant.
d. The
current system allows far too many flooded cities during hurricanes, rain, and
snow storms. The lack of proper water management system costs this countries
billions of dollars every year in the destruction of homes, business’s, and
lost productivity, due to the inability to remove large amounts of rain from
rural, and city areas in the time of tropical storms, and hurricanes.
e. A
National Aqueduct system to transport water between all areas of the United
States shall be implementing to expand and integrate all of the areas of the
United States with the drought stricken areas that would get water from areas
of floods and vice-versa. Computer systems to analyze the water needs of the
nation, areas that need less water in the winter and more water in the summer.
This would be integrated into the water treatment, de-Salination, and fresh
water system to create a balanced water system, to be managed by system level
managers, engineers, civil engineers, and a multi-level national tiered system.
Effective communications between all departments of the national infrastructure
plan would implement all of the above power, sewage, and water needs of the
national in a computerized network, manned by thousands of people to monitor
the fluxuations in weather as it influences the national power, and water grid.
Effective
project management on such as massive scale and be accomplished with the
correct balance of communications skills, organizational management skills,
team-building skills, leadership skills, coping skills which will require
flexibility, creativity, patience, and persistence. The greatest need is the
balance of superior technological skills of people with the appropriate
experience, and project knowledge to make each facet of this project a reality.
If there is the proper amount of planning, organizing, staffing, with an
effective work breakdown structure for all the phases of each project will
insure minimal project delays when realistic schedules and deadlines are made
for each infrastructure project. When a critical path method is implemented
with the right amount of cost value, peer assessment for feedback at all stages
of these projects, it will insure and minimize challenges that will be
encountered in every step of the projects. Evaluation, continual improvement,
and quality management will help to insure quality project competition to
insure minimal redesign, maintenance and down time. If we can minimize the political elements of
these projects and implement them as necessary we can insure millions of people
long term employment that will repair and rebuild the foundation of the
infrastructure of the United States. This will insure decades of growth and
prosperity for this nation.
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