William Pierce

This Anonomyous Guy is a leading expert in sustainable infrastructure and technological innovation. With over a decade of experience analyzing industrial systems, he has dedicated his career to finding the intersection between environmental stewardship and digital advancement. Only did associate diploma in mechanical engineering but worked in a/c design for since 1984 as 16 yr old trainee. Because of young age & experience in pinball / digital game parlours I was first to be trained in CAD Computer Aided Drafting & replaced drawing board. Sent to Sydney largest manufacturer in a/c design (JH) & in office with nearly 50 drafting boards, I was isolated in office & got threats/cautions as some thought it was going to take their jobs away. Read that that was said when car took over horse & cart, & whip maufacturing slowing will bring the economy down, but quote those smart business in rubber industry ended up making tyres. Tech never loses jobs, witnessed over 100yrs, plus with cad, as increased effic. & effectivess meant I could not only not have to go up & down chain of command, as computer gives answers, but do job 10x better. & made company, economy larger ie growth, & in turn they could emplooy more people, competition forced businessess to decentralise as technology enabled ie household cooling, & hh concealment, both reduced molecular motion of stored food, max storage & min macro horiz emptying / disposing dist. Some jobs 100pc auto some none, ie teller at bank & cop at intersection 100pc auto, & most in between, not only do heat load without having to get boss (centralised control) to check, plus do better job in 1/10th of time. Then when recent times I learned that people think that sustainable technology ie wind/solar/rain/waste packaging, can be implemented & make ecological gain, but going to cost economically.. ie improve environment but comes at cost. economically. But always 2 types of ecol neg of system. local & global. local neg of muscle tech, n now that eliminated ecolog. & econ negs of muscle tech, but as much as made local better, globallly worse, as like waste pkg, previously pkg n nrg from above ground & temporary up motion as w pile disposed, & co2 up, but in past cos as much down ie animals go to toilet, inc. density in jaws, stomach, bowels, below ground decomposition & inc nutrients for plants so inc grtowth more & absorbs co2 by plants inc gth. as down motion at dump meant space for continued order, Then heard sust tech going to make econ bad cos fossil fuels been so good to us in past, yet w bypass like a/c r/a duct bypass, n 50pc gain with one simple change, ie dont exhaust outside & intake ext hot air, bypass & 1 dist hor plus 1 for cooling ie 24deg to 16deg, not 32 to 16, & when w going to put same bypass & instead of exh to dump, bypass to container mfr, similar to how hh solar/wind/rain nrg bypassed dump when discarded, as solar fed back to grid when at work, but later hh uses $ and nrg n raw materials to buy back when demanded. Some say energy system is not really cooling system, but could also say that packaging industry is more than plastic, but in both cases the heating & cooling, & elastic & plastic petro-chemical fossil fuel virgin materials, consumes half of our waste pkg system, so both cooling & pkg causing most ecol negative, as local trip disposing & 1st ice delivery systems from ice sourced from natural suplies then horse cart took to household ice-box. as w took pkg to dump. but reduced trips to / from shops, better global & local. could make locally better & ban refrig & plastic, but reduced co2 gl connected to $ effic. so gl gain. Then short career detour to designing side tipper semi-trailers, but job similar to a/c, as volume varied, ie how dense material is, had to reduce volume so same pressure in truck on road max limit & in duct int pressure constant cos vary volume.. Because I got to work on both sides ie waste & nrg, got to compare / observe that govts not doing like would result if put 100 monkeys or 100 chilren, at least get some steps right just by probabilities, but I saw opposite each time. No centralised r ie banned in some states cos makes ksr decent r from hh kerb less effic. but in nrg system where not as noticable like in w where if changed from grid to all having to rely on centralised above gd r depot, it would be obvious why price iew # one up, but in nrg co2 invisible so even though same principle where any centralised above ground solar wind farms takes nrg or makes household solar wind less efficient. The one system that was important to force on max ppl at earliest time ie solar wind, & dom w above gd r only local neg so leave till latest, when tech fully developed ie 90pc then no change in bins etc. but nrg can imp early as wont be worrying about unsightly dump when climate change trying to wipe us away. one local ksr sys govts give 100pc 2 options, no cost, but solar leave up to community. & 5pc have batt. & this equiv to when ksr first implem no increased storage, actually reduced as original ksr put divider plate in truck, in wbins, but not indoor bin. show later this same as applying refrig cooling system to prime mover from miine, then pwr stn, then compressor, then indoor air cycle indoors.. didnt need tests to prove that this only same vol 10pc of time ie when boith fill at same rate, 90pc of time one emptier & either empty same vol but overflow or one side empty, & same as solar now with car also govts done what did with ksr in 90s n not inc storage, reduced. adds on tv we love u we love u not, if was left right like that then no prob, both bins always fill at same time & just decision of recyclable symbol or not. One system that tech can solve buffer ie elec tech way to overcome probs as 50pc supplied from hh odoor solar wind, then next 50pc growth as 90pc of hh nrg possible from above ground, but in waste, its like beginning with 2 half bins at start when 10pc of w has pot to be r, one half take 10x longer to fill & other half fill quicker all the time until about 50pc of waste stream becomes viable to r, early 90s, but after that from 50 to 90 the diff in filling inc again & when 90pc r one side take 10 x longer for w bin to fill, but r bin 10x quicker. oner system is subsidso that reduce temptation to dispose waste on side of road, but other nrg system also subsidiesed, not like banks, got reason, ie dont want bank going broke so onlybig 4 banks, policy gifts for them ok, but for fossil fuels, thats not a tech that dont want to make no other alternative. tempting to waste in nrg sys by subsid. His unique perspective on circular economies has made him a sought-after consultant for tech firms and urban developers alike. William lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he enjoys exploring the outdoors and researching new ways to minimize human impact on the natural world. A Technology at Our Disposal is his latest contribution to the global conversation on sustainability. He believes that by looking at our past mistakes in waste management, we can build a more efficient, waste-free tomorrow for everyone.