Waste Management: Chemosynthetic Production of Biomass Using Sewage Nutrients by CO2 Negative/RCP 2.6

To address the Judges comments: A) "I question the feasibility of utilizing the existing terrestrial utility infrastructure to implement the plan, either by utilizing existing lines no longer in service (usually for good reason) or by installing new lines along existing ROWs (potentially prohibitively expensive).". In brief, this technology only needs closed tanks for cultivation and low cost tankage can be found/installed in many forms and locations. The conversion of existing infrastructure would require a system by system evaluation. However, the flexibility of the technology allows the WENN suite of technologies to be shoe-horned into...any....scale of community. B) "The use of ocean-based reactors has promise on a pilot scale level but I fail to see it happening at large scale at this time simply due to political and public opposition to anything based at sea. There is a vast amount of infrastructure required to scale up this proposal. No information was provided with regard to where, cost, timeline, or emissions reduction make it difficult to fully support.". Marine based industrial development is actually well supported on many different levels. The WENN technology suite, as it is related to the marine environment, has the following unique combination of benefits: - self contained/nonpolluting - provides surface cooling for marine ecosystems under thermal stress such as coral forests; - sustainable and scalable critical commodity production (i.e. carbon negative fuel, biochar, food, feed, organic fertilizer, polymers, freshwater etc.); - can/should work well off-shore (no NIMBY factor); - would significantly reduce pressure on local fisheries as the WENN technology can support mariculture as well as provide energy and water; - allows...all....nations to become bio-energy, protein, water and organic fertilizer/biochar etc. independent as the marine commons are open to all nations. The smallest of the land-locked nations can become as productive as the largest nation owning vast ocean access; - offers a new form of territory in the form of artificial islands which allows...all...nations to expand into the oceanic space without displacement of neighbor/nature. Again, the smallest land-locked state can eventually control as much WENN production tools and oceanic space as even the largest nations;

Hi Michael, sorry for the technical challenge you experienced. We will forward this link to the Judges for them to fully review your work. Best of luck.