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Solvency

Plans fail due to financial conditions
Blandford 12 – Laurie K, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers
 ~[April 17, http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/apr/17/st-lucie-officials-to-decide-today-whether-to/-http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/apr/17/st-lucie-officials-to-decide-today-whether-to/~]
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Plans to pioneer plasma gasification technology through a trash-
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a lack of money and Fort Pierce’s decision to leave the county landfill.
The economy is the only barrier to adoption - ONLY tax credits solve
NETL 12 – National Energy Technology Laboratory
~[June 22, http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/gasification/gasifipedia/7-advantages/7-6_challenges.html-http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/gasification/gasifipedia/7-advantages/7-6_challenges.html~]
The widespread market penetration of gasification faces some challenges, mostly related to capital costs
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respondents expressed concern with low plant availability in the early stages of operation.

No disads – rising natural gas prices increase coal use

DiSaviano 12 – Scott, Reuters
~[September 27, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/27/us-utilities-coal-gas-idUSBRE88Q11S20120927-http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/27/us-utilities-coal-gas-idUSBRE88Q11S20120927~]
(Reuters) - The recent rise in U.S. natural gas prices
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expected to continue rising ahead of the peak-demand winter heating season.
Plasma gasification uses coal more efficiently, producing beneficial slag and fewer emissions
NETL 12 – National Energy Technology Laboratory
~[June 22, http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/gasification/gasifipedia/4-gasifiers/4-1-4-1a_westinghouse.html~~]
WPC has been developing plasma gasification technology to treat industrial and municipal solid wastes (
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total energy input in the feed can be recovered in the produced syngas.

There’s only one only plasma plant in North America

Canada Newswire 12
~[May 15, http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/974523/u-s-air-force-extends-waste-to-energy-operating-contract-http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/974523/u-s-air-force-extends-waste-to-energy-operating-contract~]
The 10.5-ton per day facility at the Air Force’s base in
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has successfully demonstrated the ability to convert unsorted municipal solid waste into electricity.

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Plan

The United States Department of Energy should substantially increase tax credits for plasma gasification of coal through a departmental order.

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Food

US droughts cause global food crises – effects will be seen this year

Cleetus 12 – Rachel, expert on the design and economic evaluation of climate and energy policies, as well as the costs of climate change, Ph.D. in economics
~September 4, http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/09/global-food-crisis-2012-drought/-http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/09/global-food-crisis-2012-drought/~~
The impact of the 2012 drought on U.S. crops and livestock has
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weather imposes a very unequal burden on the poorest people in the world.

Droughts are inevitable – the only way to maintain agriculture is through hydroponics

Truan 12 – Maresa, San Diego State University with degrees in political science and psychology
~July 31, http://www.rosebudmag.com/120-hydro-pop/4201-record-droughts-plague-us-farmers-is-hydroponic-agriculture-the-solution-http://www.rosebudmag.com/120-hydro-pop/4201-record-droughts-plague-us-farmers-is-hydroponic-agriculture-the-solution~~
By all accounts, 2012 has been a very dry year for the US.
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amount of water, having to irrigate is much less of a problem.

Plasma gasification creates slag for rock wool, lowering costs

Strickland 7 – Jonathan, HowStuffWorks senior writer
~http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/plasma-converter3.htm~~
If you were to blow compressed air through a stream of this molten material,
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another substantial source of income apart from selling electricity back to the grid.

Rockwool is the most effective hydroponic material – expense is the only barrier

UF 12 – University of Florida
~April 27, http://vfd.ifas.ufl.edu/suwanneevalley/hydroponicgreenhouse/rockwool_peat_pine_bark.shtml~~
Rockwool is probably the number one choice among hydroponic growers worldwide. It’s been around
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is a most expensive option that we have available to us, hydroponics.

Moral obligation

Watson 77 – Richard, Environmental Ethicist, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University
~World Hunger and Moral Obligation, p. 122.~
That is, as stated early in this essay, morality essentially has to do
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be shared equally even if this means the extinction of the human race.

Food aid prevents nuclear North Korea

Crawford 12 – Jamie, CNN National Security Producer
~February 29, http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-deal/index.html~~
Washington (CNN) — North Korea has agreed to halt nuclear tests, long
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package of 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance to North Korea.

Nuclear North Korea leads to nuclear world war

Associated Press 12
~October 02, http://world.time.com/2012/10/02/north-korea-spark-could-set-off-nuclear-war/~~
(UNITED NATIONS) — A North Korean minister lashed
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the North’s "mighty" military deterrent against any "reckless provocations."

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Environment

Overwhelming scientific consensus indicates warming is accelerating and anthropogenic

Pearce 7 – Fred, environment consultant for New Scientist
~With speed and violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change, GoogleBooks, pp. 10-17~cn
First, the basic physics. As we have seen, much of this goes
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now? Some of them can be heard making the case against climate change

The impact is extinction – clean energy is key

Heinberg 7 – Richard, Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute, recipient of the Award for Excellence %26 Energy Education
~Peak Everything, p. 19-22~cn
First, some problems are more critical than others. A patient may suffer simultaneously
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community involvement, intergenerational solidarity, and the other intangible goods listed earlier.

Warming turns and magnifies their impacts

Burke 8 – Sharon, Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy Security Project at the Center for New American Security
~Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change, GoogleBooks, pp. 157-161~cn
At the same time, however, the implications of both trends for human society
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, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Southeast Asia.
U.S. clean energy development key to global spillover
Roberts 4 – Paul, journalist, author, energy expert and writer for Harpers
~The End of Oil, pg. 325-6~cn
Politically, a new U.S. energy policy would send a powerful message
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business prospects in China that it now has its own vehicles in Beijing."

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Landfills

Extend NETL 12 – once these torches are put in place for coal, we can use opportunity fuels.

Plasma gasification creates syngas and slag, eliminating landfills
USA Today 6
~September 9, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-09-09-fla-county-trash_x.htm~~
The 100,000-square-foot plant, slated to be operational in
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both in Japan — but are gasifying garbage on a much smaller scale.

Landfills disproportionately affect minorities

Weintraub 94 – Irwin, Brooklyn College Library
~June, http://www.mapcruzin.com/ejigc.html-http://www.mapcruzin.com/ejigc.html~~ ap
The landmark study, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (Commission for
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. Environmental Protection Agency 1992; Satchell 1992; Mohai and Bryant 1992.)

Segregation is deliberate colonialization pervading international politics, making violence inevitable

Bullard 2 – Robert D., Ph.D, Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University
~July 2, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/PovpolEj.html~~ ap
The United States is the dominant economic and military force in the world today.
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schools, chronic unemployment, high poverty, and overloaded health care systems. 

Colonialism links to racism, the root cause of all violence

Foucalt 76 – Michel, French philosopher, social theorist, historian of ideas, and literary critic
~Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, p. 254-257 Trans. Davidy Macey~ ap
What in fact is racism? It is primarily a way of introducing a break
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half of the nineteenth century), except by activating the theme of racism.

Reducing landfills reduces methane

Anderson 12 – Peter, Executive Director of the Center for a Competitive Waste Industry
~July 26, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/26/516575/why-we-need-to-pay-more-attention-to-the-role-of-landfills-in-global-warming/?mobile=nc-http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/26/516575/why-we-need-to-pay-more-attention-to-the-role-of-landfills-in-global-warming/?mobile=nc~~
There are two major errors in how landfills’ greenhouse gas emissions have historically been accounted
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And we can’t allow for "climatewashing" that covers up that impact.

Methane empirically causes mass extinctions worse than all nuclear weapons – this is inevitable unless humans intervene

Northwestern University 03
~August 28, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/08/030828071722.htm~~
In an article published in the September issue of Geology, Gregory Ryskin, associate
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on the same scale as 251 million years ago — unless humans intervene."

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What’s Up?

First is Solvency

Kite Wind Generators produce as much electricity as nuclear

Martinelli 06 – Nicole, Wired
~October 10, http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/10/71908-http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/10/71908~~ ap
Researchers in Italy have high hopes for a new wind-power generator that resembles
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oncoming helicopters, for example. Or small planes or even single birds.

Restrictions undermine high altitude wind power

Levitan 12 – Dave, freelance journalist
~September 24, http://e360.yale.edu/mobile/feature.msp?id=2576-http://e360.yale.edu/mobile/feature.msp?id=2576~~ ap
Outside of R%26D issues, another huge challenge is regulation. What,
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environment for manned and, increasingly, unmanned aircraft is the best approach.

The government already increased funding

Max 12 – John, Hydrogen Fuel News
~December 3, http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/arpa-e-looks-to-seed-breakthroughs-in-energy-technology/857225/-http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/arpa-e-looks-to-seed-breakthroughs-in-energy-technology/857225/~~ ap
Makani Power is one of the groups that will receive funding from ARPA-E
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overarching goal of ARPA-E, according to the Department of Energy.

PTC extension increases wind power

Singh 13 – Timon, graduate of Liverpool University where he received a degree in Social and Economic History
~January 2, http://inhabitat.com/congress-extends-wind-energy-federal-tax-credits-for-all-2013-wind-power-projects/-http://inhabitat.com/congress-extends-wind-energy-federal-tax-credits-for-all-2013-wind-power-projects/~~ ap
As 2012 came to a close, many US energy companies were rushing to install
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to make up 44% of all new electrical generating capacity in America.

Advantage 1 is Warming

Overwhelming scientific consensus indicates warming is accelerating and anthropogenic

Pearce 7 – Fred, environment consultant for New Scientist
~With speed and violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change, GoogleBooks, pp. 10-17~cn
First, the basic physics. As we have seen, much of this goes
AND
now? Some of them can be heard making the case against climate change

Kitegen only solution to warming

Fagiano 9 – Lorenzo, PhD engineering, currently a Marie Curie fellow at Politecnico
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Advanced control methods as key technologies for a breakthrough in renewable energy generation",
~DOCTORATE SCHOOL Course in Information and System Engineering – XXI Cycle, 2009, http://www.kuleuven.be/optec/files/Fagiano2009.pdf~~ jchen
The dependance of the global energy system on fossil sources owned by few producer countries
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in the last three years are organized in the next Chapters as follows.

The impact is extinction

Heinberg 7 – Richard, Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute, recipient of the Award for Excellence %26 Energy Education
~Peak Everything, p. 19-22~cn
First, some problems are more critical than others. A patient may suffer simultaneously
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community involvement, intergenerational solidarity, and the other intangible goods listed earlier.

Warming turns and magnifies their impacts

Burke 8 – Sharon, Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy Security Project at the Center for New American Security
~Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change, GoogleBooks, pp. 157-161~cn
At the same time, however, the implications of both trends for human society
AND
, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Southeast Asia.
U.S. clean energy development key to global spillover
Roberts 4 – Paul, journalist, author, energy expert and writer for Harpers
~The End of Oil, pg. 325-6~cn
Politically, a new U.S. energy policy would send a powerful message
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business prospects in China that it now has its own vehicles in Beijing."

Advantage 2 is Aesthetics

Kites make everything else irrelevant – multiple reasons

Lite 10 – Lori, Stress Free Kids founder
~November 12, http://www.stressfreekids.com/4992/stress-buster-http://www.stressfreekids.com/4992/stress-buster~~ ap
A  piece of cloth connected to a string… in the hands of a child
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kite. Children with strong self-esteem have less struggles with anxiety.

This negates any consequentialist impacts. Insofar as we are flying kites, we will not care about anything else, including any claims of death or extinction.

Pre-empt – all of the neg’s disads will be based on having to care about death. First, they have no justification for why you should care about death. Second, once you do the plan, nothing will matter if it’s not flying a kite.

Stress causes accelerated aging through telomere erosion

Hsu 12 – Christine, Medical Daily
~April 24, http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/9659/20120424/violence-stress-children-aging-dna-telomere.htm-http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/9659/20120424/violence-stress-children-aging-dna-telomere.htm~~ ap
While scientists have previously found associations between childhood stress and later disease risk and health
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division over time and signals the wear-and-tear on DNA. 

Accelerated telomere erosion will cause human extinction

Guardian 4 – Stindl, Institute of Medical Biology in Vienna
~Apr 8, LEXIS~
For over 100 years, scientists have grappled with the cause of "background"
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Neanderthal man, with no need for external factors such as climate change."

Nothing is more liberating than watching kites

Putnam 11 – David, teacher at Crest High School
~March 20, http://davidputnammedia.com/2011/03/kites-an-original-essay-by-david-putnam/-http://davidputnammedia.com/2011/03/kites-an-original-essay-by-david-putnam/~~ ap
Few things are as liberating as watching colorful kites dance gracefully in a brilliant Carolina
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freedom under control, grace under pressure, and idealism tethered to reason.

Every invasion of freedom must be resisted

Petro 74 – Sylvester, Professor of Law at NYU
~Spring, http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200304/0783.html~~
However, one may still insist, echoing Ernest Hemingway – "I believe in
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every invasion of freedom must be emphatically identified and resisted with undying spirit.

Kites are metaphors

Letcher 12 – Andy, writer and a folk musician
~December 14, http://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/go-fly-a-kite/-http://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/go-fly-a-kite/~~ ap
And don’t kites just lend themselves to metaphor? They punctuate the sky, return
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to ’go fly a kite’ I shall receive it as a benediction.

Metaphors foundation for all language and thought

Feldman et al. – Professors Feldman, Hafter, Ivry, Malik, Palmer, and Rosch
~http://icbs.berkeley.edu/metaphors_language_thought.php~~ ap
A major effort has been ongoing at Berkeley to understand the nature, structure,
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undergraduate course on Metaphor, CogSci 106. (Professors Lakoff and Sweetser)

D-Rule – proper language key to all ethical deliberation

Mitchell 2k – Richard, professor of English at Glassboro State College
~Less than Words Can Say, Chpt. 7, http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/less-than-words-can-say/07.htm~~cn
There is no need, of course, to ferret out the fact that the
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that practice is to promulgate thought control rather than the control of thought.

Advantage 3 is Animot

Kite power replaces windmills

Kim 12 – Leigh, The Green Optimistic
~November 20, http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2012/11/20/will-high-altitude-kites-replace-wind-turbines/~~%23.UR3sPGdZOTY-http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2012/11/20/will-high-altitude-kites-replace-wind-turbines/~~ ap
Could stunt kites be the future of energy? Could high altitude kites replace the
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kites be the future of alternative energy? Possibly. Time will tell.

Wind turbine facilities kill trout

Dodds %26 Dodds 8 - Pamela C., Ph.D., R.P.G. %26 Arthur W., Jr.
~http://www.laurelmountainpreservationassociation.org/laurel_mountain_preservation_association_003.htm~~
In the Appalachian mountains extending through West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania
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correct pH to be present in streams where there are naturally reproducing trout.

Trout is a keystone species risking ecosystem collapse

Payton et al. 02 – Ian J. Payton, Michael Fenner, William G. Lee, Science for Conservation 203
~http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/SFC203.pdf~~
The decline of much of the native fauna has been linked to introduced predators such
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, demonstrating a keystone role for trout may not be a straightforward process.

Keystone species key to prevent ecosystem collapse and human extinction

Gershwin 5 – Peter, international fellow at Yale University and a graduate of Oxford’s Human Sciences Program
~Oct 25, LEXIS~
Plants and animals that flourish within a specific niche, and who depend upon it
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, and not vice versa, there may be hope for our species.

You have a moral obligation to affirm a moral universe where nonhumans are treated with dignity and respect

Katz 96 – Eric, professor of philosophy and director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; one of the founders of environmental ethics
~Nature as Subject, pp. 9-10~cn
This analysis of certain problems in an indirect utilitarian argument for the preservation of objects
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who wish to avoid the easy, self-defeating trap of utilitarianism.

Now is key – we can’t wait to see the added effects of wind turbines

Subramanian 12 – Meera, Nature article
~June 20, "The trouble with turbines: An ill wind," Nature.com, http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849~~sr-http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849%5dsr
Other species at risk include the critically endangered California condors (Gymnogyps californicus) —
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impacts, we might be in a place we don’t want to be."

A substantial increase in wind turbines would kill hundreds of thousands of avians

Driessen 12 – Paul, senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which is sponsoring the All Pain No Gain petition against global-warming hype, senior policy adviser to the Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death.
~Aug 7, "Wind-energy tax credits fund bird murder; Eagles being sliced back toward extinction," Washington Times, Lexis~sr
America’s turbines also are sending some of our most important and majestic sovereigns of the
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golden eagles have been killed by Altamont turbines in the past 25 years.

Biodiversity loss will cause planetary extinction

Diner 94 – Judge Advocate General’s Corps of US Army
~David N., Military Law Review, Winter, 143 Mil. L. Rev. 161, LN~ bg
No species has ever dominated its fellow species as man has. In most cases
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wings, ~hu~mankind may be edging closer to the abyss. 

Biodiversity loss outweighs human extinction

Elliot 97 – Herschel, Emeritus Philosophy, University of Florida
~February 26, http://www.jayhanson.us/page121.htm-http://www.jayhanson.us/page121.htm~~ ap
Third, all systems of ethical beliefs are hypotheses about how human beings can live
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its parts — including the needs and interests of human societies and individuals.

Plan

The United States Executive Branch should substantially reduce airspace restrictions on Kite Wind Generators through a departmental order.