Light Energy Now Action Program (LEAP)
Source Paper For The Light Energy Now Action Program (LEAP)
Organization Science Applied to Creating the Nation’s Energy Future
OUTLINE
RATIONALE
Energy Source Choices: Earth and Light*
A declared national goal is achieving secure independence from increasingly restrictive, uncertain, scarce and environment-destroying use of the Earth energy sources of oil, gas and coal. Earth energy use for producing hydrogen is counter to the declared goal of achieving secure independence.
The potential Earth source of uranium will not become the global majority energy source. Primary obstacles to nuclear energy are excessive development costs and time, restricted technology transfer, military implications and potential environmental damage from plant facilities and waste deposits for which no proposed storage appears wholly safe. Uranium is scarce, highly controlled, and therefore subject to inflationary price increases, which are passed onto consumer users who cannot escape the social danger and environmental costs.
The Light source is responsible for sustaining the biosphere engine that generates different flows and forms of energy resources. These forms are oxygen, radiation, wind, trees, plants, rivers and oceans. Existing Light energy science and technology can provide national infrastructures that substitute for and avert the rigid and highly vulnerable Earth energy systems that characterize today’s industrialized nations.
Deferral of immediate world action on implementing Light energy use may not reduce Earth energy to minority use for decades. Before that time, the remaining Earth source suppliernations will not want or will not be able to continue high levels of production. Without increased massive action in Light energy use, the specter raised is that many developing and developed nations will remain vitally dependent on Earth energy supplies that are costly, limited and vulnerable, since supply may disrupted at any time. This condition is inevitable and places suppliers and consumers in an untenable position: High or low prices will produce conflict; and if Light energy sources are not being aggressively implemented, competition for dwindling or any accessible reserves will cause direct conflict among nations over control of remaining Earth energy sources.
*”Light” energy is a scientific/technical term that is utilized to identify the cause source of all “solar”, “renewable”, “alternative”, “bio-energy/fuel”, “non-conventional” “green”, “blue”, “clean” or “sustainable” energy resources, the biological-climatic environment, and the resulting technology for exploiting such energy resources. Light energy resources are distinct from Earth energy resources that are geologically extracted.
Purpose & Mission
The LIGHTEAP mission is to enable and empower the nation to focus institution capacity for policy, planning and research organizations as well to provide the products, business and construction systems, and trading arrangements necessary to meet national energy needs with Light energy. Such mission is to be achieved by utilizing an evolutionary philosophy, method and process for organizing accelerated action.
Goals
▪ Expansion of supply of Light energy resource technology as may be necessary to power and fuel the nation’s economic and social growth.
▪ Alignment of national public policy and private planning organizations to ensure that the nation’s projected population is supported with sufficient Light energy supply.
▪ Stimulation of communication channels for governance, legislation, regulation, trade, business investment, technological interchange and public education as may be desirable to develop Light energy resource information systems.
▪ Creation of sufficient national and state economic incentives and financial resources to support accelerated Light energy resource infrastructure development.
▪ Preservation of ecological systems and achieving a clean bio-climatic environment as protection of vital Light energy resources for future populations
PROGRAM
Ownership
Participants in a LEAP workshop will all receive experience and own the tools and facilitative skills to execute the design of national and regional Light energy policy with the necessary institutions to successfully implement programs. However, such tools and skills are not sufficient to ensure that designs are implemented and sustained.
The LEAP is designed to affect a marriage of public policy, technical expertise, participation, and commitment to national implementation. Commitment is gained to such a marriage when participants who must implement, or live with the effects of implementation, are involved in design of policies and programs that affect them. Engaged participants, exploring realities and potential with hands-on strategies, create the basis for policy development and provide the added value of creating commitment to action.
Stakeholders at the policy, management and operational levels work together in designing and implementing this Program. Such involvement with the process will ensure that Light energy considerations are integrated into all regions and stages of policy, planning and development and that this integration and high rate of implementation is sustained.
Whole Systems Policy
Integration of Light energy into future national economic development requires a whole system approach, i.e., a process that sees development and the environment as a singularity. A whole system approach for design and implementation makes Light energy an integral part of all energy and environmental planning, rather than a separate activity. Using a whole system process will not require re-organization that under traditional approaches might be necessary, because the process is so designed that it cuts across organizational boundaries and encourages cooperation.
• Expansion of supply of Light energy resource technology as may be necessary to power and fuel the nation’s economic and social growth.
• Alignment of national public policy and private planning organizations to ensure that the nation’s projected population is supported with sufficient Light energy supply.
• Stimulation of communication channels for governance, legislation, regulation, trade, business investment, technological interchange and public education as may be desirable to develop Light energy resource information systems.
Results Achieved:
• Dramatic and rapid increases in performance at low cost with high degrees of commitment
• Enhanced individual, team and community spirit
• Creation of more robust policies that take into account the whole internal and external environment
• Creation of strategic alliances between stakeholders, new configurations of roles and responsibilities, and more effective coordination mechanisms
• Clarity on actions and the creation of more support and commitment to those actions
SPONSOR AND ORGANIZER OPERATIONS
Initial Meta-Design & Follow-On National Action Workshop
In the smaller initial Meta-Design workshop, the selected and invited participants (ideally 8) gain experience in applying whole system principals in order to create the design and invitation to participants of the larger National Action workshop.
Inclusion of national and regional officials, managers and staff in the detailed design and carrying out of each phase of the LEAP is fundamental.
The experience gained from the Action workshop generates excellent material for producing guidelines for Light energy policy formation, institutional planning and infrastructure development. In the regional follow-on workshops, such guidelines are more likely to be adopted than guidelines produced by outside experts.
Appraisal by Sponsor and Organizer
After each LEAP workshop event, a review by the Organizer and Sponsor will occur to provide guidance for future events and to establish ongoing commitment to implementation.