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Natural Resources Management & Energy Infrastructure Project
Electric Grid - Solar
Electric Grid - Solar
Electric Grid - Solar
Computer and web technologies have grown to where they are now vital for all forms of communication and commerce, whether in urban or rural areas.
Goldman Sachs Research estimates that more than 200 gigawatts of renewable energy projects will be installed between 2017 and 2030, requiring $360 billion of capital expenditures
These renewable sources will become even more essential for charging stations necessary as the manufacturing and adoption of EV is the impending future.
Biden signed: $65B
Electric Vehicles Biden Signed: $15B
Total from Biden: $80B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $225B **
*Includes tax deductions for migration to solar
Electric Grid - Wind
Electric Grid - Solar
Electric Grid - Solar
The United States has a vast offshore wind energy resource with a technical potential of more than 2,000 gigawatts (GW), or nearly double the nation’s current electricity use
Beyond the environmental considerations, the long-term economic factors of reducing energy costs is prompting many communities to consider wind turbine farms.
Electric Grid - Water
Electric Grid - Solar
Water Treatment & Distribution
Hydro-electric power is not new. However, with developing technologies and their efficiency, they are growing attractive again and with wide-spread adoption programs like the TVA may prove to be in the future.
Unlike solar and wind, these are a more constant and reliable form of supply for energy and have greater capacities of generation.
Water Treatment & Distribution
Storm Water Abatement, Dams, Levis, & Flood Control
Water Treatment & Distribution
Growing populations create a growing need for a supply of pure potable (drinkable) water.
Many water lines in the USA are old and have needed replaced for a long time.
The increase of frequency of water main breaks, notably during the winter, and the situation of lead pipes in Flint, Michigan have clearly demonstrated the urgency to update, upgrade and expand the water distribution infrastructure.
EPA Estimates $750B needs to be spent over the next 20 yrs.
Congress Authorized (S 914) - $1T Re-authorized + $35B
Biden Signed: $55B
Biden proposes: $137B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $200B
Sewage Treatment & Recycling
Storm Water Abatement, Dams, Levis, & Flood Control
Storm Water Abatement, Dams, Levis, & Flood Control
With expanding population and aging of facilities sewage systems and storm water abatement projects are necessary.
Similarly, so is expanding the use and capacities of recycling plants. Some products, such as plastics and old tires may be used as raw materials in infrastructure projects, notably roads & bridges, which will help to offset the costs of these projects.
G.O.P. Proposes: $35B for Drinking & Wastewater
Potentials: $125B
Storm Water Abatement, Dams, Levis, & Flood Control
Storm Water Abatement, Dams, Levis, & Flood Control
Storm Water Abatement, Dams, Levis, & Flood Control
Whether or not one subscribes to climate change as the factor, one thing is undeniable. Flooding has become a growing problem and the damages are increasing in losses.
Flood control projects are necessary to mitigate this problem and they also have the potentials for hydro-electric projects.
Projects can be combined with hydro-electric generation, also including upgrade of TVA
Biden signed: $50B
Social Systems Structures Infrastructure Projects
Communications & Broadband
Communications & Broadband
Communications & Broadband
Computer and web technologies have grown to where they are now vital for all forms of communication and commerce, whether in urban or rural areas.
Biden Signed: $65B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $150B
Schools
Communications & Broadband
Communications & Broadband
With the shutting down of our public schools due to the COVID-19, the profound needs of modifications, repairs, and replacement of our schools, public universities and educational systems have shown their weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
A Vinn Diagram overlap and synergy with the investment into schools is the conversion of school buses to EV.
Biden proposes: $137B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $200B
Hospitals
Communications & Broadband
Care Givers: Child Care
As the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, our hospitals and related facilities are in updates, upgrades, expansions, and replacement.
Biden proposes: $137B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $200B
Care Givers: Child Care
Care Givers: Elderly & Disabled
Care Givers: Child Care
Child Care is necessary so that young parents can go to work and also for the critical formative years (birth to 60 months) and to enhance the benefits of early education, prior to enrollment in the public and private school systems.
**Includes tax deductions/credits for child care and early leaning centers
P3-SPE/SPV Not Primary Funding,
but potential as is NGO subsidizing.
Care Givers: Elderly & Disabled
Care Givers: Elderly & Disabled
Care Givers: Elderly & Disabled
As the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, our nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and related facilities are in updates, upgrades, expansions, and replacement.
Biden Proposes: $?B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $350B
Disaster Response & Recovery
Care Givers: Elderly & Disabled
Care Givers: Elderly & Disabled
Whether it be any form of natural disaster (weather, fire, earthquake, flood, pandemic or failure of another infrastructure system) reserves for response & recovery are necessary to minimize or prevent secondary disasters in a concatenation of cascading catastrophic failures.
Biden signed: $50B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $150B
Transportation and Commerce Projects - $612B (Biden) - $650
Banking and Financing
Cyber-Security and E-commerce
Cyber-Security and E-commerce
Many infrastructure projects are financed with Public-Private Partnerships (P3) arrangements with Special Purpose Entities or Vehicles (SPE/SPV) actually supervising the financing and the management of the projects
Given that many infrastructure projects involve entities, adding their physical and cyber-securities, that qualify as National Security special care needs to be given to these structures and organizations.
This means that banks and lending institutions, themselves vulnerable, need their own stringent oversight and prudent management. The sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008 and the easing of Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations clearly show that banks and lending institutions participating in infrastructure financing need their own controls. An "infrastructure bank" is indicated, which has been previously used by the United States in four (4) previous administrations (Washington, John Q. Adams, Lincoln and FDR)
Cyber-Security and E-commerce
Cyber-Security and E-commerce
Cyber-Security and E-commerce
The reliance on computers, networks, e-commerce by private and public sectors has grown significantly. The COVID pandemic proved this to be patently true.
The security of these systems has also become a fundamental infrastructure issue and concern.
These issue are also part of the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, as has been demonstrated by the recent SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline hacks have given greater focus to these issues and systems.
Bridges
Cyber-Security and E-commerce
Bridges
As of 2020 the USA has 230,000 bridges needing repair, 45,00 bridges needing replaced at a cost of $164 billion. This does not include new road construction.
With the growing adoption of eCommerce, roads and bridges are needed for the ever expanding needs of shipping and delivery of products.
Biden Signed: $110B*
GRIP Investment Potentials: $200B
* Bridges & Roads Combined
Biden signed additional: $11B (Safety)
Roads
Rapid Transit & Rail
Bridges
We need to do more than patch pot-holes. At the end of 2019, there was deferred road maintenance totaling $1.04T according to ASCE, who grades our roads as D+.
With the growing adoption of eCommerce, roads and bridges are needed for the ever expanding needs of shipping and delivery of products.
173,000 total miles of our highways and major roads are in poor condition. Delays caused by traffic congestion alone cost over $160 billion per year, and motorists are forced to pay over $1,000 every year in wasted time and fuel
Biden signed (includes bridges): $110B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $225B
* Bridges & Roads Combined
Mass Transit
Rapid Transit & Rail
Rapid Transit & Rail
To compete with countries like China, the USA needs to increase the adoption and use of mass transit and shuttle systems.
Mass Transit Vehicles, need to migrate to EV and be renewable, including solar panels on roofs to extend range between charging stations and times. Likewise they will require multiple charging station ports
Biden Signed: $39B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $100B
Rapid Transit & Rail
Rapid Transit & Rail
Rapid Transit & Rail
Rapid rail and other public transits systems, including subways, have long been neglected for repairs and demands have exceeded their capacities. This is not only true for commuter traffic, but shipping as well.
Biden signed: $66B
GRIP Investment Potentials: $150B
Airports
Airports
Airports
Air travel and shipping have increased demands far beyond what our airports can handle.
These demands are not only for commuter travel, but shipping products as well.
Biden Signed: $42B
* Airports & Seaports Combined
Seaports
Airports
Airports
Our seaports are in need of maintenance and upgrade for several reasons.
One is that the effects of saltwater on materials causes them to deteriorate (water is the universal solvent) and with eCommerce and global trade, seaport shipping demands have increased and will continue to do so.
Biden Signed: $42B
* Airports & Seaports Combined
Priorities & Synergies
The above listed 20 infrastructure types/needs are in their order of priorities, as are their 3 primary headings.
If they are done concurrently and more comprehensively, not only reduces costs, but also enables the opportunities provided by synergies.