Via Adelante: The Way Forward
1 FollowerVia Adelante is an organization established by yours truly, Jeff Davis, a formerly retired engineer and crypto entrepreneur now living in Mexico. I came out of retirement to leverage the growing digital (ie blockchain/cryptocurrency) financial ecosystem to achieve solutions to a variety of societal challenges. Via Adelante's flagship effort is The Green Freedom Project, which endeavors to address the global climate issue by a rapid expansion of solar, wind, and nuclear energy production. The path from fossil fuels to clean energy is clear. Carbon-free solar, wind, and nuclear energy production are all mature technologies. There are no unresolved technology issues. No innovation is required. It's all ready to go. However, up till now there has been a problem blocking the path to a clean energy future, a problem for which Via Adelante has identified the solution. Annual Global Energy Consumption by fossil fuels is in the range of 150,000 terawatt hours. Don't bother trying to wrap your head around what that number means. Simply put, the issue is the scale of the challenge. There isn't enough money in the world to fund the replacement by green energy of those 150,000 terawatt hours. Not within any acceptable timeframe. Can't be done. Or so it would seem. But to the problem-solving mind of the engineer, the above formulation of the matter actually identifies the essential center of the problem, and in doing so, points to the solution. "Not enough money in the world." Prior to the digital era and the emergence of cryptocurrencies -- Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc -- the global financial system was dominated by the US dollar, with which the US maintained near monopoly control of global money creation and financial flows. Bitcoin put an end to that. Though perhaps you haven't noticed ... and not in any way you might think. Now, non-sovereign digital currencies can be generated on the internet, decentralized, and beyond the jurisdictional boundaries that previously enabled sovereign control. The Internet has become an instrument of financial liberation. Neoliberalism's monopoly of the global monetary system has been breached. Witness then The Escape from Neoliberalism. The solution to "not enough money" is to create an alternative monetary system centered on a global digital currency with a corresponding capital market fully-stocked with a supply of capital. That is precisely what Via Adelante has done. Which then enables The Green Freedom Project to solve the funding bottleneck. The currency is called "Green". The v0.9 version has already been generated on the Binance Smart Chain. Via Adelante now emerges from stealth mode to publicize the project: build the website, generate media content across a variety of internet platforms -- this YouTube channel being the first -- seek out candidates for management, and assemble a software-development team to code a dedicated blockchain network with Green as its native currency, a mobile wallet for P2P transactions, and establish an online marketplace for currency trading and conversion of Green, as needed, to local currencies. Then Green Freedom will begin in earnest with the expansion of solar panel and battery storage production: PV and battery factories and associated upstream supply chains. All elements of the expansion paid for in Green. I cannot but acknowledge that Via Adelante is at the embryonic stage. Everything has its beginning, so too with Via Adelante and The Green Freedom Project. We endeavor to progress as rapidly as possible. We will be publishing regular online video content describing the details of the project and the state of progress on this and other media platforms. If you would like to join in the effort, we encourage you contact us at: via.adelante@gmail.com Best wishes to all of you in your future endeavors from our team, such as it is, here at Via Adelante. Jeff Davis and Merari Lucero Geraldo