2014-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2014 Volume 1: Mining
| Editors: | Kongoli F |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 424 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-03-4 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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CAPABILITIES OF THE PRESENT-DAY ENGINEERING TO AFFECT GLOBAL POLITICAL PROCESSES
Alexander Brodt1;1S.G.B.D. TECHNOLOGIES LTD, Tel Aviv, Israel;
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 22
Topic: 1
Abstract:
The continuing Syrian crisis vividly illustrates the logics of leading world powers behavior, developing various approaches to its solution.
In the first place, when making any political decision, all active key "gamblers" calculate economic consequences of possible trends in the behavior of petroleum prices at the world market and, in conformity with these considerations, try to play their "game", influencing the situation for their own sake.
For instance, Russia, being a technologically backward country, is impartially interested in the growth of petroleum costs worldwide. Respectively, in this situation Russia is on the side of political forces that are able, at least, not to allow the development of collapse processes at the world petroleum market.
In this sense, global policy needs, as never before, to possess a set of alternative tools capable to affect the situation by purely engineering methods.
Up-to-date mining and chemical science and technology provide such opportunities.
In particular, the process of coal liquefaction in the immediate vicinity of the mining face, which we have developed, allows not only obtaining artificial liquid fuel in underground conditions at a lower price in comparison with natural petroleum, but also rejecting the use of railway services for delivering coal mines production to its destination place.