Rethinking everything

By Starrport Corporation

Surprisingly many technologies are based on assumptions that were made in the past. This became obvious when we first learned about the Starrport, an environmentally friendly (or at least -friendlier) airport. An airport that is built on one third of the land for half the cost and at the same time saves millions of gallons fuel yearly seems quite unreal. That this is not only a pipedream became gradually very clear.

Many a conversation was needed to grasp the brilliancy of the American inventor Jim Starry who is the spiritual father of the Starrport. He has a way to state points in sharp remarks that needs a little time to accustom. He claims that he has the solutions to clean the air, the water and the land with ease, cost-effective and based on natural laws in less than ten years. To proof that this statement can be substituated, we will share as example some reflections which lead him to design Starrport.

Being himself a frequent flyer with 1705 hours aviation training in his early adulthood, he became later staringly aware of the inefficiency of airports as a passenger on intercontinental flights during take-off and landing. An experience that many remember. Thrust engines let the plane shudder during take-off to gain speed and height simultaneously in a few seconds. Even more tiresome is the usual landing procedure. A majestic silverbird twindles from astronomic heights down to a three kilometers long and less than 100 meters wide landing strip, to be brought to a complete standstill in not much more than minutes. A gargantuan strain for wo/man and machine.

Making use of natural laws
In the mid 1980’s, the inquiring mind of Jim Starry became fired up. There must be a smoother way for air travel. And he suddenly understood that it makes no sense to land on a flat runway. By using gravity, a one to four degree downward slope from the top of a ten story terminal gently brings a 400 ton jumbo closer to take-off speed, saving massive amounts of fuel in the process. Noise as well as negative environmental impact will be reduced significantly.

The same benefits occur when landing. An incline will gently bring the jumbo to a halt atop the terminal, and the extremely polluting taxiing will not be necessary. Some 180 half-burnt noxious substances are not thrown into the air. Personnel and passengers will enjoy cleaner air than ever. A savings total of some 1.000 gallons of fuel will result for each and every such flight.

Due to the very compact design of a Starrport, traveller walking time will be drastically reduced. A further reduction in time waste is achieved while arriving by car or public transport on ground floor. Security check is done in elevators, on a straight way up to arrive in a mere few minutes at the top floor for boarding and take-off.

Jim Starry assisted over eight years to develop the new design of Denver Airport International the head of the building committee and deputy mayor of Denver, Bill Smith. Unfortunately, Bill Smith died in October 1992, and the successor did not want to benefit from the unique contribution for a decidedly new airport, and the Starrport concept was only partially realized. In Jim Starry’s words: “The working half of Denver International is my design, the other half brought United Airlines to the brink of bankruptcy.”

So despite obvious advantages – massive environmental, financial and logistical benefits – the Starrport with 123 patent pending technologies is still up for realization. The Starrport was extensively presented – primarily in the United States – to the relevant instances and got the green light. But here is the crux. Different aspects were accorded individually. The highest respective authorities of the individual instances pointed to each other and seemed not able (willing?) to allow the Starrport in its totality to be built. In a confidential talk recently, the Director of one of the major airports said to us that he wanted his airport to become a Starrport. But the authorities in charge would in the end not give the green light.

The stakes are high. So are the gains.
How will rising economies in the Middle East / North Africa stay on the forefront of new developments? Certainly by initiating projects like the United Arab Emirates did with the zero carbon / zero waste city, the Masdar Initiative in Abu Dhabi. The Masdar Institute which is associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will expectedly take up the challenge to initiate and realize promising ventures for surprising solutions.

A radical rethinking based on natural laws like gravity (the basis of Starrport) will open unexpected perspectives. The all-inquiring mind of Jim Starry found solutions how today’s cars and trains can be ten times more efficient with little effort, just by letting all involved forces work smoothly together in synergy. Clean water can be achieved using natural processes. But the sheer magnitude of airports and therefore the related vertiginous savings potential as presented in this article brought him to concentrate on aviation first. All over the world, in every neighbourhood, airports are prepared to be built, or existing ones are scheduled to expand. In the USA alone, 2.000 of such expansions are planned, in Europe 3.000 and in China 1.800. Aviation expects to grow four or more times its present volume in the next forty years.

The UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) in their last GEO (Global Environment Outlook) reports, available in many different languages, also arabic, highlighted different options. In GEO3, four 30 year Outlooks were highlighted. The four different angles were: Markets First, Policy First, Security First, and Sustainability First. From almost every viewpoint, the one based on sustainibility is the most advantageous. Even financially, it makes totally sense to go this direction.

The whole world is called to seize the occasion. A healthy competition for the best solutions will be played out everywhere. Europe, Latin America, North America (now expectedly also the USA with its new leadership) and Asia rise to the challenge. But the Middle East and Africa can take the lead with model projects like the green city Masdar in the UAE.

Leadership is essential, matching regulations need to be worked out, updated, accorded or adapted energetically, in co-ordination with all relevant instances to swiftly implement newest advanced technologies. A noble task in the face of dwindling natural resources and a dramatically degrading quality of the environment. A clear commitment to excellence and the aspiration to find the most effective solutions will allow an adequate response to the urgency of a planet in peril.

Masdar/UAE in particular are encouraged to launch Starrport in their quest for an eco city and hereby state an audacious example for humane airports worldwide. To fully effectuate the savings of resources while sharing the financial profit, as well as to boost the Starrport development for a potential of over 500 airports, StarrportCorp has developped a plan for an initial € 16 billion investment. Three different scenarios show € 20-50 billion savings per year for the 30 biggest international airports alone. Average dividend for Starrport Corporation investors are in the range of at least 29% up to 125% every year, for the next fourty years.

Isn’t it time to be rewarded abundantly for your commitment in saving the environment? Our various calculations result in 300.000-500.000 kton less CO2 per 2025 (and up to 800.000-1.300.000 kton per 2050). An additional CO2 trading value in the billions.

Show your understanding of these issues by contacting us via Recyclus in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) for settlement and to take share in the benefits.

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