THE HIPPO CYCLE

The HIPPO CYCLE is a system which is designed to supply the

projected earth’s population of 9 or maybe 20 billion people with
meat, vegetables, bone fertilizer and leather. It has a carbon foot-
print for the set-up only, even though that is considerable. When
fully operational it is self-supporting without energy input from
the outside. It will support quite a few jobs through the sale of the
above commodities - and feed people!

As I was able to observe in the West Berlin Zoo during my child-

hood, hippos breed easily in captivity. That was the larger species
of hippo, but the smaller variation should be no different.

While it may appear a novelty to most people that hippo meat

should be eaten, in Africa it has been consumed since time imme-
morial. Hippo meat is said to be of good taste. It can be fried and
grilled without additional oil. Its fat content is reasonably high
which is fine for the starving billions. Those in the more advanced
countries can skim off fat like is done after cooking traditional
meat varieties.

Check out the graphics on page 2 for the concept and read some
explanatory notes on page 3.

Footnote: Animal liberationists may be shocked by the idea to

breed hippos for human consumption. It would probably be
preferrable to stop that runaway bulldozer of global population
growth, but since that is not possible new methods of meat pro-
duction need to be explored. Vegetarianism is not the answer for
everyone and people should not suffer from malnutrition or starve,
just because some disapprove of new ideas. My impression is that
the same people who oppose to tackle population growth are the
same who oppose innovations with bite.
Start the graph at the top left with the ocean and wind/solar engergy.
Solar and wind produce fresh water which flows into a dam on
higher ground. From there the water flows downward through a
hydro electric station for more elctricity and on into the hippo
ponds. Desalination only occurs when sun and/or wind energy are
available.

Used hippo water, which is full of nutrients, flows down onto

vegetable fields which produce food for the hippos as well as veg-
etables for a cannery.

The dam also supplies fresh water for the cannery and the hippo
abbattoir.

Not included in the graph are ponds for the brine from desalination.
This is normally put back into the ocean, but can probably be used
to produce lithium which is much in demand for batteries, or just
salt. Letting the water evaporate will create rain where it may be
useful, as opposed to feeding it back into the ocean.

The project lends itself to areas with land that is useless for plant
growth or human settlement, i.g. Saudi Arabia, North Africa, Tur-
key, arid coastal areas in Australia, maybe Iran.

The set-up costs look quite high, but the rewards from a self-
supporting meat producing cycle, which requires no energy input
other than solar and wind, look like being enormous. Once set up
there is only produce and jobs. It seems likely to this ’inventor’,
that establishing such a complex meat producing facility, will be
beyond the capacity of private enteprise and must be financed by
government, but solid plans for subsequent privatisation should
satisfy the ideologues.

This is outrageous? Every idea was new once.

Of electricity, early wisemen said it would not catch on.
They said the same of the (stinking noisy) automobile
and probably other innovations that I am not aware of.
Ally Hauptmann-Gurski, 7 March 2010.