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Infrastructural Proposal to Restore Balance of Earth System

The proposal is primarily for other beings rather than humans, who have brought huge imbalances among the spheres of the Earth System. It fills the quarry dug for the prosperity of human activities with non-human activities to bring a virtuous cycle to spheres of the earth’s system, which lost its balance.

The stratification of the Hudson River allows using two different sources of water. The power generated by the pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) process sends the two purified water sources to the rods, machines for non-human activities. The bud over the Rod mists freshwater around, capturing chemical pollutants in the atmosphere while developing the ecosystem of the quarry. When creepers and vines wind up the rod and its bud, at last, the machines will bloom. The only byproduct of electricity generation makes the turquoise-colored alkaline quarry water denser by hydration of limestone.

Dynamic geological events made ample mineral deposits spread along the Hudson River estuary. Humans used these mineral deposits for human activities. The quarries ten times deeper than the Hudson River can accommodate flooded water. A larger flood buffers the ocean acidification by flushing strong alkaline matter in the quarry collected by limestone hydration into the Atlantic Ocean.