Could this be the answer to all of the problems? — We know all the problems, but I will summarise the main ones anyway as a quick reminder for context: Global Pollution / Environmental Problems Global inequality Global debt Profit driven vaccines War The main one which absolutely is existential, is the environmental problem. The recent COP26 meeting resulted in very…

2nd Edition — Updated with Latest Information. — 2nd Edition 15/05/2021 Above is an illustration of our journey as it might have appeared to Kardashev, if he had still been around now. He is known for his characterisation of stages of civilisation. Currently, we are somewhere between Kardashev 0.5, and Kardashev 1.0, in the age of Bitcoin creation. …

2020 was a big year. But was it just the tip of an iceberg of change, to happen in 2021? — So 2020 was a big year. The biggest in thousands of years, I would argue. It wasn’t the best of experiences for most of us. I saw many of my own “achievements” and ambitions dashed, by a chain of events no-one could have predicted. And I know the same applies…

Events in Vietnam show us what is in store for grids worldwide — An article published yesterday in Al Jazeera shows us what is coming for grids worldwide. After renewables frenzy, Vietnam's solar energy goes to waste Ninh Thuan, Vietnam - For up to 12 days every month, Tran Nhu Anh Kiet, a supermarket owner in Vietnam's Ninh Thuan…www.aljazeera.com The grid in Vietnam has been found to be unable to keep up with the rate of solar power adoption.

Aligning energy and work with people — Positive Energy and Positive Work There are two distinct kinds of energy, positive and negative, depending on where we get it from. Understanding Energy Why this is crucial, right now.eric-bott.medium.com If we get it direct from the sun then it is positive. With it, we have the option of using it to do positive things. By positive things, I mean things that do…

Heads up — sites hijacking Medium — If you are like me, you might have noticed it is much easier to find our own stories on Google, to post links to, than it is to try to find them in Medium. Until today I thought that was risk-free effort saved. But this morning I realised I had…

Cool article, I am delighted to have come across it. Thanks for posting it. I don't quite agree with all (My first two highlights). To me, we have some fundamental errors in our knowledge of our history, including religion, which if we understood, helps us understand how energy actually works…

Message for Medium — After almost six years of using Medium, both on Android App, and on Windows PC, I have uninstalled the Android App, as I find it now intolerably unusable. I wrote a story before on the problems it has since being updated, but nothing has changed, and I have not been…

A further key technology of Kardashev Engineering — Kardashev Engineering Definitioneric-bott.medium.com Further to Kardashev Money (Money as Sunlight) and Kardashev Fuel (Fuel as Sunlight), we can now identify also Kardashev Food (Food as Sunlight), a further link in the Humanity+ Eco-system. Humanity+ = Plants+ For the future, the only future… we must become like plantseric-bott.medium.com Only one company, Solar Foods from Finland appears to be working on the technology, producing a product named Solein(TM), but…