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…

Observation — Today in Mainstream UK news we are seeing many, many stories on the subject of energy, and inflation. We seem to be getting close to seeing the problem and solution as a species, which I’ve personally found took me nearly thirty years practicing as a Systems Engineer, the past 5…

Research based opinion — Firstly we should credit Mr Trump with the only spike of environmental recovery ever seen. It happened when $4Tn per month stimulus was issued, equivalent to more than $10K dollars per head per month for every person in the US, when we also saw the price of oil go negative…

Analysis — So we’ve seen the people of Vietnam implement record breaking amounts of solar farms. They did that from an incentive issued by the government, to pay a guaranteed price for all solar power put to their grid. They asked for 850MW of solar to put to the grid, but got…

Common Sense Argument — It has been my fortune, or misfortune, to have come across the full nature of the environmental problem and its only solution by way of my experiences in life to date, which have included thirty years of Systems Engineering relevant practice. In recent years, this has gone as far as…

Comment — We heard today Keir Starmer talking derisively of “Magic Money-Tree” Economics. Well I got news for ya Keir, it actually exists, but it isn’t magic, just mother nature. Promising growth, from dwindling resources is more magic than promising growth from the energy of the sun. We all know plants grow…

A suggested bridge between Science, and Religion — Background A challenge was put to me recently, by an author I have a lot of respect for, but with whom I don’t always agree with; John Griswold. He asked what I meant, when I talk about “Earth energy”, I responded by saying it was a Systems Engineering abstraction; something we…