Public Letter with Free Research Based Systems Engineering Advice, for King Charles on his planned Solar Farm.
Context:
“His Majesty is keen for us to do as much as we can to improve the environment, and if that encourages others to follow our example, then we’d be delighted.”
Dear King Charles,
As a long term researcher of the global energy problem, and former Chartered Engineer assisting to identify the solution to the global energy problem; Domestic and Community based Solar Hydrogen (DCSH) with required new economy of solar indexed stimulus (SIS), it is great news that you have decided to install a substantial solar farm at one of the royal residences, Sandringham.
But I hope you have not forgotten to include hydrogen generation in the system.
It would not be a surprise to me if you had, because mainstream (Extracted energy based) information on hydrogen does not correctly value it for the case of generation by solar, this is only something that has become apparent since research like my own, informally documented here in Medium has been done, tracing through energy flows using formal systems Engineering techniques, in which I am long practiced (Academia tends not to be).
Hydrogen is is the magic ingredient needed to generate value in the form of financial wealth for Sandringham, wealth which at first would relieve at least a little of your dependence on the state, or the public, for the royal income.
In the end it could, combined with similar installations at all of your properties, and with the change of economy to solar indexed stimulus, become more than enough to supply all funding for the royal estate, with plenty left to spare for all the usual endeavours, completely independent of the publc or state.
Hydrogen when generated from solar is something which mathematically reduces global temperature. It is becoming apparent that global temperature is not related to CO2 blanket effects after all, but actually to destruction, since the atmosphere being adiabatic eliminates the possibility of any gaseous blanket effect, the temperature measurement has to be a direct measurement of entropy, which is the state of global destruction / creation.
This means that it will not stop rising, even if all carbon emissions are ceased, we need to do more than that, all people, we need to use the only source of energy that can be used to actually create, that is to reverse entropy, only use of the energy of the sun can do it.
The current economy of profit and debt is monetised destruction. This is what is directly driving temperature rise, we can even mathematically trace how the energy gained in profit has to be always energy yielded from the planet, never energy donated from the sun.
So if we don’t monetise the energy from the sun, then we are like a tree that just grew its first leaves, and is refusing within it to allow transmission of the energy received by the leaves throughout the tree, to Earth, by refusing to issue nutrients in response to the KWhrs received from the sun on its leaves.
I am sure you will agree that a tree that did that would not last very long.
A typical 2.4KW hydrogen electrolyser (“Enapter”, for example) is capable of generating around a kg of hydrogen every 24 hours running continuously.
A kg of hydrogen is 33KWhrs of energy, captured as something which can’t be heat, until it is consumed again in a hydrogen fueled application, like transportation, even including air, all transportation is capable of running from hydrogen.
33KWhrs of energy put into hydrogen is 33KWhrs less heat in the energy of the sun.
Aerospace, as you probably know is already in something like fuel famine, they are crying out for new fuel sources, desperately working on things like SAF (Sustainable air fuels), with ideas which really are clutching at straws, reusing cooking oil, biofuels and the like.
Yet nothing compares with hydrogen, the latter has 3x the energy density of fossil fuels by weight.
This coupled with the new economy of solar indexed stimulus could see us with Concorde back in the air again, this time flying all the way to Australia, with even the toilet cleaners able to afford a trip on it, instead of only big oil executives to New York.
The one thing standing in the way, preventing hydrogen coming into direct competition with fossil fuels, the one handicap, which appears to me as someone with both industrial and academic research experience in my history, to have been put on it deliberately by fossil fueled industry, which has funded most research done on hydrogen to date, is room temperature liquification, specifically the lack of it.
Nowhere, in any references I’ve been able to find on hydrogen in all the time I’ve been working on the global energy problem (7 years), have I been able to find the reason why this has not been done, or even tried.
The pressure vs volume vs temperature state diagrams for hydrogen show no information in the areas of interest.
To me this means it has never been tested, or if it was, no formal results recorded.
So I would say if you could see a way to raise research funds to investigate this, that would be big kudos for the royal image. Even if it was found to be “Impossible” for some unknown reason, it would still be valuable research, to at least fill in the missing state chart data.
But if it was a sucess, achieving liquefaction, it would probably make some kind of Nobel prize. It would be a world’s first with massive positive impact, maybe the biggest in history, given also the new economy of SIS.
All it would take is a suitable stainless steel long travel, big block, small bore piston ram with pressure and temperature sensors, to investigate the relationships between these as the ram is pushed in by a suitable hydraulic press, even to the point that the hydrogen becomes solid.
It would have to pass through a liquid state to get to solid. If it didn’t do that, it would be the first gas ever we found that didn’t go to liquid before going solid.
After this is done, it could be contained in moderate pressure vessels at room temperature like aerosol cans, the pressure needed to contain a gas after liquidation is only a small fraction of the compression needed to get it to liquid form.
We would find after that, it would be just as portable as any other liquified bottled gas. The horror stories we hear about it embrittling materials by penetrating them, are somewhat overstated, again mostly by fossil fueled interests. Embrittlement only occurs at high compression, as currently used to store hydrogen inefficiently in gaseous form. After it is liquid, stored at much lower pressures, penetration of materials has to be much less, probably negligible.
In addition to rescuing all aerospace, even including Concorde, the benefits you / we would see from a hydrogen fueled energy system include:
- Human food generation (See “Solein”). The input energy compenent of Solein is hydrogen. Consumption of this would remove our dependence at least a little, from the conventional food chain, allowing that to recover a little.
- Water and air filtration and circulation. The exhaust products from vehicles consuming hydrogen are oxygen and water which is very pure. It would make sense for vehicles to preserve the exhaust water as drinkable, and to offload this at time of refueling, wherever refueling is done. This would look to refuelling stations as maybe brakish water that they might have lost to hydrogen genertation, being replaced with drinking water. The end result is they got free drinking water filtration.
- The benefits from SIS are profound, and way too numerous to try to list all, it all sounds too good to be true. The only one I will highlight here, with massive implications are the effect on crime / law and order. You know its only folk looking for money who would wish or need to try to steal panels from your farm. SIS would give them the money they need to stop committing petty crime. Yes it turns law and order on its head, instead of fining for doing the crime, the system becomes one of bribing to not commit the crime. Yes its protection money. But look, why would we need a police force if no-one is committing petty crime any longer?
Here is the method to use to calculate SIS:
The conventional argument is always that we can’t afford to have hydrogen. But as time goes on, and the temperature keeps going up, and the planet keeps deteriorating, exponentially, the value of money itself will be affected, because as the only source of energy ramping up is not monetised, whilst the source of energy declining is the only thing monetised, we will see the energy value dropping out of money.
There is no way around that, nature will push it all the way until we give in, just like the hydrogen will give in if we push that ram all the way home. Nature is showing us what we need to do to the hydrogen, by doing it to us! But seriously, I think we have lost sanity if we can’t move to this before we are forced to do it by nature.
Anyhow, there is a much deeper probing summary of the implications of mathematically signing energy for analysis in my Amazon E-book, titled “The Energy Polarity Multiplier Framework”. I would recommend this to anyone seeking the complete picture.
Futher, I am trying to raise funds for the next phase of my research done to date. The problem is obviously not fixed yet, so there is more to do, unfortunately, and I have burned up the 100K or so I spent on it from own funds, with no safety net, my bad, but in my view, this work on behalf of the public, including your good self, has been the most valuable I’ve ever done, even it does leave me broke, nothing can take away the satisfaction I feel, for having contributed so far.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/global-energy-system---research-funding-refresh
Yours Sincerely,
Frederick E Bott, BEng MSc formerly CEng MIET MINCOSE.
At your service.
