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The low carbon generation : Comments

By James Dyson, published 27/4/2012

Engineering solutions will be available for environmental problems, but they take time to invent.

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"Finally, the government must step up to the mark - with competitions, funding and support so that the most promising technologies are fast tracked and the intellectual property secured. The government needs to put the right money in the right place, now, to ensure engineers can pull the rabbit out of the hat and create a sustainable future."

Yes, please keep giving us your money, because somehow our miraculous energy-efficient sustainable new products can't actually get to and survive in the marketplace on their own merits. Funny, that.
Posted by Jon J, Friday, 27 April 2012 7:32:00 AM
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He makes good vacs and yes, we all like energy efficiency..but asking for Governments to fund his company albeit in a round about way is a bit demeaning. No James, we don't want to fund your low carbon ideas, we don't want to fund anyones low carbon ideas. Be a good businessman and put the money in yourself, if you believe in you ideas that is. The market will decide.
Posted by Atman, Friday, 27 April 2012 9:50:07 AM
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Posted by PEST, Friday, 27 April 2012 10:38:36 AM
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Isn't that interesting. We know this bloke had at least one good idea, & the determination to see that idea through to completion. But we must question what he is up to now.

Has he been too busy to keep up his reading, & do the math to see that global warming is either a blind alley, or a complete fraud&

Is he just another smarty trying to get on the band wagon/gravy train, & sit back as the money rolls in?

Or is he cynical enough to decide that the more gravy he laps up, the less the com men will get?

What ever it is, to me it is a pity that he is not looking hard enough, then getting out there helping stop the fraud. What a pity.
Posted by Hasbeen, Friday, 27 April 2012 10:51:18 AM
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Its the same old story! Ignore already existing endlessly sustainable alternative systems based on current known science, and in operation elsewhere! We are an innovative lot and have invented a 2 tank system that treats all the biological waste from a high rise, village or small suburb. Because it is a closed system the process creates no unpleasant or any discernible smell factor. The problem with previous applications?
Located at the lowest possible level to exclude energy wasting pumps, the first tank around the size of a shipping container, maintains an internal temperature of around 32C; the second tank of equal modest size, is kept by internal processes at around 55C.
The methane endlessly created by a natural biological process can be stored in a simple bladder; to be fed into a ceramic fuel cell, [more Aussie innovation,] and create on demand electricity and free domestic hot water. The addition of food scraps/wastage creates a saleable energy surplus! reticulated coal fired power coupled to transmission line losses arrives, with just a 20% efficiency and costs 3-5 cents per kilowatt hour to create.
Whereas, the described alternative has a 60% efficiency rating, the highest in the world, and therefore once the capital outlays, [shared,] are completely recovered, the costs are around one third of coal fired power.
Moreover, because it is a completely local application, with no moving parts to wear out; the maintenance costs are just a tiny fraction of those imposed by centralised privatised power provision.
Also ignored is the local manufacturing and equally massive installation business opportunities, legislative outcomes could produce?
Any water used is sterilised by the process and is therefore recyclable as is, for non potable applications, such as nearby algae farming/bio diesel production. The completely sanitised high carbon solid waste is also a saleable carbon rich soil improver, which has all the nasty smell factors and pathogens, removed by the process, which is already in operation overseas; albeit, connected to stationary engines, which do eventually wear out and or are not as energy efficient. Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Friday, 27 April 2012 11:53:54 AM
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James, I’m sorry to have to break this news to you but……………!

It is not about science, engineering, economics, renewables or carbon dioxide emissions. It’s about international power politics.

Don’t subscribe to this? OK then, who declared the following?

“It is an all-encompassing socialist scheme to combine social welfare programs with government control of private business, socialized medicine, national zoning controls of private property and restructuring of school curriculum which serves to indoctrinate children into the politically correct group think”

“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations”

Next.
Posted by spindoc, Friday, 27 April 2012 12:46:24 PM
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