Dear Lord Mayor

It was a pleasure to meet you last night and hear what you had to say.

There is no doubt in my mind we have to hurry now – I have heard it said we have only 10 years to put this ship about.

Met Office warns of global temperature rise exceeding 1.5C limit …
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/31/met-office-warns-of-global-temperature-rise-exceeding-15c-limit
Jan 31, 2018 … In next five years greenhouse gases may push global warming past threshold set by Paris deal.

– because of our unceasing carbon emissions:

Analysis: Global CO2 emissions set to rise 2% in 2017
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-set-to-rise-2-percent-in-2017
Global Carbon Project (GCP) using preliminary data suggest that this is likely to change in 2017 with global emissions set to grow by around 2%

If we keep that up for 10 years, that will be almost 20% and heading for 7C temperature rise and an almost unliveable world in many places.

One of the larger carbon costs of a city – as you said, are its vehicles. Matthew and I are seeking to make and install locally units – powered by the sun, to take seawater and distill it, and from that distilled water make hydrogen for vehicles – whose only output is steam. The Hyundai Nexo is just such a car. Huydrogen busses are already being tested in Scandinavia.

South Australia has one of the oldest vehicle fleets in Australia – all fine old favorites, but they tend to have large engines, and probably optimised for a speed of ~ 70 kph. So in our stop-start traffic they will be pouring out fumes.
9,500 people last year died from vehicle fumes in London – many cities in Europe are about to ban big old diesels.

Instead of waiting for our vehicle fleet to slowly be replaced by such vehicles, existing cars could be converted to run on Hydrogen held in cylinders.
Another alternative is compressed air.

This did over 800 km at 55 kph in the 30’s. So people could have their old commuter converted to run on compressed air, have spare cylinders at home in the garage filled during the day by a PV powered compressor and refill their car when they got home, ready for the next days commute.

Meanwhile as a stop gap I run my old car carbon neutral on waste – filtered – frying oil, with the only downsides being a waft of BBQ & the need to change fuel filters occasionaly.
Would there be any help available in building proof of principle prototypes for these units?

Kind regards
Charli
Sir Charlie Madden Bt
BSc MTech MBA
Farm Energy Austalia Pl
3 Seaview Rd, Lynton SA 5062

One of the largest difficulties with sea level rise is the lack of fresh water we all need every day.

3 design students from Flinders Uni and I have been working on an RO unit to make fresh water – powered just by the tide.

We envisage a partly flooded bouy moored in shallow water. Attached to the underside will be a cylinder holding  a piston on a rod with its foot on the sea floor. As the tide rises, brine is drawn into the cylinder through a non-return valve. At the tide falls the weight of the bouy drives the brine through an RO filter and the clean water to a holding tank on top.

If you would be interested in collaboration, please contact me.

Regards

Charlie

Sir Charlie Madden Bt

BSc MTech MBA

www.waterboatman.com.au

18

Some are downcast
looking forlornly towards the future
especially some young men…
what can they do?

It seems our ship earth is heading towards a climate change iceberg
our rudder is useless
and the skipper is no-where to be seen

But there is hope in changing to solar compressed-air
and hydrogen powered vehicles
to free our cities from vehicles’ deathly exhaust
and the climate of carbon
and fresh water from the sea
from renewables powered units

After all in WW2, the US car manufacturers
changed to start making aircraft
in 3 short months

How much faster can the world be transformed
in the digital/robotic age?

If by weight

about a third of the species around the World is human

and a further two thirds are the animals we raise

then just 3 percent is left

for all the others

from ants to elephants

and bees to whales

Then we are clearly the most successful species by far

and the currently accelerating sea level rise

is showing dramatically our impact on that gentle World

No one else

or no thing else

is going to change that situation

apart from us

So it is up to us

to act quickly

and without limit

Portrush road on a hot day

trailer of restaurant used oil drums

and a sign on the back window saying

‘Carbon neutral on used frying oil’

The pilot of a ute in the next door lane shouts

‘Sir! that smells amazing, good on you’

and with a thumbs up and the broadest Australian smile

– he was off…

There’s a chink in hydrocarbon’s armour
a crack in their dam
South Australia now has a renewables pot in her budget

– remember that ‘small’ country – over there

– now with a GNP vying with that of Russia

– which gets enough sun-shine in two hours

– to power the rest of the world for a week

Well if that budget can be a home for a state battery one day
then it might just be behind the solar surge another

For carbon in the air continues to rise
and behind that comes temperature rise
– as night follows day

So that pot might just be our state safety belt
against the things that follow temperature rise
as night follows day

Charlie
waterboatman.com.au

A change is happening
and it needs to soon
if we are to keep our planet
fit to live on

China with her communist muscle & control
is charging on with her solar & wind renewables
G in 2015, y now
z times in A shrt years

While the laws of Commerce
in the rest of the rest of the world
have their teeth and claws
in the thighs of the hydrocarbons
S in 2025 f now with the graph streaking up

So Communism and Commerce are linking arms
to combat the threat

Will their combined power be enough
to limit world temperature
enough and in time?
Or will the inherent delay in the sky
mean that the ugly giant climate change
will win the day?

Writers Week
should it not be Weak Writers?
audible murmurs were heard from the Audience
whenever renewables were mentioned
– but were not responded to

Should we not be shouting our dismay
As the skippers of our countries
Not only don’t see the iceberg
But deny it exists
And steam straight for it

We will strike soon unless things change
Some say in 50 years
Some 20
I say from the NASA data so far
Four & a half years

Then what?
At 1.5C, much will be the same as now
With more storms and weather events

And 2C?
Flooding around the world
Whole cities sunk
And the wheat crop torpedoed

Not the right way to tackle the world obesity problem.

In the black
that wise old horse
‘World temperature rise’
accelerating now
a gain to +.99C last year
.87C the year before
.74C the year before that
and .65C the year before that

Not spent & running freely
no end in sight

And in the Green
‘The Renewables Filly’
young yet
but accelerating fast
up a third over the last 5 years
from a slow start

Computers were from the same stable
And grew 36% a year
And soon swamped the market

Either could still yet win the race
And dominate the world

And the race organisers could fix the outcome
but either are not watching
or counting their winnings

Will there be a paddock for them to retire to
at the end?

Head for the hills

we have ‘Runaway’

sell that beachfront house

if you live in-land

lag that house

Each of the last five years has been hotter

last year by .94C

burn what you like – solar, vegoil – wood!

but best leave hydro carbons in the ground

mother nature

clearly can’t take much more being burnt