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Time is just illusory - it never was there.

 Much has been said about time over the centuries, but over the last few years of investigation I have made a disturbing discovery. The passage of time and the passing of time are purely within the "Minds" of biological systems; children perceive time slower than human adults. Time is a great tool to use and serves us well. The rotation of the Earth is a motion and if we break that up into 24 parts and call each one an 'hour", then good for us and our function. If an egg is thrown to the ground and breaks, it cannot go back into my hand due to conservation of momentum and energy laws, not to mention the direction of the "push" placed on the egg by my hand. Time has nothing to do with the fact fact that the egg cannot go back into my hand because time does not go backwards: time never existed ! Time didn't start with the "Big Bang", is not part of the "Space-Time" continuum, does not bend with space, we cannot time travel or travel so...

COVID-19

 Covid-19 as at August 2020 has spread globally awaiting a vaccine by December 2020. However whilst mutating to many virulent forms, Covid can also after many months mutate to a much milder form. A much milder form of Covid-19 may in fact become dominant over the existing and much more dangerous strains.  It would take another lengthy period of months before the dominant milder strain of the virus spreads  This could mean by June 2021 the virus will become like a normal flu, explaining how the 1918 pandemic slowly died out without a vaccine.

Climate Activism -

People historically have had their values changed by wealth or money deprivation. Last century by example we seen this for many years leading up to The Great Depression. Vast masses of people changed their values as a result, they believed that certain leaders would lead them; Fanco, Mussolini and Hitler were selected. Recently and growing has been an environmental based value change in people, resulting in climate activism. This could be a growing force over the next 3-5 years and in itself is fascism. How big will this new force grow and how may it influence.

A new Golden Era -

With 5G, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, robotics, Quantum computers by 2015, India & China lifting their populations to middle class, and exponential growth in renewable technologies all combining for a “perfect storm”. This storm by 2030 should lead to the beginning of a new Golden Era. Australia will grow solar fuels to year 2050, and self power will grow dramatically. The perceived deprivation globally, which is responsible for Trumpism & Brexitism, should be smashed by a new Golden Era. However antibiotic resistant diseases and climate change remain, as two serious threats moving forward.

A.I. & Fake News

Artificial intelligence can determine all human possible reactions to a particular event. It only takes the event details to be entered and what could be written with all possible attachments, would be written and placed in categories like “positive”, “negative” and “neutral”. Viewers would then be able to read what each category would say, so each perspective could be interpreted. If one thinks about it this is done already if one assesses options on media stories. After all there would be a range limit on opinions anyway, so why not let AI automate the process. Viewers would be able to read all perspectives and more categories could be added.

History repeating - 1920s

In The Great Depression hundreds of millions of people suffered real deprivation. Their minds and behaviours were catastrophically affected by this serious situation. In desperation the masses sought leadership forward and they got Franco, Mussulini and Hitler. Their values were slowly morphed along the way, and Fascism took hold in a most dangerous way along with Nationalism. Hitler destroyed the unions and the socialists, and took particular aim at The Jews and forward communism. National socialism was a ploy and not Democratic Socialism. In the world today, many commentators have used immigration to describe the growth in nationalism throughout the world. When Trump was elected as The Republican candidate it was said, “Damage done”. Recently Anthony Albanese in Australia, indicated that poorer voters were not happy with what “they have” in their minds, which is their perception. The people affected amount to hundreds of millions of people in the free world, that can relate t...

Fuel Cell Vehicle Alliance of Australia

The fuel cell powered forklift market is expanding, and has proven itself economically over many years. Walmart and numerous other distribution warehouse now seek fuel cell electric forklifts. A proven smaller fuel cell electric power plant as in forklifts as above, can easily be downsized further to facilitate electric powered scooters, motor cycle scooters, electric bicycles, and electric wheelchairs , and all other small transporters; in fact this should become the norm before year 2025. Fuel cell powered heavy freight is another being seriously planned for in the world along with existing fuel cell powered buses. Heavy freight vehicles from Nikola are planned for commercial release in year 2023, that can do 1,200 kls, and near term output from Nikola is within several years. Nikola also plan 700 hydrogen stations by year 2028 along transport routes. Fuel cell vehicles by Toyota, Hyundai, Honda and others are commercial, and will soon enter Australia. If these vehicles can re...

Carbon Trading in Australia-blockchain

Blockchain is in the symbol heading this blog site. Blockchain software is used behind crypto currencies , providing unbreakable accounting information and contract information on all participants. Blockchain logic is currently unbreakable. Blockchain can be used in many areas for many reasons, and in the energy demand and supply within it can be of extreme function and use. Embedded solar PV and energy storage in say NSW, from all homes, businesses, companies and alike, can participate in a program using blockchain on a grand scale.Supply from participants would be precisely known once permissions were received. Costs, savings, each supplier, how much, and much more all being known precisely.  Image demand for electricity day/night being managed this way to a point, that a coal fired power station could be eliminated completely. Carbon trading credits in a Carbon Trading System would be precisely known and allocated !

Australia - Carbon Trading

Energy storage systems in The US to date, have resulted in higher green house gas(GHG) emissions.The reason is that such economic viable systems store energy at night when power prices are cheap, and then release such during the day; makes financial sense of course and its called arbitrage. The end economic advantage happens during the day, and it’s the cost of course. The problems involve that such energy saving at night being cheaper, and returned during the day competes with what’s on the market, and that included of course natural gas peaking plants, which emit lower GHGs. “Peakers” can throttle back unlike baseload coal fired plants which are designed to run efficiently at their “sweet spot”, and such do this as energy storage systems flow their electricity into the grid, such electricity was made from coal fired power the night before, and the more GHG friendly natural gas peakers are throttled back. The result is a system increase in GHG emissions. Secondly, large battery st...

Electricity prices in Australia -Aug 2018

Have a good look at the electricity prices per kW/hr in each state of Australia, and pay particular attention to South Australia-as at August 2015

Quantum computers and A.I.

The Quantum computer should enter a serious phase by year 2025. Simply put commercial and much more powerful units will be available by that time, and that is a bit of time considering the speed at which they are developing. If I have a normal computer that has 10,000 transitors for example only, to double the power I add another 10,000 transitors. In a Quantum computer if I had 10,000 qbits, and I added another 10,000 qbits, the power would go up by 2^10,000; that’s gigantic !. The “Good, the Bad and the Ugly”: Two thirds of our universe we will begin to see, and that will immediately impact on science like chemistry, where calculations so small will be able to be done for the first time. Medicine and bio-chemistry, material science, solid state physics are others. Artificial intelligence can machine learn one task well, in fact very well. A robot machine may do the washing but not the dishes. Multi-tasking not yet by some distance but, with Quantum computers an unknow...

The Parallel of Significance - 1995

In 1994/5 Xmas whilst holidaying up the coast of NSW (The Entrance -~120kls north of Sydney) I wrote the [ parallel of siginificance ]. It was quite unusal after a long bought of illness from 1978 but, as the sun set on the beach I raised my left arm and hand covering the setting sun, and placed it in the sea. " A parallel of significance has been reached between, hydrogen in its nuclear sense as in our stars, with hydrogen in its humble chemical sense here on Earth " . Stephen V Zorbas 1995.

Power to Gas (Australia) intro

Initial contact with The NSW Government three(3) years ago.

Market forces- transport and energy

Human behaviour in consumerism leads us to market analysis, yet sometimes market analysis tends to suggest new technologies will force consumers in their choices. Empowerment of people regarding their choices, has been demonstrated in many areas outside of transport and energy, which suggests strong patterns that must be dealt with or overcome. Real transitions are incremental and take many years to happen, and with energy and transport the same applies. In transport consumers demand a car that is affordable and reliable, to get them their freedom as regarding work and play. Brands like Toyota, Mazda, Hyundai , BMW, Ford, GM, and alike deliver this. The consumer is use to reliability and affordability. New hybrid technologies involving petrol/electric cars, have been on the market for some years, and they are slightly more expensive yet deliver higher efficiency as in kls/ltr of petrol/gas. The hybrid transport vehicle cannot be overlooked, as this market can grow as fuel costs...

Australia unlimited

With global risk and instability on the increase, energy security is essential. Right wing politics is spreading like a cancer, trade wars are looming and a GFC2 is coming. Add timing stress for global warming and we are heading towards a complicated period between years 2020 and 2030. Further to this Quantum computers capable of smashing blockchain security systems are closer to year 2025, notwithsatnding the massive benefit and change that will happen in medical science, engineering and new material science. With solar PV been predicted to become cheaper than carbon central commercial electricity by year 2025, and battery/other storage getting cheaper, the "writing is on the wall". The energy transfromation will be near complete by year 2030. Australia now predicts embedded solar PV/storage to be at 90% for consumers both private and business,   by year 2030. Micro-grids as well will integrate with utilities, so the poor and underprivileged are covered first. Cent...

Electricity in Australia

The underlying design principle is that there is an amount of electrical power that is in constant demand, known as baseload. At night coal fired power stations “tick over” so a base lowest level is demanded, and such stations must keep running without stopping. When demand peaks during certain times of the day, such as in the morning when people wake-up and prepare to go to work or the evening when they return home and start operating appliances or plugging in their electric cars, utilities activate "peakers" or generators that sit idle most of the time so they can meet dynamic demand during these peak cycles. Managing these ever-changing loads is required to balance the utility's system, and peak cycles have always been difficult for utilities. Coal fired power plants never lay idle because you want to keep them operating at their peak performance. All decisions now moving forward are critical, as we are at that point, an irreversible process from here on.  It...