Real enviromental thinking and engineering
update 28/04/2026 Its certainly a strange time if your eco thinker , the problems in the middle east have lead to oil prices greatly increasing and this will cause inflation , which for some sectors of people will need careful management . The problems of the costs of energy were perhaps understood in the 1970s oil crisis , and this crisis is little different in that alternatives to fossil fuel oil are in operation , and in some cases now at cost parity , and I believe that this will continue although even though we can make new biofuels , this may not be a good eco route long term, but it is demonstrating that we can reduce the use of fossil fuels.
Of course the reduction in the use of fossil fuels has been a main concern for most eco thinkers for a few decades , and even just taking a simple empiric chemistry view , we are taking Hydrocarbons from and atmospheric account , millions of years ago on the Earth , and adding whatever products occur to our own atmosphere. For me the biology view is important and what I term the atmospheres composition ,I believe will affect natural life system much faster than the 100-250yrs time frames of global heating theory , perhaps in as little as 50 yrs.
The main problem is that we use fuels via combustion to make energy , its a very fundamental understanding , we get heat and light and with mechanics get motion and we have greatly improved its efficiency in recent times , but in most uses its very inefficient and on a mass scale has effects that will change the atmosphere and temperature of the planet .
For example any fuel of Carbon, and Hydrogen ,including Hydrogen itself ,when combusted using the oxygen in the atmospheric air or air drafting as it is termed, makes water , a totally new chemical 2H2+O2=2H20 , every 1 kg of Hydrogen combusted will create 9kg of water vapor , and this is a problem with the so called Hydrogen economy , as like fossil fuels it is used in combustion technology ,using atmospheric air .
The Oxygen use problem I think will become existential at the rate of population and energy use that we have at the moment.
Around 2 yrs ago I started thinking about Oxygen use and Oxygen production and the results show a deficit occurring , not helped by the fact we have cleared so much of the forests, half of all tropical rain forest has been cleared since 1900 .
here is a bit of preview for coal , i have compiled numbers for other energy forms too.
Fossil fuel Coal:
Consumption in 2024 =8,770,000,000 tonnes and if 1 tonne of coal produces 2.6 tonnes of CO2 which is around 22,802,000,000 tonnes of CO2/yr,
if each tonne of coal burnt requires 2.1 tonnes of Oxygen then 18,417,000,000 tonnes of Oxygen
And at 0.05 tonne of water vapor per tonne as water of combustion, is 438,500,000 tonnes of H20 vapor.
We are quite literally creating 438,500, 000 tonnes of water vapor and adding to the atmosphere .
28/04/2026
I keep getting asked , about what is so different about my own Sequential Oxygen combustion system , well I am pleased that as theory its hung in there and is as far as i can tell , the cleanest technology that we could use and should produce cheap energy too , certainly cheaper than the MWHR price of new nuclear fission reactors .
The important aspect is that if the future is going to be electric then our whole energy system has to be rebuilt. The thermal efficiency of the power stations (if the theory translates into units of 100-300mw ) is such that other parameters start to be possible. CO2 in itself is not a problem as we can make it into CH4 and then into other materials , CH4 is easier and more cost effective to store than liquid Hydrogen. The thermal efficiency is such that i believe it will beat the fuel use of the H class gas turbine which at 60-64% thermal efficiency is a considerable improvement , on power stations up to 2011 when it was first devloped . Greater efficiency equals less fuel use and they can be configured to make use of CO2 , with none releasd to atmosphere directly , or run on higher amounts of Hydrogen. They do vary in operation over a 24hr period as electricty demands to the electricity grid vary , some have termed these E fuel plants.
Hydrogen via water electrolysis is very energy expensive , which is why I believe that it may not work in mass use , 1kg of gaseous Hydrogen takes 50kwhr and to liquify it and store it at -251oC takes a a lot of energy , you then need water to feed your electrolysis banks it takes 9kg of water to make 1kg of Hydrogen , so there might be problems in wrong placing , where water for the Electrolysis bank is in conflict with water for crops. As we are seeing with the large energy uses of data centres , where they also large amounts of water for cooling , water table drops have been recorded and really actual datat centres themselves are being seen as an eco problem.
