Real enviromental thinking and engineering
Update 29/06/2026
It seems as though another heat wave is expected to hit the uk/Europe of 35 oC plus this week , these high heats have caused deaths and greatly stress crops , where there are drought conditions.
One advantage of Sequential Oxygen combustion is its modality in certain configurations. IF useing pipe fed CH4 then each m3 combusted will yield 1.5kg of H20 , a typical 300MW single combustion unit utilising all the efficiencies is thought to use 20,000m3/hr which equates to 30,000kg of water from combustion/hr or 30m3 , which would be very useful irrigation water whether applied directly to land or put into a river upstream of irrigation demands.
Plants become stressed as they too use water as coolant via a mechanism called transpiration , where small pores open/close and tiny amounts of water exit the plant , and it can be said that not only do plants provide shade but can act as atmospheric coolers due the release of the water vapor. If we do create a more tropical climate for the northern hemisphere , then we may start to lose not just tropical rainforest , but deciduous forest as grasses will be the plants best suited to long periods of lower rainfall. The loss of Forests will of course be catastrophic for all respiring life , probably fatal for larger respiring respiring animals including humans.
The further Advantage of sequential Oxygen is actually using far less Atmospheric Oxygen in combustion as it is so efficient and where the Oxygen from water electrolysis can be used , virtually none.
Another feature when using steam turbines , is that very little heat is wasted , so we do not need to use abstracted cooling water and therefore are not putting heat into water bodies.
In Europe at least 2 nuclear fission power stations have temporally closed , due to the high heat found in the rivers used for cooling water , and Sequential Oxygen combustion condenses waste steam to use the thermal energy , to give greater efficiency. The amount of cooling water heating water bodies around the globe is substantial. It has always been an accepted in steam turbine energy plants that large amounts of cooling water would be needed to condense the steam back into water , but if we use the steam for efficiency in a different way we can achieve a thermal efficiency of over 65% , which means less fuel KJ for the same electrical output KW.
The gas burning variants are the most efficient so far calculated , but the 3 stage waste burning variant is efficient too , although in my design we use most of the electricity for water electrolysis to then enable Hydrogen to be used to create CH4 from CO2.
29/06/2026
On of the more difficult problems of new energy systems is how to manage the higher amounts of electrical power required within distribution grids. Most people in finance see any jump to a new specification in electricity distribution as being expensive. It is true that basically what we have installed , mostly under ground as distribution cables and transformers would need renewal , and this in itself is a complex task as the system is in use and would be a considerable cost.
It is also true to say that such systems are renewed anyway so it isn't necessarily unplanned costs , but obviously as we are dealing with renewal of larger things than a single cable , there would be some new costs.
The main problem in designing a new distribution grid specification is it would be tasked with far higher variations of electrical flows. If we are to heat homes electrically , then the supply to each home has to be made to higher specification which i think for most 4 room homes will be 100A. There are many options for domestic dwellings to improve energy use including solar thermal , but we would still require an improved central distribution grid , with different specifications to the one we use in the uk today , which will be new costs but we should also gain greater electrical efficiency as older equipment is replaced , which will help to mitigate costs in most instances.
The high temperatures being experienced in the heat waves do affect infrastructure and electrical grids are no different , on pylons the aluminum cable expands and sags, and of course we are also expecting higher wind speeds in storms due to the heated atmosphere, and it would make sense , although it is anew cost, to put a lot of core distribution system , where we locally generate ,underground .
