As an engineer, I believe that conversion are at the very heart of the flourishing of agile civilizations.
My motto has always been quality which results in requirements as reliability and optimal effectiveness.
1. The right Means, Methods for the right Purpose, Problem. | |
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§.1.1. New reference | There will be more opportunities for optimisation when Seanergy.be becomes an energy pillar. |
Means | Seanergy.be = a fleet of WECs for the open ocean and a factory ship. |
Purposes | Delivering green hydrogen and hydrocarbons produced aboard with C from carbon capture. |
Ecological Benefits of Seanergy.be |
The following mitigating gains might be claimed with our innovations:
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Economical Benefits of Seanergy.be |
The following objectives can be attained with our innovations:
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§.1.2. Define criteria | Our civilisation has the insight en the means for appropriate action. |
In a nutshell |
Climate is applied thermodynamics and fluid-mechanics: every action has impact on the state of that system.
The change will continue even without GHG. The task is to master the magnitude and direction.
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Ranking Sustainability |
To mitigate global warming, the world is shifting from consuming of Earth's natural buffer of solar energy
(fossil fuels if no other genesis) to direct and derived use of solar energy.
The definition and thus objective of sustainability is imperative and inescapable.
Ranking energy sources according to their influence on the value of the different parameters of natural cycles, is one of the step in feeding an accoutrements for mastering Earth's productivity. Second step is building a model that incorporatie the complete interactivity and complex feedback mechanism. |
§.1.3. Trade & Jobs | Preparing the Future is Now – Add Participation from our Innovations. |
Favourable Side Effects |
The place of Hydrogen and synthetic hydrocarbons in a circular economy with Seanergy.be
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Opportunities for Export & Engineering & a lot of Jobs |
It is possible to re-focus existing industrial sectors to attractive businesses: this is the way forward:
From the moment of fossil-free H₂ is available the gain is DOUBLE for grid balancing. The benefits from Seanergy.be: Captured carbon is regenerated into simple fuels with truly green hydrogen – synthesized either on board or near the power plant. |
2. There is not the 'deus ex machina' | |
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§.2.1. Fragility | Sustainable and long-term autonomy needs a risk assessment of dependencies + vulnerabilities. |
Identification | The fragility of a system - defined as the degree of damage or loss of functionality - depends more on its intrinsic properties than on the mode of disruption. Vulnerability is the unisolated exposure to hazards. |
Vulnerability | Vulnerability is the lack of preventive measures against events not considered in the project brief, whereas risk management is part of a specification and is assessed in terms of all thinkable external/internal manners of hazard occurrence, probability and severity of each reason (cause) at every point. At operational level, not only the ease of inflicting damage but also the impact, mitigation potential, and recovery time must be assessed. |
Abundant or Redundant |
Within system engineering it is recognize that overreliance on a single source risks systemic failure, while (re)source abundance cannot
replace redundancy in resilient energy systems, nor can duplication provide the same protection level.
While both solar and wind energy depends on atmospheric conditions, our WEC - Sea-wiggle.R - relies on waves wherever ! Combining renewable sources with storage solutions (such as batteries) ensures continuity of supply, nonetheless our - R.E-expande.R - is a better choice as a high-density buffer with a long service life without energy loss and direct conversion to AC at the desired voltage! |
Scale & Scope |
Lack of appropriate scale of diversity was always the reason of decline of civilisations.
Harnessing the ocean with Seanergy.be could keep availability on demand level. Biomass as carbon sink is excelent however applying CC with H₂ from our Sea-wiggle.R replace f-fuels. "It is difficult to stop a family of elephants, impossible to stop a swarm of grasshoppers." |
§.2.2. No blind spots | Europe and Belgium have the courage to implement the consequences of vulnerability analysis. |
Assessment of Resilience |
The probability that a system (liquid, gaseous, solid) - undergoing a disruption - maintains his functionality correlates with the number
of nodes with comparable capacity. An approach is to map the tolerance of applications or services regarding disruptions of some
extent that can occure. The second issue is how to secure vital services.
Or fossil-fuels will be reserved for certain vital or heavy applications; Or our synthetic fuels take it over. |
About Trade-off Near Coast or the Open Ocean. |
While near off-shore installations are vulnerable due to fixed infrastructure and long cable trajects, free-floating mitigate these risks –
though piracy remains a manageable threat with proper deterrents.
While decentralized free-floating WEC has a significant advantage in evading to human-induced destruction, the factory ship presents a notable drawback.
Without additional data, assessing the sensitivity of this system remains a guess. |
3. Avoidance pending successive measures. | |
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§.3.1. Efficiency | Go for highest efficiency in technical matters. Go for highest GHG reduction in human matters. |
About Trade-off Comfort or Food |
Will in a far future mankind
be forced to choose between technical return and biomass yield ?
Our integral approach of wave energy direct to H2 and followed by a conversion to HC - offers a long lasting energy autonomy. Our autonomous floating installations produce continously but periodic navigation adjustments consumes energy. |
Relativity Therapy |
Since mid 2020 I started to write down the technical concept,
while not yet well informed what evolution the world was undergoing.
Our proposal for truly green hydrogen for renewable fuels connect with the IPCC strategies; Our proposal for using carbon from carbon dioxide removal plug in with IPCC and UNFCCC strategies; Our proposal for using synthese for green chemistry and fertilizers support the UNFCCC strategy; Here you will find a lot of congruence for land, air and sea with the EU Adaptation Strategy, which aims for smarter, systemic and international action. |
§.3.2. Allocation | Everything is traceable to energy. Owing the energy, is owing the power. |
Dysfunctions if emergency vehicules will be not hybrid |
What if a traffic jam occurs ? In winter a tunnel / on a
mountain way blocked by an accident during the evening rush hour or a holiday exodus.
Policy may not run away from public concerns and that happens
regulary.
Unless a new road assistance car will be developped with an energy buffer based on our proposal. |
Sell clean tech & Buy worldwide carbon from CC ! |
The electrification of Europe will slow down but not stop global warming as expanding infrastucture worldwide happens mostly using f-fuels.
Install carbon capture units worldwide at points of emission, regenerate it into e-fuels, and sell it to power heavy machinery.
A business model could be: to give lease and manage CC-units at industrial emission points, and deliver the carbon to Seanergy.be ! |
Hybrid option in mid-transition could be greener |
Shortage of rare materials could force us to choose between: Concentrating full electrification, OR Wide repartition with mild-hybrid mobility !
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§.3.3. Eco-nonsense | Sometimes a climate decision is like calculating the Net Present Value. |
Do not buy an A-label freezer |
An A-labeled household refrigerator acts as a heat pump, extracting the heat from the cold room and releasing it to the kitchen. The ecological footprint of the thicker insulation does not compensate because the heat emitted by a refigerator with B of C label, adds to the domestic heating system. Balance ? |
Do not be afraid of being a jester. (DU: Hofnar) |
We must be aware that the climate impact of the ongoing wars
with demolition and reconstruction to come.
Peace in democratic diversity is also climate friendly! Use as many Lithium as you can, but no more than the limit you own. Above that, their is no trade if demand does not end, there will be chains we forge ourselves."In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister." (1802 Goethe) |
4. Ranking solutions by their enthalpy contribution. | |
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§.4.1. Holistic logic | CAUSE & EFFECT: Everything connects to everything (Leonardo Da Vinci). |
Objectives & Priorities |
The necessary measures are being implemented. The fact that the tipping point of the ecosystem is approaching, urges the finding of solutions
that demonstrate GHG reduction over the life cycle of a device, service, process.
For overarching policy strategies, it could be destressing to divide the complexity of all kinds of influences into two measures ? I reflect on HEATT and on HEART which are complementary to the LCA. NOTE: These are nice ideas - but the complexity of an implementation is beyond my skills - on the other hand being aware already promotes holistic thinking. |
Mind a HEATT-gauge |
Each transition path that changes the thermodynamic state(s) - has its own enthalpy and entropy signature.
This indicator aims to reflect indirect changes in the subject chain: "Holistic Emission Adjacent Technology and Transport". A HEATT-gauge could comprise:
The relevance of HEATT is to highlight the profound implications for the use of materials and energy in the determination of the scope and the phasing of the transition. The relativity is that the relevance is inversely related to the penetration of electrification and to fossil/renewable fuel mix. |
Mind a HEART-gauge |
Each transition path that changes the infrastructure and the city design has its own social dynamic signature.
This indicator aims to put hidden effects in evidence: "Holistic Emission Associatable Repercussions of the Transition". A HEART-gauge could comprise:
The relevance of HEATT is to highlight that minimalistion of the footprint of all application apart, do not exclude that the footprint of the whole society could be more than their sum ! Hence, with accurate decisions, current and future generations will reap the benefits. |
Natural Balance |
Whether the use of hybrid applications in mid-transition is beneficial for climate mitigation depends on 1 factor: the ratio of emissions to CO2 uptake by both humans and nature.
In these very obvious step our innovation can play a crucial role. By introducing circular gas the resilience and autonomy can enter this equation. |
§.4.2. Illustration | Total optimisation is more than the sum of partial local optimisations. |
Mid-transition | Excercise: A (hybrid) heat-pump compared to condensation gasboilers.
From the standpoint of atmospheric CO2 concentration, we have million times:
There is no evil or good, there are only consequences! If you keep doing what you always did, you will get what you always got. This is plea to communicate more details of the approach to this immense transition to the general public. Thanks for including these innovations as probably one of the most sustainable and multi-purpose tools in the energy transition. |
5. Roll-playing exploration and comparison detect bias | |
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§.5.1. To be explored | Protecting the quality of holistic approaches and alternative perspectives. |
Beyond simplicity |
Habitual assumptions or preferences can subtly affect perceptions and can interfere with ongoing preparation and research.
Written hypotheses protect against the influx of narrow narratives or amplified ambitious or symplified s tandpoints that could erode a robust decision-making process. Lorenz's Butterflies’ - Aramith 1990 and ‘Dynamic Systems and Chaos' - Epsilon 1990). Focus on quantifiable indicators, could overlook societal dynamics with impact on climate:In apartment districts with compact flats, even with an adjacent forest, there is not more positivity than in rural neighborhoods and that is a cost to society and planet. The absence of underexposed ideas can derail even well-informed decisions. |
§.5.2. To be compared | Preventing bias by creating conflicts with dominant expectations. |
Vigilance & Divergency |
Communication about strategic, long-term decisions emphasizes best the disciplined approach, the broad-minded analysis, the critical reflections
and the explanation and insight in simulation models.
Doing so does not weaken a policy proposal — it strengthens its quality by revealing what it must outperform. |
Scope and factors in comparisons |
Evaluation methodology must be coherent, complete, and based on correct parameter values to meet the objectives of any proposed measure.
Beyond CO₂-emissions: Total energy budget matters: Greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere must be reduced, but only Earth's enthalpy matters. Geothermal and nuclear energy, though low in GHG, still increase thermal load. If not radiated back into space, global warming continues — albeit at a different pace.The European value-based policy instruments: Sound measures deliver results by substance — not by fiscal incentives, taxation or symbolic regulation.In climate matters there is no relative reference. Relevant reading (should not be possible): See: CREG: verwarmen met een warmtepomp is niet rendabel (MSN). See: Verbod op verbrandingsmotoren in 2035 : onwettelijk ? (MSN). A scenario does not reflect the genuine benefit if the scope was arbitrarily limited. |
Historic crossroads |
Guarding, whether the most obvious or quick doable option is also the most effective, must always remain a careful reflex.
Historically, this precondition was key in achieving lasting relevance or memorable success.
Panic is rarely a good advisor - yet in emergencies, immediate adequacy often outweighs systemic efficiency or the examination of disruptive alternatives. However, if the world is to have a growing population, it is necessary to take into account the repercussions of urban design with high or low demographic density on the kinds of social dynamics, in order to anticipate the need for professional, recreational, preventive and rehabilitative services and infrastructure, and to estimate the productive and innovative capacity of the population.Optimalisation of Nature and Humanity on one planet will entail a fundamental change. |