Eco-Social Concerns

"Eerst komt het eten, dan de moraal". This phrase from Bertholt Brecht underline our compulsion to satisfy hunger and thirst.

'Eco-participation' is more than stopping global warming, we should approach the Earth as an 'ecolonomical' facility.  Humanity needs to learn to manage the parameters of productive processes in order to increase high-value biomass.

The SDGs are known, in order to obtain more output, we need to ensure higher input. This means: favorising biomass production for food and building.

Each eco-subsystem has its own needs for water, minerals, part of the light spectrum heat and cooling.  Their availability at the point of absorption is determined by presence and by various diffusion mechanisms, and these should receive heightened attention.

Solutions are needed for the dilemma between fertilizing soils for the benefit of healthy plants / nutrition and the effluence of strong greenhouse gases (NO2, NH3, CH4).

Enthalpy dilemma

Hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon forms a "holy trinity" for energy storage, distribution, and sustaining life. The Earth's intake of solar energy is shared between human activities and natural biological processes. In nature's circular system, decomposition is always followed by photosynthesis.

In the future, human activities will increasingly be energized by renewable sources in competition with Nature. They harness direct solar energy and planetary motions. Due to entropy, not all energy forms can perform useful work.

While population growth drives increased energy consumption, the Earth's solar energy intake remains relatively constant yet abundant. Advances in system efficiency and innovative materials are essential to harmonize human needs with ecological balance.

Question to: climate sciences

The increasing enthalpy of the Earth system is causing climate changes that we do not appreciate.

CO₂ neutral energy is achievable, climate neutrality never.

Because driving mechanisms of our climate in the geo-biochemical-physical terrestrial ecosystem are powered from planetary motion, sun rays in, radiaton out, earth rotation (day-night = warming-cooling cycle, is actually the principle of an engine), volcanic eruptions, solar activity and electro-magnetic forces.

All sub-eco-systems (desserts, forest, savanne, lakes, rivers, ice plains, rock formations, icebergs, oceans, lakes etc.) are both drivers and driven by these cycles and by feedback interactions.

Former natural eco-systems are partly replaced by dense cities, roads, industrial area's, livestock farms, mono agriculture. A research topic: How much of a desert may be covered with solar panels before there is a significant climate impact ?

Identifying recursively amplifying thermodynamic processes with significant influence on enthalpy will be essential for managing biomass and energy production.

Besides the overall warming-up, modeling the contribution of these altered sub-eco-systems that 'motorize' the climate & local wheather is a necessary part of proper consideration for measures.

Question to: speed of change

Hastiness will accelerate global warming more as their is a risk of accumulating inefficiencies.

It is known that no conversion is 100% reversible so neither 100% efficient. Efficiency gain can be reached by keeping conversion chains short by allocating the most suitable energy-carriers to main functions and energy distribution optimised for material and energy use.

Substitution before end-of-live and reconstruction new infrastructure and transportation means requires mining + foundries, fabrication + transport, production + installation, these all will entail CO2 above dismantling the current. CO2 avoidance should not be assessed partially.

We must remain vigilant that action on a local scale does not become counterproductive. Not only the cycle: 'from the ore quarry to the object and, when decommissioned, to bring the materials into a reusable form' must be included in an optimisation, but also the demolition and the replacement of infrastructure should be included in an energy assessment. This avoids the risk that local optimization will turn out to be suboptimal worldwide.

Taking these aspects into account, it is necessary to examine whether and under what conditions the continuation of plug-in hybrid/conventional applications (light mobility, home heating and emergency power generation), which allow e-fuels to be allocated to the most appropriate functions, could contribute to an overall reduced or mitigated climate impact through a more even global distribution of emissions.

Question to: hidden consequences

The concentration of people in large cities reduces well-being and increases social disruption. Corrective measures are an ongoing cost. So there is a trade-off between fewer forests or integrating climate adaptation into more open and dispersed settlements.

Can fully renewable energy from solar and wind be achieved without compromising their blending functions?

Will our energy needs compete with those of natural biomass production and man-made eco-productive systems? Both need fertiliser and energy to "build" proteins with high quality aminoacid composition?

Promoting heat pumps: the compression chambers are heavy, needs acoustic insulation and maintenance twice/year, plus low temp.-heating requires more radiators. Is the total CO2 exhaust over lifespan incl. mining, repair, dismantling, etc. calculated and compared?

In order to discover risk of suboptimisation, we had to search actively for negative interactions:

• Could ground heat extraction by home-pumps infuencing soil life if not deeper as 30 cm?

• At what delta Q becomes the whole heat pump from blast furnaces to installation negative in CO2 reduction?

• Do multiple adjacent air heat pumps loss efficiency (Qht = Qlt + We) ?

Question to: sustainable choices

Prior to nuclear fusion, Seanery.be is the most holistic ecological energy generating methode as it relies on planetary motion and wind inevitable already absorbed by the waves.

Seanergy.be is a virtually climate-neutral energy conversion solution, it does not "deprive" energy from ecological processes such as photosynthesis, heating-cooling cycli for surface and soil life or heat, vapors, minerals and rain dispertion by wind, nor from the mixing functions of ocean currents.

Active chemical capture of CO2 has the highest research priority because it enables circular hydrocarbons. The benefits are manifold: they allow optimal allocation of energy carriers to functions. Doing so, will reduces material use, favorise interchangeability and promote hybrid solutions in which each sub-system can operate most efficiently.

If we think about eco-social issues, we need to be aware that appreciation of global warming depend on the perspective as it was (will) never (be) possible to freeze or return to a previous state: 

All inconvenience is purely a matter of location and building quality, just as our ancestors avoided unfavorable places and adapted to local situations. The flooding of cities is 'bad' selection of settlement (however, relocation would worse the situation).
This may come across as insensitive, but nature doesn't take emotions into account.

Question to: extrapolations

Reducing emission will not entail reversion. From engineering science (thermo-dynamics) it is known that feedback system are irreversible or in other words reduction of greenhouse gases will never invert the climate to a previous state even not if we controle a major factor.

Like in the Bronze Age: 'climate cooling caused the decline of civilizations due to reduced precipitation'.  The ice age came to an end without industrialization. The North Sea basin was once the ground of mammoth hunters: the hunters became fishermen. Can any model predict these facts using evolutionary parameters (omitting one-off disruptive events)?

I see an accelerated growth of flora, higher ambient temperatures allow trees to grow at a higher altitude and enables agriculture at higher elevations, melting ice frees up land and larger oceans and more erosion produce more fish.

In a future era with circular economy installed, supported by more AI applications, a lot of clean energy will be required.  With growing population a global tug-of-war for energy could come. Not between nations but between destinations, being comfort in its all-encompassing sense or biomass production.

If we do not harvest open ocean energy or succeed in nuclear fusion than for each application, the choice will come between sacrifying land for renewable energy or land for biomass production. Mankind needs to learn to manage the parameters of productive processes in order to increase high-value biomass.