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The Environment / Re: How are global warming and world population expansion linked?

« on: 24/09/2024 09:51:45 »

Alan,
Population explosion is causing global warming so we need to address the problem head on. See stats on worldometers

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

Every country with medial age under 20 is likely to have social unrest and their governments edging towards military dictatorship just to maintain some sort of law and order.
Their economies cannot grow fast enough to educate, house and provide jobs for this increase population thus gangs of unemployed youths protesting violently against the government and corrupt system.
They need to adopt the Chinese approach of small families lead to great national prosperity where everyone feels self sufficient and valued.

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New Theories / Re: Where does quantization of energy of electromagnetic radiation come from?

« on: 18/09/2024 12:13:28 »

Have a look at this research into info RAM memory in USA.  I think they are finding that the EM volume of memory is able to be split up into resistive and reactive components in which case a single volume of memory can contain not just upper and lower sideband but maybe up to 16 units of memory depending on the phase angles of ferrous part.
Find the side diagram of "Family of Ferroelectric Memories" at very bottom of article which identifies FeFET, FeRAM, nVcap,   
 BEOL ferro and FEOL ferro.

https://marklapedus.substack.com/p/what-ever-happened-to-next-gen-ferroelectric

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New Theories / Re: Where does quantization of energy of electromagnetic radiation come from?

« on: 17/09/2024 17:44:26 »

Not sure about electrons in double split experiment.  But for EM light the ordinary and extra-ordinary rays of magnoflux will automatically cancel out on the following cycle thus producing an interference pattern.  If you polarise a laser beam you should get the same pattern. 

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 17/09/2024 16:51:38 »

Petrochemicals quote " Electricity is only 20 percent of uk energy usage, we manage 50 percent of electricity at present from renewables maximum, viz 90 percent of our energy usage is fossil fuel based"   is nearly correct of course.
Google says  Oil: 31.2%  Coal: 27.2% Natural gas: 24.7% Hydro (renewables): 6.9% Nuclear: 4.3% Others (renewables): 5%
So what to do after we green the grid is to find alternative sources of fuel which could mean reopening coal mines or burning peat, which we have in abundance of in the UK and as happens in many other parts of the world already..
The alternative is to risk oil/petrol/diesel and gas running out and becoming extremely expensive. 
Admittedly, CO2 will be produced but with careful management of flu gases, by carbon capture techniques or seaweed absorption is possibly a way forward 

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 16/09/2024 10:20:12 »

Look at the current reading from the grid to see where the power is being generated at present.
Today is currently, slight breeze and cloud/sunny Monday morning 16 September weather,

 Max demand is 35GW.  This is generated by 5GW nuclear [mostly French interconnector], 2GW wind, 4GW solar, 4GWBiomass/incinerators, 1GW hydro, 4GW EU interconnectors, 12GW CCGTgas, and 3GW others.

So, to green the grid we need to generate the base 24 hour day and night load using nuclear 24 GW which will be backed up by wind 20GW average and solar 20GW average daytime only plus incinerating plastic waste 10GW with advanced chemical flu scrubbers to remove toxic chemicals.  Pumped storage or tidal systems or possibly coal will be needed to completely green the grid. 


https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

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New Theories / Re: Where does quantization of energy of electromagnetic radiation come from?

« on: 23/08/2024 10:13:28 »

Alan,
You are correct that we must not use languages at all in physics only technical sketches of experiments and their results.

So can any of our esteemed experts point me to an experiment that will prove that electromagnetic massless light energy needs a volume x,y,z, to exist in please.

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New Theories / Re: Where does quantization of energy of electromagnetic radiation come from?

« on: 22/08/2024 10:46:00 »

Alan,
Photons are massless but can carry energy across space so no formula that contains kg in it can be correct.
But electric formulas can and do apply to massless energy here on planet earth and in universal space
 Light is electro-magnetic and occupies a volume of space but must have 3D to carry real energy

Do you or other forum writers agree with the above, if not please sight an experiment as proof of concept.

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New Theories / Re: Where does quantization of energy of electromagnetic radiation come from?

« on: 21/08/2024 11:21:43 »

Phonon is a quasi area of spinning magnoflux which is massless but has a volume.  Also described as a magnon but please note that to have energy it must be attracted forward by a voltage or a Cosine reduction will appear.
Transmit antennae give some voltage direction to the spinning magnoflux at the signal  frequency.

See   https://magnoflux3d.wordpress.com/

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 17/08/2024 20:14:33 »

First things first we need to have 22Gw of nuclear to supply the night minimum load and have just found this article from IET.

https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/07/30/small-modular-reactor-designs-approved-first-step-towards-uk-nuclear-power-expansion

As 10% of the nuclear plant is normally out of service for regular maintenance we need 24Gw to cover the 22Gw night load which will leave 20Gw to top up the day load using wind, solar, tidal and hydro/storage to complete a green grid by 2050.

It is achievable if we push the government to prioritise green grid and backpedal on electrifying transport .

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 13/08/2024 09:56:39 »

We need to store energy quickly and retrieve at peak demand.  The answer is hydro assisted by nuclear .
But Hydro large scale.
Lock Ness is 16 metres above sea level 56 square km and contains ? billions of tons of water.
Loch Locky is 29 metre above sea level 16 square km and contains ? billion tons of water.
So if we drain 1 metre of water from Locky we move 16 thousand million cubic metres/tons down to Lock Ness.
We need to do this transfer in 12 hours and it needs to be a reversible process. i.e. Pumped storage.
There are other examples of Lochs with hydo stations between but these need upgrading to ?9 times the size reversible.

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 11/08/2024 12:25:16 »

But hydrogen is not a compressible gas so totally uneconomical to store unless you mix it with carbon to liquify it? 
Hydro is a possibility if we can dam a whole upland valley or 2 ??

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 08/08/2024 09:39:47 »

So if it is economically impractical to obtain 1 mSv/yr  limit, then as many normal places like Cornwall already have 3 mSv/yr, then why not standardise on the Himalayan high altitude limit [were some over 100 year olds lived all their lives] of 20 mSv/yr as a practical limit which I assume would simplify nuclear construction enormously.

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 07/08/2024 09:47:31 »

Alan,
" 8 mSv/yr in parts of Cornwall, and a lot more in some other countries)  with no evidence of harm. So we have monitoring programs and advisory crew rotation but so far, no lawsuits.".
Exactly correct, the legal requirement is totally OTT and unrealistic. Some people at Chernobyl  stayed on and are still alive at age 90 so what on earth are we stating as a safe limit??

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 06/08/2024 10:12:10 »

Alan, Nuclear submarines are safe so just build a big one and float it into Dungeness under water and connect up to the grid if we cannot rehab the "B" station economically.
Solar and wind cannot be reliable on for power in cold winter nights and we must green the grid..

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Technology / Re: Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 05/08/2024 10:45:50 »

Nuclear waste could be stored in waterproof containers at the bottom of Atlantic ocean for millions of years without bothering us.
In fact, I did read somewhere that where the continental shelves collide it may be possible to get the waste reabsorbed inside the planetary crust.
We could place the waste problem on the back shelf for now and get on and green the grid immediately by going nuclear!!

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The Environment / Re: How are global warming and world population expansion linked?

« on: 05/08/2024 10:19:38 »

BC, not quite sure what your graph is indicating but the refugees I am concerned about come from refugee camps full of displaced people, not like the Ukrainians where there are no camps just terrified residents.
Please study the stats    https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ 
and establish in your mind the link between overpopulation and average age country by country.

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Technology / Nuclear generation produces green energy?

« on: 03/08/2024 11:17:47 »

Recently visited Dungeness and found that they have not generated power for over a year although the "B" station is totally intact after cooling down. .
We keep being hassled by the government to buy electric cars assuming the electricity to charge the batteries is produced in a green environmentally way.   But it is not!!
Look at the gridwatch stats     https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ 
 
   If you compare it with another statistic site we find that they are different?
 
    https://grid.iamkate.com/ 

This sunny windy morning 3 August shows that

         FUEL              GW        %
   Fossil fuels   5.1       19.2
      Renewables   10.0       37.7
     Nuclear/other      6.9        26.3

But this assumes that some of our imported power imported from France is nuclear .possibly 12 GW and UK just 4.7GW. as confirmed by gridwatch        https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

We need to get our nuclear stations back up and running quickly to green our grid before spending tax monies on motorway charging stations and electrifying transport.

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The Environment / Re: How are global warming and world population expansion linked?

« on: 30/07/2024 10:32:43 »

Most refugees come from countries with exploding populations where free food aid has wrecked their economies typically from Sahara/Red sea area.
See the worldometers site  https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

Making farming uneconomical makes refugee camps permanent slums with no hope for the future for their children as no way to get out of the poverty they are trapped in.

Look at Cox Bazaar, Gaza, Allepo;  all cities where everyone is a refugee waiting to escape to anywhere.   All parents there will encourage their children to leave to find a living somewhere else..

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The Environment / Re: How are global warming and world population expansion linked?

« on: 27/07/2024 12:20:55 »

The major problem is global warming due to over population.
So, charities and WHO must change their aid priorities to first and fore most free family planning and contraceptives, followed by health and medical aid and finally minimum free food [which will collapse their agriculture economy] so should only be made as a last resort.in cases of serious drought.

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COVID-19 / Re: Was the Covid Pandemic Panic justified?

« on: 26/07/2024 10:23:30 »

 Gosh; My apologies to BC and you all as you correctly guessed I thought I was replying to the Environmental forum question of link between population expansion and global warming.  So sorry.
Anyhow, I agree with all the above comments but recommend charities major objective be family planning free aids, rather than food, health and medical care; particularly as with modern mechanisation a farmer with a tractor no longer needs a large family but as a responsible parent should ensure that his kids find a job to assist the community and a home to inherit in the future.