Geoengineering

Build solar thermal troughs, similar to those built in Egypt in 1910, in the Sahara and other deserts next to the sea. Heat the salt water to steam to power turbines. Two products, electricity and fresh water. Use the fresh water in permaculture in the deserts, plant trees, create microclimates that enable transpiration from the …

Make it so

There is an extremely hoary and ancient joke that someone asked how to get somewhere. Ah I would not start from here. The Triptych Transport systems are part of processes that enable people to live well together – civilisation.1 Three core domains are needed to create civilised ways of being: BuildingsLife between buildings, andTransport networks But …

Dotty Think. Timetables, trains per hour and beg buttons

Are not timetables and trains per hour completely different ways of imagining rail systems? Timetables are dotty, trains per hour are about flows. Is not this widely unrecognised distinction leading to all sorts of problems and messes? Not only in rail, on roads as well. Traffic lights and beg buttons for pedestrian crossings are also …

TFL Step free access

Please formally study this and implement it. The key problem is of siloiing subjects and not understanding that sustainability, inclusion and logistics are nearly completely overlapping sets. https://clivedurdle.wordpress.com/2021/05/07/space-flight-and-the-way-of-the-rail/ Rail is also not understood as the key utilities network provider and probably the future largest energy producer in the UK. TfL could easily be heating London …

How to decarbonise. It is not difficult and it will make you wealthy

Decarbonising is another word for rethinking how we use energy, but it is incomplete because it is only looking at one set of issues around the use of carbon. So as Lenin said, what is to be done? The monks said begin at the beginning! We use energy to keep warm, to move, to live. …

Space flight and the way of the rail

To get to the moon or the space station requires following a detailed step by step process with very carefully planned actions like docking and route planning. The way of the rail needs to follow identical step by step processes, but strangely the required level of detail is very often missing, things do not connect, …

Ecosystems Shelters and Societies March 1983

Clive Durdle CONTENTS Preface Part A  ECOSYSTEMS APROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY AND RESOURCES  technological change, energy and resource availability, effects of practices – political, chemical, pollution, resource depletion, ecological. ECOLOGY – RELATIONSHIPS AND RESOURCES relationships, environment, ecology as a science and a social science, human activity is ecological, population and exponential growth, ecological approaches – resources – …

The horse the human and inclusive design

Two mammals have entered a symbiotic partnership. They are both self energy seeking, self repairing and self reproducing but have found cooperation valuable. There are two main forms of cooperation, bare back and with the use of various tools or prostheses. The prostheses include seating, and controls also known as reins stirrups and saddles. The …

The Orrery revisited

George Clarke in Amazing Spaces has recently built an observatory and shown a building with a welsh dragon outside. Storage is a continual issue within structures, and solutions are directly limited because a fundamental part of how we build structures is to use straight lines meeting at right angles. This means we then build shelves …

The Ministry for the Future

Article 14 of the Paris Agreement says there shall be a periodic global stocktake. Article 16 4 says regular conferences shall make the decisions necessary to promote the Agreement's effective implementation, by establishing such subsidiary bodies as are deemed necessary for the implementation of the agreement. Article 18 Allows a permanent subsidiary body with permanent …