The ‘EMP Engine’ is the 8th issue in this P5GO sub-theme. Energy conversion to electricity is important to the UN Goals for Sustainability, as it also is for the 4th Industrial and Social Revolutions. Such an issue is contraversive though, because the sustainable alternative is opposing the most powerful oligarchies in the world, - the shipping and the energy industries. Still, the electrification of ships is as realistic as for the cars. Yet, it also causes positive effects for; domestic productions for new sustainable industries; increased income to heal from the diesel pollutions; and can finances the ‘basic income’ to elevate education and prevent social unrests. All-in-all, it is very easy, sustainably and cost-efficient to do. In order to conclude so, there will be some theoretical talk-throughs concerning the EMP engine, the UN SDGs and EU IM regulations.
The EMP engine is presented in a video at the website CloudMaps and YouTube. Here is a brief summary of the presentation: “The EMP engine is a hybrid upgrade of the diesel and gasoline engine to an electric engine, where the explosive pulses are substituted with Electro Magnetic Pulses (EMP). Such an upgrade in the shipping industry will considerably improve the transport, the economy and the environment. There is significant difference between the two kinds of engines. A 4-stroke diesel/gasoline engine is only 20% energy-efficient and utilizes only one of the 4 strokes. The same function can be made by magnetism that utilizes each stroke and is therefore 4 times as efficient. Also, the electric engines are 3 times as energy-efficient than the gasoline engines. This makes the EMP engine about 10 times as efficient. Moreover, the energy source to the EMP engine is free if utilized from sustainable sources like solar, wind or wave energy. Maybe most important, the electric engines do not pollute at all – neither CO2 (carbon-di-oxides) nor NOx or SOx (Nitrogen-oxides and Sulphur-oxides from diesel). Further pinpoints from the presentation are:
- The Shipping industry do already take some advantage of solar and wind power for electricity production. For example; freight ships use solar panels to produce free and clean energy for electric equipment; some ships decks are covered with solar panels; Mærsk utilizes turbine towers for generating free electric energy; and there are plans to build electrical power-plants in open seas that converts solar, wind and wave energies to electricity.
- Magnets and solar panels are strong enough to replace the present diesel and gasoline engines: An average diesel engine on a ship produces about 300 horsepower, i.e. 200 KW. The world's largest diesel engine produces 109 000 horsepower from 14 cylinders. The VOLAR-e electric car produces 1000 horsepower from 4 electric motors. A rooftop PV (photovoltaic) power station produces 20-100 KW (kilowatts). An Electro Magnet with 20 KW can lift 1000 Kg.
- There is a huge market for energy, economy and health related to shipping. Their global energy use is 10% of World GDP, i.e. 5 Terra € and 100 000 TWh (2014). The transportation uses 20% of all energy worldwide. Shipping now accounts for 90% of the global trade by volume.
- The shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world: The world's 90 000 vessels burn ca 370 million tons of fuel per year emitting 20 million tons of Sulphur Oxides (SOx). That equates to 260 times more Sulphur Oxides being emitted by ships than the worlds entire car fleet. A large container ship emits cancer and asthma-causing pollutants like 50 million cars. (See next paragraph for the whole article.)
- Based on this, approximately calculations say that; converting 10% of the combustion engines to EMP-engines can cause Global reduction of -2% energy consumption and -2% greenhouse emission. European reduction of; Green emission -0.15%; energy savings -150 TWh; economic savings; -7.5 000 million €.
- The STEP analysis, that was presented in UU 2017.juni.09, can be used for EMP engines too. These are some STEP factors for innovating ships’ diesel engines to EMP engines: Social opportunities; get cleaner environment, better health, more jobs during the 4th industrial revolution. Technological opportunities; growth in clean energy-production, better management of shipping with IT. Economic opportunities; impose environmental taxes on diesel ships, more cost-efficient energy utilization. Political opportunities; getting closer to the environmental goals, defend domestic labor and industry.
- The Rivals of the Market were also presented and can be used for the EMP engines too. These are some factors for innovating ship diesel engines to EMP engines: Dominant market actors; cannot or will not innovate. ‘Threats’ from new products; free energy for EMP engines. Suppliers of diesel and gasoline; oil/diesel industry that fight against clean and free alternative energy. The Customer that buy the goods; customers want inexpensive and clean transport of their goods.” Still, note that the ship owner are the main winners in innovating to EMP engines. The RoI (return of investments) will be big after a few years, when there is no cost of energy or environmental taxes.
Still, there are much more into this innovative EMP engine than presented in this blog. First of all, this simplified version of the EMP engine is the basis of a patent application about an EMP system with much broader utilizations. Next, the EMP engine should be 3D printed by the shipyard industry as a clone in non-magnetic materials in order to substitute the metallic diesel/gasoline engines. The cloned EMP engines’ cabinets should be modular so it is easy to replace the originals. The electric power source should have backup with generators. Surplus energy productions should be stored in accumulators. The EMP engines will have great potentials in fine-tuning of frequency, amplitudes and wave-forms for max power utilization and synchronizations. Other devices and instruments on the ships will gain by a fully electric and computer driven infrastructure on the ships. Finally, even though the commercial break-through for el-car was delayed throughout the previous century, the break-through for the EMP ship engine should come simultaneously with the el-cars, - in this 4th Industrial Revolution.
The gravity of shipping pollution is far too unknown to the authorities and the public. Therefore, here is the whole article from cited. (Ref article: New Atlas / The Guardian: “Big polluters: one massive container ship equals 50 million cars”).
- “The Guardian has reported on new research showing that in one year, a single large container ship can emit cancer and asthma-causing pollutants equivalent to that of 50 million cars. The low grade bunker fuel used by the worlds 90,000 cargo ships contains up to 2,000 times the amount of sulfur compared to diesel fuel used in automobiles. The recent boom in the global trade of manufactured goods has also resulted in a new breed of super sized container ship which consume fuel not by the gallons, but by tons per hour, and shipping now accounts for 90% of global trade by volume.
- The title of world’s largest container ship is actually held by eight identical ships owned by Danish shipping line Mærsk. All eight ships are 1300ft (397.7m) long and can carry 15,200 shipping containers around the globe at a steady 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h, 29.3 mph). The only thing limiting the size of these ships is the Suezmax standard, which is the term used to define the largest ships capable of transiting the Suez Canal fully loaded. These ships far surpass the Panamax standard (ships that can fit through the Panama Canal), which is limited to ships capable of carrying 5,000 shipping containers.
- Not only are shipbuilders resetting the world record for size on a regular basis but so are the diesel engines that propel them. One of the eight longest container ships in the world, the 1,300 ft Emma Mærsk also has the world's largest reciprocating engine. At five storeys tall and weighing 2300 tonnes, this 14 cylinder turbocharged two-stroke monster puts out 84.4 MW (114,800 hp) - up to 90MW when the motor's waste heat recovery system is taken into account. These mammoth engines consume approx. 16 tons of fuel per hour or 380 tons per day while at sea.
- In international waters ship emissions remains one of the least regulated parts of our global transportation system. The fuel used in ships is waste oil, basically what is left over after the crude oil refining process. It is the same as asphalt and is so thick that when cold it can be walked upon. It's the cheapest and most polluting fuel available and the world's 90,000 ships chew through an astonishing 7.29 million barrels of it each day, or more than 84% of all exported oil production from Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter.
- Shipping is by far the biggest transport polluter in the world. There are 760 million cars in the world today emitting approx 78,599 tons of Sulphur Oxides (SOx) annually. The world's 90,000 vessels burn approx 370 million tons of fuel per year emitting 20 million tons of Sulphur Oxides. That equates to 260 times more Sulphur Oxides being emitted by ships than the worlds entire car fleet. One large ship alone can generate approx 5,200 tonnes of sulphur oxide pollution in a year, meaning that 15 of the largest ships now emit as much SOx as the world’s 760 million cars.
- South Korea's STX shipyard says it has designed a ship to carry 22,000 shipping containers that would be 450 meters long and there are already 3,693 new ship builds on the books for ocean going vessels over 150 meters in length due over the next three years. The amount of air pollution just these new ships will put out when launched is equal to having another 29 billion cars on the roads.
- The UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) released a report in 2007 saying a 10% reduction in fuel burning was possible on existing ships and 30-40% possible for new ships but the technology is largely unused, as the regulations are largely voluntary.
- Oddly enough there is never any mention of alternative power sources such as nuclear power. Nuclear marine propulsion has been in widespread naval use for over 50 years starting in 1955. There are 150 ships in operation that use nuclear propulsion with most being submarines, although they range from ice breakers to aircraft carriers. A Nimitz class supercarrier has more than twice as much power (240,000 hp, 208 MW) as the largest container ship diesel engines ever built and is capable of continuously operating for 20 years without refueling (some French Rubis-class submarines can go 30 years between refueling). The U.S. Navy has accumulated over 5,400 "reactor years" of accident-free experience, and operates more than 80 nuclear-powered ships.
- Airborne pollution from these giant diesel engines has been linked to sickness in coastal residents near busy shipping lanes. Up to 60,000 premature deaths a year worldwide are said to be as a result of particulate matter emissions from ocean-going ship engines. The IMO, which regulates shipping for 168 member nations, last October enacted new mandatory standards for phasing in cleaner engine fuel. By 2020, sulphur in marine fuel must be reduced by 90% although this new distilled fuel may be double the price of current low grade fuels.”
(Paul Evans, via: Guardian.co.uk. See this link for an informative overview of global shipping emissions from Glenn klith Andersen.)
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are well in alignment with the upgrade to EMP engines. “The 17 SDGs is the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with 169 targets between them. Spearheaded by the United Nations through a deliberative process involving its 193 Member States, as well as global civil society, the goals are contained in paragraph 54 United Nations Resolution A/RES/70/1 of 2015. The Resolution is a broader intergovernmental agreement that acts as the Post 2015 Development Agenda (successor to the Millennium Development Goals). (ref Wikipedia and the SDG sites, see links hereunder.)
“The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are a global vision for humanity signed by 193 heads of state, yet, everyone’s responsibility: 1) End poverty in all its forms everywhere. 2) End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. 3) Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. 4) Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. 5) Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. 6) Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. 7) Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. 8) Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. 9) Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. 10) Reduce inequality within and among countries. 11) Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. 12) Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. 13) Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. 14) Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. 15) Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. 16) Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. 17) Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.”
Upgrading ships with EMP engines are directly alignment with the UN SDG; 7 energies, 9 industrializations, 13 climates, 14 marine resources, 15 terrestrial ecosystems. It can also cause positive indirect effects on the rest of the SDGs. Also note that the 17 UN SDGs covers a lot more than merely climate change from CO2, but health damage caused by NOx and SOx pollutions as well.
The Dane shipping enterprise Mærsk (Maersk) is particularly mentioned in the article from New Atlas / The Guardian. There are several aspects that make Mærsk interesting to this issue. The Dane government has developed close relations to Chinese trade. Mærsk will be a major importer of MIC2025 products to the EU through the extended Panama Canal. Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland might rather become outposts for imported goods since the Dexit excluded full federal membership with the Europol and the Eurojust. Most alarming though, is the major crypto attack at Mærsk fright system last week, covered up as a simple ransom-ware case. Yet, it made the whole logistic system paralyzed. No-one knew what the thousands of containers contained anymore. However, that fatal directed attack was no ordinary ransom crime, but rather appears like a Big Red guerilla-attack from the inside. Therefore, there should be no doubt that European authorities of border control, police, court and even defense need to be closely involved in such movement of goods, - that might not qualify for the EU restrictions for Health, Environment and Security.
Redistribution of welfare is a main topic in social revolutions. That is so for this 4th RS as for the 3 previous ones. The simple reason is that the Industrial Revolutions cause major improvements and redistributions that has to be balance in order to avoid massive miseries, desperations and riots. There are already some important suggestions debated about redistributions in this 4th Industrial and Social Revolutions:
- Tax on robots: “Leaders of the industrial and scientific communities think that, to offset the social costs created by automation’s displacement effects, either robots should pay income tax, or their owners should pay a tax for replacing a worker with a robot. And this ‘robot tax’ should be used to finance a universal basic income or guaranteed living wage. Bill Gates (former Microsoft) said the solution to the problem is simple, the government should start taxing robots i.e. make the robot owners cough up the money needed to re-establish the defunct workforce. However, the EU Commissioner Andrus Ansip, tasked with bringing Europe to the digital age, says no.”
- “Basic income is a 200-year-old political issue in ‘the West’. (See the Ted Talk in this Extra UU.) It is not like the extreme isms abused to cause CCD and CdE as in the previous Pyramid Games. Even major high-tech celebrities say it has to be done. Elon Musk (Tesla Motors) says that automation will force governments to Introduce Universal Basic Income (UBI). There are 3 traditional claims against Basic Income. 1) That it is too expensive. Yet the social costs of poverty are higher. 2) People will not work if not forced to. On the contrary, most people want to self-realize, be social and contribute. 3) It is politically too complicated. True, this is most certainly serious a challenge, since UBI has actually has been a legal Human Rights obligation for all United Nations for 50 years - and in the EU for 20 years due to competition rules of State Aid. (See UU 2014.okt.17 about LQ, UN, EU, HR)” (UU 2017.mai.19)
- Tax on imported robot products. ‘The West’ will be overflooded by cheap robotic mass-produced products from the ‘Made in China 2025’ strategy (MIC2025). Robot productions outside the European Internal Market cannot be taxed like its own producers inside the EU IM. Therefore, the same Robot Tax has to be applied on EU import in order not to discriminate and suffocate the domestic producers. Such import tax should be used to promote EU domestic productions according to EU strategies. (MIC2025 was talked through in UU 2017.mai.19.)
- Pollution tax on Shipping. The EU should impose same pollution tax on ships entering the European Union, as on any other vehicles in the EU. This is directly in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals; 7 energies, 9 industrializations, 13 climates, 14 marine resources and 15 terrestrial ecosystems, - indirectly with the rest. Such a pollution tax will improve the fatal problems that: “A single large container ship can emit cancer and asthma-causing pollutants equivalent to that of 50 million cars.” “The worlds 90 000 cargo ships contain up to 2 000 times the amount of sulfur compared to diesel fuel used in automobiles.” “Shipping now accounts for 90% of global trade by volume”. The shipping industry can certainly afford to pay for they health damaging and will even gain a lot in the long run by innovating to EMP engines. For the nations of the European Union, the gains are huge and pains are minimal for a massive EMP engine innovation and these tax redistributions of wealth, - although competitors might claim otherwise.
Only the confederal EU, not the single European nations, is strong enough to deal with the dominant global actors of shipping and energy. Therefore, only a EU directive, promoting clean European energy, can force the polluting shipping industry to change in accordance with the UN SDG and EU IM. Still, from this position, the attempts here is to free this knowledge via the hyperspace – like this publication – that provide some technical solutions and sustainable arguments for immediate upgrading diesel engines to EMP engines. Then, any market actor in the shipping industry can realize the EMP engines. Such an innovation can revoke the declined European shipyard industry, - and provide the ships with free and clean energy instead of expensive and polluting. Just spread the idea and do the Start-Ups.
Links:
CloudMaps EMP homepage
http://cloudmaps.azurewebsites.net/EMP/EMP-en.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNer4IvzhDA
EMP-Innobooster Financial application 2 (English)
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
http://17goals.org/
New Atlas / The Guardian: Big polluters: one massive container ship equals 50 million cars
http://newatlas.com/shipping-pollution/11526/
Daily Mail Online: How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html
Environmental impact of shipping – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shipping
The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates
https://qz.com/911968/bill-gates-the-robot-that-takes-your-job-should-pay-taxes/
Robot tax: Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax
Music:
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) was introduced in the previous UU 2017.juni.30. “OMD had an unusual concept with a vocal on bass and another on synth. The synth pop group were inspired by artists like Brian Eno and Kraftwerk. With the release of the first single ‘Electricity’, they were able to build a studio, which allowed them to record on four-track with four musicians.”
The association to this blog is the electrification of energy consumption, - especially in shipping with the EMP Engine.
OMD - Electricity + lyrics
https://youtu.be/XXNF4KoVyoU
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/o/omd/electricity.html
The Best of OMD – full album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tHwTTxGk0A#
TThe EMP engine is presented in a video at the website CloudMaps and YouTube. A brief summary of the presentation says: “The EMP engine is a hybrid upgrade of the diesel and gasoline engines to electric engines, where the explosive pulses are substituted with Electro Magnetic Pulses (EMP). Such an upgrade in the shipping industry will considerably improve the transport, the economy and the environment.
Here are some related videos to the issue:
Video: A hybrid EMP engine for the shipping industry
https://www.facebook.com/1341177123/videos/10223710049722856/
Diesel Engine, how it works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZt5xU44IfQ
Ocean Pollution: A Cruise Ship Pollute as Much as 13 Million Cars—in One Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNer4IvzhDA
What are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6B-DbE8FYE
Revenge of the Electric Car: Documentary Full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru89x1jmpq4
Tesla Motors: The Future of Electric Cars- Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEJWidT-Jco
Why we should give everyone a basic income | Rutger Bregman | TEDxMaastricht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIL_Y9g7Tg0