More Than 2 Billion People’s Lives Depend Entirely On Dung Energy
Another billion use dung as part of their energy
That’s nearly half of humanity that depends on dung.
It’s a practical available fuel, but one that creates all manner of health issues.
There does not seem to be any alternative for the nearly half of humanity that is on the wrong end of this shitty deal, or is there.
The principal victims of the world of dung burning are women as they are most exposed to the deadly fumes, high levels of dioxins and chlorophenols compared to wood, released when using of dung as fuel. The World Health Organization is worrying about the deadly fumes that accompany dung fuel but has no tools to resolve this vast health crisis.
Dung is the cheapest of all fuels and is used mostly in rural and undeveloped areas of the world where other forms of energy are simply neither available nor affordable. Thus for upwards of a billion low-income households, dung is the most vital and widely used fuel source. It is freely available and accessible without payment or very inexpensively. Burning dung delivers about half the energy as burning wood. But there are many drawbacks.
Imagine the labels in the world where various flavours of dung are the smokey cooking fuel of necessity.
In the modern western world cooking over a smokey fire brings to mind all manner of delicious recipes. For the world where dung is the smokey fuel of necessity it is considered impolite to add descriptions associated with the flavours of the fuel when describing the food being served.
The real trouble with dung energy is the fact that it is the only energy supply billions for who can not afford anything better. The world of science and technology is not inventing practical alternative access to better or even equally affordable fuels. No investor is willing to invest to target the development of energy that will be provided to the poorest amongst us and cost a scant handful of ruppees, or tenge, or ngultrum, even if there might be billions of customers. It is a true tragedy of the commons.
Replacing dung with Cold Fusion
Cold fusion puts oil into hot water. – Click to read more
It might just now be possible to offer something better to the least fortunate of humanity and in doing so they might become the nexus for delivery of a world-changing transformational energy technology. The rich technological world has eschewed and fought against this energy miracle for nigh unto 30 years. It is anathema, an unwanted Black Swan, to the dogma of established energy as a path to riches. There is some poetry to using the most advanced physics on the planet to solve the lowest level of human problems.
Presently in my cold fusion R&D I have my dung fuel pellet brewing on my bench. It is ready for testing. I have expectations that this form of ‘cold fusion dung’ can be made by the least technological capable of humanity. The dung pellets might produce up to about 50 watts of heat. A couple handfuls of this coprolitic cold fusion dung ought to be sufficient to produce a hot glowing lump sufficient to keep a mountain hut or Yurt warm and toasty in the cold nights and cook the families meals.
To kindle it into full heat one simply heats it with a small piece of conventional Yak dung as kindling. That amount might be expected to cost 100 ngultrum/rupees to manufacture by hand from readily available though uncommon materials. It should produce that life-giving heat for a very long time. To stop it working one simply quenches it with water to cool it. It is time to start shit disturbing and delivering alternative clean green energy to those who needs it most and can least afford it. I believe this could be developed and delivered in months not years.
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Of course more, far from shitty ideas, are possible and it might be used in combination with thermal electric devices (TED’s) or steam engines to make the heat into electricity. Alas the cost of the Silicon valley TED’s, even made in electronic foundaries of China, will be many times that of the ‘dung’.
All I Need Is Hot Water For My Bath
A Japanese woman cold fusion scientist/friend Prof. Notoya decades ago showed her version of cold fusion at a physics conference in Nagoya, when asked by hovering geeks about her ideas to turn out cold fusion applications that would make competitive electricity, she said, ‘why would I want to do that when all I need is hot water for my bath.’
Update: 21 August 2018
Yesterday, Monday, and today I ran some experiments in my 4 reactors on my physics bench. One contains an ordinary nail as a control, there is nothing to make it provide any heat other than the electrical heating used to turn the cold fusion on and/or heat the 4 reactors. Three reactors have various amounts of my atom-ecology fuel but really only one is working well at present so in effect there is one HOT reactor and 3 controls.
The first of several experiments showed the HOT reactor remained HOT for many hours after the heating up power was turned off. The first run showed the HOT reactor ~25 degrees C hotter than the others. The next run showed it to be ~40 degrees HOTTER, and the third run showed it to be ~48 degrees HOTTEST. A fourth run is going now and overnight I am hoping to go over 50 degrees with it. As a matter of fact 40 degrees C is close to the temperature of an ideal bath. 48 degrees is considered scalding.
The moral of the story is if all you need is ‘hot water for your bath’ it may be that we are effectively there today. Of course that is from just one of my tiny reactors if you want more just make them the size of a Goldfish. When not using the hot water in your hot water heater you go to great lengths to have insulation to save the energy it takes to keep the water hot. Then one might have a home central heating ‘furnace’, in a cold fusion world all one needs is one bean to heat them all and in warmth keep them. OK OK maybe a few beans per household.
Bring On The Fish
Click to read about Lucky Iron Fish for health
I think the meme ‘lucky atom-ecology fish’ is more practical, if less fun than ‘cold fusion dung’. On my drawing board is a small iron fish like those that are distributed in the poor parts of the world to put into the cooking pots to leach iron to cure iron deficient anemia.
Such a fish might be made to be an Atom-Ecology HOT fish that once kindled can be put into a pot to cook a healthy meal.
Carbon Footprint Of Your Hot Bath Water
What’s the deadly toll of the heavy carbon footprint of a billion baths? The average person pours about 40 tonnes of scalding CO2 into the air in heating the water for a lifetime of baths. Toss a few lucky atom-ecology fish into your water heater 😉
This world desperately needs a new guiding principal to replace the emphasis on money first. It must begin with ‘Save the world, make a little money on the side.’ In that order, doing such good will be rewarded with ample manna from heaven.
This is the “strategy” I have always envisaged for the introduction of Cold Fusion to the world. Both poetry and poetic justice for the energy cabal.
Thanks for your supportive comment, there seem to be far too few people in the sciences who are willing to carry on their work for the betterment of the world or with a sense of poetry and art blended with their technologies.