How a reformed EU could act as 'midwife' to the emerging nations as they move towards democracy

The looming threat to world peace

The population of the world is increasing at an unprecedented rate, with most of this increase taking place in the developing world. Fortunately modern technology will lift many of the people in these countries out of poverty. But, as we have seen in the west, technology also increases the wealth gap between the rich and the poor. This leads to discontent and surges towards nationalism such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.

Nationalism could take a far more extreme form in the developing countries because many have undemocratic strong man governments. So, as in Putin’s Russia, governments could channel unrest into manufactured conflicts with other nations.

Based on United Nations predictions, here is a ranked list of emerging countries that will exceed the population of the UK by 2050.

India, China, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam,, Iran, Egypt, Russia, Yemen, Uganda, Turkey, Afghanistan, Colombia, Myanmar (Burma) Sudan (North + South), Saudi Arabia.It will only require a handful of governments to take the Putin approach to suppressing unrest, for the whole world to be dragged into a period of unparalleled turmoil.

Maybe a football lesson could prevent this.

Take the pull out of dog walking and look good too, using the DNA Double Helix Dog Lead. This dog lead expands and contracts in length depending on the pull exerted by your dog. It is similar in weight, bulk and strength to conventional leads but offers the flexible length benefits associated with existing heavy, bulky expanding leads. The DNA Double Helix Dog Lead has good eye-appeal and was inspired by the double helix structure of the DNA molecule.

The worlds first patent on a DNA structure?

Patent No GB2264219

Three products are described on this page.

   1   The Survival (First Aid) Pad

This is a versatile foam sheet splint for first aid treatment of wrist, arm, leg, ankle and neck injuries. It is designed for one handed self splinting, with the solo adventurer in mind.

Other InnovationsThis invention simulates the effect of having a television camera inside a golf ball during its flight through the air from the tee, towards the green.

Essentially, this invention is a cunning optical trick, designed to produce impressive visual effects. Briefly, here's how it works: A set of golf ball detecting, radar units alongside the fairway are linked to a computer, which calculates the successive positions of an ordinary golf ball, with no camera inside it, as it travels through the air. A short computer programme, based on the physics of golf ball flight, then predicts where the golf ball will land. The computer programme also works out which part of the landing zone would be seen if there really had been a camera inside the ball. The programme then looks at an electronically stored picture of the whole of the area around the green and displays on your television screen, just that part of the area which it predicts the imaginary camera would see. The system updates the displayed picture, several times each second.

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Articles

• A view of the inventing game from the ground floor. By Bill Courtney.
• Tips for inventors based on Bill's experiences.

A Better Mouse Trap
www.abettermousetrap.co.uk

This site is stuffed with good advice and interesting articles for inventors. Their home page begins,

"Since 1983 we’ve helped in some way with well over 5000 invention ideas. Read our history here. We provide inventors with the kind of impartial invention advice and help that is rarely available elsewhere. Our USP is ‘being there’ at the early stages of invention, when inventors need advisers and service providers who are sympathetic, knowledgeable and realistic in equal measure."

 Other links Links

• UK Patent Office. (Intellectual Property Office.)
• World Intellectual Property Organisation. Their PCT-EASY software, is a gentle way into the international patent filing system- But it gets a lot more complex later. http://pcteasy.wipo.int
• Government Foresight project.
•  Ideas North West (www.ideasnorthwest.co.uk), a “members’ club” for inventors in North West of England
•  Institute of Patentees & Inventors www.invent.org.uk/
• Wessex Round Table of Inventors www.wrti.org.uk

Algae can be used as the raw materials for making biofuels and bio-plastics.

On this page we make some broad suggestions for integrating bioreactor and Latent Power Turbine technologies.

Algae breeding photo-bioreactors are systems that can be used to grow algae using nutrients, sunlight and carbon dioxide.

In this article we will suggest how Latent Power Turbines could be adapted to improve their efficiency.

Article summery

Water cooled nuclear reactors are only able to burn 3% of their nuclear fuel, with the remaining 97% ending up as high level nuclear waste. In recent years there has been increasing interest in the use of molten salt nuclear reactors as “incinerators” that can burn this “waste” by using it as fuel.

We explain how Latent Power Turbines can be used to improve the safety and power generating efficiency of these planned incinerators.

A more detailed discussion

The economic aim of the jobs and skills database is to improve the efficiency of labour markets.

But it also has a social aim; to reduce the alienation from society that many young people experience.

This is particularly important for young people who are drawn towards radicalisation because they believe that the ‘in group’ they identify with is under threat.

Brexit poses three threats to Britain’s youth that politicians on both sides of the Brexit debate have ignored.  

1. The majority of older voters voted for Brexit, but the majority of younger voters wanted to Remain. So in time as the older voters die away, the will of the living people who voted will change in favour of Remain. 
   The dead will have imposed their will on the living.
     
   The good news for youth: Brexit can be reversed at a future date 
   The bad news: Unfortunately rejoining the EU on the favourable terms that we enjoy now is not a realistic option because the EU has been greatly enlarged since Margaret Thatcher negotiated our present terms.
      
   
2. Currently Britain is ranked 6^th as a world economic power. The Brexit argument is that we can use this strength to become a great economic power again. But the developing world is catching up on us fast. However, there is a very important difference. By the middle of this century, Britain is predicted to rank 29th - 30^th in terms of national population. If you combine these two facts, the uncomfortable truth is that an ‘independent’ Britain will slowly decline until it becomes a third rate economic power. This will hurt our national pride. More importantly, it poses a military threat because at least some of these new world powers will imitate Putin’s authoritarian Russia, rather than our British democracy.
      
3. The military and economic threats will amplified because the proportion of the working age populations in emerging countries is growing at a time when the British population is aging. 

AN OPPORTUNITY for politicians: Smart politicians and parties that act fast to defend Britain’s youth will be making a sound investment in their own political futures.

In contrast, those politicians  whose pander to older voters because it is 'the will of the people' will be shunned by tomorrow's voters.

Here are the time bomb arguments in detail

First time bomb

Tipping point day

On tipping point day, ‘The will of the people’ will change for biological reasons

In the June 23^rd 2016 advisory referendum on ‘Brexit’, British voters cast 51.89% of their votes in favour of leaving the EU, with 48.11% voting to remain. This means that on the day of the referendum, ‘the will of the people’ had a clear majority of 3.78% in favour of leaving the EU.

However the Brexit process is not instantaneous. It will take approximately three years from referendum day to conclude the EU exit negotiations and at least another seven years to agree free trade deals with other countries. (It took the EU seven years to negotiate a free trade deal with Canada.)

A YouGov exit poll of referendum voters indicated that the majority in favour of Brexit were older voters, with the majority of young voters voting to remain.

This means that as every day passes after June 23^rd 2016, the majority in favour of Brexit shrinks because older people have a higher mortality rate than young ones.

Soap on a Rope

The following article was written at the beginning of the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak.

It has been republished following the new outbreak of Ebola in the Congo, in the May 2018.

The problem: Ebola is commonly spread by people with dirty hands.

Many other diseases can also be spread by dirty hands including Dysentery, Cholera, Typhoid, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, SARS and Influenza.

A simple idea to reduce the problem: Nudge people in infected areas into regularly washing their hands.

Stepped flats with hanging gardens

A new concept in high rise accommodation.

We include nudge features to improve the lives of the residents.

We propose an instrument for property price damping, to prevent house price bubbles.

Increased investment in home energy efficiency will be a side effect.

Article summary
In the UK, Euro zone and other currency areas, a Central Bank sets a single interest rate to control all forms of inflation, including property prices. This crude instrument is only effective if if all parts of the currency zone are at the same stage in their economic cycle.

Buildings are different to other personal assets in that they have a fixed position. We describe a financial instrument that exploits the fixed position of buildings to shift property price control back to local level without undermining Central Bank authority. 
Energy saving bonus: Predictable long term house prices would reduce the financial risks of investing in home energy improvements.

A New Breed of Lubricant Free Displacement Pumps

 Patents GB 2273133 and GB2306580

The lubricant free designs cover piston, diaphragm and peristaltic type pumps.  Three of our designs are described below.

These pumps were designed for use in a new type of refrigerator that would protect the ozone layer and also generate clean electricity.

History may record that the British vote to leave the EU was just what Europe needed in order to save the European Union.

BREXIT may never happen, because a ‘divorce settlement’ that grants free access to EU markets while blocking free movement of EU workers is unlikely.

But Remainers should not take comfort. Abandoning BREXIT just because we can't reach a deal would still leave Britain divided.

It would also weaken Europe because an over-confident EU bureaucracy puffed up by quelling the British rebellion would have little incentive to reform.

On this page we take a more positive view proposing 'Europe 2.0'

For the sake of argument, wee will assume that BREXIT has to be abandoned.

But using the referendum as a wakeup call, we suggest how it could result in a better Europe for everyone.

Creating new opportunities for the victims of automation, globalisation and other threats

How should we respond to the apocalyptic forces that are taking away our jobs and dignity?

Simplistic solutions such as “Putting America first” and “Making an independent Britain great again” stir the blood but they create more problems than they solve.

On this page we will outline a LP Turbine based alternative that avoids the jingoism.

Essentially we have three aims:

(i)          To create new jobs and dignity for people.

(ii)         To create a sense of belonging by encouraging people of all ages to gel together as communities.

(iii)        To counter the health threats unintentionally caused by modern living.

This page is a response to issues raised by the former President of the Royal Society in a television documentary.
(“Science under attack”, BBC2, 24 Jan., 2012. - Hyperlinked below.)¹
The threat

"Science" in its broadest sense from sociology to medicine and engineering is under attack.

The attacks are being made on two fronts; a powerful anti-science lobby and a growing number of dishonest researchers within.

The tiny number of corrupt researchers pose the most serious threat because their bad behaviour casts doubt on the whole of science.

On this page we suggest defenses against both forms of attack.