[Committee] Rooms for Talks

Sat Jan 6 14:40:00 UTC 2007

Hi Everyone

Some of you may have met Kim Gyr at the dinner after the Arup talk. Kim does
innovative designs for sustainable cities (including innovative types of
Wind Turbines). It would be great if he could give his presentation on 29,
30 Jan or 1st, 2nd Feb.  I shall reply to him saying that we would like to
hear him speak and ask him when would be best for him to do so.

While I'm on the subject - At the end of last term we discussed that in
general I know it would be great if people can book rooms for the term (we
can fill them since there is a list of people who would like to speak). If
you know of a room that is available and free/cheap - especially if at a
particular time each week, ideally we probably need every Monday or every
Thursday - please book it and then email the committee@ to say that you have
done so - we can then let speakers know that they can come.

Best,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: K GYRO [mailto:humansolutions at btinternet.com] 
Sent: 06 January 2007 13:50
> I’m just completing both some final testing on some prototype models that
I have been working on for the past couple of 
>months, with some encouraging  initial results for building-integrated wind
turbines, and the text and drawings for patent >applications for the same.

>Shall we fix a date for my presentation, and you will almost certainly be
the first to see the results of my testing and 
>prototypes, sometime in the third or fourth week of January? 

>Please let me know what suits you best, and I look forward to kindling some
enthusiasm for technologies that may be 
>essential if we are to continue the lifestyles to which we have become
accustomed.
----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Stretton <sjstretton at googlemail.com>
To: K GYR <humansolutions at btinternet.com>
Cc: secretary at zerocarbonnow.org
Sent: Tuesday, 28 November, 2006 4:57:43 PM
Subject: RE: thanks for giving me your card in London

Hi Kim,
Thanks very much for taking the time to visit yesterday. I'm sorry that we
didn't have more time to talk; hope to catch up again in London soon. If you
would still be interested in giving a talk, we'd very much like to hear what
you have to say.
Best wishes,
Steve

From: K GYR [mailto:humansolutions at btinternet.com] 
Sent: 24 November 2006 09:55
To: Steve Stretton
Subject: Re: thanks for giving me your card in London

Hi Steve

Thank you very much for your prompt reply and invitation to come to
Cambridge both for next Monday's talk (!) and to present my own projects,
both of which I would like to accept. I've not yet been to Cambridge,
although I know Oxford well, so it can also be a good occasion to get to
know one of the other great seats of learning and academic achievement on
this blue planet!

Thanks again, and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Best regards

Kim

----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Stretton <sjstretton at googlemail.com>
To: K GYR <humansolutions at btinternet.com>
Sent: Friday, 24 November, 2006 1:38:29 AM
Subject: RE: thanks for giving me your card in London

Hi Kim, 
It was good to meet you in London on Friday: thanks for your email! I also
enjoyed looking at the presentation. I completely agree that there isn't
much time to build an entirely new infrastructure without petroleum. Thanks
too for the details of the talk you gave at Lausanne. As you say we need to
build them now while we have cheap energy...
I enclose a related talk that we are putting on Monday, just in case this is
of interest.

It would be fantastic if you would like to give the presentation in
Cambridge: we would be able to provide a venue, publicity and a good
audience!
Term starts on 16th Jan; the week starting the 29th January might be good.

Look forward to keeping in touch.
Best wishes,
Steve
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CAMBRIDGE ZERO CARBON SOCIETY presents A talk by Dr Neil Kirkpatrick,
Associate Director, Arup
Poster:
http://www.zerocarbonnow.org/cam/2006-11-27_Zero_Carbon_City_Dongtan.pdf
ZERO CARBON CITY DONGTAN Zero carbon developments… What can be achieved in
practice?
WHEN: 19:30, Monday 27th November
WHERE: Chemical Engineering Department LT1 New Museum Site, Pembroke Street,
CB2 3RA Map:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v4/drawmap.cgi?mp=nmus;xx=238;yy=311;mt=c
DETAILS: A talk by Dr Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup, who will
describe the latest developments in building design and master planning that
are helping to decrease carbon emissions towards zero.
Arup are designing the world's first eco-city - Dongtan, China. Dongtan is
to be a completely sustainable and carbon neutral city near Shanghai.
Transport, energy, infrastructure and social issues are just a few of the
aspects to be considered in its design. This is ground-breaking work, set to
pave the way for new city developments in the future.
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-----Original Message-----
From: K GYR [mailto:humansolutions at btinternet.com] 
Sent: 17 November 2006 13:52
To: steve at zerocarbonnow.org
Subject: thanks for giving me your card in London

Hi Steve

Thanks for giving me your card in London, we seem both to believe that
there's not much time left to build an entirely new infrastructure that uses
NO petroleum to supply human needs. I attach a presentation of ideas that I
made to the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland's Cambridge, with
the kinds of projects that we must build sooner or later, and why not this
afternoon at the latest (!?), to keep world population levels at 6 billion,
without forcing drastic reductions or encouraging unwise expansions.

As we burn carbon, the atmosphere returns to the state that it was in the
age of the dinosaurs and earlier, with one exception. I believe that the
Earth is very slowly thermally contracting, as evidenced by earthquakes, as
its core loses heat to the very cold, but very evacuated space around us.
What was once a planet that was entirely covered by watery oceans now has
continents, which are slowly drying out. The Sahara was once a lush
savannah, and primitive fish hooks have been found in the middle of it, for
example. The earth, which was once a grape is now becoming a raisin.

Sooner or later, in a million years perhaps, we may be faced with the
enormous problem of a desert Earth with no more water or oceans unless we
can cool the Earth's atmosphere down and find a way to keep its core at the
same temperature!!! We can look at the evidence for liquid oceans on Mars
and ask perhaps whether its water disappeared by the same mechanisms. The
Earth is approximately 10 x more massive than Mars, so its gravity has
already kept water from evaporating into space for longer, but will it stay
forever? Is it however unreasonable to suggest that the warmer the
atmosphere, the more quickly water may be lost to space?

Look at the physiology of dinosaurs and see if most of them are not best
adapted to living in the shallow seas from which the continents emerged,
suddenly as evidenced by the creation of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, an
area with very sparce rainfall, perhaps after a meteor pierced and cracked
the Earth's crust off the then submerged coast of Mexico, sending ripples in
the crust around the planet that collided where we now find both the
Himalayas and the Marianas Trench. 

This sudden contraction could have forced the seabed on a thermally
imploding Earth to wrinkle dramatically, and parts of it to emerge suddenly
as continents, leaving the dinosaurs high and dry. In fact, it would have
swept enormous numbers of dinosaurs from where they calmly broused into
great heaps of carcasses, which we have found both at Dinosaur National Park
in Utah, and in similar massive collections of bones in Alaska.

I hope that designs like those that I am proposing and promoting can make
life on this planet more sustainable. But, we need to build them while we
still have cheap energy!

Sorry for taking your time, but if there is to be a planet for the future of
our genes, we must all act now!!!

Thanks again

Kim Gyr

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