Small Brak River Institute of Technology and Ecology

I have a range of breakthrough technology concepts, that I would like to prototype, test, mature and mass produce, that will have a global impact on energy and water security, countering of climate change, and feeding of a growing global populous.  

Next Generation Floating Solar Installations, that will mobile, automated and smart. Solar Tracking. Fish Farming Platform. Pumping silts out of reservoirs, to restore their original capacity. New, low impact form of mining, and earth moving to repair erosion of a wetland, and river embankments. 

South Africa, has energy and water infrastructure insecurities. Many parts of the Globe included.  Aging coal fired plants, is environmentally damaging and water heavy consumers.   

When up to 50% of reservoir service area is covered in smart floating solar technologies, evaporation could be limited, effectively doubling the storage capacity. Many reservoirs in the Eastern Cape, with high volume to service area ratio, that this could be implemented, with existing hydro generation and transmission infrastructure, that would be better utilized, with a higher average water levels. Surplus energy, can used to move water to higher elevations. Integrated pumping and energy storage and management, from wetter to drier parts of the country.       

I desperately wanted and attempted many years ago, to enroll for a PhD in Industrial Engineering, at the best Universities, in the United States. 

This was before many life experiences, changed me. I had a near death experience with Rift Valley Fever, that unlocked a create side to me. I envisioned, the distant future, and technology that would enable it. Hard to elaborate and explain, but many innovative and breakthrough ideas and thoughts, comes to me instantaneously.   

My family farm, is breath takingly beautiful, with UNESCO spec. qualities, but will be inspirational site for a University complex. Much wetland rehabilitation, erosion and clean up of old rail way station pollution, needs to happen. These are challenges, that all farmers around the globe faces. Reversing of environmental damage, whiles farming sustainably, effectively, doubling their output, whiles going carbon negative. 

Construction, will use all this pollutants as building material, improving and restoring the natural environments. I have many friends and acquaintances, in all fields of sciences, and family members at all levels in the educational institutions. Building a University, never seemed alien to me.

Secondary and Tertiary Agricultural Institutions in close proximity, that I could collaborate with, add value, and source students.     

1. Climate Change, Water, Energy, Food Security, Sustainability and Reversal of environmental degradation and nature conservation.

The Challenges are Global, and effects every human being, countless fona and flora species, we share, life here on earth with.

I'm looking at all variables. It's within my nature and scope of study, to consider millions of variables.

2. Working on them day to day, while farming, but no man is an island, and have great ideas, that needs to be shared, and my resources, are limited, to implement and evaluate them fast enough. 

Humanity is losing the battle against climate change. We'll need to double our recycling rates, at least, and the technologies, to make that economically viable and incentivize and educate people needs to get rolled out. I'm clearing workshop spaces, to work of next gen. solar, wind, E-Car, Truck, Tractor and Plane technologies. I have only so many hours in the day, and need help as well. 

I have the pond, to test amphibious electric planes. One example of future tech. that could bypass conventional airport construction, and unlock many airports rapidly in Africa.

I had a mission statement in the past.

"Accelerating, humanity into the 22nd Century." 

It's the way think, like a engineer of the 22nd Century. 

A mentality, that has unlocked real time innovation and breakthroughs for me.

Disruptive breakthroughs are required to reverse climate change and stabilize the climate at preindustrial pollutant level, with a Global Population of 10-12 Billion people, projected in a space of a generation, anything else, will be grossly inadequate.

I have some novel, exotic ideas/concepts technologies, that would be of great benefit to humanity, but the capital and resources, the test and develop, just out of most peoples, frame of mind, intellect, and scope of reference, to not make up as wishful day dreaming, less invest in.

One example, climate engineering. Hurricane mitigation, redirection, energy harvesting, via armadas, of mobile wind turbines, using swarm tech, to adapts to the shape and projected route of the system. 

Nature is extremely energetic, and this it technology within the realm, of a Class 1 Civilization. Happy to elaborate and explain.

Baby steps could make it possible.       

I'm shaped by my sense of responsibility. 

As an engineering student, I anticipated the global financial crises of 2007-08 in 2005. Out of shear intuition, not global economic consensus nor opinions of other academia of the field. Wrote a self evolving counter strategy, to address and counter the impact and many other challenges, facing South Africa, and E-Mailed it to the relevant Ministers of the Government.

It's came at great personal sacrifice, alienating people and academia, and not something I care to share, with most people. Wrong for me at that young age to personalize and take that shape of responsibility on my shoulders.

This is some thing, I prefer to kept private, out of the pubic domain. It's old news and history for me, but there is still a lingering feeling, that it could have been avoided, if I made a range of different choices.    

The scope, size and nature of responsibility, changes one, forever. 

The burden of shaping the future, is one that should be shared, and with smaller, incremental changes, the impossible, can become possible and manageable.