About my innovation -
My design, the “Tefnut Freshwater
Generator and Climate Change Reversal Demonstrator”, is a scaled down prototype
demonstration of a novel type of plant process that seemed pretty obvious to me
after a while... which works by capturing almost 100% saturated moist sea airs from before the salt spray,
which is particularly suitable for dehumidification, to generate fresh water
and drier cool airs.
The TWG “WVAC” plant is meant to mass-produce freshwater
at low energy cost and also provide an area of more moderate climate where
nature can flourish, thus attacking the 2 most direct threats to nature and
mankind. But that is a good thing, frees the people, unliked by the
power elitists who see their slaves as undeserving of either water or a
reasonable climate... indeed I have been informed (by the ex-mod, who's told me
more secrets than any other...) that the desalination industry will surely resist on war footing if this project seems like it might succeed at all! Because it's a
direct attack on their profits. I could have gone for funding elsewhere, but I
thought I'd be better off trying experiment in my old college, since private investors could quite also be shady.
Funding ecosystem systemic problems:
Nonlinear thinkers like me can prove to be
more adventurous than advisable with social engagement!
I submitted my design to a prototyping fund which was pseudo-run by IIT Madras, the college I graduated from.
Although, it had an office in the campus, but in a newfangled and expensively built white and blue building donated by some expensive alumni.
CZC does sound in hindsight demiurgistic - it baselessly stereotypes the entrepreneur as the demiurgist ("Z" in the middle) while actually being themselves a bit more demiurgistic (2 flanking Cs from the C consciousness, which if dominated by the fat lady sybarites takes on demiurgistic proportions)
Admittedly, the czc website didn't seem very impressive. I should have known it's the typical type of anti-indie variety, which every young Indian has to reckon with and the ripple effect against their international friends fucks up the youth of the entire earth, of the west and the east, in turn.
I could have been suspicious, because the college seemed to be
doing worse after I'd passed out, but then, it had been a while since i had passed out.
The Carbon Zero Challenge claimed to be
interested in saving the world but they clarified ultimately that they were powerless, basically tied to the old jhund-jhundwala or something type mar-soc estclerk idiocratically technocratizing types... just interested in getting rich while talking about saving the world to pass off as a moral businessman for a greater profit margin.
Well the Carbon Zero ChaLLENGE, as I'd
call it, would be the funding zero challenge. It is more like a Reverse Ponzi funding contest hatched by Virtusa, a private
company, cannot be called "virtuous".
Saving the world is an idea easier dropped
from the mouths of CEOs who are looking for alcohol after a day of mere discussions.
So, who will give a clue?
Let the money do the talking !
The team that came in 2nd position had to
merely demonstrate a new type of chemical reaction, used to convert coconut
shells into activated charcoal, a key item in the desalination industry supply
chain. This type of "prototype" might not, in fact, require much
funds. A similar thing can be said for the team that came in first position
whose claimed prototype could fit in the palm of your hand. But some of us
tried real huge projects, Mine was the largest of them, being a new type of
plant, but this was not just my problem.
A machine required by a team of girls
right next to mine was not given to them until it was too late - as I was later
told by the guy who I was forced to talk on my behalf because I was too busy
working on the heat exchanger. I did not get a chance to talk to those girls
because, being the lone working engineer on my project, I was too busy
working on the heat exchangers to either attend the stall day event or the CZC
dinner ceremony that followed. Unfortunately, climate change is such that
it's easier to talk big about it and pass money to old friends using charity as
excuse. But doing something real about it in a limited time is different.
Talking about how you would like to do
something about reversing climate change is not one's right if he / she hasn't
tried anything real (rather than merely socially pretended) about it.
Because faker actors are not welcome!
The science of entropy and the
dangerousness of earth's position, is inexorable.
Climate change and global
warming, much of which is due to the heating of the oceans due to brine
poisoning of the oceans by the desalination industry... can't be reversed by
small and easy to build, insignificant prototypes
Remarkably, the third prize in
the Carbon Zero Challenge went to an the inventor of electric van... well, sounds like a copy paste job to me.
But all projects, regardless of their
need, got merely 5 lakhs.
With the very limited budget of 5 Lakhs,
numerous difficulties were encountered in carrying out this project:
1) Skimping on pipe length -
100 ms. long, and larger dia HDPE pipe was
envisaged for the prototype
But that was very expensive
HDPE pipe more expensive than Carbon Zero
Challenge budget allotment which is a 1-size fits all 5 lakh for every project,
regardless of the size of what is being attempted.
Used material = PVC.
So 72 ms. of pipe was ordered in a futile
bid to make a balanced plant in a very small amount of Rs. 5 lakhs, that is
absolutely no money at all.
Of course, it proved short of what was
needed to build the plant, and the whole project ended up instead as a very practical experimental testing of all my underlying concepts that went into the design.
Intended in sea = 50 ms, in land = 50 ms,
HDPE
Final selected - >
72 ms. - In sea - 42 ms., in land - 30
ms., PVC (more because beach length was limited; this broke the 1:1 ratio ideality)
Installation errors due to unorganized
sectoral support for seawork:
The Sea pipe was meant to be at least 42
meters but only around 30 ms. installation proved possible in the
limited budget for fishermen.
That also meant that the buoys were not
installed as intended. Anchors are cheapest but not enough were
brought. The most criminal thing about the whole experience was the elite
posturing -- the social elites want the plant offline and dismembered after 5
days of demonstration. That is because, ultimately, the elites are fed by the
desalination industry. They do not care if the earth is destroyed twice as
fast (That's why earthlings need not care about them!)
Pipe installation error = sea pipe
installed at a suboptimal non-perpendicular angle to shoreline, causing an
estimated 30% reduction in pipe air flow. This compounds the problem caused by
removing the diverging sections of the venturi, causing severe reduction in air
flow.
Additionally, the splitting of the tongues was a really bad thing, I should say; due to my lack of knowledge of the local language, and lack of time or patience in marine subcontractors due to lack of money, I was forced to assign the job of communications with the marine subcontractors and several other critical subcontractors to my father. As I could not build every bolt and nut of the whole plant in the few days provided to put it up, too many cooks diverted from my design and
fatalistically imposed design inefficiencies due to deadline and arbitrary
requirement of team work.
I had begun alone, it was my idea; In the initial phase, 3 students were asked to
join up from IIT Madras due to a requirement of a team rather than an
individual effort (which was to be preemptively discounted).
All of the members, despite promising to
try, quit at the last moment due to one or the other excuses.
Luckily, this was at
least a month before the planned execution phase rolled out. More luckily
still, the entire work was independent of their existence, leave for little
helps like asking them to go to the bank or pick up some documents when I'm not
around. So their departure was completely irrelevant to the events that
unfolded because their participation had always been zero, true to the spirit of "Carbon zero challenge" I guess. It is also symptomatic of a disorder... It shows the typical
unemployability (usually due to unwinding and recovery from torturous study
burden) that plagues the often depressed student of higher
education, which suffer from specificalism error [1].
Ref:
[1]
https://kanafinwe.blogspot.com/2019/04/identifying-false-expert-classical.html)
More generally, from the other experiences
in this project also where my father helped with certain aspects of
subcontractor management in the very limited time we had to do the project, I
must say that the problem is not the lack of team but a lack of time. All you
need is enough time; and of course, funds and people with
professional-compliant conduct (which is natural in a functional society rather
than one in which experts are reduced to justifying the folly of the ruling
castes).
Time can very easily replace "team" because a professional
is a better team member than your pareto-parasitic rank and file "team
member".
This project revealed an important detail in projects involving
short-term execution. It is obvious that a team of people with lesser intelligence
than you, who believe they have more intelligence, experience, and wisdom, but
do not understand the basic design, fabrication, and engineering details due to
poor fluid intelligence (nonlinear thinking) is bound to suffer time waste for
team leader given needless and often heated communications overheads... you
will tend to be influenced by their absurd suggestions just because they
collectively keep the power (deny economic and social access to you, leaving
you at the middle doing all the work, as they hover around just out of range)
(e.g. trying the plant with fewer
heat exchangers which enforced a total redesign of the air transporter and I
was forced to throw out my original, ideal heat exchanger design (despite buying the previous
day , by my own last money, Rs. 9000 worth of angles for making the 6
diverging micro-venturi cones among other fabrications -- the next day I was
told that the deadline and awards ceremony is in 2 days, and I will be forced
to present only 2 heat exchangers, so I quickly decided, air transport is going
to be very low anyway, so the cones, which could easily have been made in half
a day, would not be made in an attempt to meet the deadline. Original
inventions of this scale, although they deserve support, cannot be built and
installed in just a month with merely one tenth of the money or other resources needed available
directly for the same.
For such projects it is better
to have a no-frills investor who actually has the brain to understand the
invention, forsake a team, deal directly with subcontractors who specialize in specific areas, e.g. sea pipe installation. A
professional sector is available, although with the extremely limited amount of
funds little can be done about availing it, it can only be readily availed by
other monolithic political / mainstream quantum private commercial interests and it is definitely not a healthy sign of
society.
You will encounter more difficulties in
implementing your design if you go with a team, due to displays of egotism. Even if you personally are immune to being bullied due to your reputation, your project will be bullied
by the various pressure points including the scarcity-based (capitalist socialist)
funding ecosystem with its byzantine system of getting authority approvals for
the project from various departments, as well as attending interviews* and
writing reports and filling forms and unsubscribing from requests to attend
online e-lectures on "start-up success tips" etc., and
making presentations in the little time that I as a sole inventor had (which I should have been using to make my plant, had I been reasonably expected
to see this plant prototyping as some kind of reality TV show about who is winning the prize rather than the science, a "rat race" for no other reason except that the idiocracy is a "rat race").
Low quality of pre-funding engagement
process:
Some of the presentations were
frustrating. Despite how well they went, I was exposed to the rigid commercial
interview style grilling of a poor hard-working student (that I'd dodged even during my college thesis) ~ typical in cash-strapped academic
cultures, especially those characterized by vast power imbalances. In the
last interview I even lost my cool when I was expected to answer a monumentally ridiculous question: "why is a potentially thrice
as energy efficient freshwater generating project worth investing in" -- the
funding sources seemed to be signalling that solving the water crisis, albeit
it can be called a good thing, cannot be seen as a particularly profitable thing especially at this early stage of the science (especially because I had already declared that profit is not my primary
intention as much as reversing climate change and global warming), and
therefore it is not inherently of interest to them. Now this was surprising to
me because it had already been given in writing that my project was selected
for the funding several weeks before this interview which was supposed to be
some kind of final interview. Several times I got so angry with the way things
were deviating from ideal, that I felt like just quitting the competition -- I just liked my invention too much to do that!
Bright Side:
The ideal plant was not made, and the
total amount of water generated for the given pipe dia is not a figure to make me happy. Finally the only parameter of interest to me was the energy
efficiency testing.
Due to the suboptimal air transporter, the
airs are coming in at a slower rate, but this also implies that, if all
these airs are cooled, less energy will be consumed, although the expected
amount of water will be generated.
Due to the validity of the basic
principle, any air that is brought in by the air transporter, although it is at
a very reduced velocity, is nevertheless a more or less steady supply of very
humid airs.
Therefore the energy efficiency figures
that are most of interest are less affected by the ecosystemic/socialist
derailing of the implementation plan for the air transport system. But the very
fact that the inlet of the sea pipe is so near to the shoreline, has negative
effects on energy cost per liter generated.
The dysfunction of the
so-called funding ecosystem as a whole is also evident in how - several days
after I submitted the bills for the costs incurred, I am yet to get any money
back. Instead, I see such mails - inventors are supposed to worry about this,
rather than focus on the science:
"All bills except one are above than
Rs.5000, hence proper bills are required.
Any item costing more than Rs.15,000
should be supported with 3 quotes.
A few clarifications I would like to make:
1. Team had told us that vendors asked for
50% advance so CZC had asked the team to pay as ICSR would time to transfer the
fund to their account.
2. Team has to follow the rules on quote
& bill even if they paid for it and later reimbursed by CZC.
If you have more clarifications let us
discuss over a meeting.
Regards,
Sanjelyn"
It would appear today that they won't even give the 5 (“to 8”) lakhs they had promised even if I demonstrate the energy efficiencies I was talking about.
When I did the design fully myself!
IIT Madras was recently declared "best institution", but
as an insider I must point out the fact that the devil is in the details.
That spark is merely the brilliance of a few students (due to the formerly most rigorous and unforgiving entrance exam JEE*), not the establishment which claims it is what makes them this or that due to a Nehruvian optimality of design.
* "The Gaokao in China is widely considered the world's most rigorous and unforgiving entrance exam, with over 10 million students facing extreme pressure for limited top-tier university seats in a single, life-defining, multi-day test. It tests intense, comprehensive knowledge, forcing years of preparation and 9+ hours of testing.
Top Most Rigorous and Unforgiving Exams
Gaokao (China): Known as the National College Entrance Exam, it is a high-stakes test that can define a student's entire future, often causing cities to shut down to reduce noise during the exams.
JEE Advanced (India): The gateway to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), known for extremely low acceptance rates among over 1 million applicants."
However, other campus players seem to be betraying the spirit of
intellectual independence and seemingly profiting off the situation, by
striking deals with the desalinator industry and collaborating with dubious
private investors to run commercial fairs for moneyed adventurers who have
nothing to lose but are ready to sacrifice the the institute's reputation for
profit and regional political gains.
It was admitted, for example, that Modi had a specific role in
launching carbon zero challenge, and the TRINITY 3 awardees are a case study in
elite networks as far as I can see. Perhaps Dr jhundjhund walla has a thing or two to add!
At the same time, the students are in a somewhat poor situation,
having left the hostels due to the lack of water! It is not as if I needed their commercial tips on how to make profits by monopolizing water!
"Carbon zero" itself
is something of a misnomer -- the answer is not to stop power plants - but we
cannot save the earth except by stopping abuse of power for bullshit sectors e.g., switching off desalination completely and
targeting key anti-nature sectors (a guideline is the Aral Sea example).
What is the meaning of a support system, anyway? That they wasted my time for needless meetings in which they believed they were having an educative and supportive influence upon my invention? Like my mom, who was saying, "If it was not for IIT, your project would have been nothing" -- as if the design was conceived by ANYONE apart from me!
And what all politics goes on there, who can suspect! I tell you, quite a lot! When "logician fights logician" - you know who wins: It is logic that wins.
What is the logic? They will always claim that they have the power, so they are logical. But let me at least put my point of view out, lest it remain unsaid and known only to the lizards and bats as Chill said!
The main logic of the overall situation can be summarized as follows:
In the middle of the fabrication, suddenly the campus workshop closed for a week and I was forced to go for Dr. Dhiman (my mentor's) suggested fabricator, Mr. Joshua, outside the campus. Around 2 days before the demo day, as I was returning from buying metal in the late evening with his son Paul, after skilfully escaping a dangerous situation, I was more or less waylaid by an angry mob, tied to a pole and nearly roughed up! The police rescued me within 10 minutes -- only because I had cared to build its cyber aspects during my days with CS1.6 in college!
The next day, Joshua got an angry call from my "mentor": the message from above was to cease working on my job otherwise Joshua will never be allowed to set foot in IIT or get any project from anyone in IIT.
Nevertheless, Joshua fought with Dr. Dhiman and helped me, this was around 2 days before the "Demo day" deadline!
The Carbon Zero Challenge's bias towards the criminally insane (global warminger, so if poachers are bad, these mega-poachers must be the devils) desalination industry was a most disturbing symptom of the shallowness of the theory of academic rigorousness pertaining to matters of central importance to humankind and nature, climate change, global warming and such.
The Carbon Zero Challenge's bias towards the criminally insane (global warminger, so if poachers are bad, these mega-poachers must be the devils) desalination industry was a most disturbing symptom of the shallowness of the theory of academic rigorousness pertaining to matters of central importance to humankind and nature, climate change, global warming and such.
Just as one cannot entrust a cat to guard mice, or the chancellory to Hitler, just as one can't trust a politician who manages to barge into near-absolute power to do the job of leadership because his concerns are totally different -- one cannot entrust governance of universities to circles of reactionary industry-affiliated professors. The standard collectively shared anti-intellectual bias (the old one) of the so-called innovator support system is seen in how, despite me being a 2007 batch alumni, I was suddenly cut off from communications from the CZC panel ~ after it was summarily declared "there seems to be a communication problem" when they all threw up their hands and claimed they couldn't understand what I was saying -- I was "fired" by the panel, and denied the right to be my own spokesperson! My father took up the job of communicating with them, but he is more with them (he after all, refused to give me the phone number of a local intelligence/CT type guy who had come to meet me, and was trying to give his number to me, but I was too busy, so my dad took it instead!
And when I later asked for the number from my dad, he refused to give it. So this is the kind of absurdist torture that becomes typical to a free young person like me here, causing me to improperly (in my lack of time, for which again I cannot be blamed as much as the people who leave me to do all the right things and take away all my time by leaving me to do even the smallest of the things that I unfortunately need to survive, completely energy parasiting everything that I have - time, money, resources, friends, everything. But I gain more love of souls as a result, which more than pays off in my soul's opinion, but interested people seem too stunned into inaction or something as they approach to even figure out what could be the right thing to do. That CT guy, or me, all such core type folks, are in a similar situation: Given a complete dysfunction of normal dark age society especially around me due to a special AP siege by the idiotocrats, and given the normalization of the bully union tyranny alternative, it is only such teams that I can find myself with despite my efforts to wriggle out of it
(just because real friends seem held up) -- the tentacle problem, all around.
I
know what I want with this... Right now I'm trying to donate it to the poor local community, because allthough the professor asked for the pipes to do his own private experiments, I would do everything I can to resist the fate they propose for the plant that is to dismember it after a few days of demonstration (so technically it can be counted as a fake video claiming that support for such things is there, but there is no support for real scientific leadership).
They usually play a lincoln-shakespeare pretension -- = X
X = y + z, where
y = Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
z = All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players" -. shakespeare
because of that -- murphy's law is applicable in such cases: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong".
Like the video CZC made after it all, where, while covering my project, although they did show video scenes of me working on the beach, they had a credits scene where they left out my name itself!
My dad's name was there, the "mandatory mentor" who did not contribute even 1 design or field engg. input but was just there to sign forms and stuff, was there, and some handful of other random names were there, but my name was left out while it was my idea, design, full main plant execution , etc.!
I later learnt it is typical culture against indies, commons rather than establishment-rooted, in (South) India, for example:
Several instances of Tamil singers and artists being denied credit on songs have surfaced in recent years, with notable cases involving high-profile artists.
Chinmayi Sripaada (Maya Maya): In 2018, singer Chinmayi Sripaada publicly highlighted that her name was omitted from the lyrical video of the song "Maya Maya" in the Tamil version, while she was credited for the Telugu version.
Arivu ("Enjoy Enjaami"): The acclaimed independent Tamil song "Enjoy Enjaami" was criticized for not crediting rapper Arivu for his lyrics and composition in the official YouTube description, despite the song being entirely his concept and vocals.
Ilaiyaraaja (Copyright Disputes): Legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja has frequently taken legal action against production houses for using his old songs in new movies without permission or proper credit, often leading to court injunctions.
Vairamuthu (Film Titles): Lyricist Vairamuthu expressed disappointment that many filmmakers have used his song lyrics as film titles without seeking his permission or providing credit.
Industry Trends: The "Credit De Do Yaar" movement in 2020 highlighted that missing credits, particularly for lyricists and singers, is a recurring issue, often blamed on "clerical mistakes" by music labels.
These instances often spark debates on social media about the importance of respecting artist rights and giving due recognition to creative contributions in the Tamil film industry."
But it goes beyond film industry to cover all that reflects superior intellectual dimensions beyond just the "fit for labour alone" mindset the colonial mentality haughtily views in the commons.
Can be useful!
All I needed from them was funds, should have gone to a proper investor.
Hmm, at least with this work, when I get the time or if the pressing need arises (at least rains got better in Chennai recently)!
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