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The contagion of viruses are exacerbated in environments where poor air quality is caused due to a depletion in oxygen levels from increased CO2 emissions and dense populations, compared to other locations in the world.
It is each and everyone’s responsibility to Recognise that there is an oxygen debt in the poorer air quality and more densely populated locations of the world, and Rethink ways to increase oxygen levels to improve air quality.

Have you got your mask?

SPOTTED: Commuter wears gas mask at Milton Keynes train station amid fears of COVID-19 outbreak

What fascinates me is how the UK could take a leaf from the Dutch’s book and protect our flood plains by creating dikes – walls in strategically located coastal areas that can create a barrier for flood protection to flood plain areas. Whilst in some cases other strategically located coastal areas where high risk of flooding is stemmed from, could let water fall into manmade basins to create a lake/reservoir for the water to spill into, so that the construction of micro or large hydropower electricity plants on a regional, national or as an international conglomerate can be made. This would ultimately reduce the risk of increase flooding or drought in the future at the same time as generating large scale clean and more cost effective renewable energy..
Climate change brings new challenges as tides are rising and storms are getting fiercer. Instead of denying that climate change is real, like Trump, the Dutch are taking a seemingly counterintuitive approach by letting water in. That means devising lakes the water can spill into. Why can’t we? Sometimes our problem becomes our solution, and our weakness becomes our strength.

At the start of my career in construction whilst working on the redevelopment of the Gravesend Canal Basin as part of the Thames Gateway project in the UK in 2005, it was discovered that one of the locks was rediscovered under a disused car park. This gave me the idea that many disused brown field sites could be used as specific new canal basin or extension to an existing canal basin purposefully built to help both flood defence through channelling the rising sea level into the canal basin and in the process creating hydroelectric power from the tide flowing in from the Thames estuary and into the canal basin.

A fantastical cocktail of Sci Fi subgenres which include philosophical, psychological, historical and political fiction, that is intertwined into a story of Time Travel Romance, which highlights the two core themes of modern times – the protagonist’s struggle to overcome his own ‘Mental health’ and the arc of the story being about ‘Climate change’.

I first came across the word TENET as a child, when my Uncle James talked to me about the history and the mysticism of the word being used as a palindrome within the magical Sator Square.
I became fascinated with the mystery of what does it mean? And how it is configured? Within an array of words which all read the same forward and backward within a square formation, like some sort of magical puzzle that made me want to solve the mystery of it’s meaning.
It is this real life experience that inspired me to create TENET as the reversal of time concept within a real life ancient artefact that is the SATOR SQUARE. Given the fact that TENET can be read in reverse in the form of a spiritual cross formation, which adds to it’s mystical qualities.

In the UK’s 500 word short story competition for children, a popular theme amongst many children writing fiction, included writing about ‘Magic portals’. This shows a growing trend towards liking fantasy and time travel from our youth of today.

In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually.

Wind turbines will mostly impact local people, Niehaus-Uebel said, and therefore, “it’s not up to politicians in other cities that don’t know the area to decide.” Decentralized power supply options are essential, she added, including small private wind turbines installed at home. Author’s comments:
But is small private wind turbines installed on every or nearly every home the best solution for wind farming with nature in mind?
Is decentralized power supply options the answer?

What if we were to uncover from lost artefacts still buried, that the people of Pompeii’s extraordinary ideas in civil engineering and their design philosophies at the time were so far advanced for their time.
We may even uncover some advanced civil engineering or military armoury designs that were planned for the future, by the artists and inventors of Pompeii who were housed in public buildings and breathtaking villas prior to Vesuvius’ erupting in AD 79.

Technology won’t save us from climate change.

When rethinking climate change, how will economies and societies determine where technologies will take us – and where we will take our technologies?

I also felt that due to the protagonist’s trauma he suffered frequent flashbacks similar to James Stewart in Vertigo, which has a big influence on the story, being similar with the story line where the main antagonist disguises her true identity and takes advantage of the protagonist’s trauma.

Back in 2010, I approached Tony Clarke a Director for Northampton Football club at the time with my proposal for an innovative stadium roof mounted turbine array to be test piloted on the redevelopment of the newly planned NFC’s stadium roof.
To my surprise Tony’s response was positive, little did I know he had big green ambitions and would go on to have future work with the Green Party. I obviously had made a good impression with my proposed vision for his football club to adopt a greener strategy at the time. It also seems that we both inspired each other at the time, as I went on to include his real life character in my story.