Stanford University is a reputable location for addressing science, and their Global Climate and Energy Project in October 2007 published a mind-numbing chart showing the intricate web of large and small flows of carbon. The whole chart is a subset of a larger chart showing the global exergy flux, exergy reservoirs, and exergy destruction. Science in the last several years, pressured to reanalyze what is already known and present it to policy makers grappling with chemistry and maths, has had to point out that the concept of energy, so useful in the laboratory, can be misleading in economic analysis. Physicists know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, so economists may well wonder why it is a scarce commodity that countries sometimes go to war over. In economic analysis, what we really mean is useful energy, and in 1954 Rant coined the term exergy for this. All matter contains a very large amount of energy locked up in its chemical bonds, and a much larger amount in its nuclei. For practical purposes this is not available for the functions we expect of useful energy such as heating, light and motion. The truth is so simple that scientist do not bother to point out, but economists and policy makers usually do not seem to get this.
Tuesday 1 September, 2009. China Ministry of Transport Freeway Reseach Conference. Presentation on Entropy of Road Traffic
Wednesday 2 September, International Conference on Nuclear Power, Beijing
Thursday 3 September, Heilongjiang Forestry Bureau, Harbin: Presentation on Payment for Environmental Services
Saturday 5 September, China National Development and Reform Commission, Ningxia Conference on Payment for Environmental Services
Sunday 27 September, Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, Workshop, Beijing
Week of 12 October Ministry of Water Resources National River Basin Resources Allocation Program
Friday/Saturday 16-17 October Minsitry of Environment Protection&Ministry of Water Resources Hai River Basin Analysis
Tuesday 20 October, China Mining Conference, Tianjin. Presentation of Environmental Impact
Thursday 22 October, Deadline for 3 articles in World Environment journal re Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
Thursday 22 October, Ministry of Water Resources meeting analysing economic instruments for allocation of water.
Tuesday 27 October, Alan Reid. BM
Tuesday 3 November, Dennis Robson, Robboattachments
Sunday 9 November, Prof Shi Lei, Tsinghua Uni
Wednesday-Thursday 11-12 November Lawrence Berkeley Nationa Labs 2 day workshop at Peking Uni on Carbon Capture & Storage.
Tuesday 17 November Ministry of Water Resources meeting on marginal costs of water
Wednesday 18 November Water Technology Expo, Beijing
Saturday 27 November Tribute to Frank Siegel at Franks Place
Monday 30 November. deadline for abstracts for International Society of Ecological Economics 2010 Conference.
Monday 18 January 2010, Professor Shi Lei, Tsinghua Uni
Thursday 28 January 2010, AusAID, Australian Embassy, Beijing
Saturday 6 February 2010, Chinalco.
Monday 15 February 2010, Sunview meeting.
Monday-Wednesday 22-24 March 2010, China International Petroleum and Petrochemical Exhibition, Beijing.
All April to July, Exergy Analysis with BJ colleagues
Sunday-Wednesday 22-25 August 2010 11th Biennial Conference of International Society of Econogical Economics, Bremen, Germany
15-17 September MWR international workshop on cross border water allocation
15-23 October Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia on design of new heat and power plant
29 October BJTV interview
November Assisting Embassy staff on 30 year anniversary of Australia China Economic Development Cooperation
November Draft Final Report on Ulaanbaatar heating and electric power
December Bader chemistry review
29 December Conference on Sustainable Development, Beijing Shifan University
January Articles on biosphere in English and Chinese
January Tsinghua Univerity presentation series
February Ministry of Water Resources workshops
11 March Meeting with Academician Wang Maohua
13-14 March Heilongjiang General Bureau State Farms presentations
16-19 March Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, new heating and electric power plant
21 March Meeting Professor Colin Mackerras
22 March Interviewed by CRI
25 March BNU lectures
7-11 April Water tax Conference, Anhui
16-18 April Kunming Mining Conference
21-22 April Guangdong Waterways Conference
6 May 2011 Presentation on River Basins, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Shifan University
11 May submitted chapter outline to published on The Biosphere.
11 May project planning China Academy of Environmental Planning
20 May Presentation on Water Cycle Modern Scientific Data, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Shifan University
29 May Final Report to Government of Mongolia on energy economics of planned new Power and Heat Plant for Ulaanbaatar.
Present to August 2012, 4 months input to Draft National Guidelines for Eco-compensation in River Basins, China.
Late June 2011, 11 days with Rubicon Water executives in Xinjiang irrigation.
2 September, 2011 Meeting with Prof Ma Zhong, Dean of Environment Faculty, Renmin University on eco-compensation in river basins.
9 September, 2011 Launch of 75 year commemoration of Long March (1934-35) publication project.
22 September, 2011 Submitted chapter for publisher of book titled The Biosphere.
30 September, 2011, published World Environment journal with my article on “Google Earth Economy”
OOPS! I skipped 6 years -where did that go? Now 28 October 2017. Just would up as hands-on, on-the-ground Team Leader of Heilongjiang Jiamusi Irrigation and Drainage Modern Agriculture Project.
28 October 2017. Transit Beijing for Du An Yao Zhu County to refresh, research and write. Upgrade Jiamusi Interim Report, Corn and Rice LCA, reviewer record, ingratiate myself with schools so I can retire there. And Big Research
