Fri Dec 20 15:20:29 CET 2024

Problem:

	Here is several problems, some NATO countries face with emphasis on Canada which is where I used to
	live.

	1) Russian Bombers capable of delivering nuclear bombs invade NATO territories on a regular basis.
	2) Northern communities in Canada are powered by fossil fuels such as diesel generators for their
		electricity.
	3) Eastern communities in Canada are facing economic hardships such as Sydney on Cape Breton Island.
	4) Canadian Steel manufacturers are on the decline (layoffs nearing thousands) and not equipped to
		compete with new steel making processes utilizing hydrogen (Algoma Steel).
	5) The world is turning to hydrogen as a means of transitioning energy storage more and more, green
		hydrogen is needed to make this process renewable.
	6) The NATO countries as compared to their Axis foes cannot keep up in fossil fuel expenditures, there
		just isn't enough resources such as Kerosene to counter the potential threat.

Analysis, brainstorm around each scenario:

	1) Russian Tupolev Bear Bombers have been invading the airspace of NATO countries for decades since 1960.
		The usual response since the 1980's in the case of Canada is to send up a pair of CF-18 fighters
		to escort the invader to the International Airspace and return.  

		Comparison of systems:
	
		a) The Bear has a payload bay of 35,000 pounds roughly equivalent to a data center in size.  In
			comparison the Canadian planes have strapped on arms system and no inner payload bay.
		b) Potentially the Bear can transport any payload, including a datacenter worth of electronics,
			such as several computer PC farms, a quantum annealing system such as the D-Wave
			discounting the vibrations which may make such a system impossible.  Enough PC power to
			power a mobile AI system.  The crew may not even need to be humans it may be entirely
			AI based such as a independent drone.

			In comparison the CF-18 has one or two logic boards outfitted perhaps with a PowerPC cpu
			the size of a G5 Apple computer.

		c) The Bear not outfitted with a bomb, can listen in and study the CF-18 fighters with a greater
			deal of computing power than the CF-18's can think of defending against.  Think of this
			as a data center vs. 2 measly G5 PowerPC computers, who has greater chances in an
			electronic attack?

	2) Take the city of Iqualuit which is powered by a set of Diesel generators the size of a regular train
		locomotive.  Canada intends to cut the CO2 emissions to northern communities by offering a
		stripped down CANDU fission reactor (mini reactor), but, an accident would be detrimental to
		the local population.  Iqaluit was named after a creek/river near it which contains many good				fishing locations, it is clear water, good fish.  An alternative Green Hydrogen fuel cell to
		power the community would make more sense.  Problem is the supply of Green Hydrogen.

	3) Sydney in Nova Scotia is a severely hard hit community as it's coal mines closed down in the late 
		1970's.  A further overfishing in the area caused restrictions on fishing in order to 
		replenish the fish stocks in local waters.  The community is facing hardship after hardship.
		One idea is to use the sea port to its advantage.

	4) Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario is the largest employer of that community.  At
		one point the steel maker has employed up to 3500 people but recently a 1/6 of that has been
		laid off.  It isn't evident whether Algoma steel can refine it's process of making steel from
		coke smelters to a hydrogen based process which is going around the world currently.  Chances
		are that Algoma steel will go out of business, I have not studied about Stelco steel in Hamilton
		so I cannot say what they are doing.  Canadian Steelers are in danger of extinction.

	5) Green hydrogen is usually produced by wind or photovoltaic solar.  Both is said to be solar renewable
		energy.  One problem is location such as distribution of energy produced.  Another problem is
		that bird life is often killed in the vicinity of vertically erected windmills.  A study by a
		western Canadian university has concluded that horizontally erected windmills are easily
		identified by avian wildlife such as birds to be a danger and they stay clear of it.  Think of
		these as the "wind eggbeaters".  The Canadian north around Hudson bay has a lot of breeding
		grounds for birds thus this is an important aspect if this windy location is to be used as
		harnessing wind power.

	6) The use of fossil fuels by potential foes such as Russia is pitting easily processed oil products vs.
		expensive Kerosene for Jet fuel for the NATO countries.  It's a struggle that NATO can't win,
		it must change its ways/energies.



Solution:

	A large scale wind farm setup on the shores of Hudson and James bay along fresh water rivers that flow
	into the respective bays could be made to produce green hydrogen on site.  This is stored in "spheres"
	of about 5 meter radius and liquified possibly even made by Algoma Steel.  Since there is no electric
	grid to feed this energy back to a central site, a constellation of LNG tankers are used (about half
	a dozen to start) which do two runs a year to transfer the hydrogen (industrial pier needed too) to
	the ships and from there on to hydrogen hubs.  It is my vision that the communities of Moosonee in
	Ontario and Churchill in Manitoba would be good start-off points for offloading the hydrogen.  These
	communities have access to the rail network.  Moosonee to Hearst and from there on via the Algoma
	Railroad to Sault Ste. Marie would be the logical supply chain to enter Algoma steel into the 21st
	century.

	The "runs" as these ships do, are conducted centered around the equinoxes (early april and late
	september) allowing an overwintering supply to be done in the winter months.  As ice forms in the
	bays there is two possible choices:  Winter the fleet in Churchill Manitoba which has an already
	present port for big shipping (1980's wheat exports to Soviet Union), but may need a major modification
	to heat the harbour from ice which is somewhat inconvenient.  A over-winter harbour exists it's called
	Sydney, Nova Scotia and it can take on remaining Hydrogen as an H2 exchange for the International
	markets such as EU, USA, etc. So they would dock in late October and embark to Hudson bay in late
	March.  This sort of makes them compete with a similar facility already in place with a community in
	Newfoundland which does this exclusively for Germany.  Perhaps this can be a storage site of better
	dimensions.

	Churchill, Manitoba is known to be the "rocket city" of Canada.  Here sounding rockets were launched
	in the 1960-1980's.  Access to Liquid Hydrogen and Liquid Oxygen could make it a contender for a space
	port for canada.  Elon Musk the CEO of SpaceX who utilizes the Falcon 9 rocket may have interest in
	this.  However I envision a modified rocket of a Heavy Falcon which utilizes one RP-1 rocket, but two
	hydrogen burning boosters to get it to orbit.  Hydrogen is not a great carrier to orbit initially but
	the space shuttle used it for example, however it needed those strap-on boosters which were solid-state.
	The idea here is that perhaps one RP-1 burning rocket makes up enough boost to lift off a heavy.

	The Canadian Armed Forces would be interested in a modified Airbus A-400M as used by several NATO
	countries.  This A-400 would fly entirely on Hydrogen on its turboprops, however it can only match
	a Bear bomber in cruise and the Bear can outrun it in short sprints.  This is why a retractable jet
	engine burning hydrogen may be of value.  The jet engine is in the center of the fuselage to keep
	the center of balance of the plane.  Other bay doors include AIM-120 AMRAAM or successive missiles to
	have a show of force.  Other goodies is that you are matching a data center to a data center in terms
	of electronic warfare and you are sustainable in not burning Kerosene but renewable green hydrogen.

	Similarily NATO can use these in other countries.  It mustn't be limited to Canada.  Matching a fighter
	jet to a bomber is not the thing of the 21st centuries anymore.

	The communities of Nunavut would be able to draw directly from this green hydrogen as well evading the
	fears and dangers of nuclear fission in the arctic.  There should be enough to go around for the less
	than 100,000 people even if each uses up 20 MWh per year.

Afterword and Credits

	This scenario is not limited to Canada.  It can be constructed in Sweden/Finland for example.  This is
	just the first hint to an idea, that has been working through coarse details in an industrial process 
	to make green hydrogen work.  It approaches the problem of economic downturn areas such as Sydney and
	offers them to become a broker in the grand scheme of things.  It would be interesting to see similar
	things come from it.

	Obviously written in a highschool like paper, I'm almost 50 years old, but the imagination never
	ceases.

	Thank you to many people from Click2Net Inc. of Mississauga (Geoff Robinson, Rick Harrop), and the
	subsequent new companies and enterprises you went to.  Big shout out to Emilia Ligetti who I had the
	pleasure of meeting through LinkedIn (I don't have an active account anymore).  Thank you to the nation
	of Canada for being open enough, supplying charts and maps, being open about their problems and allowing
	people to dream around solutions.  Without an Internet I would have never been able to gather up so much
	info about this all.  And finally thanks to community of Iqualuit and my buddy Aaron and family for
	giving me a place to stay when I was there for four days in 2013.  

	Thanks to KNF of Franconia for having a special someone who works with Fuel cells at Siemens near
	Nuremberg, even though conversation was limited I had time to understand what Fuel cells can do.

	Thanks finally to NATO for providing their snapshots of Bears causing a problem, and thanks to Russia.

-pjp