TLUD action!

Maybe the days of top down visionaries providing an ethical compass for Civilisation are nearing an end with bottom up consumerism of just about any new digital technology being the main driving force of human progress. Yes, there were and still are tech visionaries (eg. Ada Lovelace, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, Elon Musk, Aravind Srinivas and many more) driving this digital revolution but consumers are now more or less in control with feedback pushing new boundaries of R&D. Digital culture driven by the Internet, software, social media, streaming platforms, smartphones, AI and more is now the main vehicle for change. Grassroots DIY culture is shifting the power balance from Corporate control of consumer 'digital' or 'material' goods production, distribution and marketing back to people. Appropriate survival culture is the future for most people on the Planet whether anyone likes it or not, 'digital' AND 'material'. We cannot escape our 'material' existence that is driving climate change acceleration - not even AGIs that may eventually be built will still rely on vast amounts of compute power and 'material' energy and I believe it's doubtful though not impossible that these AGIs will have an ethical compass for Civilisation. Failing that, the elephant in the room is Religion which will probably stand the test of time alongside consumerism. If that doesn't work for you, then I guess, the Philosophy of 'digital', 'material' and 'Spiritual' elephants (or something completely different)?? Or it could be that the world has become a bizarre bazaar - a labyrinth of miscellaneous goods powered by the Internet? Or maybe a Minotaur with a chimney flue burning my illusion for biochar? Dogma, fact or truth? What is real and what is illusion? AI is not very good at writing about personal experience. For eg., ask perplexity.ai what it's personal experience has been running a search? The word is not dead. Let's use it. Which brings me to TLUDs...

Top-Lit UpDraft (TLUD) technology is cornerstone 'material' and 'Carbon negative' appropriate survival culture, pioneered by Dr TLUD and his predecessors, Dr. Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka (who coined 'Biocharculture') and many others in more recent years including me. Consume your own DIY TLUDs for self-empowerment. Biochar, the 'material' 'Carbon negative' byproduct of TLUD stoves, is the future material of dreams with many functions. Air filtration, water filtration, treatment of sewage, growing systems, building materials, EMR shielding and even batteries can be built 'Carbon negative' with Biochar.

The Navigator 'Awesome' V2 TLUD (on the 'Bush Survival System' page) for 'Institutional' cooking and water pasteurization and the smaller Navigator 'Versatile' TLUD (not yet published) for cooking and water pasteurization with greater mobility than the 'Awesome' are at the cutting edge of my TLUD research, design and development. 5" stainless chimney flue, in my opinion with extensive design and field testing experience, is key with the Navigator mainframe primary and secondary air slot system which can be grinded and customized for the next generation of unpowered and cost effective cooking and WASH biomass fuelled stoves. Both models are still under testing and I will post results when they are informative. Almost every use case scenario has been covered with these two designs, other than medium to large scale biochar production which could be done and to a degree is being done with TLUDs too. 

The modularity feature of TLUDs should be considered too as multiple units can be run in parallel which scales nicely to 'fill the gaps' between increasingly larger TLUD designs for most use cases of Biochar volumes required and cogeneration utility. 

Cogeneration is what attracted me to smaller TLUDs, after building many larger flame cap Biochar kilns, for getting the biggest 'bang for buck' from biomass fuel. Biomass pellets from waste I believe are the future for urban environments or more remotely, DIY pelletisation. As the TLUDs get bigger, cogen becomes more impractical and expensive but not out of the question. 

The TLUD revolution is making inroads into permanent global Carbon removal but will only be effective over the long term if fossil fuel alternatives, such as 'natural gas' are completely 'phased out'. There is a long way to go in this space so I hope you enjoy the ride, like I have, if you choose to take it and are committed to achieving a 'Safe climate' once again knowing that you are well prepared for most survival situations. What's your destination if you don't know the journey on the path? Carbon emissions are a scarab on time. Can we change the game?

Good luck!!