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ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PRESENTATION

Alistair Johnson Designer of THE TIG RIG RETROFIT SAIL SYSTEM

A) THE TIG RIG RETROFIT SAIL SYSTEM

• Self contained units
• Fixed mounting points –

interconnecting rails

• 360 deg rotation, reefing in 10ths.
• Key automated mechanical safety
• verrides
• Universal mounting for masted

devices

• Out of way in port

Tig Rig array on Green Dolphin 575 Handymax

A) THE TIG RIG RETROFIT SAIL SYSTEM

• Self contained units
• Fixed mounting points –

interconnecting rails

• 360 deg rotation, reefing in

10ths

• Key automated mechanical

safety overrides – reefing & mast release

• Out of way in port
• Universal mounting for

masted devices

A) THE TIG RIG RETROFIT SAIL SYSTEM

• Self contained units
• Fixed mounting points –

interconnecting rails

• 360 deg rotation, reefing in

10ths

• Key automated mechanical

safety overrides – reefing & mast release

• Out of way in port
• Universal mounting for

masted devices

A) THE TIG RIG RETROFIT SAIL SYSTEM

• Self contained units
• Fixed mounting points –

interconnecting rails

• 360 deg rotation, reefing in

10ths

• Key automated mechanical

safety overrides – reefing & mast release

• Out of way in port
• Universal mounting for

masted devices

A) THE TIG RIG RETROFIT SAIL SYSTEM

• Self contained units
• Fixed mounting points –

interconnecting rails

• 360 deg rotation, reefing in

10ths

• Key automated mechanical

safety overrides – reefing & mast release

• Out of way in port
• Universal mounting for

masted devices

A) THE TIG RIG RETROFIT SAIL SYSTEM

• Self contained units
• Fixed mounting points –

interconnecting rails

• 360 deg rotation, reefing in

10ths

• Key automated mechanical

safety overrides – reefing & mast release

• Out of way in port
• Universal mounting for

masted devices

I HAVE MY FIRST CLIENT

Well nearly

B) ENERGY: CAPITAL VS CURRENT

• Business - capital to set up – must lead to sustainable current income
• Fossil fuel = ancient solar
• Solar = current – and on US delivers 10,000 times US electricity consumption
• Access Solar direct – panels or through weather – wind and wave
• Challenge is to make this transition from capital to current energy

C) EARTH INC AND INTERGALACTIC BANK

• Earth Inc visit to Intergalactic Bank
• EI – Can we please have extension on our capital?
• IB - How long until you are sustainable in current energy?
• EI – Err we don't know
• IB - Next!
• And as EI limp out of the room they stop and say
• EI – Well can we have another planet then?

D) BASIC BUSINESS ANALYSIS

• Establish the replacement cost/alternative sourcing of your key

inputs

• Plan to transition from capital to current
• Earth Inc has not done either
• Earth Inc is not a proper business
• Our entire industrialised society is subsidised
• Alternative energy about making this critical transition

E) THE TIMES THEY ARE CHANGING

• October 2018: IPCC report – 12 years
• And: Nobel Economics prize: Nordhaus, climate change theorist; Romer, state technology

intervention advocate

• Tipping point of public opinion – political shift and on to legislation
• Difficult to say when and opposition strong – and we are all guilty, all deniers
• But there are hard deniers – actively denying the science
• They are now alarmed and despondent – ‘it's too late and no point trying anything –

party harder’ – utterly spoilt

• These are society's 'winners' – 'survival of the fittest' people – ready to colonise Mars
• In this crisis, like war - deserters. Pitiful when 1st to run are the Officers.

F) THE RIGHT BALANCE (SHEET)

• Radical theorist's paper on getting business to value Amazon rain forest
• Different branches of industry = different yield rates = lower interest /bonds
• Common good infrastructure – longest return, 40-50yrs, lowest rates – govt

bonds

• How to value common good of Amazon forest? Outside any single govt or

time frame

• Challenge to put Amazon forest on company balance sheets/tax returns
• Identity of the theorist?

F) THE RIGHT BALANCE (SHEET)

• Identity of the theorist: John Shepard Reed
• Former head of Citicorp and NY Stock Exchange – ultimate insider
• Describing him as a radical – deliberate to make the point that the identity of

the messenger affects the way we hear the message

• In fact raised in Brazil and Argentina – outsider perspective

G) DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY

• Wind assist for ships is not disruptive now
• With change in political economy it may become so

H) DEPRECIATION AND TAX WRITE OFFS

• Tig Rig business plan – simple rental – units still yielding beyond tax write off
• Depreciation/tax write offs came out of rivalrous European states

harmonising private domestic business w national strategic goals

• Nation states - drivers of business for centuries

I) BUSINESS ERRORS AND FALSE DISTINCTIONS

• Hard deniers claim sustainability is un business like – from people who i)

ignore capital energy problem ii) haven't done proper energy replacement cost analysis. They fail basic business tests

• Claim false distinction between govt and business
• Govt intervention has always been directly critical to business
• Popular sentiment will change political policy
• Adding common good and energy to balance sheets critical for our

future

• In that future wind assist can become disruptive

J) ENABLING THE ADDICTS (ALL OF US)

• Boss of Shell last week advocating

reforestation – new Amazon rainforest

• Brazil’s presidential candidate intent on

destroying the forest we have

• Shell boss – it's not enough to do little

bit of wind & solar. Deeper change

• Happy meal toys. Oil from ME-China-

US/Eu-kids play with 20mins – landfill. MADNESS

• Works now but if energy properly

valued it would stop - Nordhaus’s proposition

• Govt direction – Romer’s proposition

K) THE GROWN UP REBUTTAL

• Advocate for sustainability - face

criticism and respond

• Hard deniers claims to business

competence are bust – they fail basic tests

• Hard deniers frame politics/govt as
• pposed to business – in fact the two

are symbiotic

• Neither deny nor try to run - do the

grown up thing and let’s fix this