Welcome from Jim Adams
This section has morphed to contain mainly contributions from B&H Transition Energy Group members. It also contains my writings (usually in collaboration with others, for example, members of the Omega Institute, the Labour Party or Transition Brighton and Hove, particularly its Energy and EDRAP Groups) on ecological issues, peak fuel and other resources, and on climate change. Also it includes files downloadable on the internet by authors we are particularly interested in.
1. Manifesto for a New World Order Ed Miliband said at a meeting at the Labour Party Conference, that Martin Luther King could not have started his famous speech with 'I have a nightmare', and that we need to talk about 'climate prosperity'. I have taken this up as a challenge!
2. The Energy and Climate Emergencies This is an unfinished draft of a visual work on problems and solutions to peak oil and climate change. Work will recommence in November.
3. B&H Energy Descent and Resilience Action Plan (EDRAP) Outline This is a draft outline of the EDRAP Group's Energy Descent plan for Brighton & Hove.
4. Bioregional One Planet Plan This is the almost completed version of Bioregional's One Planet Plan for Brighton & Hove. A series of workshops took place, concerning Food, Happiness, Local Economy and Fair Trade, Materials, Transport, Waste, Water and Zero Carbon. Here are some of the other key associated documents for the EDRAP: Transition Town Lewes Energy Descent Plan, Preparing for Peak Oil, Brighton University Sustainability Master Plan, consisting of: 1 Front Cover, 2 Introduction, 3 Demographic Chapter, 4 Transport Chapter, 5 Food Chapter, 6 Power Chapter, 7 Water Chapter, 8 Waste Chapter, 9 Materials Chapter, 10 Conclusion, Thurstan Crockett's observations on the status of local government sustainability in Brighton & Hove, a Carbon Footprint Reduction Programme, a document on Clean Energy 2030, Climate Change Adaptation by Design - A Guide for Sustainable Living, a European Sustainable Cities document, Portland Peak Oil Task Force Recommendations, a study on Pragmatic Energy Policy, The Economics of Renewable Energy and the Total Energy Strategy Summary.
5. Gas Security in the UK This contains three articles on Gas Security, or the lack of it, fronted by e-mail exchanges on this topic during December 2008.
6. The Oil Crunch: Securing the UK's Energy Future. On 29th October 2008 at The London Stock Exchange, eight leading UK companies launched this report, warning that a peak in cheap, easily available oil production is likely to hit by 2013, posing a grave risk to the UK and world economy. The warning comes from a broad spectrum of industry (Arup, FirstGroup, Foster + Partners, Scottish and Southern Energy, Solarcentury, Stagecoach Group, Virgin Group, Yahoo).
7. European CHP This contains a company (COGEN Europe) notification on European Combined Heat and Power, combined with e-mail discussions on this during November/December 2008. The discussion refers to this report: American CHP
8. Smart Grids This contains e-mail exchanges on Smart Grids. The following two sites are referenced in these discussions, on: European Smart Grids and American Smart Grids
9. Standy Costs/Smart Electricity Meters Warning Professor Alan Turner shows the amount of waste in the home due to leaving appliances on standby rather than switching them off at the wall socket. It represents about a third of the quarterly electricity bill. He has added an important note saying that many of the cheap 'energy meters' on the Internet give false readings.
10. The Omega Report on Incinerators This is the oldest of the reports, on the Veolia Incinerator at Newhaven, produced almost entirely by my colleague Graham Ennis. It contains a note on the Thermal Depolymerisation alternative to incinerators. We now know of other alternatives.
11. The Omega Note on LED Traffic Lights This note, to Brighton & Hove City Council, points out the energy efficiency savings of LED Traffic Lights.
12. US Environmental Protection Agency Decision on CO2 The EPA decision on CO2 stimulated the e-mail discussion which follows in this document.
13. Reducing Energy Is it possible to halve energy consumption and retain our present style of life? e-mail discussion.
14. Recession and Energy Projects. e-mail exchanges during December 2008 on the impact of the recession on energy infrastructure projects.
15. Email exchanges on Carbon Currency This was an email exchange between myself, Doly Garcia and David Greenop, assembled in October 2008.
16. The Transition B&H Energy Group Submission on Renewables, the condensed version and the Executive Summary of this. This is the newest of the main reports (September 2008), a submission by five authors from Brighton & Hove Transition Energy Group to the Government consultation on Renewable Energy.
17. Proposals for B&H Wind Turbines This preliminary note deals with two suggestions for wind turbines, including at Shoreham Harbour, plus email exchanges in October 2008.
18. Consultation with Scottish Power, Thistle Hotel, Brighton, December 2008.
19. Hansen's Comments to Obama, and reactions to it from Transition Energy Group members. Here is a link to a further letter, dated 2nd January 2009.
20. James Hansen's Kingsnorth Inquiry report, describes the Earth's climate history, sea level rise, species extinction and the human responsibility to curb fossil fuels - oil, gas and particularly coal.
21. Note to Hilary Benn This was a note (part of it was questions) given to Hilary Benn at the Brighthelm Centre in Brighton on 23rd October 2008.
22. Letter to Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, January 2009. Note to Ed Miliband, on his visit to Brighton & Hove in February 2009 and comments on the above.
23. The Labour Party Working Group minority report on Climate Change, November 2007, by one of the group, Jim Adams.
24. The Sustainability Submission to the Labour Party Local Election Manifesto This submission was the result of a manifesto forum dealing with sustainability issues.
25. The Omega Submission on the Government's "Green Paper" This note was our first submission on a UK government consultation process.
26. The Omega Note on a suggested Queen's Speech This slightly tongue-in-cheek note arose out of the non-existent leadership elections.
27. The Green New Deal downloadable pdf file by the Green New Deal Group.
28. The David Wasdell scientific report on Climate Change Catastrophe, revised and expanded December 2008.
29. The Baer and Mastrandrea report, one of the first to undermine the Climate Change assumptions of the Stern Review.
30. The UK Energy Mix Fact Sheet, this contains data for 2007.
31. IPCC AR4 WG1, link to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on the Scientific Basis of Climate Change.
32. The Stern Review, a report on the Economics of Climate Change.
33. The Game of Crisis, download a cooperative board game for self-assembly.
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This section, put in so a group of Politics students at Brighton University can access it, contains some of my writings on Politics and Political Philosophy to various people in the Labour Party, starting from when I left and continuing when I rejoined.
1. The first two items were written when I resigned over the attack on Fallujah in Iraq, the third being on the same subject to Party Chairman Ian McCartney.
War Party 1, War Party 2, Letter to Ian McCartney
2. Second letter to Ian McCartney. This was the letter to Ian McCartney, on rejoining.
3. Letter to David Lepper. Correspondence with David Lepper MP on Palestine.
4. Correspondence with Simone La Corbiniere. Correspondence with Simone La Corbiniere, of Our World Our Say.
5. These two items were part of correspondence with David Lepper on ID cards.
6. These two items were part of correspondence with Bob Glaberson, a Labour Party member, on the Middle East and the 'War on Terror'.
7. The Enlightenment Correspondence with Madeleine Bunting, Guardian journalist, on the Enlightenment.
8. Submission to SIAC on 'U', an Asylum Seeker SIAC is a special court set up to detain Asylum Seekers in the British Gulag. Its procedures are Kafkaesque.
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This section contains eight of my mathematical papers, the first being a subset of the third, and I hope accessible to any A level student of mathematics.
1. Fermat numbers and two prime number theorems This interrelates the idea of Fermat numbers and their relations to two prime number theorems.
2. Quadronacci Numbers This is to be corrected and describes a formula for a sequence of complex numbers, each of which is a sum of factors of the previous four.
3. Quadratic Reciprocity This constitutes an approach to a theorem unproved by elementary methods in 2004, that for p prime = 4k - 1 there are more quadratic residues in the interval [1, 2k - 1] than in [2k, 4k - 2].
4. Exponentiation Over 80 theorems covering generalised Fermat and Mersenne numbers, prime number theorems also related to differences and sums of powers and reciprocity theorems. It includes theorems 2 and 3 above.
5. Superexponentiation Since some of these ideas have leaked out, here is a description of work in progress on higher order exponentiation, involving the study of 'intricate numbers' - a particular representation of GL(n).
6. Pathological Spaces This describes some unusual types of spaces.
7. Xenan Zeroes This is essentially a brief and easy introduction to non-standard analysis, presented in a non-standard way!
8. Vector Calculus A short, and at the moment an incomplete note, to a colleague, on mathematical ideas on vector calculus.
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This downloadable section contains eight of my compositions. I am hopeful Xena can be re-performed, and the last three will be performed. Nightfall and my Sonata No. 2 were performed at the University of Sussex on 26th February 2009. The penultimate, Jug on the Table, in memory of Sydney Vale, is under construction. The text, and also that of Seek Now The Truth, are available here. These works (with me on the piano if there is one, unless otherwise indicated) are
1. Sonata No. 2, comprising: Humoresque - this seems to be the most popular of my works, Shipwreck of Dreams (composed subsequently) and Kaos.
2. Sonata for Four Hands, performed by Glen Capra and Kevin Allen, in four movements:
Jar of Moonbeams, Dance of the Robots, Rondetto and Cave of Echoes.
3. All my Love for You One of my earliest pieces (played Capra/Allen).
4. Guitar Duet My first work to be performed, by David Jenner and Jon Rattenbury.
5. Death Poem Words by Guantanamo prisoner Jumah Al Dossari.
6. I Anoint my Flesh Words by Wole Soyinka, sung by Jane Richards.
7. The Asylum Seeker spoken by Jane Richards and me.
8. Xena.
9. Nightfall (c) Copyright 2008, Composition: Terence Deadman, words Jim Adams (this was played by Mark Richey, tenor Kevin Starns).
10. A Cobweb's Touch in the Dark.
11. Jug on the Table. text
12. Seek Now the Truth. text
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