top of page

There is much more to the Climate Emergency than mere warming

THE "ENERGY SENECA"
A GLOBAL SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE DYNAMIC

After over 50 years of procrastination, finally a state of emergency is being progressively acknowledged, although political and business impotence still prevails and the root causes remain invisible to decision makers.

Over 7 billion people want "something-else".

Seneca Chart showing net energy from oil increasing up to 2015 followed by a plummet back to zero
Dollar sack icon

Addressing global warming effectively can be a hugely profitable business

Rushing clock icon

Only a hugely profitable way that is attractive to all can address the matter at speed and in time

Knowledge icon with a book over a person's head

Addressing global warming profitably requires understanding in depth the Energy Seneca problem

FEATURED PARTNERS

Join the Global Leaders Working With Us

logo SKYBANK_Monochrome_GREY_2.webp
nGeni-Australia.webp
Cool Planet.webp
World Link Partners 70% GREY_TRANSPARENT.png
Lichen Logo GREY TRANSPARENT WITH BORDER.png

The Hard Problem

WHAT WE DO

With the warming overshoot, all mythical “carbon budgets” and so-called “limits” are gone.

 

The sole remaining trajectory to aim for is zero net emissions by 2040, i.e. shooting “schuss” style down a cliff in total emergency mode, without any room left for even the slightest error.

 

Provably, no government nor mainstream business knows how to achieve this.

WE DO

SIX SETS OF BREAKTHROUGHS

Offering coefficient of performance well above 100% versus less than 12% efficiency in the current global energy supply and use system for all stationary and transport applications on land, at sea and in the air.

The GreenBox Power Plant

NOT AN "ENGINE" BUT A SUBSET OF THE NEW nGENI TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM THAT INTEGRATES POWER GENERATION AND HEAT PUMP FUNCTIONALITY

Screw Machine
GreenBox icon with a fan and housing with air flow
Digital Waterfall
Biomimetic icon with plant and butterfly

Biomimetics

LOGIC THAT EMULATES NATURE'S THERMODYNAMICS

Self Organising Network

COMPLEMENTARY nS.O. SUBSET OF THE NEW nGENI TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM

nSO Network.webp
Network icon with nodes and vertices

Viral Business Model

NESTED DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS

Fibonacci Sequence Fractal in a sea shell
Viral Business icon with flame on a screen
Emerging Plant growing out of crack in asphalt
Intelligence icon with a brain in 4 parts fitted together like a jigsaw

From AI to Distributed Intelligence

EMERGENT BEHAVIOUR FROM INTELLIGENT ENGINEERING

Energy backed blockchain - a long chain covered with neon digits
Viral Financial icon with dollar sign on a virus like structure

Viral Financial Model

ENERGY-BACKED BLOCKCHAIN TOKENISATION

The nature-emulating, disruptive nGeni Technology Class

SIX PRINCIPLES FOR SUSTAINABLE POWER

Fourth Transition Limited's patented nGeni Technology Class incorporates 6 key principles that enable filling the market gap for "something-else” and accessing an over €10 Trillion/year global market.

App Icon 1.webp

Cascade free energy flows at the point-of-use

Capturing and re-using energy at the point of use minimises unused waste heat using advanced novel heat pump functionality, providing over 80% overall energy efficiency. 

check-mark.png

Already proven

App Icon 2.webp

Use a variant of the Brayton-Ericsson thermodynamic cycle

Offering high efficiency at above 850ºC and preferably above 1100ºC, providing over 50% mechanical and electrical efficiency.

check-mark.png

Already proven

App Icon 3.webp

Use external combustion and/or concentrated solar

Efficient combustion, very low emissions, low wear of mechanical parts and efficient recycling of air flow and heat and/or novel, low cost, solar collector in conjunction with high temperature energy storage.

check-mark.png

Already proven

App Icon 4.webp

Advanced Positive Displacement Machines (PDM)

Employing PDMs instead of Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) or turbines for higher efficiency, lower equipment, operating and maintenance costs.

check-mark.png

Already proven

App Icon 5.webp

Integration of power generation with heat pump functionality

Leveraging low cost, solar-based power to utilise local ambient heat and recycle waste heat to achieve coefficient of performance matching that of Life on Earth, i.e. up to 400%.

check-mark.png

Already proven

App Icon 6.webp

Intelligent networking

Dual layers comprising both energy and communications between point-of-use generation units: autopoietic, layered, fractal mesh network architecture.

check-mark.png

Already proven

Thermal power plant control room
Stainless steel dairy production facility
Container ship propulsion unit
Algae based biohydrogen plant
Seneca icon showing the seneca-like graph

Understanding the Energy Seneca

Unlock icon showing a padlock emitting a sound

Unlocking the gates to the future

Greenhouses in rural Holland
Gas Compressor
Cashless icon with money crossed out

Incompatibility of economics and thermodynamics

BROWSE OUR
KNOWLEDGE CENTRE TODAY

bottom of page