Comment

Representation ID: 19048

Received: 25/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Richard Carter

In addition to fostering the regeneration a broad range of traditional industries, the West Midlands can support industrial, new business growth and society in general by establishing CENTRIC - Centre(s) for Enterprise, Training, Innovation and Collaboration - in partnership with local universities, colleges and other businesses. Partnership with universities and colleges will
play an important part in the overall process and will ensure compatibility with the outcome of the government's "Skills for Jobs: Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and Growth" White Paper.
As its name implies, CENTRIC will be the focal point for establishing a sustainable and environmentally focused society, i.e. it will provide research and training opportunities covering such things as:
• Energy efficient and architecturally favourable building design (many people have a preference for older buildings because they are more attractive and "quirky").
• Waste management and District Heating methodologies.
• Energy generation.
• Alternative green fuels.
• Harmful emission capture and reprocessing.
• Sewage processing.
• Socially and environmentally friendly vehicle design.
• Transport methodology.
• Business start-up & Entrepreneurship.
• Increasing the efficiency, scalability and cost effectiveness of existing technologies and, above all,
• Fully-factored urban regeneration methodologies.
• Obtaining potable water from the sea. The UK is surrounded by sea yet we obtain our
water environmentally unfriendly sources such as rivers and reservoirs. Consider: where do
Malta and Goza obtain their potable water from?
• Enhancement to the fresh water production process that would remove the impurities which lead to pipe and appliance furring.
• Water reprocessing, e.g. separating water into oxygen and hydrogen. It is worth noting that recent advances have made the process far more energy efficient. There is a growing need for hydrogen to replace fossil fuels.
• CO2 capture and reprocessing, e.g. Calcium Carbonate precipitation for CO2 storage and utilization, separating CO2 into carbon and hydrogen. These techniques would replace the current "capture, store and dump" approach and help to alleviate or reduce the need to produce CO2 for the food industry.
• Alternative packaging. Consider: how did the Victorian's package and store their food and other consumables?
• Waste water/ sewage processing: https://www.clarke-energy.com/applications/sewage• gas/. Directly linked, improved CO2 capture and reprocessing techniques would benefit this process.
• As previously mentioned, advancement of hydrogen based steel production.