The Brussels Lobby

Name: The Brussels Lobby
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ISBN13: 9781035839872
Binding: Paperback
Subject: N/A
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Publisher Imprint: Austin Macauley
Publication Date: February 2, 2024
Pages: 360
Original Price: GBP 12.99
Language: English
Edition: N/A
Item Weight: 431 grams
BISAC Subject(s): Thrillers / Suspense

About The Book

The race for limitless energy takes a dramatic turn. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in France, aims to replicate the sun's helium fusion process using a Tokamak. However, the project faces significant delays.
Amidst these delays, a French start-up achieves a ground breaking feat by successfully fusing hydrogen and solar heat. This innovation leads to the creation of Hysoplasm, or HSP - a cheap, abundant and sustainable energy source.
But this development doesn't sit well with those invested in traditional energy sectors. Key players in the Oil, Gas and Finance Industries in Brussels are alarmed. To counter this emerging threat, they turn to Chris Towers, a formidable and unscrupulous lobbyist. Towers finds himself in a clandestine meeting with EU Commissioner Manuel Rojas, responsible for Climate Action and Energy Union, in an obscure cafÃ© in Brussels.
This is a story about the high-stakes world of energy politics, where technological breakthroughs clash with entrenched interests, whilst the future of global energy is at play.
'Which interests stand in the way of real climate solutions? This eco-thriller tells a story of the fight of a start-up against the fossil industry. It introduces HSP as an abundant, renewable energy for a cleaner future.' Pim van Galen, journalist at Dutch Public Television.
'A fascinating and well-timed story.' Ton van Uffel, energy and chemistry expert.
'This book convinces with the sincerity of the plot and the richness of the details. It deserves a wider audience than just environmental geeks. Captive reading.' Jochem Visser, lawyer.
'Fighting injustice is tempting and honourable but not easy.' Roberto Bastida Caracuel, port development manager.

About The Author

Campen, Van: - Van Campen looks at our disorderly (entropic) society through the lens of information. As an Information Theorist, he understands that life and the non-harmful functionality of all living systems depend on cognition i.e. the processing of all relevant information. Any man-made system that ignores or suppresses information is going into entropy which means disorder. Entropy can be understood as the unavailability of information. Only those systems that use all relevant information survive. This is a law of physics and biology. Information can't be separated from our reality by force. Lying, deceit by censorship is therefore not condoned by nature, without severe consequences for everyone, including the liars. The main question remains: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who guards the guards?
An overlooked science is information theory. Information is not just a message, knowledge or an idea, but an actual part of our physical reality. Information is both DNA and the code. Try to ignore information when you drive your car or cross the road? This science makes it possible to understand that information is an essential component of reality and cannot be separated from it. Information builds order into all living systems and sustains them. The chance element is called entropy, the driving force of chaos, which tends to mix the un-mixable, to destroy meaning. The non-random element is information, which uses the uncertainty behind the entropy principle to generate new structures, to 'in'form i.e. give our physical reality its form. People are bound by the limitations of reality. We can't walk through a closed door or jump twenty feet high. There are limits of reality or boundaries of functionality. Sense and order, says the theory, can triumph over nonsense and chaos. Information theory suggests that order is perfectly natural. Information Theory demonstrates that lying or deceit are not tolerated by nature and cause entropy (disorder) and stress due to remorse which can't be switched off. Lying is however acceptable, but only when survival is at stake. People are not blind, but refuse to see. New, unfamiliar information has always been unwelcome and regarded as dangerous. This is the perception problem the famous physicist Fritjof Capra talks about.
Nature can no longer be seen as matter and energy, but must be interpreted as matter, energy and information (adapted from the book 'Grammatical Man' by Jeremy Campbell 1982).

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