SkyScrubber.com or StoppingClimateChange.com Sitemap Introduction
The Allam Cycle Power Plant Can Be Used To
Suck Massive Volumes Of CO2
Out Of The Air.
A Biomass Energy Carbon Capture and
Sequestration (BECCS) Facility Capturing Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
From The Air For Carbon To Make Carbon-neutral Fuels.
This is how the world's oil industry can get us competently to
high-volume
Direct Air Capture of CO2 before mid-century.
The Allam Cycle changes the Climate Change challenge for the better. For
now, everyone has to update their
Climate Change thinking.
Consuming the excess CO2
we've already put in the air to make electricity and safe liquid biofuels is the key to
ending
Climate Change forever.
The Allam Cycle is very new technology and, as of now, only running in 1/10th size pilot
plant form. But, to this old engineer,
who took a class in thermodynamics in the 1960s, it looks to be a rational
professional design giving much thought to the economics of energy.
The company:
https://www.netpower.com/technology/
https://www.netpower.com/news/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFcbev1TkoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zDZmIDbDO0
Articles: https://www.powermag.com/inside-net-power-gas-power-goes-supercritical/?mypower
supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) cycles
HOW?:
Electrify everything possible with Allam biomass fuel electricity. Use any extra biomass to replace
as much oil and natural gas fuels as possible with
equivalent net-zero CO2 biosynfuels.
WHO?: The
world's oil industry has the ability to efficiently produce net-zero CO2 liquid combustion fuels
and gases. They have the Science,
Technology, Equipment, Infrastructure, Resources, and
Motivated People.
STEP #1: Stopping Climate Change's relentless 100 million-ton-per-day CO2 growth by phasing out all fossil fuel open-air burning and instead manufacture Waste-to-Energy Net-zero CO2 Fuels that can be open-air burned.
STEP #2: Once we stop
adding fossil fuel CO2 to the air, then we can begin to
suck the excess CO2 back out of the air
to restore our climate to near-normal using direct air CO2 capturing fuel
factories
such as SkyScrubber
or by drawing CO2 from the air by diverting some of
the biomass' syngas energy to the Allam power plant's sequestration well (BECCS). Others are
thinking along these lines but perhaps using air conditioners instead.
https://rdcu.be/bAs5Q
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Above and Below: A Carbon-captured Biomass Waste-to-Energy Clean Fuel Factory To Provide Both Big Electricity And Net-zero CO2 Fuels
Equipment Pages >
1
Introduction
2
Engineering
3
Allam CCS Power Plant
4
Hydrogen Generator
5 Biomass
Preparation
6 Plasma
Torch Gasifier
7 GTL
Refinery
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Fuels Description
Recycling air's CO2 carbon into cheap, clean fuels - using standard industrial equipment to
assemble
GTL fuel molecules
[
GTL ] from gasified biomass waste to make CO2-neutral fuels.
The big
win is that we change only the fuels, not everything in the world that uses
fuels. Much quicker and cheaper. For the average person we can keep
our current lifestyles, we won't have to buy range-limited electric cars, and we can keep air travel.
With a fuel supply system like the above, cars
could easily be biogasoline, E80, M70, plug-in hybrids. One kilogram of hydrogen contains as much energy as about three
liters of diesel.
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About CO2 Sequestration and Net-zero CO2 Emissions Renewable Clean Fuel Factories
The United States has the technological potential to offset roughly only a decade’s worth of its current CO2 emissions through biological sequestration (i.e., planting trees, etc.,) but a few hundred years’ worth of emissions through carbon dioxide capture and sequestration. - Congressional Budget Office "The Potential for Carbon Sequestration in the United States, 2007" - Summary, page 2.
Storing CO2 underground can have geological consequences and is only legally done under
the supervision of government geological permitting agencies.
Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration
Partnership:
https://www.mrcsp.org/
We still have several hundred years of fossil fuels remaining.
A few hundred years should buy enough time to perfect nuclear energy.
Maps Showing various U.S. UNDERGROUND CARBON CAPTURE
STORAGE STRATA
LOCATIONS Energy + Hydrogen + Biomass System - (pdf Slide
Show) - Dr Charles W. Forsberg
The end-user would continue to use the same or similar fires and other "Drop-In"
clean energies supplied
through existing distribution networks.
The world may need about 10,000 Renewable Fuel Factories to head off the worst of Climate Change. Like cars, airplanes, and ships, Fuel Factories would be modular in design similar to today's electricity power plants. Ten or even 20 fuel factory modules could be located at a single large fuel factory. Such modularity is an economic advantage in several ways. For example, you can run different products on different modules at the same time, varying the numbers of modules making the same product to satisfy current market needs. The cost, quality, and reliability of mass-produced modules of anything is hard to beat. https://www.biomass.net/Biomass-and-Climate-Change.html
There
are almost unlimited opportunities for completely new greenfield Fuel Factories
now that prime underground strata for CCS CO2 sequestration locations have been identified enabling
cheap
straight-down CO2 disposal via disposal wells located on site property. Since
potable water is one of the Allam Cycle's exhaust products, fuel factories could
be located virtually anywhere there is a CO2 disposal strata and sufficient
biomass. This means there is
no need
for a costly national CO2 disposal grid that may take 20 to 40 years and
billions of dollars to complete
due to obstruction by environmentalists.
Storing CO2 underground improperly can be a hazardous activity and is only to be done under
the supervision of government geological permitting agencies.
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Visit the other key technologies we would need to enable production of OPEN-AIR-BURNABLE waste-to-energy renewable fuels.
1.
http://plascotechnologies.com/
is offering the technology for a small version of a renewable plasma gasified
waste-to-fuel factory now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YllIj_bzl5A
2.
Also, check out plasma gasifier manufacturer AlterNRG: http://www.alternrg.com/
http://www.alternrg.com/waste_to_energy/waste-to-liquids/
3.
Shell Pearl: The world's largest
fossil Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) refinery.
https://www.shell.com.qa/en_qa/projects-and-sites/pearl-gtl.html
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About CARBON TAXES and CARBON
CAPTURE INCENTIVES
Information about the government's different Energy
Innovation and Carbon Dividend Acts
(Courtesy of Climate Change Working
Group):
First, here's a link to the bill itself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/763
Second, for anyone without the time or interest to read the entire bill, a link
to a "road map" of the bill's contents, so the most relevant sections can be
found with some ease: https://community.citizensclimatelobby.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Section-by-Section-Analysis-Energy-Innovation-Act-2019.pdf
Third, here's a link to Citizen's Climate Lobby's website about the bill, which
also allows a reader to see who has already endorsed the bill and what the press
is saying about it. It includes an endorsement tool: https://energyinnovationact.org/
Finally, for anyone wanting to compare this bill to other carbon pricing bills,
an assessment that compares this bill (sponsored by Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida
and therefore called the Deutch bill in the analysis) to others:
https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/how-bipartisan-energy-innovation-and-carbon-dividend-act-compares-other-carbon-tax-proposals
All these carbon tax fees raise a very serious
question:
Q.
How much per ton of CO2 is going to be refunded by the government to the operators
of the above fuel factories to establish and operate a carbon dioxide disposal well on
their own property?
A. Deutch bill: This section amends the Tax Code (Title 26) by adding the following subsections: Subtitle L - "Carbon Dividends and Carbon Fee", Sec. 9906 - Carbon Capture and Sequestration:
"Provides a refund of Carbon Fee paid when qualified carbon dioxide is captured and sequestered in a safe and permanent manner. Requires establishment of sound criteria for safe and permanent sequestration. Only CO2 from covered fuels, and only rebate for amount likely to remain sequestered."
- - - In the United States there are now 2 big carbon capture incentives: A recently expanded federal tax credit for captured CO2 and California’s new law requiring 100% of its electricity come from carbon-free sources by 2045.
In the U.S., carbon capture has led to the formation of extraordinary alliances. In 2018, a tax credit known as 45Q—so named for the relevant provision in the law—was revised to provide higher incentives for CCS with support from congressional lawmakers of both parties, big oil and gas, industry, and environmentalists. Over time, it will ramp up to $50 per metric ton of carbon stored geologically and $35 per metric ton of carbon stored through enhanced oil recovery, provided projects commence construction by the end of 2023. - Brad Page, Bloomberg Environment, Posted May 13, 2019, 6:00 AM
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References
2016_billion_ton_report_12.2.16_0.pdf (400+ Pages)
Methanol - The Basic Chemical and Energy Feedstock of the Future.pdf
https://www.chemicals-technology.com/projects/george-olah-renewable-methanol-plant-iceland/
The opportunities to reequip our liquid fuels industries with climate-neutral biomass waste-to-fuel energies.
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Our Climate Change Outlook
So, by adding or removing air's CO2, we can set the world's
thermostat wherever we like. . . . . .
The CO2 in the air acts like a blanket - the more CO2, the
thicker the blanket. Taking CO2 out of the air is like taking a blanket off your
bed - you feel the change quickly. More heat in the air makes summer storms more
powerful.
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Thoughts of a Time-Traveler from the Age of Analog
"Technological fixes are often far simpler, and therefore cheaper, than the doomsayers could have imagined." - ( From Prologue )
One objective of this website is to communicate that the Climate Change crisis resembles the horseshit crisis described in the Prologue's story.
Here’s an analogy that Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who
helped compile some of the climate research data for the World Bank, likes to
use.
"Take the human body. If your temperature rises 2°C, you have a significant
fever. If it rises 4°C or 6°C you can die. It’s not a linear change."
As long as there is one person on
earth making an open-air fire causing fossil fuel emissions, direct air capture
(DAC) of fossil fuel emissions is a failure - a dog chasing his tail.
