StoppingClimateChange.com,
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and coal2nuclear.com
Minimizing Climate Change by Replacing Fossil Fuels with Equivalent Biosynfuels.
Climate Change is a chemistry problem. Guidance for
Upgrading
Explaining the above sketch.
Replacing The Fire - Not The Fireplace -
slides
(Much quicker and cheaper than rebuilding everything.)
Web Site Contents > 1. Replacing Coal > 2. Replacing Oil > 3. Replacing Gas >
Climate Change is likely unstoppable. But it can be minimized.
Energy Parks: The Prerequisite For
Minimizing
Climate Change.
The United States could have a Clean Energy Park
near every
city large enough to have garbage and sewage collection and disposal systems.
The electrical utility industry is in a "no growth" situation. If it wants to
grow, it will have to grow into oil and gas' turf. Here is how it can be done.
This is also an excellent way for power
companies to profit from the increasingly severe "Duck
Curve" electricity grid misbehavior caused by wind and solar.
To get up to speed quickly on carbon capture from a credible source:
Google, then download the pdf " Post-combustion Carbon Capture - Leading Mature
Technology "
It is possible the world's oil and heating gas companies could simply phase in biosynfuels and phase out their fossil fuel products.
(Oil companies phase different fuels in and out constantly. Think no-lead
gasoline, E-85 ethanol, biodiesel,
fracking, etc.)
(Various Fuels.)
Old-time Energy Park
Biosynfuels, plus carbon captured or nuclear electricity, would sidestep the
time and cost to stop Climate Change by any other means.
The prerequisite for this scenario is the availability of massive amounts of
very hot heat - either carbon captured oil or natural gas, or nuclear
to manufacture biosynfuels.
The intent is to use up the world's remaining fossil fuels in carbon captured
facilities to make clean "drop-in equivalent" biosynfuels. When we run out of
fossil fuels, there's always nuclear.
There is sufficient biomass to meet U.S. liquid-fuel
needs if the energy and hydrogen inputs for biomass-to-fuel processing plants
comes from other sources.
Coal energy has been made obsolete by nuclear
energy since about 1960 but little has been done to make the upgrade from coal
to nuclear complete.
We can replace oil and natural gas immediately by converting existing unneeded
coal power plants into carbon captured oil or natural gas powered energy parks.
Nuclear can wait.
There may be
50,000 small coal power
plant sites globally that have the "right stuff" - i.e., nearby
natural gas or depleted oil
patches - to be candidates for Energy Parks.
Energy Parks: Sustainable
Fossil Oil and Gas
Energy Applications for Biosynfuels.
- Converting Fossil
Oil Energy, Fossil Natural Gas Energy, and
eventually, Nuclear Energy into Clean Biosynfuel Energy. -
1.
Carbon captured natural gas powered biosynfuels manufacturing. Check it
out. >
2. Carbon captured oil powered biosynfuels manufacturing
for those parts of the world where natural gas is unavailable.
Check it out. >
3. Eventually, the economic advantages of nuclear powered biosynfuels manufacturing
will make it the dominant technology.
Check it out. >
Where are these Energy Parks? All around us. They are the small coal power plants that are being shut down.
A Carbon Captured, Natural Gas Powered, Electricity
and Biosynfuels Energy Park
Building An Energy Park
>
Dr. Forsberg's slides show how:
Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System - Slides - Dr Charles W. Forsberg .pdf
Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System - Paper - Dr Charles W. Forsberg .pdf
There is sufficient biomass to meet U.S. liquid-fuel
needs if the energy and hydrogen inputs for biomass-to-fuel processing plants are
provided by gas, oil or advanced nuclear energy
Biofuels
- Energy - US Supply Sources vs. Demand Sectors - Reversed - 2017 Energy Parks -
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*Carbon-neutral means
switching from the temperature-increasing global warming carbon found in
fossil fuels from the ground to the temperature-neutral biomass carbon
found in the carbon that plants gather from the air.
Carbon is an essential ingredient in common solid, liquid, and gaseous
combustion fuels. We need to CARBON NEUTRALIZE the world's oil and
heating gas fuels by replacing the Climate Changing ingredient - fossil fuel carbon
- with Climate
Neutral biofuel
carbon harvested from biomass. To a large extent, the only other
ingredient in most fuels is hydrogen, which we can easily extract from water.
There is no reason we can't start on this largest aspect of Climate Change mitigation immediately and let the windmill and solar panel folks duke it out with the nuclear folks for the smallest slice of the Climate Change mitigation pie.
Energy is the master resource. Without energy nothing happens. The more energy we have, the better off we are.
Perspective
Executive summary:
Fossil fuel fires will disappear one way or another in the long run. Most of civilization's
far future electrical and heat
energy will be supplied by a
nuclear-hydrogen-biomass system.
Our heat will originate as nuclear fission, be stored in CO2-neutral biomass
fuel molecules manufactured from air's CO2, and be released as it is now - as
fire, as needed.
Nuclear heat is the only practical thermal alternative to fossil fuel heat.
Energy manufacture on a global scale will take many nuclear reactors and substantial
amounts of nuclear fuel.
Having unlimited nuclear heat changes everything. The energy strategy could be as lavish as necessary with nuclear heat and as
frugal as possible with biomass's carbon-neutral carbon.
A billion tons of biomass carbon per year may be available in the U.S. alone for
gasification by plasma pyrolysis for use as CO2 feedstock for efficiently synthesizing CO2-neutral methanols, etc. Fortunately,
we have all the nuclear fuel we will ever need, several better ways to dispose of nuclear's waste,
and, best of all, all the technologies to make it all happen quickly already exist.
Caveat: Careful reading of their statement is
suggested. -
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Division on Earth
and Life Studies Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.
The technology
being explored on this web site is intended to STOP the PROGRESSION of CLIMATE
CHANGE, not reduce the intensity of Climate Change.
Put simply, you must first stop something before you can reverse it. Stopping Climate Change is a prerequisite to rolling back Climate change. THEN we can set about rolling back Climate Change by reducing the air's Greenhouse Gas levels down from the current 400 parts per million to their historic average of about 250 parts per million.
Think about it.
About:
Neither Dr. Olah nor Dr. Forsberg have any connection to this web site.
Your author, an EE, is working to stop Climate Change by identifying and
describing to the public the industrial equipment and companies he thinks can
make the above
vision a reality.
Retired engineers build model railroad layouts. I elected to build a Climate
Change web site instead since few Climate Change authors
have engineering backgrounds and it often shows.
It is important the reader keeps in mind this web site is an engineer's
scrapbook, not a blog or a magazine.
Why all the fuss about the world's warming
perhaps 2°C? Like Planet Earth, your body is an environment for living cells that depend upon it
for sustenance.
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 your organs begin to fail and you can die.
1. What would a modern industrialized world powered only by biomass equivalent biosynfuels energy look like?
2. What would a modern industrialized world powered only by Wind, Water, and Solar energy look like?
3. What would a "Clean and
Doable Liquid Fission (LF) Energy Roadmap for Powering Our World"
look like?
Visit: https://atomicinsights.com/clean-doable-liquid-fission-lf-energy-roadmap-%e2%80%a8powering-world/
4. Renewables vs. Carbon-neutrals vs. Nuclear?, or, should it be, Nuclear + Carbon-neutrals + Renewables?
