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Whichever energy you want, whenever you want, in whatever volumes you want.
A combination of clean energy producing technologies for stopping Climate Change's growth.
Carbon-neutralizing the entire world means building thousands of Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass
Clean Energy Parks for mass producing
synthetic CO2-Neutral fossil fuel equivalent fuels from natural ingredients.
SYNTHETIC BIOFUELS are made by gasifying
plant carbon into CO-rich syngas then adding hydrogen gas in the presence of catalysts to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuel
molecules
like gasoline, diesel, etc.
Only massive amounts of very cheap heat energy from nuclear reactors can be expected to make
this approach economically attractive. The re-usability of readily available
unneeded coal power plant sites is fortunate.
In the author's opinion, the long-term possibility of danger from thousands of
small nuclear power reactors is far less than the long term certainty of wars
precipitated by population stress due to Climate Change.
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Foreword Introduction 1
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(Reversing Climate Change)
Clean Energy Parks
are
PLAN B
for stopping Climate Change.
By changing things as little as
possible, including lifestyles, we get results as quickly and as inexpensively as possible.
Greenies are failing to
stop Climate Change because they are doing decarbonization wrong. It's the
carbon
in fossil fuels that make them so
damn practical.
Consider how problematical hydrogen is.
Biosynfuels use carbon-neutral carbon, are as practical as real fossil fuels,
and cause no more environmental harm than wind or solar. Energy companies need
to be encouraged to make carbon-neutral "CN" fuels.
"Around the world, billions of consumers voluntarily consume fossil fuels to
live safe, comfortable, prosperous lives. Tens of thousands of companies and
tens of millions of employees provide oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity to
them. As such, plentiful, affordable, reliable energy is a global good with
moral and enrichment implications—is, has been, will be."
(Come on, Greenies, let's have a little compassion for the public. - JPH)
- From "Climate Change Lawsuits:
Please Excuse Us For Living" - by
Robert Bradley
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/30/climate-change-lawsuits-please-excuse-us-for-living
Renewables
- wind, solar, etc., are clearly not enough. This
gap in our energy needs can
be met by small modular reactors
producing electricity and synthetic biofuels.
Clean E
1. Ultimately, the only way the world will stop using fossil
fuels is when the energy industries themselves offer clean reliable
electricity and carbon-neutral liquid fuels at less cost.
3. Typically, single boiler coal unit sites like this are 50 to 200 megaWatts. A
ThorCon reactor installation is 500 mW, leaving plenty of energy for other
energy park products.
4. The flexible Energy Park idea can be implemented immediately as a pilot
plant, in 2 years using a 50 mW NuScale nuclear reactor, in 4 years using a 500 mW
ThorCon reactor.
5. This website is being created now to give the reader a head start on detail
planning their own Clean Energy Park before the herd of Generation 4 nuclear reactors hits the
market.
https://thirdway.imgix.net/downloads/the-advanced-nuclear-industry-2016-update/the-advanced-nuclear-industry-2016-update_032717.pdf
6.
It's critically important that you, the reader, have a
clear understanding of what "Carbon Neutral"
(CO2-neutral) fire means:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_neutrality
Biosynfuels will become the primary
products
for oil companies as decarbonization makes fossil fuels unmarketable.
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What's the big advantage behind having Clean Energy Parks powered by nuclear instead of Wind Farms and Solar Gardens?
The essence of fire is the conversion of a
hydrocarbon such as natural gas CH4 (methane) into heat, H20 (water), and CO2 (carbon
dioxide).
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CO2 also happens to be Planet Earth's major thermostat gas and
thus the major cause of Climate Change.
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Clean Energy Parks, unlike windmills and solar cells, immediately stop the further growth of Climate Change by RECYCLING A FIRE'S CO2 back into a fuel. (Look again at the image at the top of this page.)
Clean Energy Parks use nuclear heat to extract from plants (biomass) the carbon dioxide (CO2) fossil fuels added to the air in the past when they burned. Using some more nuclear heat to power some chemistry, this CO2 is then converted into fossil fuel equivalents thus rendering fossil fuels obsolete. We can then burn these equivalent fuels instead to power our cars and trucks, cook our food, and heat our houses, etc. As with fossil fuels, when this recycled CO2 burns, it becomes heat, water, and CO2 released into the air again. This CO2 would be eventually captured again by biomass (plant leaves) and recycled again into fossil fuel equivalents again.
Recycling fire stops Climate Change's growth but doesn't force us to give up all the ways we use fire to power our daily lives.
Worldwide, there are over 50,000 coal power plant sites with more than 5,000 of them being excellent candidates for upgrading to Clean Energy Parks. Clean Energy Parks will enable mankind to replace the burning of fossil fuels with biosynfuels in ratios equivalent to locally used fossil fuels to quickly halt Climate Change's further intensification without giving up any of the benefits those local fossil fuels have brought different countries.
Clean Energy Parks are intended to enable power-plant and oil companies to also produce and sell clean versions of the various energies we now obtain from fossil fuels - namely, electricity and heat in the form of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, natural gas - along with Combined Heat and Power (CHP) services for district heating of Northern communities.
Just as we can do with nuclear electricity, we can quickly stop Climate Change's growth in the liquid and gaseous fossil fuel applications area.
The advantage of using naturally safe, battery-like, underground, Molten Salt nuclear Reactors (MSRs) is that MSRs will produce the necessary amounts of energy needed to enable you to manufacture both electricity and carbon-free/neutral heating fuels without having to mess around very much with things nuclear. MSRs are a different nuclear animal and when the reactor goes away, so does the radioactivity.
Directions for using a molten salt nuclear reactor:
(1) Lease a fresh "reactor in a can" that fits your reactor facility, (2) Lower
it into your power plant's reactor silo, (3) Connect it to the steam and
hydrogen generation
equipment, (4) Initialize it, then run it for 4 to 7 years
(depending upon who made it - there are going to be several different
manufacturers such as
ThorCon, Terrestrial, etc.), (5) When the fuel is depleted, lock the reactor off, (6) Disconnect
it, (7) Lift it out of the underground reactor silo, and lower it into a nearby
radiation decay and heat decay (cool-down)
underground silo for another 4 to 7 years
to make it safe for shipping on public roads. (8) Later, a reactor truck,
railroad car, or barge will arrive with another fresh reactor, (9) After new
reactor delivery, the old, and now cooled-down reactor-in-a-can can be safely
transported back to the factory to be refurbished by robots, refueled with
fresh fuelsalt, and leased again to some other Energy Park.
For more ThorCon reactor details, see: ThorConIsle - Design
Paper.pdf and
ThorCon exec_summary.pdf
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Introductory Articles
Who came up with these ideas? The Energy Park idea draws its fundamental concepts from
two different, but complementary, source documents:
1.,
Dr. Charles Forsberg's "Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System" and
2.,
Dr. George A. Olah's "Beyond
Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy".
The Energy Park idea's Bottom Line: Use Dr. Forsberg's Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System to make
Dr. Olah's Carbon-Neutral
Biosynfuels for all commonly used combustion fuels.
Introductory pdf slideshows: 1, Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System - Slides - Dr Charles W. Forsberg .pdf 2, Beyond Oil and Gas - Literature Seminar - Lit_T_Matsumoto_B4.pdf
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1. Dr. Charles Forsberg's "The Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System."
In 2007, Dr. Forsberg, a chemist and nuclear
scientist from MIT and Oak Ridge Laboratories, prepared a slide show and
academic paper to present a related concept to the Annual Meeting of the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers .
Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System - Slides - Dr Charles W. Forsberg .pdf
Quick slide show overview.
Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System - Paper - Dr Charles W. Forsberg .pdf
Paper.
(ABSTRACT)
Meeting U.S. Liquid Transport Fuel Needs with a Nuclear-Hydrogen-Biomass System
Charles Forsberg
Dr. Forsberg's view: "The two major energy challenges for the United States
are (1) replacing crude oil in our transportation system and (2)
eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.
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A strategy is proposed to meet the total liquid-fuel transport energy needs
within 30 years by producing greenhouse-neutral liquid fuels using biomass
as the feedstock and nuclear energy to provide the heat, electricity, and
hydrogen required for operation of the biomass-to-fuels production
facilities.
Biomass is produced from sunlight, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and water.
Consequently, using liquid fuels from biomass has no net impacts on carbon
dioxide levels because the carbon dioxide is being recycled to the
atmosphere when the fuel is burnt. The U.S. could harvest about 1.3 billion
tons of biomass per year without major impacts on food, fiber, or lumber
costs.
The energy content of this biomass is about equal to 10 million barrels of
diesel fuel per day; however, the actual net liquid-fuels production would
be less than half of this amount after accounting for energy to process the
biomass into liquid fuel. If nuclear energy is used to provide the energy in
the form of heat, electricity, and hydrogen to support biomass growth and
conversion to liquid fuels, the equivalent of over 12 million barrels of
greenhouse-neutral diesel fuel per day can be produced. The combination of
biomass and nuclear energy may ultimately meet the total U.S. transport fuel
needs."
- (Copy of text on slide 33, above, by Dr. Charles W. Forsberg.)
Conclusion:
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
advanced nuclear energy.
2. In 2006, Nobel Prize winning energy chemist, Dr. George A. Olah, published his influential book: "Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy."
Dr. Olah and his co-authors explored the
different fuels that could be made from captured carbon dioxide;
how they would be made, their advantages, shortcomings, and potential problems.
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Oil-Gas-Methanol-Economy/dp/3527324224
Beyond Oil and Gas - Literature Seminar - Lit_T_Matsumoto_B4.pdf A Japanese slide show presenting a quick overview of Dr. Olah's book.
Beyond Oil and Gas - Methanol Synthesis - Summary by George Olah.pdf Dr. Olah's comments on Methanol Synthesis.
Beyond Oil and Gas - The Methanol Economy - Slide Presentation -
R-Prakash-USC-May2014.pdf A more detailed
presentation.
Dr. Olah's view: Liquid hydrocarbons are a cheaper, safer, and
more energy-dense way to store, handle, and use combustion
energy than gaseous fuels such as hydrogen.
Methanol can be a carbon-neutral lowest common denominator liquid combustion
fuel for making most of the other liquid and gaseous fuels along with
many other substances.
A few of the images used in this website
used to communicate complex technical concepts.
(Click to enlarge.)
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"Recycled Fire".
The key is to use nuclear molten salt's electricity and
1,300°F heat lavishly to solve
combustion energy's Climate Change problems.
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Prosperity stabilizes population. A
carbon-free, nuclear powered, prosperous, smaller population is what the world
needs. Nuclear energy - both the electricity and thermal
kind - is any country's quickest, cheapest pathway to prosperity.
With more cheap power per person, more people will find a way to use that
ambient energy to travel a pathway to prosperity.
The United States spends 10,000 Watt-hour per day per person; Mexico,
2,000 W-hpd; Haiti, 500 W-hpd.
"In energy-poor societies, the energy cost of
pregnancy and of bringing up another child is negligible compared to its labor
contribution, which can start at a very early age. According to Seavoy (1986,
20), “Having many children (an average of four to six) and transferring labor to
them at the earliest possible age is highly rational behavior in peasant
societies, where the good life is equated with minimal labor expenditures, not
with the possession of abundant material goods.”
- Smil, Vaclav. Energy and
Civilization: A History (MIT Press) (Kindle Locations 2455-2458). The MIT Press.
Kindle Edition.
Websites on How to Save the
Climate
(So far, our leaders in the war against Climate
Change are not displaying the public courage and/or strategic thinking of a Montgomery, Patton,
Rommel, Yamamoto, or Zhukov. Windmills seem to be about it.)
(In order of appearance)
1.
http://www.thesolutionsproject.org/ Green Energy
Fascism. Constrained renewable energy powered by Wind Farms and
Solar Gardens. 2015, 2017
2. http://www.roadmaptonowhere.com/
THE MYTH
OF POWERING THE NATION WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY by
Mike Conley and Tim Maloney,
December, 2017
3. Clean Energy Parks Advanced energy technologies. Upgrade unneeded coal power plant sites to produce nuclear electricity, carbon-neutral fossil fuel equivalents, and advanced combustion fuels. 2018
