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Solar Energy Summary

It might be an idea to summarise the *Solar Energy category in Pharoz and put some of these posts into the Becrux (Mimosa) blog with links to the relevant Pharoz posts.The basic categories would be something like: Energy efficiency at a network level Storage of electrical energy Transport of electrical energy Fixing electrical energy Transverse horizontal wind turbines Transition from coal power to renewables (system wide) Carbon dioxide – Removal, transformation and disposal of CO2 Applying usable kinetic energy to spacecraft through remote lasers There is a separate post for each of the broad categories above with links to the relevant Pharoz posts.

Also tagged 'Pharoz', *Solar Energy, Applying, Becrux, Becrux Mimosa, CO, Energy, Fixing, Galaxy, Guide, lines, Removal, storage, The Hitch-hiker, topics, Transition, Transport, Transverse, Yes

2008 01 15 pharoz *Solar Energy Comments Off

Industrial scale CO2 sinks

Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through pre-industrial means, by only planting trees for example, can not keep pace with the carbon dioxide emissions that our modern society is placing in the atmosphere. A carbon dioxide sink is a process that takes carbon dioxide, as well as other things such as water and energy, and turns the chemical components of carbon dioxide into something else.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, Accountable, Actively, atmosphere, changed, CO, co2, dioxide, Energy, Hydrogen, Nuclear, Obviously, PV, Recalcitrant, Removing, Taking CO

2007 10 31 pharoz *Solar Energy Comments (2)

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere

The important point is that renewables are needed to push these power stations into zero CO2 emission power stations or even to turn these power stations into net CO2 sinks.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, ABC TV, Australia, Catalyst, CO, co2, Energy, Finally I, Japan, Peak, power, PV, renewable, solar, stations, With PV

2007 10 01 pharoz *Solar Energy Comments (2)

Hydrogen

One strategy that would keep the efficiency of the power station as it is, and keep the certainty of the carbon power station supply that is required as it is, would be to try to source the energy needs for capturing and processing the wastes of carbon power stations from renewable energy sources.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, Apparently, Australia, Bosch, CO, co2, Energy, Geosequestration, Hydrogen, Incidentally, Managing, power, Reductions, renewable

2007 04 10 Rob2 *Solar Energy Comments (1)

Neutralising CO2 into soot and air

Another option that must have already been considered is to store CO2 from a carbon power station and, rather than burying it, use some extra energy to break it down into harmless components, solid carbon and oxygen gas.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, Bosch, Burying CO, CO, co2, costed, Initially, percentage, Press Club, PV, Sabatier, Sir Nicholas Stern, Surely, waste, Wikipedia, Yesterday

2007 03 29 Rob2 *Solar Energy Comments (1)

Recycled carbon fuel

If we do manage to change over to energy systems with a sizeable electrical storage capacity, and if we can fix most of the energy we use from renewable sources such as solar and we can move that energy around easily and quickly over large distances, then an issue that will arise in a probably surprisingly brief number of years would be what to do with surplus energy.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, CO, Consumers, Energy, fuels, Motor, recycle, Recycled, solar, Water, WWII

2007 01 28 Rob2 *Solar Energy Comments (1)

Cathy Zoi: Let’s follow the Americans on greener energy | Opinion | The Australian

The Australian With respect to today’s challenge of carbon emissions, experience has shown that only when something has a price will it be valued. Volunteer work is often not taken seriously, even if some very important things can only be done through voluntary unpaid work.

Also tagged Americans, Cathy Zoi, emissions, Energy, Let's, Opinion The Australian, price, valued, Volunteer, working

2006 10 18 pharoz Energy Comments Off

A qualitative difference

Some people in the media make a very crude comparison between carbon dioxide emissions and nuclear waste based around the amount of waste produced. Such a simple calculus ignores the relative quality of the waste products, the contexts for those wastes and also the comparitive difficulties in dealing with those wastes.

Also tagged Carbon Cycle, Chemical, CO, Economic, Energy, Extracting, Finally I, I've, James Lovelock, kind, Lateline, Nuclear, Obviously, Pollution, Radioactivity, waste

2006 06 11 Rob Energy Comments (4)

Vessels and water

The electricity grid is obviously a medium for energy, and power stations provide the content – but power stations don’t hold the energy, they flood the grid with energy to match the load. Eventually cars will be run with electric motors – even the hydrogen cars of fuel cells use electric motors – and being able to store energy and move it around is of central importance for solving the energy crisis.

Also tagged *Science, religion and myth, *Solar Energy, EFTPOS, Energy, Entropy, Eventually, information, Machine, medium, Metaphors, moved, movement, Narcissus, Nuclear, people, power

2006 04 30 Rob *Solar Energy
Energy Comments (1)

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies @ MIT

Another 10 percent is produced in the Black Warrior basin of Alabama, and the remaining 5 percent comes from rapidly developing Rocky Mountain coal basins, namely the Uinta basin in Utah, the Raton basin in Colorado and New Mexico, and the Powder River basin in Wyoming.

Also tagged Abandoned, Alabama, Australia, Australia Russia China India Indonesia, basins, Black Warrior, Carbon Capture, CBM, CBM Apparently, Climate Change, CMB, CO, co2, coal, Colorado, Encyclopedia, Energy, New Mexico, Powder River, Raton, Rocky Mountain, San Juan, Sequestration Technologies MIT, Significant, Thus CO, Uinta, United Nations Framework Convention, United States, Unmineable Coal Seams, Utah, Wyoming

2006 01 16 Robert Energy Comments Off

Climate Change Action: Carbon Capture and Storage: What’s that about?

Climate Change Action: Carbon Capture and Storage: What’s that about? It may be that with the carbon trading credits that signing up to the Kyoto Protocol would make available, oil companies and the USA could see a substantial financial benefit in carbon capture and storage – rather than in trying to fire up the nuclear industry.

Also tagged Calvin Jones, capture, Carbon Capture, CCS, Climate Change Action, Energy, Fortunately, Kyoto Protocol, Nuclear, Oil, storage, store, USA, What's

2006 01 16 Robert Energy Comments Off

$30m greenhouse store plan – Business – Business – theage.com.au

$30m greenhouse store plan – Business – Business – theage.com.au “VICTORIA is set to become a leader in fighting climate change with a landmark research project this year that will store greenhouse gas deep underground.The carbon dioxide geosequestration project, a first for Australia, is being driven by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) and will be located in the Otway Basin in western Victoria.

Also tagged Australia, Business, Cooperative Research Centre, dioxide, Energy, gas, Greenhouse, Greenhouse Gas Technologies CO CRC, industry, Otway Basin, The CO CRC, Victoria, year

2006 01 09 Robert Energy Comments Off

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{ Tag Archives } carbon

Solar Energy Summary

Industrial scale CO2 sinks

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere

Hydrogen

Neutralising CO2 into soot and air

Recycled carbon fuel

Cathy Zoi: Let’s follow the Americans on greener energy | Opinion | The Australian

A qualitative difference

Vessels and water

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies @ MIT

Climate Change Action: Carbon Capture and Storage: What’s that about?

$30m greenhouse store plan – Business – Business – theage.com.au

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