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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, carbon, 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, carbon, changed, 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, carbon, Catalyst, co2, Energy, Finally I, Japan, Peak, power, PV, renewable, solar, stations, With PV

2007 10 01 pharoz *Solar Energy Comments (2)

Environmental politics

Perhaps if conventional power stations of today are progressively retrofitted to 1) capture CO2 and temporarily store it, and then 2) strip the carbon out for solid disposal of the carbon, perhaps powered through solar energy, then, perhaps 3) power stations might be able to continue operating as plants to remove CO2 from the atmosphere when they are no longer required for fossil fuel energy production.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, co2, Energy, Finally, Fossil, Freedom, Fuel, Howard, Needless, power, Ruddock, Science, Sentiment, solar, Two-way

2007 09 28 Rob3 *Solar Energy Comments (2)

Generating knowledge

Sometimes with research into novel phenomena or technologies, researchers seem to work backwards. The research dead ends will be forgotten and the knowledge will be presented as if there was a logical straight path through all this research to what we will all know will work in hindsight.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, Australia, Dissolved CO, Economic, Engineering, Howard, Howard's, Keynesian, Mr Responsible, Reagan, Reasoning, research, Scientific, Sometimes, Thatcher, The Howard Government, ways, While Howard, works, Yeah

2007 08 07 pharoz *Solar Energy Comments Off

Playing poker for chips of dry ice

Both the United States and Japan have well established nuclear power industries and it makes sense for them to think about next generation nuclear power, once their current power stations start to be decommissioned.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, Australia, Burying CO, CO What, co2, Commonwealth, emissions, Governments, Howard Government, Japan, Jetsons, Luckily Australia, Maybe, Nuclear, power, research, Sodium, United States, Valiant AP, Visitors, Wasted, Would Mr Howard

2007 05 01 Rob2 *Solar Energy Comments Off

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, carbon, co2, Energy, Geosequestration, Hydrogen, Incidentally, Managing, power, Reductions, renewable

2007 04 10 Rob2 *Solar Energy Comments (1)

Horse-and-cart age cliches

How about wanting nuclear power stations, proposing nuclear power as the main solution for climate change and then feigning a concern about global warming in order to try to get nuclear power plants built?

Also tagged cart, D That, Doing, Energy, global, horse, Howard, Kyoto, Nuclear, people, power, Preparing, Proposition A, Putting, Reversing, Rhetoric, Simple, Stern, That Howard, Using

2007 04 02 pharoz Energy Comments Off

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, carbon, co2, costed, Initially, percentage, Press Club, PV, Sabatier, Sir Nicholas Stern, Surely, waste, Wikipedia, Yesterday

2007 03 29 Rob2 *Solar Energy Comments (1)

Solar Powered closed cycle Gas Turbines

With carbon credits not only will a power utility that owns fields of solar cells be able to sell that electricity to consumers, but with carbon credits there may be a crossover time after which the carbon credits accumulated for solar cells may exceed the cost of installation for those solar cells a solar cell company may make more money from carbon credits for the arrays of solar cells than what it charges its customers for electricity.

Also tagged *Solar Energy, cells, coal, Energy, Fuel, Imagine, natural, Newcastle, Pairing PV, pay, power, PV, solar, Solar PV, Sometimes, Yesterday

2007 02 01 pharoz *Solar Energy Comments Off

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, carbon, Consumers, Energy, fuels, Motor, recycle, Recycled, solar, Water, WWII

2007 01 28 Rob2 *Solar Energy Comments (1)

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

2006 06 11 Rob Energy Comments (4)

Another pro-nuclear op peice

An article in The Age today by the other main pro-nuclear lobbyist Ian Hore-Lacy titled ‘Safely, greenly nuclear’ argues the nuclear power case: “With growing electricity demand coupled with the need to limit greenhouse gas emissions, most countries have nowhere else to go for clean base-load electricity generation than nuclear power. With a local storage capacity, and renewables, we would be able to use MORE energy and stabilise – and eventually reduce – the base-load generation capacity SIMULTANEOUSLY.

Also tagged 'Safely, Adding, base-load, capacity, Charge, DOES NOT WORK That, Doubling, Energy, generation, I'm, Ian Hore-Lacy, INCREASING NEED, Nuclear, problem, Repeat, SIMULTANEOUSLY Optimise, The Age

2006 04 28 Rob Energy Comments Off

Flannery sets deadline to save world – Environment – Specials – smh.com.au

Flannery sets deadline to save world – Environment – Specials – smh.com.au …In what The Independent described as the bleakest assessment yet of the effects of climate change by a leading scientist, Professor James Lovelock said billions would die by the end of the century, and civilisation as we know it would be unlikely to survive.

Also tagged But Dr Flannery, Dr Flannery, Dr Flannery's, emissions, Energy, environment, Expanding, Flannery, gas, Greenhouse, In Australia, Kyoto Protocol, lovelock, Lovelock's, Nuclear, power, Professor James Lovelock, Professor Lovelock's, Putting, PV, Simply, South Australian Museum, Specials, The Independent, The Weather Makers, USA, We've

2006 01 17 Robert Energy Comments Off

End of the world as we know it [not] – World – smh.com.au

End of the world as we know it – World – smh.com.au End of the world as we know it By James Button Herald Correspondent in London January 17, 2006 THE world has already passed the point of no return on global warming, and efforts to slow it may already be doomed, one of Britain’s best-known environmentalists says.

Also tagged Arctic, Australia, Britain's, By James Button Herald Correspondent, China, Earth, Energy, Europe, Gaia, India, January, London, lovelock, Margaret Thatcher, Mmmmmm, professor, Professor James Lovelock, Professor Lovelock, Sadly I, scientist, The Independent, The Revenge, United States, warming, world

2006 01 17 Robert 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, Carbon Capture, CBM, CBM Apparently, Climate Change, CMB, 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

A power station in every home – National – smh.com.au

A power station in every home – National – smh.com.au With limited government incentives, Australians have been slow to install solar power in their homes, writes Louise Williams… Australia’s overwhelming reliance on coal-fired power stations means growing electricity demand is translating directly into increasing greenhouse gas emissions, a fact clearly laid out in the tonnes of CO2 per household on the back of power bills.

Also tagged air-conditioning, Australia, Australia's, Australia-wide, Australian, Australians, December, Energy, Grid-connected, Louise Williams, National, per, power, Since Sydney's, solar, Sydney

2006 01 16 Robert Energy Comments Off

Repressuring – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If oil reservoirs can be mapped, might it be possible to extract oil from one rig, and pump in CO2 from another – in such a way that the crude oil is gradually replaced by CO2 – and once the reservoir is depleted, to seal both bores?

Also tagged co2, Energy, gas, increased, Instead, Kyoto Protocol, MPa, Normally, Oil, recycling, Repressuring, Returning, The Kyoto Protocol, USA, Wikipedia

2006 01 15 Robert Energy Comments (2)

The Australian: Leslie Kemeny: New forum for a clean future [January 10, 2006]

This would even be the case with a booming nuclear industry – ignoring for the moment the other problems with nuclear power generation such as intractable wastes, proliferation, accidents and the potentials for nuclear terrorism.

Also tagged Asia-Pacific Partnership, Australia, China, Clean, Clean Development, climate, Diverting, Energy, India, July, Kyoto, Kyoto Protocol, Leslie Kemeny, Nuclear, partnership, power, South Korea, Sydney, The Asia-Pacific Partnership, The Australian, US China India Japan

2006 01 10 Robert Energy Comments (2)

The Australian: Ruddock refuses to confirm source [November 13, 2005]

The Australian: Ruddock refuses to confirm source “Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has refused to confirm or deny an Islamic supergrass, who has met al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, helped Australian police uncover alleged terrorist cells.

Also tagged 'Wannabe Terrorist' These, Abu Bakr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Aside, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Australia, Australian, Australian Federal Police's Operation Pandanus, Blanket, Howard, Howard Government, Islamic, Laden, Melbourne, Mr Ruddock, News Limited, Nine Network, Osama, people, public, Ruddock, Shane Gregory Kent, STUPID, Terrorist, terrorists, The Australian, They're, Trust, Witness

2005 11 13 Robert Uncategorized Comments Off

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