Argonne has a short paper out outlining a “green” energy solution that looks more plausible than any I’ve seen for a while. If you take “carbon” seriously (I don’t but I’m in something of a minority on that) you should read this. If you don’t, however, and do take peak oil or oil independence seriously then you should still read it.<\/p>\n
For Green Freedom<\/a> the basic idea is that you take a nuclear power plant for its supply of electricity and steam. With that you use a potassium\/carbon compound CO2<\/sub> + water + hydrogen via electrolysis to combine in a process that produces methanol which is then in turn further processed to a synthetic gasoline. Basically the nuclear reaction\/energy drives a reaction reclaming carbon and O2<\/sub> from the air to form that gas, which is then burned in cars re-releasing that carbon back to the atmosphere in a completely carbon neutral process. It is not of course energy\/lite, but that isn’t the point here.<\/p>\n The paper suggests some economics, but basically a price point for gasoline right about where it is now, makes installation of new plants feasible.<\/p>\n Of course the anti-nuclear stance of the left is a religious position, data on Gen III<\/a> and Gen IV <\/a>nuclear power generation will be of no interest or use in discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Argonne has a short paper out outlining a “green” energy solution that looks more plausible than any I’ve seen for a while. If you take “carbon” seriously (I don’t but I’m in something of a minority on that) you should read this. If you don’t, however, and do take peak oil or oil independence seriously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,16,17,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t