Ccycling
- the end of the climate catastrophe
A feasibility study
© Bernd Upnmoor 21. 03. 2007
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source allowed.
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Ccycling - The End of the Climate Catastrophe
INDEX
3.
Materializing of the Ccycling
10.
How long - atmosphere through TPPs?
11.
How to store the collected CO2?
12.
How much ppmv CO2 per year?
14.
The result and the beginning
15.
Some additional considerations – Soloil
Annex 2: Freshwater Production
Annex 3: The financing of the
Ccycling
Annex 4: The Organization of the
Ccycling
Summary
How do we
get independent from the fossil fuels, retain the advantages of the present
technology, dispose of the exhaust fumes of four generations and nevertheless
enter the solar age of the third millennium seamlessly and fast? The answer is
contained in this study.
We stop the
climate catastrophe before it gets catastrophic in just one generation. Each
one who is interested becomes a shareholder in an organization that constructs
a system for sun energy production for all mankind. The carbon of the combusted
fossils is recycled from the atmosphere with sun energy to oil by sun energy,
to ‘soloil’ for renewed combustion in the cars and power plants worldwide. The
conventional technology for this recycling process already exists. We just need
to take the initiative.
The long
text following can be read in three ways:
1. Quick-readers just read the
bold-formatted text and thus get an overview over the main statements.
2. More interested readers read the
normal-formatted text too.
3. Those, who want to
check and calculate this feasibility study, additionally read the
small-formatted text. Thus they achieve the total understanding of this project
and the certainty to bring in their money ingeniously.
0. Foreword
We are standing at the beginning of a climate catastrophe. We have
suspected this since approximately 1970. Since approximately 1990, the facts
were clear for each one interested. The last doubters were probably convinced
by 2006 and the professional hypocrites will fall silent gradually. All realizations
of the scientists and also our own experiences with the ‘Century’ summers,
storms, precipitations, floods, landslides, glacier meltdowns, etc. leave no
more doubts. The weather extremes and their consequences will increase further,
because the carbon-dioxide concentration of the atmosphere is too high to give
a stable climate and its temperature rises inexorably further. A mere reduction
of the CO2-outlet lets the catastrophe increase further. It cannot
stop the catastrophe and can not reverse it at all.
What is therefore to be done if we do not want to endure this fate any
further and if we do not want to let it aggravate any further either?
In this text I - a diploma-physicist - describe
here how we can stop the climate catastrophe with relatively low expenditure
within 30 years and then can reduce it again and even eliminate it.
We
therefore capture the CO2 from the atmosphere. We can reduce it
again into carbon, into C, and we can deposit it as C. Then, when the catastrophe has been
reversed, we commence with the cycle process, the recycling of the carbon,
as acronym C-recycling or even more shortly ‘Ccycling’ for being able to use
further our optimized combustion technology – just without its faulty aspects.
The
carbon from the fossils mainly from coal, from petroleum and from natural gas by
combustion is released into the atmosphere as CO2 and is collected
again from it with solar energy. The collection of the CO2 from the
atmosphere takes three years after completion of this project. It is reduced to
C and it is stored at first as anthracite, as solid coals.
We then - with the same technology - build
a new energy production and distribution system for the entire mankind. It
changes the solar energy into technically usable energy. The surface of
approximately 2 million square kilometres is covered with particular sun collectors
at the edges of the deserts of all continents, for each human approximately 330
m2. The collected energy is transformed into electric energy,
then directly into chemical energy in form of hydrocarbons, that is petrol,
gasoline, diesel fuel or fuel oil, and also in pure carbon in the form of
coal or anthracite for deposition.
The
liquid fuel is distributed with pipelines worldwide, the electric current made from it in the
cities of the world is distributed over shorter distances with high voltage nets,
and the coal is secured in deposits for the future. The carbon is Ccycled from the
CO2 of the atmosphere. Without the carbon in the form of CO2
from the air this simple Ccycling would not work: The CO2 is the pure
and easily accessible carbon treasure of mankind like it is for life itself. Life
recycles its carbon and likewise we will recycle our industrially produced CO2
with our technology. With this treasure we can achieve a planetary wide energy
flow, its source being the sun.
1. Concrete
We
take for example one trillion (1012; US-counting used here: 1 billion in European
counting = 1 million millions) Euros (€) per year, gathered from less
than 5 percent of the income of all sufficiently earning people of this earth. With it we erect 6.000 sun power
plants each of 1.000.000 kilowatts in the desert regions of the earth in the
course of 30 years.
That
is a total price of approximately 5.000 €/ human being, or 167 € per human
being and year for the duration of 30 years, or of 46 cents per day for
everyone. - The
world national product 2006 amounted to 44,4 trillion dollars (44,4 x 1012
US$); 5% of it are 2,2 trillion dollars. That is much more than the required
money quantity per year.
This is a ‘Mankind Project’: The entire mankind is affected by the
catastrophe. 5.000 Euros/ human being within a generation is not much, for
smaller organizations or states 1 trillion Euros per year however is very much
- ‘too much’.
The sun power
plants optimally suited for this purpose are Thermic Power Plants, ‘TPPs’,
also called upcurrent power plants, solar updraft towers, solar chimneys, solar
towers or Solar Aero-Electric Power Plants, SAEPPs. These are very big, open,
circular greenhouses with glass roof and with a high chimney in the centre that
generate strong updraft through warming of air, therefore through ‘Thermic’.1)
Several turbines with current generators are at the bottom of the chimney of
the TPP. With the wind, generated by the pressure difference between outside
and inside, the TPP generates electric energy in the current generator. Simultaneously,
the CO2 is filtered out of the used air, and it is transformed to
carbon ‘C’ with the generated energy. For this purpose inside of the TPP a
felt textile is put up, through which rinses down a watery solvent for CO2.
It picks up the CO2 from the used air.
1) For descriptions
and images:
http://www.solarmillenium.de/ > Technologie > Aufwindkraftwerke; >Fakten;
& >Funktionsweise; & >Pilotprojekt;
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermikkraftwerk
The CO2
is reduced to carbon, to ‘C’ in a chemical process. This process needs the same
energy that becomes free, when carbon is burned. This energy is available from
the sun through the TPPs.
The
carbon is final-deposited in non corroding steel or concrete receptacles. In
35 to 60 years (according to urgency) from the beginning of the project for 30 trillion
Euros not only the climate catastrophe is eliminated but even the CO2-level
of the atmosphere of 1880 is restored. Thereafter the solar energy is
available to mankind as solar generated fuel oil,
as ‘soloil’, or as electric current or in any other form - including Ccycling
- with one kilowatt per human being. The maintenance costs of the TPPs
are very low, far under 1 cents per kilowatt hour, for example 0,32 c/ kWh 2).
2)
Aufwindkraftwerke: Jörg Schlaich; FVS Themen S. 85 - 89; 2002;
The big investment
was invested already in the long time stable installations. Fuel costs do not
accrue, because the sun shines gratuitously for us all and gives its energy
free of charge to us all. This energy system belongs to mankind, because
they paid it with ‘5 percent’ themselves – without making debts.
If
something like a so-called ‘ice age’ or another atmospheric crisis ever should
come again, then the so generated carbon depots stand ready in order to warm up
the climate again by finely dosed combustion, if it is wished then. They are
fast accessible energy reserves likewise, if unexpectedly more energy is
required than was installed.
Mankind
hereby attains control over the temperature of the climate of our spaceship,
the earth, by being able to correct the deviations from the average of that
climate in which we as humanity have been evolving.
We get
out of the atmosphere the surplus carbon share of 170 billion tons, that is 28,3
tons of carbon per human being - and that already was all! That is a cubus with
sides of 2,44 m, a small room, and that is the threat of mankind! For how long
will we want to go on suffering and dying from it?
Each of
the 6 billion people must raise 258.000 kWhs for it in order to even out the
disused atmospheric dump of mankind's last four generations (including our own).
For
investment costs of 2 cents per kilowatt hour, we can eliminate the climate catastrophe
(5.000.00 c/ 258.000 kWh = 1,94 c/ kWh):
5.000
€ / human being altogether for the end of the climate catastrophe and also simultaneously
for the erection of a new, additional, complete, world-wide, decentralized,
non-polluting, secure, compatible, solar, long-lasting and furthermore Ccycel-capable
energy system almost without operating costs: - A dream to be materialized!
The
climate catastrophe not only can be stopped completely with it in approximately
three years after completion of the project but the atmosphere even can be
restituted again, in that all of the superfluous CO2 will be removed
from it.
Incidentally: In order to become free from fossil energy with nuclear
energy, we accordingly needed 6.000 Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs)
with 1 GW or one million kilowatts each. As the nuclear power was installed on
earth, it was said conciliatorily: Statistically only each 10.000 years there
will be a ‘Greatest Reasonable Accident’ a GAU. The ‘greatest reasonable
accident’ in Tchernobyl in the year 1986 proved this statistical statement
emphatically and concretized its meaning.
Today, approximately 440 nuclear power plants work on earth.
10.000 Years/ 440 NPPs = 22,7 years: This is the average time from
‘greatest reasonable accident’ to ‘greatest reasonable accident’. 1986 + 23
years = 2009. Someday soon, a ‘greatest reasonable accident’ will take place
again statistically on earth.
With 10.000 years / 6.000 NPPs = 1,67 years/ ‘greatest reasonable
accident’ mankind's sorrow would be indescribably big. Which clear-headed human
being wishes himself and his family such a future? Just money-driven minds who
want to get their share from money already invested in nuclear technology can
respect their money more than mankind’s destiny. The investments for NPPs would
be bigger than for the equal power of TPPs - and in 70 years the Uranium
deposits of earth are exhausted anyway…
The
following detailed text shows that the idea of the Ccycling is practicable. It
is a ‘feasibility-study.’ It is written in a way that it is relatively easily
legible for scientifically not trained people too.
Here are
the abbreviations, figures and rules that I use in this text:
This text was translated from German into English by me, so that more
people can obtain information about Ccycling. It is broken English, but
sufficient to understand the information. Whoever feels inclined to correct it
is very welcome. Please do not confuse the English style with the content!
The newly created term ‘Ccycling’ for the concept ‘Carbon Recycling’
is spoken like the English word ‘Recycling’, but with the English ‘C’ instead
of ‘Re:’ ‘Cee-cycling.’ The regular verb is called ‘to Ccycle.’
The newly created term ‘soloil’ for ‘fuel oil generated by solar energy’
is also pronounced English.
I use the abbreviations ‘TPP’ for ‘Thermic Power Plant’, ‘CO2’
for ‘carbon-dioxide’ and ’C’ for ‘carbon.’ I use numbers like in the German and
international convention: The comma ‘,’ is the decimal point, the point ‘.’
marks each three powers of ten, e.g. one million point zero = 1.000.000,0, following
the International System of Measurement Units.
I use the units ‘a’ for ‘year,’ ‘d’ for ‘day,’ ‘h’ for ‘hour’ and ‘s’
for ‘second.’ I use the units of ‘ppmv,’ ‘parts per million volume,’ measured
per one million parts after its volume and ‘ppmm,’ ‘parts per million mass,’
measured per one million parts after its mass.
1 ppmv is 0,001‰ of the volume, 1ppmm is 0,001‰ of the mass.
I mostly use the energy units ‘kW’ for ‘kilowatt’ of power
(energy/ time) and ‘kWh’ for ‘kilowatt hour’ of energy, because they are
the clearest for each human being. I use the unit ‘GW’ for ‘Gigawatt’
(109 W = 1 million kilowatts) additionally.
‘1-GW-TPP’ means: One Gigawatt Thermic Power Plant.
I use ‘x’ as multiplication symbol and ’/ ‘ as ‘division’ symbol.
The symbol ‘| x' or ’| /' means: I multiply or divide the last equation
with the hereupon following expression.
I use the round number of 6 billion as number of the now living
people.
Since I had recognized the actuality of the climate catastrophe in the
year 1990, I frequently thought about how it is to be remedied. On a car ride
in the year 1992 the idea for this project came to me, when I had sufficient
time in order to weigh up the principles of this catastrophe thoroughly.
I publish it now in 2007 because I hope that the time for this idea
finally came.
If ten million Euros are met, then the planning of the details can
begin, if half a billion (= 500 million) Euros are met, the construction of the
first TPP can begin as a pilot project and for the energy production of the following
other TPPs of the first 1-GW-TPP. If it should be used for the energy supply, then
it admittedly does not contribute to the end of the climate catastrophe, but at
least it decreases the output of CO2 through the energy won with it
like any other non fossil power plant, just with more energy per invested
money. Each investor hereby is called upon to start with it now.
In this text I describe the future of this idea in indicative because
the most favourable idea will prevail.
2. The present
situation
Since
approximately 1990, it was clear that mankind caused an eco-catastrophe that
almost is irreversible: Through the combustion of fossils that consist of
carbon or carbon compounds, CO2 comes into the atmosphere that lets
through the visible rays of the 6.500 Kelvin hot sun, but as greenhouse gas it absorbs
the very long-wave infrared-rays of the 300 Kelvin warm earth. So the energy
remains on the earth and can be emitted less effectively into space.
At the
beginning of the industrial age by 1750, even still by 1880, just four
generations ago, there were 280 ppmv (280 parts per million volumes) CO2
in the air, in 2005, it was 380 ppmv CO2, an increase by +36 percent
compared to the starting value, by more than one third of the natural share.
The annual increase amounts approximately to 1,5 - 2 ppmv / year at the
beginning of the third millennium.
Mankind
burns the carbon of the anthracite and the hydrocarbons of the petroleum and
natural gas in order to generate energy. This used energy including their waste
heat can be disposed of without problems from the earth as infrared radiation
into space. This energy is not the problem.
The
chemical waste, the ‘airy ash’ of the combustion that is the carbon dioxide,
now provides, however, that the sunlight itself can be disposed of no more.
The sun
as source of energy radiates 1,37 kilowatts per square meter earth surface. Of
those is emitted again 37 percent as visible light: The Albedo of the earth amounts
at the moment to 37 percent. 63% are absorbed by the earth and heat it.
That
is 108 trillion kilowatts per earth, therefore approximately 18.000 kilowatts
of duration performance per human being.
The calculation to this is like follows:
The surface of the sun-shone earth corresponds to a circle-disk with the
diameter of the earth:
dErd2
x π / 4 = (12.600 km)2 x 0,785 =
= 158.760.000 x 106
m2 x 0,785 ≈ 125.000 x 109 m2
With the performance of the sun of 1,37 kilowatts/ m2 (in the
distance of the earth from the sun) follows:
| x 1,37 kilowatts/ m2 = 171.250 x109 kilowatts/
earth incident radiation
With the absorption of the earth of 63 percent follows:
| x 0,63 = 107.888 x 109 kilowatts/ earth radiation absorbed
Divided through 6 billion people:
| / 6 x 109 people = 17.981 kilowatts/ human being ≈
18.000 kilowatts/ human being
The sun beams on the earth 24 hours per day. This therefore is the
duration performance.
About
one percent of it additionally heats up the earth now, every year
proportionally somewhat more, tendency: Over the years constantly further
increasing without end, until we stop it, or better, until we invert it.
The estimate calculation to the warming of the earth is:
The energy radiation E of a body is proportional to the fourth power of
ten of its absolute temperature T: E ~ T4. The earth warmed in the
last decades by approximately +1°C, from approximately T1 = 300K to
approximately T2 = 301K:
T24 / T14 = 3014 K4
/ 3004 K4 = 8,2085 x 109 / 8,1 x 109
= 1,0134 = +1,34 percent. The energy radiation increased by approximately 1,3
percent through the temperature increase of +1°C.
The difference between in-radiation and out-radiation leads to the warming.
The out-radiation increases through the warming.
The
additional insulation of the earth through the CO2 increases the
temperature of the earth. Therefore the out-radiation increases, to bring it
again into a new balance with the always constant in-radiation of the sun. If
the insulation becomes stronger, so the temperature must increase accordingly
further. This simple energetic consideration exposes all claims that the
climate change is not existent as frauds.3) This
consideration just uses the universal law of the conservation of energy.
3) http://blog.rainbownet.ch/umwelt/klima-schwindel-die-klimaluge-bei-rtl
, etc.
Mankind
quite naively began a large scale experiment four generations ago with the
spaceship earth without
suspecting that we did this - and still we keep on doing it.
It
consisted of using the fossils, the peat, the lignite, the stone coal, and then
also the petroleum and the natural gas, in order to heat and to run machines with
the energy contained in it. The ash emerging with the combustion was disposed
of. About the waste disposal of the smoke, no one needed to concern, because
the atmosphere of the planet was ‘sufficiently’ big so that it could pick up
the exhaust fumes without side effects. In the atmosphere, through the winds they
were supplied to the plants again, so that they could recycle the smoke.
The sooty skies,
the stench of the industry exhaust fumes,
the ‘sour rain’ and the forest decay,
the fine dust and the increase of allergies,
the extinction of many animal and plant species
were
indications that also the entire planet is overburdened with the waste disposal
of the waste of ten billions of additional ‘horse powers, HP’ (that is 6 billion
people with 1 kW/ human and 1 HP = 735 W = 0,735 kW; 1 kW = 1,36 HP; 1,36 HP x
6 x 109 humans = 8,2 x 109 HP ≈ 1010 HP/
human).
This large
scale experiment with the spaceship earth went wrong. It leads guaranteed into
the catastrophe. It
already now leads in supply difficulties that shock our whole social system. It
gave already two ‘oil crises’ after 1970. Euphemically so-called ‘preemptive wars’
and euphemically so-called ‘civil wars’ are led about the petroleum areas.
We
now are in the third oil crisis. It began 2006 with the Peak Oil 4), the maximum production
of petroleum on this planet. Since then, the output of the petroleum decreases
principally and inexorably. The market counteracts shortages with price increase.
The petroleum price increases up to the drying up the oil wells, or only as
long as we need this much petroleum - until we become independent from it.
4) A Crude Awakening - The Oil
Crash; A Film by Basil Gelpke und Ray McCormack (P,B,R); CH; 1h22’57”; © 2006
Lava Productions AG; www.oilcrashmovie.com
http://www.peakoil.net/; http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/oils-end/
http://www.energywatchgroup.org/fileadmin/global/pdf/2007-12_EWG_Oelstudie_kurz_d.pdf
This end of the petroleum age is withheld on purpose from the population
so that the price increase can continue as long as possible. Now, the time of
the really big profits of the petroleum companies begins, because it was missed
on purpose to invest big into alternative energy forms so that we get involved
into a shortage of the energy.
It must
be acted anyway, in fact in quite big scale and very fast.
The
concrete question is:
How
do we get independent from the fossil fuels, retain the advantages of the present
technology, dispose of the exhaust fumes of four generations and nevertheless enter
the solar age of the third millennium seamlessly and fast?
The
emphasis is on the word ‘fast’, because a retarded development like
until now costs too much: Human lives, species lives, labor and quality of life
- and also money.
I
propose a project here that stops the situation in a way not thought of until
now and that even can turn it back. I portray the project with elaborate calculations
so extensively that each reader himself can check exactly that this project
actually is successfully practicable. Because each reader should be
intentionally willing, having thoroughly read the text, to pay this project
voluntarily with 5 percent of his income that is over the poverty line.
I describe many details, so that they - after publication of this text -
are no more patentable, if they possibly could have been patentable previously.
I show
the feasibility at first and afterwards (in Annex 3) the financiability of the Ccycling
project. It contains the following synergically connected part projects:
1. The production of solar energy with 1 kilowatt per human being
2. The collection of CO2 from the air and its storage
3. The CO2-transmutation to C
4. The depositing of the C
5. The transmutation of the C to soloil
6. The distribution of the soloil with pipelines over the whole earth
7. The distribution of the electricity over the whole earth
8. The cultivation of food for all mankind in the TPPs
9. The transportation of the food over the
whole earth (Annex 1)
10. The desalination of sea water (Annex 2)
11. The greening of the deserts of this earth (Annex 2)
3. Some more concrete considerations to the
actualization of the Ccycling
The
locations of the CCyclers should lie at approximately 23° north and 23° south.
The first TPPs should lie with inferior distance to an ocean at the edge of
deserts.
The big
deserts of the earth largely lie approximately at the two tropics near 23°
north and south. There the air masses warmed up at the equator, having rained,
sink down to earth, thereby warm up again and therefore are very dry. The
dryness of this air is the cause of the deserts. At 23° north, they lie in
1. North Africa,
2. the Arabic peninsula and
3. the southwest of North America (Mexico);
at 23°
south, they lie in
4. South Africa,
5. Australia and
6. the west of South America.
7. In Asia, they lie in higher latitude at 40° north east of the Caspian
sea,
8. likewise in the USA in Arizona.
These eight
regions are so gigantic, that it is easy, to find optimized locations and to
equip them with infrastructure. The Sahara alone has a surface of nine million
km2. The most suitable locations lie at stone deserts, in which the
danger of sandstorms is low. (The danger of the sandstorms is low anyway for the
CCyclers, because of the felt material covers around the turbines.) The
locations have strong sun radiation because of a high standing sun in dry air almost
daily. At the tropics, the sun stands in the zenith in the local summer at
noon. In the winter, it stands at 90° - 2 x 23° = 44° over the horizon.
sin 44° = 0,7. The effectivity of the TPPs sinks to a minimum of 0,7 = 70%
at winter solstice.
Until approximately 45° latitude it is possible to erect big TPPs
economically. In the winter, the sun at 45° latitude still stands at noon 90° -
45° - 23,5° = 21,5° above the horizon, in the summer 90° - 45° + 23,5° = 68,5°
above the horizon. The farther the sun stands from the zenith, the surface of
the thermic power plant must become bigger for the same performance (according
to the sinus of the angle from the horizon plus atmospheric extinction), the
other considerations remain the same. At 20° above the horizon the sunlight
must pass three times the amount of air compared to 90°.
The effectiveness
of the utilization is optimal with 23° latitude. The southern TPPs power the
southern hemisphere of the equator as far south as to the South tops of the
continents; the northern TPPs power the northern hemisphere of the earth with
solar energy as far north as to the northern polar circle.
The
CCyclers are almost self sufficient at the beginning of their utilization: Their
energy comes from the sun, their raw material from the air, their final product
C is deposited in their proximity. Only later, the other utilization forms of
the solar energy join:
Pipelines for soloil,
Pipelines for water desalination and desert irrigation,
High voltage networks for the transportation of the electricity in the
near surroundings.
Settlements and cities of a new lifestyle are built around them in the
parks of the again awakening nature having enough water for growing and
flowering.
Only streets
to the building sites, villages for the construction workers and co-workers
with their infrastructure and a water connection with an ocean with two
saltwater pipelines must originate at the beginning of the construction
works, so that the large scale building sites can work and afterwards the
CCyclers too. From the saltwater, freshwater is won and the concentrated
saltwater is disposed again into the ocean - or it is partly used for cheap
production of healthy sea salt.
There
already are different sun power plant types that work with different conversion
principles, some of them tried large scale technically:
Photovoltaic with big silicon surfaces,
Photovoltaic with concentrating mirrors as parabolic furrows with
approximately 30fold concentration and more,
Heating of water or other liquids in parabolic furrows to steam, whose
energy is used by electro generators,
Central towers with a recipient, which is lent to very high temperatures.
Very many flat heliostat mirrors are directed to it.
The effectiveness of their utilization of the solar energy is
approximately 15 percent.
And
there are TPPs, ThermicPowerPlants or UpcurrentPowerPlants, solar updraft towers, solar
chimneys, solar towers or Solar Aero-Electric Power Plants, SAEPPs. 1)2)
I describe them more exactly, because they form the basis of the Ccycling: They
work with big circular surfaces that are roofed with clear glass. The sun radiation
under the glass is absorbed in the ground. The ground becomes heated through
it. It gives off its heat to the air over it.
1)
Descriptions and images:
http://www.solarmillenium.de/ > Technologie > Aufwindkraftwerke; >Fakten;
& >Funktionsweise; & >Pilotprojekt;
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermikkraftwerk
2) Aufwindkraftwerke: Jörg Schlaich; FVS Themen S. 85 -
89; 2002;
The air
is warmed up, expands and so gets thinner and therefore in the middle of the
circular surface the air rises into a very high central ‘chimney’. The air
drives several air turbines with current generators that are at the bottom of
the chimney. The pressure difference at both sides of the turbines is
transformed to energy. In the chimney there is more than a kilometre of heated
air that is thin, around the chimney there is colder and thicker air pressing
the air into the turbines. ThermicPowerPlants are a type of gigantic round greenhouse
that is open at the periphery and has a very high chimney in the middle.
These
power plants can generate energy 24 hours per day, in fact all the more even,
the bigger their heat buffer is. They will form the energy ground load supply
of the earth.
A form of the heat buffer could look like this:
The ground consists of heat storages in form of once filled, extensive water
reservoirs that are less than 1 m deep. They are thermally insulated below and
have covers of dull black electric oxided aluminium with big cooling ribs up to
the air and down to the water that are directional to the center of the TPP.
With these heat storages, the TPPs can work uninterruptedly without sun radiation
with full performance even several days, according to the depth of the basin. They
have a ‘sun storage ground heating’ so to speak.
With 1 m of depth there are 1.000 l H2O / m2 with
1000 cal / (l x °C) = 106 cal / (°C x m2). (1 cal = 1
calory = +1°C for 1ml water)
With 4,2 Ws / cal and 3,6 x 106 Ws / kWh follows: (1 Ws = 1
watt second and 3.600 s/h x 1.000 W/ kilowatt = 3.600.000):
[106 cal/ (°C x m2)] x 4,2 Ws/cal / (3,6 x 106
Ws/kWh) = 3,9 kWh/ °C x m2 of energy storage.
The sun radiation is approximately 1 kW or 1 kWh/ h. With 20°C
temperature reduction of the reservoir, I can drive the TPP without sun radiation approximately
80 hours or 3,3 days.
(3,9 kWh/ °C x m2
x 20°C = 78 kWh/ m2). The heat storage is thermally filled in about a week
and from then on is available for the entire term.
TPPs even work with diffuse sun radiation, because the radiation does not
become concentrated. Buffered through the heat storages the TPP works extremely
economically with almost constant energy output.
The glass roof consists of prefabricated quadratic double glass elements
in modular series production. The glass of the collector surfaces should be
double glass in order to minimize the losses through heat conductivity. The
glass should be anti-reflection coated, so that the reflection losses of
approximately 16% (4 % at each four glass surfaces) are decreased to
approximately 5%. Anti-reflection treatment for optical systems is a series process
that still nevertheless is expensive today, because it is a treatment of a few square
meters per day. If however the glassworks make an anti-reflection treatment for
over 1.000 square kilometres of glass, then, the price per square meter only
amounts to a few cents: The additional expenditure in order to achieve some 10 percent
more effectiveness with the TPPs is worthwhile.
The bearers of the roof are 2 to
10 m high steel armoured concrete pillars with streamlined cross-section
directed to the centre, so that the friction resistance to the airflow is
minimized.
The
usable sun radiation has approximately 1 kilowatt/ m2 for daily
approximately seven hours or 0,29 days, therefore approximately 290 W/ m2
continuous input. The efficiency of big TPPs is low unfortunately,
approximately only 0,7 percent. For smaller collector surfaces, the efficiency
sinks even further.2) Only very big TPPs are therefore economic. However,
by the measures described here, the efficiency can be increased by over 50
percent of the standard value from 0,7 percent to far over 1%:
1. dull-black absorbers from
2. high heat conductivity aluminium with
3. cooling ribs and
4. constant water temperature,
5. anti-reflection
6. double glass,
7. low turbulence formation in the airflow.
A slightly
costlier investment presumably is more favorable with very long terms than a
less effective savings version.
The higher the chimney is the bigger the efficiency, with which the
incident radiation can be used. Since the high heated air column in the interior
of the chimney and also over it is much thinner than the cooler air column,
that surrounds the chimney outside, a hypotension is created in the interior of
the chimney that is all the bigger, the higher the chimney is. It drives the
air upward that streams in below, and it drives in the cooler fresh air at the
outside periphery of the TPPs.
A
practically realizable TPP could have a circular glass surface of 38 km2,
therefore a radius of 3,5 km. The chimney could have a height of one kilometre,
an inner diameter of 120 meters with wall strength of 99 cm below and 25 cm
above. In the interior of the chimney, streamlined pre-stressed steel spokes
are appropriate to the stiffening against torsion forces. The pre-tension
originates through montage of the spokes between an inner ring with small
diameter and the outside ring that is tense at the chimney-outside-wall.
The chimney
seems gigantic at the first moment. It is to be built relatively simply,
however, different than a skyscraper of this height: It has the form of a tube.
It has a height not even eightfold the diameter. The static is simple, the wind
strengths are low. Nevertheless, its foundation must be a big and thick
concrete plate, because the weight of the chimney amounts to approximately 400.000
tons.
This TPP
has a continuous output of approximately 77 kilowatt (without the 7
described methods to the increase of the efficiency. Possibly the continuous
output power will be two times as high.).
13 such
single power plants construct a unit, that has 1-GW = 1 million kilowatts of continuous
output, a ‘1-GW-TPP.’ The diameter of the entire unit is approximately 40
km, comparable to the surface of a city of several million inhabitants. More
than half of the surface serves to the influx of the air into the individual TPPs.
6.000
such units must be erected in order to have 6 billion kilowatts of continuous
output.
The calculation to this:
r = 3,5 km; d = 7,0 km; F = d2 x π / 4 = 49 km2 x 0,785 = 38,5 km2
= 38,5 x 106 m2 collector surface of a TPP
│x 290 W / m2 = 11,2 x 106 kilowatts
incident performance
│x 0,7 percent of efficiency = 78 kilowatts of continuous output per
TPP
│x 13 TPPs = 1.015.000 kilowatts = 1,02 GW. 1 million kilowatts of
continuous output of the installation.
38,5 km2 x 13 = 500,5 km2 = collector surface of
the 1GW-TPP
D = 40 km; Ftotal = 402 km2 x π / 4 = 1.256 km2 total surface of the 1GW-TPP
/ 325 km2 = 2,51-times.
6.000 x 1.256 km2 = 7.536.000 km2; │ / 2,51
= 3,0 million km2 collector surface of the Ccycling Project
6.000 x 1 million kilowatts = 6 billion kilowatts / mankind
The surface of the earth is 510.000.000 km2.
3.000.000 km2 / 510.000.000 km2 = 0,00588 = 5,9‰. The
collector surface is 0,6 percent of the surface of the earth.
The used
materials are concrete, glass, steel and aluminium as immovable, once to build
structure and additionally the classic turbines with current generators as
single moving parts. Concrete and glass are products that can be produced
simply and cheaply on the whole earth. The energy required to their manufacture
can already be delivered by the first TPPs. For the realization of this mankind
project, the accordingly big production places must be erected at the borders
of the deserts of the continents.
The main
wear-parts are the turbines with current generators with very long terms until
the next maintenance like in conventional power plants. They furthermore run
day and night with constant performance; therefore they run wear-poor. And they
run very slowly. One takes several turbines for one TPP, so that each one is
small and cheap and that the others keep on working if one should fail. The
turbines are Kaplan turbines that collect energy from the pressure difference
of the moving air. They are tested in water power plants worldwide since 1913.5)
5) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan-Turbine
The
most important cost factor of a TPP is the labor that is needed mainly for the
construction and afterwards only to a very low extent for the operation and for
the maintenance.
A part of the maintenance is the cleaning of the glass roof. A roboter
for high-pressure water cleaning, that sucks up the water with the mud again,
with 10 m of width and a speed of one meter per second cleans on one day, consisting
of 24 x 60 x 60 s = 86.400 seconds: 864.000 m2 = 0,864 km2,
therefore in one month it cleans over 25 km2 glass roofs. Such a
cleaning machine, that is sufficiently light-weight, belongs to each TPP in
order to be able to drive on the glass roof. Experience has shown that the
glass is cleaned automatically by the wind. So this roboter is more than
sufficient.
TPPs
work with conventional, long tried technology (greenhouse and turbine generator).
They are long time stable. They now are already - positioned in deserts -
more favorable than conventional fossil power plants and essentially more
favorable than nuclear power plants.
Tornado power plants are a possible advancement of the TPP. In them the
air in the chimney is caused to rotate quickly. By this means it is assured
that the whirlwind rising quickly into the atmosphere stays there over the
chimney for some hundreds of meters. So the chimney is virtually much higher
than the concrete tower. The effective height of the chimney multiplied with
the surface of the glass roof collector defines the efficiency of the TPP.
Another possibility to increase the output power with less investment
costs could be to use a plastic tube on top of the concrete chimney, its
walls consisting of two layers of plastic filled with air with excess pressure
for stiffening. Experiments in that direction are made. Its opening in the
atmosphere could be lifted up with a stationary Helium balloon fixated
with three ropes.
Another possibility to increase the efficiency of a TPP consists in the
combination with the principle of the fall wind power plant or catabatic
wind power plant, that is applied here vice versa (therefore outside): The
vaporization of freshwater generates vaporization cold. It makes the air
cooler, therefore denser; therefore it effects a higher pressure outside the
chimney. If spray nozzles for freshwater are installed at the outsides of the
chimney of the TPP and through it cool the outside air that therefore becomes
denser, then the pressure difference between the warm air that streams in the interior
of the chimney and the cooled down outside air rises. The turbines are driven
more strongly according to the greater pressure difference. The outside air
already is cooler over the glass roof than the environment air of the desert area
anyway, because the glass roof consists of double glass so that it remains cool
outside. The sun radiation is absorbed only in the ground in the interior.
Glass is impermeable for long-wave infrared radiation; the inner glass warms by
the warmth of the air and by the infrared radiation of the ground and the
outside glass remains cool (‘greenhouse effect’). The heat remains in the interior
of the glass roof.
TPPs constructed on slopes
For the northern hemisphere of the earth the
following description is correct, for the southern hemisphere ‘south’ is to be
replaced by ‘north’:
At southern slopes of valleys
or also of hills in the flat landscape TPPs are asymmetric: The glass roofs of
a TPP are parallel to the slope with the chimney at the top of the hill. The
glass roofs have an opening in the valley and they are closed at the sides and
the chimney is not in the middle of the glass roof but at the highest point of
the slope that is falling down to the south. In this way, the height of the
slope can be used in addition to the altitude of the chimney and the narrowing
of the slope in direction to the top serves for the concentration of the air
and therefore of its pressure.
In the plain this concentration
is achieved by planting the chimney in the centre of the roof in form of a
circle.
The slope in southern direction
also has a better angle to the sun so that these places are to be preferred to
flat surfaces.
There are other sun power plants that work essentially more effectively
than the TPPs, calculated in output power to input radiation of the sun.
Efficiencies of 15 percent already are exceeded. But calculated as ‘investment
in money’ to ‘continuous output’, measured in Euros / kilowatt nevertheless the
TPP possibly has the lowest number, because the investment in square meters
of double window glass probably can not be undercut. Also the maintenance costs
are extremely low because of the simple wind turbines with current generators,
exactly like with the technically ripe normal wind power plants. Likewise, the
long-time stability probably is not surpassable, because of the simplicity
of the TPPs. Practically no ‘high tech’ is used. On the other hand the big
surface used by the TPPs is especially good for the collecting of air for the recycling
of the CO2.
Nevertheless it should be considered whether the energy of other sun
power plants cannot be shared in order to use it in the conversion of C from CO2
if the CO2 was already gathered by the TPPs.
4. Collecting and
transmuting of the CO2 from the air
The
energy capacity is the prerequisite for the second and third step of this
mankind project: Collecting of the CO2 out of the air and its transmutation
to C.
The air
that streams into the TPP is led through liquid chemicals in the inside of the
installation, for example through a watery solution of Lithiumhydroxid (LiOH)
or alternatively through soda-lye (Natriumhydroxid, NaOH) or through lime-water
(Ca(OH)2). These materials bind the CO2, with which
they come in connection.
A felt material
curtain is vertically fixed at the glass roof construction and at the ground
around an inside periphery of the TPP. The liquid for the absorption of the CO2
is supplied by the edge of the glass roof and slowly runs vertically downward in
the felt material from above through its weight. The air streams horizontally through
this felt into the TPP. This felt with the absorption liquid works like a
filter, that binds the CO2, but lets the air pass through. It
decreases the effectiveness of the TPP a little because an inferior pressure difference
prevails on both sides of the felt material. Furthermore, some water is
evaporated at the passageway of the air. The air becomes somewhat cooler
through it.
The
hypotension in the interior of the TPP drives the air through the moist felt. The
liquid gathers in grooves below the felt filter, and comes to the chemical
processing of the CO2, while the regenerated liquid streams anew through
the felt.
The absorption liquid as addition to the water is necessary, because the
solubility of CO2 in water (from air with 1 bar) is 0,5 mg/ l (at
20°C); approximately 0,2 mg/ l at the higher desert temperatures.) Here is the
calculation:
With 380 ppmv CO2 in air, a m3 = 106 cm3
of air contains 380 cm3 CO2.
CO2 has a density of 1,98 kg / m³ (under normal conditions),
air has1,293 kg / m3.
(1,98 kg/ m3) / (1,293 kg/ m3) = 1,53.
The mass
parts per millions ppmm of the CO2 in the atmosphere are 1,53-fold
the ppmv.
It is therefore 380 ppmv x 1,53 = 582 ppmm (parts per millions masses)
CO2 in the air. 1 m3 air contains 380 cm3 CO2
or 582 mg CO2. With pure water as solvent, one needed for this
quantity 582 mg CO2 / 0,2 mg/l = 2.907 liters ≈ 3 m3
H2O per m3 air. That is unrealistically much. One
therefore needs another solvent that works more effectively, for example, one
of these above mentioned watery solutions.
Possibly, other procedures are even more suitable, for example the electro
chemical separation or Aluminiosilicates as receivers of the CO2-molecules
or a unification of several of these procedures. However, the collecting-effect
for CO2 with the streaming of the air through the wet felt material
is presumably the biggest and at the same time cheapest method.
Alternatively it could be also done additionally with a mist of the
solvent in an area between two felt material filters if even higher CO2
collecting-effectiveness is wished. The mist is collected with the inner
felt filter.
Because of the wind speeds in the interior of the TPP, the felt material
must be very stable. It can, for example consist of a thick web of micro fibers
from polypropylene, that is reinforced with fiberglass or coal fibers.
With the
gigantic quantities of air, that stream through the felt, the evaporation of
the water is not to be neglected, and the supplies of the water in the desert
must be solved, which is done by the freshwater production that is necessary
anyway.
On the other hand, air with higher humidity is created through it in the
desert regions. The moisture can rain, because the air directly after
moistening reaches a height of several kilometres and cools down very fast very
strongly. This will essentially improve the weather in wind direction behind
the TPPs. Trees, that are planted there, can thrive better through it.
The first forest plantations are therefore positioned in the main wind direction
of the TPPs.
The water
supplies are guaranteed through a double pipeline of non-corroding steel to the
next-situated ocean that is put to any 1-GW-TPP. It leads 3,5% salty sea water
to the TPP. It is pressed at high pressure through ion-filters with solar
energy and so is changed to freshwater. The thinner return-pipeline with
10 percent of the cross-section of the sea water pipeline leads the 10:1 concentrated
saltwater back into the ocean at an outlet sufficiently far away from the inlet,
as well as to salina fields in the coast region, in which the sea salt is
harvested that was up-concentrated with solar energy. With the saltwater pipelines,
it also is secured that enough water is available for the construction and for
the workers.
During the construction phase of the first TPP of a group, however, the
energy must be available through a small extra-power plant for the construction
and for the water desalination. After completion of construction this
conventional power plant can be removed to the next construction site.
Later, when
the atmosphere has the wanted CO2-concentration, the freshwater production
can be one of the main goals of the TPPs in order to make the deserts fertile
and afterwards also, in order to lift the ground-water level under the deserts
again - another century project that then is possible to be realized.
(Compare
Annex 2: Freshwater Production)
It
can be necessary, to erect TPPs for the production of freshwater for the supply
of the inhabitants of arid zones independently from the Ccycling, because of
the water shortages in many areas of the world.
There
are more greenhouse gases than CO2, for example Methane CH4,
from the warming permafrost grounds and from other sources: The nitrogen of the
air - it is no greenhouse gas - can be processed to nitrogen-fertilizer. If
this is done, the nitrogen is secreted from the air by fractional distillation
of liquified air. In this case it is easy to sequester all the other Green
House Gases too. In the process of air
liquefaction and fractional distillation for nitrogen production the other GHGs
(CH4, N2O, O3, CFCs,…) can be collected too by
fractional distillation, practically without additional costs. In the
chemical factory they are treated differently: CH4 is combusted and
the energy is used, the other GHGs are transformed to nitrogen, oxygen and to
harmless inert solid products. But they can only be collected from a part of
the air, because the cooling of the air is very energy consuming. The CO2
in contrary can be extracted from all of the used air.
From the
watery solution, the CO2 is processed further with chemicals that
reduce the carbon at 1000°C.
The reaction-equation is:
CO2 + 393 kJ/ mol <=> C + O2
(‘kJ/ mol’ is called 'kilojoule per mol.' 1 kilojoule is one
kilowatt-second; 1 mol is the atomic weight as well as the molecular weight in
grams. This conversion-equation runs in both directions (<=>): To CO2
with the combustion (<=), to C + O2 through the Ccycling (=>).
The conversion of kJ or kilowatt-seconds to the unit kilowatt-hour, that
is more current in daily life, is:
393 kJ = 393.000 Ws │ / (1000/k x 3.600 s/h) = 0,1092 kWh. The
reaction-equation therefore is rewritten:
CO2 + 0,1092 kWh/ mol => C + O2
The mol is the atomic or the molecular weight in grams:
C has 12 mol, O has 16 mol, O2 therefore has 32 mol and CO2
44 mol. The equation therefore further rewritten is:
44 g CO2 + 0,1092 kWh <=> 12 g C + 32 g O2
12 grams
carbon therefore yield approximately 0,1 kWh with their combustion.
The
conversion of 440 g
CO2 to 120 g C + 320 g O2 therefore costs
approximately 1 kWh.
This is
the reverse step to the combustion. Because of this relatively very large
energy quantity it is too much CO2 in the air at all. Therefore,
mankind uses this reaction since centuries. The 0,1092 kWh/ mol are won with
the combustion, that is the exothermic process that the industry uses - and
with the C-production, they must be inserted into the conservation of the high
temperature so that the endothermic reaction can run in the reverse direction.
Whichever type of chemical conversion is chosen: All processes lead to the giving/
receiving of this energy quantity.
The Bosch process produces C directly in that it burns hydrogen at an
iron catalyst between 530°C and 730°C with CO2: (The hydrogen is previously
energy-lavishly produced for example through electrolysis of water)
CO2 + 2 H2 => C + 2 H2O
+ heat
This procedure generates carbon directly. It then is pressed strongly
and is deposited as anthracite coal.
The Sabatier process transmutes CO2 to methane at a nickel or
cobalt catalyst in an inter-step between 300 and 400°C:
CO2 + 4 H2 => 2 H2O
+ CH4 + heat
Possibly this process is the suitable one in order to produce fuel
oil - soloil.
5.
ThermicPowerPlants are ideal for Ccycling
In
ThermicPowerPlants, TPPs, large air masses are warmed up, whose buoyancy is
converted into air speed, whose energy drives the turbines that are coupled
with current generators. From these air masses, the CO2 can be extracted
simultaneously during the process of the energy production. The produced energy
immediately flows into the chemical conversion-reactions.
In this
project, the power plants primarily do not serve the production of energy but
the production of carbon in very large scale. They must therefore be optimized
for this purpose and must have big dimensions, so that they can be effective.
The TPP-production
of a standard type takes place in series production at the conveyor belt in
module construction manner (for example: 6000 1GW-TPPs x 13 TPPs/ 1-GW-TPP =
78.000 TPPs). With
this method the construction costs can be lowered essentially compared to the
construction of one single TPP. Likewise, the speed, with which the TPPs can be
erected, accelerates. That is important.
The
modules, their number and their construction are optimized according to increasing
knowledge while producing.
It is ingenious
to form groups of several such 1-GW-TPPs (One-Gigawatt-ThermicPowerPlants) as
suppliers around a central chemistry factory that produces the carbon and deposits
it. The infrastructure of the chemistry factory and the receptacles of the
depot, the pipelines and the high voltage managements, the saltwater pipelines
and the desalination installations are needed only once in that structure. If
one component fails, the others can jump in.
The (for
example) 20 times 1-GW-TPPs of a group are arranged in a line 90° to the
normally prevalent wind direction in the respective region, so that each 1-GW-TPP
can suck in ‘unCcycled’ ground air - comparably like today large wind power
plants are arranged, so that each of them receives the original wind without
whirls from its neighbors. The ‘unCcycled’ air slowly pouring in horizontally
still contains the full CO2-content, the exhaust air in
approximately 1 km height streaming out with high vertical speed has only a
very strongly reduced CO2-content.
Any 1-GW-TPP
is planned in a way that it can be enlarged without problems later by simple
enlargement of the base, by mounting of stronger generators with changed
turbines or through further TPPs that are erected at the outskirts of a 1-GW-TPP.
Supposed
the felt curtain with the absorption liquid has a diameter of 500 meters around
the centre of the chimney, the surface outside of it is usable additionally
as a real greenhouse for growing plants – leading to a slightly lesser amount
of produced energy. We have the option to choose, which we want more and
can construct the TPPs or just some of them to real greenhouses for mankind’s
food production. The circle inside the felt curtain has just a small amount of
CO2 anymore, so plants will not grow there. 99,5% of the total
surface of a TPP is usable for food production. So about 38 km2 are
usable for food production. The calculation is:
(7.000 m)^2 x 3,14/4 – (500 m)^2 x 3,14/4 = 38,5 km^2 – 0,2 km^2 = 38,3 km2 = 99,5%.
The wind
speed at the chimney is about 7 to 15 m/s = 4 to 7 Beaufort, that is breeze to
moderate gale. Maintenance of the turbines and the chimney is possible and the
force of the wind pressure to the curtain material is manageable.
With
13-times 6.000 TPPs (= 6.000 1-GW-TPPs) we therefore have a possible greenhouse
surface of over
13 x
6.000 x 38 km2 = 2.964.000 km2 | / 6.000.000.000 people =
= 0,000494
km2 / human = 494 m2 / human being.
This
arable land with sufficient water for irrigation is more than sufficient for
the vegetarian life of a human being (1 kg per day), above all, since it is in
best situation and additionally still in the greenhouse with constant, soft air
flow. All the ‘rest’ of the earth surface is free for uncultivated nature as
it is, for parks, for new self-sufficient settlements in the middle of the
loneliness, etc. and for an emergency reserve in case of any grave accident.
The
fertilizer for the gigantic number of plants at the edge of deserts for supply of
the whole mankind can also be produced by the TPPs:
The plant quantity is in the magnitude:
1 kg/ (human being x day) x 6 x 109 human beings = 6 x 109
kg/ day │x 365 days = 2,19 x 1012 kg / a ≈
≈ 2 x 109 t / a = 2 km3 / a
(1 kg / human x d) x 365 d/a = 365 kg / a │ / 494 m2 /
human being = 0,74 kg / (m2 x a)
Per square meter should be harvested 0,74 kg of food per year - in three
to four harvests -. That is very little. Normal profits per harvest are
0,4 to 0,8 kg/ m2 dry-mass of plants or grain mass (for example
wheat), according to 1,6 to 3,2 kg of dried food per 4 harvests.
Therefore the greenhouses are built only at some 25% of the TPPs.
The
nitrogen-fertilizer for the plants is processed from the nitrogen of the air in
the chemistry factory through cooling and liquefaction and through
ammonia-manufacture by the Haber-Bosch process. The high energy consumption of
this procedure, in order to produce the chemical compounds of the nitrogen, is
delivered by the TPPs likewise.
(CompareAnnex 1: Pipes - the global transport system
for food)
6. How long does it take until the necessary energy
capacity is available?
What, if
we start this energy project with one trillion Euros per year and with a high
urgency?
To the comparison: The Iraq war of the USA 2005/06 has cost the taxpayer
of the ‘conqueror’ power in one year over 0,3 trillion U.S.$. The USA contain 5
percent of mankind’s population (0,3 billion people / 6 billion people = 5
percent).
This war corresponds to approximately 6 trillion Euros per year as
financial burden for the whole mankind.
The
organization ‘Ccycling.org’ is established and its funding is regulated, as
soon as more than ten million Euros are met. It is structured strictly logistical.
The
planning starts
for a Standard-TPP in module construction manner with its
infrastructure, (streets, factory-buildings, worker-homes, grids for power,
water, information, …),
for a group of these TPPs with central chemistry factory, (receptacles,
pipelines for salty water and soloil, pipes, desalination-factorys, …),
for the large-scale factories to the manufacture of concrete, glass, armament
steel, noble-steel, aluminium, polyurethane, …,
for the factories, in which the TPP-modules are produced, (window-cases,
concrete-pillars, water-receptacles, cooling-rips, insulations, turbines,
current-generators, steel-blades, towers, …),
for quality-testing,
for the optimal locations in the eight regions of earth.
Big
value is put on optimization of the quality and durability for decades or
better centuries, on corrosion solidity, resistance to wear, etc., because
the TPPs should run generation-long without interruption and breakdowns. Then,
they are the most economical.
Glass
and concrete and steel and aluminium factories are erected everywhere at
central points of desert-near and at the same time ocean-near regions of the
continents. (Polyurethane
can be produced in the chemistry-factories of the Ccyclers.) The streets are
traced. The water pipelines are put. The mass production of the series parts
starts. The turbines and current generators are produced in big numbers of
pieces. The many million of until now unemployed persons are trained to
construction workers and skilled workers world-wide. The building sites are
levelled. And after three years of construction time for a TPP it goes into
operation. The capacity of the concrete , steel , and aluminium factories and glassworks
allows for the maximum speed of the construction.
Everywhere
on earth, the wealth grows. Poverty and hunger and thirst decrease in the
surroundings of the construction sites more and more each year. The building
sites are simultaneous in all eight desert regions of the earth. The beauty
and the benefit of the project cause a zest under all participants, that is
bigger and essentially more justifiable than the one for the project of John F.
Kennedy in the USA 1961 for the ‘lunar-landing in this decade.’
The
participants - that is the whole mankind that takes their way out of the
climate catastrophe by themselves.
The TPPs can be created also in the vicinity of cities until about 45°
geographical latitude afterwards. When the goal of 6.000 1-GW-TPPs is
achieved, the production of the TPPs can go on and on, according to the needs
of energy, food, water and practicability, also in the vicinity of cities
(embedded in nature parks).
Assumed, at the beginning
simultaneously 30 times 1-GW-TPPs per year and per region can be in
construction,
therefore, 30 x 1-GW-TPP x 8 regions
= 240 1-GW-TPP / earth get done in three years construction time, therefore
240 x 1-GW-TPP / 3 years = 80 x
1-GW-TPP per year on the earth could be done after first attempt-postponements.
Later, when the series production
is running, when the production bottlenecks are removed and when the money flow
of 1 trillion Euros per year goes on, then the construction will go even faster
with the then-developed special machines, etc., with maybe 300 completed
1-GW-TPPs per year.
A rough estimation to the number of employees and workers, that can be
employed for one trillion Euros per year: If the average gross monthly wage is
1.500,- € per employee (from worker to CEO), then he earns 18.000,- € per year.
With investments into his workplace of the same size of 18.000,- €, it is
36.000,- € / job per year (including buildings, machines, raw materials like
sand for glass, iron ore for iron, bauxite for aluminium, pipes, pumps,
turbines, and other expenses).
1012 € / 36.000,- € = 27,7 million jobs │ /
300 1-GW-TPPs = 92.330 workers per unit in construction.
With
300 x 1-GW-TPPs per year and one trillion Euros per year we have
1 trillion
€ / 300 1-GW-TPPs = 3,33 billion Euros per 1-GW-TPP. An individual 1-GW-TPP in mass production
approximately costs about 3 billion Euros.
(The price for a nuclear power plant of this performance today would be
well over 5 billion Euros - without the nuclear fuel uranium and its subsequent
final depositing, which after 40 years of testing is still unresolved! And too
without the insurance costs for a greatest reasonable accident with 1 million
deaths.)
These
costs include
the chemistry factory for the transmutation of the C, later also from C
to soloil,
the depot receptacles for the CO2 as well as for the C,
the two pipelines for the saltwater,
the pipeline for the soloil and the pipes,
the water desalination installation,
the high voltage managements for the current,
the highways,
the settlements and cities for the factory workers, the construction
workers and co-workers and their families, their education and the other social
benefits for them.
This
means 20 years of intensive construction activity with 20 x 300 = 6.000
1-GW-TPPs after approximately 10 years for the start up of the production.
Possibly
the costs will sink with mass production and synergy of 1-GW-TPP-groups in
a way that not even the amount estimated here will be required.
The
complete changeover to Ccycling can be managed in barely one generation. That means:
Far over 100 percent of the world-wide generated CO2 is recycled
then. After all the surplus CO2 was removed from the atmosphere it
is switched gradually to the production of pure solar energy in form of soloil
and electricity inclusive Ccycling.
7. How much energy is needed in order to free the
atmosphere again from its surplus CO2?
The
atmosphere had a thickness of 7.992 meters ≈ 8 km, if it had the same
density everywhere as with atmospheric pressure at sea level. The calculation
to this is:
The normal-pressure of the atmosphere at normal-zero amounts to
1.013,246 hecto-Pascal.
1 Pascal = 1 Newton / m2 = 101,9716 g weight (pond) / m2
1 hecto-Pascal = 1 hPa = 1 Newton / (1/100 m2); 1/100 m2
= 100 cm2
1.013,246 hPa = 1.013,246 x 101,9716 pond / 100 cm2 =
= 103.322,3 pond / 100 cm2 = 1.033,223 pond / cm2
= 1,033 kp / cm2
The air under normal-conditions has the density 1,2928 g / 1.000 cm3.
1.033,223 pond/cm3 / 1,2928 g/1.000 cm3 = 799,21 x
1.000 cm = 7.992,1 m
An air column of the density of air at sea level of 7.992 meters height
lies on average on the entire earth surface.
The total
earth surface (with all oceans) has the size 510.100.933,5 km2. The
atmosphere therefore (theoretically) has a total volume at normal-pressure of
510 x 106
km2 x 8 km = 4.080 x 106 km3.
How
much CO2 is in the atmosphere?
1 m3 air contains 380 ppmv = 380 cm3 CO2
or 582 mg CO2 = 0,582 g. (see above)
4.080 x 106 km3 x 109 m3 /
km3 x 0,582 g CO2 / m3 = 2,37 x 1018
g CO2 / atmosphere.
The 100
ppmv = 153 ppmm CO2, that came in additionally since the beginning
of the industrial age, shall be extracted from it. Therefore
2,37 x 1018 g CO2 / atmosphere x 153 ppmm / 582
ppmm = 0,623 x 1018 g CO2 =
= 623 x 1015 g CO2 x 12 g C / 44 g CO2
= 169,9 x 1015 g C ≈ 170 x 1015 g C = 170 x
109 t C | / 6 x 109 people =
= 28,3 t C / human.
170 x 1015 g C x 0,1092 kWh / 12 g C = 1,55 x 1015
kWh / Ccycling | / 6 x 109 people
= 258.333 kWh / (human x Ccycling).
In words
condensed:
2,37 trillion
tons CO2 are in the atmosphere. We get out the surplus carbon share
from the atmosphere again in level of 170 billion tons of C in the entire Ccycling
process, therefore 28,3 tons C per human being – and that is all already!
We
require 1,55 Peta-kilowatthours for all the CO2, that the human
being brought into the atmosphere, to change it back again into carbon. Each
of the 6 billion people therefore must produce 258.000 kWh in order to even out
the disused dump of mankind's last four generations again.
130 years have (130 a x 365d x 24h/d) / a = 130 a x 8.760 h/a =
1.138.800 hours. Our ancestors (they were fewer than we are now…) of the last
four generations therefore have used altogether - with us at the moment -:
258.000 kWh / 1.138.800 h = 227 W duration power / human being – with climbing
tendency.
8. What does this cost?
To the estimation: With an arbitrarily assumed price of for example 0,10
Euro / kWh (a sub-‘normal’ price today) this is the sum of
258.000 kWh x 0,1 € = 25.800 €.
These nominal 25.800 € we give in a generation contract for the objective, that
we could build our industry culture from it, without also taking into account
in any form the effects on our co-world. We now do this by levelling
them out again. The price for the prevention of the catastrophe is low,
that otherwise would accompany us over millennia ‘till to the fourth generation'
as it is called in the Bible (Ex34,7). How much money is this altogether?
Nominally 25.800 € / human being x 6.000.000.000 people = 154,8 trillion
Euros. That is about the BIP, the Brutto Inland Production
of mankind of three to four years.
With one trillion Euros per year and thirty
years of construction time we on the other hand get an investment price for the
kilowatt hour of only
(30 a x 1012 €/ a) /
6 x 109 men = 5.000 €/ man
| / 258.000 kWh = 0,01937 €/
man = 1,94 c/ man, therefore
< 2 c / kWh. The operating expenses, that add to the
investment, are approximately 0,32 c / kWh today 2).
This
price is staggered after the height of each citizen's income, distributes
therefore justly: Everyone pays only 5 percent as ‘Ccycling fee’ comparable to
a Ccycling tax.
For 2
cents per kilowatt hour, we can eliminate the climate catastrophe.
To
summarize: 30 years x 1 trillion Euros / (year x 6 billion people) =
= 5.000
€ / human being. That are the costs for the end of the climate catastrophe and for
returning to the CO2-values of 1880 and simultaneously for the
erection of a complete new world-wide energy system, that delivers clean energy
as soloil or current practically gratuitously from then on, that provides
mankind with food, that greens the deserts, etc
9. How long does it take, until this energy is generated
by the 6.000 1-GW-TPPs?
(1.000.000
kilowatts / 1-GW-TPP) x 6.000 1-GW-TPP = 6 x 109 kilowatts of
performance are at the disposal altogether. In one year, they generate an
energy of
6 x 109
kilowatts x 8.760 h / a = 52.560 x 109 kWh / a = 0,0525 x 1015
kWh / a.
(1,55
x 1015 kWh / Ccycling) / (0,0525 x 1015 kWh / a) = 29,5 a
/ Ccycling
It
therefore takes approximately thirty years or barely one generation until all
the CO2 is Ccycled to C, if all TPPs work continuously (that is
about 50 years after beginning of the project).
10. How long does
it take until the entire atmosphere was led averagely once through the TPPs?
In order to answer this question, I must know the wind speed at a
certain diameter of the TPP to know the volume per second. The wind speed at
the entrance of the chimney is 15,5m/s, the diameter of the chimney is 120 m.
The surface of the chimney is d2 x π/ 4 = 120 x 120 x
3,14/ 4 m2 = 11.304 m2.
The surface multiplied with the air speed is the air volume per second:
11.304 m2 x 15,5 m/s = 175.212 m3/s.
With 31,5 million seconds per year one gets the volume per year: 175.000
m3/s x 31,5 x 109 s/a = 5,5 x 1012 m3/a
=
= 5.500 km3/a air
volume per TPP | x 13 TPP/1-GW-TPP = 72.000 km3/a air volume | x
6.000 1-GW-TPPs =
= 430 million km3 air volume per year.
In chapter 7 we found the total volume of the atmosphere as 4.080 x 106
km3.
4.080 x 106 km3 / (430 x 106 km3
/a) = 9,5 years.
If we estimate the collecting efficiency of the Ccycling as 80% of the
CO2, then: 9,5 a/ 0,8 = 11,9 years:
In 12
years all of the CO2 will be collected from the atmosphere.
So in 12
years after completion of the construction there would be just 0 ppmv CO2
remaining from the now 380 ppmv CO2. A new ice age would be caused
with it ;-)
To
collect the first 100 ppmv from the total of 380 ppmv CO2 one needs
less time:
12 a
x 100ppmv/ 380ppmv = 3,16 a, that is about three years:
In
just three years the climate catastrophe is returned to the state of 1880.
That
is almost incredible – But the calculation is correct.
The
total conversion to C takes 29,5 a / Ccycling (Chapter 9). So the collecting of
the CO2 from the air is about ten times faster.
Even if
the yield of the collecting from the atmosphere is not 80 percent, this does
not amount to much. Also, the blown out and cleaned air mixes again with the
remaining atmosphere. Also the concentration of the CO2 in the air
diminishes in the run of the Ccycling, so the extraction will be less effective.
A sufficiently big rest-concentration of over 280 ppmv nevertheless remains,
however. In this respect it is very good that all these effects do not matter
much: The generated energy is the standard that determines the speed of the Ccycling.
This
tosses up the question:
11. How to store the faster collected CO2?
The CO2
can only be processed to C completely with an energy amount of 6.000 GW x 30 a
(i.e. in less than 30 years after completion of the construction).
The CO2,
which cannot yet be processed to C, because the energy was not yet generated
for it, must therefore be deposited, ‘sequestered’ for the time being.
With the depositing of the CO2, the climate catastrophe can
be eliminated very fast after starting of the project.
>From the atmosphere, 100ppmv will be removed in 3 years. In 29,5
years (with 6000 1GW-TPPs) there is processed (chapter 10)
170 x 1015 g C x 44/12 = 623 x 1015 g CO2
= 623 x 109
t CO2.
In
form of water with a density of 1,0 kg/ l this would be 623 km3.
Methods for
the storage of CO2 are in the testing:
Storage in deep sea basins is one of the ideas that come from the
thinking of the last millennium: Throwing away, just like it also happened with
the nuclear waste. Nature shall see, how it continues. ‘I don’t care if the sea
becomes sour, if the creatures suffocate!’ ‘It doesn't matter what happens when I've gone.’
Storage
in exhausted natural gas deposits and later retrieval, just like previously the
natural gas was won, maybe is a possibility for small amounts of CO2,
because the total storage volume is not sufficient by far.
A very elegant
possibility for the storage is: Refrigeration of under -78,5°C and storage
as dry-ice in big cooling containers directly beside the TPPs. An inferior
part of the energy of the TPPs is taken for the refrigeration. If sufficient CO2
is collected, the sun-energy is used no more for the collecting the CO2
but only for the processing of the dry-ice to carbon.
I imagine e.g. big spherical receptacles of non-corroding noble-steel,
just like petroleum reserve receptacles, with for example 50 meters diameter
(if technically possible also essentially bigger). They could be embedded half
into the underground beside the TPPs. They are totally surrounded by a
polyurethane layer for heat insulation with a metallic blanc outer surface. We
have to calculate with desert temperatures, with temperature differences of the
dry-ice opposite the air of 120°C at day and 90°C at night and opposite the
cooler underground of approximately 100°C.
This receptacle of 50 m of diameter has the volume of
VSphere = 4 π/3 x r3 =
4,19 x 253 m3 = 65.400 m3.
Alternatively, insulated noble steel cylinders standing upright similarly
big would be a probably cheaper depot possibility – but the price for the
insulation leak is naturally higher. They are also used today for the storage
of oil.
Alternatively half-circle
depots are even cheaper: Very long depots of insulated non-corroding steel
with a cross-section of a half-circle e.g. with 30 m interior diameter upon a
fundament of insulated concrete, constructed in form of a circumference of
a circle (toroidal) around the 1-GW-TPPs. They have a volume per meter of
d2 x π/8 = 30 m x 30 m x 0,39 = 353 m3, therefore
per kilometre V = 0,35 x 106 m3. That is the volume
of about 5 of the sphere receptacles.
Each of the 6.000 1-GW-TPPs gets out of the atmosphere during Ccycling:
623 x 109 t CO2 / 6.000 1-GW-TPP = 103,8 x 106
t CO2
With a density of 1, I needed for the storage of the entire CO2
of one 1_GW-TPP:
103,8 x 106 t CO2 x 1 t / m3 / 65.400 m3
= 1.588 sphere receptacles.
The
density of dry-ice amounts to 1.56 g / cm3, so we have 399,4 km3
≈ 400 km3 of dry-ice instead of 623 km3.
Therefore
I need only 1.588/ 1,56 = 1.018 such receptacles per 1-GW-TPP =
1.018 x 65.400 m3 = 66.559.000 m3 = 66,6 x 106 m3 = 0,067 km3 / 1-GW-TPP.
This
corresponds to one of the big national oil storage fields as security reserves
that exist in each big industrial nation at the moment. Germany’s reserves are
25 x 106 m3, the reserves of the USA are more than 60 x
106 m3.
The TPPs
immediately after completion begin with collecting of the CO2 and
with its conversion to C.
I calculate the amount of energy that is needed
to cool the half-circle receptacles:
Per running meter they have a
surface of
d x π/2 + d = 30 m x 1,57
+ 30 m = 77,1 m2, so per running km 77.100 m2.
The specific heat-conductivity of foam of polyurethane as insulation is
0,028 W/m x K, so at one meter thickness and one degree heat difference 0,028 W
per square meter are conducted in the form of ‘temperature’. For simplicity I
assume that the insulation has a thickness of one meter, a realistic
assumption. Per running kilometre of the half-circles and a temperature
difference of 100°C = 100K it is conducted:
(0,028 W/ m x K) x (77.100 m2 surface/1 m thickness) x 100K =
216 kW energy/ km
I need 0,067 km3 = 67 x 106 m3 /
1-GW-TPP storage volume.
I have per kilometre V = 0,35 x 106 m3 , so I need
67 x 106 m3 / 0,35 x 106 m3 =
191 km length of the half-circle receptacles per 1-GW-TPP, encircling one
1-GW-TPP roughly 1 ½ times. They have the surface of
Oh-c = (77.100 m2 / km ) x 191 km = 14.700.000
m2 (h-c = half-circle)
They need the cooling of
Eh-c = 14.700.000 m2 x (0,028 W/ m x K) x 100 K =
41.233 kW = 41,2 MW | / 1.000 MW = 4,1%
The output
is 1 GW = 1.000 MW, so the amount for cooling with the half-circle-depots is
just about 4% of the total output – at maximum. That is tolerable.
With the
other solutions of the receptacles I get slightly better amounts of cooling. I
calculate the 1.018 spheres:
1.018 spherical receptacles of 50 m diameter have a surface of and a
cooling need of
OS1
= 4πrS2
= dS2 x π = (50 m)2 x 3,14 = 2.500 x 3,14 m2
= 7.850 m2 | x 1.018 receptacles
OS1018 = 8.000.000 m2 | x (0,028 W/ m x K)
x 100K =
ES1018 = 22,4 MW
| / 1.000 MW = 2,24% = 55% x Eh-c
The
spheres are about half as expensive energetically.
The
energetically best solution I can achieve with one single sphere as a giant
receptacle. I
calculate that solution too:
With one big spherical receptacle halfway buried in a valley I get the
smallest cooling surface possible. I need a sphere of
VS = 67 x 106 m3 = 4π/3 x rS3 ;
rS = (67 x 106 m3 x 3/4π)1/3
= (16,00)1/3 x 102 m = 2,52 x 100 m = 252 m radius;
dS
= 504 m diameter – a huge construction, somewhat bigger than the biggest
super tankers nowadays. Half of the sphere can be built of reinforced
concrete, the fundament, and possibly the other half too. Possibly the upper
half can be constructed as a hyperboloid that is stable in itself in the
gravitational field of the earth.
Compare the
huge hyperble in just two dimensions, the Gateway Arch, 192 meters high,
the emblem of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. 6)
6) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_National_Expansion_Memorial
; Ch. 11
The difference of the surface of this hyperboloid from a sphere can
roughly be neglected. With this receptacle I get the cooling losses of
OS = dS2 x π = 797.000 m2
| x (0,028 W/ m x K) x 100K = 2,23 MW | / 1.000 MW = 0,223%.
2,23 MW is
one tenth of the 50 m diameter receptacles and about one twentieth of the
half-spherical torus.
Since the
cooling is needed for roughly 30 years, till all of the CO2 is
reduced to C, possibly the one spherical container of about 500 meters diameter
is the most effective.
This
construction is comparable to the radiotelescope in Arecibo, built in a
valley with a diameter of 306 meters from 1960 to 1963 – but here in
concrete. It is a challenge like the whole project. Much can be learned by its
realization and it can be earned – by not spending - the amount of energy
worth over 6 trillion Euros in all 6.000 1-GW-TPPs:
Per 1-GW-TPP in 30 years it is not spent (at least)
(22,4 MW - 2,23 MW) x 30 a x 8.760 h/a = 20 x 30 x 8.760 h = 5.256.000
MWh ≈ 53 x 109 kWh | x 6.000 1-GW-TPP
= 315.000 x 109 kWh | x 2 c/kWh = 6.300,00 billion Euros =
6,3 trillion Euros = 6,3 x 1012 Euros.
So even if
this one sphere is expensive (and even if 2 c/ kWh is calculated
inexpensively), it still is a possible economic solution, especially when built
6.000 times. Moreover the cost of the insulation itself is cheaper. I hope that
all of these mentioned possibilities are tried to know better afterwards.
Possibly the handling and the security of the storage is best with the
half-circles. In the following I will be calculating with the 1.018 spheres for
ease of visualization. The conversion into the other types of storage is easily
calculated. The task of storage hopefully is not as gigantic as described here
(compare Ch. 13).
It might be possible to alternatively use another method of insulation
that I will just mention here: With a vacuumized distance between the outside
and the inside of the receptacle the insulation can be almost ten times as
efficient as with foam of Polyurethane that has tiny bubbles of air inside: The
Vacuum Isolation Plate VIP has a heat conductivity of just
λ = 0,003…0,006 W/ m x K ≈ 10 …20% of PU-foam. 7)
But possibly the costs are too high and the stability of the vacuum is not
sufficiently good.
7) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakuumd%C3%A4mmplatte
With
for example 600 1-GW-TPPs, therefore with just 10 percent of the total project,
in approximately 32 years it is possible to collect from the atmosphere all the
superfluous CO2 and store it as dry-ice. With the generated energy of the 6.000 1-GW-TPPs
in approximately one generation it can be Ccycled to C.
Assumed,
the beginning of the realization of the project is the year 2010. From the year
2020, 300 1-GW-TPPs per year are built. In approximately 2025, the climate catastrophe
is eliminated already, turned back to 1880. Until approximately 2060, the CO2
will be Ccycled completely to C.
The CO2-technology will spread enormously, because the CO2
is so cheap. For example it will substitute poisonous substances as solvent
completely, that are used until now.
Overcritical carbon-dioxide possesses a high solubility for non-polar
materials and can replace poisonous organic solvents. It is used as
extraction-means, for example for the extraction of natural materials like
caffeine (manufacture of decaffeinated coffee) and as solvent for cleaning and
degreasing of wafers in the semiconductor industry for example, and recently
also for textiles (dry-cleaning). Currently it is also researched intensively, to
use hypercritical carbon-dioxide as reaction medium in the
fine-chemical-manufacture (for example) for the manufacture of aroma materials,
since isolated enzymes often remain active here and no solvent residues (in
contrast to organic solvents) remain in the products.
To increasing extents, carbon-dioxide is put into action as natural
refrigerant in air-conditionings.5)
8) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlendioxid
12. How much ppmv
CO2 per year can be Ccyceled to C?
It is
100 ppmv CO2 / 29,5 a = 3,39 ppmv / a.
At the
moment the yearly increasing of the CO2 in the atmosphere amounts to
almost 2 ppmv / a. This number will remain approximately constant with
mankind's present efforts to the reduction - viewed optimistically;-)
The
decrease of the CO2-contents in the atmosphere is about the same
speed as calculated; just the Ccycling to C therefore seen realistically needs
more time because additional fossil CO2 still pollutes the air.
But with
-3,39 ppmv + 2 ppmv = -1,39 ppmv per year the transmuting to the final product
C goes almost as fast into the correct direction like at the moment into the
wrong one.
The
measure of the intermediate-storage of the CO2 is very important
because of the further increase of the CO2 in the atmosphere through
the industrial output, until sufficient energy exists for its conversion to
C.
This
30-Trillion Euros method described here therefore is a minimum of expenditure. Anything
below it remains a drop in the bucket and will not end the climate catastrophe.
13. Which deposit size do the carbon depots have after
the end of the Ccycling?
The
solid C accrues in form of soot, of small particles of carbon. It can be
pressed under high pressure to briquettes of pure carbon, to micro crystalline anthracite
blocks.
Anthracite
has a density of 1,95 g / cm3.
Altogether,
170 x 1015 g C are Ccycled (chapter 7).
170 x 1015 g C /
(1,95 g / cm3) = 87,18 x 1015 cm3 / (1015
cm3 / km3) = 87 km3.
Approximately
87 km3 of anthracite will therefore accrue (instead of 400 km3
dry-ice, that is just 22% of the depot size of CO2.)
With
6.000 1-GW-TPPs we have for a single 1-GW-TPP
87 km3 / 6.000 = 0,0145 km3 / 1-GW-TPP =
14.500.000 m3, a cube of 244 m of edge-length - or divided through
65.400 m3, the volume of a sphere of 50 m of diameter,
222 spheres
of 50 m of diameter per 1-GW-TPP.
1.018
such spheres per 1-GW-TPP are required for storing of all the necessary CO2,
the initial product of the Ccycling (see above).
The C, Ccycled
from the CO2, therefore can be end-deposited in the depots of the CO2
that get free by Ccycling. Possibly, the construction of only 250 such
receptacles per 1-GW-TPP suffices for the CO2-inter-storage. This
corresponds to a CO2-reduction of the atmosphere of approximately
-25 ppmv CO2. While these receptacles are being filled with CO2
rapidly, the CO2-depots at the same time are changed to C slowly so
that more and more of the receptacles are filled with C. If all are filled with
C after 30 years, all the CO2 is Ccycled.
These
thermally insulated, pressure-resistant, corrosion-stable receptacles that are
buried half in the underground of the earth and that have a sufficiently big
distance from each other,
are the carbon depots of mankind, that are very well protected against
fires.
They are spread world-wide, therefore secured very well against local
catastrophes.
They are easily accessible.
They are extremely well equipped against earthquakes by their thermal
insulation of 1 m thickness.
They are directly beside the chemical factorys that could process the C
further, if there is demand to it.
14. The result and the beginning
The
anthracite is available world-wide if it should be necessary to increase the CO2-content
of the atmosphere again. Reasons for it could be:
The climate becomes colder again,
big volcano outbreaks occur that filter away the sunlight in the dusted
atmosphere,
the so-called ‘nearing of a new ice age’ for whatsoever reasons.
If a
huge volcano outbreak happens (e.g. in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA)
the atmosphere might get far more opaque than normal so that the receiving of
solar energy is not possible for a long time, then we can use this buffer with
very little delay, since all is planned for this possibility too. With
additional unforeseen big energy needs that cannot be covered by the existing
TPPs from the current solar production this coal depot represents an energy buffer.
It is as big, as all the fossil fuel that was used by mankind until now, namely
1,55 x 1015 kWh and it is stored ready for instant consumption
worldwide as the optimized fuel, namely soloil.
The
combustion of this type of coal takes place residue-free to just CO2
and nothing else.
There
are suggestions to bury the CO2 in the earth in forms that cannot be
retrieved easily (e.g. adsorption in Peridot (Mg, Fe)2SiO4
in the process of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, short CCS). That is a
huge waste: The CO2 is the source from which we can collect our
treasure – not the hard way from within the solid earth as normal
resources, but easily: directly from the air. We are lucky that it is
still around us in sufficient quantity – if we take the chance to harvest it,
to reform it to coal and to Soloil. If we don’t harvest it, it stays there like
the sword of Damokles – and it will fall on us - surely.
This
anthracite is the energetic treasure of mankind: With the energy quantity of
the 6.000 C-depots mankind obtained to arrive in its technological development
from the state of the 19th century to the state of the 3rd millennium. It did not know what it got
involved in as it naively began with the experiment to use coals for the heat production
and later as well petroleum and natural gas.
In
its totality mankind still now does not know really that it got involved in an experiment
with a planet as spaceship that has - almost - led to the energetic breakdown
by it.
Maybe just
in time we with this project manage to prevent the breakdown: We build a
second energy system with help of the first. It is bigger than the first
and gets rid of the consequences of the first. It will replace the first, when
the fossils will have become too expensive compared to the Ccyclable, cheap, waste-free
and healthy solar energy. (The fossils are more expensive already since several
years.) It then is available for us in every form we can wish for, in fact practically
free: Only the operating costs and the conservation of the installations
and the distribution of the energy must be paid for by the coming generations. The
CO2 situated still in the atmosphere, from then on is taken in order
to make soloil from it that is released into the atmosphere again as CO2
into the energy cycle of the renewed Ccycling.
Is there
a more beautiful gift that we can leave our children, grandsons and
granddaughters, and their great-grandsons and great-granddaughters?
The
time for this idea came.
This
time is called (in beautiful German): ‘Jede-Tat-Zeit’,
(any deed time) short: “Jetzt!” -
“Act
Now!”
15. Some additional considerations – Soloil
In the
deserts of this earth on all continents, there is sufficient easily convertible
solar energy for transmuting the CO2 chemically, to then store it in
the deserts in the simplest case in carbon, shortly C. The storage as ‘anthracite’
in big receptacles, as solid carbon, as maximum valuable stone coal is simpler
and surer, as if we stored it in form of gaseous or liquid hydrocarbons or in
the commencing product CO2.
The
CO2 is equally available at each point of the earth world-wide,
because it is part of the atmosphere. With its wind currents, it takes care that all
the air of the earth is evenly mixed everywhere within a few months. The proof is:
1. Chernobyl: The radioactive cloud from the explosion of the gassed nuclear
fuel rods of the reactor of the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl reached the
USA after 14 days (to the west) and reached Japan after 10 days (to the east).
2. The dust cloud of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington
State, USA went around the whole earth in a few days. The red sunsets after big
eruptions of volcanoes are other examples.
3. At a wind speed of 4 Beaufort the
wind travels with 25 km/ h, that is with
(25 km/ h) x 24 h = 600 km per day
and with (600 km/ d) x 30 d = 18.000 km in a month that is halfway around the
earth.
4. The CO2-catastrophe is not limited to the part of the
earth, where the CO2 is produced.
The
energy of the sun cares that air currents originate that distribute the CO2
evenly everywhere on earth. Therefore, naively the CO2 can be
gathered in stationary Ccyclers at arbitrary points of the earth. But the
situation is even better: Especially in the desert zones, where there are few
plants which consume the CO2, the concentration of CO2 is
the biggest. Compare the picture in 9) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2 -
So to collect the CO2 there is the easiest and most favourable
solution.
9) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2
; Ch. 15
It
‘just’ is important,
1. To
have solar energy in enough quantity to the use,
2. To
have installations, that let through sufficiently much air,
3. To
get the CO2 out of the air in these installations,
4. To transmute
the collected CO2 chemically to C + O2,
5. To
release the O2 into the air again,
6. To
bring the C into the form of anthracite and to deposit it safely.
This
idea is very simple. Simultaneously with this idea the gate is opened fully into
the age of the solar energy for electric current, for heating, for chemistry
and for traffic.
If carbon
is stored sufficiently once and if more of it could be stored anytime,
according to demand and then ruling better insight, then, the additional carbon
can thereafter be further recycled to liquefied soloil with the solar energy.
This could happen to all of these installations after approximately thirty
years of work, therefore from approximately 2060.
Several
procedures stand at the disposal for the manufacture of the soloil that are large-scale
technically tried, for example the Fischer-Tropsch process and the Bergius
process.
With the Fischer-Tropsch process, carbonic-monoxide is formed of carbon
and is changed with hydrogen at iron or cobalt catalysts to paraffins. The
reaction runs under high pressure and with a temperature of 200 - 350°C after
the chemical formula: n CO + (2n+1) H2 => CnH2n+2
+ n H2O; n = 1, 2, 3,…
So, CnH2n+2, that is fuel gas and diesel fuel (and
water as ‘waste’-product), are created with differently long chained paraffins
according to the reaction conditions. This procedure is large-scale technically
tried since 1934 and is improved further since then. Today one single targeted hydrocarbon
can be produced with this reaction, for example with n = 8 Octane C8H18,
with the ‘octane’-number ‘100 octane,’ (highly antiknock). Normal Diesel-fuel
has n = 10 to 22.
In the 1970s after the first oil crisis (1973) the German state started a
large-scale technological project in the Ruhr area with billions of ‘Deutsche
Mark’ expenditure in order to become independent from the petroleum with the
stone coal by optimizing all conditions for the coal liquefaction. It was said
at that time that the petroleum production from stone coal would be competitive
from a price of 2 DM / litre = 1 Euro per litre of fuel. Today, the coal liquefaction
of ‘CtL’ (Coal to Liquid) is competitive from a price of 60 U.S.$ / Barrel
petroleum = 0,38 U.S. dollars / litre petroleum. It is therefore competitive
since 2006, since the Peak Oil. 10)
10) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohleverfl%C3%BCssigung
; Ch. 15
The pure
hydrocarbons created from the carbon can stand to the disposal with fewer
than 80 pipelines world-wide. The pipelines have a length on average of
approximately 2.500 km, to supply with the entire earth as far as to the polar
circle.
The distance of 23° north and south, the tropics, to the equator is 23 x
111 km = 2.553 km. The distance of 23° north to 67° north, the polar circle is
(67° - 23°) x 111 km = 44 x 111 km = 4.884 km.
South America is at
end at approximately 50° south, Africa at approximately 35° south. Australia
lies around 23° south. The big islands of the Pacific and Indian ocean will have
their own Ccyclers. The deserts in USA in Arizona and in China, Asia too lie more
northern than 23° north. The settling at the polar circle is so low that just
one to two small pipelines per continent suffice for the supply high up north
in America, Europe and Asia. The main settling of the continents is less than
2.500 km away from the tropics (Japan, China, Northern France). The pipelines
proceed directly in North-South direction in the ideal case. Their distance from
each other can be for example 2.000 km. The equator-perimeter amounts to 40.000
km. So, less than 20 x 4 = 80 such pipelines are necessary for the
supply of the earth. The total length of this only energy distribution system
for long range use in the distant future has a total length of about
80 x 2.500 km =
200.000 km. Today there exist about 3.000.000 km of pipeline length on earth.
Each year about 25.000 km of new pipelines are built.
Many of
the pipelines today already exist for natural gas and petroleum. The soloil can
be converted into any other energy form with the present technology of the
petroleum use. Each continent should have so many Ccyclers that it is
energetically self-sufficient with the exception of Europe and its Ccyclers in
Africa.
The
transportation of petroleum over the oceans with trouble-susceptible and energy-costly
oil freighters stops. And too the extremely dangerous and expensive
exploitation of fossil oil from deep sea grounds stops.
This
pure sun fuel of ‘soloil’ exactly like petroleum consists of hydrocarbons (CnH2n+2)
and is exactly used like it. The soloil is burned like the oil until now and it
transmutes into pure CO2 + H2O (and nothing else) and it
is released into the atmosphere, and the CO2 then is Ccycled in the
deserts of the earth. Fossil petroleum, natural gas, coal, etc. still can be used,
like until now. They are replaced by the soloil when it (seen economically) is
cheaper than the fossil fuels that are coming to an end. Already because of
these final days of the fossil fuels, it immediately is necessary to transfer
into the new technology. This transfer however must take place as fast as
possible.
The
strongly risen oil prices compared to the 20th century average also
make it economically meaningful to immediately invest big capital amounts into
the solar energy production instead of giving it to the fossil energy concerns over
the petroleum prices like until now.
‘To
relinquish on the energy industry with the transfer to the solar energy
utilization means to leave mankind to ruin.’ (From:
11) Hermann Scheer: Sonnenenergie - Politik ohne Alternative [Solar energy
- politics without alternative]; ISBN 3-492-12135-7; Piper-Verlag 1995; page
182 [written in German; Hermann Scheer is member of the German federal
legislative assembly ‘Bundestag’ since 1980 for 7 election periods])
The
motor vehicles still can go with the previous motors with the previous
technology.
The ‘Hydrogen’-fuel-variant
is interesting only for cars with electric motors, in fact only then, if
the conversion of hydrogen from electricity and back to it should have
been solved satisfactorily and also the storage of hydrogen easy, space-, and
mass-saving and accident-safe (Think of the challenging ‘Challenger’
catastrophe). That does not seem possible at our state of technology now.
The
electric car
alternative with Li-Ion-battery is far more expensive, the tank up lasts
extremely much longer, the energy density is less than 0,2 kWh/ kg (instead of
10 kWh/ kg for Soloil), the battery just lasts several hundred cycles and is
the most expensive part for just some years of usage, the distance between two
tank ups is really small, the resources of Lithium are very limited – the next
change of technology has to come soon with new investments, the energy
consumption for traffic in Germany 2005 was 1,43 kW/ person, but the total current
energy production is just 0,91 kW/ person 12). This technology is a
dead end street.
12) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektroauto#Elektromobilit.C3.A4t states ; Ch. 15:
1.000 Terawatthours /a are
consumed in Germany for traffic:
1.000 TWh/ a = 1012
kWh/ a = 1012 kWh/ 8.760 h = 1,14 x 108 kW | / (80
million persons = 0,8 x 108 persons)
= 1,43 kW/ person.
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromerzeugung
states:
In 2005 the current generation
in Germany was 639,1 TWh/a = 0,91 kW/ person
A soloil
tank lasts indefinitely, when made of non corroding material, and it costs
about 1% of a battery and it has an energy density of 10 kWh/ kg. The safety, efficiency,
price, and all of the other parameters are optimized through more than 100
years of evolution, and soloil is the pure form of fuel - yet to be developed.
The only thing left to develop is: Cars today consume about two- to three-times
the necessary energy-amount, a leftover of the ‘Energy wasting age’ that we are
going to leave. Electricity may be used for short-time storage of braking and
downhill energy in the amount of less than 5 kWh per car, all other solutions
are futile.
I am
calculating here with ‘1 kW/ human’. That is a sufficient amount for traffic,
current, food, water, etc., when the efficiency is corrected, which will happen
in the near future. Heating of houses with sufficient insulation is a
by-product of the waste-heat of the current production in soloil electric power
plants with heat coupling and of additional solar water heaters on the roofs
with sufficiently big reservoirs.
Incidentally: Other projects,
that are seemingly cheaper, to generate fuel or coal with plants ‘unfortunately’
are completely uneconomic: The efficiency, with which plants produce combustible
substances from solar energy, theoretically lies under 0,25 percent. (The
‘Biomass to Liquid’ process, ‘BtL’, the most successful until now, in that it
processes the entire plant body to fuel, just renders 0,23 percent of the
incoming solar energy.)
Do I really want to fire green,
fertile nature surface around me as a petroleum substitute?
How much surface is needed for
humanity? - The calculation is:
1 kilowatt / human being x 6 x 109 people = 6 x 109
kilowatts = 6 x 1012 W
│ / (333 W / m2) x 0,23 percent = 0,8 W / m2
;
= 7,5 x 1012 m2
= 7,5 million km2 = 750 million hectares.
This corresponds to 1.250 m2 / human being.
Europe's entire country surface (together with the sterile areas and the
inhabited areas) amounts to 10,5 million km2.
Do I really want to fire wheat or corn, in order to use it as electric
light in this form, or does my conscience oppose it? Do I really want
mono-cultures of ‘energy plants’ around about myself worldwide so that I can go
on living further as I want to, as I however can do it no more, exactly because
of it?
It occurs that this form of the solar energy conversion is very
labor-intensive, it is plowed with tractors, it is fertilized with fertilizer, it
must be sprayed with insecticides and pesticides, it must be harvested with
tractors, it must be converted to fuel chemically. Earth still is further exploited
by it. The total-efficiency of this method sinks to far under 0,2 percent,
possibly to less than 1‰ if optimized and moreover the price is much higher,
because of the labor invested in the production each year and the food for the
workers.
The social subsidy of farmers should not be connected to uneconomic and
unethic projects!
Who wants to risk the starving of millions of people voluntarily for
being able to drive a car?
For
the transportation of energy over big distances, the pipeline is the most
economic way. It
costs only the energy for the pumping of the soloil and doesn't have any
further losses. The energy can be stored like now easily and cheaply in large
quantities in the regionally existing security reserve receptacles (reserves for
several months energy consumption already exist everywhere). So, mankind's
energy supply is secured. The conversion into other energy forms like
electricity, that practically can not be stored because it is a ‘current’,
can take place in the respective states in power plants with heat coupling
that will be inside the cities and release pure CO2 into the
atmosphere, without expensive filtration. The current then is distributed
favorably in distances of far under 200 km with the existing high tension mains.
The electricity power plants for the combustion of soloil in the cities are
connected to the big pipelines with small side-branches. A diameter of 10 cm
can transport 1 GW = 1 million kW.
A
soloil pipeline with one meter of diameter and a flow speed of for example 5 m/ s can
transport an energy quantity of 138 GW. One therefore needs only one
1-m-pipeline for more than 100 times 1-GW-TPPs, or one minimally needs
approximately 45 such pipelines for the 6.000 1-GW-TPPs for the whole earth.
High voltage managements cannot compete with it, not from the investment and
not from the loss performance. It is just the energy of the pumps with the
pipelines. The loss performance gains something with higher current speed of
the soloil through turbulence losses, a current speed of ≤ 5 m/ s is
approximately the economic optimum. (In the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline,
starting in 2005 with 1.768 km length and about 1 m diameter the flow speed of
crude oil, which is thicker than soloil, is just over 2 m/ s with 8 pumping
stations, transporting 160.000 m3/d or transporting 67 x 106
kW, calculated with 1 l = 10 kWh.) However, in crisis times, the flow speed
could be more than doubled. This also is one point that would not be possible with
high voltage managements without further investments, blocking the lines for
months.
The calculation to this: A
tube of d = 1 m of diameter has a cross-section of d2 x π/ 4 = 3,14/ 4 = 0,785 m2. With 5 m/ s of
oil speed, 3,925 m3 / s = 3.925 l/ s of soloil flow through. Diesel fuel
has an energy density of 9,8 kWh/ l (> Wikipedia > Diesel fuel). 1 kWh =
1.000 W x 3.600 s = 3,6 x 106 Ws. Therefore per second flows
through:
(3.925 l x 9,8 kWh/l x 3,6 x 106
Ws/kWh) / s = 138.474 x 106 Ws / s = 138 GWs / s = 138 GW = 138
million kilowatts. That is an energy quantity that is sufficient for 138
million people.
The
other forms of the utilization of solar energy should be developed further
independently from the Ccycling: The wind energy utilization, the
hydraulic power plants, the tides power plants, the ocean-wave power plants,
and too the utilization of the earth warmth. They are used for the autarchy of
the energy supply in the future in their nearer surroundings (< 500 km).
Likewise,
the private autarchy of the individual people and families should further been
promoted with private sun collectors for heating water and its storage in
insulated water basins for the winter. Likewise, the photovoltaic with
concentrated solar energy can be an interesting source of energy for the
autarchy of private houses. (Compare: PS – Personal
Sun: Bernd Upnmoor 2005)
The Ccycling
assures mankind's ground supply with energy and the stability of the climate and it makes unnecessary the CO2-collection
near the soloil users (Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, CCS).
"We must not be afraid of dreaming the
seemingly impossible
if we want the seemingly impossible to become a
reality."
- Vaclav
Havel
“Our Cathedral can only be built
Through Faith and Charity.
Sagrada Familia is being created
Solely through People’s gifts.
Not by any specific church group.
Not with the help of the government.
But by the People.
By individuals who are committed to
building
A beautiful structure to the Glory
of God.”
- Sign at the church Sagrada Familia [1883 – 20..]
in Barcelona by Antoni Gaudi
found at:
13) http://www.sacredmirrors.org/flash/sm_full.html
; Ch. 15
“For island states, time is not
running out. It has run out. And our path may very well be the window to your
own future and the future of our planet.”
- Avaaz.org message of 9/3 2008
16. An Alternative Solution
A more economic solution with less investment and more usable energy at
once is:
Just leave all of the CO2 in the receptacles of the first 600
1-GW-TPPs and use the other TPPs directly for the production of soloil for use
around the globe. Then the climate catastrophe is stopped within (3 years/ 10%)
= 30 years after completing the 600th 1-GW-TPP (compare chapter 10).
The costs for stopping the climate catastrophe then will be 10% of 30 trillion
Euros or just 3 trillion Euros. The total storage volume is 400 km3
of dry-ice in isolated receptacles (compare chapter 11). They have to be built
at these 600 1-GW-TPPs. Part of the power output of these 600 1-GW-TPPs is used
for cooling, the other part is used for the slow transformation to anthracite
in the following centuries.
The other investments then are for constructing the new soloil age and
for ending the fossil fuel age. The investments are immediately earned in form
of inexpensive and clean solar energy in the form of soloil.
A further advantage of this solution for example is:
If a big volcano outbreak occurs with darkening of earth’s atmosphere and
freezing of the surface of the earth, then the release of all the collected CO2
is possible within weeks by blowing it into the central towers of the Ccyclers.
The combustion of anthracite takes far longer time in the order of years.
17. Sources
– Chapter (Ch…)
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descriptions and images:
http://www.solarmillenium.de/ > Technologie > Aufwindkraftwerke; >Fakten;
& >Funktionsweise; & >Pilotprojekt;
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermikkraftwerk
; Ch.
1; 3
2) Aufwindkraftwerke: Jörg Schlaich; FVS Themen S. 85 -
89; 2002; Ch. 1; 3; 8
3) http://blog.rainbownet.ch/umwelt/klima-schwindel-die-klimaluge-bei-rtl
; Ch. 2
4) A Crude Awakening - The Oil
Crash; A film by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack (P, B, R); CH; 1h22'57"; ©
2006 Lava Productions AG; www.oilcrashmovie.com ; Ch. 2 +
3
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/oils-end/
http://www.energywatchgroup.org/fileadmin/global/pdf/2007-12_EWG_Oelstudie_kurz_d.pdf
5) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan-Turbine
; Ch. 3
6) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_National_Expansion_Memorial
; Ch. 11
7) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakuumd%C3%A4mmplatte
; Ch. 11
8) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlendioxid
; Ch. 11
9) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2
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; Ch. 15
11) Hermann Scheer: Sonnenenergie - Politik ohne
Alternative [Solar energy - politics without alternative]; ISBN 3-492-12135-7;
Piper-Verlag 1995; page 182 [written in German]; Ch. 15
12) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektroauto#Elektromobilit.C3.A4t states ; Ch. 15
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromerzeugung
states
13) http://www.sacredmirrors.org/flash/sm_full.html
; Ch 15
14)
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,530501-2,00.html
; Annex 4
15)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestechung
; Annex 5
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/
is the normal reference, if nothing else
is stated.
Annex 1: Pipes
Comments to chapter
5:
In the Ccyclers greenhouses are built for mankind's ground supply of
food.
So the question arises: Is it meaningful to harvest the food so far away
from the people? How can the problem of the distance be solved?
Here is the answer:
Pipes - the global transportation system
In the Ccyclers food is generated in
the magnitude of 2 km3 / a = 2 x 1012 liters/ a.
Food has
approximately the same density as water that is 1 kg/ l.
We have per
1-GW-TPP and year
2 x 1012
kg/ (6.000 x 1-GW-TPP) = 0,3 x 109 kg/ 1-GW-TPP.
This
quantity is to be transported to the people of the earth in one year.
How is this
done optimized, therefore economical, energy-saving, fast and global?
One year
has 365 d x 24 h/d x 60 min/h x 60 s/min = 31.536.000 s ≈ 3 x 107
s.
Each 1-GW-TPP
produces 10 kg per second:
0,3 x 109
kg/ (3 x 107) s = 10 kg/ s.
I will describe a transportation system,
the ‘pipes’ that has the following qualities:
Parallel to the soloil pipelines, a
second pipeline system, the ‘pipes’ are built as a compact unit. The system
consists of two tubes, each of 1 m of inner-diameter. Therefore, there
are three parallel, equally big tubes side by side - or with demand also one on
the other, the first being the soloil-pipeline. These two ‘pipes’ are thermally
insulated on the outside through a layer of polyurethane of for example 10 centimetres
thickness and through blanc metallic or white color.
So, the temperature in the interior can
be held sufficiently cool.
Its mechanical stability is adjusted
to the outer conditions over ground or undersea by thinner or thicker
noble-steel.
In the interior, these tubes consist
of two halves, the left and the right half. They are both electrically
conductive and are electrically isolated against each other. For
example the left half has an electric tension and the right half is grounded.
So, the entire pipe is used for the conducting of the current. Therefore the voltage
can be held low and the entire metal cross-section of the tube serves for the
current and energy transportation.
In the interior of these ‘pipes’ transportation
vehicles called ‘cars’ can move. They are driven with the electric energy
that is led by the halves of the pipeline wall. It is transferred to the cars
by their rubber tires. The rubber is electrically conducting by
admixture of soot, etc. The wheels run in grooves that are on the left and
right underside of the pipes. The cars have a round cross-section of for
example 90 cm and a length of for example 10 m. They consist of a chassis with
two times three tires of for example 10 cm diameter. All tires are driven directly
by one electric motor each.
The power of a car is laid out in a way that for
example it can drive 10 metric tons = 10.000 kp weight with a velocity of 5 m/
s up a 5 percent slope. This corresponds to a performance of:
5 m height/
100 m of length with 5 m/ s that is 5 m height / 20 s.
10.000 kp x
5 m/ 20 s = 2.500 kp x m/ s | / (75 kp x m/ s = 1 bhp)
= 33,3 bhp (brake
horsepowers) | x 0,735 kilowatts/ bhp
= 24,5
kilowatts.
If the wheels have a distance from
each other of 2,50 m and a distance of 1,25 m from the front and rear-edge of
the cars, then, there are three wheel-pairs per car or 6 wheels (1,25 m + 2,50
m + 2,50 m + 2,50 m + 1,25 m = 10 m).
Therefore, each wheel needs
an electric motor of 24,5 kW/ 6 ≈ 4 kW.
The cars are firm tube-racks, into which
the ‘containers’ can be clicked in. The wheels are fitted into the racks so that the
clearance of the containers amounts to approximately 85 cm.
The ‘containers’ consist of a
tube that can be tucked up at the side on its whole length. So, they easily can
be loaded with corresponding ‘palettes’. We also have ‘semi-containers’.
They are just 5 meters long so that two of them fit on a car.
When loading, the palettes are
clicked in to the interior of a container, the hinged cover of the container is
shut, and the container is clicked on to a car. The car then comes into the loading
stations, named ‘loads’, on the threading rail and is threaded into the
stream of the other cars.
The distance of the loads from each other at all pipes is
approximately 100 km. At these loads the line of the cars can be
threaded out or in for a single car or also for several cars. Big shunting-stations
are used for the loading and unloading of the containers or their transhipping
on automobile trucks for the supply of the nearer surroundings. Four or six
of these containers are clicked on one truck.
At the loads, crossings and
branch-lines of transverse pipes can be realized likewise, in each case controlled per computer and
radio.
Each container has an RFID-Chip with an unambiguous identification.
So, the cars with their containers destined for a load can automatically be threaded
out or in.
Big ventilators are at each load: at the Ccyclers, at the
service-loads, at the endloads with the users in the cities, and at the
cross-loads, where two pipes cross and east-west-pipes take over the
cross-transportation approximately along the degrees of latitude. The
ventilators make an overpressure in the pipes ‘from behind’ and a hypo tension ‘from
in front.’ So, the cars drive without headwind, but in the contrary they can be
driven from this pressure difference, like in a tube mail. This pressure difference
is so low that a wind speed is generated in the pipes of approximately
20 m/ s that are approximately 72 km/ h. So, the cars can go along with the
wind with very little power of their own.
The cars have a clutch at the
back and in front, that closes automatically with contact and that can be
solved per radio. So, they themselves can construct chains of cars of many
kilometres that can immediately be solved totally or partially with demand. If
long chains are formed, mountains can be run over with high speed, because the cars
that drive downhill pull the cars that drive uphill. A high performance of one
single car therefore is not necessary. However with inferior traffic also one
single car can drive slowly downhill and uphill.
So, we have an autarchy of each
individual car and simultaneously all advantages of a train system of almost
infinite length.
When for
example an average-speed of 70 km/ h is used, then the wind-speed is set
so and the rotational speed of the wheels of the cars is regulated in
accordance. This corresponds to a wind speed of 8 Beaufort. A trip of 2.500 km
from the greenhouses of the Ccyclers to the loads near the consumers lasts with
this speed
2.500 km/ (70
km/ h) = 35,7 h or 1,5 days. There are no traffic jams. Human labor is used
only for loading and unloading. The energy consumption of this transportation system
is very low and consists of a low pressure difference in the pipe through the
ventilators and in the electric performance of the motors of the cars for a horizontal
movement without air friction only against the friction resistance of the
rubber-wheels. This may be in the magnitude of less than 1 kilowatt /
car. The electric motors therefore run with less than 10% of their maximum performance.
The pipes are built in connection
with the soloil pipelines as a unit of approximately four meters of width. They
run if possible along the highways of the states.
There are service-cars to the
maintenance of the pipes in each load, with which accidents can be cleared
in these pipe units of approximately 100 km length. Broken down cars are pushed
forward to the next load. Spray-cars with own accumulators clean the walls of
the pipes, directed and observed by the men of the staff, when the power supply
is switched off. So, accident-places are passable again within hours.
In each container, a piece of e.g. 10
kg dry-ice - that is frozen CO2 of -78,5°C - can be put,
according to the length of the trip and the wished cooling temperature. So, the
driven food is well cooled during the trip of one to two days without own
cooling equipment. Each container is cooled, and so the entire pipe is
cooled too. The in-blown air can also be pre-cooled, for example to 0°C.
So, low cooling temperatures are possible for each freight - from for example +
10°C to for example - 50°C for special deep-frozen food, freely chosen for each
single container independently. The insulation lies around the pipe only once
and is not transported.
The remaining maximum distance to
the people between the loads is 50 km along a pipe. Between two pipes, however,
it can be up to 1.000 km in east-west-direction. When the practicability of
this system is proven, it can be further extended in east-west-direction to a general
long-range transportation system for every type of things on the surface of the
earth.
A container of l = 10 m length and a
cross-section of d = 85 cm on average (not exactly circle-round, but
approximately) has a volume of
V = l x d2 x π/ 4 = 10 m x 0,852 m2 x
0,785 = 5,67 m3 = 5.670 l
| / 10 l/ s = 567 s ≈ 9
minutes.
The transportation capacity
should be at least 10 litres per second; therefore a container should depart
each 567 seconds. With a speed of 70 km/ h = 19,4 m/ s we need for 10 m of
length / (19,4 m/ s) = 0,515 s, that is 567 s/ 0,515 s =1.100. The capacity of
one pair of pipes is 1.100 times the needed capacity for food. The capacity is
5.670 l/ 0,515 s = 11.000 l/ s = 11
t/ s | x 31,5 x 106 s/ a = 346,5 x 106 t/ a = 0,35 km3
/ a.
So about 6 pipes are capable of
the transportation of the food for all humanity of 2 km3 / a.
The speed and with it the capacity can
be changed if needed.
There is plenty of capacity left for any other goods to be transported.
There are two parallel pipes,
one for each transportation direction. The air-turbines for the wind in
the pipes at the loads therefore suck in the air from one pipe and blow it
into the other pipe simultaneously and chill it on that occasion according
to demand. With 70 km/ h = 19,4 m/ s the turbines have to move air and cool it
in the amount of
0,785 m2 pipe
cross-section x 19,4 m/ s = 15,3 m3/ s - if no container is
in the pipe, otherwise accordingly somewhat less.
The containers normally drive back
to the Ccyclers on their cars, filled with compost of already processed organic mass. This cycle
of the food therefore consists of the recycling of the compost to the
greenhouses and in the recycling of the cars and containers to renewed loading.
With the nutrients for the plants that are won as nitrogen-connections from the
air and additional minerals a complete recycling-system is formed here. So,
mankind's food can grow in the deserts.
This
system is
essentially more effective than the previous truck system.
It needs much
less energy.
It almost
does not need any personnel - no waste of human labor.
The
drivers are free for activities that are more interesting.
It needs
much less space (according to one highway-lane per pipes).
It
transports much faster and
much
more and
much
safer
over longer
distances
and more
effectively cooled
also cheaply
underwater between neighboring continents.
And the investments
will be inferior to another lane of the highways, above all, when this
system is integrated with the design and the construction of the highways of
the continents.
When Asia and America are connected
with pipes via the Bering Strait (64 km width), then the four largest
continents are connected via pipes for worldwide land transportation of any
goods. The largest distance between two points between Cape of Good Hope in South-Africa
and Cape Horn in South-America is less than 50.000 km or 700 hours or 30 days
of transportation forming a possible alternative to sea transportation or also
to air transportation.
Annex 2: The greening of the deserts (compare Chapter 4)
The freshwater-production with TPPs
If I use one of the 13 TPPs of a 1-GW-TPP
for the production of freshwater from sea-water then I have 82,5 MW for it, that
means in one year I have the energy of
82,5 MW x 24h x 365
d = 722.700.000 kWh/ a ≈ 720 million kWh/ a.
Present-day big-installations for
the so-called reverse-osmosis from saltwater to drinking water have an
effectiveness of 1 m3 of produced drinking water per 2 to 3 kWh.
With the reverse-osmosis, saltwater is pumped with very high pressure through a
semi permeable membrane, through which only H2O-molecules pass, but
no salt-ions. The pressure overcomes the naturally existing osmotic pressure,
which would lead to equally dense concentration on both sides of the membrane.
The energy is used in order to drive the pressure-pumps for up to 80 bars. This
is at the moment by far the most effective form of sea water desalination.
The next favorable
freshwater-production method would be with the procedure of electro-dialysis
with approximately 10 kWh/ m3. Vaporization or evaporation use much more
energy (over 20 kWh for one cubic meter).
If I take the value of 3 kWh/ 1 m3
freshwater, then I can generate 240 million cubic meters of freshwater per
year:
With 82,5 MW x 24h x
365 d/ (a x 3 kWh/ m3) = 240 million m3 drinking water/
year ≈
≈ 0,25 km3
/ year.
I can therefore desalinate 0,25
cubic-kilometre of water per year. This is enough for over 6 million people
with 100 liters per human being and day:
240 million m3
/ [0,1 m3 / (human being x d) x 365 d] = 6,57 million people.
A long pipeline in the magnitude of a
few hundred kilometres connects the installation with a water-removal-place in
an ocean that lies in greater water-depth of about 50 to 100 meters. Before the
openings of the big area of removal-tubes, strainers are appropriate with
increasing delicacy that keep back all solid particles until approximately 15
microns of diameter. The cross-sections of all removal-openings together should
amount to approximately 100 m2 so that the current-speed of the
removal certainly is under 1 m/ s and does not evoke any dangers.
With a rustproof noble steel tube
of d = 1m diameter and a pressure of 100 bar I can reach water speeds of
approximately 30 m/ s with tubes of 100 km length. With it I can transport 0,7
km3 saltwater per year:
d2 x
π/4 = 0,785 m2
| x 30 m/ s = 23,55
m3 / s
| x 31,5 million s/
a = 742 million m3 / a ≈ 0,7 km3 / a.
A pipeline of 1 m diameter therefore
is fully sufficient in order to provide up to three TPPs with saltwater for the
freshwaterpreparation. The return pipeline for the up concentrated saltwater can have 10
percent of the cross section, with approximately 35 percent of salt concentration:
0,0785 m2
= dreturn2 x 0,785; dreturn = 0,32 m
Sea-salt can be gained at the coast
with demand from a part of the concentrated salt solution. The total amount of
the sea salt per year from the 24 million cubic meters of concentrated salt
water is
240 x 106
m3 H2O x 0,035 NaCl/ H2O = 8,4 x 109
kg NaCl = 8,4 billion
kg sea salt ≈ 1 kg salt/ (person x a).
The technology of the salines with
sun-evaporation of the water is many millennia old and becomes ten times more
efficient through the application of concentrated saltwater.
The salt-consumption
for food-purposes of human beings and animals from biologically more valuable
sea-salt is covered by it more inexpensively. The consumption of sea salt will
spread, while now mainly NaCl from industrial mines is used.
Assumed, one needs approximately
2.000 mm precipitation per year or 2.000 liters = 2 m3 per square
meter for an optimal plant-growth with the strong heat in the desert-regions,
then, 500 km2 need 1 billion cubic meters = 1 km3 per
year. One therefore can rinse agriculturally about 500 km2 x 0,25 =
125 km2 ≈11 km x 11 km with 0,25 km3 water. In
Chapter 5 is calculated that 99,5 % of the surface of a TPP or 38,3 km2
is usable as a greenhouse and that 25% of the 6.000 1-GW-TPPs are sufficient
for the food production for all mankind.
125 km2 / 38 km2
= 3,3 times. With the amount of freshwater of one TPP I can use 3 TPPs as
greenhouses for food production and I can use all of them at the same time
for the absorption of the CO2 and for the other necessary purposes.
3 TPPs / 13 TPPs = 23%.
1 TPP for freshwater production and
3 TPPs for food production (one of them makes the freshwater too) and 10 TPPs
optimized for CCycling in the 13 TPPs of a 1-GW-TPP are a good mix for CCycling
plus food production for mankind.
The greening of the deserts
The freshwater crisis of mankind is
a problem often talked about. When the 6.000 1-GW-TPPs went into operation and
the CO2-concentration of the atmosphere declined and all the TPPs are
used for the soloil-production, then it is worth to consider whether 1-GW-TPPs
should be built further in order to get rid of the drinking water-shortage of
the people in the areas with low rainfalls. The expenditure for such TPPs is
certainly no more as high as at the beginning after a series of 6.000 x 13 =
78.000 TPPs.
With one TPP I can produce the
freshwater for 6 million people with 100 liters per day. With 1.000 TPPs I can
solve this problem for mankind. 1.000 TPP / (13 TPP/ 1-GW-TPP) = 77 1-GW-TPP. With
the energy of 77 times 1-GW-TPPs I can solve the drinking water problem for
humanity. The food production and the freshwater for it is solved
independently with 23% of the 6.000 Ccyclers. The drinking water obviously is
just a small problem compared to the climate catastrophe.
When also mankind's drinking
water-problems are solved, then it is time to think about another improvement
of our earth and to execute it vigorously.
The groundwater mirror in the
deserts sank after the end of the ice age, and especially in the last century
more and more, also and above all through the human consumption of the
reserves, particularly in the last decades by the industrial and agricultural
exploitation of the reserves in big depth.
A large-scale project of mankind can
be to turn parts of the deserts of the earth to fertile land again. That
admittedly is simple, but nevertheless costly:
By planting of trees the increase of
the humus-layer is provided. With artificial irrigation and with sufficient
humus per plant, less than 1m3 / tree, the forests and parks are
regrown that grew there approximately 10.000 years ago.
They are available for the isolated
settlement of people, for hermits, for small village-communities, but also for
vacation-installations. The particularly remarkable nature-landscapes of the desert are put
under nature conservancy as desert-regions.
These projects are generation
treaties and mankind projects: The deserts of the earth around the 1-GW-TPPs
will be blooming paradises again in a generation if we want it.
The calculations showed that one
single TPP can generate 0,25 km3 / year freshwater, therefore a 1-GW-TPP
can generate 13 x 0,25 km3 / year = 3,25 km3 freshwater
per year.
For the saltwater-transportation I
need 5 noble-steel-pipelines with 1m of diameter or one pipeline with 2,15 m
of diameter and a return-pipeline of 0,68 m of diameter.
(3,25 km3
/ a) / (0,7 km3 / a) = 4,64 ≈ 5
4,64 x 0,785 m cross
section = 3,64 m2 = d2 x π/4; d = 2,15 m
dreturn2
x π/4 = 3,64 m2 / 10 =
0,364 m2; dreturn = 0,68 m
With this water-quantity I can rinse
1.625 km2 with 2m3 / m2 irrigation per year.
That is the surface of a circle of 46 km of diameter:
3,25 x 109
m3 / 2 m = 1,625 109 m2 = 1.625 km2
= d2 x π/4 with d = 46 km.
If I therefore build 1-GW-TPPs especially
for the freshwater-production, then I can rinse and cover with greenery a
desert-surface of 46 km of diameter with each of such 1-GW-TPPs.
If sufficiently big woodlands are
grown, they will become self-sufficient gradually and provide for their own
climate: The evaporation of cubic-kilometres water through the trees will
generate rain that is used additionally to the artificial irrigation.
In this situation, the no more
additionally required freshwater can finally be led into the underground
reservoirs, that are under many deserts. In the underground are strata that are
impermeable for water. Through a rain-excess 10.000 years ago a high water
level had established over them that could be used by the vegetation at that
time. That water level lowered itself again since then, however. If these
reservoirs are replenished again, then, the deserts that do have such
reservoirs, become green again just like at that time. Human then just must
provide enough water so that the water level does not fall again. Irrigation
then is not necessary any more. The suitable feeding points for the
replenishment of these reservoirs are for example the oases in the deserts.
With our present-day technology, we can turn back again the process of the
desiccation that lasted for 10.000 years.
A reservoir of for example 1.000 km
x 5.000 km of expansion and 50 meters of depth, has a volume of 106 m x 5 x 106
m x 50 m = 250 x 1012 m3. It is approximately filled by
50 percent with sand and stones. The other half can be filled with water
between the sand-grains, therefore 125 x 1012 m3. A 1-GW-TPP
produces 3,25 x 109 m3 freshwater per year. 6.000
1GW-TPPs therefore need
125 x 1012
m3 / (3,25 x 109 m3 x 6 x 103
1-GW-TPP) = 125 / 19,5 =
6,4 years, to fill such a reservoir. Maybe 1.000 1-GW-TPPs suffice thereafter,
to keep it filled with the consumption of a forest from this reservoir.
This surface of 1.000 km x 5.000 km
= 5 million square-kilometres is approximately half as big as the surface of
Europe of approximately 10,5 million square-kilometres.
This consideration illustrates that the
greening of the deserts of this earth is just as big a project as the
Ccycling-Project. With the Ccycling, it is only about the balance of 4
generations, with the irrigation of the deserts, it is about the balance of 300
generations, therefore of 10.000 years. It can be begun when we got out of the
climate catastrophe, solved the water-shortage, and when we want it as persons
being responsible for our spaceship earth.
Annex 3: The financing of the
Ccycling
A
critical part in a feasibility study is the financing of a project. Here is a
possible model of it. Several alternatives are presented.
The
climate catastrophe is stopped in less than a generation and can then be turned
back at will to the level, that is the best for all people, in very big speed
after the discretion of the then living people.
And not
only this.
‘We’
built a new energy system with it:
1. It is non-polluting.
2. It is sure.
3. It is totally recycling.
4. It is in the property of all people and
delivers cheap energy that is released without profit margin,
5. since all people are the entrepreneurs. They
all together took part in the transaction of this project after their abilities
with 5 percent of their productivity.
6. It grants all energy wishes of mankind until
into the most distant future.
7. It is built to very long term stability.
8. It is variable almost at will.
9. It can also be enlarged in the surroundings
of the cities up to approximately 45° of geographical width.
10. It can be used as gigantic greenhouse
simultaneously for the food production in the power plants.
11. The nitrogen of the air is processed to
fertilizer.
12. The other climate gases like methane become
recycled too.
13. It works with conventional technology, ‘low
tech’ that has been tested since decades or centuries and that is ripe.
14. It is decentralized. It is spread over the
five continents of the earth (even in Southern Europe).
15. It brings together mankind in cooperation
to common welfare.
16. It regenerates the deserts to again greening
nature paradises.
17. They turn into settlement areas for new
forms of human living together.
18. It gets rid of mankind's freshwater problems.
19. It does end with the old unclean combustion
technology, with which many pollutants accrue. It just burns to CO2
+ H2O.
20. It enables to uphold the present individual
traffic on oil basis.
21. It connects seamlessly to this running out
technology model.
22. The gone wrong global experiment reaches
completion in a technology that is optimized for this spaceship earth: We
circle around an (almost) inexhaustible source of energy.
The
world economy is increased very strongly with the realization of the project
through the gigantic building sites on all continents and the world-wide
activity of many people that are unemployed until now and that want to work
meaningfully.
Nevertheless,
this project is not unrealistically big: In the one year 2005 over 10 trillion
Euros were raised as foreign-investments by capitalism alone. This is 10-fold
the here required means and this just through the rich people, the investors
alone. (Foreign
investments are all investments outside the own country of the investor.)
And in
the same year 2005, there were 200 million job-hunting people on this earth
without work possibility.
Nothing
actually hinders the successful transaction of the project, since
1.
The information of this text will become known fast enough.
2. Its
representation convinces sufficiently many people.
3. An organization is established that is under
public law, non-profit, government-independent and state-independent, democratic
and international, that belongs to all human beings to same sharing: Ccycling.org.
4. Capable and ethically proven and
organizationally outstanding people are found that are ready to collaborate in leading
this project.
5. The states of the earth agree to this
project and grant their support through freedom from tax, through collecting
of the membership rates like for example with the church tax (in Germany), through
lending of ground for the required surfaces (at the edges of the deserts)
and through other suitable laws. The costs for the states are zero.
6. Each
human being of the earth can put ‘just 5 percent’ of his income that is over
the poverty line into this project, on average 167 €/ human being and year or
46 c/ day.
7. The unemployed people of the earth that are
free to collaborate, are paid to take part in this work after they were trained
for it. That part of the productive ability of mankind that until now is lying
fallow, because capitalism does not need it, is used for mankind's own general
advantage.
8. Possibly, a CO2-tax is drawn
in by all states competition-neutrally additionally world-wide and handed over
to Ccycling.org. This tax serves exclusively the goal to pay the complete Ccycling
of the carbon. (It does not serve the goal to stuff the holes in the pension insurance
- like the energy-tax in Germany today;-)
Until now, the price for the waste disposal of the exhaust fumes is practically
not taken into account, but only the price for the first half of the cycle: to
the support of the petroleum, its preparation and its distribution before its
utilization. A Ccycling tax of for example 1 Euro per litre of fuel renders
1 trillion Euros per 1 km3 fuels. The members of Ccycling.org
could possibly be freed from this tax if the citizens of the democracies wish
it of the majority.
1 km3 / a = 1012 liters/ a
| x 10 kWh/ l = 10 x 1012 kWh/ 8.760 h = 1,14 x 109 kW =
0,19 kW/ human
9. The money for emission certificates to
the output of CO2 can be used for this project as well, if the
citizens of the democracies wish it.
‘The EU-commission expects 50 billion Euros revenues annually from the
now planned auction of the contamination rights. The money should be put
in for climate innovations above all.’ 7)
7) http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,530501-2,00.html
of 23rd January 2008 in German: ‚Von der jetzt geplanten Versteigerung der Verschmutzungsrechte
erwartet die EU-Kommission jährlich 50 Milliarden Euro Einnahmen. Das Geld soll
vor allem für Klima-Innovationen eingesetzt werden.’
With 300 million Europeans, this auction gains per European: 50 x 109
€/ 300 x 106 Europeans = 166,67 €/ European. If the emission
certificates are auctioned world-wide like in Europe, then, this is per 6
billion people:
6 x 109 people x 166,67 € / human being = 1 trillion Euros
per year.
Annex 4: The Organization of the
Ccycling
This is
a mankind project. It has the characteristics:
1. It
serves the entire mankind.
2. It is too big to be executed by one of the
existing organizations.
3. It is
paid by all human beings proportionally after their respective
possibilities, comparable to the state taxes.
4. The labor is executed mainly from people that
until now are unemployed, independent from other differences.
5. The co-workers are paid with a salary above
a minimum salary, like the majority of all people hold it for just. Each
human being should perform the work as a co-worker for this salary gladly and
should like to pay the salary as an employer likewise gladly. As social
benefits for the construction workers and for the future co-workers of Ccycling.org
and for their families originate useful lasting settlements at the edges of the
Ccyclers that are offered additionally to the salary.
6. Patents are not given by the patent offices
of the states for procedures that are developed for mankind projects, in
principle. Existing patents that are used are paid a fee for these purposes
with an appropriate amount. They of course can also be ‘donated’, that is put
to the disposal gratuitously.
7. An organization, in which each human member
has exactly one voice, carries out the project. This organization is under public
law, non-profit, ‘transparently open’, government-independent and
state-distant, international and democratic.
8. Its name
is Ccycling.org
9. Each member has exactly one voice,
independent from the membership rates (of 5%) or from the donation height.
10. The communication with its members,
therefore with mankind, takes place over the internet; likewise the
planning of the project, the public opinion formations, decisions, elections,
improvement suggestions and stimulations.
11. Ccycling.org
must not pick up credits. It must not get into any debts. It can
only invest the money quantity that it gets as membership rates, donations,
taxes, contamination rights, etc. It must by no means repeat the mistake that (almost)
all states of this earth are to blame for and that restricts their freedom of
action narrowly. The states must do what their money lenders want. Ccycling.org
must remain capable of acting in the sense of their members.
12. Very big value is put on ‘Glasnost’,
on glassy openness of all processes to the prevention of corruption, felt and
nepotism, because very big sums of money are at stake that belong to us all,
and also an utmost high quality is at stake that should serve us all.
That is possible through complete enlightenment of all suspicions
and public protocol in the internet, because each living human being is
involved in the organization ideally and in fact as owner and therefore
information-justifiable. A censorship of its web site does not take place in
any country of the earth. Only long-time proven, ethically perfect managers
may practice leading functions. Own ‘Glasnost departments’ are directly
responsible for the enlightenment of every single irregularity. Each reported
suspicion - also anonymously - is cleared up completely.
Passive bribery of the Ccycling.org co-workers is punishable by disproportionately
high contract penalties. Therefore only these men will become co-workers that
detest and fight any bribery. Each active bribery leads to public proscription
and to the call to long-term boycott of the products of the organization
responsible by all Ccycling.org-members - additionally to the legal penalty.
13. The structure of Ccycling.org principally
is decentralized and synergic: Self-sufficient part-organs build and
administer the individual factories and TPPs. Additionally, there are a
steering central administration and a system-planning.
14. Leading co-workers get salaries that must not
be over comparable salaries in the region or in the remaining market economy. Their
total profit must not exceed certain upper limits. It is an honor to
actively and meaningfully be able to collaborate with this essential mankind
project.
15. Through these and many further measures and
through the constructive and communicative business climate the very severe
corruption danger is minimized. Here too, the politics of all countries
deliver sufficient illustrative-material. (‘field-clearing’; ‘landscape-cultivation’;
‘loopholes’; ‘Amigo-Affair’; ...) 8)
15) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestechung
; Annex 5
15. As a first step in the formation of
Ccycling.org the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and the leading managers are
elected in the inaugural meeting of Ccycling.org. These managers build the
organization structure of Ccycling.org that can begin to work.
16. Each member gets his percentage share of
the generated energy as return for the membership rates completely
gratuitously, that is nominally a duration performance of 1 kilowatt/
person from 40 years after beginning of the project (compare chapter 9). It
is inherited tax-free. (With 365 days at 24 hours that is 8.760 kWh/ a. The
membership rates will decrease by under 1 percent of the income after
completion of the CCyclers and their infrastructure, therefore to approximately
30 €/a or approximately 3 c/ kWh.)
National borders play a subordinate role with mankind projects. The best
suitable places of the earth are chosen as locations for the Ccyclers. If some
governments should decide, not to support this project, then their territories
are not used. At the selected locations, test-installations are built in
rationally big standard already at the beginning that are enlargeable, because
the time is scarce. Every year counts. With the experiences in the operation of
the first installations, the following ones are further optimized continuously.
All installations are constructed flexible and modular so that all
possibilities of improvement remain realizable in the future.
Every detail of construction and all experiences with this project are
published without exception in the internet so that the new technology upswing immediately
is available to the entire mankind without patent dues. All members are asked
for constructive cooperation as for example with the Open Source Culture (Linux,
etc).
A learning process of mankind begins, against which the moon-landing of
the Americans in the 1960s was ‘one small step for mankind.’
Neil Armstrong at the moon-landing: "One small
step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
This is a gigantic jump for the whole mankind. All experiences benefit
each human being directly and indirectly (Anti-mirror-coating, thermic
insulation, food production, transportation,…). Because almost all people are
the entrepreneurs, some of them are also the workers, that are paid for it by
the others and they again themselves are their own entrepreneurs with 5 percent
of their salary.
The affluence in the surrounding regions rises. Through mankind projects
mankind grows together like with the internet.
Mankind projects promote peace among the people. The ‘defence’
budgets of the states can be put in for these projects, if the majority of the
citizens of the democracies wish it. For which better and surer arms are
developed until now than
peace-making measures and
full employment in meaningful labor and
supranational cooperation and
general, democratically assigned justice and
personal and stately energy and food and water autarchy and
work to the common survival in the affluence on our spaceship.