[Terrapreta] Carbon emissions show sharp rise

[Jeff Davis]

Hi Duane,

I am no means an expert on nuclear plants to you will need to research this. 
It is my understanding that it takes a lot of energy to build and then later 
decommission  a nuclear plant. Maybe as much as it produces. The next problem 
is that the fuel is NOT renewable and is finite just like oil.

Normal electric power plants are about 40% eff.

The goal is not to burn much of the carbon in the plant. I want to use H2 rich 
gas (and some CO) for fuel and keep the charcoal for Terra Preta.

This is the vision: Rice husks (or what ever) into your gasifier. The gas goes 
to fuel your car, truck, tractor, greenhouse, home, etc, etc and etc. The 
charcoal goes into the ground as Terra Preta. Also one should get some wood 
vinegar to boot. This is all local.

I think of biomass as the the electronics tech would think of ground as being 
common. Biomass is common to the many not just the few like oil!!

But everybody would have to learn to work with biomass so it's a mind set 
problem. People are programmed to not to want to take control of there lives 
they are programmed to have the large corporations take care of them. They 
just need that easy oil stuff and no need to get your hands dirty with 
biomass.


Happy New Years,


Jeff



> Yes! Some energy is wasted by generating electricity with heat engines -
> including the techniques you suggest. I'm trying to identify overall
> process and systems that will transfer a greater portion of the energy
> plants capture from the sun into producing char for the production of terra
> preta. If we burn the carbon in plant material (as when charcoal is used
> for fuel) for energy production less char will be produced and less carbon
> will be removed from the atmosphere. If near zero carbon dioxide emission
> nuclear energy can help in the overall system - why not?