NATURAL GAS NOT AN APT SOLUTION FOR CLIMATIC PROBLEMS.

At the beginning it was said that instead of burning oil and coal, natural gas can be used as an alternative. As natural gas emits low amount of green house gases into the atmosphere. But after few researches it was found that this natural gas could not be the apt solution for climatic problems.

Even though it produces low amount of green house gas, it still is a conventional and fossil fuel. Due to this it could not be the exact solution for which we are searching for. It was also found that it causes other problems than the climatic problem, especially while mining of natural gas takes place. Huge acres of land gets useless after it is mined for natural gas. 

In mining of natural gas, hydraulic fracturing or fracking is done. This requires alot of water and uses various toxic chemicals. It requires a huge area to be mined, proper transportation along with storage, which is far difficult. 

It was also suggested that non conventional energy sources like solar, tidal, wind, geothermal, etc., could be the best replacement for the non conventional source of energy like coil. oil and natural gas.

Advancements are going on in these non conventional energy sources which are abundant in nature. The more concentrated is the solar energy. As it is directly available from sun at no cost.

Now a days technology in non conventional energy source has gone to such an extent that they have been started implemented on small scale. We have to encourage these inventions and help to develop more and more advancements in these fields. We have to convert this initiative into large scale projects which will be the apt solution this ever growing climatic problem.

Switching to green and clean fuels from fossil fuel will be the PERFECT solution for climatic problems.

This way we can save our earth & natural resources.    

Carbon dioxide a new boon-----used as fuel.

Carbon dioxide along with sunlight produces methanol and gasoline which can be used as fuel. A new innovative method that could reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

As everyone know that the excess amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the prime reason for causing global warming. The global warming has become a greatest problem for the past decade or so. Along with global warming we are facing problems regarding the energy availability. As our fossil fuels are on the verge of extinction, everyone has been alerted for an alternative source of fuels. Till now many alternative fuels have come, but this is going to be more interesting. As this will give solution for two problems at the same time.

Here carbon dioxide along with sunlight can be used as fuel. This will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Along with this energy will also be produced that can be utilized.

In this, carbon dioxide is converted to petrol using sunlight.This is achieved by recovering the building blocks of hydrocarbons by reversing the combustion process. The product so obtained can be synthesized to produce fuels in the form of methanol or gasoline. Already this technology has been tested for small scale utilization. It might require decade or so to commercialize.

Extracting fuel from carbon dioxide is found to be some what expensive. But on fine research it could be optimized. Also the reason for encouraging it is the ever increasing price of crude.

This process uses solar reactors named Counter-Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator  which is simply called CR5. This solar reactor uses sunlight and breaks carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and oxygen. Its simply a heat engine, but it does chemical work instead of doing mechanical work which is done by the normal heat engine.

The prototype that is used has the size and shape of a beer keg. This contains 14 cobalt ferrite rings each having diameter of 1 foot and rotates at 1rpm(revolutions per minute). An 947.23 square foot solar reactor traps huge amount of sunlight into the reactor. This is used to heat the cobalt ferrite rings to about 1427 degree centigrade. At this temperature the carbon dioxide breaks up to carbon monoxide and oxygen. As breaking of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and oxygen is an endothermic reaction, it absorbs the heat from the rings. When the rings temperature goes down to 1093 degree centigrade, it is exposed to carbon dioxide.

As the cobalt ferrite rings now lack oxygen, it takes it from the carbon dioxide that it is in contact with. There by leaving carbon monoxide, which serves as building block. This building block is the source for the formation of  hydrocarbon. Further this can be converted to methanol or gasoline, which is a fuel. After the formation of fuel, the cobalt ferrite ring comes back to its original state and is ready for another cycle.

This way the carbon dioxide which is considered as a problem can be utilized properly to give energy.

This to has one drawback, heating of cobalt ferrite ring to such a large temperature at commercial level. Heating for small scale has been achieved. So we have to find how to commercialize it.

By doing this we can save our earth & natural resources.

If anyone has any idea regarding the heating of rings for commercial scale can give. Its our earth and we have to save it.

SOLAR POND - NEW METHOD TO ENTRAP SOLAR ENERGY

As everyone knows that the sun is the largest renewable sources of energy. Its energy is available in abundant in nature. This all everyone knows. But we had a problem to entrapping this abundant energy. Also the equipments used for its trapping was found to be very costlier.

Now an method that has emerged a long back suits to be suitable to some extent. Its simply the solar ponds. This idea was researched 1987 itself. This pond offering processed heat to the dairy industries from 1993. This is located in Bhuj, Gujarat.

Here the process is very simple. Everyone knows that when you heat water it becomes light and travels upwards. The pond's temperature remains at the atmospheric temperature.This prevents the heat loss from the pond to the atmosphere.

Also salt is add to this pond, which prevents the light vapor to reach the top. The heat of the pond is trapped in it. This salt makes the vapor heavier & prevents  it from rising.

There are three zones available, Upper convective zone where the salt concentration is least. Non convective zone there the salt concentration is intermediate & Lower convective zone where the salt concentration is found to be the maximum.

Its also found that the water cannot move from one zone to another, thereby acting as an insulator which not only allows the sun's energy to reach the bottom of the pond but also doesn't allow them to go off. This way it entraps the sun's energy & this can be used for various processes.

It can be made anywhere required. It will be economical if we construct these solar ponds where we the salt is available.

This way we can save our earth & natural resources. If you all have any of such innovative ideas to save our earth. You can publish then in the comments.a