Although Burns is a Scottish name, I convinced that he must be Irish because
only an Irishman could make this suggestion as solution to sea level rise.
" I'll tell you wot! We'll trink ut! An' if we put a drap of whiskey in each
glass we'll hardly notice the sarlt"
john gorman
ps -being Irish on both sides of the family, I'm allowed to make Irish
jokes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brennan Jorgensen" <[email protected]>
To: "geoengineering" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:40 AM
Subject: [geo] Re: Desalinization Scheme
Dr. Burns,
I also have been on a novice quest to design for a solar-powered
desalination system coupled to a chloralkali industrial process. I
typed up a 40-page rough draft and have not yet completed a final
draft. I need to revise the chloro-alkali process per my conversation
with Greg Rau. The brine wastewater leftover from desalination is used
as a nutrient-rich medium for Arthrospira cyanobacteria (a means for
photosynthetic carbon assimilation). After desert brine wastewater
lakes evaporate, the goal is to generate convective cloud formations
in the low latitude subtopics. The remaining salt fields further
deflect incoming solar radiation from the sun much similar to the
albedo effect of polar ice caps.
Here is an abstract:
The Reverse Entropy Utility System or REUS is a technologically
reliable and economically
feasible model for the capture of C02 because it is simply a novel
reconfiguration of
proven technologies and economic models that have performed
successfully for over a
quarter of a century. Namely, these technologies are parabolic solar
concentrators,
multi-effect desalination chambers and chloro-alkali industrial
systems in addition to well
known agriculture and silvaculture methodologies. The REUS model can
arguably be
classified as an integrated coastal desert terraforming operation that
greatly expands
photosynthetic capital with commercially valuable desert agriculture,
forestry and algae
aquaculture. The REUS model is also specifically designed to parallel
the 50% projected
global demand for energy, water and agricultural resources required by
an estimated 8
billion people by the year 2030 while greatly lessening market level
demands on existing
carbon reserves such as tropical forests. On average, a 100-MW REUS
model operating at
200,000 MWh/yr will sequester at least 50 million tonnes of C02
primarily through
photosynthesis and carbonates after 10 years. This represents an
economy of scale
average operational efficiency of 40 KWh of solar electricity required
to sequester 1
metric ton of C02. Besides C02 being assimilated by sodium hydroxide
in order to
produce carbonates, most of the photosynthetically assimilated C02
will be turned into
commercially valuable products in order to make the system
economically viable. The
sum total of sequestering 50 million tonnes of C02 into commercially
valuable products
for a 100-MW REUS model after 10 years of operation would amount to
the following
biomass figures and 2009 market values; 196,875 tonnes of bamboo (U.s.
value $4.9
million), 187,500 tonnes of sugarcane ($1.8 million), 66,823 tonnes of
tropical hardwood
and fruit tree biomass ($2.0 million) and 18,560,000 tonnes of
Arthrospira dry weight
algae ($1,856.0 million). Plus the system will generate 27,600,000
tonnes of brine salts
after 10 years of operation with a total U.S. market value of $414
million dollars. The
solar thermal albedo offset from the REUS models nearly 2-Km2 of
parabolic mirrors and
total of 50-km2 of intermittent white carbonate and salt flats will
also offset the total
atmospheric thermal heating effects of 8 million tonnes of C02 in the
atmosphere during
its ten years of operation. If after 10 years of operation, 27,600,000
tonnes of white
brine salts are left in place covering a 50-km2 area at a 30-degree
subtropical desert
latitude, the yearly thermal albedo effect would be equivalent to
removing at least 2.5
million tonnes of C02 from the atmosphere annually. With combined
photosynthetic,
carbonate and albedo effects, A 100-MW REUS system operating at
200,000 MWh/yr can
offset the C02 emissions of twenty 500-MW fossil fuel power plants
producing 300,000
tonnes of C02 a year.
On Apr 21, 8:59 am, "Dr. Wil Burns" <[email protected]> wrote:
FYI. wil
TITLE: Climatic changes: what if the global increase of CO(2)
emissions cannot be kept under control?
AUTHORS: L A Barreto de Castro
AFFILIATION: Ministério de Ciência e Technologia, Brasília, DF,
Brasil. [email protected] <[email protected]>
REFERENCE: Braz J Med Biol Res 2010 Mar 43(3):230-3
Climatic changes threaten the planet. Most articles related to the
subject present estimates of the disasters expected to occur, but few
have proposed ways to deal with the impending menaces. One such threat
is the global warming caused by the continuous increase in CO2
emissions leading to rising ocean levels due to the increasing
temperatures of the polar regions. This threat is assumed to
eventually cause the death of hundreds of millions of people. We
propose to desalinize ocean water as a means to reduce the rise of
ocean levels and to use this water for populations that need good
quality potable water, precisely in the poorest regions of the planet.
Technology is available in many countries to provide desalinated water
at a justifiable cost considering the lives threatened both in coastal
and desertified areas.
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