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"A Plan for Our Planet" in brief:

The necessary nuclear technology is now available for rendering all fossil fuels obsolete.
1. Replacing coal heat with nuclear heat.
2. Replacing natural gas heat with nuclear heat.
3. Use nuclear heat to turn air's CO2 + water into carbon-neutral gasoline.  more   more
 

Acknowledgements
Prologue           The past is often prologue.  "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." - M. Twain
Introduction       Want to engineer a better energy situation?  Don't ask a scientist to do it.
 

DOUBLE TROUBLE:  Two sides of the troublesome Fossil Fuel coin.
Energy Cost* escalation to pay for ending Global Warming is what the fossil fuel struggle is all about.

 A Plan for Our Planet:     Global Warming is presented from the viewpoint of disassembling it, fossil fuel boilers, modern reactors, are introduced.
     Modern Nuclear Energy                     It's not your father's reactor.  Addressing the fears associated with nuclear energy.
   Antinuclear Environmentalists             Environmentalists are caught making Global Warming worse.  Their list of 'standard objections' to nuclear energy.

"A Plan for Our Planet" is a collection of ideas about how fossil fuels can be efficiently replaced by man's only other source of scaleable heat - nuclear.  In the long run, nuclear has a big PRICE advantage over fossil fuels.  See below. (In U.S. dollars per MegaWatt-hour.)   - Jim Holm, Summer 2010.

Replacing COAL   37% of all Global Warming.   There is sufficient carbon on earth for a dozen Global Warmings.  Obsolete means we won't ever use it.

    1  Supersized Power Plants          Part 1:  A break. The author accidently discovers that only 2% of the world's power plants make 30% of all Global Warming.

    2  Nuclear Boilers                         Part 2:  It's Sputnik déjà vu again.  A little-known Russian reactor is an excellent candidate for repowering coal plants.

    3  The Coal Replacement Module   Part 3:  The Coal Yard Nuke Module:  The author presents his design for a mass-produced unattended nuclear boiler.
          
    4  Coal Yard Nuke Installations      Part 4:  "Set and forget."  To end Global Warming we need to produce the same result in 67 different countries.
          
    5  Practical example: Taichung      Part 5:  Fixing (repowering) Taichung, the world's largest supersized coal burning power plant.

_____________________  (Retrofitting the above supersized coal power plant boilers is the core message of this web site)  ____________________

    6  Save Our Old Coal Plant Sites    Repowering the world's next largest 4,000 power plants will eliminate another 8% of all Global Warming CO2.    

    7  Clean Coal, Grids, Efficiency      1. "Clean Coal."  7,  W = I²R  Every grid's Achilles' Heel: Ohm's law.  8.  Efficiency: Can we starve ourselves strong?
 

Replacing NATURAL GAS  18% of all Global Warming.  We can use our natural gas + nuclear hydrogen to make synthetic oil.

     8  Ending Natural Gas Electricity   Wind and Nuclear can end almost all natural gas burning, saving the gas for use as synthetic crude oil feedstock. 
          
     9  Industrial Natural Gas Boilers     Repowering large industrial gas boilers with the new small nuclear boilers.

    10  Example: U.S. Capitol Bldg      We can have world's first "Zero CO2 Capitol" by replacing the Capitol's gas boiler with a small nuclear boiler.

    11  Commercial Natural Gas Use    Repowering smaller commercial size gas users - such as stores, malls, schools, offices with "Big Nuke" electricity.

    12  Residential Natural Gas Use     Repowering residential size hot water heaters, furnaces, and air conditioners with "Big Nuke" electricity.
 

Replacing PUMPED OIL  35% of all Global Warming.      OIL ENERGY SECURITY.  Oil's energy density, precision, speed, and cost have no equal.
 
    13  gas2gasoline                           1. Shell has shown us how we can synthesize our natural gas into twice the crude oil we import from OPEC.

    14  Nuclear Oil                              2. "Green Freedom" fuel project from Los Alamos Labs.  Using CO2 from the air, water, and nuclear power to make gasoline.

    14.1  Nuclear Biogenic Oil              Advanced biofuels from wood, algae, sewage, etc., by using nuclear energy to first gasify then GTL-hydrogenate them.
 

Beyond fossil fuels as such   10% of all Global Warming.
 
    15  Nuclear Desalination                Desalination.  There are over 1,500 oil fired desalination plants in the Mideast that could be nuclear.
          
    16  Nuclear Civilian Ships              Powering ocean-going ships with nuclear could eliminate 4% of ALL Global Warming CO2, Airplanes, 2%.

    17  Population and Energy             Energy correlates with prosperity, prosperity correlates with fewer children.  Children are not farm appliances.
          
    18  CO2-Free Nuclear Concrete      Concrete production produces 3.5% of all Global Warming CO2.
 
    19  Biogenic Fuels                         Wood, Cow, Buffalo, and Camel dung.  What 1/3 of the world cooks on.

    20  Geoengineering                        Oops, the cat's out of the bag.  Man now KNOWS he can alter the world.  Thinking the unthinkable - ways to alter Planet Earth.

    20.1  Georemediation                     Sucking CO2 out of the air to reduce Global Warming.

    21  Geoadaptation                          Hey! Isn't it supposed to be survival of the fittest?

    22  Financial Issues                       No one wants to pay one penny to end Global Warming but we'll gladly kill our children for oil.
          
    23  Have United Nations Do It         Global Warming demands action at the global level.  First, Second, Third  World Considerations.
        
    24  Project Management                 Creating a UN Corps of Engineers to execute concurrent repowering construction projects in 67 different countries.

    25  Finish Line                               Reconnecting the dots.  THE END OF GLOBAL WARMING.  The world's post-fossil fuel energies.

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Epilogue
Notes  (And back-room workshop.)
Bibliography
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