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 ___________________________    Skyscrubber, The Book.      ___________________________

Section One                              

SKYSCRUBBER:
Using the world's power plants for

Ending Global Warming - Not Merely Delaying It

 

Abstract:
There is no physical reason man cannot begin removing all of Global Warming's CO2 from the air immediately, a task that could easily take two generations.  Several different kinds of
Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) machinery to do this have been invented and are currently being optimized.  At least one prototype was successfully run in 2012.  The world's existing 70,000 power plant sites (fewer than 1/3 will be needed) have, or can have, exactly the heat energy and physical infrastructure needed to host CDR machines.  This web site describes the scope of the CDR task and the various construction projects the author thinks are necessary to interface CDR machines to the world's different types and sizes of typical power plants.

Some details:
Skyscrubber is the name for the idea of using power plants to end Global Warming by pulling it out of the air and putting it back in the ground.

There is a "Classic" chemical recipe for pulling Global Warming from the air and several environmentally safe ways to "cook" it free.
"Cooking" will take an enormous amount of heat energy and power plants are where almost all of mankind's stationary heat energy is.
The power plants will continue to make the same electricity.  Middle-of-the-night spare energy will be used to pull Global Warming from the air.

Section Two

         Possible Chapters - Extending the basic ideas introduced on the 2 cover pages.

I       1.3  Forward  How Global Warming might end sooner than we think.

II   Ending The Era Of Global Warming
       3.1  Slamming The Brakes On Global Warming  A quick, cheap, temporary geoengineering trick Mount Pinatubo taught us in 1991.
       3.2  Skyscrubber Project: A Trio Of Power Plant Projects to Back the World Out Of Global Warming
  280 ppm was the absolute maximum for a million years.

III  Skyscrubber - Using Power Plants To End Global Warming
 
     1.2  Introduction  The Skyscrubber concept: Using power plants to end Global Warming by pulling it out of the air.
       5.6  By The Numbers - Performance   What can be expected from Skyscrubber?


IV  The Trio Of Coal Power Plant Projects Needed To End The Era Of Global Warming
       4.1   EXISTING LARGE  Repower World's 1,200 Largest Coal Power Plants
             
Systems:
       6.03          6.07          6.12          6.05   
       4.2   EXISTING SMALL  Repower World's 23,000 Smaller Coal Power Plants
              Systems:
       6.02          6.08          6.09          6.05  
       4.3   FUTURE  Preempt World's Planned 1,028 New Large Coal Power Plants
              Systems:       6.10          6.11          6.05   

 System Sketches

System Sketches: 
(Note: In the Global Warming engineering world, "DAC" means Direct Air Capture.  "CDR" meaning Carbon Dioxide Removal, is another acronym - used mostly by academics.)
Renewable - Wind
1. Wind + Electric DAC - A Good Use for Wind's Unwanted Middle-of-the-Night Electricity        More >        More >
Fossil - Natural Gas
2. Oxyfuel + Thermal DAC - Power Plant Converted to Jet Engine Natural Gas OxyFuel        More >
Nuclear - Thorium TRISO Reactor        More >
3. Small Power Plant Converted to Thorium TRISO Reactor + Thermal DAC        More >
4. Large Converting the 1,200 Largest Existing Coal Power Plants To Thorium TRISO Reactor        More >
5. Preempting the World's Planned 1,028 Large New Coal Power Plants With Thorium TRISO Reactor        More >
Preventing Future Global Warming - Nuclear is industrial scale energy.  Oil is personal scale energy.  Global carbon-neutral oil is the way to go.
6. Endless cheap carbon-neutral Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel.  Carbon capture and TRISO Reactors can make it so.        More >

VI  Energies That Can Be Used To Power Skyscrubber Projects
             Nuclear - Breaking The Nuclear Energy Logjam That is Exacerbating Global Warming
         2.1  THORIUM - The Power to Save the World   A virtually endless supply of a very cheap energy powerful enough to pull Global Warming from the air.
       2.2  Moving On To 4th Generation Nuclear Reactors  -  The fundamental flaw in your grandfather's water cooled reactor is water.
             
New Nuclear Reactors
       2.3  Introducing TRISO Gas Cooled Reactors (GCR)  The little reactors that could.  Next generation and hotter than fire.   A smaller, safer, different kind of reactor.

       2.6  Nuclear Reactor Safety - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)  51 fr 30028  What are the safety criteria and how is the public's risk to be measured?
       2.7  Nuclear Reactor Safety - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)   Their jurisdiction includes the United States
       2.8  Hormesis - Radiation's Healthy Surprise   What the environmentalists don't want you to know about radiation.
             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Michigan  Michigan Power Stations
            
OxyFuel Natural Gas
             Air Capture - SKYSCRUBBER NATURAL GAS COMBINED CYCLE -TO- OXY-FUEL CONVERSION - 2602.jpg
             Air Capture - SKYSCRUBBER CO2 CAPTURING OXYFUEL POWERED KRAFT PAPER MILL - 2612.jpg

            
Renewables - Wind's Unwanted Massive Night Time Energy  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_the_United_States 
             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Michigan  
             Gratiot County Wind Farm:  http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/filter_detail.asp?itemid=3684   
             http://www.newkirk-electric.com/projects/substations/gratiot-county-wind-project-collection-substation/56 
Substation - Done by Newkirk Assoc., Muskegon, MI
             http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.&cad=b&fp=1&q=gratiot+county+wind+farm+map 
Wind Turbine locations
             http://whitneyelectric.net/  
             http://www.dotyenergy.com/Economics/Econ_Physical_CO2_Market.htm  Doty windfuels web site
             Air Capture - SKYSCRUBBER ELECTRIC KILN ELEMENTS - SMALL - 2706.jpg


Section Three

VII  Related Background Notes

       1.4  E-Book  Short, text only.  Not necessarily the chapters you see here.
       8.1  Recommended Web links, Reading, References, and Notes
       8.3  Image Gallery

 

 

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