[Greenbuilding] carbon capture and transformation

[John Daglish]

Bonjour Reuben et al ,

read some of the references in the original posting!

Fraunhofer Institute + proposal
http://www.brighthub.com/environment/renewable-energy/articles/78303.aspx

Specht renewable energy methane
http://www.solar-fuel.net/fileadmin/user_upload/Publikationen/Wind2SNG_ZSW_IWES_SolarFuel_FVEE.pdf

Solar Fuel GmbH a company set up by Fraunhofer et al to develop and
commercialise the technology
http://www.solar-fuel.net/en/the-challenge

Sterneer thesis : "Bioenergy and renewable power methane in integrated
100% renewable energy systems" that modeled the German energy sector
http://www.uni-kassel.de/upress/online/frei/978-3-89958-798-2.volltext.frei.pdf


The Negawatt Institute (France) has modelled in detail the French energy
system based on using efficiency, biomass and renewable energy with significant
SNG conversion. This could significantly de-carbonise the French
energy system and the nuclear industry would be phased out by 2050.
http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.negawatt.org%2Fscenario-negawatt-2011-p46.html


Cordialement

-- 
John DAGLISH



Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 10:54:50 PM, you wrote / vous ecrirez:

RD> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:49 PM, German Gutierrez <
RD> germanegutierrez39 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Dear Corwyn: you must use renewable or wasted energy to produce the
>> methane.
>> But, how can we recover in one place the CO2 produced far to recycle it
>> again?
>>

RD> I'm with Corwyn. This sounds fishy. CO2 has been around forever. It is not
RD> (cannot be) the limiting ingredient in these equations. Renewables and
RD> 'wasted energy' as you call it have also been around forever, though not in
RD> unlimited quantities, but this will almost certainly remain so. Is anyone
RD> currently doing this so we could see what the net energy balance looks
RD> like? Methane is useful, to be sure. But I'm not hearing the specifics that
RD> I would want to hear to grasp how and who and where this is/could be done,
RD> and under what conditions.