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Raleigh Myers
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Snip: Hydrogen by “We the People” Oct 20 1990 Discussion where some of the same points being discussed now have already been covered nearly 20 years ago
THE SOLAR HYDROGEN ECONOMY
Ban on smoking, an alternate energy plan.
The burning of hydrocarbons is as
detrimental to the health of the
planet in general as smoking tobacco is to people. It took a concerted
effort to gain some freedom from the invasion of the tobacco merchants
(pushers) and their relentless seduction campaigns. There is still a long
way to go. However smoking the tobacco drug kills 500,000 people a year,
an equal amount of deaths for alcohol and proscription drugs, and 4-5000
deaths for social drugs. Using carbon based fuel is an addiction that is
killing the whole planet. The second hand smoke that is greenhousing the
planet affects everybody everywhere not just those who pollute.
Weigh the planned scarcities
the political maneuvering, the
artificially created need and cost of the military to protect the trade
routs and now for a war to save the cash cow of the providers so that less 20%
of the global population and a fraction of one percent(stock holders) who
profit
from the carbon trade can ruin the planet. This shows a shallow
collective morality to allow a minority of militarily astute to upset
the life style of the world population. There is another way. Campaign ,
Vote, research,and produce "renewables". Bring back the seriousness
of
the 70's.
Much has been said about alternate
liquid fuels. This is just a way
of perpetuating the distribution system owned by the world cartel.
Alcohol(carbon based) is still polluting both in it's
use and manufacture. It takes, land to grow corn and sugar cane and
forests(co2 absorbers) to strip, which could be used
for food and living space. People around the world cry out for help for
starvation relief while we burn food to satisfy the greed of the
supply siders who continue to lobby for our addiction to fluid powered
transport. How many people on earth were enslaved to grow sugar cane and
how much productive land has already been committed to conspicuous
consumption? The fertilizer used to grow it and the fuel used to plant,
tend, harvest, process, along with the topsoil degradation and transport
may exceed the net gain. Over and above surplus and waste recycling agi-
fuel products are just another extravagant global snafu in the making and
bound to cause an uprising of the have-nots on a scale nobody is prepared
to envision, negative ecological morality (SINFUEL). Over 80% of the
nitrous oxide pollution on a global level is produced by chemical
fertilizer for the animal grains and human food now produced, adding the
extra POLLUTION for agi-fuel is a slap in the face to the planet.
"WE"
don't need another planned scarcity exercise doomed at inception due to
entropy. An example of square peg in a round hole centrally planned
boondoggles are Nuclear power plants and dams. They use more energy to
build them, mine and process the fuel than their net production, and we
don't even have a clue to what it will cost to dismantle and dispose of
them after their 30 yr use. Large Hydro projects silt up in 30-50 years
displace populations, and leave a legacy of ecological disaster.
Synthetic fuels (designer fuels) are
mostly carbon based and produce
extra pollution in the processing and little pollution abatement in their use,
a definite negative to eco- morality. They also require mining,
large land outlays further upsetting populations, and mostly the use of
non renewable commodities.(entropy) The system still remains in the
hands of the present suppliers and distributors with cartel-government
disadvantages.
"WE" have to finance the
research and the alteration and manufacture
of the machinery to produce and burn most of the alternative fuels so
why not demand the lowest common denominator right now and do it once.
The strategy in the space program,was "make it work". A million
problems
were solved including HYDROGEN for the fuel. There were idiots attached
to every exercise saying it couldn't be done including car companies, oil
companies and special interest groups not wanting competing technologies
(they didn't own or couldn't manipulate) popularized.
Hydrogen has the lowest
environmental impact of any fuel system
short of conservation itself and by popular support and demand can be in
the hands of the users and not taxed. Most agree that Hydrogen is the
ultimate for combustible fuel but fall short of doing anything about it.
NOW is the time to brainstorm it to happen.
Hydrogen made with renewable solar
technology can be started as a
modular system immediately, by the interested parties. The cost of
replacing the fossil fuel part of the system is less than the cost of
a year's supply of fossil fuel.
This is our money upwards of $200 +
a barrel equivalent retail with
military, the cost of pollution,and some of the taxes.( $2 trillion a
year for the U.S. alone) This amounts to the national debt, the S&L rip-
off, organized crime, and the junk bond rip off every year. Much of this
expense is caused directly and indirectly by the use of oil. The national
debt for the military to protect it, much of the wind fall profits bought
tax free treasury bonds at more than 12% along with those 15% broker
certificates of deposit (The $100,000 government guaranteed accts.)
of the S.L.s in the early 80's. SDPP (socialized debt privatized profit)
(In some cases the money was lent to wildcaters to find more oil at a
loss, to the bank = taxpayer.(ho!ho!ho! Santa Clause)) Let's investigate!
The U.S.'s 5% of the population uses
approximately 40% of the worlds fossil fuels with the pollution and disruption
costs to the planet.
Much more than half of this figure is waste because of multiple sales of
fuel instead of cogeneration and the efficient use of the of energy.
ie.electricity from fossil fuel to heat, loads such as light
bulbs(mostly heat), space, water, process heat, refrigeration, and air
conditioning. If the fuel was delivered to the end user for heat uses it
would be three times as efficient and if electricity was produced as a
by product... bingo.
This is already being done by the Swiss.(An example of public mandate)
NOTE:"WE" have been hyped to focus on the wholesale figure of $40 a
barrel for oil concealing the profit, taxes, and subsidies.
42 gallons /barrel X $5/gallon = $210 a barrel the European price.
$200 a barrel for oil equivalent energy is an arbitrary figure
representing a portion of the total retail cost of energy with tax.
"WE" pay double for entropy by burning at the well head, depreciation
allowances to the producers the planned scarcities, waste, spills etc....
Triple if the banking scandals and the national debt are factored in.
There is no reliable estimate of what it will cost to clean up the mess
left by our fossil fuel and nuclear boondoggle nor the human suffering
caused by the combustion. How much is a trashed planet worth?
The Scientific American article on
energy in the September 1990
issue shows us to use 40 barrels of oil per year equivalent($ 8000 at
$200 a barrel) per person or 10 billion barrels ($2 trillion ) of oil
equivalent of energy collectively in the U.S.each year. This amounts to
4.6 gallons ($23 a day at $5 a gallon already in Europe) of oil
equivalent per day per person or 4-500,000 BTU /day. Due to the
mismanagement of energy over half of the fossil fuel energy is wasted.
How do "we"explain that to non smokers many who are starving due to
climate change?
A BTU is the energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of
water one degree Fahrenheit. The sun can do the same thing directly.
100 sq.ft.solar device X 300 BTU/hr/sq. ft. X 10 hrs.usable sunshine a
day = 300,000 BTU/day which amounts to a couple of gallons of fuel
oil
a day before conversion losses.
BTU CONTENT OF FUELS
Energy Type Unit of
Measure BTU/unit approx.
Electricity
Kilowatt-hours
3,412 BTU/KWH
Gasoline
Gallon
125,000 BTU/Gallon
Fuel Oil
Gallon
140,000 BTU/Gallon
Hardwoods Cord =4ft X
4ft X 8ft 24,000,000 BTU/Cord
Softwoods
Cord
15,000,000 BTU/Cord
Propane
Gallon
@*
90,000 BTU/GALLON
Natural Gas Therms or 100 ft3
@* 100,000 BTU/Therm
Propane Cu
ft
@*
2,500 BTU/CU FT
Natural Gas Cu ft @* Methane
@ 1,000 BTU/CU FT
Hydrogen Cu ft
@
325 BTU/CU FT *****
Sunshine Square
Foot* Approx. 300 BTU/Hour
Solar constant Square
Foot
428 BTU/Hour
Solar constant Square Foot
@
127.7WATTS/SQ FT/HR
*The average solar energy reaching the continental United
States per square foot per hour has been estimated at 298.9449
BTU. (University of Maryland, 1972).
@*Hand book of compressed gasses, Compressed Gas Association 1966
@ Energy average reaching the outer planet/sq ft , NASA
***** Hydrogen has less BTU but it
ignites faster, combines with any
amt.of oxygen with no pollution, and when deployed intelligently we need
less of it . Getting rid of carbon fuels is the goal of the people of the
planet "WE" can make it work regardless of the sneaker commercial
type
hype.
100 sq.ft.X 300 BTU/hr X 10 hrs. usable sunshine = 300,000 BTU/day
If the BTU energy from a 100sq.ft solar device is put to the task
directly the efficiency is higher in most cases than the 2 gallons of
fuel it represents after conversion losses. This is the peace benefit $10
a day per person. Most combustion equipment is less than 25% efficient.
This falls dramatically if the pre combustion activities and pollution
are figured in. (The lucky old sun just rolls around heaven all day)
"The system" can be started with the end users(our
money 2 trillion
dollars a year) in solidarity, people ,towns, cities, countries who want
to dedicate land to solar farms for solar collectors, windmills,micro-
hydro,loaf time on already existing hydro projects, tidal, geothermal and
the full portfolio of preferably light footprint solar renewables capable
of producing electric power.
The Electricity is used directly to
produce
Hydrogen by the electrolysis of water. Hydrogen
is produced in your car battery and is wasted under the hood. It is also less
dangerous
than gasoline because it floats up and disappears where gasoline and
other fuels puddle and accumulate. Energy people have put
considerable emphasis on trying to make Hydrogen a dirty word, because
there is no way to create planned scarcities with something they don't own,
water and solar as the resource.
The Hydrogen gas is used as solar
storage, preferably for local use,
the surplus is shared by the already existing gas grid. ( already
existing pipes, transport and distribution and especially rights of way
which will also serve for waste and bio gas and microwave electric by
wave guide distribution) .
This delivered and stored Hydrogen
is then burned by the end
user(participating consumer) in home or workplace in an electric
generator (right now technology is off the shelf electric generators
later a Stirling, ceramic Wankel, or energy cell saving the exhaust heat
and the water )instead of a boiler, furnace or stove. This allows the end
user to share, store or profit by the sale of electricity (the Buffalo
decision consumers solar electric idea waiting for the takers) to a
neighborhood or local grid with the benefit of the heat of combustion. In
other words ship the Hydrogen to those with existing gas pipes and
bottles who also need the heat and they produce the electricity
for those who don't.
Doing two things
at once at least doubles the efficiency of fuel use
and cuts it's impact by reducing the amount of fuel to be transported, the
military, the land destruction.
BOLDNESS has genius, power and magic in it.' - Goethe
Ra Energy Fdn.
Raleigh Myers
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choir, with these talking points, but there are over six billion people who
need attitude adjustment as you were in the same need just a bit ago. They need
this help because many of you did not share your newly acquired awareness with
them. If you have made your contribution please use these points for more
outreach_give them a piece of your MIND.
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the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret Mead
Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and governments,
until we chart the one true course - until we find the majesty of our proper
orbit as the planets above have found theirs& And then at last we shall
move all together in the harmony of our sphere under the great impulse of a
single creation - one unity, one system, one design.
Roger Bacon
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