Economic growth originate from an ever-deepening understanding of nature and human behavior, applying this knowledge in line with humanity's growing consciousness. Global exchange on a mutual basis requires both production and innovation.
A kind of precautionary principle in international trade could be revealing as agreement simulations with incongruent business practices (correlations) may produce distorted trade results.
'Conventional' industries generate know-how through compliance with directives, by optimizing productivity, by improving their ability to innovate and to solve problems during production and maintenance, this also creates up- and downstream (academic) jobs.
Innovative jobs doesn't come from replacement or repair, nor mere service exchanges. Local value creation decreases with massive import. Low quality is wasteful and not climate friendly but on the other hand high durability slows improvement.
Concrete implementation of the above concepts, as well as the proposals below, is an excellent way to assist countries seeking allies in the transition to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Distributing transition progress among the world's population create equitable prosperity, political goodwill and share the nuisances of emissions in proportion to the destination of the output of the production chains involved.
The extraction potential of open ocean wave converters as a R.E. source is proportional to the extent of areas with suitable wave profiles. The major advantage of our Sea-wiggle.R is that it is adaptable to wave profiles with large statistical variations.
This means that a Seanergy.be convoy is likely to consist of about a thousand Sea-wiggle.Rs and pro rata factory ships.
The core of the Sea-wiggle.R wave converters can be assembled on a continuous chain or in a workshop arrangement. Some of the core parts will be manufactured by subcontractors. The interchangeable skirts are mounted offshore or just before launching into the ocean.
Shipbuilding is grafted onto or inspired by fishing vessels with processing capacity. The wave converters have to be lifted on board for H2 extraction and cleaning. HC synthesis on board is based on C derivatives from CC and energy from waves plus H2.
The production of the chemical conversion plant on board and the fuel supply and habour facilities are contracted out.
I do not doubt that for a full circular economy worldwide, open ocean wave energy will become the main source to upscale as wind has a mixing function for nature and because of the 'enthalpy dilemma' (= less GHG in future is less wind).
Developing a new energy pillar increases our knowledge and competence, allowing us to assist other countries. The world learns from our rapid transition. Innovation and the judicious allocation of different types of energy carriers to consumer functions reduces our raw material acquisition, enabling us to uphold our ethical principles and to gain goodwill.
Maintaining and exploiting multiple technologies (for power generation and distribution) allows our industry to offer an optimal mix to any region where electrification is not feasible due to low population density or high raw material prices. The owner of a factory ship with a fleet of Sea-wiggle.R can provide liquid e-fuels for distribution to remote areas and urban power generation.
Seanergy.be offers countries greater energy independence by synthesising hydrocarbons, on board a factory ship, from large-scale on-site decarbonisation with hydrogen from electrolysis with Sea-wiggle.Rs. Such a fleet can be stationed near areas of high demand for CO2-neutral e-fuels (motorcycles, cars, buses) to reduce pollution while avoiding vulnerable sea-to-land cables.
Ships are using the heavy part of crude oil - it has also an high energetical density.
The shipping industry is getting ready to make the transition to green fuels a reality. Belgian shipowners and ports are already taking concrete steps.
Why not considering a service ship that can refuel cargo ships using NH3 of CH3OH which have a lower energy density.
Worldwide, there are still hundreds of power plants running on coal, heavy fractions of petroleum, and on gas.
It could become a business model to install CO₂, SO₂, and NOx capture systems on these plants and supply the captured emissions to a chemical facility for conversion into e-fuel and possibly fertilizers, using hydrogen provided by Seanerby.be.
A similar approach could be applied to the crackers of oil refineries.
Millions of two- and three-wheelers are powered by small combustion engines. The market for a cleaner fuel is enormous, which would also lead to a reduction in pollution.
Our fleet consisting of a factory ship and several hundred free-floating WECs can be located and delineated in areas nearby and deliver the hydrogen or the e-fuel for reasons of density.
The proposed electrode has the theoretical potential to reduce bubble sticking. This would also reduce heat formation.
The proposed ion-separator has the theoretical potential to retain unwanted ions. This could make membranes configuration cheaper.
The solution I have in mind is adaptable and it is likely that they can be implemented in existing design and compositions, would make the synthesis of e-fuels with hydrogen and carbon from CC more economically viable -- but to verify.
It will be necessary to monitor one or more fleets from both onshore and offshore.
A fleet consisting of a factory ship and several hundred free-floating WECs must be tracked by satellite for safety reasons, but also to locate and delineate the areas where favourable wave profiles prevail.
This center will also track yields and conversions and determine when and where to deliver.
Maintenance and other maritime duties and obligations will also be centralized in it.
A different way than electro-chemical battery types to store energy is to increase potential energy (such as the reuse of mine shafts and heavy weights) but also in the elastic deformation of chemical bond of metal aloi or composites - which is proposed here.
This seems a bit medieval but there are many advantages: longer storage time without loss, a higher and even a non-linear capacity, no total loss in case of failure of a component nor deusability in case of partial damage.
As the image suggests, my technical description is based on the reuse of cooling towers, although abstracted from the appropriate solidity of the structure but benefiting from the round shape and the concrete properties to withstand great pressure.
The described concept can also be updated fairly easily with newer composites and shapes within an existing installation because the physical principle can be translated into many ways but the conversion system stays the same.
Even if batteries have a range of 750 km - without cabin heating or entertainment - cars will still stop in unexpected traffic jams. Charging or towing is the only way out unless a mobile service car will become available.
This synergy = distributed value for industry + community + mobility facilitates dramatically our transition.
Both private and municipal solar panels can contribute to a robust form of energy storage and distribution. A district-based buffer could accelerate the deployment of e-mobility and (hybrid) heat pumps reducing the drawbacks of low voltage charging.
In mid-transition period hybrid service stations with circular e-fuels, f-fuels and V-loading stations connected with the e-grid and eventually equipped with a wankel powered electricity generation on e-fuels could temporarily compensate for peak / emergency demand in that district.
The speed of partial decarbonisation could have a greater effect than progressing with only full electrification (PE) and in the meantime due to the immense infrastructural network adaptation, the (100 - PE) % full f-fuels. The constraints are mainly the availability of rare-materials at affordable prices.
A plug-in hybrid car has a range extender to charge the battery and an electric motor for propulsion. This favorise the shift from 100% f to e-fuels to 100% electrical. Using e-fuels synthesised with truly sustainable hydrogen
The heat of the Wankel engine can be used for the cabin and to keep the battery at optimum temperature in cold periods. This is a gain otherwise a higher capacity would be needed and charging times would extent.
The synthesis of e-fuels consumes more energy than is released during combustion (2nd law of thermodynamics) and, when applied to an internal combustion engine, the efficiency is at most 34% (Carnot cycle) the heat dissipation can ussed as said.
Although this way release CO2, on the other hand, there are CO2 savings in the extraction and refining of fossile fuel during the transition period spanning decades. However, in the case of cars and domestic heating CO2 cannot be captured at the point of emission, while DAC requires very high levels of energy.
This has been a cherished idea since the first solar panels.
The idea is simple and multifuncional. On the one hand, desalination by Sol-d'eau.R and, on the other hand, semi-transparent perforated curved solar panels as a roof over horticultural fields.
The water from the desalination is pumped into a distribution network built into the solar roof. This network has three options: either spraying the water under or above or inside the solar panels. The reason is twofold because, in the target areas, both mineral and organic matter falls on the solar panels and solar panels lose efficiency at higher temperatures.
The reason for the configuration is clear: to rinse and cool the solar panels. As a result, more evaporation will occur (good for the environment if applied on a massive scale), however the additional yield will (partly) go to the desalination plant which benefits from both direct solar and residual energy.
The semi-transparancy, curved forms and perforation of the solar panels is functional and obvious. And, of course, this application is time or conditionally controlled with possibly additional LED lighting from an energy buffer as already proposed here. Also conceivable so that vegetables can be grown with 'well-dosed' sunshine and automatic distribution of fertilizers in liquid form.
Since Sol-d'eau-R is an installation with no/very few moving parts other than pumps, the operational life is considerable. The modules of Sol-d'eau.R can be connected in line or in parallel. For practical reasons and to create shadow, it is advisable to mount the pipeline on pillars. I guess that dimensions for some efficiency will be between 3 and 6 meters in diameter at a height of about 4 meters.
A resilient society can be achieved by channeling emergent dynamics. As president J.F. Kennedy did: "Not because they are easy, but because they are hard".
According to my understanding, the technical proposals and the allocation of energy carriers to specific consumer functions align with the EU’s climate neutrality and reindustrialisation strategies. These solutions can enhance overall efficiency, reduce emissions, support REPoweringEU and boost decarbonisation efforts.
Implementing these proposals could / will contribute to achieving the goals of the IEA, ETIP Ocean and Ocean Energy Systems. This website promotes circular hybrid solutions to alleviate the indirect pressure of the transition on climate neutrality and provides resources to support the European Commission’s initiatives on renewable hydrogen production from ocean wave energy.
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The ideas put forward in www.inventhinking.eu seem to fit with the ongoing work of many people and to reflect concerns.
These developments could be part of the EGA classifications of WTO Environmental Goods Agreement and resonate with some aspirations formulated in the opinion at World Economic Forum: How to create a 'safe and just space' rich in opportunities for a healthier Earth.