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[edit] A Comprehensive Energy Independence and Environmental Plan
Due to emergent conditions, Diogenes Institute's current emphasis is the development of a data-driven, cross-disciplinary and comprehensive plan for energy independence and the environment.
[edit] The Problem
- Imminent and historic public works investment to stimulate the US economy may be misguided by lack of planning.
- Over $700 billion dollars per year in fossil fuel imports, and increasing.
- Decreasing ability to economically sustain imports.
- Domestic alternatives currently dominated by coal with its enormous environmental footprint including CO2 emissions.
- US CO2 emissions, at 6 billion metric tons a year, exceed economic sequestration potentials.
[edit] The Plan
- Transportation
- Replace short-haul air and medium distance road transportation with multi-grade, electrified rail service to state capitals and universities as well as major cities.
- Carbon Dioxide Conversion (see OpenOffice spreadsheet and preliminary narrative)
- Lower fossil fuel imports by converting baseload electric plants to modified IGCC so as to capture pure CO2 with no other emissions.
- Use the liquid nitrogen by-product to replace natural gas turbines as the primary peak load generation energy vector.
- Use ammonia to photosynthetically fix all fossil fuel electrical plant CO2 in marketable products, such as algal protein, that will pay for the cost of capture.
- Use off-peak electrical capacity to synthesize ammonia replacing power lines with ammonia pipelines.
- Develop the wind generation potential of the US to supply off-peak capacity.
[edit] Please contribute to this urgent planning:
- The Diogenes Institute
- 813 Sixth Street, Suite 400
- Sacramento, CA 95814
