Author's note: This article was written very early in the flow of technical and scientific work that preceded the technology in its current state. Will now be published for the genius that inspired the inventor to solve, and show how the development of technological innovation and lending problem.
Sir Richard Branson, the world has conceived a brilliant challenge, if they can be offered successfully in collaboration with the conservation and use of other means of carbon sequestrationfrom the atmosphere to mitigate the onslaught of climate change. And 'the elegance of the rules that come to define not only a positive out of the challenge, but it makes the invention of the solution is a difficult task.
As James Lovelock, one of the judges had it, "the consequences of global warming, we need to get away much more than Kyoto, far more renewable energy and sustainable development. What we need is a miracle is adjacent to the damage that we have done to reverse ...."
To win the prize of the inventorsThis device is an environmentally friendly way for a billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year for ten years. Sir Richard intuition to assume that only a workable solution that can be implemented quickly respond to the consequences of disability escape climate change. It is necessary that the winner of a technology that can be implemented in order to invent a solution. In this case, the large scale removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and thendirectly alleviating the cause of global warming. These rules define the wonderful nature of the technology needed. You define the problem, an inventor must be solved.
How do you get carbon from the atmosphere? A brief look at the energy required and the sources available to shrink a little 'problem. Any process of combustion of hydrocarbons as a source of energy is not necessary. The effects of a dramatic increase in net carbon sequestration. Combustion to create oil, energy servicesremove products of combustion of hydrocarbons from the atmosphere does not make sense, even if it is done in a respectful environment, which can not.
You could try to do the work with atomic energy, but nuclear fission is dirty and practice of nuclear fusion has not yet been invented. That renewable energies facing left as the only viable source of energy for conversion into an atmospheric wash. Solar energy is the only source of energy that is available everywhere. CO2The atmosphere is everywhere in the world! And solar power is the only source of renewable energy to be concentrated enough to require the temperature and frequencies of radiation, can lead to covalent chemical bond breaking of CO2. Highly concentrated solar energy is presented as the only real option for energy.
When highly concentrated flow of solar energy and atmospheric gases could be created, and they could through an internal cavity reflector is open to both streams. It could becaused in a way that would act to separate the CO2 gas into carbon and oxygen. The addition of solar energy to break covalent bonds of the compound, CO2. Now we have the beginning of an apparatus to do the job. And 'the main purpose of solar energy in a pipe, which focuses more energy and mixes with air, which is hot air, without covalent compounds.
If we have the means for rapid cooling and accurate flow of atmospheric gases, suchThere is a line. How about a venturi nozzle, which creates pressure and temperature gradient in a flow of exhaust? Gaseous carbon could sublimate to do and a solid precipitate in a filter. We breathe, without coal, clean air. While there are some details to work out, but the fundamentals of an invention that the requirements to win the Virgin Earth Challenge Prize are satisfied everyone.
The use and concentration of renewable solar energy, half, a cutTo summarize the current atmospheric gases that contain carbon, with a concentrated source of renewable energy and a medium or high carbon produced by the intersection of the flows of energy and matter. This device could remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Unlike other conditions difficult, but crucial to the abduction of Sir Richard billion tonnes of carbon per year for ten years, is simply a function of square meters of solar concentrator, which can be built and operating.The yield in tonnes of carbon per year, the same percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere times the volume of air through the process of time the device switching energy has led to the process. Energy in the process is distributed directly on the surface of the primary concentrator and are in use. This is more of a marketing and marketing problem, then it is a technical problem. But to answer this invention is constructed to be simple, easy and inexpensive, and couldrapidly distributed through the existing commercial stations, in an amount sufficient to meet the requirements to win the prize needs.
The brilliance of the challenge, Sir Richard Branson is the elegance with which it has defined the only possible solution. He made the crucial importance of the questions right to the test.
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