Human folly knows no bounds! How many hundreds or thousands of square kilometers of water/ocean surface need to be covered?
How environmentally friendly is that? This nonsense was even published in the prestigious PNAS!
The strange ideas born out of the medieval superstition behind the Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion!
Recently, I blogged here (in German) about the CEO of one of the leading reinsurance companies of the world (Munich Re) having a megalomaniac dream of covering the desert Sahara with solar panels!
"Trygve Kristiansen does research on floating solar power, which are photovoltaics supported on the water. He believes that floating solar panels could play an important global role in the transition to greener technologies. He is a professor of marine technology at NTNU. ..."
From the abstract:
"Significance
Humankind must cease CO2 emissions [???] from fossil fuel burning if dangerous climate change is to be avoided. However, liquid carbon-based energy carriers are often without practical alternatives for vital mobility applications. The recycling of atmospheric CO2 into synthetic fuels, using renewable energy, offers an energy concept with no net CO2 emission. We propose to implement, on a large scale, marine-based artificial islands, on which solar or wind energy powers the production of hydrogen and the extraction of CO2 from seawater and where these gases are catalytically reacted to yield liquid methanol fuel. The present work proposes specifications for such facilities and highlights essential challenges in physics, chemistry, and engineering which must be met to realize this ambitious proposal.
Abstract
A massive reduction in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning is required to limit the extent of global warming. [???] However, carbon-based liquid fuels will in the foreseeable future continue to be important energy storage media. We propose a combination of largely existing technologies to use solar energy to recycle atmospheric CO2 into a liquid fuel. Our concept is clusters of marine-based floating islands, on which photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into electrical energy to produce H2 and to extract CO2 from seawater, where it is in equilibrium with the atmosphere. These gases are then reacted to form the energy carrier methanol, which is conveniently shipped to the end consumer. The present work initiates the development of this concept and highlights relevant questions in physics, chemistry, and mechanics."
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