Keeling Curve

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Nearly free, clean energy for nearly everyone. Cities need GW-scale baseload power, which will be delivered from powersats in orbit. Rural areas need biomass and waste to energy suitable for a large farm or a small village. We are pursuing both in an integrated fashion.

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Rural villages cause desertification by collection of biomass for cooking, and indoor fires cause respiratory distress to mothers and babes-in-arms. Our patented and thrice-funded biomass conversion technology can provide cooking heat with no emissions, plus electricity for education, entertainment, and light industry, and also produces biochar - a soil amendment which can reverse desertification. The biomass apparatus can produce ultra-pure hydrogen gas, which can be stored efficiently (low pressure and near-ambient temperatures) in technology patented by Schubert. Their combination can reverse desertification, provide mobility to market or to power tractors, and provide electricity to the 1.2B humans who lack such access. As communities adopt this technology, and use the excess electricity to set up shops to build components of the technology. With low cost for labor and transportation, these components can be offered to ever-more marginal communities so that they, too, can benefit. In this way, sustainable power from locally-available materials can spread virally worldwide and greatly aid underserved people. At the same time these benefits are being realized, the pollution from cookfires (Aerosol Brown Cloud) can be eliminated, and the return of biochar to the soil represents a carbon negative operation. This overall approach to those most impacted by climate change provides tremendous leverage, and can be used anywhere that food is grown. No such comprehensive solution has ever been proposed before, and the work already underway is fast accelerating the time when these benefits can be shared broadly across the entire population of humanity.

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