A combination of interconnected technologies for exploiting the advantages of closed cyclic chain reactions, on a global scale, to mitigate the effects of c

摘要

A combination of interconnected technologies for exploiting the advantages of closed cyclic chain reactions, on a global scale, to mitigate the effects of climate change via exploitation of photosynthetic processes .The following stages form the methodology: existing fossil fuelled power stations are converted to photosynthesised fuel, where emitted gases are recycled to photosynthetic sites for further fuel production (figure 4a): photosynthesis is used for the desalination of seawater (figure 3b): agricultural and horticultural facilities are used to provide biomass as a source of fuel for energy generation (figure 2): existing fossil fuelled transport and energy generation is converted to the non-carbon based fuel of hydrogen with ambient air or oxygen (figure 3c), and a variety of organic and inorganic elements are produced where fluid processing and or purification and solid recovery systems are used (5b). A set of linked reactions use photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen; the glucose is subsequently anaerobically digested to methane and carbon dioxide (CO2 recirculated into the initial feedstock); methane is subsequently catalytically reformed into ethylene and hydrogen; ethylene is combusted to provide energy which is used to power the photosynthesis (preferably via lasers). The photosynthesising desalination process may use of transmitted pulse laser beams, to increase the photobioreactor production. Sulphide ions may be added to the aqueous nutrient medium for photosynthesis to produce hydrogen rather than oxygen.