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This Energy Alternative

Brings wealth and Opportunity to Rural Communities

And Has the Quickest Implementation Because:

1. It uses existing technologies
And
2. Has the least impact on existing infrastructure

Resulting in a smooth, efficient and least costly transition

A Renewable Energy Alternative

We need to expand on solar, wind and hydro and add biomass-based fuels to fill in where these are not sufficient.  

The ideal biomass-based fuels are methanol and dimethyl ether (DME) derived from a high biomass yield plant like industrial hemp (not to be confused with her notorious sister) and municipal waste.

This transition can be implemented quickly because it requires no new research or technologies and has the least impact on existing infrastructures.

This alternative can be implemented globally in 10 Steps in as little as 7 years!

  1. 1. Reduce subsidies for fossil-fuel energy sources-starting 2026.
  1. 2. Implement human powered transportation and work from home alternatives wherever practical-starting 2022.
  1. 3. Start converting existing engines to run on non-fossil fuels-starting 2025.
  1. 4. Make all new engines fossil free capable-starting 2027.
    – New land and marine gasoline engines should be either electric or GEM capable (Gas-Ethanol-Methanol)
    – New land diesel engines should be electric or diesel/DME capable.
    – New marine vessels should be powered by wind and/or diesel/methanol/DME capable.   
    – New airplane engines should be either electric or non-fossil-fuel capable-starting as soon as practical

  2. 5. Produce methanol and DME from biomass and waste.

  3. 6. Use industrial hemp based building and other materials for a carbon sink-already started
    (See International Hemp Building Association – IHBA).

  4. 7. Convert natural gas and coal fired power plants to run on methanol/DME – starting 2027.

  5. 8. Transition from centralized to de-centralized power distribution

  6. 9. Reduce the amount of animal-based food consumed.

  7. 10. Encourage a decrease in population growth – zero growth goal by 2030

The major advantages include:

  • Increased wealth (up to 1/2 $trillion annually and employment in rural areas)>
  • Minimal impact on existing infrastructure and minimal dependence on new technologies.
  • Reduction of CO2 and other pollutants in the air and oceans resulting in a positive impact on health.
  • Positive impact on the environment by eliminating need to drill in wilderness and other pristine and environmentally sensitive areas like oceans, the arctic and national parks.
  • Increased national security and reduction in military spending:
    • Eliminates the concentration of energy supply and refining.
    • Decreases the need to protect transportation/shipping lanes where supplies are concentrated. (Middle east, Strait of Hormez, 5th fleet)

The Implementation Project Plan

Tasks to transition to be fossil free / Net Zero by 2033

    Why Use Bio-Fuels

    Why Bio-Methanol?

    Methanol for fuel and energy
    CH3OH
    1. Economical to Produce Using Existing Technologies
    2. Many Feedstock Options
    3. Renewable
    4. Clean and Bio-Degrades Quickly
    5. Least Impact on Existing Infrastructure
    6. Very Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG)

    Why Bio-Dimethyl Ether (DME)

    DME Alternate Fuel for energy
    CH3OCH3
    1. Economical to Produce Using Existing Technologies
    2. Many Feedstock Options
    3. Renewable
    4. Clean and Bio-Degrades Quickly
    5. Minimal Conversion / Infrastructure Issues
    6. Highest well to wheel energy efficiency and the lowest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of any biomass based fuel
    Fuel comparison - efficiency and greenhouse emissions
    Fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions

    Frequent Questions

    1. If this is the best solution, why isn’t it being used?

    In fact, portions of it have been implemented.

    • Brazil for example has been using ethanol as a renewable fuel for over 30 years.
    • Volvo has a fleet of trucks running bio-DME and Sweden is building a large production facility for bio-methanol and bio-DME.
    • China has a fleet of methanol taxis where the fuel is half the cost of gasoline.
    • The Dutch are making bio-methanol from glycerin, which is a by-product from bio-diesel production
    • Iceland is producing methanol from excess CO2 which is being used to supplement gasoline.
    • In the mid 60’s methanol was the fuel of choice for the Indianapolis 500 race cars for safety and performance reasons
    • California had a fleet of methanol cars in the 80’s which included 14,000 passenger cars and 400 buses in daily operation.

    During the gas crisis in the 70’s, the US Synthetic Fuel Program concluded that methanol was the best alternative due to the flexibility of many feedstocks, cost of production, and impact on the existing infrastructure. Several authors have made similar conclusions including Drs George Olah, Alain Goeppert and G.K. Prakash who authored “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy” and Dr Robert Zubrin who wrote “Energy Victory”.

    These studies, however, considered fossil based feedstocks. We are proposing purely biomass feedstocks. And this approach is supported by several studies including a 2010 MIT study1 which concluded:

    “Produced from renewable biomass, methanol is an attractive green house gas reduction transportation fuel option there are no technical hurdles either in terms of vehicle application or of distribution infrastructure!”

    1 “Methanol as an alternative transportation fuel in the US” by L Bromberg and W.K. Cheng

    2. Won’t Electric Vehicles (EVs) remove the need for vehicle fuels?

    No.

    There are over 250 million vehicles in the US and about another 750 million throughout the rest of the world. EV’s account for a very small portion of cars today, so it will be awhile before the world is converted over to electric engines. And heavy duty trucks and railroad engines will continue to be powered using liquid fuel.

    In addition, bio-methanol and bio-DME can be used in gas turbines to generate supplemental electricity when solar, wind and hydro generation is not sufficient.

    Batteries based on lithium may not continue to be the preferred energy source for automobiles since lithium is somewhat unstable and 88% of the supplies are outside the US. Therefore, in the future electric power sources using Reformed Methanol Fuel Cells (RMFC) are likely to be used in vehicles and these can be fueled with bio-methanol.

    3. Won’t fuels based on bio mass plants compete with the food supply?

    Using bio-mass as an energy crop can actually increase the food supply!

    This is based on where the crops are planted and the types of high cellulose plants used.

    For more information on how we can increase the food supply with energy crops please contact us.

    A Clean and Green Alternative Choice