CLEAN ENERGY

The truth is that the world does not have an energy shortage. It simply lacks an energy infrastructure capable of
using the abundant source of solar energy that we receive
daily from the sun. The current worldwide demand for energy per day is 363 terawatt-hours per day. (1 terawatt-hour is equal to 10 million kilo-watt hours). The fact is that
the world’s needs could be met by just covering 0.5% of the world’s land area with silicon panels.
I picked up this information by reading the Jan-Feb issue of the FUTURIST, an American magazine

Energy is crucial to maintain our life-style but it is just as
important, or even more so, that we use clean energy because our planet is irreplaceable and fouling the house we live in is not a rational option. You also may not realize that moving energy from point to point is itself energy consuming and wasteful. Try and imagine the cost to move gasoline throughout the world or electricity.

Fossil fuels are a form of stored energy created by the sun
over millions of years . Our sun, and there are millions of suns, has been producing energy for several billion years and sends daily to the earth more than 2 million terawatt-hours of energy. Remember the earth uses daily only 363
terawatt-hours per day. Fossil fuels in the form of coal
and oil produce most of our energy to-day but is very
polluting

There are four major sources of energy that the sun
provides. They are heat, wind, photosynthesis ( in the form of biomass) and photovoltaic rays. Heat warms the earth
and cannot be used as a source of energy. Wind power can on occasion be used, but is not available world-wide. Biomass is a product of photosynthesis but is less efficient
than photovoltaic rays and is used by the agricultural and
forestry industries. Biomass is the energy stored in non-fossil organic matter such as wood, straw, fallen leaves and
forest waste

The suns rays fall, more or less, throughout the world. With
silicon panels we can produce the energy locally but how
can we store it? A tank of anhydrous ammonia connected
to an on-demand ammonia dissociator is an efficient energy
storage and supply system. I assume this system works like
a battery. What is required in addition to the tanks
1. a photovoltaic system
2.an electricity converter for DC and AC current
3. a water electrolysis system.
4. a unit for extracting nitrogen from air
5.. a haber-type ammonia generator making anhydrous
ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen
6. an on-demand ammonia dissociator
7. various pumps and compressors

The appropriate system would be designed for residential,

commercial, industrial and transportation sectors with the emphasize on in-site facilities. Fossil fuel use and its attendant pollution would be radically reduced. One-eighth of U.S. oil is not burned as fuel, but is instead used to make other materials such as asphalt for roads and fertilizer.

Governments must rethink their energy policies and fund this new system by taxing heavily the use of fossil fuels. A politically dangerous task but absolutely essential to fund this solar-ammonia-hydrogen infrastructure which would be relatively pollution free in producing energy