Mr. Hori, cc list 1. Thanks for providing the most interesting summary. Japan's long and important biochar history of Japan presumably helps explain your own long interest in the nuclear-biochar combination. I would greatly appreciate learning more on the "60%" value in your key third bullet on page 4: "This synergistic biomass-nuclear process can increase the effective carbon removal amount by both biochar and biofuel about 60% compared to a similar biomass-only process when processing the same amount of biomass."
2. To further your (and any biochar proponent's) ratonale: Dr. Stephen Joseph today, in an IBI webinar, said that both he and Dr. Lukas van Zwieten had measured, after 7 and 8 years respectively, appreciably more soil carbon than had been applied. A paper is in preparation. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "M.Hori" <mh...@mxb.mesh.ne.jp> To: <geoengineering@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:09 AM Subject: [geo] Carbon-Negative Energy System Hi, all. I have published the following report in June this year; Masao Hori "Carbon-Negative Energy System -- Sustainable World Energy Supply and Global Environment Restoration Using Renewable and Nuclear Energies --" NSA/COMMENTARIES-S No.2, June 2015, Nuclear Systems Association (85-page Japanese text, ISBN978-4-88911-310-5) As the report is written in Japanese, I attach the Executive Summary in English. This concept was also presented at “The 20th National Symposium on Power and Energy Systems” sponsored by JSME in June 2015 in Sendai Japan. The concept of “Carbon-Negative Energy System” described in this report is an integrated system of sustainable world energy supply and global environment restoration, and this system is supposed to be deployed and put into operation in about fifty years around the middle of 21st century. Summarizing the report; ♦ Investigated is a carbon-negative energy system which supplies energy sustainably to the world and sequestering carbon from the global carbon cycle to control atmospheric CO2 concentration. ♦ Judging from the current global warming trend, it is considered necessary to deploy and operate such a system by around middle of 21st century. ♦ In the conceptual system presented, carbon will be effectively removed from the global carbon cycle by the biomass-nuclear synergistic process to produce biochar and biofuel. ♦ Typically by this carbon-negative energy system in Year 2065, primary energy is supplied by renewable and nuclear energies without any fossil fuel, 75% of primary energy is used for generating electricity, 25% of primary energy is used for production of hydrocarbon fuels, and 1.1~4.5 GtonC of carbon is sequestered as biochar from the global carbon cycle. ♦ Amount of biomass processed is within the estimated range of bioenergy potential by several investigators, and amount of nuclear energy supplied is less than the maximum nuclear supply capability by an FBR-Pu recycling scheme. ♦ The task of removing CO2 and supplying fuel is a gigantic international public-works project, and it would evolve into creating new big environment/energy businesses. Instruction for download of the Japanese report will be auto-replied to email sent to <h...@syskon.jp> with “CNESpdfFile” in the subject. With my best regards, Masao Hori Nuclear Systems Association 1-7-6 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0001 JAPAN Tel: (81) 90-9683-1132 (Portable) Email: mh...@mxb.mesh.ne.jp ---------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
