Muhaimin Iqbal
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Fast Lane Transition: Black To Green Energy

Advanced Renewable

Tue , 14 May 2024 12:27 WIB

Air temperatures in a number of countries continue to break their highest records, it seems that the world's efforts to achieve Net-Zero Emissions 2050 in order to put the brakes on so that the earth's surface temperature does not rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial era, must be immediately revised. The earth could start 'boiling' long before 2050 if we don't do something significant right now.

So what is the win-win solution, it won't harm anyone but the entire population of the earth will immediately feel the improvement, the earth's surface temperature will return to being friendly for those of us who are alive today and even better for our children?

What we are initiating at the Advanced Renewable Organization (ARO) is what we call Fast Lane Transition (FLT), a rapid change from fossil energy to green energy carried out simultaneously. Coal and oil will continue to be used until we are truly ready with sufficient green energy, but emission-free air can also be achieved right now. How to?

The sketch below more or less illustrates the solution. Coal and petroleum are only used for generating electricity and static machines, then the CO2 emissions are completely captured and used directly to grow microalgae. Biomass from this microalgae is then gasified into syngas and further processed into whatever fuel we need.

All vehicles and machines that use internal combustion engines (ICE), both petrol and diesel, can continue to be used but the petrol and diesel are replaced by biogasoline and green diesel produced from the microalgae. Emissions will still appear from existing ICE engines, but they are carbon neutral, because the emissions are from CO2 which was absorbed for photosynthesis of the microalagae.

This solution will be a win-win because all producers of fossil fuels in the form of coal and oil will still use their products - only directed that everything be used for power plants or static machines so that the CO2 can be easily captured for microalge cultivation. Meanwhile, all ICE manufacturers for vehicles can still be produced, only the fuel, which was originally from petroleum, now comes from microalgae.

Energy conversion technology from microalgae biomass to green diesel, biogasoline, bioLPG and even green hydrogen, all of which can now be prepared by ARO. Meanwhile, several parties have developed effective microalgae cultivation, one of which is very promising is what has been done by the Tagar#PhotosyntheticRegeneration (PR) from the US, while from Indonesia which was started by friends at the Tagar#AlgaeNation.

Of course, this big work of restoring the earth's climate requires the involvement of all parties, especially those in the energy, transportation, automotive, etc. industries. who must immediately realize that our earth is not fine, our earth is 'boiling'!