Muhaimin Iqbal
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Introducing Regenerative Energy Equation

Advanced Renewable

Wed , 06 Mar 2024 21:41 WIB

Because humans grow regeneratively, from 2 humans in the world to more than 8 billion today and still growing, all the needs for life are also grown in the same way by the Almighty Creator. Our food, from plants and livestock, grows in the same way as ours, namely regenerative.

So our energy needs should also be met, not from something that runs out but from something that grows. Biomass energy is an example, only because our energy needs are much faster than biomass growth, for every biomass we use as energy - we must also be able to regenerate new energy from it waste or emissions.

This is where we bring our concept of Regenerative Energy (RE). Just as humans, plants and livestock will not run out until the end of time, so will the supply of our other needs, namely energy. With this RE concept, all humans living on this planet should be able to continue to meet their energy needs, without depending on those who have sources of oil, coal and natural gas.

The RE concept is actually simple, this concept can be explained in detail and even scientifically with just one slide as below. The assumption is that we start from the beginning, since thousands of years ago humans have been able to use charcoal as fuel. Only modern humans want to use charcoal for sophisticated machines, so we react charcoal with water to produce H2 and CO gas, the reaction is called Water Gas (WG).

H2 is the clean energy that we want, while we react the CO gas again with water, the result is H2 again and CO2, in a reaction called Water Gas Shift (WGS). This second H2 adds to the H2 from the first reaction, but this time there is waste CO2 emissions, how can it not pollute the earth's atmosphere?

We react CO2 with carbon/charcoal to produce two molecules of CO gas, the reaction is called the Boudouard reaction. If this CO gas is returned to reaction 2, it will produce more H2, more CO2, etc. CO2 will always be used up in this RE system when it is reacted with carbon - reaction 3. And so on, as long as there is carbon or charcoal and water, clean H2 energy can always be produced and the CO2 emissions can always be reprocessed.

So when I add up the three reactions, the result is the 4th reaction which I call the Regenerative Energy Equation (REE). REE is equal to 2 times the WG or the first reaction. This is where the concept of growing energy or Regenerative Energy can be easily understood.

Like the division of cells in our bodies, plants and livestock, 1 cell divides into 2, 2 into 4 and so on. Likewise, Regenerative Energy, as long as there is charcoal and water - it will be able to continue to divide and grow. Clean energy will be affordable for all humanity across the planet earth - isn't it SDGs No. 7?