Muhaimin Iqbal
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Machines of Civilization

Advanced Renewable

Fri , 01 Mar 2024 15:56 WIB

Since the industrial revolution of the 18th century, technological civilization has developed very rapidly covering all aspects of life. Of course, there are a lot of good things that come with these technologies, just improvements here and there that are not good, such as the impact on the environment.

This has been realized by world leaders at least 32 years ago, when more than 100 world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro at the 1992 Earth Summit. However, even now, after 32 years have passed, the world has not improved, the earth's temperature is still increasing, climate change is still getting worse, extreme weather is still breaking new records, etc.

So we need a tipping point that can change drastically from deterioration to improvement, but what can be this tipping point? Let's go back to the root of the problem, namely what the world has missed since the industrial era. One thing that we missed and have not yet corrected is the concept of burning fuels and let the CO2 to accumulate in earth's atmosphere.

All machines that have been built since the industrial revolution era until now consume a lot of fuel and are all burned down - leaving an accumulation of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere. Of course, modern machines that are being built now are becoming more efficient, but they still use the concept of burning disposable energy and still increase the accumulation of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere.

So this is where we from the Advanced Renewable Organization (ARO) see the tipping point that we can actually do, a point where drastic, fundamental and far-reaching changes can be made quickly. That is, when we don't stop at the point where fuels are just burned, but also captured back the combustion waste, the majority of which is CO2.

The French scientist at the end of the 19th century, Octave Leopold Boudouard, had actually discovered something very basic, which could be used to process CO2 into energy. That is, when CO2 is reacted with carbon, it will become CO gas - which is the main component of syngas. From this syngas all modern fuels can be produced, including to produce electricity.

The photos below are energy machines that we designed with the help of AI, based on the above Boudourad reaction. Starting from power plants, refineries to produce hydrocarbon fuels - both of which I have uploaded their details in two previous posts. The newest one here is a micro plant to produce new fuels which we call Regenerative Oxygenates, especially methanol, ethanol and DME.

The common thread is that all of these energy machines can process CO2 emissions back into energy again through the Boudouard reaction mentioned above, which we make it in the form of a reactor we call OCCYRE (Onboard Carbon Cycles for Regenerative Energy). With OCCYRE, we will be able to stop throwing CO2 into the earth's atmosphere, and at the same time we can use it as a new energy source that already exists in abundance before our eyes.