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Record Nr.

UNINA9910502985503321

Autore

Stan Cornel

Titolo

Energy Versus Carbon Dioxide : How Can We Save the World? 59 Theses

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, , 2021

©2022

ISBN

3-662-64162-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages)

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part I Energy and carbon dioxide -- 1 Matter -- 2 Energy versus carbon dioxide in the nutrition of human beings -- 3 Energy versus carbon dioxide in the nutrition of other living beings -- 4 Energy from carbon dioxide for the nutrition of plants and trees -- 5 Flora and fauna have inversed carbon dioxide cycles -- 6 Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect and the warming of the Earth's atmosphere -- References for Part I -- Part II Causers of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions -- 7 No more cars with internal combustion engines, but what about airplanes? -- 8 Are we also electrifying cruise ships and tankers? -- 9 The real energy guzzlers -- 10 Electric car drive instead of propulsion by combustion engine does not solve the problems -- References for Part II -- Part III Energy without carbon dioxide -- 11 The hope-bearers at first: photovoltaics, wind, water -- 11.1 Photovoltaics -- 11.2 Wind power -- 11.3 Hydropower -- 12 The last weapon: nuclear power -- 13 The energetic water cycle: nature - electrolysis - machine - nature -- 13.1 Hydrogen production and storage -- 13.2 Fuel cell with hydrogen -- 13.3 Internal combustion engine with hydrogen -- 13.4 Internal combustion engine with hydrogen in the role of the fuel cell -- 14 The energetic carbon dioxide cycle: nature - photosynthesis - machine - nature -- 14.1 Ethanol, methanol, oil, ether - fuel production from plants -- 14.2 Internal combustion engines with ethanol, methanol, vegetable oils and ether -- 14.3 Fuel cell with methanol and vegetable oils -- 14.4 Thermal machine with internal combustion of alcohol or oil in the role



of fuel cell -- References for Part III -- Part IV Energy using carbon dioxide -- 15 Carbon dioxide-devouring heat engines -- 16  Heat, electricity and fuel from waste -- 17 Heat, electricity and fuel from biogas.

18 Heat from wastewater and super-efficient combustion engines with organic food -- References for Part IV -- Summary of Theses.