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We construct a large ocean going vessel. The features of this vessel are as follows:
1. It incorporates solar panels, wind turbines, gas turbine and wave turbine for power.
2. It has on board a methane producing machine (MPM)
2. Using these power sources the vessel heads for sunny climes.
3. Somewhat like a trawler with mile long nets, this vessel can unload behind it miles of flexible solar panelling that sits on flotation devices located at intervals underneath.
4. Using this solar power the MPM process air and sea water to produce methane (a hydrocarbon, which we are nearly all familiar with as "Natural Gas"). The methane will be carbon neutral because it will take the carbon from carbon dioxide already in the air. The methane can be frozen to make a liquid that is then transported back to port in due course.
A trailing solar panel float (SPF) might be say 5 Kms long and up to 500 metres wide.
This might produce something like 9 GwHs per day or say 2000 GwHs per annum. I am not sure about energy loss on the methane production process. I think it is quite costly. But even if we lose 80%, we might still end up with 400 GwHs per annum from one ship.
We construct a large ocean going vessel. The features of this vessel are as follows:
1. It incorporates solar panels, wind turbines, gas turbine and wave turbine for power.
2. It has on board a methane producing machine (MPM)
2. Using these power sources the vessel heads for sunny climes.
3. Somewhat like a trawler with mile long nets, this vessel can unload behind it miles of flexible solar panelling that sits on flotation devices located at intervals underneath.
4. Using this solar power the MPM process air and sea water to produce methane (a hydrocarbon, which we are nearly all familiar with as "Natural Gas"). The methane will be carbon neutral because it will take the carbon from carbon dioxide already in the air. The methane can be frozen to make a liquid that is then transported back to port in due course.
A trailing solar panel float (SPF) might be say 5 Kms long and up to 500 metres wide.
This might produce something like 9 GwHs per day or say 2000 GwHs per annum. I am not sure about energy loss on the methane production process. I think it is quite costly. But even if we lose 80%, we might still end up with 400 GwHs per annum from one ship.
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