Materials and Technology for supply of renewable energy and prevention of global warming

We are proposing global carbon dioxide recycling to use solar energy for all people in the whole world. The electricity will be generated by solar cell in the deserts and used for production of hydrogen by seawater electrolysis at the nearby desert coasts. Hydrogen with no existing infrastructures f...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 144; no. 1; p. 012009
Main Authors Hashimoto, Koji, Kato, Zenta, Kumagai, Naokazu, Izumiya, Koichi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.01.2009
Subjects
Alternative energy sources
Anode effect
Carbon dioxide
Chemical evolution
Chlorine
Coasts
Deserts
Electrolysis
Hydrogen
Hydrogen production
Methanation
Methane
Photovoltaic cells
Physics
Seawater
Solar cells
Solar energy
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Summary:We are proposing global carbon dioxide recycling to use solar energy for all people in the whole world. The electricity will be generated by solar cell in the deserts and used for production of hydrogen by seawater electrolysis at the nearby desert coasts. Hydrogen with no existing infrastructures for transportation and combustion will be converted to methane at the desert coasts by the reaction with carbon dioxide captured by energy consumers. Among systems in global carbon dioxide recycling, seawater electrolysis and carbon dioxide methanation have not been performed industrially. We tailored anodes for oxygen evolution without chlorine formation in seawater electrolysis, effective cathodes for hydrogen production and catalysts for methane formation by the reaction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen.
ISSN:1742-6596
1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/144/1/012009