Solving the Climate Crisis

[Robert Lippert]

All,

In 2016,  was trying to get funding for my Ocean Solar Thermal project in Chile.
This would be the biggest power plant in the world recycling our CO2 into Methanol fuel.
I had Perdue University all lined up to do the modeling, but it fell through because of Trump.
In 2020, Jenifer Granholm also turned the proposal down saying there in no support
fo development of energy outside this country. Even the Democrats won't do that.

But Peru and Chile are the best place on the planet to produce solar methanol for renewable energy.
The last two days, I took the models an data I have and did preliminary modeling in Python.
Here are the results of that analysis:

ECONOMIC COMPARISON: OST vs PV+ELECTROLYSIS (100 TWh/year)

METRIC                        OST                 PV+Electrolysis

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Collection Area (km²)  123.33                259.44

Net Capacity (GW)        14.27                  11.42

Total Capital Cost          60.65 B$          133.45 B$

Cost per kW                 4,250                 11,690

LCOE                       0.0598/kWh           0.1409/kWh

These are hard numbers now. I've cross checked the data and results with Gemini LLM.

I now have software, modeling, and a plan, but I now need university backing (like UM)
I need someone I can take this plan, software and results to at UM
As an outsider it is hard for me to get them to even read an email, Too much span these days.
I need someone to introduce me to someone at UM that will actually look at this proposal.

This is really the only real way to solve the climate crisis problem.
The US is already doing all it will, and still we have grown CO2 emissions by 5% since 2016
This is a world problem with south America growing fossil fuel use while the US reduces it. 

Regards Grüße,    Robert S. Lippert   

   Research & Development Engineer,  Methanol Economy Activist,

[Robert Lippert]

Sorry I was trying to get funding for having Purdue University do the proof of concept modeling.
that was just a graduate student program grant. 75,000$ per year for 3 years.

Regards Grüße,    Robert S. Lippert   

   Research & Development Iceberg Sagent analysis AGI, Methanol Economy Activist,

Gateway 2024 Artemis Spacecraft Simulation

[Robert Lippert]



Sorry, I was trying to get funding to do the modeling at Perdue.

[Bob Lippert]

All,

I am writing a paper for building a hybrid inverter with battery system. Let me know if you are interested. Here is my opening statement from the paper:

For people in states where net metering is not provided or even just where electricity rates vary by time of day, hybrid inverters with batteries will reduce your electric costs. 

Note, the peak usage shaving you were doing with this system also reduces CO2, even without solar panels. Peak power plants called "peaker" plants are typically less efficient and have higher emissions than baseline plants. For people with solar panels, these systems reduce even more CO2 because they displace grid electricity which uses fossil fuels.

This is not a costly whole house system. It is designed to only cover the circuits in your home that you use most, and provides the additional benefit of protecting those circuits in a power outage. 

Bob Lippert

Research Engineer, Methanol Economy