Hi I would like to ask the community if we can set up a post for a new energy system I have been working on ,I think it works out more efficient and ecologically better , and its large scale thinking for energy systems , and now I need to check through my figures and need the views of IET thinkers for instance on combustion , post combustion chemistry , it unfolds into quite a complex system which I have been working on for 8 years , but enables us to get more energy from wastes and perhaps helps to move to biomaterials. I have an interest as environmental thinker and have designed the system to go through to government funding phases and pretty confident it works well in a number of questions around energy and environmental thinking .
Hi Maurice , I note a new coal plant is due to open in Germany this week, biomass itself isn't necessarily clean in emissions but is carbon neutral as a fuel , Drax is really interesting , next year it will stop burning coal and go 100% biomass and its hoping to fit CO2 scrubbers for a CO2 capture and store idea , but I just don't get this CO2 capture and store idea , I mean if you have to use more energy to capture the CO2 you will be making more CO2 to do this. at the moment Drax as a baseload plant is strategically important at 9% of uk electricity needs its done a very good job , but as each new wind farm comes on line and combustion efficiency improves , its design is becoming unsustainable, I mean if we used modern combustion designs plant we could up the efficiency conversion of fuel to KW , drax could burn the same amount of biomass but get 15-20% more electrical output , although 1 power plant supplying 12% of the uks electricity may be isn't where we want to go , Drax may be in entirely the wrong place now as demands are now mostly urban ones with much less heavy industry. It may be that we could save more energy , by moving power stations closer to demands and reducing line losses. ,
Hi Maurice , I note a new coal plant is due to open in Germany this week, biomass itself isn't necessarily clean in emissions but is carbon neutral as a fuel , Drax is really interesting , next year it will stop burning coal and go 100% biomass and its hoping to fit CO2 scrubbers for a CO2 capture and store idea , but I just don't get this CO2 capture and store idea , I mean if you have to use more energy to capture the CO2 you will be making more CO2 to do this. at the moment Drax as a baseload plant is strategically important at 9% of uk electricity needs its done a very good job , but as each new wind farm comes on line and combustion efficiency improves , its design is becoming unsustainable, I mean if we used modern combustion designs plant we could up the efficiency conversion of fuel to KW , drax could burn the same amount of biomass but get 15-20% more electrical output , although 1 power plant supplying 12% of the uks electricity may be isn't where we want to go , Drax may be in entirely the wrong place now as demands are now mostly urban ones with much less heavy industry. It may be that we could save more energy , by moving power stations closer to demands and reducing line losses. ,
