Solar Chimney: The Heart of Resource Reclamation:

While supplying the power to recycle solid waste such as food and beverage containers, using a solar chimney for a heat source would allow the municipality to electrolyze biomass in order to extract useful materials such as polycarbons, trace minerals, and emerging contaminates.

It is not in the scope of this presentation to determine other materials which could be extracted and reused through this process, but lets ponder what else might be possible for those with the proper training and skills to discover from the vast resources which we are presently wasting.

In exchange for running the operations on a contractual basis, domestic oil companies such as Marathon or Sinclair could put their teams of petrochemical engineers to work finding new methods of manufacturing synthetic oils and plastics from this material which would be broken down to their atomic elements. These elements can be recombined into materials difficult to imagine today.

For instance, Teflon was invented quite by accident in 1938 when Du Pont engineers were working with gases related to Freon refrigerants and upon checking a frozen, compressed sample of tetrafluoroethylene, they discovered that the sample had polymerized spontaneously into a white, waxy solid to form polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE. Today, we find Teflon everywhere and inside of products we never give a second thought to.

Solids from biomass are among mankinds most dangerous byproducts, yet, when properly exploited, it can be disposed of inexpensively by selling the elements to manufacturers while generating clean drinking water, electrical energy, and fertile engineered topsoil in the process.

A quick check with any experienced organic gardener shows us that proper crops matched with fertile soils eliminates nearly all need for pesticides. Should the potential of engineered top soils bring on the wrath of a lobbying cabal of pesticide industries? It wouldnt have to if those existing companies were given the potential to create the perfect engineered soil which includes all the necessary nutrients for the specific crop being planted. Many organic farmers put down alfalfa or clover as ground cover to reduce erosion and increase nitrogen in their soil. Imagine commercial topsoil specifically engineered for corn, available to large farms with alfalfa already sowed into it. Additional nutrients are already added according to the specific needs of the farmer according to the soil analysis he sent in via the internet to Dow Organic Corp in the spring. Instead of selling potentially dangerous substances which could be used in an Oklahoma Terror style attack, bags of inert soils takes their place.

By running biomass, or sewage as it is commonly referred to, into a set of pipes capable of attaining high pressure without leaking, once electrolyzed, hydrogen and oxygen can be extracted for burning, recombining the elements to make steam, which in turn is used to generate electricity and clean water which can be sold inexpensively to fuel direct conversion hydrogen cells.

Availability of water is a great concern to municipal systems already. When adding to this the demand for direct conversion hydrogen cell powered automobiles, this concern will grow into a dilemma unless a solution can be readily found. Like Las Vegas, most large cities get their supply of gasoline across miles of pipeline. Pipelines which could just as easily be sending in sea water to the cities to be mixed with biomass to feed the demand for clean engineered water.

By adding sea water to the biomass, we will increase the salinity of the waste water which reduces the temperature needed to electrolyze it. An additional benefit can be realized by reducing the likelihood that leaking pipes will cause irreparable damage to the environment. When viewed from a security standpoint, almost anything can be used by a potential terrorist as a weapon, but a flood of seawater is mush less dangerous than potentially explosive gasoline!

Hydrogen production, used in conjunction with a solar chimney will provide the power to turn turbines both day and night with no need for tracking devices. A better land usage can be realized as well by combining Electrical Generation, Biomass Conversion, Resource Reclamation, and Water Purification all into one centrally located plant. Several plants may be built for each municipality and each of these will attract businesses interested in using the materials reclaimed from the processes.

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