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Posted on 02/07/2018 6:36:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Back to Whale oil?
That is ok with me. Starting immediately, shut off the power to the campus. Let them operate on alternative fuels.
Obama/Harvard: Fundamentally Transforming America!
And no plastics either.
“They are now Harvard community college”
Don’t insult community colleges. I mean that seriously.
To prove how “green” they are, Harvard should demolish their entire campus and plant indigenous trees everywhere.
Restore the land to the way it looked 400 - 500 years ago.
Who are the “overseers” that put that destructive femanazi in charge?
2050? LOL:-)
Harvard should be supporting nuclear power rather than global warming junk science.
And this is what is considered the best and the brightest?
They will probably go to Torrefied Wood Pellets.
These can be fed into a boiler as a substitute for coal.
The torrification process makes the wood pellet denser and will not take on moisture like typical wood pellets. Other colleges have done this successfully. The problem with regular wood pellets is their storage long term. If they get wet, they turn back into sawdust/mush. This process eliminates that problem. Wood/grain/biomass is considered carbon neutral. There is also not a big cost to convert a coal fired boiler to burning biomass pellets.
However, there is still an issue with the production and availability of this torrified pellet. More plants need to be built. As the production increases(supply) the price will go down. There are plans to build plants along the eastern seaboard. These plants would load boats to ship primarily to Europe. Several European countries have mandated that X amount of the electricity generated needs to be carbon neutral. Wood pellets are one of the least expensive alternatives because they can convert existing coal fired plants to burn wood/grain pellets. The issue is their storage and accumulating moisture in transit on ships. Torrification eliminates this problem.
I would like to see the Trump administration require true carbon neutral scoring. Since wind is supposed to be “green and renewable”, yet coal is not, put it all to paper. The carbon footprint of building the turbines, blades, concrete slabs, magnets, generators etc. The carbon footprint of minint all materials, the building and placement of wind turbines, adding on the cost of fossil fuel backup for days when the wind does not blow. Do the same for electric cars, solar panels etc. Let us see an honest and open listing of the real costs, in a simple line by line accounting.
Agree completely. Ivy leauge alumni are no longer the caliber of people expected. Community colleges are more focused on education than the party plantations.
Hasn’t all those “intellectuals” at Harvard figured out that oil is “abiotic?”
5.56mm
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Sounds like Faust made a deal with the devil.
One would think that with the size of their endowment, Harvard could take the lead on latest generation nuclear power R&D, such as thorium cycle reactors.
Alas, p.c. will rule the day, and the only practical thing they'll support will be 'Rat politicians that will raise taxes and increase business-strangling regulations on everyone else.
Torrefaction is a thermochemical treatment of biomass at 200 to 320 °C (392 to 608ºF). It is carried out under atmospheric pressure and in the absence of oxygen, i.e. with no air. During the torrefaction process, the water contained in the biomass as well as superfluous volatiles are released, and the biopolymers (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) partly decompose, giving off various types of volatiles.[3] The final product is the remaining solid, dry, blackened material[4] that is referred to as torrefied biomass or bio-coal.
During the process, the biomass typically loses 20% of its mass (bone dry basis) and 10% of its heating value, with no appreciable change in volume. This energy (the volatiles) can be used as a heating fuel for the torrefaction process. After the biomass is torrefied it can be densified, usually into briquettes or pellets using conventional densification equipment, to increase its mass and energy density and to improve its hydrophobic properties. The final product may repel water and thus can be stored in moist air or rain without appreciable change in moisture content or heating value, unlike the original biomass from which it is made.
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