Energy versus Carbon Dioxide: How can we save the world? 59 Theses

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​This book is focussed on forms of energy for the future, while maintaining climate neutrality, partly by drastically reducing, partly by recycling the resulting carbon dioxide emissions. Electric drive of cars and machines instead of combustion engines do not solve the conflict between energy and carbon dioxide, more efficient ways are described. The book presents hopeful forms of energy conversion without carbon dioxide such as photovoltaics, wind power and hydropower, with their advantages, but also with their disadvantages. More promissing is the energy generation maintaining climate neutrality: The water cycle nature-electrolysis-machine-nature is compared with the carbon dioxide cycle nature- photosynthesis in plant-machine-nature.  The results of this analysis are largely surprising from such perspective. Preface Table of Contents Part I Energy and carbon dioxide 1 Matter 2 Energy versus carbon dioxide in the nutrition of human beings 3 Energy versus carbon dioxide in the nutrition of other living beings 4 Energy from carbon dioxide for the nutrition of plants and trees 5 Flora and fauna have inversed carbon dioxide cycles 6 Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect and the warming of the Earth's atmosphere References for Part I Part II Causers of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions 7 No more cars with internal combustion engines, but what about airplanes? 8 Are we also electrifying cruise ships and tankers? 9 The real energy guzzlers 10 Electric car drive instead of propulsion by combustion engine does not solve the problems References for Part II Part III Energy without carbon dioxide 11 The hope-bearers at first: photovoltaics, wind, water 11.1 Photovoltaics 11.2 Wind power 11.3 Hydropower 12 The last weapon: nuclear power 13 The energetic water cycle: nature – electrolysis – machine – nature 13.1 Hydrogen production and storage 13.2 Fuel cell with hydrogen 13.3 Internal combustion engine with hydrogen 13.4 Internal combustion engine with hydrogen in the role of the fuel cell 14 The energetic carbon dioxide cycle: nature – photosynthesis – machine – nature 14.1 Ethanol, methanol, oil, ether – fuel production from plants 14.2 Internal combustion engines with ethanol, methanol, vegetable oils and ether 14.3 Fuel cell with methanol and vegetable oils 14.4 Thermal machine with internal combustion of alcohol or oil in the role of fuel cell References for Part III Part IV Energy using carbon dioxide 15 Carbon dioxide-devouring heat engines 16 Heat, electricity and fuel from waste 17 Heat, electricity and fuel from biogas 18 Heat from wastewater and super-efficient combustion engines with organic food References for Part IV Summary of Theses