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Limestone and Carbon Dioxide new fuel?

Dustydog

Dustydog

This new venture is five miles away from me. If it is true then amazingly we will need CO2 ! No more burying it🙀

Members of the public will be able to examine plans for a new energy plant for the next month.
Rivan Industries hopes to build on a field in Blunsdon off Little Rose Lane that will create synthetic gas by heating limestone to release carbon dioxide, which is mixed with hydrogen released from water and heated to produce the synthetic gas.
The plant will in essence be the equivalent to 15 40-foot shipping containers along with a solar farm to power the process.
The company has launched a month-long public consultation for people to see the plans and ask questions and make comments.
The company says the plant will make gas which can be delivered by pipe into the exisitng energy grid, needing no deliveries by road, and there will be no increase in carbon emissions, as it is entirely fuelled by renewable energy.
“The challenge is global, but the solution starts local,” said Harvey Hodd, Founder & CEO of Rivan Industries. “At Little Rose Lane, we’re turning carbon from the air into clean, usable fuel and proving that net zero can be practical, affordable, and community-powered.”
The public consultation will run until Thursday, May 1, and includes an in-person drop-in event at Highworth Community Centre (Rooms 9/10), on Thursday, April 24, between 3pm and 7:30pm.
Plans are available at rivan.com/little-rose-lane, where comments can be left.Copy via the LDRS by Aled Thomas.solar Farm Little Rose Lane Blunsdon via the LDRS.
 
Interesting concept which puzzles me. You heat limestone to release CO2 that’s sat there for millennia, then extract hydrogen from water which is energy intensive, then heat up the mixture to produce.synthetic gas. Seems a lot of energy being used to achieve the gas/fuel. The process of achieving a fuel from carbon dioxide and hydrogen is well established so it will be interesting to see how this project develops.
 
I think that Harvey Hodd has probably 'discovered' that if you drip water onto calcium carbide you can produce acetylene. Very popular in the 1900's. But does take a lot of energy to produce the calcium carbide from limestone and coke. And then another combustion process when you burn the acetylene and produce CO2.
 
"The plant will in essence be the equivalent to 15 40-foot shipping containers along with a solar farm to power the process."
Just use the solar farm to power homes and cut out the middle man. No extra CO2 released. No energy loss in a chemical process...
 
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