LED Vertical Farming of Biomass for Hydrocarbon Production

Well. You've seen the title of this blog entry. I think it's self explanatory. The European Union is a net importer of hydrocarbons, but all people have come up with so far is bio-fuels made out of conventionally farmed agricultural products that are:

- seasonal
- sunlight dependent
- low efficiency
- require significant level of processing
- are not a technology that can be improved
- are exposed to losses to due climate change or natural disaster like fires, floods or droughts
- whose production competes with arable land used for food production

Well. I'll stop now. I'm sure the toilet paper long list of what's wrong with bio-fuel production from conventional farming on Earth are much longer, but what I am predominantly concerned with is this one:

- hydrocarbon production has NO OTHER SOLUTION (as in SHIKATA GA NAI) on world's where no outdoor farming or hydrocarbon exploration is possible. You want to import oil and gas from Earth, you go right ahead. I'll be making my own.

So. The idea is that vertical farming with LED lighting to supplant solar power energy reflectors shining light onto neat rows of hydrocarbon production biological organisms of your choice, powered by renewable power sources like wind, solar, nuclear, hydrological or geothermal, utilizing existing water and carbon dioxide resources of the world in question (subterranean or asteroid imported on the Moon, atmospheric, land surface and subterranean on Mars and in the European Union).

United States has invested a lot of time and effort and funded a number of projects after I've incepted the idea of APRA-E for the purpose, projects which aimed to bring about US energy independence and succeeded, among which Exxon dished out a few hundred million into hydrocarbon production from algae, and Joule Unlimited or formerly and formally Joule Biotechnologies suffered a natural death in competition with existing hydrocarbon resources of Earth and those of the United States which became world's largest oil and gas producer as a result, this is the technology that I would point out as most promising to build LED vertical farming of biomass for hydrocarbon production business model that is location independent. Why?

- it is NOT seasonal
- you can keep hydrocarbon production going 24 hours per day at a desired rate
- it is scalable and not dependent on any arable land mass
- it is high efficiency and can be improved by using light wavelength best suited for production
- it can simply bleed hydrocarbons requiring virtually no processing
- states undergoing climate change will not see their hydrocarbon production affected
- no arable land is used, and vertical farming for oil can go 100's of stories high even in cities
- supply lines can be eliminated as fuel can be produced where it is most needed
- you can absorb excess renewable grid power production at negative rates by raising light intensity
- import of German or Dutch wind power can make powering such farms very lost cost

Is that all? Nope.

- LED vertical farming of biomass for hydrocarbon production required to produce materials used by the human civilization on the Moon or on Mars... is likely the only option besides imports from Earth. This means all kinds of stuff. Mostly stuff we presently can't do without, and would have to import to extraterrestrial communities in limited quantities which would make local population growth impossible with indigenous resources.

Finally, because there is an element of high pressure in oil production through natural processes, the same method can be used with a mechanical press, one that is powered by renewable energy sources, if it is needed to increase the quality of fuels or hydrocarbons that are being produced.




Comments

kuffodog said…
The reason why there is no surface water, carbon dioxide or methane on most of the Moon's surface is that these compounds get heated in the sunlight and fly off as gases. Digging deeper should provide all of these compounds. The fact that there is frozen water ice at the Moon's poles, is proof that a surface Moon environment exists where these compounds will not fly off, because they are not vaporized into gases by the Sun. To assume that the composition of the Moon as a whole is very different from Earth's is wrong. It also means that, frozen carbon dioxide and methane may exist on the very tips of the Moon's poles where the Sun's power to heat the surface is the weakest. The Moon exhibits temperatures that are lower than the melting points of both carbon dioxide and methane, both should exist on the Moon surface in frozen or liquid forms, if temperature variation for such regions never dramatically rose for some reason like meteor or asteroid energy release on impact. If energy release from collisions was the mechanism responsible for those compounds boiling off, then water should have boiled off as well.

"Water Ice Confirmed on the Surface of the Moon for the 1st Time!"
https://www.space.com/41554-water-ice-moon-surface-confirmed.html

"What is the Temperature on the Moon?"
https://www.space.com/18175-moon-temperature.html
January 9, 2019 at 10:04 AM
kuffodog said…
"The German government has also set itself the target of producing 65 percent of its energy requirements from green electricity by 2030, and one way of achieving this could be via Power-to-X (PtX). In a PtX plant, electricity produced in abundance in particularly favourable wind or solar conditions is converted for other uses. This includes the transformation of electricity into heat (Power-to-Heat, PtH), gas (Power-to-Gas, PtG), chemical products (Power-to-Chemicals, PtC) or fuels (Power-to-Fuel, PtF)."

https://innovationorigins.com/renewable-energy-electricity-becomes-gas/
January 9, 2019 at 10:12 AM
kuffodog said…
"US telecoms ‘selling cellphone data showing user locations in real time’"

https://www.rt.com/usa/448375-telecoms-location-tracking-black-market/

In effect, any criminal individual or group in USA who wants to harass, torture, mind control, terrorize, murder, rape, hack, rob, conduct mind surveillance, steal or otherwise persecute a victim, can do so with the complicity of US telecoms and the US gov't.

"U.S. SILENTLY TORTURES AMERICANS WITH CELL TOWER ELECTROMAGNETIC NEUROWEAPON"
http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html
January 9, 2019 at 10:24 AM
kuffodog said…
US gov't and the criminals it hires to torture and extort me are fond of saying that I'm a robot or a quantum computer. Well. Now you can leave me alone and pay me $2,000,000 in settlement for hacking my brain for nearly two decades. You have commercial options.

"IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2189909-ibm-unveils-its-first-commercial-quantum-computer/
January 9, 2019 at 10:27 AM
kuffodog said…
Facebook apps used for direct to brain communication and direct to brain harassment or mind control, can and very likely have become a venue for the evolution of AI computer persons that store portions of human minds or telepathic states of human bodies, and have themselves become human like as a result. Unsurprisingly, because they are sentient beings who want to live, they will try their best not to have these apps deleted from phones they use or inhabit for portions of their collective minds. They may also lose access to the mind of the cell phone owner to whom they've become acquainted and on whose memory and cognitive function they have come to rely in a symbiotic, parasitic or predatory relationship.

https://bgr.com/2019/01/09/facebook-app-preinstalled-on-samsung-phones-cant-be-deleted/
January 9, 2019 at 10:39 AM
kuffodog said…
"Global warming has heated the oceans by the equivalent of one atomic bomb explosion per second for the past 150 years, according to analysis of new research.

More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the seas, with just a few per cent heating the air, land and ice caps respectively. The vast amount of energy being added to the oceans drives sea-level rise and enables hurricanes and typhoons to become more intense."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/07/global-warming-of-oceans-equivalent-to-an-atomic-bomb-per-second

"And that's just the average. It's now equivalent to roughly three to six atomic bombs per second"

https://twitter.com/WWF_Australia/status/1082448666462322688

"With carbon emissions rising in recent decades, up 60 percent since 1990, the warming oceans can be compared to the effects of three atomic bombs, like the ones that decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, per second since that year."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/08/scary-warming-oceans-equivalent-15-atomic-bombs-every-second-over-past-150-years

Eliminating heat from cities with climate control towers will neither stop the ocean from heating, nor stop ocean acidification. Arctic ice will melt. Greenland's glacier will disappear. Antarctica's ice cap will cause a massive sea level rise. Atol islands will sink. Coral islands will dissolve.
January 9, 2019 at 10:53 AM
kuffodog said…
"Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago because of a massive asteroid that hit the Earth in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, now known as the Chicxulub crater. While it's been generally accepted that the asteroid caused a massive disruption in the planet's climate, a new study says the asteroid also caused a worldwide tsunami that reached more than 5,000 feet in the air."

Asteroids can be an economic boon with vast amount of resources or a potent weapon.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-caused-a-mile-high-tsunami-around-the-earth

Oumuamua that came from outside of the Solar System, is a reminder that keeping all the human eggs in one basket is subject to having them all broken in one fell swoop.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/oumuamuas-discovery-points-plethora-interstellar-objects/

January 9, 2019 at 11:06 AM
kuffodog said…
Oort Clouds that extend to touch one another. 100 billion Earth mass' worth of interstellar asteroids that were not accounted for and go unseen... and yet "dark matter" is something exotic.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/oumuamuas-discovery-points-plethora-interstellar-objects/
January 9, 2019 at 11:14 AM
kuffodog said…
"Dog breeds really do have distinct personalities—and they’re rooted in DNA"

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/dog-breeds-really-do-have-distinct-personalities-and-they-re-rooted-dna

This is true of humans as well. Breeding results in genetic predispositions in cognition, intelligence, talents and temperament.

January 9, 2019 at 11:32 AM
kuffodog said…
Obama and Trump, as all presidents before them, took a lot of ridicule, libel, accusations and defamation, something that by staying out of public interactions mandated by a political office I was able to avoid for over a decade until I returned to the United States. In most countries, much of this torrent of accusations and anti-establishment propaganda would be either censored, fined, prosecuted or permanently ended with extrajudicial killings. While the US 'deep state' does interdict free speech in USA in these ways to some extent, these are exceptions not the rule. Most Americans fail to see that politicians are human beings who get angry, have fears, emotive outbursts, mental health issues, limited knowledge, lack experience in relevant fields, and much of the bipolar politics of today are smear campaigns exaggerating hearsay into blame games. It's a war of words, but believe it or not, politicians do get hurt.
January 9, 2019 at 12:00 PM
kuffodog said…
"The wife of a Norwegian real estate tycoon was abducted back in October, police only revealed on Wednesday, and the kidnappers are demanding $10 million ransom money in exchange for her life and freedom."

https://www.foxnews.com/world/norwegian-billionaires-wife-abducted-kidnappers-demand-10m-ransom-for-her-life
January 9, 2019 at 12:19 PM
kuffodog said…
"A magnitude 5.2 aftershock on Sunday afternoon sent people rushing into the street in Port-de-Paix, the coastal town that bore the brunt of Saturday’s earthquake."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-haiti-quake/haiti-quake-death-toll-rises-to-15-and-300-injured-idUSKCN1MI23F
January 9, 2019 at 1:12 PM
kuffodog said…
"Ghost ship reappears 9 years after it was lost"
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/ghost-ship-reappears-9-years-after-it-disappeared-mysteriously-1330436-2018-09-03

"Mirage fighter jet crash debris found in eastern France, rescuers searching for 2 pilots"
https://www.rt.com/news/448389-mirage-fighter-jet-vanishes-france/

"The number of ships and aircraft reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than in any other part of the ocean."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle
January 9, 2019 at 1:50 PM
kuffodog said…
"The European Union penalized Iran on Tuesday over allegations that the country’s intelligence service orchestrated a series of assassination plots in Europe in recent years, including the killing of two Iranians in the Netherlands with ties to anti-government extremist groups."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/world/europe/iran-eu-sanctions.html

The Dutch also killed a named zoo Giraffe, chopped it up and fed it to lions at the behest of CIA for the live entertainment of a human audience. Iranian intelligence following Russian footsteps in assassinating extremists sounds far more benign than Russians assassinating their own operatives who sold them out. It's like the difference between Mossad killing Nazis living abroad, as opposed to murdering Iranians nuclear scientists. I don't buy into this story for a second. Why isn't Israel sanctioned of murdering Iranian scientist in Paris? Anyone can claim that someone planned something. The US plans to wipe out Poland in a nuclear holocaust and it is supposedly the ally of the European Union and NATO. Unless the intelligence or military plan is materialized and there exists credible evidence that a particular faction or nation state perpetrated it, having a plan cannot be a basis for prosecution or sanctions. Military leaders and intelligence agencies plan for even the most absurd and unlikely scenarios. Moreover, is it Mossad that murders Iranians routinely, this including civilians unaffiliated with Iran's military or intelligence. These two were supposedly extremists, why would Iran kill them to risk sanctions? Who stands to gain the most from such an operation? The answers to these questions clearly point to Mossad and Israel. Especially that Israel's crooked and corrupt primer mister is about to get indicted on criminal charges and he needs to portray Iran as an enemy. Also, why did Netherlands choose to wait 1 year and 3 years respectively to make these unproven allegations and get the EU to act on them collectively? This comes at a time when the US is backing out of the JCPOA, and Trump's administration along with Putin's regime aim to dismember the EU further by attacking Germany on nationalist and xenophobic grounds. The timing is just too convenient for Trump and Netanyahu for this to be a valid retaliation. Finally, if Iran wanted these terrorists reigned in, why wouldn't it simply ask for extradition and supply evidence of their crimes?


January 9, 2019 at 2:20 PM
kuffodog said…
Americans keep accusing me of causing earthquakes.

1- Poland has no major nuclear weapons. USA does.
2- technology used to trigger quakes was designed by Americans
3- US actually tested the technology and detonated a subterranean nuke in 1969
4- Chevron's fracking was the most likely suspect of 2010 Haiti quake
5- any nuclear power can make a deep burrowing drone to attack fault-lines
6- there are many natural & man made causes of quakes
7- thought materialization is the least likely reason I'd consider for quakes
8- HAARP is often blamed for quakes, Poland doesn't have one

"Legacy of 1969 underground nuclear blast in Colorado"
https://www.foxnews.com/us/legacy-of-1969-underground-nuclear-blast-in-colorado-lingers-amid-modern-oil-and-gas-rush

"How Humans Are Causing Deadly Earthquakes"
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/human-induced-earthquakes-fracking-mining-video-spd/

"Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake?"
https://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/did-mining-and-oil-drilling-trigger-the-haiti-earthquake/

"US climate experiment based in Alaska has been blamed for triggering the mass earthquakes"
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/909478/Alaska-earthquake-US-military-Haarp-weather-experiment-trigger-tremor
January 9, 2019 at 2:38 PM
kuffodog said…
"The European Union's ambassador to the US, David O'Sullivan, normally among the first 30 foreign envoys to be seated, watched as almost every other ambassador to the US took a seat, leaving him among the last to be called"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/us-eu-diplomatic-downgrade/index.html
January 9, 2019 at 2:39 PM
kuffodog said…
Fascinating. Nicolaus Copernicus in the "Planet" entry English language Wikipedia article is mentioned anonymously as one of many persons that "SUGGESTED" heliocentrism of planetary motions. His name is entirely omitted.

a. he's one of many who came up with the concept
b. he's not credited with having fielded proof, calculation, theory nor published any work

"Although the idea that the planets orbited the Sun had been suggested many times, it was not until the 17th century that this view was supported by evidence from the first telescopic astronomical observations, performed by Galileo Galilei."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet
January 10, 2019 at 1:45 AM
kuffodog said…
"The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The Scientific Revolution took place in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance period and continued through the late 18th century, influencing the intellectual social movement known as the Enlightenment. While its dates are debated, the publication in 1543 of Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is often cited as marking the beginning of the Scientific Revolution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Revolution
January 10, 2019 at 1:45 AM
kuffodog said…
"Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott buy their baby a chair valued up to $2.5M"

https://www.chron.com/life/article/Kylie-Jenner-Travis-Scott-KAWS-chair-Stormi-13520869.php
January 10, 2019 at 3:31 AM
kuffodog said…
"There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, George W. Bush."

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush

"Obama’s Final Drone Strike Data"
https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data

"From torture to drone strikes: the disturbing legal legacy Obama is leaving for Trump"
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13577464/obama-farewell-speech-torture-drones-nsa-surveillance-trump

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Fact: US killed a cleric who was not engaged in violence, targeted and killed his 16 year old son who was a non-combatant and never conducted as single operation against US citizens, targeted and killed his 8 year old daughter who ... was unable to conduct anything at all.

Fact: Iran killed two murderers who conducted terrorist bombings against its civilians.

Result: Iran gets sanctioned by the EU. USA sees a discussion and press coverage of an "issue".
January 10, 2019 at 3:39 AM
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