Renewable sources, sustainable power

The main risk lies in the potential failure of permanent underground storage of C02. This requires that special attention be paid to demonstrate the economic and technical feasibility of such processes and the availability of sites to sequester all C02 produced (see also Chapter 6). The CCS technologies currently under development could extend the time available to develop a full and durable solution for a sustainable power and fuel provision based on renewable sources. 

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We have shown organocatalysis to be a powerful tool for the synthesis of drugs and natural products. Our work and that of others have clearly demonstrated that organocatalytic strategies can cut down the total number of synthetic operations. As organocatalysts are usually non-toxic, air- and moisture-stable and often available from renewable sources, they are destined to have an impact on the development of future sustainable chemical processes. 

FIGURE 8-7. Sustainable power from renewable sources. 

Despite the fact that enzyme-based biofuel cells progressed a lot in the last 20 years reaching the state where the electrodes operate in vivo being implanted in living organisms, the motivation for their design is not always clear. In most of the published papers the authors claim their use as a source of sustainable power extracted from renewable biological... 

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