Sustainable power from renewable sources

FIGURE 8-7. Sustainable power from renewable sources. 

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. 

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... 

It has been proposed as a transitional solution, to recover CO2 Irom the flue gas of large fossil fired power stations and to dispose it of in the deep sea or empty gas or oil fields [6], But the development and irr lementation of such transitional technologies takes much time and money and the real application consumes a considerable fraction of the energy produced. There is some doubt, if such measures are really useful. The only sustainable solution to the C02-problem, is the development and use of all reasonable renewable energy sources. The EU for example intends to double the share of renewables from 6% (3% biomass, 90% from forestry (Ph.C.P Chartier et al. in Ref. I p. 62)) today to 12% until 2010, as an essential contribution to achieving the Kyoto objectives. The major part of this increase is expected to come from biomass,... 

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