www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de Breaking the Wall of Energy Supply. How Heterogeneous Catalysis Can Replace Fossil Fuels by Robert Schlögl Director, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. 1 . How Heterogeneous Catalysis Can Replace Fossil Fuels
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Breaking the Wall of Energy Supply. How Heterogeneous Catalysis Can Replace Fossil Fuels
by
Robert Schlögl
Director, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
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. How Heterogeneous Catalysis Can Replace Fossil Fuels
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Energy challenge:The wall of chemical energy storage
Novel chemistry at the centre stage
Robert Schlögl
Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG
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A modest Rest of the fallen Berlin Wall…
High Ammount of Energy to build it......and as well to Tear it down
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Fossil energy: always (?) at hand…
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USA
China
Rus
Jap
Internet
India
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Canada
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UK
Source: IEA, Greenpeace, 2011
CO2 emissions (Mio t)
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The wall: why store the sun on earth?
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The sun-gap…..bricks in the wall
Thermo-mechanical storage is too ineffective5
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What we find…
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We break the wallby creating artificial solar fuels
like nature uses sugar
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...behind the wall
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Can we split the water?
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We use catalysts like nature does in photosynthesis:We need high performance systems
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Can we make the solar fuel?
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We need a catalyst with structural and electronic modifiers
Then we can form methanol and transportation fuels and polymers
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We break the wall…..
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… when we keep on remodelling the energy system
• 0.17% of the earth surface receives all energy needs of mankind.
• Collect now solar energy by a combination of physical and chemical technologies.
• Store large amounts of this energy in chemical bonds.
• Complete and expand existing knowledge into a fundament of technologies.
• Price and prejudice:
You need to support their implementation!
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Dem Anwenden muss das Erkennen vorausgehen
Max Planck
Thank You
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