Zeitschrift für Elektrotechnik und Elektrochemie. Die Wissenschaftliche Elektrochemie der Gegenwart und die Technische der Zukunft

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“…One expression of this ambition came from Wilhelm Ostwald. “The way in which the greatest of all technical questions– the procurement of cheap energy– can be solved,” he wrote in 1894, “must be found by electrochemistry (Ostwald, 1894a, 1894b). ” Ostwald made clear that all chemical reactions were a consequence of rearranging atomic electrons, but that combustion (burning) only allows partial use of the resulting heat energy.…”

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The closed carbon cycle in a managed, stable Anthropocene

Johnson

2024

The Anthropocene Review

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The striking influence humans are exerting on their environment will likely result in the stabilization of a new climatic equilibrium of the Anthropocene, possibly without historical precedent. Many conceivable outcomes would reshape the planet’s biodiversity. If the Earth-human interaction is to endure in its current state, which still shares characteristics with the Holocene, one necessary development is that humans close the various biogeochemical cycles (C, N, P, K, etc) they have fundamentally altered (i.g. Haber-Bosch). Many of the technologies required to close the chemical cycles, such as the emissions-free production of methanol from industrial exhaust, already exist. Historical examples show, however, that deployment of technology can lag behind innovation resulting in an implementation gap that hinders our ability to mitigate climate change. However, assuming we close this gap, biogeochemical cycles can act as a gage for a “successful” Anthropocene in which mitigation strategies stave off much of what will otherwise become widespread forced adaption to a new, possibly hostile climate. Closed chemical cycles supporting human consumption can be causally linked to human action and precisely marked in time; they will leave an indelible global stratigraphic record, namely in that human influence decreases. Such a development would be a sign that humans had achieved a managed, stable (or at least steady) state within acceptable planetary boundaries of the Earth-human system. This article focuses on closing the carbon cycle over the following decades and proposes, as a measure of progress, the flattening of the Suess effect, a well-known indicator of human impact.

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The closed carbon cycle in a managed, stable Anthropocene

Johnson

2024

The Anthropocene Review

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“…The Nobel Prize winning chemist, Wilhelm Ostwald [12] also realised that, in principle, the electrochemical generation of power in a fuel cell was much more efficient than the conventional combustion of fossil fuels. Ostwald, therefore, speculated that it might 1…”

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Decarbonising energy: The developing international activity in hydrogen technologies and fuel cells

Thomas

Edwards

Dobson

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Journal of Energy Chemistry

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“…In his 1894 paper, he described the energy conversion in a fuel cell and especially emphasized the fact that its efficiency was not limited by the maximum efficiency of a reversible Carnot cycle [22]. In contrast to a heat engine, there was, therefore, no need for attaining high temperatures in the ‘fuel cell combustion process’.…”

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Solid State Ionics: from Michael Faraday to green energy—the European dimension

Funke¹

2013

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

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Solid State Ionics has its roots essentially in Europe. First foundations were laid by Michael Faraday who discovered the solid electrolytes Ag2S and PbF2 and coined terms such as cation and anion, electrode and electrolyte. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the main lines of development toward Solid State Ionics, pursued in Europe, concerned the linear laws of transport, structural analysis, disorder and entropy and the electrochemical storage and conversion of energy. Fundamental contributions were then made by Walther Nernst, who derived the Nernst equation and detected ionic conduction in heterovalently doped zirconia, which he utilized in his Nernst lamp. Another big step forward was the discovery of the extraordinary properties of alpha silver iodide in 1914. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the concept of point defects was established by Yakov Il'ich Frenkel, Walter Schottky and Carl Wagner, including the development of point-defect thermodynamics by Schottky and Wagner. In terms of point defects, ionic (and electronic) transport in ionic crystals became easy to visualize. In an ‘evolving scheme of materials science’, point disorder precedes structural disorder, as displayed by the AgI-type solid electrolytes (and other ionic crystals), by ion-conducting glasses, polymer electrolytes and nano-composites. During the last few decades, much progress has been made in finding and investigating novel solid electrolytes and in using them for the preservation of our environment, in particular in advanced solid state battery systems, fuel cells and sensors. Since 1972, international conferences have been held in the field of Solid State Ionics, and the International Society for Solid State Ionics was founded at one of them, held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1987.

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Zeitschrift für Elektrotechnik und Elektrochemie. Die Wissenschaftliche Elektrochemie der Gegenwart und die Technische der Zukunft

Cited by 76 publications

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The closed carbon cycle in a managed, stable Anthropocene

The closed carbon cycle in a managed, stable Anthropocene

Decarbonising energy: The developing international activity in hydrogen technologies and fuel cells

Solid State Ionics: from Michael Faraday to green energy—the European dimension

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