Green Energy Options

Making a difference with our community's carbon footprint incorporates a combination of various Cutting Edge Technologies for different applications and locations. Whilst these common sense components are absolutely vital in the path of achieving significant change, they are however not the solution to this crises at hand. Furthermore whilst Wind, Solar and Turbine electricity generation provide clean, reasonably cost effective energy, these are not yet developed to address the maintenance and substantial urban fabric issues at end of life viability for high volume energy production.

Optimum Green Energy Production

Zero CO2 Energy advocates a highly innovative Chemical Cell Fusion power generation system as the green energy solution for the planet. A 100% green energy production process that provides a quantum leap in benefits, efficiency cost saving, maintenance, life expectancy and ease and cost of decommissioning resulting in the most prudent energy production process available in the world today. These claims are substantiated by providing energy not only at a discounted fixed net price but net of all other associated costs. There is NO initial capital outlay for the power plant and NO maintenance and NO decommissioning costs. Imagine the financial savings and the carbon elimination when your city makes the decision to "Choose To Save" and participate in saving the world one city at a time.

Energy production plants start at 5MW and can vastly exceed 1,000 MW. This well proven technology has power plants currently in operation throughout Africa, America and the Middle East. These systems are incorporated in new master planned sustainable cities currently being developed throughout Africa and Asia.

Biofuel Production

Green oil is a biofuel which can produce energy without releasing a net increase of carbon into the atmosphere, because the plants used to produce the fuel have previously removed CO2 from the atmosphere. Fossil fuels return carbon back into the atmosphere, having stored it underground for millions of years, whereas Bio fuels are vertually carbon neutral and therefore less likely to increase atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Jatropha is the world’s premium crop for producing high grade biofuel, which is of such high quality that it can be used to fuel the aviation industry.

The production of biodiesel in the US has grown dramatically in the last few years to meet official mandatory blending laws (10% petro-diesel mix) by 2017. The US will need 35 billion gallons per year of renewable fuels by 2017. The current US petroleum consumption is about 20.5 million barrels of oil a day, and with that projected to increase by about another 2 million barrels by 2010, the US is only producing about 5.2 million barrels a day. This means that they are currently importing 15 million barrels of oil daily. The US biodiesel market has a significant shortfall as the total amount of biodiesel being sold in the US currently amounts to less than 1/2 of 1% of all petrodiesel on-road consumption. This is substantially less than the status of its European counterparts, where biodiesel represents a mere 2% of total on-road fuel consumption and is expected to reach 6% by 2010. This clearly indicates the absolute enormity of shortfall and demand that will be placed on the biofuel industry world wide.

Platinum Plantations is the biofuel division of Zero CO2 Energy of which is primarily a humanitarian based organisation, dedicated to the people of the land, providing high volumes of sustainable green fuels to the world and the lucrative investments that fuel this initiative. Platinum Plantations has conceived an innovative strategy which empowers impoverished people to be self sustaining by tending crops that not only remove large quantities of carbon from the air whilst producing fresh clean air from what was previously semi-arid land, but to also substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels and providing lucrative investment opportunities, an initiative where everyone benefits.

Global Energy Facts

Today, 80% of the world's electricity production comes from fossil and nuclear fuels, and virtually all transportation is fueled by liquid petroleum (gasoline). Lighting accounts for 20% of all energy generated worldwide, 95% of this energy is wasted. In the UK 35 Giga watts is needed by 2020, this is about double that of the country’s current electricity generating capability. The current government plan is to build more nuclear power plants. Nuclear is extremely expensive and hazardous, costing billions to build and decommissioning costs are astronomical. Furthermore a typical nuclear power station will take a minimum of 20 years to build and is largely an uneconomic solution for the impending global energy crisis.

Nuclear energy is being claimed by the UK government to be a carbon-free alternative, but significant carbon-producing processes are involved in the mining of uranium, in the construction of power stations and in the disposal of waste. Energy requirements for these processes depend on high-grade uranium ore, which is expected to be exhausted within 50 years. Lower quality uranium then available will lead to energy prices soaring in the future.

The World Energy Council projects primary energy demand will triple by 2050, as population grows to 8-9 billion and developing nations elevate their living standards. The energy problem of the world has arisen from the fact that human beings have thought implicitly that the amount of global minable energy resources is infinite, though it is beyond question that it is very much finite. In this century, human beings will face the problem of the chronic lack of fossil oil and natural gas that were widely and conveniently used in the twentieth century. However in addition to this, human beings have faced, are facing and will face exponentially growing environmental problems.

These problems include water pollution and food shortage, but the biggest issue now in the world is global warming. It is unequivocal that this problem is strongly linked to the energy consumption and waste of which is the single most significant contributor to this problem.