End of the Oil Era

End of the Oil Era

End of the Oil Era 

Climate-Centric Clean Energy

After endless global protests on Climate Change, finally America steps up.

Thanks to President Joe Biden and his progressive administration, the USA has rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, halted the Keystone XL pipeline and vowed “the most aggressive” carbon cut the U.S. can make.

That came just before Biden signed a climate-related executive order suspending new oil and gas leases on public lands, directing federal agencies to purchase electric cars by the thousands and seeking to end fossil-fuel subsidies.

Biden wants to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 2035, a timetable some utility executives consider too difficult and expensive to meet. Climate activists are now waging a ” war on gas,” fighting pipelines and pushing cities to ban the fuel’s use in new buildings — and Biden’s early moves align with these goals.

A Sustainable Trend is Emerging – Clean Energy Growth is Inevitable

General Motors said it was setting a goal to sell all its new cars, SUVS and light pickup trucks with zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a dramatic shift by the largest U.S. automaker away from gasoline and diesel engines and aggressively push to embrace electric vehicles.

GM also plans to become carbon neutral by 2040, pledging to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, dramatically boost sales of electric vehicles.

Committing To Clean Energy Will Not Be Easy…

Committing to Clean Energy will not be easy. It means most businesses will need to make changes in the way they create products and deliver their services. And most importantly it means Oil and Gas companies will need to pivot to a new model of energy that will create long-term sustainability in both job creation and Climate Change.

Our Blue Planet is involved in one such of these new models of energy by using sustainable biomass based solutions to replace fossil fuels in material and energy applications . NanoTerraTech is creating “Biomass to Graphene to Energy”… read more

UBCO Special Research Project – “BDV” Biomass Derived VAGNA (Vertically Aligned Graphene Nano Arrays)

UBCO Special Research Project – “BDV” Biomass Derived VAGNA (Vertically Aligned Graphene Nano Arrays)

Biomass Derived VAGNA

(Vertically Aligned Graphene Nano Arrays)

 

Creating Rechargeable Battery Material

Our Blue Planet (OBP) is pleased to announce a special research project in conjunction with the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) Engineering Department for the development of “BDV” Biomass Derived Vertically Aligned Graphene Nano Arrays (VAGNAs). Dr. Lukas Bichler is the supervising Professor of the special research project.

Derived from 100% sustainable waste wood products, the structured VAGNAs have been shown to be an extremely conductive material, suitable for use in rechargeable batteries and other energy storage devices.

Using a proprietary OBP process, we hope to demonstrate alignment and customization of pore size range spanning from macro, meso, micro to promote superior ion exchange, faster charge times, and superior energy density.

The use of biomass to create graphene nano arrays in the most sustainable way as possible was the overall project driver. Having zero petroleum based carbons as a battery anode will have a dramatic reduction in GHG emissions, and will deviate from current battery anode graphite that is derived from environmentally damaging extractive processes such as mining or from fossil fuel products.

UBC Okanagan Engineering Department:
Research Assistant Madisyn Szypula, with Our Blue Planet President Scott Farnham, in Lab with precursor biomass material.

FIT & EC Fast Ion Transfer & Electron Conductivity from Biomass

FIT & EC Fast Ion Transfer & Electron Conductivity from Biomass

Some new lab equipment arrived that will allow us to start on other experimental research. We received tube ends for our quartz furnace and water cooled tube ends for our graphite furnace. A maximum temperature of 2500 C will be achieved by using induction heating and is the limit of our pyrometer… Under the right conditions we will be well within the graphitization range. Although what is interesting is that preliminary experiments have shown that it is possible to form Vertical Aligned Graphene Nano Arrays (VAGNAs) at lower temperatures. It is exciting to discover a great material that is quite easily made from biomass.

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