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GET BUSY LIVING

Imagine if you had a square block and you’re trying to fit it into a round hole. The size of the hole is roughly the same size of the block. You keep trying to push it in, but of course it doesn’t go in. You try to put it in from a different angle. You think maybe a different side will work. Still it doesn’t go in. You push it really hard through thinking the force will squeeze the cube inside the round hole. Doesn’t help at all. How long would it take for the square block to finally go through the round hole? It’ll never go in the way it is. This is what we try to do when we try to get the result we want. We try to force our way in. We keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. We think, somehow, that by the power of a miracle the block will go right in. That’s got to stop. Let’s go back to the example. How can you fit the square block into the round hole? You have to try a different way. So you get some tools and cut away the corners. Yo...

Solar Jet Fuel

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On April 29, 2014 European scientists at SOLAR-JET project have successful created world’s first renewable jet fuel scratch using only water, carbon dioxide and concentrated sunlight. The breakthrough invention could even help recycle harmful greenhouse, CO 2 and use it into petrol, diesel, and jet fuel kerosene. They believe that a full scale solar concentrate would be able to produce up to 20,000 litres of jet fuels per day. Solar –jet project partners include the German Aerospace Center (DLR),ETH  Zurich, and Shell. Figure.1 The Solar-Jet reactor can turn carbon dioxide, water and concentrated sunlight into jet fuel The process  In the first step, concentrated simulating sunlight was used to convert carbon dioxide and water to synthesis gas in a high temperature solar reactor containing metal oxide based materials. The syngas is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The syngas   was then conveted into kerosene by M/s Shell, a global petroleum...