PNGinc Documents

September 5, 2001

Global Emissions Remediation Plan

A workable, low-cost technological solution
by Ken Rieli, CEO - PNGinc

Introduction

This is a very brief outline of a realistic approach to the serious pollution and global warming problem now plaguing the earth. The only people denying that there is a climate shift underway due to man's ignorant misuse of combustion are either idiots or divisive industrialists.

Recently George Bush Jr. (Little George as the Chinese call him) announced the U.S. pull out of the Kyoto talks which would drastically roll back emissions. George excused the U.S. by saying that he would not "pull the plug" on this country's citizens, citing that the economy here is more important than the environment.

First of all he's wrong about the economy being more important -- they are equally important. People demanding adherence to the Kyoto plan are also wrong in their short-sighted solution. The solution is not in curbing CO2 emissions from power plants! The real focus should be on the number one cause of existing and future escalation of CO2 and toxic emissions -- the global auto industry.

What follows is a simplified version of a plan that will satisfy Little George's concern to keep the lights on, and the concern of the rest of the world to roll back pollution.

Three Part Phoenix Global Emissions Remediation Plan

The basic plan can be summed up as follows:

1. Replace piston engines across the globe with clean-burning low-cost Phoenix/Tesla turbine technology
2. Ramp up production of "home-grown" fuels for transportation use, allowing a shift of cleaner burning fossil fuels to power production
3. Create a hydrogen industry and infrastructure based on solar, wind and other non-polluting sources to displace all organic fuels in ground-based transportation

I. Replace Piston Engines Globally

Since ground vehicles (cars, truck, buses, etc.) are the leading source of all types of airborne pollutants in the U.S., and they are the leading cause of respiratory disease & death in cities around the world, our prime focus must be on immediate and wide scale replacement of piston engines.

The auto industry as a whole admits that they have taken piston engines as far as they can in reducing emissions, and still cannot meet near-future emissions mandates. To put it simply, the piston engine uses the wrong combustion model for today's conditions. What worked at the beginning of the 20th century will not work in the 21st century.

Every car company in the world has tried (and failed) to develop a low-cost turbine engine for wide scale use. Actually the turbine engine developed for this exact purpose (controlling pollution) was introduced by Nikola Tesla in the early 1920s. At that time he was achieving around 60% efficiency with his engine, but didn't have the resources to completely debug the combustion system. Since the auto industry of his day promoted the benefits of piston technology rather than having foresight to see the mess we are in today, Tesla's technology was buried under a sea of misinformation -- just like today!

At PNGinc we've taken Tesla's basic engine as the focal point for a revolution in motive power. The combustion problems that Tesla encountered have been overcome (in PNGinc labs) using modern aerodynamics and embedded processor technologies. Although still in development, we have the solution to the world's emissions problems in our hands today!

This is not a "sometime in the future" fuel cell dream -- this is reality. Our turbine engine has higher efficiency, lower pollution, and lower cost potential than even the "savior" fuel cells can deliver. And our technology is now -- not 20-50 years into the future! About the only people who will hate our guts are the car barons and their employees. They already fear us because we have out-engineered their thousands of dime-a-dozen engine designers. They refuse to change their set-in-stone piston engine production lines in favor of doing what's right for the environment and for their customers' health.

So where do we go from here? Just think of where the world would be today if the Clinton administration had awarded us the money they wasted on the auto industry's PNGV program!

II. Ramp Up Production of Home Grown Fuels

The Phoenix Turbine is multi-fuel capable, has only one major moving part, and its performance absolutely does not degrade over time! 

In comparison, piston engines begin to wear themselves out from Day One. A major cause of piston ring wear is the type of fuel used. Piston rings must have lubrication to reduce wear. Lubricants in fuel reduce top ring wear, but also contribute to pollution. Clean fuels such as ethanol & methanol strip away carbon and oils in cylinders, leading to premature wear, rapid decline in performance, and quick engine death. Without extremely expensive production cost increases for exotic materials & processing, piston engines cannot be used successfully on clean fuels. 

By replacing these inferior engines with our turbines -- which do not wear out over time -- it opens the door to new fuel possibilities. Instead of importing oil or even drilling new wells, the U.S. has the capability to grow a large percentage of its needed fuels. Both bio-diesel and ethanol are easily synthesized from plants and waste cellulose. 

By using more home-grown fuels in transportation (and more efficiently), petroleum products can be shifted toward electrical power production. This will ease some of the pressure on using unmodified coal in technologically backward coal-burning power plants which are themselves the second leading cause of pollution.

III. Hydrogen & Other Zero Pollution Alternatives

The third part of our initiative calls for the creation of a hydrogen fuel industry and distribution infrastructure. Practically everyone in the world knows that hydrogen is the non-polluting fuel of choice for the future. The problem now is that the earth doesn't have enough time to wait for the 50-100 year development phase of this industry. The first two parts of the Global Emissions Remediation Plan will buy us the time to develop a hydrogen fuel infrastructure -- including non-polluting generators of the fuel.

Hydrogen is not free fuel -- it must be produced by electrical hydrolysis of water or as a by-product of the chemical (and other) industry. Since industrial processes pollute, they are not a viable source of hydrogen. Therefore we are left with natural zero-pollution sources -- mainly solar, wind, water and geothermal.

Conclusion

Given time, we will be able to replace most organic fuels with zero-emissions alternatives across the globe. But the world has just run out of time. Without implementing a real plan now, based on real technologies ready for use, the earth's life cycles will begin to fall in a domino effect.

Just remember, big biz is not here to do what's best for the world and its people -- they are here to make fat cats rich! They must be forced by strict government regulations and customer boycotts of their products to comply with sane programs like ours. Without this forced and immediate action, you can kiss it goodbye!

Ken Rieli, CEO