Energy versus Carbon Dioxide

Part I - Energy and carbon dioxide: Matter.- Energy versus carbon dioxide in the nutrition of human beings.- Energy versus carbon dioxide in the nutrition of other living beings.- Energy from carbon dioxide for feeding plants and trees.- Flora and fauna have opposite carbon dioxide cycles.- Carbon dioxide, the greenhouse effect and the warming of the Earth's atmosphere.- Part II - Causers of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions: Automobiles with internal combustion engines say no, airplanes don't?.- Do we also electrify cruise ships and tankers?.- The true energy guzzlers.- Electric motors instead of internal combustion engines do not solve the problems.- Part III - Energy without carbon dioxide: The hope-bearers at first: photovoltaics, wind, water.- The last weapon: nuclear power.- The energetic water cycle: nature - electrolysis - machine - nature.- The energetic carbon dioxide cycle: nature - photosynthesis - machine - nature.- Part IV - Energy using carbon dioxide: Carbon dioxide-devouring thermal engines.- Heat, electricity and fuel from waste.- Heat, electricity and fuel from biogas.- Heat from wastewater and super-efficient combustion engines with biofood.-Synopsis of the theses.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. E. h. Dr. h. c. mult. Cornel Stan studied aerospace engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He received his doctorate in 1984 in the field of internal combustion engines at the Technical University of Zwickau and completed his habilitation there in 1989 in the field of automotive engineering. From 1984 he worked for the MZ-Motorradwerk Zschopau (successor to DKW) for seven years, where he was in a leading position in the development of future drives.

In 1992 Stan was appointed professor for technical thermodynamics at the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau, later the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau (Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau), where he later also became director of the Institute for Automotive Technology. His teaching and research areas include motor vehicle drive systems, direct injection processes, simulation of thermodynamic processes, combustion processes, alternative fuels and energy management in vehicles. His specialist books on thermodynamics, alternative drives for automobiles and direct injection systems for gasoline and diesel engines are included in many of the major national libraries around the world. Stan is the author or co-author of more than 30 specialist books, over 150 scientific articles and 40 international patents, in particular on unconventional injection processes in internal combustion engines.


In 1994 he became chairman of the board and scientific director of the newly founded research and transfer center e.V. at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau, (FTZ Zwickau), whose activities are currently focused on automotive engineering and electronics, electromagnetic compatibility, electrical power engineering, new technologies and materials in mechanical engineering and laser technology.