Talk on Heat-powered Engines: Renewable Energy While Locking Up Carbon?

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WOOSTER, Ohio -- The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (ATI) hosts a talk called “Heat-powered Engines: The Future of Renewable Energy and Carbon Sequestration?” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in Room 30 of ATI’s Skou Hall, 1328 Dover Road, Wooster.

The speaker will be mechanical engineer and entrepreneur Randall Gabriel of Athens, Ohio.

ATI is the two-year degree-granting branch of Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).

Gabriel will speak on and demonstrate an advanced type of heat-powered engine that he says could serve as a renewable energy backup to wind, solar and other green alternatives.

Such an engine’s heat source would be a charcoal-producing gasifier that reaches temperatures of 2,200 F and that essentially sequesters carbon while producing energy, he said.

His talk is part of a statewide series sponsored by Green Energy Ohio.

Admission is free and open to the public. Parking is free in ATI’s east and west lots.

The event’s co-sponsors also include the Bioenergy and Bioproducts Research Laboratory of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and ATI’s Renewable Energy Program. OARDC is CFAES’s research arm.

The presentation also will be given April 10 in Worthington. See the Green Energy Ohio website, http://www.greenenergyohio.org/, for details.

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Mary Wicks
wicks.14@osu.edu
330-202-3533