Hydrogen, energy, the environment

Energy management is the central theme of the development phase of our civilization. For the first time since the appearance of “Sapiens Sapiens”, the activities extended on Earth determine the modification of the climatic conditions of the Planet according to a process that risks becoming irreversible.

The first suspect of the increase in the average temperature of the Earth is the carbon dioxide released in ever-increasing quantities due to the use of fossil fuels necessary to satisfy the hunger for energy of industry and private uses.

Improperly, we talk about energy production while, in reality, energy cannot be produced but only transformed.
This is the case for thermoelectric power plants, for internal combustion engines, for hydroelectric power plants, for photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, nuclear:
energy is always there: we only deal with transforming it into the most convenient form for all uses.
Hydrogen is the ideal energy carrier as long as its use and extraction take place with processes free of polluting emissions.

The technologies available today allow us to obtain, transport and store electricity without producing any impact on the surrounding environment.

Clency creates the first virtuous circuit where technologies are integrated that allow the production, distribution and use of energy through hydrogen without any impact on the environment.
The integration of “green” solutions with existing infrastructures is the essential element to make the “Green Deal” truly practicable.

CLENCY: a cultural proposal

We usually tend to conceive culture in a partial sense, referring to distinct areas of intervention:
science, art, medicine, cinema, philosophy… According to the partial definitions of the widely spread concept of “culture”, there would be some “specialists” assigned to distribute to others this their knowledge and its development and application in the various sectors. The rest of humanity, those who work, study, go to the factory, the woman who stays at home, the mother, the father, the priest, the teacher, are simple learners and bearers of culture.

Clency starts from a different idea:
“Culture is the form of all the hours, of all the days, the months, the years of our existence, felt as a total relationship of men who are called to build their history”.

The proposal for the European Green Deal combines scientific research with new technologies that allow to contain the environmental impact determined by human activities and in particular by emissions deriving from the use of fossil fuels.
A city in Southern Italy, born ten thousand years before Italy, which has been able to project itself into the future with unique and fascinating cultural, social and anthropological models, is the center of this cultural proposal before scientific and technological.
The choice of the Cava della Palomba, of a shape that itself is a declination and synthesis of the past projected into the future, is the network launched to capture the frenzy of scientific development and bring it to the heart of the Earth: symbiosis between tradition and modernity; culture and science; past, present and future.

Matera, European Capital of Culture in 2019 and World Capital of Hydrogen Technologies, in the most complete and desirable sense, cradle of the European Renaissance, a city on a human scale where scientific research, experimentation with new technologies, sociality and solidarity between generations will find fertile humus to feed the energy of construction, of the prospect of a better future, of the contribution to the culture of the world through the contribution of each one.

Energy already exists: we use devices suitable for transforming it to obtain what we need.

Personal Energy

Integrated system for energy production, storage and distribution.
We have developed a production and distribution system, networking all the instruments and providing the infrastructure and software. The elements: cogenerators, columns, accumulators, electrolysers, are supplied by globally recognised manufacturers, integrated and controlled with our proprietary software that oversees safety, management, maintenance and monitoring, thanks to a patented device: Programmable Counter Diverter Contactor – PCDC.

PCDC controls all the devices connected to the PERSONAL ENERGY network, allowing the exchange and management of surpluses, maximising the consumption of self-production of energy and exchanging the surplus.

Therefore, all the energy available “before” the transformation is usable only if all the thermal component is used on site. The only viable path is that of “personal energy”, whereby each user produces electrical energy (transferable) and thermal energy (not transferable) in the most suitable measure for use on site.

Energy allows us to change the environment around us: heat it, light it, break it up, build it.
The way in which energy is used depends on the purpose we intend to achieve.
If we want to heat a room, we will need thermal energy; to make a car go, mechanical energy; to light a room, luminous energy.

For each step, for each transformation, a fundamental principle of physics commonly known as the third law of thermodynamics applies: in each “energetic” transformation, all the energy produced in a transformation corresponds exactly to the total energy available before the transformation.

The only viable path is that of “personal energy”, whereby each user produces transferable electrical energy and non-transferable thermal energy in the measure most suitable for use on site but using all the thermal energy produced with the technologies available today: “personal energy” would allow us to halve the consumption of natural gas without giving up current energy consumption levels.

“Green” methane,

the real alternative to fossil methane

The attraction, in terms of sustainability, is all here: “the clean fuel that has no impact on the environment”: Hydrogen.
But precisely the ease with which it combines with other elements makes hydrogen an object that is practically nonexistent in nature in its pure state. Thus, in compliance with the principle of energy conservation, to “extract” hydrogen from water (H 2 O) it is necessary to provide exactly that energy that will be returned to us when the pair (H 2 O) is reconstituted. In this sense, hydrogen is not a source of energy but simply a vector.
Even the management, storage and transport of hydrogen are not simple operations.
Thus, an interesting alternative can be synthetic methane, also called “green methane” which is obtained by combining hydrogen and carbon (extracted from carbon dioxide). A virtuous operation for the environment that allows to store and transfer energy with zero impact: carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere is combined with hydrogen to obtain synthetic methane (CH 4) which, when used as an energy source, will return to the atmosphere the same quantity of CO 2 taken. Balance at zero!
Furthermore, since it is in all respects methane gas (CH 4), it can travel in the already existing widespread distribution network and be used by widely distributed devices. In practice, the use of fossil methane is reduced to zero without any investment in the natural gas distribution infrastructure network and without requiring investments from the end user who can continue with the devices he already has.
From synthetic methane, obviously, it is possible to extract hydrogen if you want to use it for electric vehicles that use it through fuel cells or to produce electricity for industrial and/or residential uses; obtaining that green hydrogen from which we started to produce synthetic methane.

Global Advanced Clean Energy Grid (smart grid 4.0)

System for the production, stabilization, storage and distribution of electricity and the management of very high efficiency hot/cold air conditioning – second generation.

Macro-objectives

• Reduce energy dependence on external sources
• Reduce energy supply costs
• Limit the environmental impact resulting from energy use

Constituent elements

• Energy control and governance system at local and global level (Global Evolute Smart Grid 4.0)
• Integration of production/transformation devices with high electrical efficiency: cogeneration with hydrogen-powered fuel cells; photovoltaic panels and solar thermal; devices for thermal energy storage/boiler, deriving from cogeneration, and electrical lithium batteries
• Integration of electricity distribution systems, electric vehicles, energy community, and storage through methanization and transfer to the natural gas network