United Nations - Sustainable development goals

Payment for imported fuel for electricity generation can be a heavy financial burden for countries with low indigenous fossil fuels, e.g. Pakistan’s energy imports account for a quarter of all import costs.

The Capricorn Power Barton Heat Engine allows communities and countries to use renewable resources to generate their own electricity, preserving funds and alleviating poverty.

The Capricorn Power Barton Heat Engine can work with, and improve the economic viability of biochar production.

Biochar improves horticultural and agricultural productivity.

Reducing the cost of electricity by:

• enabling the use of abundant, low cost, widely distributed, energy sources,
• reducing or eliminating the cost of transporting energy inputs,
• reducing the capital cost of generation systems, and
• reducing the reliance on electricity grids, so eliminating many network, market and government charges.

Generating electricity locally, reliably and sustainably, and at lower cost, enables local businesses and creates job opportunities.

Local electricity generation using local energy sources is more resilient because it is less prone to:

• interruption in the fuel (e.g. diesel) supply chain
• failure of a single, large, centralised power station
• the electricity grid being damaged by extreme weather, accidents or military attack.

Fossil fuel resources are not evenly distributed among countries.

The Capricorn Power engine reduces inequality within and between countries by enabling the generation of electricity from indigenous, renewable energy sources.

Making cities more sustainable by generating electricity from local resources, and reducing the cost of dealing with materials which would otherwise be treated as waste and incur transport and disposal costs.

Reducing materials transport also reduces traffic congestion, risks, and local pollution.

Using local, renewable energy sources for electricity generation is more sustainable and responsible than consuming finite fossil or nuclear energy sources.

Reducing emissions by:

• generating electricity from zero CO₂ sources instead of fossil fuels.
• eliminating the energy lost in distributing electricity.
• reducing or eliminating the need for fuel transport, and the associated emissions.

Helping to reverse emissions by enabling cost effective production of biochar, so enabling carbon sequestration that actually works.

Generating electricity from sustainable biomass sources enables the economic production of biochar which can help to restore terrestrial ecosystems, improve soil health and productivity, and improve plant and soil resilience.

Enabling partnerships such as between farmers and food processors, to use agricultural crop residues and food processing byproducts to generate electricity for use on farm and in factory, and biochar to sequester carbon and increase farm productivity.