Note: I am a newbe - I am not an engineer or have any specific knowledge in any technology other than application programming, fundamental electronics and general mechanics, so the following concepts may be totally without merit. So, please don't flame me for my ignorance!
I would post my poor drawing of a Pneumatic-Hydro energy concept that I have that I am releasing onto the open source so that others may be able to contribute and develop.
I have been tossing around an idea to create and generate electricity without using any fuel ever since I worked on my toilets and remodel a couple years ago and watched the oil spill into the Gulf. I have been doing a lot of research and I believe I finally came up with a idea that may work and wanted to share it with you to see if you can punch some holes in it. Attached is a link to a bad drawing that I posted on FB but it cover most of the general processes.
I have been going through a number of designs and thing about this very hard and I think that I have narrowed this idea down to where I think it should work. Essentially this idea uses compressed air to force water into a turbine to generate electricity. There were a lot of issues of to get over. Primarily, how to get the water back into the main water/air vessel/tank but watching a friend fix his dump truck last year made it simple – Hydraulics - it does not take a lot of juice to run an electric engine/pump to power a hydraulic ram that has enough strength to push a lot of water without having to deal with a pump and pressure issues (of course there is a speed issue but that can be resolved through testing and water tank staging): Note Hydraulics are noted to produce a high amount of efficiency - 98% in some cases.
Actually, the biggest feature of this is to just use a very narrow stream of compressed water to turn the turbines at a relatively high speed that would be a lot higher than conventional hydro turbines. Because the stream would be relatively small the amount of water generated it reduces the number of cycles to push the water back into the water/air vessel/tank, thus creating more than 100% efficiency; I don’t the exact amount but I am thinking that it could probably be as 1000 percent efficient but that needs to worked out.
The way that the this process is not illustrated. The alternators would have a flywheel attached to it to sustain inertia energy. The pelton wheel commonly found in most hydro systems would be replaced by something that would work with the next concept.
Using technologies like those used in water jet cutting tools, the direction and the flow of the water on the turbine blade could be adjusted during the ramp-up and water pressure increases and reduction cycles to get the highest efficiency.
I know those o you that are following this are thinking about the eventual energy loss in air pressure. I have no idea what this will be, so I need help on this, as well. I know that water will become denser when compressed and not allow a lot of air between its bonds. The reloading process with the hydraulic ram could add more energy (compressed air) into the system.
For energy storage purposes, Flywheel Storage is coming into it’s own (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage) . For the most part it looks like it will be almost 95% efficiency right now. The other benefit of flywheels storage is it can unleash a lot of power when you need amps; the normal and sometimes abnormal needs of motorized appliances and heater cores on startups is higher than can probably what is normally generated by the system. It is a cool piece of the hole puzzle that is quickly developing in use in power grids and even automobiles (see the Audi Lemans race http://www.williamshybridpower.com/technology/the_flywheel/#/applications ).
I think if this works, it would make a difference. Yes, there is probably be a number of dollars to be made, as well . But the reality is that we are running out of oil and other stuff to burn, heating up the planet and causing a lot of other issues that is causing drastic changes that may effect us and definitely effect future generations. This and hopefully other products would pull this out of this nosedive
I would post my poor drawing of a Pneumatic-Hydro energy concept that I have that I am releasing onto the open source so that others may be able to contribute and develop.
I have been tossing around an idea to create and generate electricity without using any fuel ever since I worked on my toilets and remodel a couple years ago and watched the oil spill into the Gulf. I have been doing a lot of research and I believe I finally came up with a idea that may work and wanted to share it with you to see if you can punch some holes in it. Attached is a link to a bad drawing that I posted on FB but it cover most of the general processes.
I have been going through a number of designs and thing about this very hard and I think that I have narrowed this idea down to where I think it should work. Essentially this idea uses compressed air to force water into a turbine to generate electricity. There were a lot of issues of to get over. Primarily, how to get the water back into the main water/air vessel/tank but watching a friend fix his dump truck last year made it simple – Hydraulics - it does not take a lot of juice to run an electric engine/pump to power a hydraulic ram that has enough strength to push a lot of water without having to deal with a pump and pressure issues (of course there is a speed issue but that can be resolved through testing and water tank staging): Note Hydraulics are noted to produce a high amount of efficiency - 98% in some cases.
Actually, the biggest feature of this is to just use a very narrow stream of compressed water to turn the turbines at a relatively high speed that would be a lot higher than conventional hydro turbines. Because the stream would be relatively small the amount of water generated it reduces the number of cycles to push the water back into the water/air vessel/tank, thus creating more than 100% efficiency; I don’t the exact amount but I am thinking that it could probably be as 1000 percent efficient but that needs to worked out.
The way that the this process is not illustrated. The alternators would have a flywheel attached to it to sustain inertia energy. The pelton wheel commonly found in most hydro systems would be replaced by something that would work with the next concept.
Using technologies like those used in water jet cutting tools, the direction and the flow of the water on the turbine blade could be adjusted during the ramp-up and water pressure increases and reduction cycles to get the highest efficiency.
I know those o you that are following this are thinking about the eventual energy loss in air pressure. I have no idea what this will be, so I need help on this, as well. I know that water will become denser when compressed and not allow a lot of air between its bonds. The reloading process with the hydraulic ram could add more energy (compressed air) into the system.
For energy storage purposes, Flywheel Storage is coming into it’s own (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage) . For the most part it looks like it will be almost 95% efficiency right now. The other benefit of flywheels storage is it can unleash a lot of power when you need amps; the normal and sometimes abnormal needs of motorized appliances and heater cores on startups is higher than can probably what is normally generated by the system. It is a cool piece of the hole puzzle that is quickly developing in use in power grids and even automobiles (see the Audi Lemans race http://www.williamshybridpower.com/technology/the_flywheel/#/applications ).
I think if this works, it would make a difference. Yes, there is probably be a number of dollars to be made, as well . But the reality is that we are running out of oil and other stuff to burn, heating up the planet and causing a lot of other issues that is causing drastic changes that may effect us and definitely effect future generations. This and hopefully other products would pull this out of this nosedive