Inventor of Atmospheric Vortex Engine #AVE. 10 peer review articles. Featured in: Economist, National Geographic, The Atlantic, ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil Review.
Sarnia, Ontario
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T2. The energy is produced by expanding air into the low pressure at the base of the vortex, and not by harnessing the kinetic energy of the swirling tornado wind. The intensity and size of the vortex is controlled by manipulating the inlet air flow.
@rahmstorf @WilliamJRipple
T1. Stationary tornadoes produced by having warm humid air enter the bottom of a natural draft cooling tower tangentially could produce clean energy and fix the climate. Link to Clean Energy Science and Technology article. @jrockstrom @hausfath
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H3. Effect of surface air properties on the work produced when raised. #GasTurbine stack gas can be diluted with lower temperature natural or waste heat. Add GT stack gas only as necessary to sustain the vortex. Increase GT power output, #cleanenergy #ClimateAction
H2. Stack gas flow of 50 MWe GT ~100 kg/s 500 C for single cycle and 80 C for combined cycle. Reduced turbine outlet pressure increases existing turbine power. Stack gas can be diluted with ambient air. Air dampers can be replaced with turbines generating additional #Energy
H1. Gas turbine (GT) stack gas could produce a 12 km high vortex and increases GT power by ~40% without additional emissions. Single cycle AVE/GT could have higher efficiency and lower capital cost than combined cycle GT. Performance increases with size. #ClimateCrisis fix.
Cold source temperatures:
Thermal engines +25 C, (Earth surface).
Earth -25 C, (Mid troposphere).
Vortex engine 🌪️reduces cold source temperature by
50 C. Efficiency increase 5%.
Can use low temp heat source like sea water.
vortexengine.ca/Publications…
#energytwitter #Climate
#climatefix. Upward heat transport can be by radiation or by convection. Controlled vortices could increase upward heat transport thereby warming the upper troposphere, increasing infrared radiation to space, and cooling the earth's surface.
See: vortexengine.ca/VSC/AVE_WEB.…
There is a simple explanation for tornado🌪️and hurricane energy - Conservation of Energy, Chapter 2.
Work when surface air raised: W = Δh - Δgz.
Raising surface could produce abundant carbon free energy. Breakthrough could HELP do so. See:
vortexengine.ca/Publications…
#climatefix
2/c. Energy From Humid Air.
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Earth energy and entropy budgets.
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@coxypm @RobertVautard @pppapin @FDR_CleanEnergy @bhensonweather @akleidon
@KevinClimate @KenCaldeira @ALevermann
1/c. How to #ClimateFix. Listen, Learn from experience in other fields. Tornado control could cool the planet and produce clean energy. Control experience as important as models.
@bberwyn @nkus @WeatherProf @rahmstorf @RARohde @afreedma @FrediOtto @BMcNoldy
T4. Specific ideal work increases with rising air temperature and humidity and decreases with initial raised air elevation. Raising air from bottom layer to tropopause can produce useful work. @MICleanEnergyRD
Thermodynamic basis here: vortexengine.ca/Publications…
T3. "Every possible thing that has ever been suggested to escape the mass extinction event is going to be on the table. Talk means nothing. When it comes down to it, nothing matters but action." @KSRQuoteBot More doable than #CCUS or #GeoEngineering @SecGranholm
T2. Simplify - convection heat flux only. Power production potential of atmospheric upward convective heat flux compared to recent non-renewables. Warm and humid surface air could be a huge #cleanenergy source @enelgreenpower @starax
T1. Heat carried upward by convection could produce useful work. #cleanenergy #climate @jfasullo @NCAR_Science @NRC_CNRC @ClimateOfGavin @KevinClimate @ClimateHuman @coxypm @PIK_Climate @jrockstrom @cohan_ds @rpallanuk @DrSimEvans @PeterWSinclair
Gas turbine efficiency could be increased by using stack gas heat content to produce a controlled atmospheric vortex. Increases power output by decreasing gas turbine outlet pressure. Development needs utility participation. Could meet new EPA rules.
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Under current law, natural gas power plants don’t typically emit enough carbon dioxide to trigger EPA regulations. The Biden administration wants to change that, and a new draft paper gives the public a glimpse into how it might possibly do it.
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