Latent Power Turbines
Latent Power TurbinesTM
Patent application Nos. GB1418029.3 GB 0807276.1, WO 2012/007705, GB 2531079
An emerging alternative to wind turbines and solar panels.
Key features
¨ 24/7 operation
¨ No electricity storage batteries needed
¨ Lower capital cost than solar or wind power
A Latent Power Turbine is a heat engine inside a mechanical engine
The heat engine generates electricity and the mechanical engine recycles the waste heat
Patent Office searches indicate that Latent Power Turbines are unique among heat engines in their ability to recycle their own waste heat
(Heat engines convert heat into a more useful form of energy.)
In motor cars they provide energy to keep the car moving and in power stations they generate electricity.
Unfortunately the laws of thermodynamics limit the amount of useful energy we can squeeze out of a heat engine.
Can engines throw away about 70% of the heat and power station turbines waste about 50%.
Latent Power Turbines overcome the efficiency problem by recycling the rejected heat.
A more detailed technical discussion
Contents
1 Brief summary of current results
2 Formulae linking electrical power input and output
3 LP Turbines and the Carnot equation
4 Treating an LP Turbine as a pair of nested black boxes
5 Entropy and Latent Power Turbines
6 An enthalpy-pressure chart for LP Turbines
Latent Power TurbinesTM and population expansion into hot arid regions
LP Turbines absorb heat from theatmosphere to generate electricity.
This means that if LP Turbines are used for cooling buildings in hot arid climates a surplus of electricity will be produced.
Some of this electricity could be used for pumping sea water inland where additional LP Turbines could be used to power out of town freeze desalination plants.
These plants would cool sea water to below 0oC so that ice was frozen out as fresh water.
The ice could be transported back into town and allowed to melt in covered troughs above head height, along the busier streets of the town.
Patent application Nos. 0511946.6, 0608208.5
Seawater can be converted into drinking water by using reverse osmosis to filter out the salt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis
In principle, this method of purifying water could meet all of humanities domestic, industrial and agricultural needs.
This would become economically viable if if LP Turbines were used to provide the electricity, to drive the reverse osmosis pumps.
But the process is unintentionally creating environmental problems that LP Turbines could also resolve.
Reverse osmosis is producing large volumes of concentrated brine as a waste product because the process does not allow the complete separation of all the water from the salt and trace minerals. This concentrated brine is normally dumped back into the sea, potentially damaging the local ecology.
In an LP Turbine era, the concentrated brine could become a valuable environmental resource. Here is an example of how this could be exploited.
1 Trace minerals could be extracted from the concentrated brine by electrolysis or selective filtering, using LP Turbine generated electricity. This would be more environmentally friendly than digging the same minerals out of the ground.
2 All of the water could be separated from the salt by using the evaporation processes explained below. Solar powered evaporation combined with LP Turbine technology would also provide the electricity required for electrolysis and filtering.
3 Among other applications, the dry salt could be sprayed high into the atmosphere to produce cloud brightening. This would help to keep the Earth cool by increasing the amount of solar energy reflected back into space by the clouds.
Latent Power Turbines can generate cheap clean energy anywhere on the planet. Unlike wind turbines and solar cells, they don't need winds or sunlight.
The following article assumes that you are familiar with the basic concept of LP Turbines as described on this linked page.
Latent Power TurbinesTM
The proof of concept experiments
We have decided to release the design for our original experiments, in the hope that it will be replicated and validated by an independent research group at the earliest possible opportunity.
Latent Power Turbine theory makes two predictions:
- When saturated steam passes through a constriction or nozzle, the pressure and temperature variations are radically different, compared with the flow of an unsaturated vapour or gas.
- When saturated steam passes through a turbine unit the pressure and temperature drops across the turbine are minimal compared with the flow of an unsaturated vapour or gas.
Until 1697, when the Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh discovered black swans in Australia, Europeans believed that all swans were white.
The philosopher Karl Popper used this discovery to support his argument that just because all of the evidence we can find supports a theory, this does not prove that the theory is absolutely correct. At some date in the future, we may find a new piece of evidence that contradicts the theory.
But engineers and scientists can't live their professional lives in constant doubt. So if a theory works for us time and again, we are quite entitled to use it.
Latent Power Turbines and the UK migration issue
Many people who voted in favour of Brexit in the 2016 referendum did so because they were concerned about the large number of migrants entering the UK.
However, as we will explain, the widespread adoption of Latent Power (LP) Turbines will turn this problem completely on its head, with the flow of migrants possibly going into reverse.
To understand why, we need to take a brief look at how Latent Power Turbines work.
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