Latent Power Turbines^TM

 Patent application Nos. GB1418029.3  GB 0807276.1,  WO 2012/007705, GB 2531079

Article summary

At first glance, modern Heat Pump based central heating systems appear to defy the laws of thermodynamics by extracting heat from cold air and using it to warm our homes.

But on closer inspection, they use some cunning engineering to get round the laws of thermodynamics without actually breaking them.

Latent Power Turbines perform an equally cunning engineering trick: they extract heat from cold air and use it to generate electricity.

They provide a low cost alternative to wind turbines and solar panels for generating clean renewable energy.  

Better still, they can work for 24 hours a day without needing winds or sunshine.

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  A comparison between Latent Power Turbines and heat pump systems

6   Entropy and Latent Power Turbines

7  An enthalpy-pressure chart for LP Turbines

For the foreseeable future, LP Turbines will be far more efficient than solar panels at converting a broad range of solar radiation wavelengths into electricity. In addition, while generating electricity, they can also be used to cool instruments in order to reduce thermal background noise.

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.

This is a history of the evolution of Latent Power Turbines.

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.