The novelist George Orwell invented the term ‘Doublethink’ to describe a form of mind conditioning which allows people to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time, yet believes them both to be true.

In this article it will be argued that scientists have indulged in doublethink when explaining how heat engines work, and that as a result, we have ended up with a totally unnecessary climate crisis.

Latent Power Turbines^TM

Latent Power Turbines are a new technology for generating low cost, carbon free electricity.

They are preferable to to solar panels and wind turbines because they can run for 24 hours a day, anywhere on the planet. They are also likely to be cheaper to manufacture and install.

At a time when the world is facing a gas and oil price crisis, they could reinvigorate the world economy.

Best of all, they are open source technology. So if you like what you discover below, you are free to exploit it.

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.