Buoyant power system method and apparatus
AssigneeFour Electrons LLC
InventorJohn Scott Perez
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Abstract
A system in a water body uses buoyant force of gaseous Hydrogen and Oxygen to generate electrical power with one or more turbines that includes power resulting from the buoyant force while transporting the Hydrogen or Oxygen to a higher elevation, without loss of electrons, for conversion to electricity at the higher elevation. Conversion of Hydrogen and Oxygen to water through a Hydrogen Fuel Cell or by burning at the higher elevation may generate additional steam power, hydropower, or purified water. Portable submersible modules may transport the system below or above the water to and from the base of a plumbing portion of the system. The amount of gaseous fuel energy available at the higher elevation is not detrimentally impacted by the generation of electricity by the turbine.
Claims10
A system, comprising:
- a Hydrogen receiver having an intake and having a discharge, wherein the intake of the Hydrogen receiver is coupled to a Hydrogen output of a Hydrogen and Oxygen separator device;
- a Hydrogen buoyancy engine having an intake and having a discharge, wherein the intake of the Hydrogen buoyancy engine is coupled to the discharge of the Hydrogen receiver, wherein the Hydrogen buoyancy engine is partially motivated by a Hydrogen buoyant force of Hydrogen gas received from the Hydrogen discharge of the Hydrogen receiver that at least partially causes rotational output motion from the Hydrogen buoyancy engine;
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- a Hydrogen energy convertor coupled to the Hydrogen buoyancy engine that converts rotational output motion of the Hydrogen buoyancy engine partially caused by the Hydrogen buoyant force into electrical energy;
- wherein at least the Hydrogen and Oxygen separator device is below the upper surface of a body of water;
- wherein the Hydrogen and Oxygen separator device is configured to convert water of the body of water into the Hydrogen gas and Oxygen gas, and;
- wherein the Hydrogen and Oxygen separator device is located at a first elevation in the body of water and the intake of the Hydrogen buoyancy engine is located at a second elevation that is higher than the first elevation such that the electrical energy that results from the Hydrogen buoyant force that at least partially causes rotational output motion from the Hydrogen buoyancy engine is proportional to the depth of the first elevation in the body of water;
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- wherein the second elevation is below the surface of the body of water and wherein the Hydrogen receiver directs Hydrogen from the discharge of the Hydrogen and Oxygen separator to the intake of the Hydrogen buoyancy engine without water being between the discharge of the Hydrogen and Oxygen separator and the intake of the Hydrogen buoyancy engine.
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