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OwnerJerry M. Woodallinventor
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The invention proposes using aluminum as a green inert energy storage media in combination with two coupled closed loop components. One loop is the water splitting reactor to release truly green electricity via a water splitting reaction that produces green hydrogen, green heat, and green aluminum oxide. Green power sources such as photovoltaic arrays are used to power the second closed loop component, a green smelter which cyclically converts the aluminum oxide reactant back to green aluminum. Green electricity is put out to the grid from a green hot gas generator utility which relies on green hot gases supplied by combusting the green hydrogen produced by the water splitting reaction along with heat evolved from the water splitting reaction.
A system that generates input intermittent electrical power and converts the intermittent electrical power into an inert energy storage element, wherein the system comprises an array of photovoltaic cells, operating from sun up to sun down for converting intermittent solar power into the intermittent electrical power, a smelter operating from the intermittent electrical power that converts an oxide of the energy storage element back into the energy storage element, a reactor that activates the energy storage element, the energy storage element when added to water produces hydrogen, heat and reaction by-products, and a gas turbine electricity generator that converts hot gases into output electrical power;
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