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US 2006/0137390 A1Published application
Carbon dioxide driven electrical power plant
OwnerDonald Iversoninventor
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Abstract
A carbon dioxide driven electrical power plant for integration with surrounding utilities. This power plant uses the earth's gravitational effect on mass, provided by solid carbon dioxide, to create work. This work is then harnessed in the form of electrical power. The carbon dioxide gas released during the formation of dry ice and during the sublimation stage when the dry ice is dispensed at the bottom of a vertical shaft is recycled through a gas filtration system and liquefaction system to create additional dry ice.
Claims22
A system for the generation of electrical power comprising:
- carrier means for holding dry ice;
- means for delivering dry ice to the carrier means;
- means for causing the carrier means to travel vertically between upper and lower sheave systems, wherein a weight of the dry ice being contained by the carrier means causes the carrier means to travel downwardly creating momentum and potential energy, which in turn rotates the engaged upper and lower sheave systems;
- generator means for generating electricity;
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- the upper sheaves being in mechanical communication with the generator means, wherein a rotational torque is created from the rotation of the upper sheaves, which in turn energizes the generator means.
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A method for generating electrical power comprising:
- causing the rotation of one or more electrical generators by the use of dry ice descending under its own gravitational force down a vertical shaft where the dry ice is contained in a carrier attached to cables connected to a sheave system attached to said one or more electrical generators and a corresponding sheave system at a lower end of the vertical shaft, the vertical shaft being of sufficient height to create a desired energy output from the electrical generators caused by the descending dry ice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.