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.
Claims20
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 received from the Hydrogen discharge of the Hydrogen receiver to partially cause rotational output motion;
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- a Hydrogen energy convertor coupled to the Hydrogen buoyancy engine that converts the rotational output motion of the Hydrogen buoyancy engine partially caused by the Hydrogen buoyant force into electrical energy.
A system that directs at least one or more partially buoyancy-motivated flows of Hydrogen gas to a turbine via one or more components of a plumbing system to generate power from at least one of the one or more partially buoyancy motivated flows of the gasses.
A method, comprising:
- producing a Hydrogen gas flow at a first elevation, wherein the Hydrogen gas is produced at a first pressure;
- providing the gas flow to a Hydrogen buoyancy engine at a second elevation that is higher than the first elevation;
- performing a first amount of work with the Hydrogen buoyancy engine based on the Hydrogen gas flow;
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- wherein the pressure of the Hydrogen gas flow provided to the Hydrogen buoyancy engine at the second elevation is a second pressure that is higher than the first pressure due at least to buoyant force acting on the Hydrogen gas between the first elevation and the second elevation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.