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Above: The AVE engine system design.
Below: Michaud working on a vortex
--madliketesla.com
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Atmospheric vortex engine inventor Louis Michaud, featured in Tyler Hamilton's book" Mad Like Tesla", is trying to capture the energy of tornados, in order to provide clean, and cheap energy. Developing the Atmospheric Vortex Engine will require extensive resources, but Michaud is gaining support through interested investors. Developing technology that mimics nature, and uses renewable resources like air movement to lower energy prices, benefits businesses, consumers, and the Earth. Michaud's idea may seem farfetched, but the author states in the beginning of the book that "many great inventions were once doubted, dismissed, and ridiculed- only to emerge triumphant."
Michaud has designed an atmospheric vortex engine (AVE) uses a "controlled vortex to capture mechanical energy produced when heat is carried upward by convection in the atmosphere." A tornado-like vortex is produced and the "work of convection is captured with turbines located at ground level of of the arena." The heat source can be solar energy, warm water or waste heat from buildings or other power plants. The system would generate 200 MW of electrical power at a cost as low as $0.03/kW, which would mean reduced prices for consumers and larger profits for energy companies.
The vortex engine alleviates global warming by reducing fuel required to meet energy needs and literally cools the earth at the same time. It would be the first energy source that pro-actively combats global warming.
Do we need to consider more alternative ways of attaining power (such as artificially created vortexes), or should we focus on the "green" technology we already have (conventional wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines, and solar panels)?
Tyler Hamilton has been writing about green tech for the Toronto Star for six years, and recently published “Mad Like Tesla” in 2011. The Scientists featured in mad Tesla, keep trying to change the world, despite "scientific groupthink, bad timing, entrenched corporate interests, misplaced public fear, gaps in available technology, high cost, resource scarcity, personality clashes, lack of financing, resistance to change, complacency, competitive rivalry, misguided policy, lack of vision, and general ignorance."
The vortex engine alleviates global warming by reducing fuel required to meet energy needs and literally cools the earth at the same time. It would be the first energy source that pro-actively combats global warming.
Do we need to consider more alternative ways of attaining power (such as artificially created vortexes), or should we focus on the "green" technology we already have (conventional wind turbines, hydroelectric turbines, and solar panels)?
Tyler Hamilton has been writing about green tech for the Toronto Star for six years, and recently published “Mad Like Tesla” in 2011. The Scientists featured in mad Tesla, keep trying to change the world, despite "scientific groupthink, bad timing, entrenched corporate interests, misplaced public fear, gaps in available technology, high cost, resource scarcity, personality clashes, lack of financing, resistance to change, complacency, competitive rivalry, misguided policy, lack of vision, and general ignorance."
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