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Transmission of Grid Power Using Pressurized Air
Instead of transmitting electricity over high-voltage cables, Kasmer
suggests transmitting power via high-pressure air, which would be pressurized
and depressurized via his infinitely variable pneumatic conversion technology,
which would serve as the transformers in the system.
by Thomas E. Kasmer
for Pure Energy Systems News
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Variable Hydristor pneumatic energy storage and recovery system
being developed for vehicles by Thomas E. Kasmer could also work as
transformers in a pressurized air grid for transmission of power. |
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JOHNSON CITY, NEW YORK, USA -- Recently, someone asked me about the transmission of wind-generated electrical power in the range of 3-5 Megawatts from offshore pontoon-based wind machines. The public outcry over the visual pollution of such arrays off Long Island and Cape Cod comes to mind and suggests to me that they will be sited 20 miles over the horizon at sea.
The technical and practical difficulty of 20 miles of underwater cable with a very difficult repair environment will be a serious problem.
I am working with a variable Hydristor pneumatic energy storage and recovery system for vehicles and the power levels of a large SUV weighing 7,000 pounds and maximum braking at 70 Mph approach one megawatt momentarily, declining to zero as the speed falls to zero. That is why direct electric drives will never accomplish full energy recovery in high value deceleration. A megawatt is about 1,200 horsepower.
The Hydristor hydraulic/pneumatic design is easily able to process those levels.
Why not replace the electrical generator on the wind machine with a variable pneumatic Hydristor in the 5,000 horsepower range? The idea is to compress atmospheric air to the 5-10,000 Psi level and send that compressed energy ashore using benign pipes that have no electrical hazard in the event of failure.
The spill from a break would leak compressed air back into the atmosphere.
The output from any number of such pneumatic Hydristor wind machines could
be conveniently merged and stored in onshore tanks to average the variable wind
energy and allow for full output conversion even during zero wind. A
separate variable Hydristor acting as a synchronous speed drive for a generator
to convert the pneumatic energy into electrical power for conventional
distribution is one option.
Another option would be to continue the transmission of the high pressure
air in a long line power corridor replacing the conventional high voltage tower
transmission system with benign underground pipes similar to natural
gas, oil, gasoline and other such lines in use across the nation. These existing
oil, gas, etc lines have been around for a long time and have caused very little
in the way of problems excepting the very occasional spill to be cleaned up. A
long line pneumatic transmission system would not create any spill in the event
of failure. The transmission losses of electrical line voltage drop and the
associated high voltage leakage of power into the air are significant. These
numbers are likely in the range of the losses of a long line pneumatic
compression system, so the efficiency of energy transmission via high pressure
air lines would be comparable to the high voltage transmission lines.
What is not comparable is the huge public and states outcry and consternation
over the energy departments decision to force the eminent domain on property
owners along a proposed transmission corridor that nobody wants. Burying
pneumatic pipes along this same route would likely retire that news to the
second page of the community news section of the local paper.
There is another issue here. There is a growing concern regarding the health of
persons and especially children living near the electromagnetic fields emanating
from such high power transmission systems. Converting to high pressure air would
solve that.
Some Ideas for Personal EMF Mitigation
There are several other points to be raised regarding electromagnetic fields (EMFs).
The wiring in a home and on the nearby distribution poles emanates EMFs. I
have a proposal to mitigate that.
The electrical wiring should be converted to co-axial and tri-axial
in the walls of your home as much as possible. A co-axial wire simultaneously
passes electrical current in one direction in the center wire while returning
exactly the return (same) current in the opposire direction. The result is to
completely cancel and make equal to zero the magnetic field emanating into the
room and human bodies, adult and child.
The tri-axial construction operates the same as far as the center conductor and
the surrounding conductive metal shield, with electrical insulation between
them, BUT there is an additional insulation around the outside of the first
shield, in turn covered with a second metal shield which does not carry
electrical current. This outer shield grounds to the earth ground (water pipe,
etc.) and nullifies the electrical field component of the EMFs so you now have
true zero EMFs.
I would hope that UnderWriter Labs and the National Association of Electrical
Manufacturers (NEMA) would adopt such standards and make the tri-axial wire
generally available to replace the old ways. Co-axial cable inside of BX metal
conduit will serve the same as the tri-axial. Converting the pole power lines is
the job of the local power company.
One more issue of concern is the plethora of electric vehicles in production, or
design. The wiring in the vehicle should be totally co-axial and tri-axial to
protect the occupants from possible harm.
As in global warming, it is better to err on the side of doing it right.
Some additional advantages include the following:
- The air system will eliminate lightning and storm damage.
- The current electrical grid is subject to extreme sunspot activity causing
the grid to go down. The air system is sunspot-impervious.
- The 'mistakes' which caused massive grid power failures in the last
several decades in the Northeast are not going to occur with an air-grid.
- The existing national grid is subject to localized failures taking down
the entire grid. These types of localized failures could be accidental or
deliberate. The air system of distribution buried a dozen feet
underground encased in very thick wall steel pipes sufficient to withstand
10,000 psi will not fail and are extremely resistant to tampering.
There have been pipes buried underground for decades, some pressurized at
several thousand psi to facilitate the movement of the oil, diesel, kerosene
or gasoline. There have been few failures.
- To reiterate, the controversy over high tension towers, visual pollution,
eminent domain, and the potential for cancer being caused by the EMF fields
will disappear.
- This air distribution system could be extended directly to homes and
commercial or government locations with Hydristor converters at the
location. In that case, EMFs in the general environment would
virtually disappear.
- An air grid presents an easy way to merge independent small generators of
energy back into the grid. I'm thinking of the small producer using wind or
water to produce energy.
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D. Allan January 23, 2008
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