Vortex Engine PowerPoint presentations and Business Plan:
The Atmospheric Vortex Engine has been proposed in several forms over several decades as far back as the forties by the French scientist Edgard Nazare, and more recently by the engineer Louis Michaud in Canada and physicist Norman Louat in Australia.
As well as generating electrical power, the systems can arguably increase local precipitation, reduce global greenhouse gases (specifically water vapour) and aid in dumping heat to Space, thus acting to significantly moderate global temperatures.
The concept as currently proposed below is principally based on the use of low grade (<90C) geothermal groundwater to supply heat to initiate updraft vortices:
As well as generating electrical power, the systems can arguably increase local precipitation, reduce global greenhouse gases (specifically water vapour) and aid in dumping heat to Space, thus acting to significantly moderate global temperatures.
The concept as currently proposed below is principally based on the use of low grade (<90C) geothermal groundwater to supply heat to initiate updraft vortices:
| vortex_version_2017b.pptx |
| vortex_version_2017b.pdf |
"Innovation Competition of International Talents", Sydney, Australia presentation - April 5 2016
| shenzhen_innovation_competition_of_international_talents_sydney.pptx |
| business_plan__im_.pdf |
In early 2015, the US government granted the Georgia Institute of Technology preliminary funding of $3.7 million to begin a research program on the concept:
| power_generation_using_solar_updraft_vortices.pdf |
“…What’s necessary at this point is to do proofs of concept,” says professor Kerry Emanuel, the hurricane expert at MIT. “[The] idea is pretty simple and elegant. My own feeling is that we ought to be pouring money into all kinds of alternative energy research. There’s almost nothing to lose in trying this...”
ODE Magazine, March 2008
ODE Magazine, March 2008