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Portable Power Anywhere at Any Time (Buck): U.S. Patent No. 11,799,400

We are all spoiled with power all around us. We just plug in any electrical appliance or device, and we receive instant gratification. It is a common scene at airports and coffee shops to see customers who have plugged in their phone chargers in. Electric vehicle charging stations are popping up all over to keep the growing fleet of EVs charged. But what do you do when there is no power?

The local power is knocked out by a storm or flood or other natural disaster. Or you are camping, hunting, fishing, mountain climbing, cave exploring, or some other activity in the great outdoors where the grid does not go. Solar provides limited power if and when the sun is shining. But once your batteries go dead by the side of that beautiful lake out in the middle of nowhere, you are stranded with NO power! This patent creates a power-generation device that is human-powered. It consists of a plurality of stator magnets and rotor magnets that are mounted on the outside or inside of the unit, and a shaft is connected to the rotor magnets. A human spins the flywheel and then compresses the magnets to engage the rotary motor. The stator magnets and the rotor magnets begin to repulse to create rotational force, and that force can be used to generate electrical power anywhere and at any time. No fuel or sun or wind required. Just a human being to start the rotor turning.

U.S. Patent No. 11,799,400 for a “Compressed inverted magnetic energy source” can be used to create an emergency power source for homes and businesses or a portable power generator for sportsmen and adventurers.

Carbon Utilization from Carbon Dioxide (Ecokap): U.S.-European Patent Portfolio

The culprit in global warming is carbon dioxide – CO2. Fossil fuels produce CO2, so reducing CO2 can be done just two ways – stop burning fossil fuels (not very practical or realistic) or find a way to remove the carbon from all that CO2 power plants and other facilities are pumping into the air. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons – they are composed of carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O). When burned, hydrocarbon fuels emit H2O (water vapor) and CO2 (carbon dioxide). What if we re-organized those elements into a more useful combination?

That is exactly what this portfolio does! Rather than attempting to prevent the creation of CO2 as a byproduct of combustion, it uses a high-pressure, high-temperature reactor that operates upon a blend of carbon compound, a carbon source, a catalyst, and steam. Microwave power is directed into the reactor, and the catalyst – preferably magnetite – acts as a heating media. The microwave power and the temperature of the reactor rises to a level that converts the carbon and steam into hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO), creating a syngas that can then be converted into high-value synthetic fuels and chemicals such as methane, diesel and jet fuel, and ammonia. The strategy is carbon monetization – NOT carbon sequestration! There is also a patent in the portfolio that addresses extraction of nitrogen.

Ekocap Portfolio

This portfolio – or select patents from the portfolio – can be used by any constructor of coal and natural gas generators, steel mills, pulp and paper plants, refineries, cement plants, chemical plants, and process manufacturing facilities to create a cleaner form of energy from the most plentiful sources of fuel currently available. The technology can be designed into future power plants or adapted to enable current plants to reduce greenhouse emissions. In addition to reducing harmful emissions, the power plant will produce syngas that will generate an entirely new source of income.

Closed-Circuit Hydroelectric Power Generation (Associated Power): International Patent Portfolio

Hydroelectric power is the cheapest and cleanest source of electricity. As long a water continues to run downhill – as long as we have gravity – rivers can be dammed to create hydroelectric plants. In addition to being green, there is no fuel to purchase, so the only ongoing costs are maintaining the facility. That’s the good news. The not so good news is that all the rivers that can be dammed have been. That’s why we are not building new hydroelectric plants.

This patent portfolio covers the next-generation of hydroelectric power generation by creating a closed system in which the same water is circulated over and over. This technology works by maintaining a constant state of imbalance. Gravity attempts to rebalance this imbalance by continually displacing a volume of water to a higher level. In doing so, g-force is converted into gravitational potential energy, then into kinetic energy, and then into mechanical energy that is used to generate electricity. The magic behind the technology is that it generates more power than is needed to maintain the circulation of the hydrodynamic system. Of the total input g-force, approximately 60% can be converted into useful power while the remaining 40% is used to maintain the system and overcome friction – conforming to the Law of Conservation of Energy. The concept is 100% proven, and it is totally scalable, so closed-circuit hydroelectric power plants can be built anywhere and sized to the needs of the service area.

Patent Portfolio

This portfolio will enable any manufacturer of power generation equipment to take to market a totally new and very profitable source of 100% renewable electric power that generates three times the output of an equivalent sized wind turbine and six times that of a solar panel!

Film-Based Thermoelectric Elements and Modules (Iosad): U.S.-European Patent Portfolio

One of the major advances in power generation is the growth of thermoelectric generators. These devices capture heat from factories, refineries, chemical and food plants, and other facilities to generate electric power from energy that was previously waste. As a result, demand for thermoelectric generators is huge and continues to grow. Any incremental improvement in the efficiency of thermoelectric generators will have a significant impact. Various electronic devices such as drones, especially underwater drones, a wide range of Internet of Things devices, and remote or medical sensors are equipped with thermoelectric generators to make them autonomous and eliminate the need for regular battery replacement. Thermoelectric elements and modules of this portfolio can also be used as heat pumps as well as for building climatization, especially in combination with thermal storage materials.

Thermoelectric modules are flexible and, therefore, suitable for large-area applications – for example, they can be integrated into walls of compartments. Moreover, the density of the thermoelectric elements can be adapted according to the density of heat fluxes. This portfolio’s technology is applicable to thermoelectric elements employing single layers of p-type or n-type thermoelectric layers as legs and p-n junctions. The scope of protection of the portfolio includes substrate-based and substrate-free thermoelectric elements. Printed circuit boards with metallization pads can be employed as substrates. The substrate-free thermoelectric elements employ metal foil electrodes. Such a configuration enables substantial price reduction and roll-to-roll manufacturing with high throughput. Thermoelectric legs can be formed by additive technologies like printing.

The p-n junction configuration is more efficient than conventional thermoelectric elements employing single p or n legs. A thermal gradient applied along the interface of a p-n junction decouples the looped generation-recombination currents in the p-n junction. These are at least one order of magnitude higher than the net current between the electrodes of the p-n junction.

U.S.-European Patent Portfolio