ZPEnergy.com - GENIE (Generating Electricity by Nondestructive Interference of Energy)

Overtone writes: Hi Vlad, We have renamed our Magnetic Power Modules. They are now called GENIE (Generating Electricity by Nondestructive Interference of Energy).
Feel free to post this update. For more information about GENIE, interested parties should contact me.

Cheers, Mark
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Mark Goldes
Chairman & CEO
Magnetic Power Inc.

GENIE™ Can Turn Your Future Car Into a Power Plant

Mark Goldes, Chairman & CEO, Magnetic Power, Inc.

Introduction

Parked cars will soon be able to become power plants. Imagine being paid for the electricity generated while your car is parked at work. GENIE (Generating Electricity by Nondestructive Interference of Energy) will be able to replace engines and power vehicles. Electricity generated by GENIE, while your car is parked, can be sold to the local utility.

A power company executive once stated that if cars, using new technology that would supersede fossil fuels, could be designed to generate an average of 75 kW (100 hp) – the utility he worked for would shut down all of their coal burning and nuclear power plants and instead purchase electricity from parked automobiles. MPI’s GENIE will make that possible.

The basic concept, of providing power to the power grid from parked automobiles, has long been investigated by the Electric Power Research Institute for fuel cells. Google and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. recently cooperated in a power feed to the grid demonstration, utilizing a modified hybrid electric car. The moment has arrived to consider this, soon to be practical, application of MPI’s GENIE power generation technology, to combating climate change and dramatically reducing oil importation.

China completes an average of two coal burning plants a day. Chinese air pollution is impacting the West coast of the USA. Climate scientists have stated we have only eight to ten years to a tipping point, when fossil fuel will cause irreversible, catastrophic problems. A UN Report warns 50 million people could be displaced in a decade and hundreds of millions of lives lost by 2050. The time has clearly arrived for urgent and profound change.

Solar, wind, and non-food based biofuels all can make contributions. Nuclear plants, which typically take a decade to begin operation, cannot realistically be implemented rapidly enough to impact this worldwide emergency.

A Revolutionary New Source of Electricity

Magnetic energy conversion systems can be constructed both with and without moving parts. GENIE, under development by Magnetic Power, Inc. is a revolutionary new type of solid-state generator. GENIE modules can be scaled down to power cell phones and other electronic devices. They can also be scaled up to run cars. Unlike batteries they do not need to be recharged.

By next year, MPI will launch a production version of a 1 kW GENIE Module, measuring perhaps 5” x 8” x 12”, about the size of a 12 pack of soda. Energy density will improve as development proceeds. When larger units emerge from the laboratory, GENIE generators powerful enough to power a car are expected to occupy no more space than a present day automotive fuel tank. These GENIE units will be able to provide 75 kW and more.

GENIE generates electricity without the need for fuel or any connection to a conventional outside energy source. Experiments have repeatedly demonstrated that the effect is real. Further engineering is all that remains necessary to make this remarkable discovery a permanent, low-cost, source of power.

These novel systems -- inherently inexpensive and potentially near-term, fall outside of presently accepted science. However, independent tests will soon begin to convince the scientific community of the reality of GENIE, a new type of energy conversion system. That process will inevitably accelerate.

The Present Power Paradigm

Utilities typically generate power in large plants, often 1,000 Megawatts or more. Long transmission lines are usually needed to carry the electricity produced many miles to the wall socket in a home or business.

Distributed Generation facilities at the point of use are slowly coming on line as an alternative. Although sometimes solar powered, they are often engines or microturbines requiring fuel, usually generating between 5 and 500 kW.

By far the majority of power plants presently burn coal, oil or natural gas. Renewables, such as hydroelectric, solar, wind, etc. presently contribute a minor percentage to the total. Nuclear plants provide most of the remainder.

Cars Inherently Contain a Power Plant

A typical automobile has an engine capable of producing substantial power. On average perhaps 100 hp (75 kW). However, in so doing, it consumes fuel and produces pollution. Therefore we have no desire to utilize existing cars as sources of power to the utility grid.

In recent years, car makers have looked at several alternatives. Hybrid electric vehicles are rapidly gaining in popularity. Equipping such hybrids, or completely electric cars such as the Tesla Roadster, with a large complement of Lithium based batteries and the capability of recharging from a wall socket at night is an emerging trend. However, a worldwide shortage of Lithium is currently forecast, ironically, just as widespread use of batteries based on that highly reactive metal are beginning to be used to power automobiles.

Hybrid cars presently utilize a fuel burning engine. However, in at least one design, the Chevrolet VOLT, the engine does not power the car directly, but is only used to recharge the batteries of an electric drive system. GM has recently announced accelerated efforts to replace the need for an engine with a fuel cell. Fuel cells are similar to a battery that is continuously recharged by a fuel. In most cases the fuel is hydrogen. Service stations will need to be equipped to supply hydrogen on a widespread basis. This will require a multi-billion dollar infrastructure expenditure. It cannot be put in place rapidly.

A Practical Program to Turn Cars into Power Plants

Car manufacturers have begun to monitor MPI’s website. We invite them to investigate and evaluate GENIE. Increased levels of support will rapidly accelerate development. Given the problems of oil importation and climate change, it seems reasonable to move the necessary engineering and technical work onto an around the clock 24/7 schedule.

Next year MPI plans to utilize a pair of 1 kW GENIE prototypes in order to demonstrate that GENIE can clearly eliminate the need to plug-in a car, such as a Prius, that has been converted into a plug-in hybrid.

Every automobile manufacturer examining such a simple demonstration will readily see the potential to eliminate the need for connecting to the grid or recharge batteries. Many power plants burn coal or oil, thus the positive environmental impact of the GENIE alternative will be immediately obvious.

Since GENIE can replace batteries, the need for Lithium cells will be superseded. The problems that have occurred with Lithium in laptops need no elaboration. In addition, a shortage of Lithium looms. GENIE requires no exotic materials. GENIE can reasonably be expected to outlast the life of the vehicle.

GENIE will be developed to replace any need for engines or fuel cells. GENIE modules will be designed to provide the power required for performance identical to present production automobiles. A few, off-the-shelf, ultracapacitors can be employed to provide acceleration, as well as capture regenerative energy when braking.

General Motors recently announced it is putting 500 technical people into an accelerated fuel-cell development program. This is in addition to 150 more in their research laboratories. The goal appears to be completion of that program within six years. A massive effort to provide widespread distribution of hydrogen fuel would have to be born in parallel in order to have practical impact.

With a similar commitment of resources, GENIE could be ready for mass production in cars in an even shorter time frame.

The Coming Automotive Power Production Revolution

Cars as mobile power plants will provide many advantages. They can be coupled to the electric utility grid with a plug, or inductively coupled by means of specially equipped parking spaces in public garages, parking lots and even on streets and in homes. Inductive coupling would require no wires between the car and the parking space.

Photovoltaic systems provide examples of problems that formerly existed in connecting to the grid. These have been overcome during the past few decades. Most utilities can now readily accommodate homes and business establishments with solar panels on the roof. Some power companies purchase the surplus power produced. Others run the meter backwards.

Disasters such as hurricanes, ice storms, tornados and earthquakes cause major power failures. Ordinary storms and falling trees also cause blackouts. When large numbers of vehicles are feeding power to the grid, while parked, all such events will cause fewer and less lengthy power interruptions.

Terrorist attacks on power plants and distribution systems are a little discussed but ever present threat. Damage can much more readily be minimized with a decentralized power grid, purchasing electricity from thousands of GENIE powered cars, trucks and busses while they are parked.

Parking lots could become power substations. Many will be capable of providing several Megawatts of electricity when fully occupied.

Let’s Get Started

This is a program that can begin with one car manufacturer and a single cooperating electric power utility. Prompt, private sector, action can restore the domestic auto industry and give the nation and the economy a much needed boost. Government and the remainder of the world’s auto manufacturers will inevitably follow.

Once cars equipped with fuel-free GENIE modules become available, few consumers will want to purchase a vehicle that consumes fuel.

China, India and the remainder of the developing world, aspire to attain our standard of living. At the moment, the route they are following will massively accelerate climate change. The rapid evolution of this remarkable new technology can transform that problem into an entrepreneurial opportunity.

Imagine parking garages in major cities with signs out front that say: "Park Here - We Pay More" – reversing, in a single stroke, several of the assumptions we make about energy and vehicles in the process.

© 2007 Magnetic Power Inc. All rights reserved. Revised 7-14-07


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