Above Ground Coal Steam Generation Scheme Considered

This whole concept of fracking for oil, natural gas, or even extracting lithium via geothermal schemes seems to be a great way to unlock quite a bit of energy potential and take advantage of our natural resources in a highly efficient way. Now then, what if we jammed a pipe system into above ground coal deposits, and pushed it along, as it let more coal into a hot chamber?

The pipe would wiggle its way through the coal deposits and we would keep it lit generating heat, and adding water to make steam. We could use that steam to run generators to make electricity. Okay so, this makes sense, and it would be a good way to generate energy, so let me explain this further.

Since we would be burning the coal in an underground and closed environment, it would be extremely easy to capture the CO2 which was generated. We can use the CO2 for making carbon nano-tube structures, such as carbon composite wings and fuselages for aircraft, trains, ships, and building materials. Perhaps even car bodies, truck bodies, and buses too.

Another thought is to simply take some coal, spread it out over the ground, put a carbon nano-tube bag over it with holes in it, just like a kitchen noodle bowl, and burn what you needed collecting the excess CO2, and allow another carbon nano-tube sheet to lay over the top sandwiched between a third.

As the center sheet vibrated against dome shaped bag or first cover, and the third cover with no holes in it, this would produce friction and create energy. Copper atoms could be put between the carbon nano-tubes during the manufacturing process, and this would cause the excitement of those atoms inside to increase the amount of energy generated.

Such designs would be simple to control, use, and capture the CO2 emissions while trapping in the heat and steam to generate energy. In the secondary scheme, the vibrations of the structure itself would create a second round of energy. This would make it extremely efficient and wasting very little in the energy conversion process. Why don't we take this science of fracking to the next level, why don't we simplify energy generation, with new innovative technologies?

Further, I ask; why can't we just keep it simple, and therefore simply keeping it efficient. Indeed, if you have eco-innovations, ideas, or theories on how to generate more energy for our civilization, and do it in an environmentally friendly manner then by all means let's talk. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net

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Hydrofoil Scheme to Capture H2 and Feed the Gas Into the Engines for Propulsion

When two atmospheres of various density come together, at that point, there is a transitional boundary layer, a place where the molecules are interacting, recombining, a place where ionic bonding is taking place or coming apart. It just so happens here on Earth that two-thirds of our surface on this planet is covered with water. And where that ocean water meets the air, there is a boundary layer where H2O molecules are unhooking themselves.

In this place in time there is an abundance of H2, a molecule which can be used as fuel to propel a human made devices, it might be used for pumps on oilrigs, power to run the generators on a cruise ship, or even to run a high-speed skimming vessel, speedboat, hydrofoil, or floatplane. Now then, how would you go about designing such a system to collect, trap, or gather up that H2 which is three times more prevalent in that boundary layer than in the normal atmosphere? Below are some thoughts on a design I recently came up with;

We use hydrofoil strakes we design a shovel which bunches up the water, only at the surface, which rides up and down along the hydrofoil strake as the strake penetrates each wave moving forward. The shovel bunches up the water at the beginning of the wake, and we collect the air from just in front of the wake where it is calm, then we don't have to worry as much about the water vapor, however there will be some which is collected.

Okay so, we use a Bernoulli trick and allow a turbine style, jet engine shaped device run from relative wind to suck in the air, but allow the water vapor, much heavier to blow around the intake, just as the sand blows around a helicopter jet engine, using Boeing's design for the Apache. Then tubes are attached to the hydrofoil strake taking the H2 up to the engines, along the way and water vapor left that inadvertently makes it into the system or is collected; is discharged using various tricks of physics such as membranes, or a interior strakes in the tube causing the H2 to flow in a spiral, thus the water molecules are forced outward.

This is one concept that human design engineers "could" explore, I think it's workable, but if it isn't it certainly has other uses, doesn't it; such as, environmental remediation or a spinning device to mix paint, with special coatings for instance. Remember it's all just chemistry, physics, and fluid dynamics, nothing really all that special, still abundantly useful with many applications. Just thinking out loud, I am sure I will have more ideas to pitch soon, as I see this concept as rather intriguing.

Of course, this is only one design, there could be endless designs, some more efficient and feasible than others of course. At some point mankind needs to harness this energy, collect it, and use it because it is efficient, because it is there, and because it is free - so why not? Indeed I hope you will please consider all this, and if you have any ideas, concepts, or research along this line of thinking. I ask that you shoot me an e-mail.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,500 articles by August 24th or 25th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..

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