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Inventor:
Krepak; John C. Address: Shreveport, LA No. of patents: 3
Patente 5607519 Photon and/or electron generating power cell
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention deals with using ionizing gamma and/or other radiation sources to ionize an ionizable material, that produce photons that generate electrons.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
At the present time electric generators produce direct or alternating electric current by rotating looped wires in a magnetic field or rotating magnetic fields in looped wires. Wind power, water power and mechanical power produced by internalcombustion engines turn electric generators to produce electricity. Nuclear power uses heat to boil water to produce steam to turn a turbine that turns an electric generator. Electric output never equals the input horsepower. Solar power uses photonsfrom the sun falling on PN junctions to convert photons with energy of 1.59 electron volts into electrons by providing an electromotive force at the PN junction, allowing electrons to cross thereover.
At the upper edge of the atmosphere a one square meter solar cell has a potential irradiance of 1367 watts per square meter. However, with an efficiency factor of ten percent, the useable energy output is 136.7 watts. At ground level in themiddle of July on a clear, cloudless day, during the best sunshine hours, the atmosphere reduces the ground level potential irradiance to 865 watts per square meter. At ten percent efficiency, useable electrical energy output then is 86.5 watts persquare meter. In the middle of January, same clear, cloudless day, etc., the atmosphere reduces the ground level potential irradiance to 300 watts per square meter. At ten percent efficiency only 30 watts of electrical energy output is available.
The storage problem created with nuclear waste has become enormous. One of the purposes of this invention is to provide a use for ionizing gamma and/or other radiation source waste. Technology exists for processing this ionizing radiation gammaand/or other source waste into concentrated energy sources of ionizing energy capable of generating a substantial number of photons and/or electrons, using an existing technology that builds solar cells for the space program. An electron generator likethis invention could utilize a large percentage of the world’s gamma and/or other radiation nuclear waste sitting in holding pools at reactors all over the world. Using the 6 to 7 Mev gamma and/or other radiation source being emitted by a typicalnuclear reactor to ionize hydrogen atoms subjected to this ionization will produce a substantial amount of electrical horsepower without turning a single steam-driven generator.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention is comprised of a container capable of storing the smallest size atoms for an unlimited period of time. This container is enclosed in a lead vault to contain radiation energy. The inside surface of this container is covered withphoto-voltaic elements, which comprise PN junctions, and which are capable of converting photons and/or electrons into useful electrical energy. Inside the container is an ionizing radiation energy source, surrounded by an ionizable material that can beionized and induced to emit an ultra-violet photon and/or electron for absorption by a PN junction device to convert to electrons to produce electrical energy.
Because it only requires 8.21 to 13.6 electron volts to ionize, the preferred ionizable material is the hydrogen atom…
Filters radioactive salts from water
4735722 Desalination of seawater or brackish water
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This invention deals with the problem of extracting potentially potable relatively salt-free water from seawater or brackish well water in areas where little or no power supplies exist. The object is to draw such water through a special filter that permits the passage of the water while leaving the salt behind, enough so that the remaining small amount of salinity is considered not objectionable for drinking purposes. This invention would have great potential as stand-by equipment in the after-math of coastal typhoons and hurricanes, when all power is lost, and water supplies are contaminated by flood tides from the sea. It would also have an application to remove most of the radio-active salts or residue left over from a nuclear accident or explosion that would contaminate water supplies.This invention would have great application in emergency situations at sea. It could provide emergency water to disabled yachts, boats, liferafts, offshore installations and to military personnel stranded in areas where it would not be prudent to use noisy power supplies. Farmers can use this invention in remote fields to keep stock ponds and drip-irrigation systems supplied. Islands surrounded by seawater and without large water-shed and storage areas can supplement their water supplies. Many an abandoned oil well, now flooded with salt-water can become a source of salt-free water with this invention, without having to drill disposal wells for the salt.The long-range sun cycle with its sun-spots indicate that an intense drought is in the offing by 1990. States like Texas and California have been trying to beg, borrow or steal water from neighboring states. The present flash-distillation systems like those in Freeport, Texas produce costs of $7.00 to $8.00 per thousand gallons . . . too expensive . . . even for drip-irrigation. A battery of these standpipes with their discharge ends manifolded together could fill a two to three foot diameter pipeline flowing ashore for distribution to various impoundments. Cities like New York, Los Angeles, London, etc., etc., could use this invention to maintain their reservoir levels during periods of scanty rainfall. The predicted sunspot cycle and the accompaning drought should provide much incentive for the use of this invention. Coastal African villages, without power supplies might survive with this invention to help augment water supplies. |
Claim: |
For this invention I claim: |
- Means for recovering potable water from an aqueous feed having first disolved components, comprising:
A standpipe including an inlet leg, a bend and an outlet leg;
a first filter positioned in the lower end of said inlet leg;
means providing an alternative to external power including a plurality of capillary tubes positioned within said inlet leg between said bend and said first filter and a fluid within said capillary tubes having second disolved components of agreater density than said first components; and,
a second filter positioned in the lower end of said second leg.|
|Description:|The design of this invention s to make use of known principles in physics. First, OSMOSIS . . . permits fluid from aless dense liquid to pass through a semi-permeable membrane into a more dense liquid on the other side of the membrane.
Second, CAPILLARY ACTION. . . The weight of the atmosphere at sea-level, 14.7 lbs per sq. inch, will support a column of mercury in a capillary tube to a height of 30 inches plus. The same atmosphere will support a column of water in acapillary tube to a height of 20 to 33 feet.
Third, GRAVITY . . . is brought into play in the final stage through the discharge valve in the system…as will be explained in the drawing and accompaning description of this invention.|
Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
5607519 |
Photon and/or electron generating power cell |
March 4, 1997 |
An impermeable, stainless steel, high chrome content container, with an inside surface coating of photo-voltaic elements comprising PN junctions upon which photons and/or electrons are impinged for conversion to electrons to produce useful electric energy; and containing an ionizing |
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5167384 |
Increasing lift on helicopter rotor blades and aircraft propellers |
December 1, 1992 |
A rotary airscrew having a central hub with coaxial first and second counter-rotating drive shafts, a first set of a plurality of non-lift blades connected to the first drive shaft for rotation to be rotated for moving air therewith, a second set of a plurality of primary airfoil bla |
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4735722 |
Desalination of seawater or brackish water |
April 5, 1988 |
This invention deals with the problem of extracting potentially potable relatively salt-free water from seawater or brackish well water in areas where little or no power supplies exist. The object is to draw such water through a special filter that permits the passage of the water while |
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