The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Company ™ MARINE POWER AND WATER, INC.Last update 05-06-2009
HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN
The recent unprecedented escalation in oil prices is clearly a danger to our economy and national security, the root cause being our dependence on the importation of foreign oil for transportation purposes. Diversification of our fuel supplies is the only permanent solution to ensure competition and choice in the marketplace. Up until now, there has been no economical process available to generate commercial hydrogen, the utilization of which will be the bridge technology that has been the missing link in the inevitable advancement of the coming hydrogen age.
To that end, Marine Power and Water, Inc. has developed the Aquakinetics™ and Aerokinetics™ energy converters (patents pending). These energy converters are capable of producing zero-carbon-footprint power from in-stream hydrokinetic energy for the production and high-density storage of commercial hydrogen and oxygen.
We have focused our pioneering efforts toward the production of these gases at the lowest possible cost. With power generated by the energy converters from renewable, sustainable sources at zero fuel cost, only capital equipment and operating costs remain. This economy of scale will position Marine Power and Water, Inc. as a premier producer of hydrogen and oxygen worldwide.
When mated with fuel cell technology, stored hydrogen and oxygen will be multiplex energy sources for alternative transportation fuel and/or for non-polluting generation of distributed energy.
If the transition from carbon-based transportation fuels to electrically powered vehicles happens with any expediency, for which both the public and government are calling, it will place additional strain on the electric generating industry. This industry is already facing brownouts and blackouts due to the lack of enough power to support the already existing growing demands.
Our corporate plan to alleviate some of this demand is to supply non-polluting, economical hydrogen for fuel-cell driven vehicles.
Hydrogen
MPW's zero-carbon-based generation of commercial hydrogen by electrolysis, coupled with new hydrogen storage mediums currently under development, will be the blending technology catalysts that will facilitate new renewable energy storage and distributed energy power solutions for the future electrical generating industry. It will, for the first time, facilitate the storage of flowing water energy and wind energy that would generally go unutilized.
This innovative capability will be the best alternative energy source transition technology to help jumpstart the coming hydrogen-based energy economy. The technology, with zero impact on the atmosphere, will prevail for years to come.
Marine Power and Water, Inc.’s contiguous energy converters will supply the power for the operation of electrolysis plants mounted on anchored ocean barges. Two resources to be utilized to drive the energy converters are the West Coast's southerly-flowing ocean current that runs the full length of the North American continent and the East Coast's northerly-flowing Gulf Stream and tidal currents.
The company plans to install and supply commercial hydrogen fueling stations at auto dealerships marketing hydrogen powered vehicles.
Using electrolysis to produce hydrogen and oxygen has the following major advantages for fuel cell use:
- Enhanced through put capability, enhanced electrical energy output,
- Facilitates utilization of basic low cost materials to manufacture fuel cells,
- Elimination of fuel cell contamination from carbon-containing impurities,
- Reduction of fuel cell maintenance,
- Extension of the fuel cell life cycle,
- Lower operating costs of fuel cells in the production of electrical power, and
- Compared to other commercial fuel cell electrical generating applications, using electrolysis to produce hydrogen and oxygen provides the fuel cell with additional online generating capabilities to produce revenue.
Stored hydrogen, in unison with fuel cell generated electricity, will become the future non-polluting rolling reserves technology. The electrical power industry will save millions of dollars a year in fuel costs. And the greenhouse gases that are emitted by today's fossil fuel powered hot-standby rolling reserves generating equipment will be eliminated.
Zero-carbon production of commercial hydrogen from renewable resources, and high-density storage/transportation systems, will be the cornerstone of the new infrastructure for jumpstarting the coming hydrogen transportation fuel economy this century. It will be the kick-start needed to break the monopoly of oil in transportation fuels.
Oxygen
Zero-carbon production of commercial oxygen will usher in the utilization of ozone water sterilization - a much healthier alternative to chlorination. Ozone water sterilization will allow municipal water agencies to be liberated from the dangers of accidental chlorine gas discharges and will mitigate the health issues associated with chlorination of municipal water.
Also of great importance is the drive toward "oxycombustion" in power plants as a cost-effective way to capture carbon dioxide (CO2). This is a process where oxygen, instead of atmospheric air, is used to combust a fuel, and results in a highly pure carbon dioxide (CO2) exhaust, captured and sequestered at relatively low cost. There is no nitrous oxide (NOX) exhaust. The down side today is the current high cost of producing oxygen and the resultant greenhouse gases emitted in the process. Our energy converters use a renewable resource for power, create no emissions, and can produce commercial oxygen at a much lower cost, with no impact on the environment.
