LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Encore Clean Energy, Inc. (OTCBB:ECLN) is pleased to announce that Robert D. Hunt, our Chief Scientist, made a presentation of a peer reviewed paper to the American Institute of Aeronautics ("AIAA") Conference earlier this week in Arlington, VA.
Mr. Hunt announced at the AIAA Conference that flight could be accomplished without the use of fossil fuels, by use of an atmospheric power cycle that powers flight using the heat within the air. He has named this process "Atmospheric Thermal Energy Conversion" (ATEC). The paper will later be published worldwide in the AIAA Journal.
Mr. Hunt's aircraft design uses the Magnetic Piston Generator (MPG), exclusively licensed to Encore Clean Energy that directly generates electricity from either a pressure source, such as compressed air produced by wind turbines on the aircraft, or from a heat source, such as heat produced by the heat of compression. This ATEC power cycle is designed to run electric motors to power jet propulsion and other onboard power uses.
"High altitude flight can be efficiently powered without the use of fossil fuels using stored thermal energy (solar heat) contained in our lower atmosphere as the energy source. This can be accomplished by an atmospheric power cycle that uses the natural temperature drop from low to high altitude to produce power for flight in the same manner that ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology generates electrical power from the temperature difference between warm solar heated surface sea water to cold, deep sea water for heat rejection," Hunt stated.
Lift is provided to the aircraft by a low-boiling-point-liquid that is vaporized into a lighter-than-air lifting gas by heat from low altitude warm air, which allows altitude to be gained. The temperature naturally and dramatically falls as altitude is gained and is known as the "Lapse Rate". Heat rejected to air as cold as -51.1 deg. C. (-60 deg. F.) in the upper Troposphere, at near 36,000 feet of altitude, condenses the gas into dense liquid that causes the loss of lift. Cold air fills space that was previously occupied by expanded gas, increasing the overall density of the aircraft to being heavier-than-air and downward gliding flight is achieved.
The lifting gas is insulated from the cold surrounding atmosphere while upward gliding to prevent condensation until the desired height is reached; and, the liquid is insulated from the warmer surrounding air during downward gliding to prevent premature vaporization. Phase change is performed by heat exchange that takes in heat or rejects heat to the atmosphere. At low altitude, the liquid may be boiled into a lifting gas to again gain altitude.
Dan Hunter, Encore CEO commented, "We're extremely excited about Mr. Hunt's new aircraft design which utilizes the new MPG design. The MPG has the flexibility to be powered by any source of thermal (heat) or pressure energy, outputs electrical power just like a hydrogen fuel cell, but offers the potential to be more versatile, fuel-efficient and cost-effective."
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