Energy (Electricity) - Part of ICET package

How EFFICIENT is your power supply?       How much energy is lost in transmission?
Point-of-use (or near point-of-use) offers greater scales of economy - is more energy efficient.

How sustainable is this????? Most are finite resources- Oil, Coal, Natural Gas, Nuclear they also contribute large amounts of CO2 particularly coal!  Hydro and wind are often dependant on weather.

Coal fuels over 40% of electricity worldwide Source

In the current Energy Crisis there is urgent need globally to find alternative supplies of electricity, to cater for increased demand and reduction of current generation sources.

Where does world supplies of electricity come from?


Data Sources -    Global   -   United States    -    Australia   -    New Zealand   -  United Kingdom   -   Japan    -   Germany    -   France   -  India  -  China
Power Supply Challenges
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Spate of brown outs and blacks worldwide
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High level of transmission losses over long distances
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High cost of power line upgrades
bullet “Dirty” power supply (harmonics, spikes, etc., due to increasing use of computerized equipment, electronic appliances, fluorescent lighting, air conditioning equipment, pumps, etc.)
bullet Declining power factor in the commercial and residential sectors (in some areas as low as 0.5 to 0.6) – drastically reduces access to energy in the grid
bullet Mounting electricity prices
Intelligent Power Networks - IPN
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The emerging answer to rising power supply challenges

  • "intelligent power grids or networks.....will operate more like the Internet, as part of a complex web through which people will supply electricity as well as downloading it"

  • "Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming - and interconnected with everything else"
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Enabled by integration of:

  • The IndraNet Broadband Communications system and

  • The Compressed Air cogeneration technology
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Capital cost estimated to be at least 3 times lower than current commercial offerings
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Provide customers retail electricity and real broadband at wholesale prices

Distributed Power Generation scalable point-of-use power generators forming Intelligent Power Networks (Smart Grids)  IPN

The New Business Model has power being generated at point of use initially using compressed air and a small amount of natural gas, bio fuels or other alternative fuels, but eventually
(3-5yrs) being fully solar augmented.

With the clever use of the IndraNet Minder this can allow the generator to communicated with power grid in both times of high demand and excess generation. This is a  more cost effective way of getting cheaper power than is currently available.

Integrated with technology enabling re-use of waste heat, this translates into overall energy efficiencies of over 90% from primary source to end-use (instead of less than 20% and often less than 10% efficiency in current legacy systems).

From Inefficient Centralised Legacy Networks

Electricity is generated in large centralised facilities, then sent through transmission lines, this is the power grids - about 70% of all power generated is lost before it gets to the consumer.  There is evidence worldwide of more blackouts, the electricity supplies struggle to meet the ever increasing demands - coal, oil, nuclear and gas are all finite and have limited lifespan. The capital involved in infrastructure is enormous.

We read so much hype about electric cars and the first thought is where will they get all the extra electricity?

The vast majority of electricity produced worldwide is from finite resources - resources that have a limited life span like oil, coal, nuclear, gas.

The three main sources of electricity generation are

  1. Fossil fuels,

  2. Nuclear fusion,

  3. Renewable resources

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Renewable sources can be reliant on factors like weather, Wind Farms need wind, hydro generation needs rain, last year in NZ the hydro lake run dangerously low through lack of rain.

Now a new contender compressed air and there is a constant reliable renewable source when combined with solar will provide 100% solar and sustainable energy supply.

Want cheaper, environmentally, sustainable Power?

Do you want it:

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without all the red tape of resource consents?

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without more unsightly pylons and transmission lines?
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without a huge carbon footprint (e.g. in a NZ Wind Farm the turbines were
made in Denmark, the blades the Isle of Wright and the towers in Vietnam and Australia)?
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without polluting the environment?
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initially the cost 25% less than current power prices?
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to eventually achieve 80-90% efficiency compared to today’s
20% efficiency?
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to be independent of power outages and blackouts?

     If your answer is YES to any of the questions above, then read on

 Consider Sustainable Energy Systems

 Revolutionary - distributed power generation, decentralised energy - using nGen Systems & integrated into power grid through IndraNet Minder.

Generate your own power at home with a unit not much bigger than an air conditioner and link this unit to the power grid through an IndraNet Minder (communication device) and any excess you generate goes back into the gird.

There are larger units for offices, businesses, shopping malls, hospitals, schools, built in scale to suit your needs. And yes they run on compressed air!

Currently, e.g. in New Zealand, most power is produced in central power stations where 60% to 75% of the primary energy is wasted, then the power is then sent down transmission line where a further 10% is wasted. With a combination of the Compressed Air power generation technology and the IndraNet networking technology this will be enabled by point of use generation which is more efficient, because it avoids transmission losses, generates far less waste heat and enables recycling any waste heat produced. A much lower grade of energy is needed for hot water and air conditioning and this can be achieved in part by recycling waste energy for initial power generation. Sounds good to me!

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Coal pollutes......
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Oil is running out and expensive.....
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Wind not reliable......
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Hydro depends on sufficient rainfall......
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Nuclear Power - uranium is running out - waste takes 1000 yrs to dispose of......
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Air is abundant as is solar, once we learn to use it efficiently & zero pollution.....

   It is time to consider new complimentary power sources that are environmentally friendly, cheap to set up and
   produce. This opens the way to fully sustainable lifestyles for less than current power prices.

Sustainable Energy Systems will be obvious to everyone within a decade.
 It will be main stream within two decades. 
 


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