Directory:Plasma
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Directory of plasma technologies and resources.
Overviews
Directory:Waste to Energy > Video:Waste to Energy -- An Overview (3:01 minutes) - A brief video by PES Network introduces the concept of cost-effectively turning garbage and sewage into energy, either as electricity or as fuel. Addresses methane harvesting, plasma, solar, and catalytic pressureless depolymerization. (PESWiki Jan. 16, 2008)
Featured
Top 100:
Magnecules of MagneGas Poised to Cleanly Serve World's Energy Needs Domestically - New form of matter described and said to be experimentally verified, by which sewage and other waste can be converted into a burnable fuel. (PESWiki)
Top 100:
Geoplasma LLC to turn dumps in electricity and roads - Company's technology converts landfills into electricity and roads, by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than parts of the sun. Lightning-like plasma arcs turn trash into gas and rock-like material. (PESWiki Sept. 11, 2006)
Companies
Lighting
See also Directory:Lighting
Directory:Lighting > Directory:Luxim Corporation - Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a solid-state plasma light bulb called Luxim LIFI™. It is the size of a Tic Tac and gives off as much light as a streetlight. Because it doesn't use electrical connections, more of the energy goes to light, rather than heat. (PESWiki March 20, 2008)
Electricity Generation
There was an error working with the wiki: Code[1] > Interview with David A. Puchta of Proton Spin Technologies - A debut interview with a truly fertile mind and experimenter who says that by understanding how to create and control monatomic elements by pulling in energy from the vacuum, all kinds of things can be done, including creating usable energy and cleaning up the oceans. (PESN May 10, 2013)
Directory:Blacklight Power - New field of novel hydrogen chemistry. BlackLight Process generates light, power, plasma, and a vast class of new compositions of matter.
Congress:Top 100 Technologies -- RD:Directory:Blacklight Power > BlackLight's Hydrino Going Commercial - The BlackLight Process is said to generate enormous amounts of cheap, non-polluting heat that will replace the thermal power in coal, oil, gas and nuclear power plants that is then converted to electricity. (PESN May 29, 2008)
Directory:Phemax Technology: Microsun Plasmagnetic Alternator - Patent pending device allegedly generates electricity via plasma arc (Microsun) technology, initiated with low voltage, high current, high temperature, thermally conductive, thorium tungsten / graphite electrodes submerged in water. The resulting syngas runs a Phemax generator, which is said to have 5x amplification capability. (PESWiki Aug. 7, 2008)
Chukanov Quantum Free Energy Moving to Europe - Kiril Chukanov, inventor of a method for creating ball lightning for generating electricity and hydrogen, begrudgingly leaves the United States, having accepted an offer from a very generous benefactor overseas. (PESN Feb. 16, 2006)
Waste to Energy
Directory:W2 Energy Inc - Imagine a gasoline and diesel source that is CO2 neutral, sulfur-free, derived from renewable sources, superior in its power performance to fossil-based fuels, and costs less than 1/7 of fossil-based fuels. The company has also built an engine to optimize use of the syngas portion of the product.
Directory:MagneGas - MagneGas Technology has been developed to process liquid wastes into a clean burning fuel known as magnegas, plus heat and other usable byproducts, said processing occurring without noise, liquid, gaseous or other pollutions. New discoveries of science involved.
Directory:Geoplasma, LLC - Company's technology converts landfills into electricity and roads, by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than parts of the sun. Lightning-like plasma arcs turn trash into gas and rock-like material.
Definitive Energy - AquaClean™ processes contaminated water with an electric arc (plasma) to produce clean, potable water which spontaneously creates a high energy, non-polluting, sustainable fuel (AquaLene®). The fuel is claimed to produce 3x more energy than is required to maintain the arc by powering a generator in a closed-loop process.
PyroGenesis - Technologies which use the intense energy found in plasma to convert waste into energy and useful materials, treat a range of industrial, hazardous, clinical and municipal waste streams on land. PyroGenesis has also developed a specialty system designed to treat various waste streams on board ships.
Creating Ethanol from Trash - A new system by Integrated Environmental Technologies for converting trash into ethanol using Plasma, could reduce the amount of waste in landfills while displacing fossil fuels used to power vehicles. The technology vaporizes organic materials to synthesize a variety of fuels at costs of between 10 and 95 cents per gallon. (MIT Technology Review January 19, 2007)
Plasco Energy Group - Uses plasma gasification to convert municipal solid waste into an energy-rich “syngas? fuel used to generate electricity. It can process virtually any waste materials with no pollution, including those with high moisture or carbon content. Plasma Gasification has been used to safely dispose of hazardous waste for the last twenty years.
Solena Group - Plasma Gasification Vitrification process produces clean, renewable energy while addressing waste management needs, at temperatures upwards of 5,000° C, yet no combustion is involved. Solena technology can be applied on land and at sea for disposing of contaminated sludge, cleaning up coal fines, and developing sources of localized, "distributed" power.
Plasma Environmental Technologies - Provides plasma-based systems for clean and cost-effective destruction of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. Plasma-Assisted Gasifier (PAG) is a cogeneration system that destroys solid organic wastes while producing "green" energy as heat, steam or electricity. PARCON (Plasma Arc Conversion) is a mobile waste treatment facility that safely destroys liquid and gaseous organic waste.
EnviroArc® - Processes to recover material and energy from waste - leaving virtually no toxic or non-toxic residuals. They are built on four core technologies: gasification, PyroArc® plasma decomposition, vitrification and flash smelting. The principles of the waste process are also applicable to gasification of biomass into a fuel gas.
Advanced Plasma Power converts garbage into gas - The Advanced Plasma Power Gasplasma Process can convert a pre-treated waste feedstock into a clean hydrogen rich synthetic or syn-gas. The plants can be run on electricity generated from the syn-gas, over half of which can be exported to the grid. (AutoblogGreen Apr. 11, 2007)
Biofuels from Plasma Arc Gasification of Waste - MPM Technologies and Losonoco will develop the Skygas waste gasification process, for the manufacture of ethanol, methanol, DME, diesel and ammonia. The Skygas gasifier operates at lower temperatures than other plasma arc gasifiers, and consumes less power, according to MPM. (Green Car Congress Apr. 11, 2007)
Recovered Energy - An independent engineering and consulting firm advancing plasma gasification and pyrolysis processes allow for the virtual elimination of landfills, recycling without sorting, and the complete thermal conversion of all types of waste to energy in the form of green electricity or ethanol.
Biobutanol from Syngas - Directory:W2 Energy Inc, the developer of a GAT (Gliding Arc Tornado) plasma reactor for biomass gasification for power and fuels generation, is working to manufacture biobutanol from the GAT syngas. A GAT is a non-thermal plasma system that uses a reverse vortex flow (i.e., tornado) to preserve the main advantages of traditional gliding arc systems and overcome their main drawbacks. (Green Car Congress Jun. 26, 2007)
Florida Syngas -Florida Syngas LLC has a patented and proprietary GlidArc™ technology that converts glycerol into a hydrogen-rich synthesis gas.
StarTech Plasma - "Just on Waste-to-Alternative Fuels alone, we have a 100-TPD Tires and Refinery Tank Bottoms project in Northern China, an initial 100 TPD project for Black Coal in Mongolia, 250 TPD for Tires in Hunan Province, and 500 TPD for Tires in Nanjing. We also have waste-to-hydrogen projects in South Korea and hazardous waste projects in the Philippines." (Yahoo News Nov. 2, 2006)
Dynamic Energy Solutions -The DES microwave plasma systems work at atmospheric pressure and are capable of processing a virtually unlimited array of feeds ranging from powdered solids, to liquids and gasses.
Engines
Plasma rocket engine VASIMR VX-200 first stage achieves full power rating - Short for Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, VASIMR is a new high-power plasma-based space propulsion technology, initially studied by NASA and now being developed privately by Ad Astra Rocket Company. A VASIMR engine could maneuver payloads in space far more efficiently and with much less propellant than today’s chemical rockets. (The Space Fellowship Oct. 27, 2008)
Plasma-assisted engines run more efficiently, cleaner - Voltage applied to the atomized fuel stream prior to combustion generates a plasma in the fuel that breaks down the long chains of hydrocarbons into smaller molecules, allowing a more complete burn. (PESN Aug. 31, 2006)
Directory:Suppression / Directory:Fuel Efficiency > Pantone/GEET > Embattled Scientist on the Edge of Deletion - George Gaboury gives a masterful review of the tribulations Paul Pantone has faced in Utah in trying to bring forth a revolutionary fuel efficiency plasma technology. (ExtraOrdinary Technology Oct/Nov/Dec 2006)
GEET > Los Alamos Plasma in GEET's Shadow - Steve Elswick of TeslaTech points out that the Los Alamos plasma-assisted combustion provides profound mainstream documentation of what Paul Pantone has been promoting for years, out in the 'fringes' (for which he is presently incarcerated). (PESN Sept. 1, 2006)
Propulsion
Directory:Magnetohydrodynamics:Plasma-Powered Flying Saucers - With a span of less than 15 centimetres, Subrata Roy's aircraft qualifies as a micro air vehicle (MAV), but it has an unconventional design to say the least. It is a saucer shape covered with electrodes that ionise air to create a plasma. (PESWiki May 10, 2008)
Plasma thruster tested for Mars mission - Technology invented by ANU physicists could see expeditions to Mars become a reality, with the European Space Agency (ESA) announcing it will begin full-scale trials next year. (PhysOrg Jan. 3, 2006)
Biomedical
Advent of Cold Plasma - Researchers have developed a new hand-held device that can produce room-temperature plasmas for diverse applications, most important for biomedical applications. (PhysOrg Sept. 22, 2005)
Research & Development
Directory:Nuclear > Directory:Fusion > Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source - A team of researchers from UC San Diego, MIT and UC Berkeley have received a 5-year, $7 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to perform fundamental and experimental research in the field of boundary plasma science for fusion applications. (PhysOrg September 14, 2009)
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Scientist Looks to Weaponize Ball Lightning - Ball lightning has been the subject of much scientific scrutiny over the years. Researchers are working on the question "Can we turn it into a weapon?". (See Shiva Star.) (Wired Feb. 20, 2009)
Directory:Chukanov Quantum Energy LLC - ball lightning. Company hopes to go commercial soon with clean, super-affordable energy devices.
Directory:Focus Fusion - Purports to be a far more feasible and profoundly less expensive approach to hot fusion, in contrast to ITER. Lawrenceville Plasma Physics is developing the Plasma Focus Device for hydrogen-boron nuclear fusion. 4-7 years to commercial. 1 cent / kWh anticipated energy generation cost.
Directory:AMDG Scientific Corp - The late Mr. DeGeus discovered novel energy generating technologies, all of which feature ‘over-unity’ energy production, relating to fractional hydrogen, low-energy nuclear transmutations, electrodynamics, torsion fields and electro-gravitics.
Directory:Noblefuse Electromagnetic Fusion - Solomon Azar has built a proof of concept demonstration device involving a Tesla coil and underwater plasma that allegedly gives off gamma radiation, a sign of nuclear combination. He also professes that he is the Messiah. (PESWiki Mar. 23, 2008)
Cold Plasma Time-Dilation Experiments - Inventors Warren York and Mike Windell claim to have discovered a novel form of time-dilation as the result of experiments manipulating cold plasmas (Photo Gallery). (AAG Nov. 29, 2010)
Do It Yourself
There was an error working with the wiki: Code[1] / Directory:Microwave-Based Energy Technologies OS:Homemade Plasma Using Microwave Oven - Perhaps you've seen a video or two at YouTube showing how to generate plasma with a small flame in a microwave oven. We've created a "how to" page, with a collection of some of these demos, scientific theories and studies, and related energy pursuits. (PESWiki Dec. 20, 2008)
In the News
See News:Plasma - separate page
References
WasteReports.com - Independent, up-to-date reviews of novel waste processing technologies covering operational reliability, economics and environmental performance. Reviews of individual proprietary processes, Executive Briefings that consider the role for the new technology families, and Information Sheets.
Worldwide Directory of Developers of Plasma Waste Processing Technologies
Plasma: a Cross-reference of Processes to Suppliers
Plasma technologies for wastes processing applications
Plasma, its role in Waste Processing: a Decision Maker's Guide
See also
Plasma Technologies - index at FreeEnergyNews.com
Directory:Magnetohydrodynamics:Plasma-Powered Flying Saucers
GENERAL W2E
Directory:Thermal Electric - e.g. waste heat
PREVENTION OF WASTE
Directory:Home Generation:Gray Water Recycling
TYPES OF WASTE-TO-ENERGY
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Directory:Biodiesel from Algae Oil
Directory:Microorganisms in Energy Production
Directory:Microbial Fuel Cells
Directory:Refinery Flaring Recovery
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ALT FUELS (alphabetical sequence)
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Directory:Biodiesel from Algae Oil
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Boron
Directory:Boron-Powered Vehicles
Directory:Hydrogen from Water using Boron
Directory:Hydroxy or HHO Injection Systems
Directory:Liquid Nitrogen economy
Directory:Animal and Crop Waste to Energy
Directory:Running Vehicles on Water
APPLICATIONS
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