Are the pumps driven by electricity?
The pumps are driven by Stirling motor (heat differential motors) which are powered by the temperature difference between the warm heat and cold heat exchangers. The heat differential is converted into mechanical energy in the form of a spinning shaft which in turn drives the air, vacuum and circulation pumps which drives the entire process. Electricity is only used during startup. When the process is starting there is no heat differential so an electric motor is used until sufficient heat has built up in the warm heat exchanger. After startup the electric motor transitions into generator mode to power the electronics and recharge the batteries for next startup. In the provisional patent we also show the use of a liquid piston pump which we also have a patent pending on. This pump allows us to directly convert high temperature low pressure air flow into the air flow we need to drive this process. The advantage of this pump is that it is substantially more efficient than most other appr
