Thermal Pollution Becomes Electricity With a Controlled Tornado

One of the many problems with generating electricity is that it produces waste heat.  Even if we are not burning something to create the steam to spin the generator, e.g. nuclear power, there is still a lot of thermal pollution.

Canadian Louis Michaud is President of of AVEtec Energy Corporation.  AVE stands for "Atmospheric Vortex Engine".

His idea is a simple one:  Hot air from waste heat rises (convection).  By shaping the exhaust correctly, that rising air can be given a spin, turning it into a tame tornado.  The rising, spinning air can turn a generator.

Since most of that heat is contained in steam from the coal/oil/gas/nuclear generator, you get an extra boost as the steam condenses and releases its latent heat (the energy used to evaporate in the first place).

Note:  While most of  greenhouse gas that humans produce is carbon dioxide, water is also a greenhouse gas.  The problem with water is that as the atmosphere warms, more water evaporates, which increases the temperature of the atmosphere, and more water evaporates ...

Not only can an AVE be added to existing electric generating facilities, but any source of rising air, such as a tropical ocean, can provide the needed energy.

More information is available at http://vortexengine.ca/index.shtml