Re: [Vo]:Eatlim claims 50% thermal to electrical conversion efficiency

[Rich Murray-2]

updated video December 5, 2011

remarkably efficient thermo electric conversion Sterling cycle
acoustic compression device, Etalim Inc.: Rich Murray  2011.12.30

"Very high efficiency -- almost twice the efficiency of other small engines
Operation from any available heat source or fuel
Zero mechanical friction or wear
Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades
Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and
production processes
Micro-CHP Application

Micro Combined Heat and Power systems..."

"Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers
and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation
provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability
of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand...."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCZP3BsEHY

2:29 minutes
Uploaded by electronker on Dec 5, 2011
Etalim Inc.


http://www.etalim.com/news.php

June 2011: Etalim awarded Most Promising Pre-commercial Technology
2011 by the BC Technology Industry Association

February 2011: Etalim grows to 10 employees and relocates to larger
facilities in Vancouver, BC.

January 2011: Etalim is featured in the prestigious MIT Technology Review .

July 2010: Etalim is awarded a $2.2 million grant from Sustainable
Development Technology Canada.

January 2010: Etalim successfully completes the maiden run of the TEG prototype.

October 2009: Etalim receives a third round of R&D grant funding from
the NRC-IRAP program.

September 2009: Etalim is awarded 2nd prize for most promising
startup, out of 180 competitors in the BC Innovation Council New
Ventures BC competition. Etalim also receives the BC Hydro
Sustainability Prize.

March 2006: Etalim is founded.


Address Etalim Inc.
62 West 8th Avenue
Suite 400
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1M7
Canada
Phone            [phone]
Email [hidden email]


Amos Michelson, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering
Chairman

Amos Michelson is Chairman of three high-tech start-ups and Director
in an additional five high-tech companies in the areas of life
sciences, energy, and Web 2.0.  Mr. Michelson was CEO of Creo, Inc.
from June 1995 until Kodak purchased Creo for C$ 1.2 Billion in May
2005.  Prior to joining Creo, he was CEO of Opal Inc., a
semi-conductor equipment company, and prior to this Mr. Michelson was
Chief Operating Officer of Optrotech Ltd., a developer and
manufacturer of optical and imaging systems for the electronics
industry.

Amos Michelson holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford
Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Amos Michelson is a past member of the Premier’s Technology Council
and in 1999 was named Entrepreneur of the Year, along with Dan
Gelbart, by Ernst & Young.  In 2005, Mr. Michelson was named the
“BCTIA Person of the Year”, an award presented to an individual who
has made an outstanding contribution to the technology industry during
the year.


Ron Klopfer, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering
CEO

Mr. Klopfer is an experienced technology entrepreneur and manager,
having co-founded, financed and managed three successful technology
startups over the past eight years, two of which have been acquired by
larger companies to generate strong returns to seed-stage venture
investors. Mr. Klopfer has also consulted to various technology
companies on market strategy, sales, mergers and operations. Mr.
Klopfer's technology sales and business development background
originates in the Silicon Valley, where his sales team doubled a large
sales region and key Fortune-500 account revenues for a hardware
manufacturer. Mr. Klopfer holds an MBA in technology marketing from
Queen's University, and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the
University of British Columbia.


Dr. Thomas W. Steiner, PhD
Chief Scientist

After graduating with a PhD in experimental physics from Simon Fraser
University in 1986 Dr. Steiner spent a year and a half at IBM’s T.J.
Watson research lab before returning to British Columbia and
eventually working at Creo (later to become a division of Kodak). At
Creo he provided technical leadership and many of the core ideas in
the development of several world beating products including Creo’s
first thermal laser exposure head, an optical cross-connect switch and
a continuous inkjet printing head. Dr. Steiner held the position of
principal physicist at Kodak before founding Etalim to pursue his
interest in energy related topics. He is the author of more than 30
papers in peer reviewed journals and the holder of nine patents with
at least six more pending.


Briac de Chardon, P.Eng.
Engineering Project Manager & Business Development Analyst

Mr. de Chardon obtained a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Victoria in 1999. He spent over six years working at
Creo (later Kodak) in product development roles and ink jet research.
In 2005 he then moved to start-up company Vectis Technologies to
commercialize plate processing technology. Mr. de Chardon joined
Etalim in 2006.


Core Innovation

Etalim Inc. is developing new and groundbreaking technology that
converts any fuel or heat source to electricity, with extraordinary
efficiency and simplicity. The Etalim TEG device is elegant,
straightforward to manufacture, and inexpensive. Etalim's unique TEG
platform has several addressable markets, such as utility-scale solar
power, cogeneration/CHP, and auxiliary/rural/telecom power generation.
Etalim plans to manufacture and sell TEG devices to system OEMs within
our target markets.

The Etalim TEG can achieve an extraordinary set of performance breakthroughs:

Very high efficiency - almost twice the efficiency of other small engines
Operation from any available heat source or fuel
Zero mechanical friction or wear
Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades
Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and
production processes
Micro-CHP Application

Micro Combined Heat and Power systems are essentially a home heating
furnace or boiler that produces electricity in addition to heat.
Conventional grid electricity generation is highly inefficient, with
as little as 35% of the energy in the fuel burned in the power plant
becoming electricity in the home. The rest of the energy is wasted as
heat in the power station, with a small amount lost in transmission
across the grid. Micro-CHP systems use natural gas (or other fuels) to
generate electricity at the point of demand, with very high
efficiency. This is possible because waste heat from electricity
generation is captured and used within the home. Micro-CHP offers
homeowners several hundred dollars in energy bill savings per year,
with approximately five-year payback of equipment cost. Utilities and
governments are strongly advocating micro-CHP because it can increase
overall power generation capacity without expensive capital equipment
and transmission investment, while reducing the carbon footprint of an
average home by 1 tonne per year or more.

The micro-CHP market is young, with first-generation products becoming
available in 2009 and 2010. Europe and Asia are the main markets, due
to the large spread between retail electricity and gas prices and the
prevalence of hydronic boilers (technically simpler for micro-CHP than
forced-air furnaces in North America). Every major home heating
manufacturer in Europe is now pursuing micro-CHP. There are very
strong regulatory incentives in place for micro-CHP, particularly in
the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. The micro-CHP system
market is expected to be worth $1 billion by 2014, and to ultimately
capture 30-40% of the $11 billion annual market for home heating
boilers.

Etalim plans to produce and sell the TEG engine to established OEM
boiler manufacturers who will design and market a complete micro-CHP
product around the TEG. Current micro-CHP products use
Internal-Combustion, Rankine or Stirling engines for electricity
generation. While these engines are somewhat mature, they are
relatively expensive and inefficient at electricity production. Future
micro-CHP designs envision fuel cells as the prime mover. Fuel cells
are efficient, but are also very expensive and complex at the system
level. The Etalim TEG offers the high efficiency of a fuel cell, with
the simplicity and reliability of a Stirling engine - at lower cost
than either.

Solar Power Application

The Etalim TEG is well suited to utility-scale solar power generation.
An Etalim-based solar power system will be comprised of a solar
concentrating dish, 3m in diameter, that tracks the sun and
concentrates sunlight onto our proprietary TEG. A 10 MW power plant
based on the Etalim dish/TEG system would consist of an array of
dishes 60 wide and 60 deep.

5000 GW of new electric generation capacity will be required worldwide
over the next 20 years, at a cost of $4.2 trillion. Independent
estimates of the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) market, all of which
is addressable by Etalim, suggest $300 Billion in solar power
generation investment through 2030. Twenty-nine American states,
India, China and the EU are all drafting renewable energy directives,
typically requiring 20% of total electricity to come from renewable
sources, such as solar, by 2020.

Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers
and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation
provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability
of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand. From our
analysis of expected future system costs using uniform assumptions for
both alternative technologies and for Etalim, we expect to be able to
dominate based on a cost of generation that is lower than even
coal-fired generation. The Etalim cost advantage will lead to an even
larger profit advantage.


On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Aussie Guy E-Cat
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32267/
> Video here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43jv00l7pa0&feature=player_embedded

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[Owen Densmore]

Rich: How about an overview talk at the complex (wedtech? friday innovation?) on the state of the high efficiency energy world?  There seems a lot going but I don't study your reports enough to get The Big Picture!

   -- Owen 

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Rich Murray <[hidden email]> wrote:

updated video December 5, 2011

remarkably efficient thermo electric conversion Sterling cycle
acoustic compression device, Etalim Inc.: Rich Murray  2011.12.30

"Very high efficiency -- almost twice the efficiency of other small engines
Operation from any available heat source or fuel
Zero mechanical friction or wear
Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades
Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and
production processes
Micro-CHP Application

Micro Combined Heat and Power systems..."

"Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers
and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation
provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability
of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand...."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCZP3BsEHY

2:29 minutes
Uploaded by electronker on Dec 5, 2011
Etalim Inc.


http://www.etalim.com/news.php

June 2011: Etalim awarded Most Promising Pre-commercial Technology
2011 by the BC Technology Industry Association

February 2011: Etalim grows to 10 employees and relocates to larger
facilities in Vancouver, BC.

January 2011: Etalim is featured in the prestigious MIT Technology Review .

July 2010: Etalim is awarded a $2.2 million grant from Sustainable
Development Technology Canada.

January 2010: Etalim successfully completes the maiden run of the TEG prototype.

October 2009: Etalim receives a third round of R&D grant funding from
the NRC-IRAP program.

September 2009: Etalim is awarded 2nd prize for most promising
startup, out of 180 competitors in the BC Innovation Council New
Ventures BC competition. Etalim also receives the BC Hydro
Sustainability Prize.

March 2006: Etalim is founded.


Address Etalim Inc.
62 West 8th Avenue
Suite 400
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1M7
Canada
Phone               <a href="tel:%28604%29%20566-3487" value="[phone]">[phone]
Email   [hidden email]


Amos Michelson, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering
Chairman

Amos Michelson is Chairman of three high-tech start-ups and Director
in an additional five high-tech companies in the areas of life
sciences, energy, and Web 2.0.  Mr. Michelson was CEO of Creo, Inc.
from June 1995 until Kodak purchased Creo for C$ 1.2 Billion in May
2005.  Prior to joining Creo, he was CEO of Opal Inc., a
semi-conductor equipment company, and prior to this Mr. Michelson was
Chief Operating Officer of Optrotech Ltd., a developer and
manufacturer of optical and imaging systems for the electronics
industry.

Amos Michelson holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford
Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Amos Michelson is a past member of the Premier’s Technology Council
and in 1999 was named Entrepreneur of the Year, along with Dan
Gelbart, by Ernst & Young.  In 2005, Mr. Michelson was named the
“BCTIA Person of the Year”, an award presented to an individual who
has made an outstanding contribution to the technology industry during
the year.


Ron Klopfer, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering
CEO

Mr. Klopfer is an experienced technology entrepreneur and manager,
having co-founded, financed and managed three successful technology
startups over the past eight years, two of which have been acquired by
larger companies to generate strong returns to seed-stage venture
investors. Mr. Klopfer has also consulted to various technology
companies on market strategy, sales, mergers and operations. Mr.
Klopfer's technology sales and business development background
originates in the Silicon Valley, where his sales team doubled a large
sales region and key Fortune-500 account revenues for a hardware
manufacturer. Mr. Klopfer holds an MBA in technology marketing from
Queen's University, and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the
University of British Columbia.


Dr. Thomas W. Steiner, PhD
Chief Scientist

After graduating with a PhD in experimental physics from Simon Fraser
University in 1986 Dr. Steiner spent a year and a half at IBM’s T.J.
Watson research lab before returning to British Columbia and
eventually working at Creo (later to become a division of Kodak). At
Creo he provided technical leadership and many of the core ideas in
the development of several world beating products including Creo’s
first thermal laser exposure head, an optical cross-connect switch and
a continuous inkjet printing head. Dr. Steiner held the position of
principal physicist at Kodak before founding Etalim to pursue his
interest in energy related topics. He is the author of more than 30
papers in peer reviewed journals and the holder of nine patents with
at least six more pending.


Briac de Chardon, P.Eng.
Engineering Project Manager & Business Development Analyst

Mr. de Chardon obtained a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Victoria in 1999. He spent over six years working at
Creo (later Kodak) in product development roles and ink jet research.
In 2005 he then moved to start-up company Vectis Technologies to
commercialize plate processing technology. Mr. de Chardon joined
Etalim in 2006.


Core Innovation

Etalim Inc. is developing new and groundbreaking technology that
converts any fuel or heat source to electricity, with extraordinary
efficiency and simplicity. The Etalim TEG device is elegant,
straightforward to manufacture, and inexpensive. Etalim's unique TEG
platform has several addressable markets, such as utility-scale solar
power, cogeneration/CHP, and auxiliary/rural/telecom power generation.
Etalim plans to manufacture and sell TEG devices to system OEMs within
our target markets.

The Etalim TEG can achieve an extraordinary set of performance breakthroughs:

Very high efficiency - almost twice the efficiency of other small engines
Operation from any available heat source or fuel
Zero mechanical friction or wear
Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades
Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and
production processes
Micro-CHP Application

Micro Combined Heat and Power systems are essentially a home heating
furnace or boiler that produces electricity in addition to heat.
Conventional grid electricity generation is highly inefficient, with
as little as 35% of the energy in the fuel burned in the power plant
becoming electricity in the home. The rest of the energy is wasted as
heat in the power station, with a small amount lost in transmission
across the grid. Micro-CHP systems use natural gas (or other fuels) to
generate electricity at the point of demand, with very high
efficiency. This is possible because waste heat from electricity
generation is captured and used within the home. Micro-CHP offers
homeowners several hundred dollars in energy bill savings per year,
with approximately five-year payback of equipment cost. Utilities and
governments are strongly advocating micro-CHP because it can increase
overall power generation capacity without expensive capital equipment
and transmission investment, while reducing the carbon footprint of an
average home by 1 tonne per year or more.

The micro-CHP market is young, with first-generation products becoming
available in 2009 and 2010. Europe and Asia are the main markets, due
to the large spread between retail electricity and gas prices and the
prevalence of hydronic boilers (technically simpler for micro-CHP than
forced-air furnaces in North America). Every major home heating
manufacturer in Europe is now pursuing micro-CHP. There are very
strong regulatory incentives in place for micro-CHP, particularly in
the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. The micro-CHP system
market is expected to be worth $1 billion by 2014, and to ultimately
capture 30-40% of the $11 billion annual market for home heating
boilers.

Etalim plans to produce and sell the TEG engine to established OEM
boiler manufacturers who will design and market a complete micro-CHP
product around the TEG. Current micro-CHP products use
Internal-Combustion, Rankine or Stirling engines for electricity
generation. While these engines are somewhat mature, they are
relatively expensive and inefficient at electricity production. Future
micro-CHP designs envision fuel cells as the prime mover. Fuel cells
are efficient, but are also very expensive and complex at the system
level. The Etalim TEG offers the high efficiency of a fuel cell, with
the simplicity and reliability of a Stirling engine - at lower cost
than either.

Solar Power Application

The Etalim TEG is well suited to utility-scale solar power generation.
An Etalim-based solar power system will be comprised of a solar
concentrating dish, 3m in diameter, that tracks the sun and
concentrates sunlight onto our proprietary TEG. A 10 MW power plant
based on the Etalim dish/TEG system would consist of an array of
dishes 60 wide and 60 deep.

5000 GW of new electric generation capacity will be required worldwide
over the next 20 years, at a cost of $4.2 trillion. Independent
estimates of the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) market, all of which
is addressable by Etalim, suggest $300 Billion in solar power
generation investment through 2030. Twenty-nine American states,
India, China and the EU are all drafting renewable energy directives,
typically requiring 20% of total electricity to come from renewable
sources, such as solar, by 2020.

Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers
and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation
provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability
of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand. From our
analysis of expected future system costs using uniform assumptions for
both alternative technologies and for Etalim, we expect to be able to
dominate based on a cost of generation that is lower than even
coal-fired generation. The Etalim cost advantage will lead to an even
larger profit advantage.


On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Aussie Guy E-Cat
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32267/
> Video here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43jv00l7pa0&feature=player_embedded

============================================================
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Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

============================================================
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[Paul Paryski]

Good idea!  cheers and Happy New Year!  Did anyone else besides my wife and I catch the nasty cold/cough going around Santa Fe?

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen Densmore <[hidden email]>
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]>
Cc: vortex-l <[hidden email]>
Sent: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 4:55 am
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [Vo]:Eatlim claims 50% thermal to electrical conversion efficiency

Rich: How about an overview talk at the complex (wedtech? friday innovation?) on the state of the high efficiency energy world?  There seems a lot going but I don't study your reports enough to get The Big Picture!

   -- Owen 

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Rich Murray <[hidden email]> wrote:

updated video December 5, 2011

remarkably efficient thermo electric conversion Sterling cycle
acoustic compression device, Etalim Inc.: Rich Murray  2011.12.30

"Very high efficiency -- almost twice the efficiency of other small engines
Operation from any available heat source or fuel
Zero mechanical friction or wear
Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades
Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and
production processes
Micro-CHP Application

Micro Combined Heat and Power systems..."

"Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers
and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation
provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability
of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand...."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyCZP3BsEHY

2:29 minutes
Uploaded by electronker on Dec 5, 2011
Etalim Inc.


http://www.etalim.com/news.php

June 2011: Etalim awarded Most Promising Pre-commercial Technology
2011 by the BC Technology Industry Association

February 2011: Etalim grows to 10 employees and relocates to larger
facilities in Vancouver, BC.

January 2011: Etalim is featured in the prestigious MIT Technology Review .

July 2010: Etalim is awarded a $2.2 million grant from Sustainable
Development Technology Canada.

January 2010: Etalim successfully completes the maiden run of the TEG prototype.

October 2009: Etalim receives a third round of R&D grant funding from
the NRC-IRAP program.

September 2009: Etalim is awarded 2nd prize for most promising
startup, out of 180 competitors in the BC Innovation Council New
Ventures BC competition. Etalim also receives the BC Hydro
Sustainability Prize.

March 2006: Etalim is founded.


Address Etalim Inc.
62 West 8th Avenue
Suite 400
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1M7
Canada
Phone               [phone]
Email   [hidden email]


Amos Michelson, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering
Chairman

Amos Michelson is Chairman of three high-tech start-ups and Director
in an additional five high-tech companies in the areas of life
sciences, energy, and Web 2.0.  Mr. Michelson was CEO of Creo, Inc.
from June 1995 until Kodak purchased Creo for C$ 1.2 Billion in May
2005.  Prior to joining Creo, he was CEO of Opal Inc., a
semi-conductor equipment company, and prior to this Mr. Michelson was
Chief Operating Officer of Optrotech Ltd., a developer and
manufacturer of optical and imaging systems for the electronics
industry.

Amos Michelson holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford
Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Amos Michelson is a past member of the Premier’s Technology Council
and in 1999 was named Entrepreneur of the Year, along with Dan
Gelbart, by Ernst & Young.  In 2005, Mr. Michelson was named the
“BCTIA Person of the Year”, an award presented to an individual who
has made an outstanding contribution to the technology industry during
the year.


Ron Klopfer, M.B.A., B.S. Electrical Engineering
CEO

Mr. Klopfer is an experienced technology entrepreneur and manager,
having co-founded, financed and managed three successful technology
startups over the past eight years, two of which have been acquired by
larger companies to generate strong returns to seed-stage venture
investors. Mr. Klopfer has also consulted to various technology
companies on market strategy, sales, mergers and operations. Mr.
Klopfer's technology sales and business development background
originates in the Silicon Valley, where his sales team doubled a large
sales region and key Fortune-500 account revenues for a hardware
manufacturer. Mr. Klopfer holds an MBA in technology marketing from
Queen's University, and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the
University of British Columbia.


Dr. Thomas W. Steiner, PhD
Chief Scientist

After graduating with a PhD in experimental physics from Simon Fraser
University in 1986 Dr. Steiner spent a year and a half at IBM’s T.J.
Watson research lab before returning to British Columbia and
eventually working at Creo (later to become a division of Kodak). At
Creo he provided technical leadership and many of the core ideas in
the development of several world beating products including Creo’s
first thermal laser exposure head, an optical cross-connect switch and
a continuous inkjet printing head. Dr. Steiner held the position of
principal physicist at Kodak before founding Etalim to pursue his
interest in energy related topics. He is the author of more than 30
papers in peer reviewed journals and the holder of nine patents with
at least six more pending.


Briac de Chardon, P.Eng.
Engineering Project Manager & Business Development Analyst

Mr. de Chardon obtained a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Victoria in 1999. He spent over six years working at
Creo (later Kodak) in product development roles and ink jet research.
In 2005 he then moved to start-up company Vectis Technologies to
commercialize plate processing technology. Mr. de Chardon joined
Etalim in 2006.


Core Innovation

Etalim Inc. is developing new and groundbreaking technology that
converts any fuel or heat source to electricity, with extraordinary
efficiency and simplicity. The Etalim TEG device is elegant,
straightforward to manufacture, and inexpensive. Etalim's unique TEG
platform has several addressable markets, such as utility-scale solar
power, cogeneration/CHP, and auxiliary/rural/telecom power generation.
Etalim plans to manufacture and sell TEG devices to system OEMs within
our target markets.

The Etalim TEG can achieve an extraordinary set of performance breakthroughs:

Very high efficiency - almost twice the efficiency of other small engines
Operation from any available heat source or fuel
Zero mechanical friction or wear
Zero maintenance over an operating life of many decades
Very low cost - simple architecture using standard materials and
production processes
Micro-CHP Application

Micro Combined Heat and Power systems are essentially a home heating
furnace or boiler that produces electricity in addition to heat.
Conventional grid electricity generation is highly inefficient, with
as little as 35% of the energy in the fuel burned in the power plant
becoming electricity in the home. The rest of the energy is wasted as
heat in the power station, with a small amount lost in transmission
across the grid. Micro-CHP systems use natural gas (or other fuels) to
generate electricity at the point of demand, with very high
efficiency. This is possible because waste heat from electricity
generation is captured and used within the home. Micro-CHP offers
homeowners several hundred dollars in energy bill savings per year,
with approximately five-year payback of equipment cost. Utilities and
governments are strongly advocating micro-CHP because it can increase
overall power generation capacity without expensive capital equipment
and transmission investment, while reducing the carbon footprint of an
average home by 1 tonne per year or more.

The micro-CHP market is young, with first-generation products becoming
available in 2009 and 2010. Europe and Asia are the main markets, due
to the large spread between retail electricity and gas prices and the
prevalence of hydronic boilers (technically simpler for micro-CHP than
forced-air furnaces in North America). Every major home heating
manufacturer in Europe is now pursuing micro-CHP. There are very
strong regulatory incentives in place for micro-CHP, particularly in
the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. The micro-CHP system
market is expected to be worth $1 billion by 2014, and to ultimately
capture 30-40% of the $11 billion annual market for home heating
boilers.

Etalim plans to produce and sell the TEG engine to established OEM
boiler manufacturers who will design and market a complete micro-CHP
product around the TEG. Current micro-CHP products use
Internal-Combustion, Rankine or Stirling engines for electricity
generation. While these engines are somewhat mature, they are
relatively expensive and inefficient at electricity production. Future
micro-CHP designs envision fuel cells as the prime mover. Fuel cells
are efficient, but are also very expensive and complex at the system
level. The Etalim TEG offers the high efficiency of a fuel cell, with
the simplicity and reliability of a Stirling engine - at lower cost
than either.

Solar Power Application

The Etalim TEG is well suited to utility-scale solar power generation.
An Etalim-based solar power system will be comprised of a solar
concentrating dish, 3m in diameter, that tracks the sun and
concentrates sunlight onto our proprietary TEG. A 10 MW power plant
based on the Etalim dish/TEG system would consist of an array of
dishes 60 wide and 60 deep.

5000 GW of new electric generation capacity will be required worldwide
over the next 20 years, at a cost of $4.2 trillion. Independent
estimates of the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) market, all of which
is addressable by Etalim, suggest $300 Billion in solar power
generation investment through 2030. Twenty-nine American states,
India, China and the EU are all drafting renewable energy directives,
typically requiring 20% of total electricity to come from renewable
sources, such as solar, by 2020.

Etalim plans to provide second-generation TEG engines to developers
and integrators of renewable power projects. The Etalim innovation
provides the lowest cost of generated electricity and the availability
of solar energy is well matched to peak electrical demand. From our
analysis of expected future system costs using uniform assumptions for
both alternative technologies and for Etalim, we expect to be able to
dominate based on a cost of generation that is lower than even
coal-fired generation. The Etalim cost advantage will lead to an even
larger profit advantage.


On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Aussie Guy E-Cat
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32267/
> Video here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43jv00l7pa0&feature=player_embedded

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Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org