Steam can be generated using insolation by a solar collection system. A thermal storage system can store enthalpy in insolation-generated steam at times and can generate steam from stored enthalpy at other times. During some operating periods, a gas-fired superheater can further heat the generated steam to provide superheated steam to generate electricity. Steam at a substantially uniform electricity generating temperature may be produced selectively and at different operating periods from insolation only, from insolation and gas firing, from transfer of enthalpy from a thermal storage system and gas firing, or from a combination of insolation, stored enthalpy transfer, and gas firing. Operating periods can be characterized by at least one of an insolation level, a time of day, or a stage in the operation process. The generated steam can be used in the production of electricity.

A method for generating electricity with a system having a water tank, an electricity generating plant and a parabolic trough solar power plant including transferring water from the water tank to the solar power plant. The water is received in a helical pipe located within a glass pipe encasing an absorber tube of a parabolic trough solar power plant. The glass pipe and the helical pipe extend from a first end to a second end of a parabolic trough along a central axis of the glass pipe an. During periods of high irradiance the water is converted in the helical pipe to steam by focusing solar radiation on the absorber tube. A sand filled pipe extends from the first end to the second end of the parabolic trough along the central axis of the glass pipe Steam is expelled from the helical pipe. During periods of low irradiance the water is released the water within the helical pipe to the inner pipe located within the sand filled pipe, converting the water to steam with the heated sand in the sand filled pipe, expelling the steam, transferring the steam to a turbine to generate mechanical energy in the turbine, and transferring the mechanical energy to generate electricity.

A portable human performance, renewable clean energy generator and pollution control system, with devices and associated methods to create mechanisms, paralleling organic flower plants for users to quickly harness it to improve their human performance. Knowing what mechanisms in a system should not operate at what times is crucial to force multiplying limited resource inputs. A tipping points arbitrage predictive model method leverages all mechanisms' operations toward specific needs of users, bending supply to meet demand, reducing waste and increasing output, whether in energy or human performance. Especially for disasters, when electricity is less reliable and portable generators are often used yet emit dangerous levels of carbon emissions, and even at low levels reduce human performance. This invention harnesses primarily heat, not fossil fuels. Synergistically, chemicals used for human performance provide heat, helping reach advantageous renewable energy tipping points, while reducing risk of adversely exceeding human performance tipping points.

A portable system and method for renewable-energy generation and human-performance optimization are disclosed. The system converts exothermic or thermoelectric energy into electricity through adaptive energy-arbitrage control to maximize overall conversion efficiency, while conditioning air composition to support physiological/cognitive function. A predictive model executed on a smartphone or embedded processor identifies cognitive, motivational, and behavioral tipping points and regulates subsystem activation using a cognitive free-return-trajectory method to prevent or restore from degraded performance. Multiple systems may interconnect to exchange thermal or electrical energy, operate autonomously in confined environments, and provide effector feedback to sustain cooperative, safety-critical, or goal-directed behavior. The controller may adapt its computational behavior or resource utilization under power-limited or mission-critical conditions to sustain essential human and AI subsystem performance. The invention forms an adaptive human-performance generator for disaster-response, civil-defence, and daily productivity applications.