The invention relates to a method for supplying electrical energy (10), wherein a heat accumulator (2) is charged with thermal energy (3) in a heat charging station (1), wherein the thermal energy (3) is converted into electrical energy (10) in a conversion station (5). The invention also relates to an energy supply system for supplying electrical energy (10), in particular according to said method, wherein the energy supply system has at least one heat accumulator (2), and wherein the energy supply system has a heat charging station (1) for charging the heat accumulator (2) with thermal energy (3). The energy supply system has a conversion station (5) for converting thermal energy (3) stored in the heat accumulator (2) into electrical energy (10), wherein the system has an energy generating device for generating electrical energy (10), and wherein the system is designed to convert electrical energy (10) generated by the energy generating device into thermal energy (3) and to store same in the heat accumulator (2).

Apparatus, method(s), and system(s) according to which electric power is generated in one or more coils by rotating a magnetic field generated by one or more permanent magnets. The one or more coils are connected to a collar. The collar is positioned downhole in an oil and gas wellbore. The one or more permanent magnets are connected to a rotor positioned within an internal passageway of the collar. A fluid is communicated along the internal passageway of the collar. The rotor, and thus the magnetic field generated by the one or more permanent magnets, are rotated using the fluid communicated along the internal passage.

A flexible clean energy power generation device with high power efficiency, which is a multi-film structure, includes an internal conductive support layer and an ion transport layer. The internal conductive support layer is formed by coating a conductive material onto a hydrophilic substrate; the ion transport layer is formed by coating a polyelectrolyte onto an outer side of the internal conductive support layer. After a solution is dropped on the device, the solution produces a capillary pressure difference by capillary action and evaporation phenomena to drive water molecules and counterions of the solution to move from a wet side to a dry side, thus producing a potential difference. Without an external pressure, the device uses a layered two-dimensional conductive material together with a polyelectrolyte, realizing a self-electrokinetic power generation with high energy output and long-life by capillary action and evaporation phenomena with using pure aqueous solution or other electrolyte solutions.

A drone system for collecting structural condition data about a structure having an array of sensors disposed at various locations on the structure and methods of using such a drone system are disclosed herein. The drone inspection system leverages neural networks to calculate a drone flight path to classify the location of passive sensors and calculate a drone flight path to collect structural condition data about the structure using line of sight sensors for digital twin generation. Some of the sensors disposed on the structure may be passive sensors that comprise energy harvesters and must be energized to report the structural collection data to the drone. The drone inspection system may comprise an energy transfer module for energizing the passive sensor via the energy harvester.

A system may provide for a plurality of modular power plants in operable communication with one another, each individual power plant being at least partially disposed within a new well or exhausted oil or gas well or conventional geothermal well or along the length of a well. Each modular power plant may be considered a node within the network and may include multiple means of interconnectivity such that temporary loss or failure of a single node does not interfere with the operability of the remaining modular power plants. The system may be constructed and arranged for a decentralized power grid for residential, commercial, or industrial applications including electric vehicle charging or the like.

A system includes a first levitation magnet. The system also includes a suspension magnet configured underneath the first levitation magnet. The suspension magnet oscillates continuously. Magnetic flux cuts across electrical coil windings. Energy is generated as a result of the magnetic flux that cuts across the electrical coil windings. A second levitation magnet is positioned underneath the suspension magnet and first levitation magnet. The suspension magnet is configured to levitate between the first levitation magnet and the second levitation magnet.

Various implementations of the invention correspond to an improved vortex flux generator. In some implementations of the invention, the improved vortex flux generator includes a magnetic circuit configured to produce a magnetic field; a quench controller configured to provide a variable current; a vortex material configured to form and subsequently dissipate a vortex in response to the variable current, wherein upon formation of the vortex, a magnetic field density surrounding the vortex is urged to decrease, and wherein upon subsequent dissipation of the vortex, the urging to decrease ceases and the magnetic field density increases prior to a reformation of the vortex, and wherein the decrease of the magnetic field density and the increase of the magnetic field density correspond to a modulation of the magnetic field; an inductor disposed in a vicinity of the vortex such that the modulation of the magnetic field induces an electrical current in the inductor; and a dissipation superconductor electrically disposed in parallel with the vortex material and configured to carry, without quenching, an entirety of the variable current during dissipation of the vortex in the vortex material.

A bio-energy power system comprising a selection process, an extraction process, and a transfer process. More specifically, a bio-energy power system that uses a selection process to create an energy enhanced organism. In some embodiments, the energy is extracted and consumed using an extraction process to create an energy rich homogenate from the energy enhanced organism and a transfer process to transfer the energy from the energy rich homogenate to the grid or to an energy storage device. In other embodiments, the energy enhanced organism is kept alive and the energy is extracted and consumed using a pure quartz water system for extraction and a transfer process to transfer the energy from the pure quartz water system to the grid or to an energy storage device.

A thermomagnetic apparatus for electric power production, comprising: a hollow toric vessel (30) delimited by a wall (31) having an outer toric surface (31a) having a toroidal direction, wherein the toric wall (31) encloses a volume containing a ferrofluid which comprises magnetic nanoparticles dispersed or suspended in a fluid carrier; a plurality of hydraulic conduits (36-39) in thermal contact with the outer toric surface (31a); a magnetic field source (62) coupled to the outer toric surface (62) and an extraction coil (65) which comprises a plurality of turns (65′) of electrical conductor wire arranged on the outer toric surface (31a).

System and method for generating and storing electricity by electromagnetic induction using a magnetic field modulated by the formation, dissipation, and movement of vortices produced by a vortex material such as a type II superconductor and further including a vortex flux generator in cryostat and a refrigerant compartment having bi-directionally thermal transfer to the vortex flux generator. Magnetic field modulation occurs at the microscopic level, facilitating the production of high frequency electric power. Generator inductors are manufactured using microelectronic fabrication, in at least one dimension corresponding to the spacing of vortices. The vortex material fabrication method establishes the alignment of vortices and generator coils, permitting the electromagnetic induction of energy from many vortices into many coils simultaneously as a cumulative output of electricity. A thermoelectric cycle is used to convert heat energy into electricity.