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Global off-grid power
Nanoptek’s solar hydrogen generators operate
without electricity and without natural gas. That is, they operate
where there is no electrical grid and no natural gas pipeline
infrastructure. And so, they can, when coupled with fuel cell or
hydrogen generator set, make electricity anywhere.
Africa, for example, has the sun and the land.
In fact, the solar insolation is as much as 10 to 12 hours per day in
much of Africa. Water can be collected rainwater, or ocean water, or
even filtered wastewater. Nanoptek's Solar Hydrogen Generators,
combined with some amount of storage to account for nighttime and other
sunless hours, would power hydrogen generator sets.
 A
modest
installation of our solar hydrogen generators would
provide enough hydrogen to run a 10 kW generator set 24/7, with hydrogen left over for direct use in stovetops and
perhaps even vehicles. For a village to have 10 kW of electricity can
be life-transforming. Energy wealth would no longer be a
geographical roulette game, as it is now with coal and oil distribution, and
a local source of hydrogen would enable off-pipe off-grid manufacturing and transportation. And this
story would be true for and replicated in China, India, and in other
developing parts of the globe.
A further benefit of supplying these closed-loop systems is that along
with the power generated comes clean water as well. Whether graywater,
ocean water, or saltwater from deep-water aquifers (such as in the
American SouthWest), it is dissociated into hydrogen and oxygen with
Nanoptek’s solar hydrogen generators. These gases are recombined when
they are combusted in the genset to provide not only clean electricity,
but clean water as well. (In fact, a little too clean- minerals will be
added back into the essentially distilled water that is produced, to
make it suitable for human consumption.) Contaminated water and air in
the developing world, usually from from burning of even animal waste
products, are major contributors to premature death, especially among
children.
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