What would happen if local communities were able to generate all the electricity they need without any outside help?

A machine you can build and pay for in three months using the cash you save on an electric bill that is 95% less previous costs!

Imagine what it must have been like looking at, for the first time in history, the idea that men could fly. A very rare circumstance for anyone. Yet here I stand today, face to face with that very emotional challenge. And trust me when I say, I have encountered many with that ‘Man will never fly!” mentality. It does not discourage you, it only ticks you off. And reminds you, the first person with that idea jumped off a cliff with bird feathers glued to his head. So, caution is highly encouraged!

After a couple years in the Air Force, I used my military benefits to attend my local college, studying electronics communications with a focus on radio and television industries. At that time, a small R&D group had built something new close to our college. A three-armed monster they called a ‘wind turbine”. It did not receive enough funding however and failed to generate a single watt. But it sparked many hours of intense conversation in my college, which I gleefully engaged in. Nothing gets attention like failure. I detest failure, grabbed it with both hands and demanded of myself to find out why it failed. No connection with my major, electronics communications, but I was hook, line, and sinker trapped. Now here is where that first time in history starts. It’s 1973 and the starting bell has rung pounds in my brain.

Electrical energy. I lived about 30 miles from the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston NY. It’s like God had ordained my mission personally, and my passions flashed into a full state of concentration. If you want to know about an installation like the Niagara Power Project, who do you ask, the gate guard? No! You want the lead engineer! So, I called them on the phone. Landline phone back then. The secretary answered with “Niagara Power station, how may I help you?” I thought, how the hell am I going to get this lady to allow me to talk to the lead engineer who probably spends every second at work making sure the whole thing does not come crashing down. “My name is Tim Gard, I am local electronics engineer out of Erie County community college, and I am hoping to speak with the lead engineer about …”. “One moment please and I will transfer you…”, she interrupts. You are not REALLY going to transfer me, are you? rang in my thick skull. “Mr. Smith here, how may I help you?” (Name changed to protect the innocent. And frankly, I forgot!)  stuttered uncontrollably, “Aren’t you …supposed to be watching that massive hydro machine … to be sure it does not screw up?” His laughter came in a massive uproar from deep in his belly! “Are you kidding me? This damned thing runs so well, I spend most of my time writing down numbers that prove just how flawless it works! He spent the next hour explaining exactly how the darned thing worked and mentioned he had never meet anyone so passionate about his science! But the most shocking realization for me? Hydro power never ever goes above 16% efficiency because of accelerated mass losses in hydro turbine design. The water mass can never slow down because water is not compressible, so it must leave the turbine as fast as it enters. That whole passionate problem-solving thing kicked in high gear. 16% means there is gold here being thrown away by a poorly designed device, and I had to find out why and fix it! And fix it I did, as you will see if you are patient!

The key to hydro power losses were the accelerated mass. If water was allowed to move fast, the losses would be set. The only logical start to solving this problem? Those damned turbines had to go out with the trash! Approach with a clean slate! On comes the HYPEG. HYdro Pneumatic Energy Generation was born. A device that uses displacement, like what makes a massive iron ship float on top of the water. A cubic foot of air under water is forced up by the water mass at a pressure of 62 pounds per cubic foot. The HYPEG uses these same forces to input energy into a generator. And if you know about electrical supply demands, you know they are very fickle. The instant someone 100 miles away flicks on a light, the generator feels that demand almost instantly. This however is not really a difficult problem to deal with using the HYPEG. Not dish washing simple but engineering simple. When we need more power delivered to the generator set, we simply add more air into the submerged HYPEG conveyor belt resulting in immediate energy availability to meet fickle field demand. Greatly reduced accelerated mass losses, because we use torque and not speed to deliver the energy. The HYPEG moves us closer to 85% efficiency. Over five times greater than a hydro turbine.

Now, where do we get compressed air? This is where we solve the base load problem with wind turbines, because we are not going to hook them to electrical generators, we will hook them to air compressors, and store that energy in the form of compressed air indefinitely. Our energy will wait in that form until the HYPEG demands more air to meet the load demand. At this point, I have been challenged on the massive size of storage containers used in built AES power systems. Bad designs raise their ugly heads again. These systems use a very low-pressure design. We will not do that. Our storage pressures will be in the thousands of PSI storage state greatly reducing the storage size requirements. I can explain these things in more detail if you want, but as your grade schoolteacher told you, ‘You must do your own homework. I can not pore knowledge into your head like water into a glass!’ Keep an open mind and knowledge will result when you focus.

There are other huge advantages to compressed air. It is very easy to transport in huge temperature ranges without problems, (except condensation, which is easily addressed with simple logic), and transport over huge elevational challenges. You can even put these pipes in and under water in a river if you want. Much less expensive than aluminum wires where expensive energy hog transformers are needed. Fewer losses and again, lower costs.

Now on to the next challenge. If you want to build something new, it is always best to ask people who encounter problems in the basic design science. If you ask someone very experienced with working with wind with a thousand years of experience, like sailors, I doubt you will ever hear building a wind driven sail out of massive weight fiberglass, steel, and concrete is a good idea. But these wind turbine ‘geniuses’ think their oatmeal does not stink. Dumb as a rock …  No a whole box of rocks. Sail cloth makes wind work, not fiberglass! Sail cloth is very inexpensive, easily replaced, and less energy needed to function. That’s waste to real engineers.

Let’s delve into real logic just for laughs. You design a system that requires extremely heavy machines to be mounted hundreds of feet into the air? Maybe a horizontal design is as stupid as fiberglass sail cloth? Did you get your engineering degree with a curved grade or something! You really did, didn’t you! LOL

Use vertical wind and keep all that mass on the ground for crying out loud! Our wind turbines will compress air, like I said. We will use dirigibles to pull lightweight vertical turbine sets high into the air, where wind is more dependable and everywhere around the world, where they will compress air and send it to the ground for storage to be used to supply energy to the ground based HYPEG units and if inclement weather threaten the installation, the dirigible is pulled back to ground, the turbines are safely stored, and the entire set up returns into the air after the threat is removed by nature herself.

Now, anything that requires massive costs to build are contrary to common logic, if those expensive designs are not necessary. Are these something never seen in history? That is correct. Was there ever a time when Man never witnessed a Man to fly into the air and safely return to the ground? YES! And were the men who did this flight engineers, or bicycle mechanics?

In conclusion, here is what I have to offer you. A machine you can build and pay for in three months using the cash you save on an electric bill that is 95% less previous costs! And the only way that cost will increase is if you allow your local township to increase it. Like to build a local hospital owned by the local community, with the best healthcare the local community wants. Or increase a little more and build the best schools in the world watched by the very people who send their own children there. It’s the local communities’ machine, they can use it however they please!

Can we do this? The answer is not only yes, we can, and we WILL!