Jun 2, 2008

Generate Your Own Electricity

Are you looking to limit your exposure to the rapid ups-and-ups of gasoline prices? One way is to seek out a plug-in hybrid vehicle and generate your own electricity. Okay, that’s a radical notion, but it might be much less radical with the potential commercial introduction of the Coates Spherical Rotary Valve (CSRV) Home Generator. The generator has been configured to operate on propane and can be powered with any combustible engine fuel, including hydrogen, should you have some hydrogen lying around. The CSRV generator is a synchronous system that only produces the amount of electric power that is being used or required at any given time from 1 Kw up to 35 Kws, and it is powered by a CSRV in-line four-cylinder power unit.

Coates International is high on the idea because the CSRV Home Generator's ability to only supply the power required and its adaptability to operate on alternative fuels with ultra low emissions and low consumption of varied fuels might give it a bright future. One of the technology’s key attributes is its claimed low fuel consumption -- an 18 to 30 percent saving versus a conventional power plant -- and low emissions.

The patented spherical rotary valve CSRV industrial internal combustion engine was invented by George J. Coates and his son Gregory. It was designed to run on flare-off gas from oil wells, landfill gas and raw natural gas.

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