Angular Velocity Stepping (AVS)
Maelstrom’s patented Angular Velocity Stepping (AVS) technology is the key to building ultra-efficient engines, air conditioners, heat pumps and refrigerators. These machines will revolutionize the economics of:
Solar Power | Energy Storage | Transportation | HVAC | CO2 Capture | Water Desalination
AVS provides the foundation for turbine engines and refrigerators to operate at a thermodynamic cycle significantly more efficient than any existing technology.
Imagine:
- Turbine engines (anything from a generator to a jet engine) that produce the same power from half or even a third of the fuel other engines need,
- Air conditioners that deliver the same cooling from less than half of the kilowatt-hours other systems would use.
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Every breakthrough Maelstrom aims to achieve is built on the AVS technology performing ultra-efficient compression and expansion of air or other working fluids. This technology is the primary force behind reduction in energy loss.
AVS is a huge leap forward for the thermodynamic power and refrigeration cycles upon which so much of our modern world is built. It is one machine to do many valuable things. The technology will yield dramatically enhanced capabilities in:
- Established markets: air, sea and ground transportation, commercial and residential HVAC, industrial processes, agriculture, etc.
- Emerging markets: solar power, energy storage, CO2 capture, seawater detoxification and water purification, etc.
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