In the United States there are approximately 190 million passenger cars, 20,000 railroad trains and 130 million trucks of eight varying classes or sizes.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) at hhtps://www.eia.gov is being used as the primary reference for energy statistics stated in this document for energy statistics.
The benchmark for electrical energy cost per kilowatt-hour (cost to produce from coal, according to EIA for the year 2015), is 3.24 cents or 0.0324 dollars (note that this is not the average consumer cost of $0.1268 per KWH). This unit cost of 3.24 cents for production of electrical energy will also serve as the price per kilowatt that will be paid or credited to clients that produce energy with this invention.
The basis for all projections of power produced is the equation:
power (P)=amperage(I)*Electromotive Force(E), that is P=I*E.
The minimum deployment of this invention will be for passenger vehicles with 4 or more battery cells as a cluster along with two or more additional alternators with high output (HO) of 300 amperes or greater and with storage battery voltage of 48 to 208 volts.
As the physical size or class of any vehicle increases the number of cells in a cluster, number of additional alternators and storage battery cluster voltage may increase.
The minimum quantity of power to be delivered during discharge of the battery cluster, in order to be cost effective, is 4 kwh for each battery cell, which is approximately 16 KWH from one battery cluster of 4 cells for each cycle and with 16 cycles a day.
One storage cycle will consist of the process of the alternator(s) completely charging the battery cluster followed by the transfer of energy from the fully charged cluster into the energy grid. Although 16 storage charge/discharge cycles is the desired number, the number may vary based on actual charge/discharge/transfer times.
Below are projections of the power to be produced and the associated dollar value for various sizes or classes of vehicles. The projections are based on full rollout and with 90% of vehicles nationwide utilizing this invention.
The number of onboard storage cells and alternators listed below for each vehicle class is the minimum quantity that will be onboard the vehicle during normal vehicle use for transport of humans or commodities.
The number of battery cells in a cluster for each vehicle class is the number of cells that can be stored on the vehicle and can be housed in unused areas under the hood, under the seats or in a rectangular fashion in the cargo area, such as with 10 rows of batteries along the length of 10 feet and 16 columns of batteries along the width of 8 feet in an area in a truck and where a false floor can be built to house and cover battery cells in one layer. Where batteries are housed in a rectangular fashion, the false floor will allow for the remaining cargo space to be available for conventional hauling.
Specific Estimates for Various Vehicle Types/Sizes.
Given 190 million passenger cars in the U.S. where each can carry 6 battery cell clusters, and will have three 300 ampere alternators, and each storage battery cell will provide 208 volts, there will be 31.2 KWH discharged from each battery cell, which is 187.2 kwh from each cluster cycle and with 16 cycles a day for a total of 2,995.2 KWH from one passenger car each day. There will be the accumulated daily quantity of 569.088 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 190 million passenger cars.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one passenger car with a 6 battery cell cluster is $37.3248.
For the cumulative daily quantity transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $18,438,451,200.
Given 30 million (class 1 and 2) trucks in the U.S. where each can carry 30 cell clusters and six additional 300 ampere alternators, and each battery cell will provide 208 volts, will generate 12.480 KWH from each battery cell, which is 374.4 kwh from each cluster cycle with 16 cycles for a total of 5,990.4 KWH from one class 1 or 2 truck each day, there will be the accumulated daily quantity of 179.712 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 30 million class 1 or 2 trucks.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one class 1 or 2 truck with a 30 cell cluster is $194.08896.
For the cumulative daily transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $5,822,668,800.
In addition to the class 1 and 2 trucks, given 30 million medium (class 3) trucks in the U.S. where each can carry 50 cell clusters and six additional 300 ampere alternators, and each battery cell will provide 208 volts, will generate 7.488 KWH from each battery cell, which is 374.400 kwh from each cluster cycle with 16 cycles for a total of 5,990.4 KWH from one class 3 truck each day, there will be the accumulated daily quantity of 179.712 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 30 million class 3 trucks.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one class 3 truck with a 50 cell cluster is $194.088896.
For the cumulative daily transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $776,355,840.
In addition to the class 3 trucks, given 20 million large walk in (class 4) trucks in the U.S. where each can carry 80 cell clusters and ten additional 400 ampere alternators, and each battery cell will provide 208 volts, will generate 10.4 KWH from each battery cell, which is 832 kwh from each cluster cycle with 16 cycles for a total of 13,312 KWH each day, there will be the daily accumulated quantity of 266.240 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 20 million trucks.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one class 4 truck with a 80 cell cluster is $431.3088.
For the cumulative daily transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $8,626,176,000.
In addition to the class 3 and class 4 trucks, given 20 million large (class 5) trucks in the U.S. where each can carry 160 cell clusters and ten additional 400 ampere alternators, and each battery cell will provide 208 volts, will generate 5.2 KWH from each battery cell, which is 832 kwh from each cluster cycle with 16 cycles for a total of 13,312 KWH each day, there will be the daily accumulated quantity of 266.240 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 20 million trucks.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one class 5 truck with a 160 cell cluster is $431.3088.
For the cumulative daily transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $8,626,176,000.
In addition to the class 3, 4 and class 5 trucks, given 20 million large (class 6) trucks in the U.S. where each can carry 160 cell clusters and ten additional 400 ampere alternators, and each battery cell will provide 208 volts, will generate 5.2 KWH from each battery cell, which is 832 kwh from each cluster cycle with 16 cycles for a total of 13,312 KWH each day, there will be the daily accumulated quantity of 93.184 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 20 million trucks.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one class 6 truck with a 160 cell cluster is $431.3088.
For the cumulative daily transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $8,626,176,000.
In addition to the class 3,4,5 and class 6 trucks, given 20 million large (class 7) trucks in the U.S. where each can carry 200 cell clusters and 20 additional 400 ampere alternators, and each battery cell will provide 208 volts, will generate 8.320 KWH from each battery cell, which is 1,664 kwh from each cluster cycle with 16 cycles for a total of 26,624 KWH from one class 7 truck each day, there will be the daily accumulated quantity of 186.368 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 20 million trucks.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one class 7 truck with a 200 cell cluster is $862.61.
For the cumulative daily transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $6,038,323,200.
In addition to the class 3, 4. 5, 6 and class 7 trucks, given 5.5 million large (class 8/tractor-trailer) trucks in the U.S. where each can carry 200 cell clusters and 20 additional 400 ampere alternators, and each battery cell will provide 208 volts, will generate 8.320 KWH from each battery cell, which is 1,664 kwh from each cluster cycle with 16 cycles for a total of 26,624 KWH from one class 8 truck each day, there will be the daily accumulated quantity of 146,432,000,000 billion KWH transmitted into the energy grid from 5.5 million trucks.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one class 8 truck with a 200 cell cluster is $862.61.
For the cumulative daily transmitted energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $4,744,396,800.
In addition to the various classes of trucks, given 20 thousand heavy rail trains in the U.S. where each can carry 30 additional cars with a 800 cell cluster in each added car for a total of 24,000 cells for one train and each added car will have one hundred 400 amp alternators in operation along with battery voltage of 208 volts and generate 10.4 KWH from each battery cell and 8,320 KWH in each car cluster and 249,600 KWH during each cycle for 30 car clusters with at least 40 cycles a day for a total of 9.984 million KWH each day, there will the daily accumulated quantity of 199.680 billion kilowatt-hours transmitted into the energy grid from 20 thousand heavy rail trains.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one rail train with a combined 24,000 cell cluster is $323,481.60.
For the cumulative daily energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $6,469,632,000.
There are other vehicles in addition to these cars, trucks and trains that may also serve as host vehicles for SUPERAAACHARGE such as 500,000 school buses, a large number of light rail trains and 9 million recreation vehicles. These other vehicles as well as “SPECIALTY” vehicles other than train and passenger, are not being included in table 1—projections of energy production.
These other vehicles as well as various classes of trucks can also have trailers loaded with storage battery clusters attached to the vehicle along with several alternators propelled by the movement of the trailer wheels on the roadway.
For all trucks and rail vehicles, the “one way” rule will result in increased revenues from deployment of this invention. The “one way” rule stipulates that any vehicle that hauls freight but then makes the return trip empty, can on the return trip, maximize the SUPERAAACHARGE configuration of alternators and storage cells utilizing the freed up cargo space, and thereby generate much more electrical energy into the power grid and generate more revenue from the energy that is sold.
The anticipation is that if these additional vehicles and trailers were also included in the list of energy production the resulting percentage would approach or exceed the 33% of both coal and natural gas.
Specialty Vehicle
In addition to the various class trucks and rail, there will be a special application of SUPERAAACHARGE with RAIL transport and this will be a departure from the fundamental basis for SUPERAAACHARGE which is that energy expended for the primary purpose of transport will also be harnessed for the secondary production of electrical energy. The departure will be that energy will be intentionally expended for the primary purpose of propelling rail trains or other vehicles in the production of electrical energy. Specifically there can be up to 2,000 “SPECIAL” trains operated daily, with 250 rail cars or more for each, where the only cargo will be SUPERAACHARGE storage batteries, along with a 800 cell battery cluster in each rail car for a total of at least 200,000 cells for one train and each rail car will have two hundred 400 amp alternators in operation along with battery voltage of 208 volts and generate 20.8 KWH for each battery cell and 16,640 KWH in each rail car cluster and 4.160 million KWH during each cycle for one rail train with 250 rail car clusters with at least 40 cycles a day for a total of 166.4 million KWH each day, there will the daily accumulated quantity of 199.680 billion kilowatt-hours transmitted into the energy grid from 1,200 specialty heavy rail trains. (above calculation): 20.8 KWH*800 cells=16,640 KWH for one carcluster *250 cars in one train=4,160,100 KWH in one train*40 cycles per day=166,400,000 KWH for one train daily with all 40 cycles*2,200 specialty trains=332.800 billion KWH.
The monetary value for a one day transmission of energy from one rail train with a 200,000 cell cluster is $5,391,360
For the cumulative daily energy nationwide from all such vehicles, the related daily monetary value will be $10,782,720,000.
Given that the specialty trains will operate only to generate electricity they will operate at least 20 hours each day and there will be at least 40 charge/discharge cycles for the battery clusters on these trains, ultimately to be discharged via a hard-wired connection of the train rail to the energy grid.
Most other vehicle types or classes may also be deployed for maximum use of storage battery cells as described for the special deployment case of rails above. For any specialty vehicle application the maximum number of storage batteries that can be housed in the vehicle and the maximum number of alternators that can be operated from the vehicle motion or other propulsion, and the proper voltage level for the batteries, will be employed in the operation of a specialty vehicle.
As a notable point concerning passenger vehicles utilized for SUPERAAACHARGE deployment in either the “SPECIALTY” state which maximizes energy production for any specially deployed vehicle, or during normal use of the vehicle, the deployment will lend itself greatly for the so-called “TRUE” automobile—that is for any vehicle than can operate for extended timeframes without any human operation. Such human-less vehicles have been proven feasible and exist operationally as of the year 2016, but the purchase cost is currently prohibitive. SUPERAAACHARGE, when deployed on one of these true-automobiles, will provide daily income from electrical energy production. Such income from the deployment of SUPERAAACHARGE in one “true” human-less automobile that can operate for more than 32 cycles daily would generate twice the revenue from a conventional passenger car, with which to defray the cost of a true-automobile.
EIA monthly total electric megawatts generated in the U.S. in May, 2016 was 300,000 thousand megawatts or 300,000 gigawatts. That translates to an average daily quantity of 10,000 thousand megawatts or 10,000 gigawatts.
EIA lists the sources for electrical energy in the U.S. for the year 2015
Based on the list (below), electrical energy produced from this invention at 29.71904% would surpass nuclear as the third greatest source for electrical energy production. This projected percentage from this invention is based on full rollout and with 90% of vehicles utilizing this invention.
1—Natural gas 33%
2—Coal 33%
(PROJECTED # 3 producer is this invention 29.71904%)
3—Nuclear 20%%
4—Other non-Renewables 7%
5—Hydroelectric 6%
6—Petroleum 1%
Costs
The focus for the utilization of energy produced onboard any vehicle has historically been for the powering of the vehicle, whether it be an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle.
The related focus of Highly Resonant Wireless Power Transfer has been the same as for energy produced onboard a vehicle.
There has been some focus in harnessing power generated from wind or solar sources to be introduced into the power grid but there has been no activity in harnessing the huge numbers of moving vehicles in order to produce power into the power grid.
This invention has as its focus to harness the large number of vehicles, exceeding 250 million in number, and to transfer the energy produced by the motion of each vehicle into the electric power grid, with the cumulative quantity of energy being transferred to approach 29% of the daily electrical power produced in the U.S.
This invention has been made feasible by the breakthroughs in nano-technology that provides for storage batteries which combine the characteristics of fast charge, fast discharge and large storage capacity.
ILLUSTRATION 1—CURRENT ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCES
ILLUSTRATION 2—PROJECTED ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCES INCLUDING THIS INVENTION
ILLUSTRATION 3—POUNDS OF CO2 PER KILOWATT-HOUR PRODUCED
WiTricity Corporation (www.witricity.com) Vendor for Highly Resonant Wireless Power Transfer (HRWPT)
East Penn Manufacturing Company (www.eastpennmanufacturing.com) manufacturer/Vendor for Ultrabattery® storage battery