Alternative fuel!
An innovative Japanese engineer Mr. Takashi Yabe, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, has developed a thermal based laser fusion of magnesium particles as a prospective fuel source! It is an incredible discovery, based on magnesium from the seas and oceans round the world; and the usion heat harnessed from the sun! Both raw materials are nature's gift to mankind and available free!
The process developed, called the magnesium energy and injection cycle named MAGIC by Engineer Yabe, could one day remove our dependence on finite traditional fossil fuel! The main crux of this breakthrough is in transformation of magnesium chloride from sea-water to magnesium oxide using the sun's ray and producing clean energy! The by-products are magnesium oxide and water; which can be recycled back to the MAGIC cycle probably endlessly!
There is around 1800 trillion tons of magnesium in the earth's seas and oceans, as calculated by Engr. Yabe. The white powdered magnesium oxide, has however never been considered as a viable source of usable energy; since to reduce the oxide to pure magnesium powder needs extreme temperatures up to 4,000 degree C, not considered realistic.
Yabe and his team have designed a process extracting magnesium chloride from seawater, using a special evaporating technique. Next, magnesium chloride is converted to magnesium oxide in a vacuum tank by plastic Fresnel lenses to focus beam of sunlight into lasers and sending it through microscopic fibres to concentrate the heat that can produce the refined magnesium powder. This magnesium is recombined with water, in the MAGIC engine, creating heat and hydrogen that powers the car! The by-product, magnesium oxide can be reconverted to useful energy again by laser heating! This work cycle thus can be repeated.
The pure magnesium produced can also be used in fuel cell batteries. This is at least seven times more powerful than the lithium batteries that power hybrid and electric cars of today. This MAGIC cycle engine represents the ultimate harnessing of solar power and ocean's resources for meeting our energy needs, at least for the next few thousand years; or till superseded by easier and cleaner fuel replacement source to provide power to meet our needs which is bound to increase day by day.
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