DynaCap™ Project Overview

DynaCap Elements

• A new Clean, Renewable, Energy Source called DynaCap™.   • It applies a recent discovery (Giant ElectroCaloric Effect) made by Cambridge Univ.  • Keywords: Energy, Electricity, Solar, Solar Roads, Electrocaloric, Thermoelectric, electrocaloric. Perovskite with temperature-dependent dielectric  properties

Significance of this Accomplishment

DynaCap™ has the potential to:   • Generate electricity from clean solar energy (Not photovoltaic.  Uses asphalt roads).   • Store electricity in simple devices buried in our asphalt roads,streets & parking lots. • Cut CO2 emissions.  DynaCap™ emits only electricity and cooler temperatures. • Reduce electricity prices below those from oil, coal and natural gas. • Extend road lifespans by 3 to 10 years by reducing temperatures extremes.  • Clean and stabilize the electric grid (making plug-in electric/hybrid cars practical). • Cool sunbelt city air (reverse the “heat island”effect) by first cooling asphalt and concrete. • Fund road maintanence.  Offset maintenance costs with electricity generation revenue.

Skills Transferable to Your Projects:

Leadership / Management • Insight Quest, Inc. led the DynaCap™program, which currently involves four university professors,   Google, the US DOE, and Science Foundation of Arizona. Theory / R&D • So far, Insight Quest, Inc. has created all the theory and R&D for DynaCap™.  Professors may extend it. • This includes numerous insights in physics, material science, and economics.   Software • So far, this uses no special software.  However, physics simulations using Python (IDLE),   C++, are anticipated. Prototype Hardware • Insight Quest, Inc. has begun design and construction of DynaCap™ demonstration hardware.

Patents

Patent   (No number, yet) Issued   (Not issued, yet) Current Owner: Insight Quest, Inc. Licensing availability: (Not Currently) Contact Info: (480) 753-5375

Future Opportunities

By pushing beyond the current state-of-the-art, there are these opportunities: • DynaCap™ R&D is highly synergistic with the R&D of ultracapacitors and batteries, which are critical elements needed for all-electric vehicles, laptops, cell phones, etc.  Thus, DynaCap™ R&D will likely accelerate (and benefit from) the progress in all-electric vehicles, laptops, cell phones, etc.

Links to related material

• http://www.insightq.com/energy/DynaCapSlideShow1.pdf  (Slide show on DynaCap™ -17 slides  -5 MBytes) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocaloric_effect   (Giant Electrocaloric effect) • http://www.ultracapacitors.org/   (Ultracapacitors)