Helping to save the world

Moving water is energy. Wastewater and drinking water plants have lots of flowing water. Hydro Sun was issued a provisional patent in February of 2023 for the Hydro Sun Energy System. This system takes the three most commonly forms of green energy; solar, wind and hydrokinetic and sends it to a battery where it is used, stored and passed on to the public. 

Every year thousands of acres of farmland are taken out of production to make way for solar panels. This is creating a problem for the farming communities because it is devastating their culture and economy. We can help to curb this situation by installing Hydro Sun Systems in the tens of thousands of wastewater and drinking water plants. The solar panels would be placed on land that was otherwise useless. Last year for the first time in history the United States imported more food than it exported. This is something that is likely to continue if we don’t change course.

The Biden administration has budgeted $370 billion for renewables. The government should be willing to finance it. Then there is the additional savings in gasoline. Governments utilizing the Hydro Sun system would have a free source of energy for their electric vehicles. Hundreds of thousands of dollars would be saved in fuel cost, drastically reducing pollution to the environment. According to Electric Power Annual it takes 1.2 lbs. of coal to generate 1 kw. of energy. The reduction of carbon emissions would be tremendous. The first plant to install the Hydro Sun System will be making history as the first one to run entirely on renewable energy and produce power at the same time, without the help of a power company. 

Another benefit of the Hydro Sun System is that it could act as a source of protection for the nation. Should the power grid fail because of a solar flare, or other natural or man-made disaster, the Hydro Sun Systems would be there to provide emergency contact between the various governmental agencies. Perhaps the catastrophe that Texas experienced in February of 2021 would have been greatly mitigated if thousands of wastewater and drinking water plants had the Hydro Sun System in place. The US will require an additional 60% of electricity by the year 2030. The Hydro Sun System can help meet that demand. 

The easiest and least expensive way to make more electricity available is to reduce demand. Wastewater and drinking water plants consume 2% of the nation's energy. Not only would they reduce demand, but they would also add power to the grid. The plant where I worked required 1,400 kwh/day to operate, by my calculations that same plant would add 20,000 kwh/day to the grid. 

Evidentially it is going to be very hard for the nation to meet its future energy needs in the coming years. A report produced by the North American Electric Reliability corporation says that as we head into 2024, North America can expect more frequent and prolonged outages. In fact, they suggest that the problem will persist over the next decade. 

• John Matherson, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association said recently on CBS news, "The biggest factor is we are using more and more electricity as a country. Think of all the devices that we all use every day. Cloud computing and AI-that's all using more electricity. At the same time, we haven't been replacing it by building more capacity to generate electricity. In fact, we have been closing down more power plants that had useful life left in them, both gas plants, and coal plants, that means were digging a deeper hole."                 

As of 2023 the US had 217 coal plants producing electricity, by 2030 173 of them are slated to be closed. This is bad news for the 15 states whose primary source of power is generated by coal. Among them are West Virginia at 86.6% and Wyoming at 79.4%. 

Willie Phillips, chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said "...In the face of these challenges, high voltage power line construction has declined to a record low in 2022." A big problem with supplying the country with the electricity that it is going to need is transmission lines.  We are simply not going to have enough power lines to get the electricity where it needs to go. Thousands of renewable energy projects are being held up because the grid cannot handle the load. A study by the Department of Energy determined "the median new transmission need is 47,000 gigawatts-miles (gw-mi) of high voltage lines by 2035, A 57% growth from today's system..."It is highly doubtful that this can be accomplished. It takes at least 10 years to have a transmission line approved and built. Transmission lines currently under construction will only amount to 10% of current availability. I suggest this problem be solved on a local level. Every local community would be responsible, based on population. In areas where this is not possible, they would pay their neighbor to produce for them. Transmission lines could be added to where and when they are needed. It is time we start listening to those that are sounding the alarm on electricity, before it is too late. 

The United Nations has determined that there are 109,000 wastewater plants in the world. The US has 16,000. There are many times that amount of drinking water plants. The US alone has 155,000 facilities providing drinking water. If just a small portion of this total were to install the Hydro Sun Energy system, the world would be well on its way to meeting its energy needs. Tesla harnessed the power of the Niagra River to light up New York. We hope to use wastewater and drinking water plants to help power the nation and the world.