Power, Water and Refrigeration in One Box

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday August 5, 2006 @08:04AM from the waiting-for-a-portable-cold-fusion-reactor dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Engineers at the University of Florida have developed and built a system that can provide power, water and refrigeration from a single unit. This project, funded by the U.S. Army, will lead to units small enough to fit inside a military jet or a large truck. The prototype system is already more efficient than conventional turbines. And it is also environmentally friendly because it can use traditional fossil fuels as well as biomass-produced fuels or hydrogen and releases only small amounts of pollutants. This kind of system could be used as a mobile unit in case of hurricanes or wars. But it might also be connected to the normal power grid in fixed locations."

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Re:Picture by JWtW · 2006-08-05 08:53 · Score: 1, Redundant

Interesting. The full article from the University of Florida only mentions a $175,000 grant from the DOE. It seems the Army picked up a huge chunk of the tab with the $750,000 grant.

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