Comments on: New ARPA-E Funding: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Nay, Green Jobs Aye

By: Anthony J. Maxwell

Anthony J. Maxwell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:48:43 +0000

Metals and carbon are the stuff of electricity, they are also the stuff that causes major environmental acid mine drainage and acid rock drainage pollution from abandoned coal and metal mines.

Electrical energy from whatever source can be stored in existing or custom excavated pit lakes or settlement ponds normally found on polluting abandoned or orphan mine sites.

Mine Power Storage reduces grid energy costs for mandatory pumping of polluting mine water by using stored energy to provide a first phase of self-energising AMD/ARD remediation.

Proprietary MPS systems combine flow cell battery and electrical double layer capacitor technologies. Conventional battery technology using MPS systems can be installed in existing or custom excavated ARD/AMD settlement pit lakes on abandoned and orphan mine sites. There are thousands of abandoned and orphan mines in the US and close to two million worldwide.

MPS technology addresses: Stabilizing electrical energy storage from alternative energy providers, enables self energised polluting mine-water remediation facilitating on site availability of unpolluted fresh water and low cost energy leaving abandoned mine sites environmental safe for industrial or domestic re-development.

By: Anthony J. Maxwell

Anthony J. Maxwell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:48:00 +0000

Metals and carbon are the stuff of electricity, they are also the stuff that causes major environmental acid mine drainage and acid rock drainage pollution from abandoned coal and metal mines.

Electrical energy from whatever source can be stored in existing or custom excavated pit lakes or settlement ponds normally found on polluting abandoned or orphan mine sites.

Mine Power Storage reduces grid energy costs for mandatory pumping of polluting mine water by using stored energy to provide a first phase of self-energising AMD/ARD remediation.