Totally New Green Energy Source On a Par With Nuclear Power

From the standpoint of physics, the only thing the fluid is being asked to do is to stay hot and rise.  You can't get much simpler than that.

The energy available is simply astounding. Calculations show that a 3m (ten foot) diameter pipe would deliver about 20 gigawatts to the surface, while the largest nuclear plant in the United States can provide about 4 gigawatts. On a smaller scale, a computer model shows that a 31 cm (12 inch) pipe is expected to provide 83 megawatts of generated power.

No fuel of any kind is ever needed with the Marshall Hydrothermal Recovery System. Nature provides everything. All we need to do is harness it.

Added Benefits

While the astounding energy density alone should be enough to satisfy anyone, there are several other benefits. The hydrothermal fluid escaping the vent is more than just seawater. Its contact with the magma has loaded it with a fantastic cocktail of precious metals and useful minerals. In their natural state, the superheated fluid from the vents contacts seawater whose temperature is just above freezing, and the thermal shock causes the particles to precipitate out and rain down onto the seabed below. This is why the richest surface mines are located in hydrothermal veins, areas where hydrothermal vents were located at some point in the geologic past.

By bringing the fluid to the surface, the minerals and metals come along for the ride, making the Marshall Hydrothermal Recovery System the first practical deep-ocean mining system as well as a fuelless and inexhaustible source of energy.

The fluid is saturated with iron, gold, silver, copper, zinc, cadmium, manganese, and sulfur, along with significant amounts of methane gas mixed into the fluid. Halides, sulphates, chromates, molybdates and tungstates are also abundant, and all at concentrations higher than the richest surface mine imaginable.

There's a certain poetic beauty to the concept. Mankind has always scratched, ripped, and torn away at the Earth to get the things we needed. Hydrothermal vents are freely offering their bounty. All we have to do is take it.

As the superheated fluid rises through the pipe, the ambient pressure decreases and it starts to flash to steam. The computer model showed useful steam velocity at the surface of >100m/sec (218 mph or 360 kph) and pressures of at least 70 bar (1015 psi). Modeling the 31 cm (12 inch) pipe showed 25,000 tons of steam per day delivered to the surface. That's 25 million liters, or 6.6 million gallons of steam, which will condense back into fresh water. While additional stages of purification would likely be needed, the Marshall Hydrothermal Recovery System, beyond all the energy, and beyond the incredible mining potential, is also one of the most efficient water desalination systems ever devised.

Jules Verne said it best. "Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve."

There is no technology that must be developed from the ground up to make this system work. The Marshall System marries existing pipe manufacturing and laying technology with existing oil platforms and electric generating technology, and carries the power to shore through existing undersea cables.

This revolution in energy generation is right there, millimeters from our outstretched fingers. It lacks only the will to get it done.

Additional information

Website
http://www.marshallsystem.com

Radio interview
http://www.marshallsystem.com/radio_interview.mp3

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