Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) January 11, 2010
Bourne has developed a new weapon in the fight against global terrorism. Like other modern weapons it is smart, self-contained, durable, stealthy and highly portable. But this weapon does not explode, destroy or cause casualties. Bournes weapon is designed to fight poverty, an underlying cause of terrorism. Bournes weapon is the BackPack Power Plant (BPP) based on next generation hydrokinetics, a new family of damless hydropower technology that captures and converts the natural flow of rivers to generate electricity. The BPP is a man-portable, three foot long, thirty pound renewable energy generator. It can be helicoptered, air-dropped or even carried by one person into remote villages almost anywhere in the world. Once placed in flowing water it immediately produces up to 600 watts 24/7/365. The BPP combines a low rpm turbine/generator, power controllers, multiple stabilizers and a mooring/transmission system. Its small footprint combined with the high energy density inherent in hydropower makes the BPP a more portable and less expensive alternative to solar or wind systems of similar annual power output.
The BPP can play a key role in a counter insurgency programs struggle to win the support of a population. One side of this effort is the armed struggle against the insurgents who threaten the safety and security of the population. However, military units alone cannot defeat an insurgency. The other side involves solving the populations underlying issues, that is, the root causes of their dissatisfaction with the current arrangement of political and economic power. Here the key element is infrastructure development which complements and reinforces efforts to stabilize the economy. It includes: roads, telecommunications, the electrical power grid, as well as public services. But energy is most important. A nation needs to upgrade to the modern infrastructure of the information world to increase economic and geographic mobility and access education and markets needed to successfully pursue a new future. Many countries cannot even afford building new power generation plants much less the imported oil that fuels them.
The BPP can bring almost instantaneous power to a region. For example, in a small rural village an array (1-10kW) of BPPs could be moored in a nearby river. The array could provide power to pump drip irrigation systems to improve food production as well as conserve valuable freshwater for downstream villages. The added power could support light industry to provide quality jobs, computers for schools and tele-medicine systems during the day. In the evening the BPP array could power lights, communications, satellite TV and refrigeration. Late night it could power a reverse osmosis watermaker to fill up the villages tanks with fresh water.
Distributed power grids based on the BPP, as well as solar and wind do not need the long transmission lines and large power stations that are vulnerable to sabotage. The BPP units can be disconnected and moved or even buried in minutes. Instead of massive upfront funding required to build large centralized power grids, a timeline can be set up that will bring in new hybrid packages every 6-12 months to progressively expand these new self-sustainable power grids as each array reaches 50-100% payback.
This new type of weapon attacks the linkage between energy, food, water and conflict. It creates a model for a cleaner world. Its steady, sustainable zero-carbon energy brings advanced life support systems to drastically improve the quality of life as well as improve security for regions in conflict. BPPs can also be established in areas around the world that may be future targets of insurgents thus saving billions in defense costs as well as the threat to life, property and the environment.
###
Find More Cheap Backpack Press Releases
