Draft:AWE draft 28aug2024

This is an illustration of a Atmospheric Wind Extractor facility

Atmospheric Wind Extractor Direct Air Capture process

The is an illustration showing the land usage comparisons between solar, wind and AWE

Atlas Water & Electric

For over a decade Atlas Water & Electric. (AWE) worked to develop the U.S. patent-issued, Atmospheric Wind Extractor; initially working with leading academic institutions and research labs. Utilizing subject matter experts in aerospace engineering and aeronautical manufacturing, AWE finalized the development of the groundbreaking technology in Q3 2019 . In Q2 2021 AWE secured the requisite funding to act as a fully funded Independent Power Producer. As an IPP, AWE can accommodate any size installation at no cost to the client.

AWE Industries LLC is the holder of the patents, and Atlas Water & Electric is the exclusive license holder of the technology.

Utility-Scale Electricity Production

The patented Atmospheric Wind Extractor constant power output technology is far greater than existing renewable technologies, and cheaper. It’s a radically unique, efficient, and practical method of harnessing the power of wind. AWE devices store portions of the captured wind energy, allowing continuous generation of electricity which can be augmented to deliver increased power during peak demand times. It can be a primary source of electricity, and it’s designed to operate and produce electricity in wind conditions as low as 2 mph ( when tested the system functioned as predicted working at 30 rpm). Best of all, it can produce electricity in almost any condition, even with no wind for up to 14 days.

Plus, the cost of AWE electricity is on par with coal and nuclear, the industry’s least expensive per kWh power.

The Atmospheric Wind Extractor devices are NOT wind turbines. Its rotors, which turn on a vertical axis, are drive panels that are pushed by the wind, aided by several different energy capture modules that amplify the speed of the air moving through them. Also, unlike the limitations of a wind turbine, it doesn’t have a direct access drive to turn a single motor to generate electricity – it compresses air for energy storage, which is then used to turn multiple air motors to generate more substantial amounts of electricity.

Compressed air, unlike electricity, is cheap and easy to store.

Utility-Scale Water Production

Worldwide, there are nearly 10 million miles of freshwater on earth or 3% of all water on earth. Only 0.5 percent of the freshwater is conceptually available for human consumption from groundwater, lakes, and rivers for the world population uses for all purposes. Most of the world's freshwater is locked away in glaciers, ice caps, permafrost, and the ground, or is too polluted or too far underground to be extracted.

About .001% of all freshwater is in the atmosphere

AWE adds a new dimension to the supply of water! The water in the atmosphere is everywhere, so the ability of Atmospheric Wind Extractor devices to tap into this ample supply means a supply of fresh water can now be everywhere.

In addition to electricity, the AWE technology uses air compression to extract water vapor and collect liquid water at utility scale. Air compression to collect water is not a new process; what is new is the integration of clean energy production, plus water extraction. The AWE tech generates energy on its own, with no need for an outside energy or fuel.

The amount of water produced when compressing air depends heavily on the initial air conditions (temperature and humidity), the compression ratio, and the cooling process, but generally, compressing air can produce a significant amount of water in the form of condensate. A typical scenario generating several gallons of water per day, a 100 horsepower compressor might produce over 45 gallons of condensate during an 8-hour shift. A 100 horsepower air compressor can produce between 475 and 520 cubic feet per minute (CFM) at 100 pounds per square inch (PSI). An AWE device compresses several million cubic feet of air per day.

Untreated water collected by an Atmospheric Wind Extractor device can be used directly for irrigation, cooling systems, and industrial processing. Or by simply filtering and treating the water collected, it can be used in local communities.

Carbon Capture

Since the Atmospheric Wind Extractor device process billions of cubic feet of compressed air, AWE can also use proven Direct Air Capture technology to capture CO2 from the ambient air. Direct Air Capture takes a lot of power to run fans, heaters, and pumps. AWE devices are the only renewable energy source that can do it 24/7 without the electricity devouring fans to collect ambient air. By simply adding a CO2 absorption filtering process to the system, one AWE device could remove and avoid up to 150,000 tons of carbon from the atmosphere every year.

Industries

The AWE technology can be utilized in almost any industry that requires power and/or water. Such industries include Agriculture (crops, orchards, livestock, cannabis, fertilizer production, well recharging), Manufacturing (commercial and retail centers. Auto, apparel, food processing, industrial diamonds, carbon concrete, and more), Computing (server farms, crypto mining, water-cooled air-conditioning systems, microgrid capable, stand-alone infrastructure), Distribution (commercial & retail centers. No need for traditional distribution infrastructure. Works with existing distribution infrastructure), Extraction (Mining, Quarrying, Oil, and Gas. Power & water closer to mining source, fire prevention, cooled equipment, dust mitigation), Electrification (100% Renewable infrastructure, electric vehicle infrastructure, easily produced feasibility studies, base-load power, power during peak and off-peak times), Institutions (Schools, churches, hospitals. Supplying both power and water to essential services that are the glue of local communities), and Government (Federal, state, local, and military. From national infrastructure to local projects that affect lives of those beyond just government).