INSPIRED RESEARCH	PRESS RELEASE IR/2	2008-07-17

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

A fundamental development in thermodynamics that would enable energy
recovery and conversion at near-unity Carnot efficiencies, virtually
doubling our energy resources in the process, is being presented by
Inspired Research, New York, (IR) this month in Cleveland, Ohio, at
the 6th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
(IECEC), sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center.

In a theoretic field that has not changed much in over a hundred
years, IR's result, from over twenty years of private research,
concerns a new class of heat engines using electric or magnetic
fields instead of pistons, that can harness the energy of nascent
"hot particles" that occur in chemical, nuclear, and even solar
power generation. Each hot particle usually lasts for less than a
picosecond, but carries enough energy to have an equivalent
temperature of over ten thousand degrees in most cases, and over a
trillion degrees in nuclear fission. Tapping into these hot
particles was hitherto inconceivable because thermodynamic theory
has been traditionally focused on bulk thermal properties, and all
existing heat engines, including the ones being researched in
nanotechnology and the acoustic heat engines, are inherently
macroscopic in their interaction with heat.

IR's "electromagnetic heat engines" were first described in 1998
(http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/3317). The present
breakthrough comes from observing that electric and magnetic fields
enable direct, concurrent interactions of an engine circuit with all
of the particles in a medium without diminishing their individual
contributions, instantly before the hot particle energies would be
dispersed by thermal relaxation processes. In existing heat engines,
the energy convering interactions are confined to molecules actually
making contact with the mechanical piston or acoustic wave, which
only have energies dictated by the bulk temperature.

IR's approach can boost the efficiency and throughput of existing
power plants if applied at the point where energy is first released
by chemical or nuclear reactions, or by photon absorption, before
conventional power generation, since the hot particle energies that
fail to get captured would end up in the bulk medium anyway to be
used by the conventional generation. Another envisaged application
is in preventing heat generation in IC chips by converting the hot
carrier energies before they can cause heating and lattice damage.


For additional information, please contact:
Contact: V. Guruprasad ("prasad")
Email: info@inspiredresearch.com
Web: http://www.inspiredresearch.com