BY TYLER FARDELL
An environmentally friendly, renewable energy on demand system developed in partnership by the University of Newcastle and Infratech Industries, is being labelled as a solution to Australia's energy crisis.
The CLES (Chemical Looping Energy on Demand System) will put the production, distribution and management of power, oxygen and hydrogen into the hands of the consumer.
The CLES us about the size of a fridge, and uses naturally occurring gas to create oxygen, hydrogen and heat.
By using only natural gas, the CLES releases only a third of the Greenhouse Gas emissions of fossil fuels compared with other renewable energy sources.
Turbines in the machine are then powered by the heat to generate electricity, with the overall efficiency of the process above 90 percent.
Director of the research centre for Frontier Energy Technologies and Utilisation at the University of Newcastle, Professor Behdad Moghtaderi says this is game changing, and it should be available to consumers either late this year or early next.
