Energy Transformation and Optimization: The Integrated Energy Vázquez-Figueroa

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

In today's program we contacted via telephone with one of the most restless minds and prolific that Spain has in recent times. Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa.

Novelist, writer of over 60 works that have nourished the desire for adventure and escape of several generations. His extensive literary work includes best-sellers (more than 25 million copies sold) and Tuareg Ebony, Manaus, Panama Panama, Anaconda, Ocean, The Dog and Maradentro.

Journalist, chronicler of wars and revolutions like those of Guinea, Chad, Congo, Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Guatemala. Producer and writer of film and television. A man of action, traveler, diver, sailor ...

In this interview we delve into his role inventor and try on an innovation that could benefit hundreds of millions of people across the globe.

The Integrated Energy Vázquez-Figueroa produces electricity and water, two of the primary needs of mankind.

VF Integral System

A mountain of more than 600 meters tall with a body of water are the requirements to run the system. It consists ( see figure ) to raise water to the top of the mountain where it is stored in tanks. The water is dropped by some active wells and turbines that produce energy. If the water is salty, a part of this is desalted by a filtering process based on reverse osmosis to make it potable, irrigation or industrial purposes.

A genius of the system is that it takes to operate energy sources that are often missed:

• We already know Renewables such as wind or solar.
• The energy of convection of heated air that rises through a chimney through the natural warming of the engine and move another turbine system.
• The wasted on the Power Grid at night, which is used to raise the water at these times (night demand is lower than the daytime. Central and produce nuclear energy continuously).

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa explains the features of the project and introduces us to the issue of energy transformation and optimization. We talked with him some of the challenges and problems of modern society. Revealing in this program to one of those extraordinary people who make history and contribute positively to the progress of humanity.

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