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Patent filing claims solar energy breakthrough
Solar energy breakthrough
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON In a U.S. patent application, a little-known Maryland inventor claims a stunning solar energy breakthrough that promises to end the planets reliance on fossil fuels at a fraction of the current cost a transformation that also could blunt global warming.
Inventor Ronald Ace said that his flat-panel Solar Traps, which can be mounted on rooftops or used in electric power plants, will shatter decades-old scientific and technological barriers that have stymied efforts to make solar energy a cheap, clean and reliable alternative.
This is a fundamental scientific and environmental discovery, Ace said. This invention can meet about 92 percent of the worlds energy needs.
His claimed discoveries, which exist only on paper so far, would represent such a leap forward that they are sure to draw deep skepticism from solar energy experts. But a recently retired congressional energy adviser, who has reviewed the inventions still-secret design, said its a no brainer that the device would vastly outperform all other known solar technology.
Ace said he is arranging for a national energy laboratory to review his calculations and that his own crude prototypes already have demonstrated that the basic physics for the invention work.
If the trap even comes close to meeting his futuristic vision, its impact could be breathtaking: It could reorder the worlds energy landscape, end the global economic drag of soaring energy costs, and eventually curb greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for climate change.
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