ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,164, issued on March 4.
"System and method for hydrogen-based energy storage" was invented by Jayanta Kapat (Oviedo, Fla.), Marcel Otto (Orlando, Fla.) and Ladislav Vesely (Winter Park, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system and method employ electrolysis to convert excess electrical energy into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas stored in cryogenic flux capacitor units. When needed, the hydrogen and oxygen are liberated from the CFCs and mixed with supercritical CO2 and combusted in a combustion chamber without any nitrogen or air present to form a heated mixture of water and sCO2 that drives a turbine that creates en...