Showing posts with label FAU. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FAU. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Scholars Program at Florida Atlantic University

Free tuition, housing, meals and books

FAU program offers Lake Worth Beach students chance of lifetime

Kelly/Strul Emerging Scholars Program provides full scholarships to Florida Atlantic University for first generation, low-income students. The cost of the scholarship is around $100,000. In the context of the Kelly/Strul program, "first generation" is defined as students whose parents did not complete a four-year degree.

Of the 66 students who entered the program since it was created by philanthropists Aubrey and Sally Strul along with FAU President John Kelly and his wife Carolyn in 2017, 22 have graduated, including three from Lake Worth Beach.

Read about it... and the article by Jorge Milian.

Monday, September 23, 2019

Lighting Up Lake Worth with Clean Cavitation Energy

“Energy Tourism” appears to be in the future for Lake Worth

with it becoming an “Economic Powerhouse.”

Mayor Pam Triola has been instrumental in both “Solar power” and “Gulfstream power.” She began with a solar farm she brought to Lake Worth and is already delivering significant power to the electric grid through the Lake Worth power station… Ed Liberty, Electric Utility Director Lake Worth, brought her good ideas into the Power Utility and the two of them are now reshaping the energy future of Lake Worth.

Both Ed and Mayor Pam are also involved in the groundbreaking work to harness the electric power producing potential of Gulfstream Current. This is a project where FAU received a Federal grant to develop the turbine technology, and in the near future the goal will be running the power from the turbines to the Lake Worth Power grid.

Even more impressive, because of the electricity and the money it can make for Lake Worth, and for the Energy Tourism that could result from it, is the development of a “Cavitation Energy” prototype at the Lake Worth Power Utility, funded by the owners of CAVITATION ENERGY SYSTEMS and to be built by Florida Atlantic University.

I believe this will be the Alternative Energy project that Lake Worth could actually get “rich” with, if a town could “get rich.”  Cavitation Energy is CLEAN ENERGY . Even it’s waste - Steam  byproduct, can be used to clean polluted water if we wish ( water polluted by someone else). In other words, this is beyond clean!

FAU tests already showed the first  Cavitation Energy  System prototype could take a small generation of power and use this  to create Cavitation implosions in a “cavitation engine” that multiplies the source power to  far beyond what science used to believe possible.

Think of the “cavitation engine” as a modular “engine” using something similar to diesel injectors that create the bubbles and shoot them into impact chambers, where the cavitation bubbles ignite at 18,000 degrees kelvin, and generate plasma/steam for a turbine to make electricity.

FAU has proven that with fresh water being shot into the impact chambers, the bubble implosions create enough steam to run a turbine for electrical production putting out 5 times the power put into it by solar, natural gas or Gulfstream Energy.  With saltwater used instead, the implosion reactions are far more violent, releasing closer to 18 times the power put in…but the long term operation with salt needs a few more tweaks before it can be utilized for a town….future grants are necessary, of course.

For now, the 5 times increase is very dramatic all by itself and Cavitation Energy Systems is  presently in talks with the town to get the new  prototype built at the  Lake Worth power plant where it could run a large building in phase one, a city block in phase 2, and the whole downtown in a phase 3. The system is perfectly modular, allowing very easing scaling of additional power. 10 megawatts of Solar produced Electricity would become 50 megawatts of Electricity in our grid.

The future could mean a huge net EXPORT of electrical energy for Lake Worth, generating  untold  millions of dollars per year to Lake Worth and then “ENERGY TOURISM” - where companies and countries come from all over the world to learn how they could use Cavitation Energy.

By: Dan Volker
Lake Worth