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The Sun provides the Earth’s atmosphere with 122 petawatts of radiation daily (122,000,000,000,000,000 watts) sustaining a permanently charged electric field that propagates throughout the atmosphere known as the Earth’s Global Electric Circuit.
The Global Electric Circuit surrounds the Earth in a blanket of high voltage electricity.
Trillions of naturally renewable electrically charged ions are continuously produced in the atmosphere, around the clock, day & night, powered by the Sun’s enormous energy.
A revolutionary breakthrough in nanomaterial research demonstrates that exposing a special type of ultra-lightweight carbon nanomaterial to atmospheric ions harvests high-voltage electricity, day, night, and during storms.
“Physics-based modeling shows that an
electron cloud forms around the ion collector material, and this electron cloud increases conductivity of the air around the collector. This causes electrical current to flow, driven by the atmospheric voltage, so that power is generated at the ground. The rate of this current is governed by complex physics in the boundary layer of the collector material, doubtless because of its very high surface area. Ionization can occur on this collector at extremely low voltages because of the sharp, needle-like protrusions on its surface. This understanding of the physics suggests that power generation can be scaled as surface area times voltage. This was incorporated into a simulation of the solar cycle with random storms, and power generation of photovoltaics (PV) and Ion Power were simulated as feeding into a smart grid. Because Ion Power collects the most energy at complementary times compared to PV, the energy storage requirements on the smart grid is greatly reduced. This causes the cost of electricity also to be greatly reduced compared to photovoltaics alone, resulting in energy costs for the overall smart grid of about 8.25 cents per kWh, which is less expensive than any other energy source other than some wind farms (which are only slightly less expensive and have limited geographic applicability). This analysis uses extremely conservative assumptions, so actual energy costs may be much less. The estimated value to the US economy is between $62 billion and $150 billion (annually) with proportionately large value to the global economy.
Proof-of-concept tests have successfully demonstrated the powering of different devices by electricity harvested from atmospheric ions, including…






Powered by the Sun’s radiation about 2,000 thunderstorms are occurring around the Earth at any given moment. On average, across the world there are 4,320,000 lightning discharges each 24 hour period (3000 per minute). This tremendous amount of high voltage electrical energy, together with GCRs bombarding the atmosphere and Radon gas seeping from the Earth’s crust in certain areas, combine to help replenish the supply of electrically charged atmospheric ions around the world.

Ion Power Group’s ion collectors, when provided with adequate altitude, can harvest the electric charge of near-Earth ions to produce clean renewable high-voltage electricity day and night and during storms. Ion Harvesting Technology should not be confused with other techniques that attempt to capture lightning bolts or harvest manmade radio frequency (RF) energy.

