Downstream of the primary energy input, the nGeni GreenBox captures waste energy from one process and recycles it into the next coolest process until it is finally dissipated at ambient temperature. By recycling energy flows over and over through a series of cascading process steps, only a relatively small amount of primary energy is needed to replace what would be a large number of separate energy inputs in a normal user setting. In so doing, the nGeni GreenBox vastly expands the application of the principle of heat pumps found in air conditioning appliances or refrigerators.

 

nGeni can even provide outputs below room temperature by cascading the stored energy in the ambient environment, providing space cooling and refrigeration capabilities down to -80 deg.C. Any stage at any temperature can act as a heat sink, storing or releasing energy as required, providing battery-like reserve capacity.

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A further important advantage of the nGeni GreenBox is that it transforms a modest amount of primary energy input into a wide range of output energy flows (motive, electricity, hot/medium/low temperature heat, down to freezing) that can be varied largely independently from one another to match end-users’ changing requirements in real time, in a continuous manner, from second to second, as well as seasonally, from year to year.

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This is the same process employed by self-organising natural systems and living organisms, which use a small amount of activation energy to manipulate chemical and physical processes for the acquisition of more energy from the environment. Each process in a natural system operates at the specific energy level where it is most efficient which then provides an input for the next process in the energy chain.

 

Systems that can successfully execute this cascading process in an over unity fashion (i.e. obtaining more energy than they expend in obtaining it) will thrive and successfully evolve into more complex structures and higher organisms.

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This is the driving design philosophy of nGeni Australia - leveraging small amounts of primary energy input, directly at or near the point of use, so that all energy systems recycle waste heat and extract more energy from their environment to produce more usable energy output than the initial input. This is necessary if we are to attain true global sustainability.

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The basic concept of recycling wastes to become further inputs in downstream processes is not new, in fact it is a basic principle of all life but it has now become a foundational paradigm for global sustainability. nGeni is the first commercial venture to formalise this concept into a complete technology class, that can be implemented in a wide range of appliances and equipment able to be assembled out of configurable building blocks.