A new class of heat engine.
The Universal Power Core is designed to turn heat from any source into mechanical, electrical, and thermal power, right where that power is needed.
Most of the world's power comes from three technologies.
Each has served us well, but each is limited by scale, fuel type, efficiency, siting, cost, vulnerability, and sustainability. This limits their suitability as we build out our future energy infrastructure.
Turbines
Spinning blades driven by steam or gas. The backbone of large, centralized power plants. Large systems located far away from consumers.
Internal Combustion Engines
Fuel burned inside a sealed chamber. Dirty, inefficient, and tied to the fuels they were built to burn.
Solar Photovoltaics
Sunlight separated into charge in a semiconductor. Intermittent and inefficient.
A better way to make power.
The Universal Power Core is a new mechanical design for a thermodynamic heat engine without spinning blades, combustion chambers, or semiconductors.
Any heat source
Designed to run on any source of heat including concentrated solar, combustion, nuclear, or geothermal sources.
Three kinds of output
Designed to deliver mechanical, electrical, and thermal power from one machine.
Built for the point of use
Intended for stationary and mobile applications, generating power where it is needed.
Power made where it's used.
Distributed, point-of-use generation can reduce our dependence on large, centralized grid infrastructure that is costly and vulnerable, and make power more affordable, secure, and resilient for homes, businesses, and industry.
We're a pre-seed company in the early validation stage.
Michael Brittain
B.S. in Engineering Physics from the Colorado School of Mines, with a minor in solar photovoltaics. Years of startup experience across business and technology development.
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Littleton, Colorado