What is the Atmospheric Vortex Engine fuel cost?
The fuel costs for an AVE are near-ZERO (with the possible exception of a very small fuel requirement for vortex initiation required only during vortex start up). The natural waste heat sources such as warm air at the bottom of the atmosphere or warm tropical seawater are abundant and readily available. Waste heat from existing thermal power plants is also essentially zero-cost. Management of waste heat from thermal power plants is presently a large cost center since it is necessary to purchase, operate and maintain expensive cooling towers to discard this waste heat to the atmosphere. Alternatively, the waste heat from thermal power plants could become a profit center by redirecting it to an AVE, thus increasing generation capacity without any additional fossil fuel combustion.
