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MOKENERGY INITIAL PANEL INSTALLATION

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Real Estate

Flexible Connector
Hydrogen &
Oxygen
Gathering

Photovoltaic Cells

Water Intake

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Microfabrication Examples
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Water Filled Lens

Photovoltaic Electrolysis

Color corrected fish-eye lens


with 160 degree field of view and
5,000x concentration made of
PET plastic filled with water.

Water Filled Lens


25.4 mm diameter lens
concentrates to a 360 micron
diameter mobile photovoltaic
array that powers a MEMS
based electrolysis unit built in-
situ. Water is fed into the
Photovoltaic Electrolysis
system. Hydrogen and oxygen
are pumped out.
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Sunlight
Lens

SYSTEM OPERATION

Each lens is 1.41 inches (36 mm)


in diameter and cut into 1.00 inch
(25.4 mm) squares. Within the Light Sensor Water
focal plane of each lens an image Pump
of the sun 360 microns in diameter Photovoltaic Electrolysis
is formed. Stack Unit
Actuator

A MEMS device capable of moving


anywhere in the image plane finds
this solar image and positions a
360 micron diameter photovoltaic Gas Lines
stack under it.

The 645 milliwatts of solar energy


is converted with 40% efficiency
into 258 milliwatts at 2 volts and
129 milliamps.

4 milliamps are used to drive a


MEMS water pump and actuator to
track the sun.

The device pumps 24.4 nano-liters


through the electrolysis unit per
second which uses both heat and
electricity from the sun to produce
2.7 ug of hydrogen per second and
21.7 ug of oxygen per second from
sunlight and water.

With 16,700 seconds of exposure


per day each device produces 45
milligrams of hydrogen and 360
milligrams of oxygen from 405
micro-liters of water. A panel
containing 4,608 lenses in an array
produces 207 grams of hydrogen
per day and 1.66 kg of oxygen per
day from 1.87 liters of water per
day. Over a year 1,000 panels
containing 4.6 million elements
produce 75.7 metric tons of
hydrogen along with 605.9 metric
tons of oxygen from 681.6 kiloliters
of DI water.
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William Mook
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SYSTEM COST AND VALUE

The Photovoltaic driven High Temperature Electrolysis unit with sun tracker water pump
and actuator is 360 microns in diameter and 50 microns deep. It is equipped with a 10
micron diameter flexible "tail# that is 30,000 microns long - and wrapped around the PV/
Electrolysis unit in an archimedes spiral that is 1,100 microns in diameter. Thus, the
entire device fills a working area that is circumscribed by a hexagon with a 550 micron
side. The area of this hexagon is 785,918 square microns. This is 820 devices per
square inch. To process a square inch of material in the manner required, to a depth of
50 microns - costs $15 per square inch. Thus, each device is 1.83 cents.

! 4,608 devices per panel x 1.83 cents/device = $84.33 per panel


!
The device consists of ten layers of PET plastic each 50 microns thick. A total thickness
of 500 microns. Total surface area of each panel is 2.975 sq meters. So, each panel
requires 1.488 liters of crystalline PET plastic which at 1.455 kg/liter totals 2.15 kg. At
$1.12 per kg total lens cost is $2.43 - for a grand total of $86.76 per panel.

1,000 panels - with molded in place header between the PET sheets, and standing
tanks, cost less than $90,000 installed. Yet produce 75.7 metric tons of hydrogen from
681.6 kiloliters of DI water. At $1.00 per kiloliters, this water costs $681.60 per year.

At 6.5% discount rate and a 30 year life a string of 1,000 panels costs $6,891.97 and
adding in the $681.60 recurring cost, and another $2,700 for maintenance, we have a
total cost of $10,273.57 per year and a price for hydrogen of $135.71 per metric ton.
Not counting the value of oxygen produced. 605.9 metric tons of oxygen valued at $200
per ton by industry and medical consumers is worth $121,180 per year. Elemental
hydrogen sold at $3,000 per metric ton is worth $227,100 per year.

1,000 panels cover 3/4 of an acre and produce 75.7 metric tons - which is 101 metric
tons per acre per year from 909 kiloliters of water per year at a cost of $120,000 per
acre and a recurring cost of $4,508.80 per acre per year.

An initial installation of 300 acres using 400,000 panels costing $36,000,000 to build
and install and $1,352,640 per year to operate and maintain (a crew of 16 working four
shifts of 42 hours each (4 per shift) plus parts) produce 30,300 metric tons of hydrogen
plus 242,200 metric tons of oxygen each year.

! ! PRODUCTION! ! ! VALUE! ! UNIT VALUE

! 30,300 metric tons per year! $ 90,900,000.00 per year! $ 3,000/ton


! 242,200 metric tons per year! $ 48,440,000.00 per year! $ 200/ton

! ! ! TOTAL! ! $139,340,000.00 per year

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DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION

A three year development cycle costing $21 million is needed to get into production and
then another year of site work is needed along with $36 million for system is needed to
install 300 acres to produce this much hydrogen and oxygen.

Offering 41.4% per year rates of return compounded over the four year period,
according to the following schedule;

! ! INVESTED! ! RETURNS! ! TIME

! ! $ 7,000,000! ! $ 27,983,091!! YEAR 1


! ! $ 7,000,000! ! $ 19,780,022!! YEAR 2
! ! $ 7,000,000! ! $ 13,995,772!! YEAR 3
! ! $36,000,000! ! $ 50,904,000!! YEAR 4

! ! $57,000,000! ! $112,672,884! TOTALS

After Startup the operation will pay the first $20,543,801 per year from sales of
hydrogen and oxygen over the first seven years of operations to repay a total of
$143,806,609 by year ten secured by the facility when completed, and all operations
prior.

! $3,000 per metric ton of hydrogen is equal to 47.67 MJ per $1.00


! This is equivalent to gasoline at $2.76 per gallon

! 30,300 metric tons per year is equivalent to 32.8 million gallons per year
! 30,300 metric tons per year is equivalent to 1,945 barrels per day

This quantity of energy each year is equivalent to 28 gasoline stations. Each station
requires 10.8 acres (4.4 ha) - with 14,500 panels in 58 strings of 250 in an area 464 ft x
1,000 ft. These need not be co-located to each station.

PER STATION COSTS AND RETURNS

! NUMBER! ! CAPEX! COMMITMENT! 7 year note

! 28 fueling stations! $2,035,715 ! $3,246,429/year! $733,707/year

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