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Atmospheric collection interface
Collector assemblies are designed to interact with atmospheric electrical potential and support controlled charge capture.
Atmospheric Energy Harvesting System
New kid on the green block
The Hexatra Atmospheric Energy Harvesting System is designed to explore atmospheric electrical potential as a clean auxiliary energy source for resilient sites, remote systems and future energy applications.
Product overview
The future of green energy
The Atmospheric Energy Harvesting System represents Hexatra’s atmospheric energy innovation pathway. It is designed to support auxiliary clean power applications by combining atmospheric collection, controlled charge management, power conditioning and storage-ready design. The system is being developed for low-power resilience, monitoring and remote support applications where site conditions and system configuration are suitable.
System diagram
Atmospheric Energy Harvesting System overview
The AEHS concept combines atmospheric collection, charge management, power conditioning, storage readiness and monitoring into a controlled system architecture.
AEHS combines atmospheric collection, charge control, power conditioning and storage readiness within a monitored system architecture.
How it works
How the Atmospheric Energy Harvesting System works
AEHS is designed around controlled collection, power conditioning, monitoring and safe operation.
Ground reference / return path
Ground reference infrastructure helps stabilise the system and supports controlled electrical pathways.
Charge management and control
Control systems manage charge behaviour and support safe, predictable operation.
Power conditioning
Power electronics condition captured electrical potential into a usable output profile.
Energy buffering and storage readiness
Captured energy can be buffered or prepared for integration with suitable storage systems.
Monitoring and protection
Monitoring, surge protection and controlled discharge pathways support safe and resilient deployment.
Performance
Performance
Performance is configuration-dependent and subject to site conditions, system design and validation.
Atmospheric potential difference
100 kV to >300 kV atmospheric potential difference, subject to atmospheric conditions.
Controlled ionisation current density
Up to 2.5 A cm⁻² target / configuration-dependent.
Humidity-related output
μW-scale per cm² target output, scalable through stacked or arrayed modules, subject to site conditions.
Battery energy density
>300 Wh kg⁻¹ target depending on selected storage technology.
Operating modes
Continuous auxiliary power potential, with performance influenced by atmospheric conditions and system configuration.
Scalability
Single collectors for low-power applications, with arrays explored for larger atmospheric energy system development.
Applications
Auxiliary power potential for resilient systems
AEHS is being developed around low-power support, monitoring, Multi-Energy Hub integration and resilience applications where technically appropriate.
Telecoms
Telecoms and critical communications
AEHS may support auxiliary power, monitoring and resilience applications for telecoms and critical communications sites, including opportunities to integrate with suitable existing towers, masts, rooftops or site infrastructure where technically appropriate.
Monitoring
Remote monitoring
Auxiliary power potential for sensors, remote equipment and monitoring systems where conventional supply may be limited.
Sensing
Environmental sensing
Support for low-power sensing applications across environmental, atmospheric and infrastructure monitoring use cases.
Smart sites
Agriculture and smart sites
Potential auxiliary energy support for connected infrastructure, field monitoring and remote smart-site systems.
Resilience
Disaster relief and resilience
Atmospheric auxiliary power may support resilient field systems, monitoring and communications where technically appropriate.
Integration
Multi-Energy Hub integration
AEHS can be considered as an atmospheric auxiliary power pathway within Hexatra’s Multi-Energy Hub architecture, supporting monitoring, control and low-power resilience functions where suitable.
Explore MEHAdvantages
Designed around auxiliary power and resilient deployment
AEHS is focused on atmospheric auxiliary power potential, monitored operation and practical system integration.
Continuous auxiliary power potential
Designed to explore ambient atmospheric energy as an auxiliary power pathway.
Clean ambient energy pathway
Supports development of low-emission atmospheric energy applications.
Modular collector architecture
Collector arrangements can be explored around site and application requirements.
Infrastructure-ready deployment
Designed with potential deployment around suitable towers, rooftops, masts or remote structures.
Storage-ready design
Captured energy can be prepared for buffering or suitable storage integration.
Low-emission operation
Developed as a clean auxiliary energy pathway for appropriate low-power applications.
Legacy and innovation
Inspired by a legacy, engineered for the future
Atmospheric electricity has been explored for more than a century, from Nikola Tesla’s investigations into electrical energy transmission to Dr Hermann Plauson’s early atmospheric collection concepts and Oleg Jefimenko’s later experimental work on electrostatic energy. Hexatra’s approach builds on this long history with modern materials, control systems and power electronics.
Where earlier research explored the possibility of collecting electrical energy from the atmosphere, modern engineering allows the concept to be revisited with improved safety, monitoring, power conditioning and storage-ready system design.
History
Early atmospheric electricity research
Legacy
Nikola Tesla and electrical energy experimentation
Atmospheric energy enquiry
Ready to explore atmospheric energy
Speak with Hexatra Technologies about AEHS development, site requirements, telecoms integration or future deployment opportunities.