TorrideX: Plasma-Mediated Energy Conversion
Developing a staged compact architecture for next-generation autonomous power.
Role: Founder / Inventor
Tools: HV Induction Source, Oscilloscope, Neodymium Magnets, FEA / Thermal Analysis, Python (Energy Balance Modeling)
Kulicage Dynamics LLC is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program.
This ecosystem connection supports TorrideX’s simulation-guided development path, including thermal and structural modeling, design-space exploration, future digital-twin workflows, and AI-assisted diagnostics for laboratory validation data.
The Challenge
Conventional long-duration power systems face efficiency, logistics, and integration limits. TorrideX explores a staged compact architecture designed to improve usable electrical extraction while reducing dependence on large, complex thermal-only conversion systems.
The Solution: Staged Extraction Architecture
Instead of a simple thermal converter, TorrideX explores a non-equilibrium plasma environment to extract energy across multiple domains:
- Direct Electrostatic (DC): capturing charge carriers as early as possible in the conversion process.
- Field-shaped transport: using electric and magnetic fields to guide charge motion and reduce losses.
- Thermoelectric recovery: converting remaining heat losses into additional electrical output.
Overall efficiency: Modeled multi-stage targets under laboratory validation.
Phase 0: Initial Proof of Concept
- Setup: Built a benchtop reactor using a 200W induction plasma source to safely simulate ionized gas.
- Method: Applied external E×B fields using positioned Neodymium magnets to manipulate charge carriers.
- Measurement: Used an oscilloscope to track voltage potentials dependent on magnetic field geometry.
- Result: Observed voltage behavior consistent with charge-separation effects under varying magnetic field geometry, supporting the decision to continue toward the next laboratory validation stage.
Current Status
Current focus: building the Phase 1 laboratory MVP — a non-radioactive coaxial system for validating thermal behavior, structural robustness, plasma controllability, instrumentation, and measurable electrical-output pathways.
The MVP is designed to physically validate modeled baseline targets before deeper integration or any isotope-assisted configuration.
Development is guided by thermal, structural, and system-level modeling to reduce hardware iteration risk.