748results about "Wind energy with water energy" patented technology

An integrated, wind-pumped hydro power generation system includes at least one wind turbine generator device configured to generate output power for a common bus, and at least one hydro generator device configured to generate output power for the common bus. The hydro generator device is powered by water flow. The wind turbine generator device and the hydro generator device include corresponding local controls associated therewith, and a set of supervisory controls is in communication with the common bus and each of the local controls.

An offshore power generator is disclosed. The offshore power generator includes an offshore platform, which can be a new, existing, abandoned, removed, dumped or relocated fixed or floating offshore platform; one or more types of current, wind, wave and other renewable energy generators mounted to the offshore platform; and interconnecting power cables, in electrical communication with the current generators for distribution from the generators to end users.

The invention discloses an all-weather clean energy comprehensive electricity generating and energy saving method and a facility manufacturing method. In ten inventions, having at least one identical or corresponding specific technical characteristic and related to the total inventive concept, of solar gallery buildings, through graphene series facilities under solar gallery buildings, in a land field, a zero-carbon environment-friendly safe type raft-shaped basic-framed-tube-structured huge building group of a universal wind energy tower shape is established and new energy automobiles and trains are manufactured, wherein cheap wind power solids are established, photoelectric benzene expansion optical fibers are manufactured, lightning is utilized firstly for supplying power externally, various spaces are shared through building three-dimensional afforesting, and three-dimensional energy collection is achieved; in a water field, deep water self-floating buildings of a super steel concrete frame-tube structure (preferably, complete steel plates are adopted) are built, the deep water self-floating buildings are connected in series to form a global ocean water and electricity and agriculture and forestry extraction traffic network and a large lake and reservoir water and electricity and agriculture and forestry dredging dam water level traffic network, wherein the deep water automatic floating buildings are free of influences of earthquakes, tsunamis and wars, the Red Cross can rescue people in all-weather conditions; in a space field, multiple receiving and transmitting solar towers are first established on the equator of the earth and the equator of the moon, the receiving and transmitting solar towers are connected in series to operate in a timed mode in the specific direction and transmit power to the whole world through graphene cables which are all packaged with colored insulating films.

An ocean wave energy system for generating power from ocean waves includes a platform supporting an array of hollow columns whose respective lower ends are in fluidic communication with ocean waves and whose respective upper ends are in air communication with a turbine arrangement such that wave motion occurring at the lower ends is operable to cause air movement within the columns for propelling the turbine arrangement to generate power output. The system further includes one or more position-adjustable and/or angle-adjustable submerged structures near the lower ends of the columns for forming ocean waves propagating in operation towards the lower ends of the columns to couple the waves in a controllable manner into the hollow columns.

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A system for harvesting, storing, and generating energy, that includes floating structure supporting machinery to extract energy from wind, waves, surface generators, or currents. At least one energy storage and power generating unit is anchored to the seafloor and adapted to tether the floating structure to the unit. The unit includes an internal chamber into which water flows through a hydroelectric turbine to generate electrical energy. A pump is provided, powered by energy from the floating structure machinery, to evacuate water from the unit and a control system directs power from the machinery to pump water out of the unit during periods of excess energy extraction by the machinery and to allow water to flow into the chamber through the hydroelectric turbine to generate electrical energy during periods of lower energy extraction by the machinery. The same internal chamber design can be utilized to store hydrocarbons in the vicinity of undersea wellheads during “shut-in” procedures when the wellhead would otherwise be secured.

A system for generating hydrogen is provided which includes at least one vessel which floats in water. At least one sail for capturing wind to move the vessel reciprocally along a substantially linear path is mounted on the vessel. A power generation system is provided for converting movement of the vessel relative to the water into electricity. And an onboard hydrogen production system produces hydrogen by electrolysis using the electricity generated by the power generation system.

A hybrid water pressure energy accumulating, tower assembly used to directly propel water pumps to raise water from low elevation reservoir(s) to high elevation reservoir(s) where it is used as a potential energy. The tower is electrically connected and positioned next to or close to a wind turbine or a wind or solar power plant. The tower includes in-tower storage reservoirs configured for storing water. The in-tower storage reservoirs could be defined by lower and upper water storage containers attached to the inner or outer surface of the tower that might be connected to other neighboring reservoir(s). The lifted water is used to generate electricity utilizing a hydropower generator.

A procedure and a device in connection with the use of a wind turbine offshore, including a wind turbine (2) connected via a shaft to a generator (3), which is rotationally mounted on a tower (4), and a foundation underneath in the form of a float (6) on which the tower (4) is mounted. The float is anchored so that it can move freely in the vertical plane via an anchor or a mooring in the form of mooring lines, hinges or tethers (7). As a consequence of the effect of the waves on the float, the motion of the wind turbine will act as a damping mechanism on the motion and thus extract energy from the waves. The wind turbine's resonance period can be adjusted by adjusting the platform's center of gravity and/or the tension in the anchor with which the wind turbine is attached to the sea bed.

The invention provides a novel floating type multi-floater wind-wave energy hybrid power generation device which comprises a wind driven generator, a floating foundation platform, a wave energy capture device and connecting structures between floating bodies, wherein the wind driven generator comprises blades, a hub, a cabin and a tower; the floating type foundation platform is a semi-submersible type and is located on the sea surface by an overhung anchor chain line; the wave energy capture device comprises floaters and an energy capture (PTO) system, and the axial relative movement between the wave energy floaters and stand columns of the foundation platform under the action of wave energy is utilized to drive the PTO system to generate electric energy; and each connecting mechanism comprises a guide rail and a U-shaped wheel, and can enable the platform and the wave energy floaters to produce axial relative movement only. The novel floating type multi-floater wind-wave energy hybrid power generation device can realize the purpose of joint power generation of offshore wind energy and wave energy by utilizing mechanical energy possessed by offshore air and wave, and is good in stability, wide in applicable water depth scope, high in power generation efficiency, simple in structure form and reliable in power generation mode.

A method for generation of gasses contained in a salt solution in accomplished by disposing automated, floating wave power collection vessels in waters distant from shore, the vessels navigating within one or more predetermined geographic zones, having suitable wave conditions for such operation. The wave power devices generating electricity and the gasses are extracted from the salt solution by electrolysis. Automated storage vessels are used as shuttles to deliver the gasses to shore facilities.

A combined power generator using solar, wind and wave energies is disclosed. The combined power generator comprises a steel tower structure (2) having a solar energy power generation unit in which a plurality of light collection plates (19) are arranged in multiple rows and columns, a wind energy power generation apparatus which is installed on the top of the steel tower structure (2) and rotates by means of the wind, and a wave energy generation apparatus which is driven by means of the flow of water, wherein the steel tower structure, the wind energy power generation apparatus, and the wave energy generation apparatus are combined.

A platform apparatus for producing hydrogen gas from water includes a buoyant base configured for floating in a body of water, such as on the ocean, a vertical support member extending upwardly from the base, a wind turbine rotatably coupled to the support member for transforming the kinetic energy of wind into rotational energy, a generator coupled to the wind turbine for transforming the rotational energy generated into DC electricity, and an electrolysis apparatus affixed to the platform for using the electricity to extract hydrogen gas from water by the process of hydrolysis. The electrolysis apparatus preferably comprises an exchange chamber for storing water collected from the body of water, a pair of corrosion resistant electrodes, and a gas collection apparatus for collecting the hydrogen gas produced by electrolysis. The platform apparatus preferably includes a pumping apparatus powered by wave motion of the body of water for supplying water to the electrolysis apparatus. A gearing system preferably allows the generator to be driven at a greater rotational speed than the wind turbine.

The present invention provides a sustainable energy system for pelagic deployment that may comprise a frame, at least one wind turbine generator coupled to the frame, at least one pair of water turbine generators coupled to the frame, and a rotatable joint.

A portable, tow-able, buoyant hybrid renewable energy platform for producing and storing electrical energy using wind, water, and solar power, or a combination of these methods. Included on this platform is a wind turbine that semi-detaches to become a water turbine, if necessary. A small fuel backup generator is provided for, as is a system for air-portage and stabilizing the device.