Wind

A heat source heats air which rises in a duct having at least a one hundred meter vertical rise. Cold air enters the bottom of the duct through one or more horizontal passages containing vanes driven by moving air as a power source. The heat source may be a heat exchanger connected to an atomic reactor,...     

A wind driven turbine having a plurality of wind wheels mounted on a single drive shaft supported rotatably on a turntable at the upper end of a supporting framework with a plurality of wind wheels being mounted on opposite ends of the single horizontal shaft. The horizontal shaft is drivingly connected...     

A power generator driven by multiple windmill wheels rotatably supported for movement about a substantially vertical axis with all of the windmill wheels being drivingly connected to the generator. The windmill wheels are arranged in pairs on opposite sides of a vertical column and shaft assembly with...     

A wind-to-electric power conversion system is disclosed having ratio-variable entrance and exit openings. The ratio is set by sensing the velocity of the incoming wind, thereby effecting the velocity of the blade set driving an A.C. generator through a flywheel and thereby stabilizing the generator speed.

A heating and cooling system for an enclosure utilizing electricity generated from wind energy. The system may include a windmill mechanically linked to a plurality of low voltage electrical generators. The electricity is supplied to a plurality of thermoelectric devices which effect heating and cooling...     

A control system for obtaining maximum power output from electrical generating water pumping, flywheel storage and like systems comprising a wind-driven prime mover coupled to an electrical generator over an extended range of wind velocities is described. The maximum electrical output power is obtained...     

A solar energy powerplant has a group of tall, vertical towers open at both ends and containing a plurality of wind-powered impellers mounted in vertically spaced locations within each tower, such that thermal updrafts in the tower drives the impellers. Vertically spaced, radially projecting heating...     

A device which lifts itself into the air and either itself carries a windmill for the extractions of power from the wind, or traverses a oscillatory path back and forth across the wind such that the action of the tethering lines for the device can be used to generate useful power such as electricity...     

A wind energy conversion device for converting directional wind force to torque along on a vertical rotational axis. The device includes a plurality of flexible vanes mounted to a framework for rotation therewith about a vertical axis. The vanes are mounted to upright posts on the framework. Axial vane...     

A wind-driven power generating apparatus which includes a main support for securement to a fixed structure. A main drive shaft is retained by this main support and is connected at one of its outer ends to a support block having a plurality of angularly spaced, radially extending, support shafts, each...     

A turbine type power generator includes a rotor having a vertical shaft to drive a load which may be an electric generator or mechanical gear train or other device for using or transmitting power. Generally vertically extending blades are secured at their ends to the rotor shaft and are set at an angle...     

A structural housing has a generally toroidal part horizontally positioned and having an upwardly inclining lower base extending upward from a circumference to a first generally circular central area and an upwardly inclining upper base extending upward from a circumference equidistantly vertically spaced...     

Wind driven apparatus is disclosed in the form of a windmill, and in the form of an electric generating unit for a vehicle such as a boat or an airplane or the illustrated automobile. The apparatus includes a base mounted for rotation, preferably about a vertical axis, and along its periphery carrying...     

A wind turbine including a reaction type turbine wheel instead of an impulse type turbine which is normally used for receiving the wind and more efficiently deriving power therefrom and an augmenter means for producing a vortex downstream of the turbine at the exit of the turbine to increase the pressure...     

A system is disclosed which utilizes a member which oscillates in response to movement of a fluid past it and a means for utilizing the energy generated by the oscillation. In one embodiment the oscillating member is a cable utilizing wind or water as generator or pump. In a second embodiment, the oscillating...     

A windmill having a shroud rotatably mounted with respect to a horizontally rotatable vane assembly of the windmill and a directional vane mounted to the shroud to automatically position the shroud to expose half of the windmill vane assembly to the wind. The directional vane is adjustably mounted to...     

A wind operated generator employing counterrotating propellers with an alternating current generator positioned between the blades of the propellors and spacing the same. The propellors and generator parts are mounted on concentric shafts supported in a positive drive structure in which the shafts are...     

An electric battery powered automobile has a wind driven rotor device driving a generator to furnish supplementary power to batteries of the electrical power system of the automobile. The rotor device includes a power rotor having a pair of curved blades forming an overlapping, S configuration, and an...     

A horizontal windmill includes a vertical tubular internal baffle member, a plurality of vanes responsive to the wind, mounted and positioned so that they revolve horizontally when the wind blows, partially rotating to resist the force of the wind in some positions during such revolution and being feathered...     

A horizontal multidirectional turbine windmill comprising a housing having apertures on all sides for ingress and egress of air and a rotor on a drive shaft within the housing, each aperture being the larger end of a funnel-shaped passage, the smaller ends of said passages being positioned to deliver...     

A wind driven power plant has a vertical axis rotor which is rigidly connected to a center body in turn connected to a rotating base. The base is supported on a fixed pylon by means of a mechanical, or preferably fluidic bearing. The rotor blades are strongly bowed, soft in torsion and provided, near...     

A system for recovering the energy from atmospheric wind wherein a windmill operates a compressor for compressing air which is stored in one or more tanks. The compressed air is used to drive a prime mover coupled by gear means to an electrical generator or other work-producing apparatus. The prime mover...     

A turbine for generating electric power when exposed to a fluid source, such as a liquid or gaseous current. The turbine has two substantially annular rotor housings spaced in parallel, horizontal planes. Each housing is provided with a plurality of radially extending blades which are connected to coaxial...     

An electric generating system in which oppositely rotating wind driven wheels are used, one to drive the rotor and one to drive the stator of an electric generator.

A sail-type wind-driven prime mover is provided in which the area of the sails facing into the wind is adjustable. The prime mover comprises a drive shaft from which depend radially extending front and rear masts which support flexible sails. The area of the sails facing into the wind can be varied by...     

A multiblade, wind-driven, variable pitch propeller is used in a wind electric plant for the generation of electrical power from wind forces, and the propeller is rotatable in a plane at an angle to the tower axis, enabling larger propellers to be used without propeller-tower interference and also reducing...     

A multi-level support structure contains plural power driven turntables on each level and each turntable carries a plurality of wind powered electrical generator units which are pivotally secured to the turntable and electrically coupled in a power distribution system through slip ring elements. Each...     

Atmospheric wind is admitted tangentially into a vertically extending structure and directed against the interior curved surface of the structure to produce vortex flow. The structure is open ended and spaced from ground or connected to a ram-air subterranean tunnel. The vortex flow and corresponding...     

A tethered wind-driven floating power plant which includes a support body carrying at least one rotor assembly, a current generator coupled to the rotor and alignment assembly for aligning the rotor to face into the wind, a ground anchor and at least one captivating stay connecting the floating power...     

A pair of air driven impeller rotors mounted in the front end portion of a vehicle and operatively connected to one or more generators for charging drive motor energizing batteries responsive to forward movement of the vehicle. The impeller rotors are disposed in radially spaced parallel relationship...     

A machine and method for converting the wind's linear force to electricity, comprising of a rotor, walled at both inner and periphery radiuses, encircled by a periphery deflector and its inner radius covered with a core deflector. Tapping means attached to the back planar base of its plurality of rotor...     

Wind power demonstration apparatus comprises a windmill assembly comprising a windmill propeller and motor driven fan in a common shroud, an electrical powered generator drivingly coupled to the propeller, parameter adjusting means, and output adjusting and measuring means to provide a compact, economical...     

A torque transmitting structure extends along an axis and comprises a plurality of links connected end-to-end. Each link comprises a rigid spar transverse to the axis situated at one end of the link, a second rigid spar transverse to the axis and skew to the first spar situated at the other end of the...     

A wind-driven power plant comprising at least one rotor having a gyration axis, a base, a carrier construction pivotable on said base about an upstanding axis, a support structure pivotable on said carrier construction about a tilt axis in a manner permitting precession of said rotor, said rotor being...     

An air operated power plant is provided with a pair of impellers rotating on vertical axes. A pair of panels is mounted in fixed relation to the impellers forming a V-shaped converging tunnel with the impellers near the rear of the V. The purpose of the tunnel is to act as an amplifier taking the wind...     

A wind-driven generator having a plurality of rotors each having a rim in frictional engagement with a power take-off drum which is mounted on the shaft of an electrical generator, and in which the rotor rims are pressed against the drum by the wind force on the rotors and with a reduced force which...     

Windmill or solar plant for generating electric energy having a transmission in the form of an epicyclic gear transmission with sun wheel and planet wheels, the sun wheel of which is connected to the generator shaft, and the planet wheels being coupled with a regulator motor having two directions of...     

An omnidirectional windmill employing lift type airfoils mounted about a vertical axis. The windmill includes a support frame which defines the vertically oriented axis about which the elongate airfoils rotate. Five vertically oriented stators are positioned outwardly of the airfoils about the windmill...     

A windmill for use in areas having severe climates, comprises a substantially spherical assembly supported above the ground on a plurality of legs. The structure is divided into two hemispheres. The lower hemisphere is rigidly supported by the legs, and the upper hemisphere is adapted to rotate coaxially...     

This invention is a multiple diverse energy source driven energy integration and multiple use-point system: which includes system air pressure compensated variable pressure and volume delivery of compressed air from multiple air compression stations which discharge and store compressed air into an included...     

Method and apparatus using parakites, or modified parachutes, for capturing wind energy and for converting the consequent wind-induced linear motion to shaft rotation. The parakite apparatus includes a plurality of trains of parakites, with each train comprising a power line having a plurality of serially...     

An impeller having an axle with radial vanes is mounted within a housing. The housing includes a funnel to direct a large amount of wind into the impeller. Air fins on top of the housing maintain the funnel pointed into the wind. A flap upon the top of the housing will fold downward as the wind increases...     

A wind-driven energy-generating device comprises a shroud having a throat within which the rotor blades of a turbine are mounted, an intake section upstream of and having an inner face converging towards the throat, and a diffuser section downstream of and having an inner face diverging away from the...     

A turbine in the form of an endless "Venetian blind" set of arcuate turbine blades mounted to extend between a pair of endless chains that are entrained over sets of sprockets so that two flights of the blades travel in opposite directions in closely spaced parallel planes. Shafts connect sprockets of...     

The Specification discloses a segmented wind turbine which can be added to incrementally to increase the driving force and power generation of the machine. By this means the smaller diameter rotors that are more easily handled and that put the minimum of stress on the wind turbine apparatus can be used...     

A wind driven power plant for the generation of electric power comprising a rotor, a shield, and a fin mounted on a vertical, central shaft, the fin and shield adjustably interconnected via a cog and gear track arrangement affording variable relative alignment of the fin and shield to position the shield...     

A motor having an upright shaft with vanes driven by different, simultaneous, multidirectional, generally horizontal currents, for ocean offshore or beach installation, the vertical height, measured by the operative vertical span of the vanes, being significantly much greater than any known prior art...     

A power-generating wind-driven turbine is disclosed which offers the advantage that it is compact and lightweight and is capable of producing a substantially greater output than a conventional windmill with a comparable size rotor. The turbine comprises an outer shroud and a nose cone which provide a...     

A windmill with a vertical-axis rotor having thrust vanes which is surrounded by a stationary cage having guide vanes to channel the windstream to the rotor. In the preferred embodiment the rotor is a flow-through type with airfoil vanes.

A convergent intake duct has a radial outflow opening through which air accelerated in the duct impinges on airfoil shaped vanes to induce rotation of the rotor on which the vanes are mounted. The duct is formed internally of a tubular airfoil body so that the low pressure region formed on the trailing...     

An improved fluid driven turbine blade system is provided, which is self-governing at relatively high fluid velocities. This is achieved by a combination of two sets of turbine blades, one having a positive efficiency, and the other having a negative efficiency at the fluid velocity at which the self-governing...     

The invention relates to an energy conversion system for converting kinetic energy possessed by the wind into mechanical energy, using a particular compact design for vertical axis rotors in combination with a specially adapted tower structure.

In a venturi-shaped wind tunnel, a wind is generated by a wind generating device in the larger end of wind tunnel. Wind thus generated is caused to speed up by the venturi and drives a rotatable wind responsive device in the smaller end of the wind tunnel. The wind responsive device, in turn, drives...     

This apparatus stores natural energies available on and/or under the surf of the world's oceans. Such energies include solar energy, wave energy, wind energy, as well as energy stored in the heat of the sea water. The energy extracting and storing equipment is installed on a floating vessel or raft....     

A vertical-axis windmill of the Darrieus type, having much improved power output for a given rotor diameter. The rotor is surrounded by fixed upper and lower contours separated by radial stator vanes. These fixed elements cause an increase in speed of the wind as it impinges on the rotor, with a consequent...     

A wind driven power apparatus for converting wind to mechanical energy is disclosed which includes a fixed axis turbine supported centrally of a fixed air guide defining a plurality of horizontal air passages disposed circumferentially of the turbine and each being adapted to receive an air stream therein...     

Power is mechanically transmitted from a tethered airship carrying wind turbines to electrical generators on the ground at the anchor point of the tether, by the use of endless power-transmission cables bridging between drive sheaves at the turbine wheels and driven sheaves at the generators. Tether...     

The following specification discloses an improvement in vertical axis wind machines having upstanding blades. The blades are attached to a rotatable ring which support the blades at an angle of forty five degrees to the horizontal plane of the ring. Associated with the wind machine is a wind velocity...     

A wind operated electrical power generating device mounted on a self-propelled vehicle comprises a wind rotated rotor mounted on a flywheel and at least one generator which is powered by the rotating flywheel. The operative connection between the generator and flywheel, in the preferred embodiment, comprises...     

This invention provides a means to convert wind energy into electrical energy which through electrolysis forms gases to be stored under pressure, giving a form of stored energy for use at some future time by the use of a high torque, low speed vertical axis wind machine connected by direct drive to homopolar...     

A wind operated generator is disclosed herein having a stationary frame or base rotatably supporting at least four sets of pivotal blades intended to be driven by impinging wind currents. Each set of blades operate in unison for opening and closing air passageways between adjacent ones of the blades...     

A high efficiency wind power machine is disclosed which is particularly well suited for large-scale, commercial conversion of wind power into electrical energy. The wind power machine of the present invention employs highly efficient wind-to-electric power conversion modules which may be interconnected...     

A power generating system includes a wind turbine driven generator, the wind turbine having a wind turbine driven rotor with a variable pitch angle blade. Stresses on the system during startup and shutdown are minimized by scheduling the blade angle as a function of the rotor speed and wind velocity...     

A windmill structure including a mounting for supporting one or a large number of windmills in an elevated position above the ground so that the windmills can weathercock and align with the wind. The mounting arrangement limits movement continuously in one direction and returns the windmill to its original...     

A wind electric power plant that has the working components thereof assembled and aligned as a stub tower, then tested at the factory prior to shipment of the assembled stub tower to a use site. The power plant includes adjusting wedges for establishing and maintaining proper alignment between an alternator...     

A power plant for mobile homes, camping trailers, and the like, capable of capturing low powered aeolian energy, storing said energy in the form of compressed air, and delivering it on demand in the form of household electrical current. The device comprises a wind turbine driving an air compressor which...     

Apparatus comprising a solar still and a wind powered generator. Sea water is preheated in a condenser and is supplied to the still where it is heated further either by solar radiation, or by a heated pipe containing brine, or both. The still supplies warm humid air and vapor to the condenser to provide...     

A turbine wheel which includes a housing for enclosing the electrical generating apparatus, and track structure which engages and rotatably drives the generator or the like, i.e., through suitable coupling structure. Shroud structure is disposed in an operable exterior proximity with the turbine wheel...     

A windmill powered generator having one or a plurality of wind operated motor units, each being operably connected to a single power drive shaft to effect rotation of said drive shaft regardless of the rotational direction of the wind operated rotary units. Each rotary unit is provided with a crank shaft...     

A wind turbine drives the squirrel-cage rotor of a capacitively excited induction generator. The amount of excitation is controlled in accordance with the output voltage of the stator and hence the speed of the wind turbine. The generating system is capable of operating at high efficiency over a wide...     

An electrically powered vehicle having a bank of batteries supplying electricity to an electric motor driving wheels of the vehicle includes a whirl ventilator system, a clutch system and an automatically operated, engine-generator unit for recharging the batteries. The whirl ventilator system includes...     

A devaporizer-windmill system wherein a rotary fan-like separator and motor-generator functions as a vertical, wind-powered, electric generator which also dehumidified the through going air and collects the resulting moisture which merges with a stream of collected rain water for the purpose of powering...     

This invention relates to a wind fence, preferably of immense area, adapted to extract energy from the wind and convert it into commercial electricity. The fence of this invention comprises a module of unique design and construction. These modules are used in multiples to form fences up to five hundred...     

Electric power is generated from a non-uniformly operating energy source such as wind or water waves by driving hydraulic pump means by a wind wheel or a bobbing float. The pump feeds hydraulic medium into a cylinder to raise a piston loaded by a weight. When the weight rises above a predetermined level,...     

A wind turbine on an essentially vertical mast converting wind power to electric power for the propulsion motors of a screw propelled ship. The turbine is omnidirectional and capable of being reefed for speed control.

A wind-driven power generator comprising a plurality of blades mounted between a pair of spoked wheels on a vertical column, said blades being connected through an eccentric rod system to a vane for detecting the direction of the wind and positioning the blades so that at least one blade on one side...     

A wind power generator comprising a vertically disposed support post having a support assembly rotatably mounted thereon which extends horizontally laterally therefrom. A plurality of vertically spaced rotor assemblies are rotatably mounted on the support assembly and are connected to an electrical generator...     

A wind-turbine generator system which transforms the rotational energy of a wind driven turbine blade into rotation in opposite directions of a rotor and a stator of a dynamoelectric machine to generate electrical power. A bevel gear rotating with the turbine blade drives two pinion gears and associated...     

This invention relates generally to an improved windmill design that combines the blade and rotor support system with the electrical generating system in such a way as to simplify the windmill construction. Specifically, it eliminates the need for shafts, gears, and other coupling devices between the...     

The invention is an energy-saving means for providing turbulence as well as circulation to liquids in a controlled natural purification system for advanced waste water treatment and algae farming. The wind-powered impeller-mixers are used in the algae growing reactors of a controlled natural purification...     

Apparatus to convert wind energy into mechanical and electrical energy including a variable pitch air-foil supported by tension guy wires on a wheeled structure constrained to move upon a continuous track. The structure includes electrical generators powered by the rotation of the structure's wheels...     

Disclosed is a wind power generating apparatus for producing megawatt levels of power. The apparatus comprises at least one endless flexible cable supported on the peripheries of two spaced apart wheels. Airfoils are attached to the cable and disposed for generating aerodynamic forces which cause the...     

An alternator for wind generator use employing a pair of stators having a rotor mounted therebetween in planar coaxial relationship. The stators have radially slotted coil forms integral therewith in which coils are wound in a serpentine fashion. The rotor is provided with an aluminum rim slotted in...     

A structure designed to be placed in an existing pass in a mountain range comprises a framework having a plurality of individual passageways through which moving air may travel. Each passageway contains a separate wind driven propeller structure which can be operated by air moving through the passageway...     

A wind actuated turbine which causes a magnet-brush spinner and a copper foil covered disc spinner to counter rotate and generate electricity by the Faraday Principle.

A wind turbine system utilizes a bicycle wheel type turbine having airfoils mounted on various spoke pairs. The vertical yaw axis lies in the horizontal projection of the airfoils to offer better control of the system; for example, automatic stowage in the case of excessive wind is provided since the...     

A wind power generating system is provided to generate power for the farm or ranch, state or county service buildings, and light industrial uses. The concept utilizes wind energy efficiently to convert power and can be rendered inoperative to avoid destruction by excessive wind flows.

A reversible airfoil generally wing-like in shape comprising at least two spaced apart rigid spars having at least two slots therethrough, bars projecting through the slots in each rigid spar, each end of each bar attaching to a flexible slat, and a common flexible movable skin adjacent the flexible...     

Fore and aft wind wheels have oppositely inclined vanes to rotate in opposite angular directions. Each wheel drives an electric generator. The whole is mounted on a shaft to be set, by a rudder, to the azimuth of the wind.

A fluid current motor having at least one vane mounted on a support for being moved by a fluid current. Flappers are pivotally mounted on the vane for orbital movement and are stopped from movement when moving with the fluid current and swing parallel to the direction of flow of the fluid current when...     

A rotary machine to be driven by a flow stream, such as wind or a water stream, including a housing with a semi-cylindrical back wall and horizontal top and bottom walls. A plurality of intake ducts open across the front of the housing to direct flow against a plurality of vertical vanes carried on and...     

A wind driven device capable of generating electrical power or performing other useful work by transforming wind energy into a rotational power source.

A Magnus effect windmill for generating electrical power is disclosed. A large nacelle-hub mounted pivotally (in Azimuth) atop a support tower carries, in the example disclosed, three elongated barrels arranged in a vertical plane and extending symmetrically radially outwardly from the nacelle. The system...     

The invention is a multiple-mode energy utilization device combining elements which extract solar energy, those which utilize wind energy, and those utilizing rising convection currents caused by heated air. In one principal embodiment, a wind rotor on a vertical axis is provided with solar cells on...     

A wind-adjustable air turbine consisting of: 1. a tetrahedral support structure, 2. at least one blade extending into opposite tetrahedral edges, and 3. an axis of rotation extending from the structure's center and movable into any of the edges' centers, whereby the blade's rotation and/or drag is changed.

A duct possessing structure includes an annular first floor and an annular first roof disposed substantially horizontally, vertical stationary guiding partitions provided radially between the first floor and roof, and a centrally located hollow cylindrical space. A revolving body includes a circular...     

This turbine ventilator is a combination device for ventilating a building structure, while it simultaneously generates useful current, and it consists primarily of a rooftop mounted housing, for confining rising warm air, and directing it into a pair of base members, which support rotating spherical...     

A wind powered electricity generation system having at least one wind vane assembly, an elongated shaft attached substantially perpendicularly to the bottom of the wind vane assembly, a tower supporting the shaft, and drive gears mounted on the shaft that are connected to an electricity generator. Each...     

A power generating system for supplying electrical power to an external electrical power demand load including a vertically oriented centerbody adapted to adsorb radiant solar energy; an annular enclosure around the centerbody defining a vertically extending air passage between the centerbody and the...     

A wind-powered electric generator using a concentrator structure and a focusing surface for focusing a wind stream onto a plurality of turbines, one of which is located within the concentrator structure, thereby providing for smaller structural size, as well as increased conversion efficiency.