System and methodology for wind compression
View Patent ↗A wind compressor system having one or more wind turbines and a plurality of wind compressors located proximate the one or more wind turbines. The wind compressors optimize the energy created by the wind turbines by redirecting and converging the wind from the wind compressor to the wind turbines. Each of the wind compressors comprises an obstruction having a size and shape adapted to converge the wind currents by means of a Venturi effect toward the one or more turbines thereby increasing the velocity and force of the wind hitting the wind turbine. A plurality of transporters coupled to the wind compressors. The transporters configured to move at least one wind compressors to a location that maximizes the force of the wind encountered by the turbine.
1. A wind compressor system comprising:
a plurality of wind compressors arranged about a wind turbine having a rotor and blades affixed thereto, said wind compressors redirecting ambient wind striking the wind compressors to said blades, thereby rotating said rotor,
wherein said rotor is magnetically levitated during operation by at least one magnet, thereby reducing friction;
a controller configured to control the position of said wind compressors based on the direction of the ambient wind; and
at least one generator configured to generate electric power in response to the rotation of the rotor driven by ambient engaging wind and the redirected wind from the wind compressors.
2. The wind compressor system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
at least one sensor, connected to said controller, to detect said direction of the ambient wind.
3. The wind compressor system according to claim 1 , wherein said controller automatically changes the position of a given wind compressor to another position to optimally harness the ambient wind.
4. The wind compressor system according to claim 3 , further comprising:
at least one transporter, connected to at least one of said wind compressors and said controller, to move said at least one wind compressor to said another position.
5. The wind compressor system according to claim 4 , wherein each of said wind compressors are affixed to a respective transporter.
6. The wind compressor system according to claim 4 , wherein said at least one transporter is selected from the group consisting of an engine, a locomotive, an automobile, a truck, a trailer, a boat, a Sino trailer, a self-propelled modular device and combinations thereof.
7. The wind compressor system according to claim 4 , further comprising:
at least one pathway for said at least one transporter.
8. The wind compressor system according to claim 7 , wherein said at least one pathway is selected from the group consisting of a track, a railroad, a monorail, a roadway, a waterway and combinations thereof.
9. The wind compressor system according to claim 1 , wherein said wind compressor system is portable.
10. The wind compressor system according to claim 1 , wherein said wind compressors are selected from the group consisting of a railroad car, a trailer truck body, a structure, a sail, a flexible material, a canvass, a cloth, a polycarbon, a metal, a glued and molded sail, mylar material, and combinations thereof.
11. A wind compressor system comprising:
a plurality of wind compressors arranged about a plurality of wind turbines having respective rotors and blades affixed thereto, said wind compressors redirecting ambient wind striking the wind compressors to said blades, thereby rotating said rotors,
wherein at least one of said rotors is magnetically levitated during operation by at least one magnet, thereby reducing friction; and
at least one generator configured to generate electric power in response to the rotation of the rotors driven by the ambient engaging wind and the redirected wind from the wind compressors.
12. A wind compressor system comprising:
a pair of wind compressors arranged relative to the ambient wind to the left and to the right of a wind turbine having a rotor and blades affixed thereto, said wind compressors redirecting ambient wind striking the wind compressors to said blades, thereby rotating said rotor,
wherein said rotor is magnetically levitated during operation by at least one magnet, thereby reducing friction; and
at least one generator configured to generate electric power in response to the rotation of the rotor driven by ambient engaging wind and the redirected wind from the wind compressors.
13. The wind compressor system according to claim 12 , further comprising:
at least one sensor, connected to a controller, to detect the direction of the ambient wind.
14. The wind compressor system according to claim 13 , wherein said controller automatically changes the position of one of said wind compressors to another position to optimally harness the ambient wind.
15. The wind compressor system according to claim 14 , further comprising:
at least two transporters, one of said transporters connected to said first wind compressor and a second transporter connected to said second wind compressor, to respectively move said wind compressors to said another position.
16. The wind compressor system according to claim 15 , wherein said at least two transporters are selected from the group consisting of an engine, a locomotive, an automobile, a truck, a trailer, a boat, a Sino trailer, a self-propelled modular device and combinations thereof.
17. The wind compressor system according to claim 15 , further comprising:
at least one pathway for said at least two transporters.
18. The wind compressor system according to claim 17 , wherein said at least one pathway is selected from the group consisting of a track, a railroad, a monorail, a roadway, a waterway and combinations thereof.
19. The wind compressor system according to claim 12 , wherein said wind compressor system is portable.
20. The wind compressor system according to claim 12 , wherein said wind compressors are selected from the group consisting of a railroad car, a trailer truck body, a structure, a sail, a flexible material, a canvass, a cloth, a polycarbon, a metal, a glued and molded sail, mylar material, and combinations thereof.
21. A method for channeling ambient wind comprising:
arranging a first wind compressor to the right of a wind turbine and a second wind compressor to the left of said wind turbine relative to ambient wind, said first and second wind compressors redirecting ambient wind to said wind turbine,
wherein ambient engaging wind and the redirected ambient wind from said wind compressors drive a rotor with blades affixed thereto in said wind turbine, rotating said rotor; and
converting the mechanical energy of said rotating rotor to electrical energy,
wherein said rotor within said wind turbine is levitating pursuant to at least one magnet in said wind turbine, thereby reducing friction.
22. A method for channeling ambient wind comprising:
arranging a plurality of wind compressors about a wind turbine relative to ambient wind, said plurality of wind compressors redirecting ambient wind to said wind turbine,
wherein ambient engaging wind and the redirected ambient wind from said plurality of wind compressors drive a rotor with blades affixed thereto in said wind turbine, rotating said rotor; and
converting the mechanical energy of said rotating rotor to electrical energy,
wherein said rotor within said wind turbine is levitating pursuant to at least one magnet in said wind turbine, thereby reducing friction.