Power generating windbags and waterbags
View Patent ↗A method of using a bagged power generation system comprising windbags and water-bags for harnessing wind and water power to produce electricity to meet the escalating energy needs of mankind. Windbags integrated with aerodynamically shaped inflatable bodies filled with lighter-than-air gas: HAV, UAV, airplanes; enabling the apparatus to attain high altitude to capture and entrap high velocity wind. Water-bags integrated with hydrodynamic shaped bodies HUV, UUV, Submarine-boats; enabling the apparatus to dive, capture and entrap swift moving tidal-currents. Attached tether-lines pulling on the rotating reel-drums and generators to produce electricity. Active control surfaces, turbo-fans, propellers provide precision control of the apparatus. A system configured to maximize fluids capture, retention and optimized extraction of its kinetic energy. An extremely scalable and environmentally friendly method, system, apparatus, equipment and techniques configured to produce renewable green energy with high productivity and efficiency.
1. A system for generation of electrical power comprising:
a drive unit ( 51 ) having a body ( 99 ) and tethers ( 50 ) attached to the body and means ( 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 ) for supporting the drive unit ( 51 );
at least one windbag ( 30 ) having a circumference that includes integrated aerodynamically shaped inflatable bodies ( 99 ) filled with helium that form windborne hybrid aerial vehicles (HAVs- 100 ) that pull the tethers ( 50 ) the windbag includes means for connecting the circumference of the windbag to the drive unit body ( 99 );
a driven unit ( 55 ) including a tether spool ( 52 ); gear box ( 53 ); generator ( 54 ); winding motor 49 and means for supporting the driven unit ( 55 ), wherein the winding motor ( 49 ) is operable to reel in and retract back the tethers ( 50 ) and windbag ( 30 ) and the drive unit is adapted to turn the tether spool ( 52 ) to create rotational movement that is transmitted via the gear box ( 53 ) and used to power the generator ( 54 );
a tether spool switching system ( 330 ) for switching over running tether spools ( 52 ) containing depleted lengths of tether ( 50 d) to new spools ( 52 ″) of tether lines ( 50 ″); and
an air-ribs system of inflatable tubes ( 277 ); ( 277 a ); ( 22 ); filled with pressurized air for providing shape to the windbags 30 ;
wherein kinetic energy of wind current is captured within the windbag and transmitted from the drive unit to the driven unit to generate electricity.
2. A system of claim 1 wherein the tethers ( 50 ) are adapted to transmit the tensile force of the hybrid aerial vehicles to the driven unit ( 55 ) and transmit the wind into electrical energy by a generator ( 54 ).
3. A system of claim 2 wherein said motion centric hybrid aerial vehicles are operably powered up; maneuvered in power-run phase over a linear trajectory from start-of-run (SOR) point ( 16 ) to the end-of-run (EOR) point ( 288 ); said drive units ( 51 ) operated in tandem with driven units ( 55 ) to generate power; depowered safely; and retracted back to the SOR point ( 16 ) as and when required.
4. A system of claim 1 wherein said driven unit ( 55 ) for generation of electrical power further includes additional spools ( 52 ″) of tether ( 50 ″) operably connected to depleted running spools ( 52 ) of tether ( 50 d ).