The
Floating Wave Generator
by G Edward
Cook
These are new
drawings, pictures and a short movie of the floating wave generator.
The pictures
are of a working demonstration model.
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Side View Drawing
1
Top View Drawing 2
The pictures below are of a working
demonstration unit.
NOTE: The large red and blue gears on the main shaft move together
and act as one gear. The drawings above show them being replaced
by one wide gear. The two out side barrels would be approximately
half filled with water so they will have both weight and buoyancy. The
center barrel will have a section that will be filled with water so the
total weight of the center barrel is twice that of one of the outside barrels.
Click
here for a short movie (about 6mb)
Floating Wave Powered Generator
Patent Pending Number US60/662/582
by Glen Edward Cook
How It Works
The system uses three pontoons or barrel like floats.
The outer pontoons should be spaced apart the same distance as the distance
of the top of the waves for maximum efficiency. This distance can
be adjustable. The third pontoon will be in the center and will contain
the electric generator. The center pontoon will be connected rigidly
to one of the outer pontoons and the other connected by an arm or pair
of arms connected rigidly to the outer pontoon at the ends and connected
rigidly to the primary shaft going through the center pontoon. The primary
shaft will be held by bearings on each end of the center pontoon. These
bearings will be protected from water, sand and other materials by flexible
boots as the primary shaft will only move about one half turn clockwise
then move one half turn counterclockwise.
The primary shaft will be connected to the secondary shaft inside the center
pontoon with belts or gears and one way clutches to convert the alternating
primary shaft to the secondary shaft so it will spin in one direction.
The secondary shaft will be connected to the electric generator directly
or through a transmission that can adjust the shaft speed to the generator.
The electric power will be carried to a base station through power cables
strung with control cables and an air hose. The unit will be held in place
by a cable attached to an anchor or similar device.
If we look at the unit in a way that the rigidly connected pontoon is on
the right side and the pontoon connected to the primary shaft is on the
left, when the center pontoon is raised to the top of the wave and the
outer pontoons are in the valley of the waves the buoyancy of the center
pontoon will cause it to stay at the top of the wave and the weight of
the outer pontoons will cause them to drop causing the primary shaft to
turn counterclockwise, thus when the outer pontoons are at the top and
the center pontoon is in the valley the buoyancy of the outer pontoons
will hold them at the top while the weight of the center will force the
primary shaft to turn clockwise.
The outer pontoons and a divided section of the center pontoon should have
a valve to flood them so the entire unit will sink to the bottom to protect
it from storms. The valves could be controlled remotely through a cable
strung along the power cable. The air hose would be used to fill
the pontoons with air to bring the unit back to the surface.
Floating Wave Powered Generator
Patent Pending No. US60/662,582
by Glen Edward Cook
The generator can be any size. Let us look
at a 60,000 pound, 571 maximum horse-power
generator with a rating of 335 horse-power 1/4 megawatt.
Size: 20' wide
X 46' long X 8' high. The outer pontoons are 6' high and 20' long.
The center pontoon is 8' high x 20'' long. The pontoons are spaced 20'
apart from centers.
Weight: 60,000 pound total. Weighted
at each pontoon with water ballast: outer pontoons 15,000 lb. with
30,000 lb. of ballast each
center pontoon 30,000 lb. with 60,000 lb. of ballast
Maximum Horse-Power: 571 horse-power with 10'
waves at 10 per minute. To measure the horse power we multiply the
rpm by the torque and divide by 5252. Each time the center pontoon
moves from the wave top to the bottom and back to the next wave top each
of the outer pontoons up 90 degrees then down 90 degrees to equal 360 degrees
or one revolution. (90 + 90 = 180 X 2 = 360) Ten waves per minute equals
10 rpm. The torque is the weight of the outer pontoon times the length
of the connecting arm or crank. The weight is 15,000 lb. and the arms are
20 feet. 15,000 X 20 = 300,000 foot pounds torque.
10 rpm X 300,000 lb. torque = 3,000,000 lb. / 5252
= 571 Horse Power.
Rated Horse Power: I have rated this unit at
sixty percent of maximum then rounded it to 335 which equals one forth
megawatt. one horse-power equals 746 watts. 335 hp X 746 = 250,000
watts = 1/4 megawatt.
Estimated cost to build: $5,000 to $10,000.
There's not a lot to these units.
Time to pay off cost of unit: twenty to forty
days. The cost of Electricity Generation on my last electric bill was about
$50 per megawatt hour. That would be $12.50 per hour for a 1/4 megawatt
generator. $125 x 24 hours = $300. $300 X20 = $6,000.
Fields of Generators
We could fit 16,000 generators in one square mile
by spacing these units about ten feet apart on the sides and 12 feet apart
at the ends. We could hook them together like a huge blanket.
The cost of this field would by 80 to 160 million dollars and would pay
for itself in twenty to forty days. The field would produce about
four thousand megawatts. This would be equal to twenty duel reactor
nuclear power plants or three Hoover Dams.
G Edward Cook
PO Box 814
Simpson PA 18407
www.GEdwardCook.com G@GEdwardCook.com
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