Prime-mover dynamo plants – Fluid-current motors – Wind
Patent
1980-05-14
1989-01-31
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Fluid-current motors
Wind
6064112, F03G 704
Patent
active
048018112
ABSTRACT:
Electricity is generated in an arid environment using an open duct such as a canyon that is closed at one end and open at the other by erecting an air dam at the open end of the canyon and locating an air turbogenerator in the base of the dam. The air in the canyon is cooled by spraying water into the air as it enters the canyon, the cooled air flowing downwardly toward the base of the dam and through the turbogenerator.
Preferably, the air dam is a flexible curtain, covering the outlet of the canyon, and suspension means are provided for suspending the flexible curtain at its top. The suspension means include supports built into the canyon above the top of the curtain, the support preferably being a suspension cable suspended between towers on opposite sides of the canyon such that the top of the flexible curtain is supported by support cables carried by the suspension cable.
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Assaf Gad
Bronicki Lucien
Duncanson Jr. W. E.
Geophysical Engineering Co.
Shoop Jr. William M.
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