Wind driven, high altitude power apparatus

Details Wind driven, high altitude power apparatus Wind driven, high altitude power apparatus

1976-01-19

1978-04-11

Scott, James R.

Prime-mover dynamo plants

Fluid-current motors

Wind

416 85, F03D 1100

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040841022

ABSTRACT:
Wind driven rotors are affixed along the length of a flexible power shaft, and the shaft is suspended at a great height above the earth by means of a swivel. The lowermost end of the shaft is connected to rotate a ground supported energy conversion device. The winds aloft impart rotational motion into the wind rotors, whereupon the rotational energy of the shaft is converted into electrical power or other form of power by the conversion device.
The swivel enables the rotating shaft to be affixed to a nonrotating lifting or suspension device. The lifting device includes lighter-than-air lifting bodies, aerodynamic lifting bodies, as well as a combination thereof. In one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of lifting bodies suspend a plurality of wind rotors, with each of the rotors being affixed to the shaft by a clutch means, so that when a wind gradient is encountered, a slowly rotating rotor will become disengaged from the shaft, thereby avoiding induced drag of the slow rotor.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1371836 (1921-03-01), Antz
patent: 2218867 (1938-02-01), Beldimano
patent: 2431111 (1947-11-01), Brie
patent: 2433344 (1947-12-01), Crosby
patent: 3229517 (1966-01-01), Smith

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