Brilliant! I need several, about 500 of this amazing, novel high efficiency wave energy converters from CorPower for our energy needs. Greetings from Madang, Papua New Guinea.
A simple mercury-filled sea-saw system that uses buoyancy on 2 ends, an internal tube of mercury, and harnesses energy from the flowing mercury inside is much easier to build, doesn't require computers or active monitoring, and doesn't require seals that are in contact with moving parts. It can also be made out of cheaper materials and, if hit by a ship, will just float on the ocean until picked up. Cheap and simple.
Ships, trains, and especially planes, power plants, or freaking space shuttles require a massive amount of maintanance and people operating them, usually a whole team. I can see why people, especially those with some understanding of mechanics and sustainable systems, are sceptical. CorPower probably (hopefully) took all that into account so let's wait and see how things go.
@florian5670 yeah. There's some underwater glider company using the same mounts, similar livery colors, and using ties tidal/ wave motion. I wouldn't be surprised if the two companies were two sides of the same coin
This looks great in simulation and I would love to see this project succeed but I have seen the kind of mess created of "Robust" technology when Poseidon decides to play with it. Maybe yours is the one to prove me wrong.
If it was a removable system that can un attached and reattached. Could be something that is removed and stored for the season and relaunched when ice is melted.
Amazing that even without any study in the area I was looking at the measurement system of a caliper had designed a system to generate energy with waves in the same style, but after a long time I saw that I could use a permanent magnet on the float and a coil in the fixed part and a sliding system with a ceramic shaft and Stabilizers using an aluminum part and a magnet to prevent the waves from causing the buoy to reach the limit of the coils and cause some damage to the system. The coil and magnet sliding system on a ceramic shaft would have a very small friction and would be easily replaced. With few moving parts, the most stressed being the support cables on the seabed.
Brief but valuable content! Thanks! Like you said hydraulic engineer must spend planty of time because of destructive effects involving electronic engineering for example as You mention rotation wave shuttle thus the rotor with it's vertical travel ( if I am right?!) would limited the eight of wave form. This entire system has planty technological challenges - THANKS! 😊
@@mohamednasser5009 Wave energy and hydro energy can be categorized in a so call "sea state" and variety of wavelenghts or periods of wave can be form in one. So intradisciplinar approach is very important like in science so as in topic. It is one big grid.
Excellent. We need more like this and enough intelligent and fast acting people to implement this in countries..The latter being the most difficult part I think seeing the state of our nowadays governments...
Probably the main mistake is that the generator needs to be positioned near the bottom. And let the buoy float on top. Then you don't need to waste energy on lifting a heavy buoy. And it's always quiet at the bottom. There is no sea disturbance and it is much closer to the cables. The buoy itself can be made completely autonomous.
Single critical point of failure is at the interface / seal , where the rod(s) enter the sphere. The problem is not in the area of the shaft that travels through the seal regularly, this will be ‘wiped’ clean during normal operation. However, any part of the rod that does not ‘cycle’ through the seal regularly, will be highly prone to biological attachments (remember the rod is stationary in the sea, anchored to the bottom.) This buildup will destroy water tightness over months, rather than years, ie maintenance dives are required to keep the extremities of the rods clean. Or, each cycle should be a full cycle, that might help offset the risk of biological attachments.
The caveman and his wheel started the observation of perpetual motion. A technology found in ancient archaeological sites.The power harnessed from motion.
I would like to know more information about the outer shell layer of CorPower and the impact state parameters of the species that can parasitize on the shell layer
I assume the 4 rod are in a sealed cylinder and not exposed to seawater. I would interested to know how the system copes with changing sea levels and lateral forces from storms. I guess there must be some hinging/flexing arrangement.
@@bricknmotor That is successful for that geography/construction but bodies of water across nation could be utilized to get hydro power with right valve construction even without the Niagara geographic features. It's more microgrid or supplemental concept than supplying large area demand itself.
For wave energy devices, such diving to protect from storm loads is best done in the frequency domain. corpowerocean.com/corpower-ocean-announces-wave-energy-breakthrough/
@@corpowerocean7527 I could not find any info about your "frequency domain" in your link. Instead I found some info about resonance. These contraptions are too small to resonate with the waves. By the way I did some work in this field. I designed diving contraption and I found Irish businessman who was willing to build it. Fortunately, we had enough common sense to abandon this risky project. A few years later I invented cheap material (strong basalt foam) which made the diving contraptions much more economical. I have not built anything yet because I have more important energy projects now.
What are the negative effects of this on marine life and oceans currents ? As the original pressure is absorbed, this will change the other organic processus which were supposed to take place
It will only take a tiny bit of the seas power. If you could grow mollusk on the under surface you could harvest them occasionally. Or have little reefs under them and make it a marine production reserve. No fishing but plenty of breeding for smaller fish.
300kw means each unit could supply 10 houses. Seems like you'd need a few thousand of these buoys to make it a worthwhile generation amount that would justify the infrastructure. Would be alot of complaints from boaters and the environmentalists
Our CorPack wave clusters have the Wave Energy Converters installed with 150m spacing, delivering approximately 15 MW/km2 in power per used ocean space. The modular approach with many relatively small devices packed in high density clusters enables very efficient use of ocean space. 15 MW/km2 can be compared with a typical offshore wind farm delivering 3-5 MW/km2. The high power density of this solution means the use of ocean space is minimized. The single-leg mooring arrangement also means a minimum interference with the seabed and minimum disturbance to boaters and fishing activities. Fishermen in Portugal are seen laying nets just on the perimeter of our wave site, as the foundations and other structures on the site seem to increase fish activity in the area. 300kW can power close to 300 households as the average electricity consumption (in the US and Europe) is about 1kW (< 10000 kWh annually). www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3
I need to do a study on mathematical modeling of this device and its energy storage and control. I also need to simulate it with matlab. Can someone help me? Maybe you can suggest a source or at least an idea?
sea can maybe make electric curent , just coinecting whires to two places to sea water might have electric current , if magnetir rocks are in sea sand or floor , and water works likw rotating engine with copper in it, salt water works as a whire
Interesting but I have a much better design that doesn't rely on that vulnerable seal or on computerization to deal with rough weather. You make a design that looks like a pair of old barbells or 2 maracas attached together. Inside, there's a large tube filled partially with mercury(and yes, its mercury because its my idea and I like mercury). In the middle of this system is a simple pivot point attached to a simple anchoring system. As the device sea-saws, the heavy mercury turns turbines inside the sealed inner tube. The wiring exits the inside tube and the body of the thing itself - since its multi-layered - through an easily-sealed port. The fulcrum of this sea-saw machine doesn't need to be an expensive bearing and the device itself can be made out of cheap materials. The multiple layers and single hold in the device for wiring ensures that it won't get filled with water nor will mercury leak out even if the inner-most tube fails. In fact, if there's an internal leak, you'll be able to notice it when the device doesn't rock back and forth. This design is far simpler than yours, doesn't rely on active monitoring, actuators, and computers, and its much more robust, easily-installed, and practically immune to damage. If a ship hits it and breaks it from its anchor, it'll just float on the water until recovered with minimal repairs needed. I'm giving you this free idea because I love mercury and think it should be used for the production of renewable energy.
Consider an anchored semi submerged platform, octagon shaped which supports the generation unit structure out of the corrosive water and the bobbing stator will be in the center with the metals above the water. Any moving parts need to be away from saltwater for economical service life. I recommend the power cables be buried much deeper than anchors can reach, internet cables get snagged frequently
CorPack clusters of these devices connect up to an electrical collection hub, from here the electricity is exported to shore over a subsea cable. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--XWbVMtNnaw.html
Our first commercial scale system, the CorPower C4, is deployed offshore Agucadoura in northern Portugal. corpowerocean.com/corpower-c4-exporting-power-to-the-portuguese-grid/
@@Physicsnerd1sorry, yes I was talking about net energy. People here complain about too many parts because everytime there's maintenance or parts to replace, your net energy goal gets delayed. A simpler design is always better.
Our CorPack wave clusters have the Wave Energy Converters installed with 150m spacing, delivering approximately 15 MW/km2 in power per used ocean space. The modular approach with many relatively small devices packed in high density clusters enables very efficient use of ocean space. 15 MW/km2 can be compared with a typical offshore wind farm delivering 3-5 MW/km2.
@VinniusHKruger Your comment is correct but irrelevant. My statement is very simple: If you use the term "megawatt" to refer to energy, it is an incorrect statement. A megawatt is a unit of power; a megawatt-hour is a unit of energy (as is a joule).
