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On a long voyage, it is not always easy to replenish fuel. It would be nice to have our own sources of energy on the ship, especially since there are as many as you like around it: waves and wind are constant companions of sailors. It doesn't take much imagination to imagine a ship with a windmill on its deck, and a wave power plant "attached" to the board.

Too much cluttering up the deck is not good, so I would hide the drum-type wind wheels in a hull with a diameter of no more than 6 m. Getting into the confuser, the wind turns the wheels in opposite directions (AS No. 1 000 584). On the shaft of the windmill there is an electric generator that starts to rotate as soon as the wind blows, capable of spinning the windwheels. The generator can run on a ship's electric motor and on a battery to power auxiliary systems: lighting, radio network, all kinds of pumps.

Considerable fuel savings will be provided by a device that converts wave energy into mechanical energy (AS No. 1 486 622). Rigid cones tapering downwards are hung on the sides of the vessel, inside which elastic cylinders filled with liquid are placed. If it is something like antifreeze, the plant will be able to work in high latitudes.

Instead of fuel - wave and wind

In the housing 1 are placed windwheels 2, capable of rotating in opposite directions. When the wind reaches such strength that the electric generator 3 begins to give a current sufficient to trigger the relay 4, the wind energy either rotates the ship's electric motor or charges the battery 5. The diode 6 introduced into the circuit ensures that the current accumulated in the battery does not return to the generator, and fed the engine during a calm.

The wave compresses the cylinder, the liquid filling it through the hydraulic transmission (see Fig.) acts on the ratchet wheel and the spring mounted on the same shaft with the electric generator. The system works similarly to a watch mechanism, only it is not the weight that cocks the spring, but the measured shocks of the waves, and, unwinding, it does not move the arrow, but the shaft of the electric generator.

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When a wave hits, the balloon 1 compresses, the liquid filling it presses on the piston 3 located in the hydraulic cylinder 4. At the same time, the spongy cutting of the rod 5 acts on the ratchet wheel 6. The spring 7, twisting, accumulates the energy of the waves, and untwisting, rotates the shaft of the electric generator 8. If the blows water is too strong, the variable volume chamber 2 acts as a damper and protects the hydraulic system from breakdowns.

These ideas of mine have not been tested on mock-ups and require detailed engineering work. I hope they will be of interest to shipbuilders, because the use of wave and wind energy directly on board promises huge fuel savings.

Author: V.Sokolov

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