15th October 2018 - Capture unit for non-vibrating, forwarding pressure

Picture on the right right shows you the principle for capturing steady, forwarding pressure with pressure bulb principle. You have two pistons and generator, which operates in two directions. After generator you have an electric circuit for equalizing the currents from different rotation directions.

Piston has valves and holes. When you push the piston and rotate the generator, the valves are closed. After piston reaches the bottom you open the valves and start to rotate the generator with another piston.

In front of the pistons you can use spoilers for directing the incoming pressure into active cylinder, minimize pressure which goes to the non-active piston.

System is quite a lot more efficient than propel. System does not leak pressure behind the piston. With steered spoiler system you can capture pressures from the whole area. System is much more stronger than propel system. Cylinder protects the moving piston.

When compared to propel the efficient power production area is gathered to piston. The nominal power-pressure of propel is the area of wings. The space in between wings is wasted. Double piston units are very small, when compared to ancient windmill technology. Double piston unit does not make as much noise as big windmill.

If you have 10 * 5 meter water unit, and you manage to brake the sea current's speed with 1 m/s, the push towards piston equals 50 tons weight. Difficult to say how much power you can get, water leaks backwards when you brake it. But the push from the back is big. If wind mill produces 1 MW, this unit could produce around 10 MW. In water you do not get much advantage from spoilers. The sample unit would take 10 * 10 meter area.

? When you brake the water with 1 m/s, you create abstract 1 meter volume from water : The amount of water, which goes through point X during one second is Area * Speed. So the total volume is 50 m³. One cubic meter water weighs 1 000 kg and piston's push weight is 50 000 kg. With the system you can estimate powers from all kinds of horizontal flows. In previous I used speed difference. In flow force you use actual speed. Developed the calculation for basin tech in 2010. The old acceleration based Newton II resulted into zero weight and flow power. With density, the formula follows new version from Newton II. Water's density is around 1 000 kg / m³. Air is around 1.3 kg / m³.

If windmills propels diameter is 70 meters, average wing width is 2 meters, the pressure creation area of your mill is 210 m². 3 * (2 * 35 m). 
- With 10 m/s wind the push weight is 3 tons. 1.3 * 210 * 10 = 2 730 kg.

If you build a 62x62 meter, boxed rectangle ( area matches ), The total area is 62 x 62 m = 3844 m². With 80% coverage the pressure creation area is 3075 m². It is 15 times bigger than windmills. The simple push weight with 10 m/s wind is 39 tons. Almost as much as the 100 times smaller water unit has in the previous sample. Gas shrinks under pressure, pressure increases the push weight.

- System works with gases and liquids. Winds and waves.
- Scale and size of the system is up to you.
- Valves and spoilers can be operated mechanically or electrically.
- System works in both directions. You can collect energy from both incoming and outgoing tidal waves.
- Unit works in horizontal, vertical and tilted position.

- Compact unit works also in running river. A temporal, mobile power producer is not dependent on sunlight. It works all day long.
- In principle you can use the system in common gas generators. Replace the turbine units with piston system. System is useless with hydro generator, it downgrades efficiency ratio.

System is capture only system. Reversed system would create relatively steady pressures, but it does not give advantage to compressors. On-ground compressor is another kind of piston system.
Originally developed the idea for upright air conditioning systems. Few hours before I discovered the vacuum and cold fusion.

4 stroke combustion engine does not have useless strokes : 1st stroke is vacuum pump, 2nd is compressor, 3rd creates kinetic energy, 4th is pressure pump. Also well known, that 4 stroke system is the most efficient way to burn fuel. 2 stroke system has it's benefits, but it is slightly poorer. 2 stroke engine takes the same steps than 4-stroke engine. It takes them faster than 4 stroke engine. 2 stroke engine has piston's channel system in the cylinder.

Tropical cyclones are the biggest destructive powers in out world. Total power of tidal waves are much more bigger than cyclones. The unit can be used with slowly running sea currents, too. Unit does not need big basins / reservoirs. Unit has to be anchored to ground and that's all.

Common manpowered pump uses also similar kind of reversed single piston system. Automation and capture needs two pistons. Inventions are often simple applications from existing, well known things. They are not always that difficult.

16th October 2018 - Gear box, etc.

It is not in the diagram, but generator axle is usually connected to pistons with gears and gearbox. When you create electricity, circuit is more efficient and easier way to equalize produced energy. If you need rotational power, you can build a gear box - clutch system, which rotates the output axle in only one direction.

With smaller cylinders and advanced spoiler system, you build system which works in various wind speeds. In advanced spoiler system you select the number of units, steer winds or water from wider area into active units.

Wind generator's piston units are so small and light, that you can rotate them. Waves do not have much usage for such, they come from one direction almost all the time. Outgoing tidal is also thing, which does not necessarily need capturing. The power of outgoing wave is small. Tidal plant needs an electromagnetic battery for providing power all-day long and power by demand. More advanced vacuum plant does not necessarily need battery units.

Double piston system allows you to cut and capture a continuous movement. You can build a facility, where you convert the continuous movement ( kinetic energy ) into some useful energy form. You can also capture vertical kinetic energy. Energies from for example falling rain, midgets, and what-so-ever. In rain collector, you fill the another cylinder. At swap point, before you start the lift, you release water from the another.

16th October 2018 - Basin for the unit

In the picture you see redirector-basin for the capture unit. The maximum push-pressure system comes from the qualities of the water. Or alternatively air. Typical for winds, waves and tidal waves is that they have lots of kinetic, horizontal energy. The amount of vertical potential energy is marginal. Only way to store kinetic energy is to convert it into vertical potential energy. You can use wind or wave for operating a pump / lift, with what you raise water / weigh. Double piston basin is small system, with what you increase the pressure system, which goes into cylinder. Now that we have electromagnetic batteries, there is no need to even think some kind of energy reservoir system. Battery's size-capacity ratio is unbeatably good.

In rounded, horseshoe like basin, the water cannot easily escape from the unit. In horseshoe basin water can escape towards the tidal wave only. When you over-brake the wave/current, it results into hike in water levels inside the basin. Unit with horseshoe basin is more efficient.

In the picture basin is built for unit. Nothing prevents you from building a horseshoe basin for multiple units. You can also use the units for creating the shape for the basin. You should not use very big angles against the incoming pressure. Build the beginning of the basin without collector units. The basin does not have to be rounded like in the picture. 

You can build mounted tidal plant over poles, begin the basin wall from the point, where water pressure prevents major escapes from the below. Tidal wave is not very deep. Pressure from overlying water prevents the movement. It is the same with sea currents.

When you build a plant to water or salt water, the mechanical rod system is more durable / reliable than electric. Electricity and water are not the best friends with each other. You open the port, when piston reaches the top, close it after it reaches the bottom. At the same time you open and close valves in piston.

Piston is big, but it does not weigh much. The pressure per square meter, which pushes the piston is small. Piston can be made from plastic-fiber. Piston can be rectangle, it can operate on rails. Cylinder loads are very small. Cylinder has to keep the water in it. It has to carry the weigh of piston ( from the bottom ) You can make the cylinder from fiber or plastic. Concrete and steel are way too strong for the unit. In water system sealing is not very important.

Water wave is a pressure system which moves in water. Pressure moves in flow. It can move atoms, but it can forward also without making any changes to water's atom system. It is well known that waves transport-throw things to shores. It is also well known, that waves doesn't always do so. Spreading speed of for example spilled oil is slower than the speed of waves. From combustion engines we know for sure, that gases have similar kind of system.

Tidal plant is safer than vacuum plant. Tidal plant creates / collects the energy from wide area. Vacuum plant creates the energy in one facility. Vacuum plant's energy leaks are always bigger than tidal plants.

In western lifestyle you need currently 2-3 GW production capacity for million people. Besides lethal side-effects and limited fuel reserves, nuclear plant is too small for fulfilling the modern needs for electric energy. Biggest nuclear plants are only 6-7 GW. 50 million nation needs already 25 big 6 GW plants. Unit prices for electricity tends to raise with financial growth, just like oil prices do. Limited production capacity and missing plant tech raises unit prices when demand grows.

Tidal / se current plant is third realistic replacement for nuclear and dam plant. River basin is the third plant type, which can be built to produce bigger amounts of electricity. Best places for traditional dam plants are already used.

 

16th October 2018 - Cranked capture unit

You can replace simple rod system with crank system. In order to get benefit from the crank system one output axle needs more than two cylinders. So that the system does not stop to switch. With more than 2 cylinders you can set switches so that they do not overlap. Switch is the only time, when two cylinder unit doesn't produce push power. There aren't combustion engine like demands for timing the movements of pistons. System doesn't need flywheels either.

You can use 4, 8, 6, etc. cylinders. In practice number of cylinders must be even. One functional unit has two cylinders, you can place these 2 cylinder units over each other. Crank increases the height of the system, but you can eliminate that with smaller cylinders.

Might want to use crank system with fast, high pressure unit, with what you replace gas turbine. Double piston system is more efficient than gas turbine. Pressure system, with double piston unit, needs vacuum plant like system for mixing kettle's high pressure with low pressure, which comes from double piston unit. In principle gas turbine needs mixer unit, too. Gas turbine is so inefficient, that it works without mixer.

You can replace turbines with double piston units without much work. Output powers grows quite a lot. Gas turbine wastes energy for heat and speed creation. Double piston unit collects much more from the created energy. The only difference to turbine is the method, with what you rotate the generator. The maximum power and speed with what you rotate the generator are bigger. Upgrade reduces fuel consumption. Then you can temporarily overload the system for responding peaks in consumption.

In pressure system mixer, you push the outlet air to the bottom of the kettle. Under fire / heat source. In the picture you see diagram for the closed double piston system ( with or without crank ). Low pressure area is lighter blue. Rod-crank system and the top of the generator axle is in the low pressure area. Generator is behind the low-pressure area. Picture is only a diagram, kettle and turbine are usually in the same space / tube.

In high pressure system valves should be like in combustion engine. Combustion engine pushes valves towards head with pressure. Push improves sealing. Double piston pushes valves towards pistons.

Double piston system for existing coal plant is steamer like upgrade. You obviously find the latter drum propel easier / better. In power production drum propel has a need for the mixer after the propel-generator system. Gas turbine is an application from jet engine. It suits poorly to power production.

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With waves and winds you cannot get much benefit from the crank. Rod system is quite a lot simpler than crank. Crank is more expensive to build, it is not as reliable as rod system. In big tidal plant cylinders are enormous. About the same size with detached house. Rods, cranks, bearings and mountings are in the same scale. Big piston moves obviously on rails, for minimizing the friction forces. Small leaks are insignificant.

Regardless of the way you connect the pistons, the connector system does not have significant constructional losses.

Not very likely, that you could successfully replace 4 stroke combustion engine with the system. Combustion engine works with momentary kinetic energy, double piston is designed for capturing energy from continuous pressure / kinetic energy flow.

Heard someone saying that sea current plant is stupid, nothing but few empty cans.
Must confess, that sea current plant is simple, ecological way to do profitable business. It misses cool, media sexy stupidities, with what you can create trendy, bright and environmentally conscious image to yourself. In and only in public.

It is the first natural plant ever, which can always fulfill customers demand for electricity. Dam plant and river basin network have difficulties during summer time, when rivers dry. In biggest possible size it competes with vacuum plants. 

When fish gets into plant it swims few times around the unit and goes away. Systems, with what you prevent trashes from stopping the unit, prevents fishes and others from hurting and killing themselves.

You cannot just "simply" replace double piston system with propel. Efficient double piston system replaces inefficient propel. Double piston can collect energies from slow flows, because it doesn't create momentums. Collector doesn't waste available energy to Y component. Cannot get any better.