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Thanks Mike O'malley!

i did do a design whereby i had two "Z" folding wings (this just basic reefing), back to back, with a morphing mechanism in the middle that allows the wings to form the ideal wing shape on either tack. These slabs - like you described could be lowered to the boom to lower them. These were designed to be solid carbon fibre panels - that could form the base for solar panels. I think there are solar panels out there that a flexible nowadays. You can see one of my early inventions of a morphing wing - but it was pointed out to me that it would be too heavy on a yacht for the benefits that it would bring - so i abandoned it.... ua-cam.com/video/qUPAeYVgQ7Q/v-deo.htmlsi=E4XWbVRZDqrLJKtE (so i changed the design)

Thankyou, yours has been the best best reply yet. I I really appreciate people sharing their opinions. It's not something that I personally could get off the ground or fund. I think people forget that 70% of the planet we live on is ocean. It's a shame not to harness the energy that it carries for the betterment of everyone. We're all too happy to chop every thing down, or dig fossil reminents because it's cheap and an easy path to take.

⁠@@jamescraig3007 Re: “… people forget Earth is 70% water…” Not I, JC!!! I am all about pure pneumatics - do everything with air. I always say, “On a planet that’s 70% water, why would you want to use anything else besides pneumatics? Air is 100% compatible with water (vs. ICE, or electric, etc.) My air-powered chainsaw - or air-powered drill, or palm nailer, or yard trimmer, or truck - all work underwater, and the fish love it!! Compatible with water, all life, all nature. All zero-pollution, carbon neutral. And my solar powered compressors, and windmill compressors always keep it that way. With CO2 scrubbers in air filters, all compressors become carbon negative, passively. Don’t get me wrong, I use more electronic circuits than most, but mind you pneumatics are also fully EMP-proof, and lightning/surge/black-out/brown-out proof - EMP/solar flare/CME? Bring it on! Wave energy is the final solution for global supply. Add this to your solution - THE ENTIRE PLANET IS ALREADY PLUMBED FOR PURE PNEUMATICS!! The earth is already ringed with natural gas lines to-and-from, over, under, and through every country, and into every urban and rural city, all the way into even individual apartments. AND ALL THE WAY FROM EVERY MAJOR SEA PORT. So forget about any electric grids, let the sea pump up our tanks forever… just plumb it into the global pipe line grid already right there at the port to send it to the masses.

lglb, given you and I are on the same page with wind and waves (i think) , you might like this idea of using ships as hydrogen factories, taking advantage of the waves - using them to pump air through turbines, the turbines run generators, and in turn create the electricity for electrolysis for hydrogen production. ua-cam.com/video/NizechKixug/v-deo.html

@@jamescraig3007 NO!! But I do love the graphics - again A++ (BTW: what software do you use?) Ok… hold your hydrogen-barge thoughts for a second. 1) I’m pure pneumatics, so skip the ‘convert to electricity’ parts (at least for now), and then I’m all ears. And, do recall that with each conversion is an efficiency loss (wave to air dynamics, air to blade dynamics, blade rotations to magnetic field dynamics, … electricity to electrolysis, … then eventually back to electricity through a fuel cell [most eff.] or burning, etc.) As simple as it may seem, it’s way too complex with eff. losses at each of the many steps, and each conversion phase has tricky dynamics - like balancing ideal delta wave heights to get most usable delta P’s, variable pitching complex turbine blades through bi-directional, non-steady flows, etc. And btw, piston-cylinder sets in place of the turbines would do better with no continuous blade adjustments/costs/dynamics/higher efficiency with no dynamic losses - i.e., just dum and simple. 2) I did this soooo long ago, I’m not even gonna say when, think Reagan:) But the gist is: IT SHOULD BE RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLE. Imaging a similar dock-like structure… with only check valves - your holey boat with just check plates on the deck floor. Just an anchored dock/deck full of cylinder holes and check valves - not really any moving parts only 2 flat plates (checks) per cylinder (hole). The plate checks could be as simple as a plate bolted to the floor - but with long, loose bolts so it can move up and down a bit… I mean they could a basketball loosely in the pipe with a hole in the deck just smaller than the basketball - a thousand really simple ways to make such a check, even DIY for pennies. No pistons, no piston rings, no moving seals, nada, just like you have it coming out of the water just before the turns to turbines. I mean, it’s so simple it’s more confusing just trying to explain it (lol). For example, moving the cylinder instead of the water, just turn a cup upside down and press it into the water - the air trapped above the water gets compressed, you just need a hole in the top (check valve) to let the air into your system (and a reversed check to let the water fall again.) Done! You can pass it through a ‘p-trap’ (gravity filter) downstream to let out any water that came in - extra water no big deal, no harm. That’s it, super simple (no chips/logics/controls, etc.), just massive air. Yes, you can optimize - deck height adjustable for tides, etc. And now you can A) second-stage compress it to match your tank/system pressures - just a big cylinder at low pressure driving a small piston at high pressure (or same cylinders adjustably leveraged for optimal P conversions), or B) Now you can waste all that time/money/parts and add complexity/eff. losses with just a single turbine (or a ‘few’, as they are insanely expensive even before you mentioned “variable-pitch blades”) running at a steady speed. I actually modeled one seaside dock/deck compressor (half an inverted box/garage-without-a-door with the open end facing the waves) and let the lapping “traverse waves” compress in the air under the dock/deck forming its own rolling piston seal (top of the wave along bottom of the deck), and then check valves anywhere/everywhere to port the compressed air in wherever the wave decided was best (checks open as pressures require; always self-regulating, no brains/electronics). Also note that there are numerous alterations to this concept. You could use the reversed check (air return) as a vacuum generator… for whatever, including any air motor running in reverse (inlet is atm, outlet is your vacuum). And/or you could also keep/allow/and improve the amount of water coming in to your system and then you’d have a huge compressed water tank to blow through a hydro-generator (simpler, cheaper than any available air turbine), at will, with lots of water mass forces. I bet you could model any of those systems (dock/deck wave compressors) for visualization in a few hours just by recycling a few snippets of all those fine graphics you’ve already made. Such simplicity really must be seen.

there are spreaders between the battens, and a rope and pulley system controls the wing shape. - ua-cam.com/video/7JiJojh605g/v-deo.html

Thanks for your comments - i am trying to keep the system as low tec as possible - minimal moving parts, and just compressed air stored underwater. No batteries, no electricity at sea. And to be honest, there may be some impact on a very small area of ecology - but please bear in mind what the other alternatives do to our ecology - ie Dams, Coal fired power stations etc.

@@jamescraig3007 I wish there were more people like you. You put an impressive amount of thought into your vision. Thank you for all the work you're doing in trying to find solutions.

thanks for your thoughts steven. Have you ever windsurfed?

No. Way too cold!@@jamescraig3007

thanks Patrick!

you can find my email on the about me tab of my page

Thanks for your comment Randy - good idea!

Thanks Nathan - very informed response! - and you are correct in every way!

thanks Ken - brilliant contribution!

Lumion.

Thanks R, you are indeed wise!

Thanks Russell. I am aware of wing design ;) this was just a little pre-design model of a concept.

As I have surfed this spot for a long time.. love sensible solutions. It’s a super easy fix for our current problems. The amount of water that moves through that area is incredibly.. this could be scaled up ⬆️ to amazing levels and paired with other technologies could be an absolute powerhouse of near free energy once built…

Thanks Adrian. Politics, bureaucracy, the wealthy, and locals (on both sides) not wanting to spoil their views, (a priority placed above all else), and of course, a very challenging environment, not to mention that it is a protected marine environment. The amount of water that moves through is massive, but the rate at which is moves is difficult to capture energy from. This is why new designs need to be considered, instead of just copying existing technologies that just get moved around ie - wind turbine designs - there are plenty of tidal concepts that just copy this - but the designers dont really understand fluid dynamics at the bottom - where there is the least amount of flow, and where the flow is the most turbulent - which does not work so well with horizontal axis turbine designs.

Hey Adrian, can I talk to you about where you are at wit this and how I can possibly help?

Thanks Roll Bot. The general idea was to keep generators away from the salt water environment, and all electrical connections and cables etc out of the marine environment as well (just air and water only) . The thought was along the lines of creating stored energy, as opposed to trying to harness immediate energy from the wave (there are lots of those on the market). If you create stored electrical energy, you need to mine large amounts of minerals (like lithium) and process them etc - that all contributes to high CO2 output. So just air was a way of keeping everything very simple and low tec.

ok.

That's hilarious Christopher Dean , you've made my day! I didnt think I could have chosen a less dramatic, emotional tear jerking background music - I will make my next one more uplifting just for you.

thanks Mark, very interesting point

thanks for your comment Gold Hunter, im sure you are aware of plenty of tax payer funded wave energy projects, along with nuclear power projects that have not always gone to plan. (We don't get hurricanes along the south coast of Aus)

Thanks for you comment John, I haven't seen Bills work before, I watched with interest, and he definitely knows his stuff. The compression, heat gain and then loss, and then decompression and further cooling, causes all sorts of interesting elements to consider.

Thanks Maher, did you ever find a practical solution

@@jamescraig3007 sure I have the best solution forever

Hi Maher, did your design ever make it into a commercial project?

I did the practice at Gaza seaport wave braker at 1995 b4 I applied in Coventry Univ at 1997 .. then I left this Marine design and now I have the top easy design for hydrowater technologies ... No need for seawater no need for dams or rivers no need for all the old science... we can do my design of hydrowater stations in everywhere also in desert now I have my unique improved design for hydrowater electric stations from One Megawatt to 5000 Megawatts...

wow Paul, thanks for your input, appreciate that may not be the best solution as a completely green alternative. By all means, promote only 100% practical solutions. There are some very large amounts of money being invested into some interesting concepts that are also less than 100% practical.

Well, we're waiting for the alarms....

Thanks for your comment. Governments are people, elected by other people. We all want to drive cars, take planes to go holidays and have supplies from around the world shipped to our doors. So collectively we all demand oil to fuel those things. Its a simple case of supply and demand, the oil industry isn't the villain here, we all demand fuel! Fortunately, things are changing away from petroleum based products, but demand on electricity is about to sky rocket so we need to utilise the cleanest form of energy we can obtain to power all of those things in our lives that we can live with out.

@@jamescraig3007 James, you made a very good point. I also look forward to these clean energies. Shame there are so many naysayers who think the problem with global warming is just junk science. We both know that is a bunch of hogwash. I know that we all need the best of clean energy. The sooner the better. Look forward for action in that direction. Showing us all the possibilities will make for a brighter future. Thank you Sir for doing just that. Peace vf

Thanks for your comment - I agree with your point. I used to use an air compressor for nail guns and spray painting etc, and yes, at those pressures, the unit used to get very hot. I wonder how that translates when the compression element is floating in a massive heatsink? I wasn't ever trying to achieve the same pressures as used in a steam turbine, only trying to store large amounts of relatively low pressure air, but pressurised enough to spin a turbine.