APPARATUS FOR AN IMPROVED POWER SYSTEM

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates generally to power systems, and more particularly to wind and water energy power generation systems.

BACKGROUND

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportation, and rural (off-grid) energy services.

Based on REN21's 2017 report, renewables contributed 19.3% to humans' global energy consumption and 24.5% to their generation of electricity in 2015 and 2016, respectively. This energy consumption is divided as 8.9% coming from traditional biomass, 4.2% as heat energy (modern biomass, geothermal and solar heat), 3.9% hydroelectricity and 2.2% is electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass.

Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$286 billion in 2015, with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind, hydro, solar and biofuels. Globally, there are an estimated 7.7 million jobs associated with the renewable energy industries, with solar photovoltaics being the largest renewable employer. As of 2015 worldwide, more than half of all new electricity capacity installed was renewable.

Renewable energy resources exist over wide geographical areas, in contrast to other energy sources, which are concentrated in a limited number of countries. Rapid deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency is resulting in significant energy security, climate change mitigation, and economic benefits. The results of a recent review of the literature concluded that as greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters begin to be held liable for damages resulting from GHG emissions resulting in climate change, a high value for liability mitigation would provide powerful incentives for deployment of renewable energy technologies.

In international public opinion surveys there is strong support for promoting renewable sources such as solar power and wind power. At the national level, at least 30 nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20 percent of energy supply. National renewable energy markets are projected to continue to grow strongly in the coming decade and beyond. Some places and at least two countries, Iceland and Norway generate all their electricity using renewable energy already, and many other countries have the set a goal to reach 100% renewable energy in the future. For example, in Denmark the government decided to switch the total energy supply (electricity, mobility and heating/cooling) to 100% renewable energy by 2050.

While many renewable energy projects are large-scale, renewable technologies are also suited to rural and remote areas and developing countries, where energy is often crucial in human development. Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity. As most of renewables provide electricity, renewable energy deployment is often applied in conjunction with further electrification, which has several benefits: Electricity can be converted to heat (where necessary generating higher temperatures than fossil fuels), can be converted into mechanical energy with high efficiency and is clean at the point of consumption. In addition to that electrification with renewable energy is much more efficient and therefore leads to a significant reduction in primary energy requirements, because most renewables don't have a steam cycle with high losses (fossil power plants usually have losses of 40 to 65%).

Renewable energy systems are rapidly becoming more efficient and cheaper. Their share of total energy consumption is increasing. Growth in consumption of coal and oil could end by 2020 due to increased uptake of renewables and natural gas.

As the need for renewable energy increases, home owners are becoming more aware of their environment and the need to save the environment. There is a sweeping desire in the United States and elsewhere to harness the energy produced by wind and water. The costs to individual home owners who desire to have a system is relatively expensive at the outset but quickly repay the owner in energy costs while helping to save the environment. The systems used today are one dimensional in many ways, they usually only address wind or sun produced energy and don't readily go to water energy at the homeowner level.

When rain falls, gallons of water on the roof of a house is generated and can be used to generate energy through a renewable energy system. This coupled with turbines used to turn wind into energy can increase the production of energy at a home owner level.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a view of an exemplary wind and water energy generation system.

FIG. 2 is an exemplary view of the wind and water energy generation system of FIG. 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Reference will now be made in detail to the present preferred embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. All terms in the plural shall also be taken as singular and vice-versa. Further, any reference to he shall also be applicable to she and vice-versa.

Referring now to FIG. 1, a wind and water energy generation system 200 for generating power is shown. The wind and water energy generation system 200 is useful for capturing wind and producing electrical current which can be stored. The wind and water energy generation system 100 can be adapted for a house or other building.

The exemplary wind and water energy generation system 100 has a drain pipe 108, wind catcher 202, and one or more batteries 218. The one or more batteries 218 are useful for storing the energy or electricity captured by the wind and water energy generation system 100.

The wind catcher 102 “catches” the wind. The wind catcher 102 has a wind cone 202 and a tail fin 204. The tail fin 204 is useful for guiding the wind catcher 102 to a direction in which the wind is coming from. The wind cone 202 receives the wind.

The wind catcher 102 is coupled to the drain pipe 108. The drain pipe 108 provides a medium for directing and harnessing the wind power. The drain pipe has at least one ball bearing 104 and at least one internal wind turbine 210.

The one or more ball bearings 104 are useful in providing a smoothness the rotation of the wind catcher 102. The one or more ball bearing 104 are coupled on a first side 101 of the wind catcher 102 and coupled to the top 107 of the drain pipe 108. The ball bearings 104 are contained in a circular housing 105.

The internal turbine 210 is couple on an inside (not shown) of the drain pipe 108 a first location 109. The internal turbine 210 is in direct line with the wind in the drain pipe 108 and generates electrical energy from the wind.

Moving now to FIG. 2, an exemplary wind and water energy generation system is presented. The energy generation system 200 is able to use the rain water to produce energy and when it is not raining, to use the wind to generate energy.

A roof (not shown) has at least one gutter 106 and at least one drain pipe 108 that is used to whisk away the water from the roof during a rain. The wind and water energy generation system 200 is coupled to the at least one gutter 106 and the at least one drain pipe 108.

The wind and water energy generation system 200 has the wind cone 202 for receiving wind generate by nature. The wind cone can be made of any material such as aluminum, plastic, vinyl, etc. The exemplary wind cone 202 is conical in shape but any shape that allows the wind to be “caught” and directed will be acceptable as a wind cone 202.

Coupled to the wind cone 202 is a wind guider 204. The wind guider may be made of any material such as vinyl, aluminum, metal, plastic, etc. The wind guider 204 receives the wind pulled thru the wind cone 202 and directs the wind 205 towards an external turbine 206. The external turbine 206 has blades and the blades rotate to generate wind into the drain pipe 108.

The wind and water energy generation system 200 also has an internal turbine 210. The internal turbine 210 is used to generate energy from either water or wind directed through the drain pipe 108. The internal turbine has a paddle 212. The paddle 212 is rotated by the wind or water in the drain pipe 108.

The paddle 212 is coupled to a pole 214. The pole 214 is rotated by the paddle 212. The pole 214 has internal turbine blades 216. The internal turbine blades 216 are turned to generate energy by the pole 214. The pole 214 coupled to the internal turbine blades 216 collects the energy produced by the internal turbine blades 216 and is coupled to at least one battery 218 by a wire 220. The wire 220 may be any type of wire that can carry electrical energy such as a coax cable, an electrical wire, etc.

The battery 218 is any type of battery that can store energy and then be used to provide energy to another outlet. The battery shown is a car battery, but may be an industrial battery, a series of batteries, etc.

The features described with respect to one embodiment may be applied to other embodiments or combined with or interchanged with the features of other embodiments, as appropriate, without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.