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4405872 Method and apparatus for generating electrical energy from the rotation of a wheel  
Both a method and an apparatus for generating electrical energy from the rotation of a wheel are disclosed. The apparatus is disposed within a pneumatic tire of a non-magnetic wheel and includes a...
4403153 Free-piston electric current generator  
A medium-power, free-piston electric current generator is disclosed in which the piston is slidable in a vertical cylinder open at its top end, with a combustion chamber at its lower end. Induction...
4396842 Tidal power generation utilizing the atmospheric pressure  
A strong air suction is created by installing an air tube on the top of the discharge side of a large siphoning tube over a dam to drive air turbines for electricity generation. To facilitate the...
4388533 Power generating system  
A power generating system for supplying electrical power to an external electrical power demand load including a vertically oriented centerbody adapted to adsorb radiant solar energy; an annular...
4384211 Aluminum cycle energy system  
A closed-loop process is disclosed for managing electrical energy in displaced time and space by utilizing aluminum in an oxidation-reduction cycle. Metallic aluminum, in a substantially pure...
4370559 Solar energy system  
A solar energy system is disclosed in which the solar energy is converted to electrical energy for immediate use or the energy may be stored for use at a later date. The solar energy is converted...
4368391 Hydraulic process and apparatus for the recovery of electrical energy for use in motor test stations  
A hydraulic process and apparatus recover energy generated by the testing of a motor in the form of electrical energy. The process includes utilizing a hydraulic pump and an asynchronous electric...
4356401 Thermo-electric power station supplied by geothermal heat source  
The invention concerns a thermo-electric power station, supplied by a geothermal heat source, involving the use of at least two fluids. The first fluid (water) makes it possible to transfer the...
4354117 Solar energy conversion plant  
Solar radiation is concentrated by a parabolic reflector having a solar tracking system associated therewith, onto a heat absorbing conduit circulating a heat exchange medium through a steam...
4353212 Closed fluid loop solar thermodynamic system  
Thermodynamic unit comprised of a pair of vessels which alternately raise and lower pressure in thermodynamic fluid is connected in a closed system to an engine, which utilizes the fluid in its gas...
4346302 Oxygen blown coal gasifier supplying MHD-steam power plant  
A magnetohydrodynamic generator (30) is fired with a clean, medium BTU combustible gas produced in an oxygen atmosphere. The combustible gas is generated in an oxygen blown coal gasifier (10) and...
4337399 Refrigerator  
Disclosed is a refrigerator which comprises a plurality of reciprocating motion type expansion engines, a converter mechanism, a speed-up mechanism, and a energy converting mechanism. The engines...
4326132 Ultimate energy wheel drum  
A power generating apparatus, in which air is discharged into a lower portion of a rotatable, underwater wheel or the like, so as to provide buoyancy, in order to rotate the wheel and drive an...
4324983 Binary vapor cycle method of electrical power generation  
A binary vapor cycle method of electrical power generation is disclosed wherein two refrigerant fluids can be used to operate an apparatus for the generation of mechanical power as well as...
4320303 System for generation of electricity by utilization of heat exchange between liquefied natural gas and intermediate heat medium  
A system for generation of electricity which comprises warming an intermediate heat exchange medium, cooled and liquefied as the result of having been used for warming LNG to vaporize, with water...
4317046 Energy producing apparatus and method  
Energy producing apparatus comprising an imbalance wheel mounted for energy producing rotation about a substantially horizontal axis, and which is substantially in rotational balance and defines at...
4310769 Ship lock system with hydroelectric pumped-storage capability  
A ship lock system having a ship lock interconnecting two bodies of water at different water levels. The system includes one or more underground hydroelectric pumped-storage units connected by one...
4309621 Integrated fluid dynamoelectric machine  
A turbine generator or motorized compressor wherein the blades of the turbine or compressor serve as armature conductors for a DC homopolar machine having a single stator which serves as a housing...
4309619 Solar energy system  
A dynamic, self sustaining and self perpetuating, device for the production of motive force by combining cryogenic and thermodynamic principles into one system, keeping the systems separated, two...
4303833 Natural energy operated pump system  
A well water retrieval system for deep shaft wells including an electrical generator of limited generating capacity of the type that operates upon input of naturally occurring energy in wave or...
4302682 Ocean thermal energy conversion system  
A power generation system and method of operation for generating electricity by utilizing temperature differences inherently present in the ocean between water near the surface and water from the...
4301375 Turbo-generator unit and system  
An improved turbo-generator unit for a sea power plant having a wall separating the sea from a space at atmospheric pressure has the turbine submerged in the sea on one side of the wall, the...
4291232 Liquid powered, closed loop power generating system and process for using same  
A liquid powered, closed loop power generating system which generates power substantially as a result of the flow of a pressurized liquid through its power generating means is disclosed. The liquid...
4284899 Gravity fed power generator  
A power supply generator system including a fuel cell, an impulse turbine, an electrolyzer and a regulator battery which serve to supply each other and a consumer with energy. The fuel cell...
4284900 Closed loop energy conversion system  
An energy conversion system utilizing gravity flow of water from a high elevation to sea level utilizing gravity to provide large pressure gradients in pipe lines as large quantities of water move...
4283633 Electro-pneumatic dynamo  
An electro-pneumatic dynamo includes a rotary engine having an engine casing, two rotors rotatably mounted within the casing having intermeshing blades and fluid medium inlet means for injecting a...
4282443 Energy conversion apparatus  
An energy conversion apparatus is disclosed adapted to convert any type of rotatable mechanical energy into electrical energy in an efficient manner which includes a plurality of generators...
4282444 Method for deep shaft pumpback energy generation  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for converting the potential energy stored in an upper reservoir of water into electrical energy, whereby, during periods of high energy demand, water is...
4280328 Utilization of solar energy  
Solar energy is utilized to convert water into steam for use in driving a turbine which, in turn, is used to generate electricity. At the same time air in a solar panel is utilized to drive another...
4281256 Compressed air energy storage system  
An internal combustion reciprocating engine is operable as a compressor during slack demand periods utilizing excess power from a power grid to charge air into an air storage reservoir and as an...
4281255 Source of energy and a method of generating energy  
A mover is provided having a housing and an element movable in the housing. Container means accommodates the gas which is heated under the action of a surrounding medium. The thus-heated gas is fed...
4275309 System for converting solar heat to electrical energy  
This invention consists of a system and apparatus for converting solar heat to electrical energy by accumulating normally non-heated air under a transparent roof which covers a vast area of sand,...
4275310 Peak power generation  
Electric power is provided during periods of peak demand, employing a turbine generator facility activated by the expansion of compressed air, withdrawn from an underground air storage reservoir,...
4270054 Power plant  
A power plant for generating electrical power comprises opposed piston assemblies each at the end of a rack and pinion mechanism conformed to pass through a linear inductor. Thus on each piston...
4266180 Method of and means for high performance direct current electrical pulse generation utilizing mechanical energy storage  
A method of converting inertial mechanical energy into a high energy direct current electrical pulse of short time duration is disclosed. Apparatus for practicing the method is described. According...
4249083 Solar electrical generator  
The engine of the present invention includes a cylindrical, elongated boiler housing with a turbine mounted within it, and the turbine and boiler rotate relative to each other. Heat is applied to...
4249096 Electrical dynamo  
An electrical generator is formed with at least one nonconductive cylinder mounted for rotation about an axis and containing four pairs of permanent magnets, longitudinally spaced within the...
4247785 Freeway power generator  
A series of magnetized cylindrical rollers are rotatably mounted in spaced transverse channels under a freeway off ramp. Each roller is made of non-magnetic material and has plurality of cavities...
4243892 Energy-efficient fluid medium pumping system  
The inventive pumping system includes at least two parallel-working pumps or compressors, at least one of which is operable as either a pump or a turbine in one or both directions, its drive motor...
4242591 Orbitally rotating piston engine  
The engine comprises a generally toroidal cylinder containing a piston having optional permanent magnets or electromagnets disposed thereon. The piston rotates through the cylinder due to a force...
4239975 Energy producing system  
In an energy producing system, a movable device is mounted at least partially within a housing which, in turn, is mounted in the ground at the surface of a road or the like. The movable device at...
4239974 Electrical power generating system  
An electrical power generating system is disclosed which utilizes as a source of energy the otherwise wasted energy expended by motor vehicles moving along a roadway. The system includes a...
4238687 Highway turbine  
A system for generating power from the passage of motor vehicles over a roadway which includes a highly efficient linkage for connecting a treadle or rocker plate mounted in the roadbed with one or...
4230531 Wind powered solar still  
Apparatus comprising a solar still and a wind powered generator. Sea water is preheated in a condenser and is supplied to the still where it is heated further either by solar radiation, or by a...
4229660 Turbine electric generator with solar heating and space cooling  
Thermodynamic unit comprised of a pair of vessels which alternately generate and condense vapor are connected in a sealed system to drive a turbine with the vessel generating vapor having an outlet...
4217537 Chain saw driven generator  
Apparatus and method employing the engine unit of a conventional chain saw to power an electrical generator. In a first embodiment, a generator is detachably mounted to the engine unit, with an...
4214170 Power generation-refrigeration system  
A power generation-refrigeration system comprising a refrigerant boiler, and a primary turbine for extracting energy from the refrigerant. The system also comprises a reversible turbomachine having...
4213797 Radiant energy to electric energy converter  
Radiant energy is converted into electric energy by irradiating a capacitor including an ionic dielectric. The dielectric is a sintered crystal superionic conductor, e.g., lanthanum trifluoride,...
4210819 Open cycle ocean thermal energy conversion steam control and bypass system  
Two sets of hinged control doors for regulating motive steam flow from an evaporator to a condenser alternatively through a set of turbine blades in a steam bypass around the turbine blades. The...
4208590 Jet electric generator  
Apparatus for generating electrical energy is disclosed wherein an annular arrangement of rotor windings is affixed to a number of rotatable blades which radiate outwardly from a central rotatable...