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7331178 Hybrid generation with alternative fuel sources  
A generating facility is provided for generating electricity from both solar and non-solar energy sources. The solar generating portion of the facility includes capability to directly generate...
7299633 Solar dish concentrator with a molten salt receiver incorporating thermal energy storage  
A solar power system capable of storing heat energy and converting sun light to electrical power. The solar power system includes a solar collection system which gathers and transmits concentrated...
7168252 Solar heated generator  
A system for producing electricity includes a boiler unit which has a lens mounted thereon in a position to concentrate solar rays onto fluid contained in the boiler unit. A conduit system has an...
7112893 Power generating wind turbine  
A turbine system includes a rigid frame including a plurality of elongated rectilinear beams. The rigid frame spans across a top portion of a cooling tower and is axially registered with the...
7104064 Solar power station  
A method of operating a solar power station solar power station including a solar panel assembly having multiple towers, a solar panel pivotally mounted to an upper end of each tower, and a control...
7003955 Enhanced pumped storage power system  
An enhanced pumped storage power system. More particularly, the invention is a regenerative power system that utilizes the gravitational forces of downward movement of large quantities of water to...
6981377 System and method for generation of electricity and power from waste heat and solar sources  
Recovery of electric power from low-grade waste heat/solar energy, comprising a closed-cycle charged refrigerant loop. Pressurized refrigerant fluid is pumped at ambient temperature through a heat...
6957536 Systems and methods for generating electrical power from solar energy  
Systems and methods capable of producing electrical power from solar energy through the use of air cycles without fossil fuel combustion. The system includes a solar receiver, a generator, a...
6931851 Solar central receiver with inboard headers  
A solar power plant having a plurality of receiver panels mounted in a circular fashion about a solar receiver. Each receiver panel includes a plurality of tubes that terminate at each end at a...
6920757 Water displacement apparatus  
A water displacement apparatus is provided which uses the heat from the sun to displace water from a water collection means. The water collection means has a water container member which may be...
6886339 Trough-stirling concentrated solar power system  
A solar power collection system capable of operating with a positioning system that provides movement of the system about only a single axis of rotation. The solar power collection system includes...
6820420 Solar-based power generating system  
A solar-based power generating system including an electrical alternator or generator for generating electrical power in which the alternator or generator is driven by a refrigerant circulating...
6775982 Solar heat utilization stirling engine power generation plant  
Objects of the invention is to make a fuel for generating power unnecessary, to generate no carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) by generating power without burning substance, and to make it possible to supply a...
6772593 Solar vortex electric power generator  
The SOLAR VORTEX ELECTRIC POWER GENERATOR utilizes hot, unstable air on a flat surface when drawn under the collector surface to rise in a central tower where it acts as a controlled tornado...
6735946 Direct illumination free piston stirling engine solar cavity  
A solar power system is provided for converting sunlight into electricity. The solar power system utilizes a mirror to focus the sunlight into a cavity of an absorption chamber. The cavity includes...
6701711 Molten salt receiver cooling system  
A flow of molten salt is provided through a solar-thermal heat exchange receiver. The receiver converts solar energy, reflected from heliostats, to thermal energy that is stored in molten salt. A...
6672064 Rankine cycle generation of electricity  
Systems or combinations and methodology for converting solar energy to electrical energy and thermal energy and for converting the resultant thermal energy to electrical energy are disclosed....
6651435 Water evaporation apparatus  
A water evaporation apparatus is provided which uses the heat from the sun to evaporate water from a water collection means. The water collection means has a water container member partially...
6651434 System of solar and gravitational energy  
A liquid is evaporated by the sun, raised as vapor, condensed and stored in tanks. These tanks are connected to a turbine. Turbine is feed by the condensed liquid, and then the liquid is evaporated...
6590300 Cyclonic or anti-cyclonic conversion tower  
A cyclonic or anti-cyclonic conversion tower which consists of a central vortical duct ( 1 ), and at least one convector made up of two vertical membranes or screens ( 2 ) and ( 3 ), generated by a...
6532740 Generator employing the Coriolis effect  
A system for employing the Coriolis effect for the generation and/or storage of energy generally comprises a vortex chamber for rotational acceleration therein of superheated, supersaturated water...
6487859 Dish/stirling hybrid-receiver  
A hybrid high-temperature solar receiver is provided which comprises a solar heat-pipe-receiver including a front dome having a solar absorber surface for receiving concentrated solar energy, a...
6477840 Truine energy system  
The present invention provides for the conversion of domestic sewage into electric power. The invention also allows for the additional creation of redundant systems through the use of solar...
6442937 Solar receiver adaptive tracking control  
A solar power system having a solar concentrator for concentrating solar energy, a receiver for converting the solar energy into another form of energy, and a control system for controlling the...
6434942 Building, or other self-supporting structure, incorporating multi-stage system for energy generation  
A building, or other self-supporting structure, incorporating a multi-stage system for energy generation, is disclosed. The system comprises several elements connected together to form a loop...
6279321 Method and apparatus for generating electricity and potable water  
The present invention 10 discloses a system for generating electricity and potable water 42. The system comprises an array of solar cells 12 which produce an amount of current. The solar cells have...
6080927 Solar concentrator for heat and electricity  
A solar concentrator for producing usable power as heat and/or electricity uses a self-steering heliostat 1502 to concentrate solar radiation 1509 onto an absorbing surface such as, or including, a...
5996349 Ammonia cell  
Briefly put, solar energy is collected preferably over a vast area. Alternatively, this uses waste thermal energy. The heat provides for ammonia gas to be released at variable intervals from...
5694774 Solar energy powerplant  
A solar energy powerplant is described comprising a group of seven or more vertical towers open at both ends, these towers being mounted on a base structure in an equally spaced configuration with...
5395070 Solar energy concentrator assembly and associated method  
A solar energy concentrator assembly comprises flexible polymeric sheet which carries an integral optical element in the form of a Fresnel lens for concentrating a substantial amount of incoming...
5351488 Solar energy generator  
A system for coupling a plurality of solar powered bubble pumps in series is described. By controlling the boiling temperature of the circulating fluid contained in the system, the flow of liquid...
4856281 Solar power plant and still  
A solar power plant and still is disclosed in which a heat source for a Rankine Cycle engine is provided by a shallow pond which is covered by a sheet of suitable material, i.e., plastic; and which...
4760706 Method and system for current generation  
Method and system for generating electric power utilizing a coolant circuit, in which a coolant is evaporated at a lower level position, allowed to rise via tubing to a higher level position,...
4757687 System for current generation  
An electric power generating system includes a substantially conically tapering tower adapted to provide for the condensation of a vaporized fluid which has risen to the top of the tower. The...
4742682 Energy-saving, direct-contact, parallel-flow heat exchanger  
An energy-saving, direct-contact parallel-flow heat exchanger includes a vertically oriented tower open at the top and bottom for defining a gas-flow conduit. A spray-head adjacent to the top of...
4646523 Wire engine for water pumps  
Mechanical energy is provided in the form of continuous reciprocating motion by causing repeated temperature alternations in wire arrays made of alloys of shape memory metals when alternating...
4581897 Solar power collection apparatus  
This invention provides a solar power collection apparatus, with a plurality of Earth surface supported reflectors (heliostats) which reflect sunlight onto a solar receiver which is upheld in an...
4471617 Solar powered engine  
A solar powered engine 10, e.g. for pumping water, comprises a solar collector 116 in which a low boiling point liquid is vaporized, an engine comprising a piston 84 reciprocably movable in a...
4453382 Convection powered solar engine  
The draft from a solar heated convection column or series of convection columns is used to alternately draw first heated air from a black body solar collector and then to draw cooled air from a...
4452046 System for the obtaining of energy by fluid flows resembling a natural cyclone or anti-cyclone  
A system for obtaining energy by means of fluid flows resembling those of a natural cyclone or anti-cyclone comprises a cyclonic conversion tower constituted by a group of convectors all situated...
4439987 Prime mover operated by the expansion and contraction of a tubular metal member of substantial length  
A prime mover has a tubular metal member of substantial length which, when both its exterior and its interior are subjected to a heating and cooling cycle, produces work strokes of substantial...
4391100 Closed loop hermetically sealed solar power generator  
A closed loop sealed recirculatory water conservation solar power generator is provided herein. It includes a stationary hollow globular water boiler having a water inlet, a steam outlet conduit...
4387574 Solar power plant including a solar heater on a tower  
Solar power plant, including a tower, a solar heater disposed on the tower, a plurality of reflectors disposed in a given area for irradiating the solar heater, a water-steam circuit connected to...
4382365 Energy conversion derived from pressure and temperature differentials at different elevations  
A method and system of energy conversion derived from temperature and pressure differentials that may be provided between high and low elevations. A solution of a liquid in a gas is transported in...
4370860 Method of and means for generating power from a hot brine source  
Power is generated from a body of hot brine by injecting a liquid operating fluid, such as butane or Freon, into the brine at a depth where the hydrostatic pressure of the brine is approximately...
4306416 Closed cycle, hydraulic-turbine heat engine  
A closed cycle, hydraulic-turbine heat engine for providing a steady electrical or mechanical power source from any available or created relative heat source comprising an evaporation chamber, a...
4244189 System for the multipurpose utilization of solar energy  
A solar energy system where the incident solar radiation evaporates a quantity of water in a distillation pond; the water vapor/air mixture rises buoyantly through a duct to a high elevation where...
4200783 Apparatus for collecting and thermally storing energy  
An apparatus for collecting and storing energy includes a thermal energy storage cell having a single-piece steel inner core provided with external thermal insulation. A unit for collecting and...
4164123 Solar thermal electric power plant  
A solar thermal electric energy system utilizes a solar receptor having a double paned glass window with cooling liquid circulating therethrough. This serves as a window for a solar heat receptor...
4136674 System for solar radiation energy collection and conversion  
A solar radiation energy collecting system for receiving the sun's rays and focusing them upon a central absorber. A plurality of plane mirrors are mounted in a circular array concentric with a...
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